Bible Commentaries

Exodus 12:8 — Sin levadura, en testimonio de inocencia, 1 Corintios v. 7. Los sacerdotes de Júpiter hicieron lo mismo. (Servius) &mdash- Lechuga, o algunas "hierbas amargas", hebreo y Septuaginta. Los judíos permiten cinco clases.

Exodus 16:29 — Lugar. Onkelos permite que una persona viaje 2000 codos en sábado. Algunos herejes entienden esto literalmente y no alterarían la postura en la que fueron encontrados por el festival. (Orígenes, Filos. 1.)

Exodus 20:24 — CAPITULO XX. Tierra, que se puede destruir con facilidad, para evitar cualquier profanación. &mdash Samuel ofreció víctimas en Mespha y Ramatha, por la dispensación de Dios, 1 Reyes vii. 9, 17. (Menoquio)

1 Chronicles 12:22 — Of God; very great, (Calmet) particularly when Isboseth was slain, 2 Kings v. 1. (Haydock) --- The angels are to us innumerable, Job xxv. An army in concord is compared to them. (Worthington)

1 Chronicles 13:11 — Divided. Slain. See chap. xiv. 11., 1 Kings xv. 32., and 2 Kings vi. 7. (Haydock) --- The soul of brutes perishes; that of man is only divided from the body by death.

1 Chronicles 27:18 — Eliu. Probably the same with Eliab, the eldest son of Isai, (1 Kings xvi. 7.; Calmet) or the youngest but David, (chap. ii. 15.) whose name is preserved by the Syriac, &c.

Jeremiah 30:2 — Libro. Esto se habló en el reinado de Sedecias, para la convicción del pueblo. El profeta había recibido órdenes de escribir en el cuarto año de Joakim, cap. xxxvi. 1. (Calmet)

Ezekiel 34:8 — No shepherd. Pastors who seek only their temporal advantage, (1 Timothy vi. 5., and Titus i. 7.; Haydock) are hirelings; and if they teach false doctrine, they are wolves, John x. (Worthington)

Ezekiel 34:8 — Sin pastor. Los pastores que buscan sólo su ventaja temporal (1 Timoteo vi. 5. y Tito i. 7; Haydock) son mercenarios; y si enseñan falsa doctrina, son lobos, Juan x. (Worthington)

Hosea 2:17 — Baales. Es el número plural de Baal; porque había diversos ídolos de Baal. (Challoner) &mdash- Por eso los judíos llamaron a Esbaal, Isboseth; como boseth significa "confusión", 1 Paralipomenon viii. 33.

Numbers 14:9 — Para comerlos, o consumirlos, tan fácilmente como devoramos un trozo de pan. La expresión es proverbial, Salmo xiii. 4. &mdash Vivía cerca del Jordán. (Pineda en Job.) (Cap. I. 1 y 27.

Zechariah 11:11 — CHAPTER XI. Poor converted to Christ, (Calmet) who retired to Pella, (Eusebius, Church History iv. 5.) as they had been warned of the impending storm, Matthew xxiv. 1., and Luke xxi. 20.

Joshua 12:19 — Madon, o Maron, Septuaginta, capítulo xi. 1. Este lugar está unido con Semeron, en hebreo (ver. 20) incorrectamente. Quizás sean los Meros (Jueces v. 23) o Maronia, una ciudad de Ph œnicia.

Joshua 15:44 — Ceila, which David took from the Philistines, and were he was nearly betrayed into the hands of Saul, 1 Kings xxiii. Habacuc was buried here, on the road between Eleutheropolis and Hebron.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 — Rebuke, or correct the unquiet.[1] By the Greek, it signifies the disorderly, or those that keep no order. (Witham) =============================== [BIBLIOGRAPHY] The unquiet: inquietos, Greek: ataktous, inordinatos, sine ordine et regula viventes. ====================

Titus 2:5 — Discreto, casto, sobrio. En griego no hay nada de sobrio. El intérprete latino parece haberlo agregado, como otro significado de una de las palabras griegas. Ver 1 Timoteo iii. 2. (Witham)

Revelation 18:10 — Alas! Alas! St. Augustine informs us, that the people of the eastern provinces, and the remotest cities, mourned in a public manner on this occasion. (De Civ. Dei. lib. 1, chap. xxxiii.)

Expanded Esther 19:14 — In another. Literally, "but there was another respect (or punishment) of them, because unwillingly they received strangers," Genesis xix. 1. (Haydock) --- The Amorrhites would not admit the Israelites, Numbers xxi. 21. (Worthington)

Sirach 2:24 — Place. The soldiers ransacked the tombs in hopes of plunder. Joakim was left unburied. This would be very affliction to the Jews, Jeremias viii. 1., and xxii. 19., and xxxvi. 30. (Calmet)

2 Samuel 10:17 — Helam. Ptolemy mentions Alamata, on the Euphrates. But perhaps we ought to read the Hebrew Lehem, "he came upon them." See 1 Paralipomenon xix. 17. Some translate, "he came to their army."