Bible Commentaries

2 Chronicles 12:1-16 — estaban ante las murallas de Jerusalem, el profeta Semeías se dirigió a Roboam y los príncipes, trazando esta calamidad a la apostasía nacional, y amenazándolos con la ruína completa por haber abandonado a Dios (v. 6). 6. los príncipes de Israel—(cf. v. 5, “los príncipes de Judá”). 7, 8. como vió Jehová que se habían humillado—Su arrepentimiento y contrición fueron seguidos por los mejores efectos; porque Semeías fué comisionado para anunciar que el vaso del juicio divino no sería derramado plenamente

2 Chronicles 25:1-28 — AMASIAS EMPIEZA A REINAR BIEN. 1. De veinte y cinco años era Amasías, etc. (Véase 2 Reyes 4:1). 5-10. CONTRATA UN EJERCITO DE ISRAELITAS CONTRA EDOM. 5. Amasías … púsoles tribunos y centuriones, etc.—Como todos los capaces de llevar armas estaban obligados a dar servicio, fué muy natural, el hacer las listas de conscriptos, el clasificarlos según

Job 40:1-24 — ¿Querrás tú, no sólo disputar conmigo sino hasta invalidar mi juicio o justicia en el gobierno del mundo? condenarás—me declararás injusto, a fin de ser tenido por justo (inocente, inmerecidamente atribulado) tú. 4. brazo—la omnipotencia de Dios ( Isaías 53:1). tronarás—la voz de Dios ( Isaías 37:4). 5. Ve, ¿tienes tú poder y majestad como Dios, para poder juzgar y gobernar a este mundo? 6. furores—Más bien: derrama las abundantes torrentes de ira … mira—prueba si puedes, como Dios, con la mirada abatir

Isaiah 42:1 — compare Exodus 21:6; John 6:38; Philippians 2:7). Israel, also, in its highest ideal, is called the "servant" of God (Isaiah 49:3). But this ideal is realized only in the antitypical Israel, its representative-man and Head, Messiah (compare Matthew 2:15; Hosea 11:1). "Servant" was the position assumed by the Son of God throughout His humiliation. elect—chosen by God before the foundation of the world for an atonement (1 Peter 1:20; Revelation 13:8). Redemption was no afterthought to remedy an unforeseen

Ezekiel 26:2 — Nebuchadnezzar's siege of it lasted thirteen years (Ezekiel 29:18; Isaiah 23:1-18). Though no profane author mentions his having succeeded in the siege, JEROME states he read the fact in Assyrian histories. Aha!—exultation over a fallen rival (Psalms 35:21; Psalms 35:25). she . . . that was the gates—that is, the single gate composed of two folding doors. Hence the verb is singular. "Gates" were the place of resort for traffic and public business: so here it expresses a mart of commerce frequented

Ezekiel 4:5 — 5. three hundred and ninety days—The three hundred ninety years of punishment appointed for Israel, and forty for Judah, cannot refer to the siege of Jerusalem. That siege is referred to in Ezekiel 4:1-3, and in a sense restricted to the literal siege,

Daniel 9:26 — "the Prince"; as also because sent by Him, as His instrument of judgment (Matthew 22:7). end thereof—of the sanctuary. TREGELLES takes it, "the end of the Prince," the last head of the Roman power, Antichrist. with a flood—namely, of war (Psalms 90:5; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8; Isaiah 28:18). Implying the completeness of the atastrophe, "not one stone left on another." unto the end of the war—rather, "unto the end there is war." determined—by God's decree (Isaiah 10:23; Isaiah 28:22).

Hosea 12:3 — on that occasion (compare Matthew 11:12). As the promised Canaan had to be gained forcibly by Israel, so heaven by the faithful (Revelation 3:21; compare Luke 13:24). "Strive," literally, "as in the agony of a contest." So the Canaanitess (Matthew 15:22). his strength—which lay in his conscious weakness, whence, when his thigh was put out of joint by God, he hung upon Him. To seek strength was his object; to grant it, God's. Yet God's mode of procedure was strange. In human form He tries as it

Numbers 11:5 — 5. We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely—(See on :-). The people of Egypt are accustomed to an almost exclusive diet of fish, either fresh or sun-dried, during the hot season in April and May—the very season when the Israelites were

Micah 1:11 — Zenan, in Judah (Hosea 2:10- :), meaning the "place of flocks." The form of the name used is made like the Hebrew for "came forth." Though in name seeming to imply that thou dost come forth, thou "camest not forth." Beth-ezel—perhaps Azal (Zechariah 14:5), near Jerusalem. It means a "house on the side," or "near." Though so near, as its name implies, to Zaanan, Beth-ezel received no succor or sympathy from Zaanan. he shall receive of you his standing—"he," that is, the foe; "his standing," that is,

Zechariah 6:12 — is placed on him, but as type of Messiah about to be at once king and priest. Joshua could not individually be crowned king, not being of the royal line of David, but only in his representative character. Branch—(See on :-; Isaiah 4:2; Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 33:15). he shall grow up out of his place—retaining the image of a "Branch"; "He shall sprout up from His place," that is, the place peculiar to Him: not merely from Beth-lehem or Nazareth, but by His own power, without man's aid, in His

Matthew 5:14 — 14. Ye are the light of the world—This being the distinctive title which our Lord appropriates to Himself (John 8:12; John 9:5; and see John 1:4; John 1:9; John 3:19; John 12:35; John 12:36) —a title expressly said to be unsuitable even to the highest of all the prophets (John 1:8) —it must be applied here by our Lord to His disciples only as they shine with His light upon

Luke 5:1-39 — LA PESCA MILAGROSA—EL LLAMAMIENTO DE PEDRO, JACOBO Y JUAN. Este no es el primer llamamiento de ellos, el cual está relatado en Juan 1:25; ni el segundo, relatado en Mateo 4:18, sino su tercero y último antes de su nombramiento al apostolado. Parece bien claro que estas vocaciones fueron todas distintas y progresivas. (Etapas progresivas similares son observables en otros eminentes servidores

Romans 12:1-21 — el corazón no regenerado, en acción manifiesta y palpable, así también por medio del cuerpo todos los principios y afectos de los creyentes se revelan en la vida externa. La santificación se extiende por todo el ser de cada persona ( 1 Tesalonicenses 5:23). en sacrificio vivo—Es decir, en glorioso contraste con los sacrificios legales, que eran sacrificios muertos. La muerte del “Cordero de Dios, que quita el pecado del mundo,” ha barrido del altar de Dios todas las víctimas muertas, para dar lugar

1 Corinthians 9:27 — keeping under of our natural self-seeking, so as, like Paul, to lay ourselves out entirely for the great work. my body—the old man and the remainders of lust in my flesh. "My body," so far as by the flesh it opposes the spirit [ESTIUS] (Galatians 5:17). Men may be severe to their bodies and yet indulge their lust. Ascetic "neglect of the body" may be all the while a more subtile "satisfying of the flesh" (Colossians 2:23). Unless the soul keep the body under, the body will get above the soul.

1 Timothy 4:8 — profiteth little—Greek, "profiteth to (but) a small extent." Paul does not deny that fasting and abstinence from conjugal intercourse for a time, with a view to reaching the inward man through the outward, do profit somewhat, Acts 13:3; 1 Corinthians 7:5; 1 Corinthians 7:7; 1 Corinthians 9:26; 1 Corinthians 9:27 (though in its degenerate form, asceticism, dwelling solely on what is outward, 1 Corinthians 9:27- :, is not only not profitable but injurious). Timothy seems to have had a leaning to such

2 Timothy 4:2 — assent, saying, Amen." The bishops and presbyters had the right and duty to preach, but they sometimes called on deacons, and even laymen, to preach. EUSEBIUS [Ecclesiastical History, 6.19]; in this the Church imitated the synagogue (Luke 4:17-22; Acts 13:15; Acts 13:16). be instant—that is, urgent, earnest, in the whole work of the ministry. in season, out of season—that is, at all seasons; whether they regard your speaking as seasonable or unseasonable. "Just as the fountains, though none may draw from

Hebrews 10:22 — once polluted with sin, is washed, so as to be fitted like Christ's holy body, and by His body, to be spiritually a pure and living offering. On the "pure water," the symbol of consecration and sanctification, compare John 19:34; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 John 5:6; Ezekiel 36:25. The perfects "having . . . hearts sprinkled . . . body (the Greek is singular) washed," imply a continuing state produced by a once-for-all accomplished act, namely, our justification by faith through Christ's blood, and consecration

1 Peter 1:17 — not accepting the Jew above the Gentile, 2 Chronicles 19:7; Luke 20:21; properly said of a judge not biassed in judgment by respect of persons) judgeth," c. The Father judgeth by His Son, His Representative, exercising His delegated authority (John 5:22). This marks the harmonious and complete unity of the Trinity. work—Each man's work is one complete whole, whether good or bad. The particular works of each are manifestations of the general character of his lifework, whether it was of faith and

Revelation 4:4 — 4:6; Revelation 4:7) answer to the cherubim over the mercy seat. So the twenty-four throned and crowned elders are typified by the twenty-four chiefs of the twenty-four courses of priests, "Governors of the sanctuary, and governors of God" (1 Chronicles 24:5; 1 Chronicles 25:1-31).