Bible Commentaries

Psalms 24:1-10 — anterior. 2. Poéticamente representa los hechos de Génesis 1:9. 3, 4. La forma interrogativa presta viveza. Manos, corazón y alma son organos de acción, de habla y sentimiento, lo que compone el carácter. elevado su alma—puesto su afecto ( Génesis 25:1) en algún objeto; aquí, en la vanidad, en cualquier cosa falsa, o sea jurar una declaración falsa, o jurar en manera fraudulenta. monte de Jehová—(cf. el Salmo 2:6, etc.) Su Iglesia, la verdadera o invisible, tipificada por el santuario terrenal.

Psalms 71:1-24 — en favores anteriores da a conocer su presente necesidad, y seguro de ser oído en su súplica, promete hacimiento de gracias y alabanza. 1-3. (Cf. el Salmo 30:1.) roca … fortaleza—18:2). mandado has—lit., ordenado, como en el Salmo 44:4; el 68:28. 4, 5. el perverso y violento—el corrompido y de mal humor—lit., acre. 6-9. Su vída desde la temprana infancia ilustra el cuidado de Dios; sus liberaciones maravillosas eran a la vez ocasiones de alabanza y motivo de confianza para el futuro, de ti … mi

Isaiah 46:12 — 12. stout-hearted—stubborn in resisting God (Psalms 76:5; Acts 7:51). far from righteousness— (Isaiah 59:9; Habakkuk 2:4).

Jeremiah 10:12 — 12. Continuation of :-, after the interruption of the thread of the discourse in Jeremiah 10:11 (Psalms 136:5; Psalms 136:6).

Jeremiah 20:6 — 6. prophesied lies—namely, that God cannot possibly leave this land without prophets, priests, and teachers ("the wise") ( :-; compare Jeremiah 5:31).

Jeremiah 48:3 — 3. Horonaim—the same as the city Avara, mentioned by PTOLEMY. The word means "double caves" (Nehemiah 2:10; Isaiah 15:5).

Lamentations 3:5 — 5. builded—mounds, as against a besieged city, so as to allow none to escape (so Lamentations 3:7; Lamentations 3:9).

Ezekiel 6:5 — 5. carcasses . . . before . . . idols—polluting thus with the dead bones of you, the worshippers, the idols which seemed to you so sacrosanct.

Daniel 2:32 — the reverse of stability [TREGELLES]. Nebuchadnezzar derived his authority from God, not from man, nor as responsible to man. But the Persian king was so far dependent on others that he could not deliver Daniel from the princes (Daniel 6:14; Daniel 6:15); contrast Daniel 5:18; Daniel 5:19, as to Nebuchadnezzar's power from God, "whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive" (compare Ezra 7:14; Esther 1:13-16). Græco-Macedonia betrays its deterioration in its divisions, not united as Babylon

Joel 2:23 — which the former are the pledge. moderately—rather, "in due measure," as much as the land requires; literally, "according to right"; neither too much nor too little, either of which extremes would hurt the crop (compare Deuteronomy 11:14; Proverbs 16:15; Jeremiah 5:24; see on Jeremiah 5:24- :). The phrase, "in due measure," in this clause is parallel to "in the first month," in the last clause (that is, "in the month when first it is needed," each rain in its proper season). Heretofore the just or

Zephaniah 3:10 — 10. From beyond . . . Ethiopia my suppliants—literally, "burners of incense" (compare Psalms 141:2; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 8:3; Revelation 8:4). The Israelites are meant, called "the daughter of My dispersed," a Hebrew idiom for My dispersed people. "The rivers of Ethiopia" are those which enclose it on the north. In the west of Abyssinia there has long existed

John 9:1 — 1-5. as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from birth—and who "sat begging" (John 9:8).

1 Corinthians 1:30 — 1:20; contrast Colossians 2:3; Proverbs 8:1-36; Isaiah 9:6). By it we become "wise unto salvation," owing to His wisdom in originating and executing the plan, whereas once we were "fools." righteousness—the ground of our justification (Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 23:6; Romans 4:25; 2 Corinthians 5:21); whereas once we were "weak" (Romans 5:6). Isaiah 42:21; Isaiah 45:24. sanctification—by His Spirit; whereas formerly we were "base." Hereafter our righteousness and sanctification alike shall be both

1 Corinthians 13:13 — 13. And now—Translate, "But now." "In this present state" [HENDERSON]. Or, "now" does not express time, but opposition, as in 1 Corinthians 5:11, "the case being so" [GROTIUS]; whereas it is the case that the three gifts, "prophecy," "tongues," and "knowledge" (cited as specimens of the whole class of gifts) "fail" (1 Corinthians 13:8), there abide permanently only these three—faith, hope,

1 Corinthians 6:11 — not in the sense of progressive sanctification. "Washed" precedes both, and so must refer to the Christian's outward new birth of water, the sign of the inward setting apart to the Lord by the inspiration of the Spirit as the seed of new life (John 3:5; Ephesians 5:26; Titus 3:5; Hebrews 10:22). Paul (compare the Church of England Baptismal Service), in charity, and faith in the ideal of the Church, presumes that baptism realizes its original design, and that those outwardly baptized inwardly enter

2 Thessalonians 2:13 — the damnation of the lost ( :-) stands the "salvation" of Paul's converts. are bound—in duty ( :-). thanks . . . to God—not to ourselves, your ministers, nor to you, our converts. beloved of the Lord—Jesus (Romans 8:37; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 5:2; Ephesians 5:25). Elsewhere God the Father is said to love us (2 Thessalonians 2:16; John 3:16; Ephesians 2:4; Colossians 3:12). Therefore Jesus and the Father are one. from the beginning—"before the foundation of the world" (Colossians 3:12- :;

2 Thessalonians 2:2 — the subject. troubled—This verb applies to emotional agitation; as "shaken" to intellectual. by spirit—by a person professing to have the spirit of prophecy (1 Corinthians 12:8-10; 1 John 4:1-3). The Thessalonians had been warned (1 Thessalonians 5:20; 1 Thessalonians 5:21) to "prove" such professed prophesyings, and to "hold fast (only) that which is good." by word—of mouth (compare 2 Thessalonians 2:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:15); some word or saying alleged to be that of Paul, orally communicated. If

1 Timothy 5:14 — younger widows," namely younger widows in general, as distinguished from the older widows taken on the roll of presbyteresses ( :-). The "therefore" means seeing that young widows are exposed to such temptations, "I will," or "desire," c. (1 Timothy 5:11-13). The precept here that they should marry again is not inconsistent with 1 Corinthians 7:40 for the circumstances of the two cases were distinct (compare 1 Corinthians 7:40- :). Here remarriage is recommended as an antidote to sexual passion,

Hebrews 4:5 — 5. in this place—In this passage of the Psalm again, it is implied that the rest was even then still future.

Revelation 3:19 — 19. (Job 5:17; Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 3:12; Hebrews 12:5; Hebrews 12:6.) So in the case of Manasseh (Hebrews 12:6- :). As many—All. "He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. And shalt thou be an exception? If excepted from suffering the scourge, thou art excepted from