Bible Commentaries

1 Kings 11:1 — exhibited at the commencement of his reign. No sadder, more humiliating, or awful spectacle can be imagined than the besotted apostasy of his old age; and to him may be applied the words of Paul ( :-), of John (Revelation 3:17), and of Isaiah (Isaiah 14:21). A love of the world, a ceaseless round of pleasure, had insensibly corrupted his heart, and produced, for a while at least, a state of mental darkness. The grace of God deserted him; and the son of the pious David—the religiously trained child

Job 16:4 — 4. heap up—rather, "marshal together (an army of) words against you." shake . . . head—in mockery; it means nodding, rather than shaking; nodding is not with us, as in the East, a gesture of scorn (Isaiah 37:22; Jeremiah 18:16; Matthew 27:39).

Job 21:4 — 4. Job's difficulty was not as to man, but as to God, why He so afflicted him, as if he were the guilty hypocrite which the friends alleged him to be. Vulgate translates it, "my disputation." if it were—rather, "since this is the case."

Psalms 24:3 — 3, 4. The form of a question gives vivacity. Hands, tongue, and heart are organs of action, speech, and feeling, which compose character. hill of the Lord—(compare Psalms 2:6, &c.). His Church—the true or invisible, as typified by the earthly sanctuary.

Psalms 51:4 — 4. Against thee—chiefly, and as sins against others are violations of God's law, in one sense only. that . . . judgest—that is, all palliation of his crime is excluded; it is the design in making this confession to recognize God's justice, however severe the sentence.

Psalms 54 overview — PSALM 54 :-. See on Psalms 4:1, title; Psalms 54:3, title; for the history, see 1 Samuel 23:19; 1 Samuel 23:29; 1 Samuel 26:1-25. After an earnest cry for help, the Psalmist promises praise in the assurance of a hearing.

Psalms 65:1-13 — toda la tierra. 1. plácida—lit., silencio; A tí el silencio es alabanza; es decir, la alabanza atiende cual una sierva: a ti te es debida (62:1). Así también es un deber pagar los votos. Estas dos partes del culto acepto, mencionadas en el Salmo 50:14, se ofrecen en Sión, donde Dios obra mayormente su misericordia y recibe homenaje. 2. Todos animados a orar por la prontitud de Dios para escuchar. 3. Sólo la misericordia de Dios nos libra de las cargas de la iniquidad, purgando y expiando las transgresiones

Psalms 9:1-20 — contrasta la eterna posesión por Dios de un trono de justicía, con la destrucción de los malos. 9, 10. De modo que los oprimidos, y todos los que le conocen ( 1 Samuel 5:3; 1 Samuel 7:1) hallan en él seguro refugio. 11. (Cf. el Salmo 2:6; y el 3:4). 12. la sangre—eso es, homicidios (5:6), inclusive toda la opresión a su pueblo. demandando—(cf. Génesis 9:5). Vengará la causa de ellos. 13. puertas—o regiones. de la muerte—las puertas, o la entrada, se dice por los límites. 14. puertas … Sión—el

Proverbs 22:1-29 — CAPITULO 22 1. buena fama—o buen nombre ( Job 30:8, el hebreo). Buena se inserta aquí desde Eclesiastés 7:1. la buena gracia—benigna consideración, es decir, de los sabios y buenos. 2. Delante de Dios todos están en un mismo nivel (caps. 14:31; 17:5). 3. el daño—o castigo, eso es, por su temeridad; porque el mal no es necesariamente punitivo, pues de otro modo los prudentes podrían haberlo recibido. 4. humildad y temor de Jehová—La una produce el otro. Sobre los resultados, cf. los caps.

Proverbs 29:1-27 — CAPITULO 29 1. endurece la cerviz—rehusar obstinadamente el consejo ( 2 Reyes 17:14; Nehemías 9:16). quebrantado—desmenuzado, irreparablemente. 2. (Cf. los caps. 11:10; 28:28.) dominan—lit., son aumentados en poder. 3. (Cf. los caps. 4:6, 7; 10:1, etc.) 4. con el juicio—fallos justos, lo opuesto a las decisiones por el cohecho

Isaiah 9:1 — Ben-hadad of Syria, two hundred years before (1 Kings 9:11- :). It was after the Assyrian deportation colonized with heathens, by Esar-haddon (1 Kings 9:11- :). Hence arose the contempt for it on the part of the southern Jews of purer blood (John 1:46; John 7:52). The same region which was so darkened once, shall be among the first to receive Messiah's light (Matthew 4:13; Matthew 4:15; Matthew 4:16). It was in despised Galilee that He first and most publicly exercised His ministry; from it were

Numbers 15:4 — 4. tenth deal—that is, an omer, the tenth part of an ephah ( :-). fourth part of an hin of oil—This element shows it to have been different from such meat offerings as were made by themselves, and not merely accompaniments of other sacrifices.

Zechariah 4:7 — 7. All mountain-like obstacles (Isaiah 40:4; Isaiah 49:11) in Zerubbabel's way shall be removed, so that the crowning top-stone shall be put on, and the completion of the work be acknowledged as wholly of "grace." Antitypically, the antichristian last foe of Israel, the obstacle preventing

Deuteronomy 2:4 — 4. the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir . . . shall be afraid of you—The same people who had haughtily repelled the approach of the Israelites from the western frontier were alarmed now that they had come round upon the weak side of their country.

John 1:14 — 14. And the Word, c.—To raise the reader to the altitude of this climax were the thirteen foregoing verses written. was made flesh—BECAME MAN, in man's present frail, mortal condition, denoted by the word "flesh" (Isaiah 40:6 1 Peter 1:24). It is directed probably

John 21:11 — henceforth thou shalt catch men." Nay, when first called, in the act of "casting their net into the sea, for they were fishers," the same symbolic reference was made to their secular occupation: "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men" (Matthew 4:18; Matthew 4:19). Here, then, if but the same symbolic reference be kept in view, the design of the whole scene will, we think, be clear. The multitude and the size of the fishes they caught symbolically foreshadowed the vast success of their now fast

Ephesians 6:12 — behind them is Satan himself, with whom our conflict is. "Wrestling" implies that it is a hand-to-hand and foot-to-foot struggle for the mastery: to wrestle successfully with Satan, we must wrestle with GOD in irresistible prayer like Jacob (Genesis 32:24-29 Hosea 12:4). Translate, "The principalities . . . the powers" (Ephesians 1:21; Colossians 1:16; see on Colossians 1:16- :). The same grades of powers are specified in the case of the demons here, as in that of angels there (compare Romans 8:38; 1

Hebrews 2:9 — by faith hereafter all things shall be subjected to Him visibly and fully. The ground of His exaltation is "on accoumt of His having suffered death" (Hebrews 2:10; Philippians 2:8; Philippians 2:9). that he by the grace of God— (Titus 2:11; Titus 3:4). The reading of ORIGEN, "That He without God" (laying aside His Divinity; or, for every being save God: or perhaps alluding to His having been temporarily "forsaken," as the Sin-bearer, by the Father on the cross), is not supported by the manuscripts.

James 1:21 — 21. lay apart—"once for all" (so the Greek): as a filthy garment. Compare Joshua's filthy garments, Zechariah 3:3; Zechariah 3:5; Revelation 7:14. "Filthiness" is cleansed away by hearing the word (Revelation 7:14- :). superfluity of naughtiness—excess (for instance, the intemperate spirit implied in "wrath," James 1:19; James 1:20), which arises from malice (our natural, evil disposition towards

Revelation 6:1 — read this in the nominative or dative, not the genitive, as English Version, "I heard one from among the four living creatures saying, as (it were) the voice (or, 'as with the voice') of thunder." The first living creature was like a lion (Revelation 4:7): his voice is in consonance. Implying the lion-like boldness with which, in the successive great revivals, the faithful have testified for Christ, and especially a little before His coming shall testify. Or, rather, their earnestness in praying for