Bible Commentaries

Genesis 30:32 — and [of such] shall be my hire. And of such shall be my hire. — As white and black sheep were most set by in Mesopotamia, so were the variously coloured in Palestine, Jacob’s country; whence the shepherds there are called Nochudim , Amos 1:1 that is, keepers of spotted cattle. This might be a reason why Jacob desires to be paid in such; and, perhaps, had learned that skill there which he used in the following verses.

Exodus 27:20 — knowledge, and present it to the people. Oil olive beaten. — Signifying, saith one, how with much labour and affliction the light of God’s word is to be prepared, and with patience preached and made to shine in his Church. 2 Corinthians 1:4 ; 2 Corinthians 2:4 ; 2 Corinthians 11:21 ; 2 Corinthians 11:23-25 1 Thessalonians 2:9

Numbers 4:3 — man’s occupation, but a labouring even to lassitude; compared therefore to harvest work, and to that of cleaving wood, digging in mine pits, rowing with oars, … All the comfort is, that God that helped the Levites to bear the ark of the covenant, 1 Chronicles 15:26 will not be wanting to his weak, but willing servants, "that labour in the word and doctrine." 1 Timothy 5:17

Matthew 18:14 — Así tampoco es la voluntad de vuestro Padre que está en los cielos, que se pierda uno de estos pequeños. Ver. 14. No es la voluntad de vuestro Padre ] Feliz para nosotros, que seamos guardados por el poder de Dios para salvación, 1 Pedro 1:5 , porque de otra manera nos sería posible caer y perecer: una intercisión allí podría Sea, es más, una escisión total

Matthew 19:6 — costilla y la mujer volverá a estar en su antiguo lugar, bajo el brazo o el ala del hombre; por tanto, no hay descanso hasta que se vuelvan a unir y se unan. "Hija mía", dijo Noemí a Rut, "¿no debería buscarte descanso para que te vaya bien?" Rut 3:1 . ¿Por qué, entonces, debería haber divorcios por cuestiones ligeras? ¿Por qué habría de golpear a las esposas e imponerlas (como algunos) con sus puños poco masculinos? ¿Alguna vez alguien " Efesios 5:29 su propia carne", Efesios 5:29 , o escondió

John 12:29 — trueno ni un ángel, sino Dios el que hablaba. Fuerunt praeter Apostolos etiam aliqui minus sinistri interpreta. (Calvino.) De la misma manera hoy Dios habla por su palabra, pero pocos lo escuchan en ella. La palabra de Dios (dice Forbes en Apocalipsis 14: 1-20) tiene tres grados de operación en el corazón de los hombres. Primero, cae a oídos de los hombres, como el estruendo de muchas aguas; un sonido confuso, que comúnmente no trae ni terror ni alegría, pero sin embargo un asombro y reconocimiento

1 Corinthians 14:19 — ordered and appointed it. (Benedict.) The Mahometans read their Koran (which they supposed were profaned if it were translated into common tongues) and perform their public devotions in the Arabic tongue, which is their learned language. (Montan. in 1 Corinthians 14:1-40 )

1 Corinthians 4:6 — that no one of you be puffed up for one against another. I have in a figure, … — i.e. I have represented and reprehended your partialities under our names, when I brought you in saying, "I am of Paul, and I of Apollos," …, 1 Corinthians 1:12 . For the heads of your factions were your own ambitious doctors, whose names I yet spared, and took the business upon myself and Apollos, for your sakes.

1 Corinthians 9:26 — I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: Not as uncertainly — For, 1. I forget those things that are behind, all worldly things. I set those by. 2. I have oculum ad metam (which was Ludovicus Vives’ motto), an eye upon the Mark 3:1-35 . I strain and stretch toward it. See all these Philippians 3:13-14 . Duties

Ephesians 3:9 — what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: And to make all men see — Gr. to illighten them, far more than the preaching of the prophets could,2 Peter 1:19; 2 Peter 1:19 . To us now is a great light sprung up,Matthew 4:16; Matthew 4:16 . The fellowship — οικονομια . Or (as some copies have it) the dispensation. Who created all things —

Ephesians 6:14 — Estad, pues, firmes, ceñidos vuestros lomos con la verdad, y vestidos con la coraza de justicia; Ver. 14. Párate, pues, ] στητε, una expresión militar. Un hombre bien puede decirle al soldado cristiano, como Simón en la historia eclesiástica le dijo a los pilares, que azotó antes del terremoto: Estad firmes, porque seréis sacudidos. Tus lomos ceñidos

1 Timothy 5:10 — lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. Well reported of, … — "A good name is better than precious ointment," Ecclesiastes 7:1 ; and "rather to be chosen than great riches," Proverbs 22:1 . Provident we must be to preserve it, learning of the unjust steward by lawful, though he did it by unlawful, means; for our Saviour noted this defect, when he said, "The children

Hebrews 12:13 — it rather be healed. Make straight paths — Seek not byways (those highways to hell), leap not over the hedge of any commandment, so to escape any piece of foul way; but as those kine of the Philistines held straight on their way to Bethshemesh,1 Samuel 6:12; 1 Samuel 6:12 , though they had calves at home; so let us to heaven, though we have various things to divert us. "Let thine eyes look right on; and let thine eyelids look straight before thee," Proverbs 4:25 .

Hebrews 6:10 — For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. For God is not unrighteous — That is, unfaithful, 1 John 1:9 . There is a justice of fidelity as well as of equity. To forget your work. — The butler may forget Joseph, and Joseph forget his father’s house; but forgetfulness befalls not God, to whom all things are present, and before whom

1 Peter 1:23 — corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. Born again — A man shall never have occasion to curse the day of his new birth. By the word of God — Made prolific and generative by the Spirit, 1 John 3:9 . It is the Father that regenerateth us originally, Titus 3:5 , the Son meritoriously and effectively, John 14:19 ; Ephesians 5:26 ; the Holy Ghost consummately and applicatorily, through faith wrought and increased in us by the word and sacraments,

1 John 2:11 — so that he cannot away with him, nor speak to nor look courteously or peaceably upon him, … 2. A habit of hatred, when the heart is so settled in this alienation and estrangement, that it grows to wish and seek his hurt. This is manslaughter,1 John 3:5; 1 John 3:5 .

Revelation 1:17 — Fear not; I am the first and the last: I fell at his feet as dead — The nearer any one comes to Christ, the more rottenness entereth into his bones. And he laid his right hand — The same right hand wherein he held the seven stars,Revelation 1:16; Revelation 1:16 . Christus sic omnibus attentus, ut nulli detentus; sic curat universos quasi singulos, sic singulos, quasi solos. Every godly minister is Christ’s particular care. Fear not — Till ridden of fear we are not fit to hear.

Revelation 19:9 — posterity, worthy to be written in letters of gold. Blessed are they that are called — So they have hearts to come at Christ’s call, and not show themselves unworthy to taste of his supper by framing excuses, as those recusant guests did, Luke 14:15-24 . These are the true sayings of God — q.d. This foregoing sentence is "a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation," 1 Timothy 1:15 .

Revelation 3:16 — nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. I will spue thee out — I will please myself in thy just punishment. Ah (saith God, as one ridding his stomach), "I will ease me of mine adversaries, I will avenge me of mine enemies,"Isaiah 1:24; Isaiah 1:24 . Now the basest places are good enough to cast up our gorge in. The hypocrite’s punishment must needs be heavy. Laodicea is commonly looked upon as a type of England. And surely that facies hypocritica hypocricitical look of our

Revelation 3:4 — mercenario. Aquí la alabanza del pueblo es la vergüenza del pastor. Estas buenas almas eran pocas, sus nombres (como se dijo de los buenos emperadores) podrían haber sido escritos dentro de la brújula de un anillo. Rari quippe boni (Juvenal, sábado 13); Diaconos paucitas honorabiles feeit, dice Jerónimo. El rebaño de Cristo es pequeño. Pocos lo recibieron en la carne, Juan 1:12 ; se asombró de un buen Natanael. ¿En su venida encontrará fe sobre la tierra? Sí, claro, dice uno; ahora puede encontrar