Bible Commentaries

Genesis 19:4 — Pero antes de acostarse, los hombres de la ciudad, los varones de Sodoma, rodearon la casa, tanto viejos como jóvenes, todo el pueblo de todas partes. Ver. 4. Tanto viejos como jóvenes. ] Nulla aetas erat culpae immunis, ideo nec exitii . - Ambrose. El pecado se esparce como levadura y es tan contagioso como la plaga; como la alcachofa de Jerusalén, plántala donde quieras, se apodera de la tierra y ahoga el corazón.

Exodus 16:33 — Y Moisés dijo a Aarón: Toma una vasija y pon en ella un gomer lleno de maná, y ponlo delante de Jehová para que sea guardado por vuestras generaciones. Ver. 33. Toma una olla. ] Una olla de oro. Heb 9: 4 Estrabón a escribe que los Metapontini, después de una abundante cosecha que los había enriquecido mucho, dedicaron a Apolo en Delfos χρυσουν θερος, una cosecha de oro. un Geog.

Exodus 16:4 — Entonces el SEÑOR dijo a Moisés: He aquí, os haré llover pan del cielo; y el pueblo saldrá y recogerá una cierta cantidad todos los días, para que yo los pruebe, si andarán en mi ley o no. Ver. 4. Haré llover pan del cielo. ] No el infierno del cielo, como lo hizo una vez en Sodoma. "Si tu enemigo tiene hambre, dale de comer", como Dios hace aquí.

Exodus 20:25 — Y si me haces un altar de piedra, no lo harás de piedra labrada; porque si alzas tu herramienta sobre él, lo profanarás. Ver. 25. Tú has contaminado. ] No pulido. Así que en la predicación. 1 Cor 2: 4-5 Epistolae ornamentum est ornamentis carere: La sencillez recomienda una epístola. a Nimio mundo studentes, ab immundo propius absunt. b Algunos estropean todo haciéndolo de más. un político. b Colerus.

Exodus 4:18 — Y Moisés fue y volvió a su suegro Jetro, y le dijo: Te ruego que me dejes ir y vuelva a mis hermanos que están en Egipto, para ver si aún viven. Y Jetro dijo a Moisés: Vete en paz. Ver. 18. Si todavía están vivos. ] Lo cual, si lo están, aunque en malas condiciones, tanto ellos como yo veremos motivos para estar agradecidos. Lamentaciones 3:39 Ecl 9: 4

Exodus 9:16 — Y de hecho, por esta [causa] te he levantado, para mostrarte mi poder; y que mi nombre sea proclamado en toda la tierra. Ver. 16. ¿Te he levantado? ] Heb., Te he constituido y puesto como una marca de tope: para que pueda dejarte volar y seguirte de cerca con plaga sobre plaga, hasta que haya golpeado hasta el aliento de tu cuerpo. Ver Pro 16: 4 Romanos 9:17 .

Leviticus 16:6 — Y ofrecerá Aarón su becerro de la expiación, que es por él, y hará expiación por sí mismo y por su casa. Ver. 6. Y para su casa. ] De lo cual un ministro debe ser principalmente cuidadoso, 1Ti 3: 4 no sea que, como Augusto haciendo justicia a los demás, sea golpeado en los dientes por su propia familia desordenada. Aaron últimamente había dolido en sus dos mayores.

Leviticus 7:26 — Además, no comeréis sangre de ave o de animal en ninguna de vuestras viviendas. Ver. 26. No comeréis sangre. ] Esto significaba: (1.) Que debemos aprender a honrar las cosas santas y no burlarnos de ellas empleándolas para un uso común; (2.) Que debemos tener mucho cuidado de no derramar la sangre del hombre para satisfacer nuestra lujuria. Ver Levítico 17: 11-12 Gen 9: 4-5 Deuteronomio 12:13 .

Jeremiah 48:34 — From the cry of Heshbon [even] unto Elealeh, [and even] unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar [even] unto Horonaim, [as] an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate. From Heshbon even unto Elealeh. — See Isaiah 15:4-5 ; Isaiah 15:9 . As a heifer of three years old. — Which at that age beginneth to low after the bull.

Lamentations 3:13 — He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. — Renes sunt sedes libidinis. Heb., The sons of his quiver, by a Hebraism. So Horace hath - “ Pharetram gravidam sagittis. ” - Lib, ii. od. 21. “Full quiver of arrows.” Job hath many like complaints. Job 7:20 ; Job 8:4 ; Job 16:12-13

Ezekiel 22:21 — Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. And ye shall be melted in the midst thereof. — As in a fiery furnace. Such was anciently Egypt; Deuteronomy 4:20 afterwards Babylon; and in the year 1453, Constantinople, where cruelly perished by the hand of the Turks a very great multitude of Christians.

Ezekiel 8:18 — Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, [yet] will I not hear them. Mine eye shall not spare. — Ezekiel 5:11 ; Ezekiel 7:4 . And though they cry in mine ears, … — Because it is the cry of the flesh for ease, and not of the spirit for grace.

Daniel 4:26 — And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule. And whereas they commanded. — See Daniel 4:15 ; and further observe how God tempereth his judgments with mercy, and that out of his mere philanthropy. That the heavens, — i.e., The God of heaven. Luke 15:21 Matthew 21:25

Matthew 28:14 — And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you. We will persuade him and secure you — Hypocrites have enough, if they can collogue with men, and escape the lash of the law. "God is not in all their thoughts," Psalms 10:4 , or they think they can persuade him and secure themselves. Hence that overflow of sin, through hope of impunity, and abundance of atheism.

Mark 1:28 — And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee. His fame spread — Those that do worthily in Ephratah shall be famous in Bethlehem, Ruth 4:11 . Cicero worthily preferreth Cato before Socrates, quoniam huius dicta, illius facta laudantur. because in saying these things, he is praised in doing those things. But our Lord Christ was mighty both "in deed and word," Luke 24:19 .

Mark 1:31 — And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them. The fever left her — For Christ (the great Centurion that hath the command of all diseases, Matthew 8:9 ) had rebuked it, Luke 4:39 , as once he did the Red Sea, Psalms 106:9 , which therefore fled,Psalms 114:3; Psalms 114:3 .

Luke 1:79 — To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. That sit in darkness — This imports, 1. continuance; 2. content. To guide our feet — The superstitious pagans thought that their goddess Vibilia kept them in their right way when they travelled: but we have a better guide to God. Arnob. advers. Gent. lib, 4.

Luke 3:2 — Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. Annas and Caiaphas being high priests — By turns, John 11:49 ; Acts 4:6 , contrary to the old order. Throughout the whole Turkish territories, there is but one Mufta, or high priest, and he is the supreme judge and rectifier of all actions, as well civil as ecclesiastical.

John 6:36 — But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. Ye have seen me — But not savingly. Your understandings have been gilded over with a common kind of supernatural light, Hebrews 6:4 , but not to a transmentation. You have seen me as a traveller seeth the pomp and splendour of a foreign court, or as men see far countries in maps, with an intuitive insight, …

Acts 16:14 — And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us : whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. Whose heart the Lord opened — Man’s heart is naturally locked up and barricaded against God, till he, by his mighty Spirit, make forcible entrance, beating the devil out of his trenches, 2 Corinthians 10:4 .