Bible Commentaries

Genesis 1:1 — En el principio, Dios creó el cielo y la tierra. Ver. 1. Al principio. ] Un principio no había entonces, cualquiera que sea Aristóteles un imaginó la eternidad del mundo. Tan cierto es el de los italianos eruditos: la filosofía busca la verdad; la divinidad sólo lo encuentra; la religión lo mejora. b Veritatem

Genesis 1:4 — , so one renders it. praeviderat autem - Zaberellus He saw this long before, but he would have us to see it; he commends the goodness of this work of his to us. Good it is surely, and a goodly creature: "sweet," saith Solomon; Ecclesiastes 11:7 "comfortable," saith David. Psalms 97:11 Which when one made question of - "That’s a blind man’s question," said the philosopher. τυφλου το ερωτημα

Genesis 15:6 — ] Cuando así se repitió la promesa. Tan necesario es, que la palabra debe predicarse con frecuencia, y las dulces promesas del evangelio deben batirse al olfato; para que "siendo el nombre de Dios como ungüento derramado, las vírgenes le amen", Hijo 1: 3 crean en él y "se regocijen con gozo inefable y lleno de gloria". 1Pe 1: 8 Y se lo contó por justicia. ] Esta justicia imputativa de la que se burlan los papistas, llamándola putativa o imaginaria. De esto también se burlan los judíos hasta el día

2 Kings 20:1 — son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. In those days. — In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, as appeareth by comparing 2 Kings 20:6 , and 2 Kings 18:13 ; then, when Hannibal ad portas, the Assyrian was in the land. Crosses commonly come thick and many together, James 1:2 and all for the best. Romans 8:28 Was Hezekiah sick unto death. — Sick of the plague, as it is thought, and may be probably

Ezra 5:2 — office of high priest in 536 BC, and held it thirty-six years, eight whereof were spent in an embassage to Darius, king of Persia, say historians. And began to build the house of God — i. e. They went on with the building begun before, Ezra 3:10 , and not forbidden by the king of Persia to be finished; only he commanded them to desist from building the city, Ezra 4:12 ; Ezra 4:21 . It was therefore the people’s sloth and self-seeking that kept back the work. See the notes on Haggai 1:2

Ezra 5:2 — aC, y lo ocupó durante treinta y seis años, ocho de los cuales los pasó en una embajada ante Darío, rey de Persia, dicen los historiadores. Y comenzaron a edificar la casa de Dios ] es decir , continuaron con la construcción comenzada antes, Esdras 3:10 , y el rey de Persia no había prohibido que se terminara; sólo él les ordenó que desistieran de edificar la ciudad, Esdras 4:12 ; Esdras 4:21 . Por lo tanto, fue la pereza y el egoísmo de la gente lo que frenó el trabajo. Vea las notas sobre Hageo

Job 29:1 — luminibus illustris est (Merlin). Here Job describeth graphically his former felicity; as in the next chapter his present misery. The promise of prosperity to God’s people is to be understood with exception of the cross, wherewith, if need be, 1 Peter 1:6 , they are sure to be exercised; and they shall take it for a favour too, Hebrews 12:6 . "By the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report," …, 2 Corinthians

Psalms 16:1 — Salmo 16:1 «Mictam de David. »Guárdame, oh Dios, porque en ti he confiado. Mictam de David ] es decir, la joya preciosa de David, o salmo de oro, propter mirificam eius excellentiam, más valioso que su peso en oro, tanto por la materia como por el metro, Insignis

Psalms 40:6 — Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire — Comparatively to the obedience of faith, 1 Samuel 15:22 , without which, when hypocrites thought to bribe God by cold ceremonies, they were rejected. Christ is the end of the law to all that believe; that Lamb of God, slain from the beginning of the world, is the only expiatory sacrifice, and

Ecclesiastes 9:5 — those atheists that deny the immortality of the soul. But they shall know at death that there is another life beyond this, wherein the righteous shall be "comforted," and their knowledge perfected, but the wicked "tormented"; Luke 16:25 and with nothing more than to know that such and such poor souls as they would have disdained to have "set with the dogs of their flocks." Job 30:1 are now "sitting down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of God, and themselves

Song of Solomon 1:8 — rebaño, y apacienta tus cabritos junto a las tiendas de los pastores. Ver. 8. Si no lo sabes, oh la más bella de las mujeres. ] Por eso, Cristo se complace en modelarla, quien primero se abrazó y se llamó a sí misma negra y quemada por el sol. Hijo 1: 5 Nada nos recomienda más a Cristo que la humildad y la humildad. 1Pe 3: 5 La hija de Sion, porque esto se compara con "una mujer hermosa y delicada", sus enemigos con los pastores con sus rebaños. Jer 6: 2-3 Los falsos profetas también tienen sus

Jeremiah 23:21 — Observabilis est hic locus contra multos qui hodie plebem docendi munus sibi arrogant, cum tamen non sint missi, saith Oecolampadius. This is a notable place against lay preachers. And, as if he had lived in those loose times of ours, he thus goeth on: - In 1 Corinthians 14:40 ; 1 Corinthians 16:1 , order is commanded to be kept; but there are now such as abide not in their own churches, but run into others, where they teach without a calling. These promote not, but hinder the cause of Christ. He is the

Hosea 12:7 — [He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress. He is a merchant — Heb. He is Canaan that is, a mere natural man, Ezekiel 16:3 , money merchant, who, so he may have it, careth not how he comes by it; he is more like a Canaanite than a Jacobite. Jacob said, "I have enough, my brother"; but Ephraim is sick of the plague of unsatisfiableness; and instead of keeping

Amos 1:1 — Palabras de Amós, que estaba entre los pastores de Tecoa, que vio acerca de Israel en los días de Uzías rey de Judá, y en los días de Jeroboam hijo de Joás rey de Israel, dos años antes del terremoto. Ver. 1. Las palabras de Amós ] No de ese Amós que fue padre de Isaías (como algunos antiguos, por falta de hebreo, lo confundieron), sino de un hombre de menor rango; "grosero en el hablar, pero no en el conocimiento", 2 Corintios 11:6 , tam sensuum nomine

Micah 6:4 — makes God, contrary to his custom, upbraid people with what he hath done for them; and angrily call for his love tokens back again, as Hosea 2:9 . For their deliverance out of the Egyptian servitude how great a mercy it was, See Trapp on " Hosea 11:1 " such as they were again and again charged never to forget, Deuteronomy 6:12 ; Deuteronomy 5:15 ; Deuteronomy 26:5-12 . How much more bound are we to God for our redemption by Christ! for what is Pharaoh to Satan? Egypt to this present evil

Micah 6:4 — que Dios, contrario a su costumbre, reprenda a la gente por lo que ha hecho por ellos; y vuelve a pedir airadamente sus muestras de amor, como Oseas 2:9 . Por su liberación de la servidumbre egipcia, qué gran misericordia fue, Ver Trapp en " Oseas 11: 1 ", tal como se les pidió una y otra vez que nunca olvidaran, Deuteronomio 6:12 ; Deuteronomio 5:15 ; Deuteronomio 26:5,12 . ¡Cuánto más atados estamos a Dios para nuestra redención por Cristo! porque ¿qué es el faraón para Satanás? Egipto a este

Zechariah 14:21 — them, they of life and peace from him. There shall be no more the Canaanite — The merchant, saith the Vulgate, after Aquila and the Chaldee; that is, the Simoniac, the Churchchopper, such money-merchants as Christ whipped out of the temple, 2 John 1:2; 2 John 1:22 John 1:2; 2 John 1:2 :15 . But better render it Canaanite, who were indeed great merchants, Hosea 12:7 Ezekiel 17:4 (the Phenicians, those great merchants, were Canaanites), but here it stands for a wicked man, a hypocrite, that botch

Matthew 13:19 — of life, the power of God to salvation:" heaven is potentially in it, as the harvest is in the seed, as above I noted. And understandeth it not — Considereth it not, as the Syriac here hath it, using the same word that David doth, Psalms 41:1 ; "Blessed is the man that wisely considereth the poor and needy." Consideration sets on the word when it hath been heard (which else lies loose, and is driven away as chaff before the wind), maketh it to become an ingrafted word ( λογος

Matthew 13:52 — householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. Therefore every scribe — i.e. Every teacher of the Church must be both learned and apt to teach. He must give attendance to reading first, and then to exhortation and doctrine, 1 Timothy 4:13 . Bishop Latimer, notwithstanding both his years and other pains in preaching, was every morning ordinarily both winter and summer about two o’clock at his book most diligently. And as the Rabbis have a proverb, Lilmod lelaramed,

James 2:6 — But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? Ye have despised the poor — Pauper ubique iacet. Zephaniah 3:12 , afflicted and poor are joined together; because poverty is an affliction, and makes a man trodden upon. Men go over the hedge where it is lowest. Therefore St Paul joins them together, "I have learned to want, and to be abased;" they that