Bible Commentaries

Exodus 10:2 — And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I [am] the LORD. And that thou mayest tell. — The memory of God’s magnalia, his great works, must be transmitted to posterity - “ Ut nati natorum et qui nascentur ab illis, ” that later ages may hear and fear this great God. See 1 Samuel 4:8 .

Exodus 33:16 — For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? [is it] not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth. So shall we be separated. — Heb., Marvellously separated. The separation of the saints is a wonderful separation. See Deuteronomy 4:7 ; also Isaiah 20:6 , where Judea is for this cause called an "isle."

Exodus 9:10 — And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast. And they took ashes of the furnace. — Whereby, being cast up towards heaven, was sent up, as it were, a complaint to God against the oppression of the Israelites in the furnace of the brick kilns, - see Deuteronomy 4:20 , - which came down with a vengeance upon man and beast.

1 Kings 7:26 — And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths. It contained two thousand baths. — This it held ordinarily; but if filled up to the brim, it could hold three thousand baths. 2 Chronicles 4:5 Out of this molten sea, or lake - as Junius rendereth it - the priests, by cocks or otherwise, drew water to wash themselves and other things with.

Leviticus 7:26 — Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, [whether it be] of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. Ye shall eat no manner of blood. — This signified, (1.) That we should learn to honour holy things, and not to make a mock of them by employing them to common use; (2.) That we should be most careful not to shed man’s blood for the satisfying of our lust. See Leviticus 17:11-12 Genesis 9:4-5 Deuteronomy 12:13 .

Numbers 4:8 — And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof. And cover the same. — It is well observed, that only the ark (representing Christ), and the table with show bread, (representing the Church), had three coverings; all the other holy things had but two, for "a covert from storm and from rain." Thus, "upon all the glory shall be a defence." Isaiah 4:5-6

Nahum 1:6 — loc.). Su furor es derramado como fuego ] Una metáfora de metales derretidos o de lluvias, como Dios derramó sobre Sodoma (a lo que probablemente el profeta alude aquí, como Nahúm 1:8 , al diluvio de Noé), lluvias llameantes, Jeremias 7:20 ; Jeremias 44:6 . Y las rocas son arrojadas por él ] Es decir, por su furor feroz, cuando está en la altura completa; como el fuego que al principio arde un poco por dentro, sobre unas pocas tablas y vigas, pero cuando prevalece, estalla en una llama más terrible,

Zechariah 8:4 — Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Por las calles de Jerusalén habitarán ancianos y ancianas, y cada uno con su cayado en la mano por la misma edad. Ver. 4. Aún habitarán ancianos y ancianas en las calles de Jerusalén ] Porque el "Anciano de días, el Señor justo, está en medio de ella", Sofonías 3:5 , y él dará toda "buena dádiva y perfecta dando, " Santiago 1:17 , es decir, tanto temporal como espiritual. El

Matthew 13:4 — Y cuando sembró, algunas semillas cayeron junto al camino, y vinieron las aves y se las comieron. Ver. 4. Y cuando sembró, algo de semilla, etc. ] La palabra es semilla de inmortalidad. Porque, 1. Como las semillas son cosas pequeñas, pero producen grandes sustancias, como la bellota, la encina, etc., así por la locura de la predicación se salvan las almas,

Deuteronomy 21:20 — And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son [is] stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; [he is] a glutton, and a drunkard. He is a glutton. — The same word is used for a vile person in Jeremiah 15:19 . And indeed belly-gods Philippians 3:19 are dungy-gods. Habakkuk 2:18 Ezekiel 4:12-13 A scavenger, whose office is to empty, is to be preferred before him that liveth but to fill, privies.

Deuteronomy 33:12 — [And] of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. The beloved of the Lord. — The Lord’s corculum, deliciae, darling; as their father Benjamin was old Jacob’s. Genesis 42:4 And he shall dwell between his shoulders. — These shoulders are those two holy hills, Moriah and Zion, whereon the Temple was built, four hundred and forty years after this prophecy.

Acts 25:11 — For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar. I appeal to Coesar — Who though a lion, 2 Timothy 4:17 , yet I hope to be tutus sub umbra leonis, against a manifest violence of a corrupt judge, notoriously forestalled and preoccupated. Iudex, locusta civitatis est, malus. (Scaliger.)

Romans 1:17 — For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. The just shall live by faith — Habakkuk 2:4 , that is, they shall enjoy themselves by their faith, in greatest disasters or dangers, when others are at their wits’ ends. That is the prophet’s sense; and the apostle not unfitly applieth it to prove justification by faith alone, for if a man live by faith he is just by faith.

Romans 1:4 — obscurities. With power — For, Superas evadere ad auras, Hic labor, hoc opus est -a work befitting a God. See Ephesians 1:20 . See Trapp on " Ephesians 1:20 " The Spirit of holiness — The divine essence of Christ, 2 Corinthians 13:4 , which sanctifieth the human nature assumed by him.

Philippians 3:2 — hombres mejores que ellos, siendo Isaías 56:11 por el diablo. Homines perfrictae frontis, insolente como perros. Hambrientos también cuando se meten entre los rebaños, Ezequiel 22:25 . Además, son criaturas que se agachan y se juntan, 2 Timoteo 3:4 : pero no les creas; no los recibas; porque como perros sucios te embelesarán con adulaciones; sí, como perros salchicha, te chuparán la sangre lamiendo, y al final te matarán, y te degollarán sin morderte. Cuidado con ellos, por tanto, cuidado, dice

Titus 1:14 — — αποστρεφομενοι , with utter aversatian and detestation, as a man turns his body from a loathsome object. These are those that will not endure sound doctrine, 2 Timothy 4:3 .

James 2:2 — For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; For if there come, … — It is probable, saith an interpreter here, that the primitive Christians, the better to ingratiate with the richer pagans, gave them very great respect, contrary to that, Psalms 15:4 . But I rather think the apostle speaketh in this text of wealthier Christians, unworthily preferred before better but poorer persons.

Judges 14:2 — And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. Now therefore get her for me to wife. — Though set upon it, and, as some gather from Judges 14:4 , warranted by God to do as he did, yet he would not take a wife without his parents’ consent. This is of the law of nature.

Judges 6:6 — And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD. Cried unto the Lord. — They fled to the "Rock of Ages, the Lord Jehovah." Isaiah 26:4 When their other refuges failed them, they were a "poor and afflicted people," and then "they trusted in God," Zephaniah 3:12 they confessed their sins, repented of their wicked ways, and implored the divine help, putting themselves

2 Samuel 5:19 — And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. And David enquired of the Lord. — Without whose direction he would not attempt anything; but said in effect, as Judges 4:8 , "If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go."