Bible Commentaries

Genesis 26:1 — Y hubo hambre en la tierra, además del primer hambre que hubo en los días de Abraham. Y fue Isaac a Abimelec, rey de los filisteos, a Gerar. Ver. 1. Además de la primera hambruna. ] Nuevos pecados traen nuevas plagas Flagitium et flagellura, ut acus et filum. Donde la iniquidad desayuna, la calamidad seguramente cene, para cenar donde come y alojarse donde bebe. Si los cananeos se habían enmendado

2 Kings 21:16 — Además, Manasés derramó mucha sangre inocente, hasta que llenó Jerusalén de un extremo a otro; además de su pecado con que hizo pecar a Judá, haciendo lo malo ante los ojos del SEÑOR. Ver. 16. Además, Manasés derramó mucha sangre inocente. ] Este tigre se apoderó con sus dientes de todos los espíritus excelentes de su tiempo, como dice un bien de Tiberius Stimulatus est ab insurgente diabolo, dice un anciano, Fue espoleado por ese viejo

Job 12:6 — la fuerza o por fraude. Así como aquellos que provocan a Dios ( qui res Dei interturbant, así traducen las Tigurinas), los que lo irritan y lo inquietan, tratando de ponerlo de mal humor, se refieren a los pecadores contra la primera mesa. Véase así 1 Timoteo 1:13 : Yo fui contra Dios blasfemo, contra el hombre perseguidor, contra ambos injuriosos; pero obtuve misericordia, misericordia especial. Así que no lo hacen estos ladrones y provocadores de Dios en el texto: prosperen y estén en una condición

Job 16:4 — como tú, etc. ] Cada ápice con la misma curiosidad, con tanta furia. Podría regañar y burlarme tan libremente como tú, pero no conozco ninguna garantía para replicar y tomar represalias; "siendo injuriados, bendecimos; siendo difamados, suplicamos", 1 Corintios 4:12,13 . Hacer barandilla por barandilla es pensar en lavar la suciedad con suciedad. Si tu alma estuviera en lugar de mi alma] Algunos lo leen optativamente, como Isaías 64:1 , Ojalá tu alma estuviera en lugar de mi alma; porque entonces

Job 37:13 — Él lo hace venir, ya sea para corrección, o por su tierra, o por misericordia. Ver. 13. Él lo hace venir, ya sea para corrección ] Heb. Para una vara, εις παιδειαν (septiembre). Dios tiene sus varas en cada rincón de su casa para castigar a sus hijos, y ellos también lo tomarán por un favor, Hebreos 12:7 1 Corintios 11:32 . Sinite

Psalms 47:1 — Salmo 47:1 «Al Músico principal: Salmo para los hijos de Coré. »¡Aplaudan, pueblos todos! aclamad a Dios con voz de triunfo. Salmo para los hijos de Coré ] Carmen triunfa, dice Mollerus; una oración panegírica, dice Beza, escrita por David cuando estaba lleno

Psalms 68:1 — Salmo 68:1 «Al Músico principal, Salmo [o] Canción de David. »Levántese Dios, sean esparcidos sus enemigos; huyan también los que le odian. Salmo o Canción de David ] Hecho en ese momento cuando, habiendo vencido a sus enemigos, trajo arcam in arcem, el arca de

Isaiah 12:1 — And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. And in that day, — sc., When there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse. as Isaiah 11:1 Blessed be God for a Christ. Psalms 96:1-13 Revelation 6:11 Thou shalt say. — It is not a dumb kind of thank fulness that is required of the Lord’s redeemed, but such as from a heart full of spiritual joy breaketh forth into fit words,

Isaiah 20:2 — the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. At the same time spake the Lord. — Against Egypt and Ethiopia, whom he had comforted, Isaiah 19:18-19 , and yet now again threateneth; showing by an ocular demonstration οφθαλμοειδως , i.e., Per Isaiam tanquam organum et dispensatorem suorum myster. - Oecolamp. what miseries

Ezekiel 9:3 — whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which [had] the writer’s inkhorn by his side; And the glory of the God of Israel, — i.e., The Son of God appearing upon the glorious chariot, Ezekiel 1:3 ; Ezekiel 3:23 and being "the brightness of his Father’s glory, the express image of his person." Hebrews 1:3 Was gone up from the cherub, — i.e., From those four cherubims upon which the glory of the Lord did then appear to

Hosea 11:2 — they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. As they called them — i.e. As the prophets and ministers (whose names are here concealed, that the Word only may be glorified, as Acts 13:48 ) called to them, to come out of spiritual Egypt, out of darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they might receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among the saints, by faith that is in Christ, Acts 26:18 . So they went

Amos 5:14 — life, Psalms 36:9 . To seek evil is to seek the devil, who is that evil one ( ο πονηρος ): it is, as Solomon saith in a like case, "a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death," Proverbs 21:6 . And so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you — To assist and accept you in seeking good; to protect and provide for you in shunning evil. Deal courageously, therefore, and God shall be with the good, 2 Chronicles 19:11 , as your seven-fold

Zephaniah 3:6 — your instruction; that, seeing your neighbour’s house on fire, you might look to your own; that, observing others to suffer shipwreck, you might see to your tackling. This is the use God expects we should make of his judgments upon others, Luke 13:3 ; Luke 13:5 ; Luke 17:26 ; Luke 17:29 Matthew 12:13 ; Matthew 12:41-42 1 Corinthians 10:1-2 , and surely he deserveth to be made an example that will not take example by others. Their towers are desolate — Or, their corners, sc. of their munitions,

Matthew 10:38 — crucianus, saith Luther. Every Christian is sure of his cross; but, first, it must be "his" cross, such as God hath laid upon him, not such as he hath created to himself (as Baal’s priests, who cut themselves with knives and lancets, 1 Kings 18:28 , the Circumcelliones of old, and the monks at this day, with their voluntary penances, …). Next, he must take it, and not stay till it be laid upon him; or then bear it as an ass doth his burden, because he can neither will nor choose;

Matthew 13:4 — And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: And when he sowed, some seed, … — The word is a seed of immortality. For, 1. As seeds are small things, yet produce great substances, as an acorn an oak, …, so by the foolishness of preaching souls are saved, like as by blowing of rams’ horns the walls of Jericho were subverted. 2. As the seed must be harrowed

Matthew 14:22 — been full loth to leave his sweet company. The presence of friends (how much more of such a friend!) is so sweet, that death itself is called but a departure. Christ compelled them, which is no more than commanded them (say some), to get into a ship: 1. Lest they should take part with the rash many headed multitude, who would have made him a King, John 6:15 . Thus he many times prevents sin in his by removing occasions. 2. To inure them to the cross, and to teach them, as good soldiers, to suffer

Matthew 17:2 — his raiment was white as the light. And was transfigured before them — This was while he was praying, as St Luke noteth. Prayer, rightly performed, is a parleying with God, εντευξις , interpellatio, 1 Timothy 2:1 , a standing upon interrogatories with him, επερωτημα , 1 Peter 3:21 , a pouring out of the heart unto him, Psalms 62:8 , a familiar conference with him; wherein the soul is so carried beyond

Matthew 24:31 — went otherwise attended when he went against Nabal than when against Goliath; so Christ shall come, when he shall come again with his troops and trumpets. With a great sound of a trumpet — Christ shall put forth his own mighty voice John 5:28 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:16 , ministered by his angels, as in the text, and set forth by the sound of a trumpet, in allusion, belike, to Numbers 10:1-11 , where the people were congregated and called together by the sound of a trumpet to the door of the tabernacle.

Acts 8:12 — Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. They were baptized both men and women — Who were admitted to baptism on this condition, that their infants also and their whole families should be consecrated to God; for so runs the covenant,Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:7 . If any ask why Christ and the apostles did not set down plainly, that infants were or might be baptized it is answered that none (then) questioned the lawfulness of it, because it was generally done. Again, if when infants were brought

1 Samuel 20:3 — tal juramento entre los paganos. Pero verdaderamente como vive el Señor, y como vive tu alma, ] es decir, por la vida de Dios; ése es su juramento: y, tan seguro como que estás vivo; esa es su aseveración añadida a su juramento. Véase algo similar, 1 Samuel 1:26 ; 1 Samuel 17:55; 2 Samuel 11:11 ; 2 de Samuel 14:19 Jeremias 31:3 . Sólo hay un paso entre la muerte y yo. ] Praesentissimum est periculum meum in quo versor, a Como solemos decir de los marineros, que no hay más que una tabla de una