Bible Commentaries

Job 1:18 — Mientras él aún hablaba, vino también otro y dijo: Tus hijos y tus hijas estaban comiendo y bebiendo vino en la casa de su hermano mayor. Ver. 18. Mientras aún hablaba ] Véase Job 1:16 . Tus hijos y tus hijas estaban comiendo y bebiendo vino ] Este fue el último, pero no el menor, de los ataques de Satanás, reservado deliberadamente para el último, para aplastarlo del todo, cuando ahora estaba

Job 11:14 — Si hay maldad en tu mano, apartala, y no habite maldad en tus tabernáculos. Ver. 14. Si hay maldad en tu mano, apártala ] Desecha todas tus transgresiones, y desecha tus concupiscencias, las manos levantadas en oración deben ser puras, 1 Timoteo 2:8 , porque la fuente del bien no se apagará. cargados de manos sucias, Isaías 1:15,16

Job 23:3 — juramento ordinario en boca de Platón, como recuerda Suidas. ¡Para que yo pudiera ir incluso a su asiento! ] Su tribunal preparado para él. Venirem usque ad stationem eius (Mercer). Grande es la confianza de una buena conciencia. Ver Génesis 20:5 1 Pedro 3:21 . Pero, sin embargo, haec certe omnia audacius dicuntur a misero homuncione, este era un discurso demasiado atrevido para una criatura mortal, como Dios mismo (que le dio su deseo) le dirá después, Job 38:2 ; Job 40:2 , y contrario a lo

Job 38:7 — pájaros al amanecer; lo mismo hicieron éstos en la mañana de la creación, cuando por primera vez esas antorchas celestiales comenzaron a brillar, y a danzar gozosamente, por así decirlo, en número y medida. Esto lo hacen todavía en su especie, Salmo 19:1 , llamándonos también, por así decirlo, para que hagamos lo mismo, Salmo 145:3 . ¿Y todos los hijos de Dios se regocijaron? ] es decir, Todos los ángeles, como Job 1:6 , también se refieren a las estrellas de la mañana, como Piscator y otros lo

Psalms 11:2 — podían) y asustarla fuera de su fe y religión verdadera. Nabucodonosor, por ejemplo, Antíoco, ese pequeño anticristo, los perseguidores primitivos y aún los papistas, con su cruel inquisición, y demás. Pero lo que dice el apóstol: En nada Filipenses 1:28 vuestros adversarios, Filipenses 1:28 . No temas con asombro, 1 Pedro 3:6 . Nos quidem neque expavescimus neque pertimescimus ea quae ab ignorantibus patimur, dice Tertuliano, No tememos lo que cualquiera de vosotros pueda hacernos, haced lo peor

Psalms 131:1 — Salmo 131:1 «Cantar de los grados de David. »SEÑOR, mi corazón no es altivo, ni mis ojos altivos; ni me ejercito en grandes cosas, ni en cosas demasiado elevadas para mí. Ver. 1. Señor, mi corazón no es altivo ] Aunque ungido y designado por ti para el reino;

Psalms 3:2 — be] which say of my soul, [There is] no help for him in God. Selah. Many there be which say of my soul — These scoffs and sarcasms leniter volant, non leniter violant. David felt them as a murdering weapon in his bones, Psalms 42:3 ; Psalms 42:10 , and oft complaineth of them to God, Qui satis idoneus est patientiae sequester, as Tertullian phraseth it, who will see that his saints shall lose nothing by their patience. There is no help for him in God — Salvation itself cannot save him;

Psalms 42:1 — sons of Korah. » As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Maschil, for the sons of Korah — Korah and his compilers were swallowed up quick by the earth in the wilderness for their gainsaying, Numbers 16:1-50 , but some of his sons, disliking his practice, escaped, and of them came Heman (the nephew of Samuel), a chief singer, 1 Chronicles 6:23 . Now, to him and his brethren was this and some other of David’s psalms committed, both to be kept

Proverbs 30:12 — done from my youth; what want I yet?" said one of them that far overweaned his own worth, and rated himself above the market. "In all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me," saith guilty Ephraim; "that were sin," Hosea 12:8 that were a foul business to find iniquity in Ephraim, whose iniquities were (yet) grown over his head, as appears throughout that whole prophecy. That man of sin, the Pope, will needs be held sinless, and sundry of his votaries say they can supererogate.

Isaiah 53:2 — a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant. — His beginning shall be mean and despicable. See Isaiah 11:1 , with the notes. God hid his Son under the carpenter’s son; this the Jews much stumbled at, Matthew 13:55 ; Matthew 13:57 ; John 7:27; John 7:27 ; John 7:41 ; John 7:52 ; 1 Corinthians 1:23 that Christ should come without sightly show or state.

Jeremiah 2:13 — waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. For my people have committed two evils. — Contrary to those two good things that I have commanded them, viz., "Depart from evil, and do good." Psalms 34:14 Lust doth first εξελκειν , draw a man from God, and then it doth δελεαζειν , deceive him with a bait of the creature. James 1:14 They have forsaken

Amos 4:4 — Here then we have a most bitter sarcasm, wherein God, in seeming to command sin, showeth his utmost dislike of it; for he is not a God that loveth wickedness, neither shall evil dwell with him, Psalms 5:4 . See the like ironic expressions, Jeremiah 7:21 Ezekiel 20:39 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Numbers 22:20 Isaiah 29:1 ; Isaiah 8:9 ; Isaiah 47:12 Judges 10:14 1 Kings 18:27 . Bethel-Place of Transgression At Gilgal multiply transgressions — That your madness may appear to all men, 1 Timothy 4:15 . See

Numbers 24:17 — Lo veré, pero no ahora; lo veré, pero no de cerca; una estrella saldrá de Jacob, y un cetro se levantará de Israel, y herirá los confines de Moab, y destruirá a todos los hijos de Israel. Sheth. Ver. 17. Lo veré. ] Así será "todo ojo, y también los que lo traspasaron", Apocalipsis 1: 7, pero no como "Abraham lo vio y se regocijó"; ni como Job. Job 19:25 ; Job 19:27 "Los de limpio corazón" sólo "lo verán" para su comodidad, como el vidrio puro o

Micah 4:6 — afflicted; In that day — sc. of grace and of the gospel. It is called a day, and that day, by an excellence, in regard of revelation, adornation, consolation, distinction, speedy preterition. Saith the Lord — Whose word cannot be broken, John 10:25 , and is therefore the best security, 2 Corinthians 1:20 . Will I assemble her that halteth — Heb. that goeth sideling, that is maimed, disjointed, lamed, Isaiah 35:3 , torn, Psalms 35:15 , and tired out with long journeys into captivity,

Habakkuk 1:3 — here in their common commerce), and publicly, as in the next words, in courts and consistories; for all was out of order. And cause me to behold grievance — Molestation and mischief done to those that would live peaceably in the land, Psalms 7:14 ; Psalms 7:16 ; Psalms 94:20 ; Psalms 55:11 to the poor that are fallen into their nets, debts, bonds, and mortgages, Psalms 10:9 . It is as if the prophet should say, Why dost thou not punish these enormous practices, but suffer evildoers to abuse

Zephaniah 2:7 — captivity. And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah — Who had not only their own country kept empty for them all the seventy years of captivity, and not any displaced to make room at their return See Trapp on " Zechariah 7:14 " but liberty to make use of the Philistines’ country; which was also further subdued by the Maccabees, but especially by the apostles, who preached the gospel, and planted Churches in those parts, as we read in the Acts, Acts 8:26 ; Acts

Zechariah 4:4 — sustain; like as the Hebrew Adonai, from Eden, a foundation or pillar, that sustaineth the whole building. It is written sometimes with Camets, or long a, in the end, and then it is proper to God (as having the vowels of Jehovah), and is given to him 134 times in the Old Testament. Sometimes it is written with Pathach, or short a, and then it is applied to the creatures, as here to the angel: Hinc Hispanorum Don, saith Drusius. What are these — The prophet had been before warned by the angel

Zechariah 5:7 — behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead — A lump of lead, the weightiest metal; noting the immoveable and immutable decree of God for the punishment of the wicked. Say to the wicked, tell him so from me, it shall go ill with him, Isaiah 3:11 ; iniquity shall be his ruin. This lump of lead is first lifted up, and then let down upon the ephah as an adequate covering; and betokeneth the grievousness and long continuance of the Jews’ punishment and banishment for their parricide, or

Zechariah 8:4 — age. There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem — Because the "Ancient of days, the just Lord, is in the midst thereof," Zephaniah 3:5 , and he will give every "good gift and perfect giving," James 1:17 , that is, both temporal and spiritual. The Father of lights will be to his both a sun and a shield; and no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly, Psalms 84:11 . Godliness hath the promises of both lives, 1 Timothy 4:8 . Christ

1 Samuel 6:9 — [no es] su mano [la que] nos hirió: [fue] una posibilidad [que] nos pasara. Ver. 9. Por el camino de su propia costa a Bet-semes. ] Es decir, La casa del sol, que, tal vez, alguna vez había estado allí, adorada, como en Heliópolis en Egipto, Jer 43:13 ahora se llama Dameta. Esta Bet-semes estaba en la tribu de Judá, y en el camino a Silo, donde antes había estado el arca; pero ahora y de ahora en adelante decía: "Subid a mi lugar que estaba en Silo, donde puse mi nombre al principio, y ved lo que