Bible Commentaries

Genesis 17:22 — sus santos. Oh, lo hablan cuando me haya ido, y lo predican en mi funeral, Dios os trata con familiaridad con el hombre, dijo que la chispa divina, ya está listo para ser extinguido un εντευξιν la oración de San Pablo llama, un entreparlance con Dios, 1 Timoteo 2: 1 y επερωτημα , el confiado interrogatorio o réplica de una buena conciencia hacia Dios. 1Pe 3:21 Los monarcas persas consideraban parte de su tonta gloria el mantenerse alejados de sus súbditos más importantes. Est 4:11 Y la imagen de Júpiter

Ezekiel 43:3 — visionis ac videndi vocabulum repetitur, the word for vision and to see it is made use of. When I came to destroy the city, — i.e., To foretell the destruction of it, Ezekiel 9:2 ; Ezekiel 9:5 from which time forth it was a done thing. See Jeremiah 1:10 . See Trapp on " Jeremiah 1:10 " And I fell upon my face. — In reverence to his majesty, in admiration of his mercy, and in the sense of mine own unworthiness. The nearer any one cometh to God, the lower he falleth in his own eyes,

Daniel 10:3 — prayer, and prayer sanctifieth fasting. Neither did I anoint myself at all. — All delights of sense must be laid aside in a time of solemn humiliation, but yet without annoyance and uncomeliness, as music, mirth, perfumes, brave apparel; 2 Samuel 12:20 John 3:8 Exodus 33:4-6 1 Kings 21:27 cheerfulness, outward joy, and pleasure ( Mark 2:20 Luke 5:35 cf. Matthew 9:15 Judges 20:26 1 Samuel 7:6 ). It is spoken of as a foul sin; Isaiah 58:3 , "Behold in the day of your fast ye find pleasure."

Daniel 10:5 — a man capable of heavenly visions of divine glory. Behold a certain man. — Heb., One man; a singular man, a glorious person; Messias the prince, described here by his habit and parts as a judge, say some, or as a priest, say others. See Daniel 12:6-7 Revelation 1:13-15 ; Revelation 10:5 . Clothed in linen. — To show his innocence and purity, as also his righteousnesses, imputed and imparted, wherewith he clotheth his saints, Revelation 19:8 that fine white linen and shining. Whose loins

Joel 1:16 — of their deadly enemies? O brawny breasts! O horny heart strings! Yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God — All God’s services were to be performed with joy; but now, for want of corn and wine (which cheereth God and man, Judges 9:13 ), the daily sacrfice ceased, and all good hearts were thereby saddened. Joel 1:9 . See Trapp on " Joel 1:9 "

Joel 3:19 — a desolation — By Egypt and Edom are meant all Christ’s adversaries, whether they be professed open enemies, as were the Egyptians, or false brethren, as the Edomites. Romists have been both, and shall therefore be desolated, Revelation 17:16 ; cf. Revelation 11:8 . For the violence against the children of Judah — From the very cradle of the Church, Exodus 1:8-14 , yea, sooner; for Esau in the very womb jostled his brother Jacob, and offered violence against him, that he might

Amos 1:14 — fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: But I will kindle a fire, … — With mine own hands (not only send a fire, as before, Amos 1:10 ; Amos 1:12 ); as Charles V Emperor of Germany (when it was told him how that Farnesius, the Pope’s general, had ravished certain ladies), brake out into these hot words: If I had the villain here I would kill him with mine own hands; neither

Jonah 1:11 — tempestuous: so Kimchi readeth the text; making these last also to be the words of the mariners. Thou seest that there is no hope, if thine angry God be not appeased. "Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods?" 1 Samuel 4:8 . If the sea be thus rageful and dreadful, as John 1:15 , if it thus work and swell more and more, as we see it doth, thereby testifying that it can now no longer defer to execute God’s anger, tell us what we shall do in this case and

Matthew 21:44 — shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And whosoever shall fall on this stone — Christ is a stone of stumbling to his enemies, who stumble at his meanness, and a rock of offence,1 Peter 2:8; 1 Peter 2:8 ; but like that rock, Judges 6:21 , out of which fire went and consumed them, Nemo me impune lacessit, No one provokes me with impunity, saith he. The Corinthians abused certain Roman ambassadors, and were therefore burned to

Matthew 24:44 — Caesar’s policy never to forewarn his soldiers of any set time of removal or onset, that he might ever have them in readiness to draw forth whithersoever he would. a Christ, in like manner, who is called the "Captain of our salvation," Hebrews 2:10 . Our enemy is always ready to annoy us, should we not, therefore look to our stand, and be vigilant? Solomon’s wisdom, Lot’s integrity, and Noah’s sobriety, felt the smart of the serpent’s sting. The first was seduced, the

Matthew 28:13 — Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. Stole him away while we slept — If it were Song of Solomon 1:1-17 . Ye keep a good watch the while; and wanted some Epaminondas to slay you for sleeping. 2. If all asleep, who told you his disciples stole him? Did you sleep waking, as lions do? or did they make so little noise that you never heard them about

Mark 4:25 — settle upon it. Though both arms grow, yet that which a man useth is the stronger and bigger: so is it in grace. God gives "grace for grace," and his righteousness is revealed from faith to faith; that is, from a less measure to a greater, John 1:16 ; Romans 1:17 . Whereas it is easy to observe an eclipse and decay of God’s gifts in them that use them not, till at last they may say with Zedekiah, "When went the Spirit of God from me?"

Luke 19:1 — me. 39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. 40 And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him, 41 Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. 42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and

John 1:12 — name: To them he gave power — Or, privilege preferment, prerogative royal, heavenly honour, ουρανιαν τιμην , as Nonnus here rendereth it, and fitly. For if sons, then heirs,Romans 8:17; Romans 8:17 . Hence that Ecce admirantis, 1 John 3:1 , and that "Who am I?" 2 Samuel 7:18 ; 2 Samuel 14:13-15 . Kings can make their firstborn only heirs, as Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 21:3 ; but here all are heirs of God and co-heirs with

John 14:16 — Κατηγορος , in full opposition to this name and title given here to the Holy Spirit; whose office it is (as this attribute here imports) to make intercession in our hearts to God for us; and upon our true repentance to make our apology, 1 Corinthians 7:11 ; to comfort us, by discovering our graces, 1 Corinthians 2:12 , and by pleading our evidences, Romans 8:18 , which they that refuse to read over and rest upon, they help Satan, the accuser, taking his part against themselves, and pleading

John 14:29 — by divine revelation. The knowledge of future contingents is of God only, and of such as to whom he is pleased to communicate it; as he did to the prophets, who when they foretold things only as in their causes, they might happen or not, as Isaiah 38:1 ; John 3:4 ; 1 Kings 21:20 ; but when they foretold things ut futura in seipsis, then they occured infallibly. The devil also may come acquainted with such things, and be able to foretell them, if God reveal them to him, as he did Ahab’s death;

John 15:20 — Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. Remember the word, … — Else all is lost, 1 Corinthians 15:2 . Naturally the word runs through us, as water through a riven vessel: Pleni rimarum sumus, huc atque illuc diffuimus. Our memories are as sieves, that retain the chaff, let go the good grain; or as nets, that keep the pelf, let go

John 21:13 — — As his manner was before his death, and with his usual form of grace before eating, by the which those two that had his company to Emmaus knew him, Luke 24:35 . Those that receive not the creatures with thanksgiving are worse than heathens, 1 Timothy 4:4 . The Greek word for a dinner comes of another word that signifieth prayers, which theyusually premised to their repasts. αριστον, απο των αρων a precibus

John 21:8 — the Lord to go to. It is best to be first and forwardest in a good matter; not only to make a shift to get to heaven, but to have an abundant entrance thereinto, to come bravely into the haven, by adding one grace to another, as Peter hath it, 2 Peter 1:2 ; 2 Peter 1:11 . It is a low and unworthy strain in some (saith one) to labour after no more grace than will keep life and soul together, that is, soul and hell asunder. But that man for heaven, and heaven for him, that sets up for his mark, "the

Acts 11:3 — wentest in, … — This was now no fault, but in their conceit only. Ignorance is the mother of many mistakes, and miscarriages thereupon. How exceedingly was Job miscensured by his friends; Gideon and Jephthah by the Ephraimites, Judges 8:1 ; Judges 12:1 ; the two tribes and half by their brethren, Joshua 22:11-12 . Athanasius passed for a sacrilegious person, a profane wretch, a bloody persecutor, a blasphemer of God, … Cyril and Theodoret excommunicated one another for heresy,