Bible Commentaries

Genesis 10:25 — nacieron dos hijos: el nombre de uno [era] Peleg; porque en sus días fue dividida la tierra; y el nombre de su hermano [era] Joctán. Ver. 25. Peleg, porque en sus días fue dividida la tierra. ] Eber, de quien vinieron los hebreos o israelitas, Éxodo 1:15 para tener ante sus ojos un monumento perpetuo del justo disgusto de Dios contra los ambiciosos constructores de Babel, llama a su hijo Peleg, o División, porque en sus días fue la tierra. dividido. Es bueno escribir el recuerdo de las obras dignas

Genesis 5:1 — Este [es] el libro de las generaciones de Adán. El día que Dios creó al hombre, a semejanza de Dios lo hizo; Ver. 1. Este es el libro de las generaciones. ] Sepher, un cifrado de sus nombres, actos y accidentes; para que sepamos, primero, quiénes fueron los progenitores de Cristo; en segundo lugar, por quién continuó la Iglesia; en tercer lugar, cuánto duró el viejo

Genesis 9:13 — Puse mi arco en la nube, y será por señal de un pacto entre mí y la tierra. Ver. 13. Pongo mi arco en la nube, etc. ] Allí estaba antes, pero no hasta ahora como una señal del pacto; como todavía se aplica como signo de la gracia de Dios a su Iglesia. Apocalipsis 4:3 ; Ap 10: 1 Eze 1:28 Está plantado en las nubes, como si el hombre

1 Kings 19:14 — Y él respondió: He sentido mucho celo por el SEÑOR Dios de los ejércitos, porque los hijos de Israel abandonaron tu pacto, derribaron tus altares y mataron a espada a tus profetas; y yo, [incluso] sólo yo, quedo; y buscan mi vida para quitarla. Ver. 14. He sido muy celoso. ] Ver 1 Reyes 19:10 . 1 Reyes 19:10 . Y yo, incluso yo, me quedo solo. ] Tal era la escasez y oscuridad del pueblo de Dios en estos tiempos, que el profeta grita miserablemente en su soledad. Tal fue en la época de Basilio, a

2 Chronicles 15:13 — Que todo el que no busque al SEÑOR Dios de Israel, sea pequeño o grande, sea hombre o mujer, sea condenado a muerte. Ver. 13. Que todo aquel que no busque al Señor, ] es decir, esté sujeto al Señor, sino que busque a otros dioses. Debería ser ejecutado. ] De acuerdo con la ley. Deuteronomio 13: 9 No digas: Este es el Antiguo Testamento, no encontramos tal cosa en el evangelio.

2 Chronicles 28:1 — Acaz tenía veinte años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó dieciséis años en Jerusalén; pero no hizo lo recto ante los ojos del SEÑOR, como David su padre. Ver. 1. Acaz tenía veinte años. ] Y reinó sólo dieciséis años; y sin embargo, cuando murió, su hijo Ezequías tenía veinticinco años. 2Cr 29: 1 Algunos a dicen que esto fue extraordinario, y dan esta razón: Acaz un padre tan joven, como Isabel, una madre anciana,

Zechariah 2:1 — I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked — i.e. I looked wistfully, not sluggishly, as between sleeping and waking, as Zechariah 4:1 . I saw further by the spirit than common sense could have carried me. I beheld Jerusalem in her future glory, I looked intently, I took aim, not by the things which are seen, but by the things which are not seen, 2 Corinthians 4:18 Hebrews 11:27 Galatians

Matthew 12:30 — betweem two, and will be sure to hold themselves on the warm side of the hedge howsoever. Such were of old the Samaritans, Nazarites, Ebionites, and those Corinthians that would neither "be of Paul, nor Apollos, nor Cephas, but of Christ," 1 Corinthians 1:12 ; that is, as some neutals say today, they are neither Cavaliers nor Roundheads, but good Protestants; others are neither Papists nor Protestants, but Christians, that is, just nothing, Atheists. Christ hates neutrality, and counts

Matthew 12:40 — on till they have all. This we should the rather do, because we need neither climb up to heaven with these Pharisees nor descend into the deep with Jonah, since "the word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thine heart," …,Romans 10:7-8; Romans 10:7-8 . So shall the Son of man be three days, … — Taking a part for the whole. So Esther lasted three days and three nights, Ezra 4:16 , and yet on the third day she went to the king,Ezra 5:1; Ezra 5:1 . So, then, the fast

Matthew 15:1 — stomacheth the prosperity of God’s kingdom in any place, and stirreth up his to oppose it. Esau began with Jacob in the womb, that no time might be lost. As soon as ever the Church’s child was born the devil sought to drown him, Revelation 12:15 Scribes and Pharisees — Learned and lewd; these are Christ’s greatest enemies, hypocrites especially, those night birds that cannot bear the light of true religion, but, as bats, beat against it. Which were of Jerusalem — That

Matthew 22:32 — Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. God is not the God of the dead — That is, in the Sadducees’ sense, utterly dead and extinct for ever; but in St Paul’s sense,Romans 14:9; Romans 14:9 , He is the God of the dead. For the dead bodies also of the faithful, while they lie rotting in the grave, and resolved into dust, are united to Christ; by means whereof a substance is preserved, sin only is rotted with its concomitant

Luke 10:27 — corde; id est, amore summo, more vero, ore fideli re omni: Hoc non sit verbis. Marce, ut ameris, ama. (Martial.) Here some weak Christians are troubled, as conceiting that they love their children, friends, …, better than God. But it is answered, 1. When two streams run in one channel (as here nature and grace do) they run stronger than one stream doth. When a man loves God and the things of God, grace is alone; nature yields nothing to that. 2. We must not judge by an indeliberate passion. (Dr

John 17:4 — thou gavest me to do — Our Saviour counts his work a gift; so should we take it for a favour, that he employs us, that we may have any office about him, that we may magnify him with our bodies, "whether by life or death,"Philippians 1:19; Philippians 1:19 . As a heretic I am condemned, said Mr Bradford, and shall be burned, whereof I ask God heartily mercy that I do no more rejoice than I do, having so great cause as to be an instrument, wherein it may please my dear Lord God and

John 18:28 — a gnat and swallow a camel? τον ανδριανταγαργαλιζειν . So Saul seemed to make a heinous matter of eating the flesh with the blood,1 Samuel 14:33; 1 Samuel 14:33 , when it was nothing with him to spill the blood of innocent Jonathan. Nay, he was so scrupulous, that he would not so much as name a guilty man or sinner, but, in casting of lots, instead of saying, Show the innocent or

John 21:23 — was found empty, and he raptured up alive into Paradise, whence he shall come together with Enoch and Elias at the last day to confound Antichrist. O quantum est in rebus inane! It is not for us to "follow cunningly devised fables,"2 Peter 1:16; 2 Peter 1:16 , but to attend to that sure word of truth, as unto a light shining, …,John 21:19; John 21:19 , accounting every particle of it precious, since the change of one letter may breed so much error and cause so much contention.

John 6:65 — man’s power, why doth he yet complain? and why are any destroyed for lack of faith? Hereunto I might answer with the apostle, "Nay, but, O man, who art thou that replies, (or chattest) against God?" But for further satisfaction, know, 1. That faith was once in man’s power. 2. That no unbeliever doth what he might do to believe. 3. That unbelief is in a man’s power, who wittingly and willingly, and by his own election, forsaketh his own mercies, John 2:8 ; Matthew 23:37

Acts 15:36 — Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. And see how they do — Whether that wicked one (or troubler, ο πονηρος , Matthew 13:39 ) hath not cast his club among them, or corrupted their minds from the simplicity that is in Christ, 2 Corinthians 11:3 . How soon were the Galatians unsettled by seducers and sect makers, Galatians 1:6 . What ill work made those deceitful workers

Acts 4:27 — For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, Both Herod and Pontius Pilate, … — So of old,Psalms 2:1-3; Psalms 2:1-3 ; Psalms 83:5-7 . So lately against Luther, the emperor, the pope, the kings of Spain, France, England, Hungary, which two last wrote against him, as did also Eckius, Roffensis, Cajetan, Sir Thomas Moore, Johannes Faber, Cochlaeus, Catharinus,

1 Samuel 2:3 — odiosa, había molestado y molestado a la santa Ana tanto en sus oraciones como en sus comidas, con sus discursos insolentes. Ahora se le advierte que lo haya hecho y que no deje que más palabras duras salgan de su boca, Ne lapides loquantur. Ver Jueces 1:15 . ¿Y por qué? por buenas razones para buceadores: - Porque el Señor es un Dios de conocimiento. ] Heb., De conocimientos; y conoce tu orgullo y tu petulancia. Ver Mal 3:13 Mateo 12:17 Ver Trapp en " Mal 3:13 " Ver Trapp en " Mat 12:17 " Y por él

1 Samuel 21:2 — nada del negocio a donde te envío, y lo que te he mandado; y he señalado [mi] sirvientes de tal y tal lugar. Ver. 2. El rey me ha mandado un negocio. ] Aquí David pronuncia dos mentiras en un soplo, - como antes de él Jacob había hecho tres, Gen 27: 19-20 aunque la mentira sea un pecado vergonzoso, - a lo que agrega otra mentira, 1Sa 21: 8 y todo deliberado. Lo mismo hizo con Aquis, rey de Gat. 1 de Samuel 21: 8 ; 1Sa 21:10 Si las faltas del padrino estuvieran escritas en su frente, le haría taparse