Bible Commentaries

Genesis 18:16 — Y los varones se levantaron de allí y miraron hacia Sodoma; y Abraham fue con ellos para llevarlos por el camino. Ver. 16. Para traerlos de camino. ] Una cortesía especial y de la que se habla mucho en las Escrituras. 3Jn 1: 6 Hechos 20:38 ; Hechos 21:5 Romanos 15:24 1Co 16:11 Tit 3:13

Genesis 7:15 — Y entraron a Noé en el arca, de dos en dos, de toda carne, en la cual está el aliento de vida. Ver. 15. Y entraron a Noé. ] Por su propia voluntad, por un instinto de Dios, cuyas huestes todas las criaturas son llamadas, por su (1.) número, (2.) orden, (3.) obediencia. Ver a Trapp en " Gen 6:20 "

Psalms 113:2 — Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Blessed be the name of the Lord — Praise him with utmost intention and extension of spirit and of speech. God is therefore called, by an appellative proper, The Blessed One, Baruc-hu, Mark 14:61 Luke 1:68 . From this time, … — A nunc et usque.

Psalms 119:55 — I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law. I remembered thy name, … — Breaking my sleep for the purpose, to meditate on thy holy attributes, word, and works. And have kept thy law — Which could not have been kept, if not kept in firm and fresh memory. See 1 Corinthians 15:2 .

Psalms 135:1 — Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise [him], O ye servants of the LORD. Praise ye the Lord, Praise ye — Praise, praise, praise. When duties are thus inculcated it noteth the necessity and excellence thereof; together with our dulness and backwardness thereunto. O ye servants of the Lord — See Psalms 134:1 .

Proverbs 6:20 — My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: My son, keep thy father’s commandment. — The commandments of religious parents are the very commandments of God himself, and are therefore to be as carefully kept "as the apple of a man’s eye." Proverbs 7:2 See Trapp on " Proverbs 1:8 "

Isaiah 17:2 — The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid. The cities of Aroer are forsaken, — i.e., The country beyond Jordan Deuteronomy 2:36 is desolated and depopulated - the Gadites and the Reubenites being also, together with the Syrians, carried captive by Tiglathpileser. 1 Chronicles 5:26

Isaiah 23:14 — Howl, ye ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish. — He concludeth this prophecy of Tyre’s downfall as he began. Isaiah 23:1 The inhabitants of Tarshish, or Tarsus in Cilicia, were great ship masters; they sent a navy of a hundred ships to Xerxes when he went against Greece.

Isaiah 23:6 — Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. Pass ye over to Tarshish. — Tyrii migrate coloni, be packing any whither, and make any shift to save your lives, Ultra Sauromatas fugite hinc, … To Carthage many of them went, say some; and the Septuagint; for ships of Tarshish Isaiah 23:1 have ships of Carthage.

Jeremiah 4:23 — I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light. I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void. — Tohu vabohit as Genesis 1:2 sightless and shapeless. Sermo est hyperbolicus, all was in a confusion. What shall it, then, be at the last day?

Ezekiel 32:17 — It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, In the fifteenth day of the month, — i.e., Of the twelfth month, Ezekiel 32:1 and about a fortnight after the former prophecy. God loves to foretell, and to do it often.

Mark 3:3 — And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth. Stand forth — That the miracle might be notified, and God the more glorified. It is a dishonour to a parent to hang his picture in a dark corner; so here, we should show forth the virtues of him who hath called us, 1 Peter 2:9 .

Luke 24:19 — And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: Which was a prophet — Yea, and more than a prophet. But the disciples were wondrously ignorant, till the Spirit came down upon them, Acts 2:1-4 .

John 4:4 — And he must needs go through Samaria. He must needs go — Happy for them that they lay in our Saviour’s way, to be looked upon; his feet drop fatness. Luther had rather be with Christ in hell than in heaven without him, Malim praesente Christo esse in inferno, quam absente eo in coelo. Luther in Genesis 30:1-43 .

Acts 10:24 — And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends. Ver. 24, Cornelius waited for them — So the people waited for Zacharias, Luke 1:21 . It is fit the people should wait for the minister, not the minister for the people, Zechariah 8:21 .

Acts 15:1 — And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said , Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. And certain men, … — Cerinthus, the heretic, with his complices, saith Epiphanius. These are said to "subvert the gospel," Galatians 1:7 . A little thing untowardly mingled, mars all, saith Chrysostom.

Acts 17:13 — But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people. They came thither also — Thus they pleased not God and were contrary to all men; wherefore "wrath is come upon them to the utmost," 1 Thessalonians 2:15-16 .

Acts 7:7 — And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. And serve me in this place — Servati sumus ut serviamus, Luke 1:74 . The redeemed (among the Romans) was to be at the service of the redeemer all his days.

Acts 8:4 — Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word. See Trapp on " Acts 8:1 " Trucidabantur et multiplicabantur, saith Austin. They were never the fewer for being slain. Plures efficimur quoties metimur, saith Tertullian. Ecclesia totum mundum sanguine et oratione convertit, saith Luther; the Church converts the whole world by her sufferings and prayers.

Acts 9:35 — And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord. And Saron — Alias Assaron, the same perhaps with Acheron or Ekron, counted by the very heathens the devil’s house; for there Beelzebub, the prince of devils, was worshipped, 2 Kings 1:3 . a a Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo. Virg.