Bible Commentaries

Genesis 40:1 — Y sucedió que después de estas cosas, [que] el copero del rey de Egipto y [su] panadero habían ofendido a su señor el rey de Egipto. Ver. 1. Había ofendido a su señor el rey de Egipto. ] No se expresa cuál fue su ofensa. Los hebreos dicen, Faraón encontró una mosca en su copa y un poco de grava en su pan, y por eso encarceló a estos dos grandes oficiales. Pero esto había sido para matar

Exodus 38:1-31 — espejos de las mujeres reunidas, que se reunían a la puerta del tabernáculo de reunión. Ver. 8. Espejos. ] O, vasos de bronce. Estas devotas mujeres que solían reunirse por tropas a la puerta del tabernáculo para orar y servir a Dios, - ver Lucas 2:37 1 Timoteo 5:5 , - francamente dieron los instrumentos con los que vestían sus cuerpos, para hacer el instrumento con el cual, mediante la fe, podrían santificar sus almas. Que los que a menudo se ven a sí mismos en sus espejos sigan su consejo que dijo:

Proverbs 29:21 — delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become [his] son at the length. He that delicately bringeth up his servant. — A master that would be, as he ought, both loved and feared by his servants, must see to two things: - (1.) The well-choosing; and (2.) The well using of them. This Solomon himself, that thus adviseth here, was not so well advised of; for he saw that Jeroboam, who gave occasion, as it is conceived, of uttering this proverb, was meet for the work, and therefore,

Proverbs 31:10 — Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price [is] far above rubies. Who can find a virtuous woman? — Good wives are rare commodities, and therefore precious and highly to be prized, even above rubies. The Hebrews put rarum pro charo, as in 1 Samuel 3:1 Proverbs 25:7 ; "Let thy feet be precious in thy neighbour’s house" - that is, let them seldom come there, lest thou become overcheap and undervalued. σπανια σπουδαια

Ecclesiastes 10:18 — reading, writing, yea, and preaching too, as Melanchthon and Scultetus report. Melch. Adam in Vit. Melanch. Here was no place for sloth and sluggishness within this most pious prince’s territories. His house was built of cedar beams, Song of Solomon 1:17 of living stones; 1 Peter 2:5 his polity a theocracy, as Josephus saith of the Jewish Government; and of his people it might be said, as Polydor Virgil saith of the English, Regnum Anglicae regnum Dei. Oh, the blessednesses of such a country! And

Isaiah 7:20 — we use to say: Nihil in toto regno intactum reliquit, sed omnia a summo ad imum expilavit Assyrius. The Assyrian is here called God’s razor, because his instrument, to shave as he pleaseth, though haply by exceeding his commission as Zechariah 1:15 he might prove a "deceitful razor," as Psalms 52:2 that, instead of shaving the hair, lanceth the flesh. That is hired. — Whether by Ahaz himself, but for a better purpose, 2 Kings 16:7-8 not to harm, but to help, though it happened

Jeremiah 6:29 — burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. The bellows are burnt. — The prophet’s lungs are spent; all their pains spilt upon a perverse people. See Ezekiel 24:6 ; Ezekiel 24:12-13 . Jeremiah had blowed hard, as a smith or metallary doth with his bellows; he had suffered, as it were, by the heat of a most ardent fire in trying and melting his ore; he had used his best art also by casting in lead, as today they do quicksilver,

Lamentations 1:18 — sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. The Lord is righteous. — Whatever I suffer, or say haply in my passion, that may seem to sound to the contrary. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and just are thy judgments, said David; Psalms 119:137 and after him Mauricius the emperor, when deposed by the traitor Phocas; and the noble Duplessis, when he heard of the death of his only son, slain in the Low Countries. For I have rebelled against his commandments. — Heb., Against his mouth,

Daniel 12:7 — us uncertain and unknown. Broughton thinketh that this term of "three years and a half" showeth the term of Christ’s persecution in the days of his flesh, which was just so many years, But there is more in it than so. See Revelation 6:11 , a parallel text, and such, like glasses set one against another, do cast a mutual light. When he shall have accomplished to scatter the power. — When the Church shall be at the greatest under, when the number of the elect shall be consummated,

Amos 6:11 — mortal scythe is master of the royal sceptre; and it mows down the lilies of the crown as well as the grass of the field. Death is the only king "against whom there is no rising up," as Agur phraseth the most absolute predominance, Proverbs 30:31 ; it levelleth lords and lowlies, and lays all waste; breaking down the greater houses and cleaving the lesser, with an utter extermination of all. Search you therefore, search you, O nation not desired; before the decree come forth, …, Zephaniah

Jonah 3:1 — former employment, gives him yet a name and a nail in his house; yea, sends him a second time on his message to Nineveh; and counting him faithful, puts him again into the ministry, who was before a runagate, a rebel, … But he obtained mercy, 1 Timothy 1:13 , as did likewise the apostles, after that they had basely deserted our Saviour at his passion; and Peter, after he had denied him, see John 20:22-23 ; John 21:15-17 . The penitent are as good as innocent, Quem poenitet peccasse, pcene

Nahum 2:2 — Nineveh, altogether escape unpunished? Never think it. Especially since thou hast exceeded thy commission, and exercised an unheard of cruelty upon God’s people; for he was but a little displeased, but ye have helped forward the affliction, Zechariah 1:15 . See Trapp on " Zechariah 1:5 " For the emptiers have emptied them out — The Assyrians have spoiled and pillaged till they have left neither men nor means behind them; such clean work they have made, sweeping all before them, like

Zephaniah 3:15 — hath taken away thy Judgments — i.e. He hath remitted thy sins, removed thy punishments, turned again thy captivity as the streams in the south, commanded his prophets, saying, "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," …, Isaiah 40:1-2 ; tell her that all accusations and actions laid against her in the court of heaven are non-suited, and God’s wrath appeased. This is the sum of all the good news in the world; this is a short gospel. He hath cast out thine enemy — As

Zechariah 14:19 — punishment — Or sin; indeed, the sin of sins, to slight God’s ordinances and offers of grace; and to neglect so great salvation as is tendered by Christ. This very sin is its own punishment. This is condemnation, or hell beforehand, John 3:19 . This brought Capernaum down from heaven to hell, Matthew 11:23 . Pagans that never heard of Christ shall have an easier judgment than such, Matthew 11:24 , for they shall have a double condemnation. One from the law, which they had broken, wherein

Matthew 20:23 — God’s mark upon us (as baptism doth) that we belong to God; this for outward afflictions. And for desertion, it is called Christ’s cup, because we are sure to pledge him in that too, and be conformed unto him, as was Job, David, Heman,Psalms 88:1-18; Psalms 88:1-18 , … Grace is no target against affliction; but the best shall have terrors within and troubles without, as sure as the coat is on their back or the heart in their belly. Is not mine to give — i.e. It is no part of my

Matthew 20:31 — Lord, thou Son of David. And the multitude rebuked them — In prayer, we must look to meet with many rubs and discouragements; but God’s Spirit is heroic, and gets over them all. The devil will interrupt us, as the Pythoness did Paul, Acts 16:16 ; as the birds did Abraham, Genesis 15:11 ; as those Samaritans did the Jews in building the temple, Nehemiah 6:1-19 Hence we are bidden to strive in prayer, Colossians 4:2 , and watch in prayer; for Satan will be at our right hand, as at Joshua’s,

Matthew 22:15 — feris quibus tenduntur laquei et retia. Par. Every man hunteth his brother with a net, was an old complaint, Micah 7:2 . And, "They make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate," …, Isaiah 29:21 . Doctor Story’s rule to know a heretic was, They will say, The Lord, and, We praise God, and, The living God. So, The Lord, and not to say, Our Lord, is called by Stephen Gardiner, Symbolum haereticorum, the heretic’s badge. But God will

Matthew 23:24 — γαργαλιζειν , to gargle down an image, statue, or coloss; that is, to make no bones of a foul fault when matters of less moment are much scrupled. Saul kept a great stir about eating the flesh with the blood, when he made nothing of shedding innocent blood, 1 Samuel 14:33 . Doeg was detained before the Lord by some voluntary vow belike, 1 Samuel 21:7 . But better he had been further off, for any good he did there. The priests made conscience of putting the price of blood into the treasury, Matthew 27:6 ,

Matthew 24:30 — and great glory. The sign of the Son of man — That is, either Christ himself (by a Hebraism), or the dreadful dissolution of the world’s fabric, or that cloud of heaven that was of old the sign of the Son of man in the wilderness,Exodus 13:21; Exodus 13:21 , or the scars of his wounds, or his cross, or something else that we cannot describe, and need not search into. Look how a king, when he would gather his forces into one, sets up his standard, or appoints his rendezvous; so such shall

Matthew 26:30 — And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. And when they had sung an hymn — The Jews at the Passover sang the great hallelujah, that is, the 113th Psalm with the five following Psalms. This they began to sing after that dismissory cup mentioned before. At all times we should sing hallelujahs, with grace in our hearts to the Lord; but at the sacrament the great hallelujah, the hosannah Rabbah.