Bible Commentaries

Genesis 13:1 — 32,000 English pounds to that purpose. Act. and Mon. The children of faithful Abram, though their bodies be on earth, yet they take much pains, and are at great charge, to get up their hearts to heaven. Hence they are called "eagles," Matthew 24:28 for their high soaring, and are said to have "noses like the tower of Lebanon," Song of Solomon 7:4 for their singular sagacity in resenting and smelling after Christ, the true all quickening body.

Genesis 16:2 — violation of wedlock. Albeit this might be a sin of ignorance in them, as was also polygamy. God had promised a seed to Abram, but not expressly as yet unto Sarai. Now, by the law, Ainsworth. bondservants’ children were their master’s. Exodus 21:4 And among the heathens, Stratonice, the wife of King Diotarus, being barren, gave secretly her maid Electra unto her husband, by whom she had an heir to the crown. Plutarch.

Genesis 22:16 — done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son]: By myself have I sworn. — God swears for the further confirmation of our faith. For here he swore, not more for Abraham’s sake, than ours, as the apostle shows. Hebrews 6:13-14 ; Hebrews 6:17-18 As when he spake with Jacob at Penuel, "there he spake with us "; Hosea 12:4 and what he said to Joshua, he said to all, "I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee". Hebrews 13:5 And hast not withheld thy son, thine

Leviticus 20:17 — … Psalms 119:37 “ Cur aliquid vidi, cur noxia lumina feci? ” - Ovid. See Habakkuk 2:15 . Of looking comes lusting, especially when they do σκοτειν , which is the apostle’s word, 2 Corinthians 4:14 so look, as the archer at the mark. It is a wicked thing. — Heb., An impiety or reproach: Chesed, it is called, per antiphrasin. That may have a good name, the nature whereof is so ill that it is not to be named.

Leviticus 23:3 — an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. Ye shall do no work therein. — Save only works of piety, charity, and necessity. These are allowed by our Saviour. Mark 2:23-28 ; Mark 3:4 The Jews superstitiously hold, Ranulph., lib. vii. cap. 37. that it is not lawful for a blind man to lean upon a staff on a Sabbath day, as the lame may: that if a flea bite a man on that day, he may take it, but not kill it. That if a thorn prick him

Numbers 19:2 — clods of blood, in a cold night, besides what afterwards issued from his many wounds in his head and body. Never came yoke. — Christ never bore the yoke either of sin or servitude. He laid down his life of himself. John 10:17-18 See Hebrews 9:13-14 . He was not subject to any command of man. Luke 2:44 John 2:4

Malachi 2:9 — sometimes, dicto citius, by saying more quickly, break out upon his enemies, as he did upon Nadab and Abihu, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod, … God had poured contempt already upon these degenerate priests. And the like he had threatened to those, Jeremiah 23:40: see Micah 3:7 Zechariah 13:4 . Ribera upon this text bewails the business in their Romish clergy, now become despicable by reason of their evil manners. Petrarch complained long before that the stench of that sink, the court of Rome, was come up to

Malachi 2:9 — es a veces dicto citius, al decir más rápidamente, irrumpir en sus enemigos, como lo hizo con Nadab y Abiú, Nabucodonosor, Herodes, etc.? Dios ya había derramado desprecio sobre estos sacerdotes degenerados. Y lo que les había amenazado, Jeremias 23:40 : ver Miq 3: 7 Zacarías 13:4 . Ribera sobre este texto se lamenta por el negocio de su clero romano, ahora despreciable a causa de sus malos modales. Petrarca se quejó mucho antes de que el hedor de ese fregadero, la corte de Roma, subiera al cielo.

Deuteronomy 20:10 — caduceum et hastam. The herald was commanded to throw his weapons on the enemy’s ground, with this speech: Ego populusque Rom. hominibus Hermundulis bellum dico facioque: I and the people of Rome bid battle to the Hermunduli. Gel., lib. xvi. cap. 4. Alexander the Great, when he besieged any city, would send his herald into it with a burning torch in his hand, to proclaim, that if any man would repair and submit himself unto him while that torch continued burning, he should be safe; otherwise they

Philippians 3:7 — But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Loss for Christ — Christ is to be sought and bought at any hand, at any rate. This is to play the wise merchant, Matthew 13:44-46 . See Trapp on " Matthew 13:44 " See Trapp on " Matthew 13:45 " See Trapp on " Matthew 13:46 " Esteem we Christ, as the people did David, 2 Samuel 18:3 , more worth than ten thousand; as Naomi did Ruth, better than

1 Peter 1:2 — πληθυνθειη , or, enlarged to the utmost, filled up and accomplished. He prays for further measures, that they might be past the spoon and get to a well grown, fully grown age in Christ, Ephesians 4:13 , until they came to be fathers, gray headed, experienced Christians, such as the Psalmist speaketh of, Psalms 90:12-14 .

1 Peter 3:4 — to be your suitor. (Lib. de Cult. Fem.) Plutarch speaks of a Spartan woman, that when her neighbours were showing their apparel and jewels, she brought out her children, virtuous and well taught, and said, These are my ornaments and jewels. Titus 2:4 In that which is not corruptible ] Or, In the incorruption of a meek and quiet spirit, &e., a garment that will never be the worse for wearing, but the better. Some wives may seem to have been molten out of that salt pillar into which Lot’s

1 Peter 5:5 — mother, nurse, foundation, and band of all virtues. Basil, the storehouse, treasury of all good, θησαυροφυλακιον . God resisteth — See Trapp on " James 4:6 " As pride resisteth God in a special manner, so God in a special manner resisteth it. And giveth grace — i.e. Honour and respect; as appears by the opposition, and by Proverbs 3:34-35 .

Judges 16:5 — for the satisfying of their lusts. Haman offered ten thousand talents to have the Jews rooted out. Decius Mundus, a nobleman of Rome, offered Paulina six thousand pounds for one night’s lodging with her, as Josephus reporteth. Lib. xviii, cap. 4.

Judges 18:30 — written in the Hebrew here with Nun elevated above the other letters, and this mark, o, upon the top, and a note in the margin. Hebrew Text Note Until the day of the captivity of the land, — viz., By the Philistines, when the ark was taken. 1 Samuel 4:10-11 Compare Psalms 78:60-62 ; Psalms 78:66 .

1 John 5:15 — John 15:16 " We have the petitions that we desired of him — If we can perceive and discern that God listeneth, the thing is done. Now the former we may find, first, by a cast of God’s countenance, by a smile of his face, Psalms 22:24 ; Psalms 34:15 , for a godly man is admitted to see as well as speak; like a good angel, he is ever looking on the face of God; and can gather by that how he shall speed in his suit. The upright shall dwell in his presence, Psalms 140:13 , when the

Revelation 16:19 — appears by a double departure: 1. Of Babylon from the Church,Revelation 17:3; Revelation 17:3 . Babylon is called a whore. 2. Of the Church from Babylon, Revelation 18:3 . The temple of God is the seat of Antichrist, saith Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 . The cup of wine — That wherein God delights, as a man would do to drink a cup of generous wine.

Revelation 18:10 — vaunt now of their temporal felicity, as a note of their Church, and make catalogues of the strange victories that the Catholics have had. Bellarmine brags, that vix unquam fuerunt haeretici superiores quando iusto proelio dimicatum est (tom. ii. lib. 4, cap. 14), the heretics scarcely ever had the day when it came to be tried in a just battle. But if all this had been true (as it is not), yet at last, in one hour shall their judgment come. See Revelation 18:19 ; Revelation 18:22 . See Trapp on "

Revelation 21:14 — them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And the wall — A wall the Church hath about it, and a well within it, Revelation 21:6 ; "A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse a spring shut up, a fountain sealed," Song of Solomon 4:12 . This wall of the Church hath twelve foundations, that is, Christ the only foundation, 1 Corinthians 3:11 , laid by the twelve apostles; in whose names also the sum of Christian faith is made up in those twelve articles of the creed. Discessuri

Revelation 7:9 — more of such as (like those two hundred that went out of Jerusalem after Absalom) went on in the simplicity of their hearts, and knew not anything, 2 Samuel 15:11 . (Anton. di Guevara.) Clothed with white robes — See Trapp on " Revelation 3:4 " And palms in their hands — In token of victory over all spiritual enemies. This was hinted at by those palms engraved in Solomon’s and Ezekiel’s temple.