Bible Commentaries

Genesis 49:13 — nos ha civilizado, sea lo que sea. Cristo salió de Nazaret y vino y habitó en Capernaum, que está en la costa del mar, en los límites de Zabulón y Neftalí. Desde entonces, "el pueblo que estaba sentado en tinieblas ha visto una gran luz", etc. Mateo 4:13 ; Mat 4:16 Y cuando "Galaad se quedó al otro lado del Jordán", y "no acudió en auxilio del Señor contra los valientes", Rubén estaba ocupado con sus ovejas, Dan con sus "barcos", Aser con "sus brechas", etc. . Zabulón y Neftalí son muy elogiados

Ezra 5:1 — profetizaron a los judíos que estaban en Judá y Jerusalén en el nombre del Dios de Israel, [sí] a ellos. Ver. 1. Entonces los profetas ] El que ahora se llama profeta, antes se llamaba vidente, 1 Samuel 9:9 , porque sus ojos estaban iluminados, Números 24:3 , y tenía visiones de Dios, Eze 1: 1 Daniel 1:17 , profetas después fueron llamados, es decir, intérpretes de la voluntad de Dios por su mandato: Éxodo 7:1 , "Aarón tu hermano será tu profeta", es decir, tu intérprete. Por boca de estos santos profetas,

Nehemiah 9:17 — de agua anteriormente; ¿O contra una generación violenta entre nosotros, aquí últimamente? Y en su rebelión nombró un capitán ]. Una vez hablaron (en su estado de ánimo loco) de hacer tal cosa, y por lo tanto aquí se dice que lo hicieron, Números 14:4 ; como Josué 24:9 , se dice que Balac se levantó y peleó con Israel; y, sin embargo, la historia no dice tal cosa. Pero si no lo hizo, todavía porque pensó y habló de tal asunto, ¡fue algo hecho ante el Señor! Pero tú eres un Dios dispuesto a perdonar

Esther 8:11 — may not make headway and shake off the yoke. And to stand for their life — Life is a precious mercy, such as all creatures make much of, from the highest angel to the lowest worm. See the sweetness of it, 1 Kings 20:32 Jeremiah 39:18 ; Jeremiah 45:5 ; Ecclesiastes 9:4; Job 2:4 . Quis vitam non vult? Who does not wish life? saith Austin. Joseph is yet alive, saith Jacob, Genesis 45:26 . This was more joy to him than all his honour. A man is bound to sacrifice all he hath to the service of his

Esther 8:13 — people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. The copy of the writing — Transcripts of the original were everywhere published and proclaimed, as the contrary edict had been before, Esther 3:14 . This must needs amuse and amaze the people, but who durst say to their monarch, What doest thou? Is it safe to take a lion by the beard, or a bear by the tooth? That the Jews should be ready against that day — God sometimes taketh notice (in

Job 1:7 — another. Whence comest thou? — This the Lord asketh not as if he were ignorant; for he knows all things, and that from eternity, neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and open before his eyes, Hebrews 4:13 ; yea, in him all things subsist, Colossians 1:17 , so that there can be no motion of the creature without his privity: God, therefore, thus interrogateth Satan, that he might show himself to be his judge, and that he might exact a confession out

Job 29:25 — 33:23 . Every Christian should have feeding lips and a healing tongue, to comfort the feeble minded, to drink to them in a cup of Nepenthes, that cup of consolation, Jeremiah 16:7 , taking them down into Christ’s wine cellar, Song of Solomon 2:4 , and there stay them with flagons and comfort them with apples, Job 29:5 , those apples of the garden of Eden (as the Chaldee there hath it), the sweet and precious promises, which are pabulum fidei, the food of faith, and do give the joy of faith;

Ecclesiastes 7:14 — where God gives much, he expects much. Otherwise God will "curse our blessings," Malachi 2:2 make us "ashamed of our revenues through his fierce anger," Jeremiah 12:13 and "destroy us after he hath done us good." Joshua 24:20 In the day of adversity consider. — Sit alone, and be in meditation of the matter. Lamentations 3:28 "Commune with your own consciences and be still," Psalms 4:4 or make a pause. See who it is that smites thee, and for what. Lamentations

Song of Solomon 2:2 — As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters. As the lily among the thorns. — The lily is white, pure, and pleasant, having six leaves (and thence its name Shoshannah. in Hebrew), and seven golden-coloured grains within it. The 45th Psalm (of like argument with this song) is dedicated to him that excelleth upon Shoshannim, or upon this six-leaved flower, the lily. Moreover, the chief city of Persia was called Shushan, from the multitude of lilies growing there. Schindler. Here

Song of Solomon 7:5 — Pope succeedeth Peter. And the hair of thine head like purple. — Which was the colour of kings and princes. The saints - called here the hair of the Church’s head for their number or multitude - are "princes in all lands"; Psalms 45:16 yea, they are kings in righteousness, as Melchisedec was a king, but somewhat obscure. Compare Matthew 13:17 Luke 10:24 . "Many righteous," saith one, "Many kings," saith the other, "have desired to see those things that

Hosea 13:13 — compared to a mother, Hosea 1:1-11 Hosea 3:1-5 . And as a woman that hath conceived is not for a while discerned to be with child till she biggen, and burnish, and grow near her time; so it is with sinners. See it elegantly set forth by St James, James 1:14-15 . The sorrows of a travailing woman are known to be unexpected, exquisite, and inevitable; so shall God’s judgments be upon the workers of iniquity, such as they shall never be able to avert, to avoid, or to abide. This is set forth by an apt

Hosea 2:21 — the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; And it shall come to pass in that day — In that time of grace and reconciliation, fitly set forth by the name of a day in regard of, 1.Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 2:1-29 . Adornation; 3. Consolation; 4. Distinction; 5. Speedy preterition. I will hear, saith the Lord of hosts — That is, I that have the command of both the upper and nether springs and forces, sun, moon, stars, …, Deuteronomy 4:9 , those storehouses of God’s good treasure

Hosea 5:8 — lively colours that the hearer (though unlearned) may be convinced of all, judged of all, and having the secrets of his heart made manifest, he may fall down on his face, worship God, and report that God is in the minister of a truth, 1 Corinthians 14:24-25 ; lo, this is preaching indeed. For as every sound is not music, so neither is every pulpit discourse preaching. Nihil frigidius est doctore verbis solummode philosophante (Chrysostom). Ezekiel must lay siege to Jerusalem, portraying it upon a

Hosea 8:8 — they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein [is] no pleasure. Israel is swallowed up — Not their meal only, as Hosea 8:7 , but themselves also are devoured by those workers of iniquity, that eat up God’s people as they eat bread, Psalms 14:4 . Persecutors are men-eaters, more cruel than those American cannibals, that devour men piecemeal; they make but a breakfast of God’s people, as Sennacherib meant to do of Jerusalem, and the powder-papists of England. "If it had not been

Hosea 9:5 — former solemnities and festivities, which now (alas!) in your captivity you are utterly deprived of? There was a time when you went with the multitude to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy day, Psalms 42:4 , with dancing, eating, drinking, and joy, Deuteronomy 16:14-15 Judges 21:19-20 . But now the scene is altered; your singing is turned into sighing, your mirth into mourning, your joy into heaviness; and you must needs hold yourselves so much the

Micah 4:10 — the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. Be in pain and labour to briny forth, … — Be sensible of thine ensuing captivity, and take on; but yet with hope of a gracious deliverance in due time. See Trapp on " Micah 4:9 " It is no less a fault to despise the chastening of the Lord than to faint when thou art rebuked, Hebrews 12:5 . The hypocrite in heart heapeth up wrath, saith Elihu, and why? he crieth not when God bindeth him, Job 36:13 . The wicked, saith

Micah 5:5 — of conscience, as God hath promised, and Christ hath purchased. He merited and made it through the blood of his cross, Colossians 1:20 Isaiah 53:5 Ephesians 2:16 . And hence it was, that as he was brought from heaven with that song of peace, Luke 2:14 , so he returned up again with that farewell of peace, John 14:27 , left to the world the doctrine of peace, Ephesians 2:17 , whose ministers are messengers of peace, Romans 10:15 , whose followers are the children of peace, Luke 10:6 , whose rarity

Zechariah 14:20 — a right purpose; according to that old and good rule, Quicquid agas, propter Deum agas, "Whether ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God," 1 Corinthians 10:31 . Receive every creature with thanksgiving, 1 Timothy 4:14 ; in serving men, serve the Lord Christ; exercise your general calling in your particular; do earthly business with heavenly minds; content not yourself with a natural use of the creature, as brute beasts do, but taste the sweetness of God in all;

Matthew 1:20 — out of their way. Jun. Emblem. Ab erroribus viarum Dea Vibilia liberat. Arnob. adver. Gentes. The Divine providence is our Vibilia, that will not allow us to miscarry, so long as we have an eye to the pattern that was showed us in the mount, Exodus 25:40 . In the mount will the Lord be seen, Becilleia in stultitia tua (ait Rab. Solomon ex Talmud. Hieros.), i.e. in rebus in quibus es stultus, aderit tamen tibi Dominus. Genesis 22:14 ; Proverbs 3:26 . Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him —

Matthew 3:17 — delight, sporting or laughing, always before him, risum captans ac consilium, Proverbs 8:30 . Jerome. In whom I am well pleased — The beloved, in whom he hath made us accepted, Ephesians 1:6 . God’s Hephzibah, so the Church is called,Isaiah 62:4; Isaiah 62:4 ; the dearly beloved of his soul, Jeremiah 12:7 ; or, as the Septuagint render it, εδωκα την ηγαπημενην ψυχην μου