Bible Commentaries

Ezra 1:5 — caldeos, y sean como machos cabríos delante de los rebaños. “Estos nobles se levantaron, despertados y levantados por ese espíritu noble de Dios, Salmo 51:12 , ese espíritu real, el Caldeo lo rinde; tal como se halló en Arauna, ese famoso jebuseo, 2Sa 24:23 Zacarías 9:7 ; y es un espíritu vivificante en toda alma buena, que hace que se deshagan, como hizo Baruc, Nehemías 3:20 , y den grandes pasos hacia el cielo, como lo hizo Jacob hacia Padanaram, Gen 28: 5 para, Nescit tarda molimina spiritus sancti

Esther 3:15 — valientes por la verdad y violentos por el reino. Y el decreto se dio en Susa el palacio ] Pependit, dice la Vulgata, se colgó de los postes para que todos lo leyeran, sin que el rey se avergonzara de que se vieran sus privaciones (como dice la frase, Esd 4:14), a traducirse (por así decirlo) en un teatro público, por un príncipe necio y opresor; sin importarle cuáles podrían ser las malas consecuencias de ello, para poder satisfacer su propia lujuria y gratificar a su subordinado. Y el rey y Amán se sentaron

Job 1:7 — dónde vienes? ] Esto el Señor no pide como si fuera ignorante; porque él sabe todas las cosas, y desde la eternidad, ni hay ninguna criatura que no se manifieste ante sus ojos, sino que todas las cosas están desnudas y abiertas ante sus ojos, Hebreos 4:13 ; sí, en él todas las cosas subsisten, Colosenses 1:17 , de modo que no puede haber movimiento de la criatura sin su intimidad: Dios, por tanto, interroga así a Satanás, para que se muestre a sí mismo como su juez, y pueda exigir una confesión de

Job 1:8 — God’s account a considerable person, and such a one as whose praise was not of men, but of God. Such are all godly people, but especially those that are eminent tall Christians; full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, as those Romans, Job 15:14 , men of choice spirits as Caleb, that walk up and down the world as so many conquerors, 1 John 5:4 , that are clothed with the sun, and tread upon the moon, Revelation 12:1 . These are men of mark, et undique spectabiles, worthy looking after. A man

Job 1:8 — considerable, y una persona cuya alabanza no era de los hombres, sino de Dios. Así son todas las personas piadosas, pero especialmente las que son cristianos altos eminentes; llenos de bondad, llenos de todo conocimiento, como aquellos Romanos, Job 15:14 , hombres de espíritus escogidos como Caleb, que caminan por el mundo como tantos conquistadores, 1 Juan 5:4 , que están vestidos del sol, y pisar la luna, Apocalipsis 12:1 . Estos son hombres de marca, et undique spectabiles, dignos de ser atendidos

Job 19:26 — And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God: Ver 26. And though after my skin worms destroy this body — Here he pointeth again, as doth likewise David, when in Psalms 34:6 , he saith, "This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him," … So the ancient believers, when they came to that Article in the Creed, I believe the resurrection of the flesh, were wont to add, Etiam huius carnis, even of this flesh,

Job 19:26 — Y [aunque] después de que mi piel [gusanos] destruya este [cuerpo], en mi carne veré a Dios: Ver. 26. Y aunque después de que mis gusanos de la piel destruyan este cuerpo ] Aquí vuelve a señalar, como también lo hace David, cuando en Salmo 34:6 , dice: "Este pobre clamó, y el Señor le oyó", etc. Así que los antiguos creyentes, cuando llegaron a ese Artículo en el Credo, creo que la resurrección de la carne, solían agregar, Etiam huius carnis, incluso de esta carne, señalando alguna parte

Job 2:6 — que me azotaran; o el noble condenado, si pudiera elegir a mi verdugo, no me importaría perder la cabeza. 2. Es sólo una mano y muchos instrumentos con los que Dios nos golpea. Nuestros enemigos no son más que los hombres de la mano de Dios, Salmo 17:14 , que no pueden hacer más de lo que se les ha dado de arriba, Juan 19:11 . Los albañiles de Dios para tallarnos aquí en el monte, para que seamos como las esquinas pulidas del templo, Salmo 144:12 . Escullones de Dios, para fregar los vasos de su casa,

Job 4:12 — consider it, and improve it to be a humble submission to God, and suffering his judgments. See a like expressmn, Psalms 78:2-3 , …, "I will open my mouth in a parable," which yet was nothing extraordinary, but poetically set out, so Psalms 49:4 . The happy and secure estate of saints in trouble is described, and the contrary; which though an ordinary argument, and often treated, yet is called the great wisdom, the dark saying. And mine ear received a little thereof — Nonnihil pauxillum,

Job 6:4 — Porque las flechas del Todopoderoso están dentro de mí, el veneno del cual bebe mi espíritu; los terrores de Dios se ponen en orden contra mí. Ver. 4. Porque las flechas del Todopoderoso están dentro de mí ] ¿Qué maravilla, pues, si su carne no tuvo reposo, pero estaba turbado por todos lados, ya que afuera había luchas, adentro había temores? 2 Corintios 7:5 . Las flechas, no de un valiente, como

Psalms 19:1 — — The world, saitb Clement of Alexandria, is Dei Scriptura, the first Bible that God made for the institution of man. The heavens (here instanced as a chief part of that Mundi totius machina ) are compared to a scroll that is written, Revelation 6:14 . As in a horn book, which little ones carry, there be letters in a paper within which appear through the same; so, under the blue sapphire of the firmament, is spread a sheet of royal paper written all over with the wisdom and power of God. This book

Proverbs 28:13 — prosperity 3 John 1:2 The sunshine also of their outward prosperity ripens their sin apace, and so fits them for destruction. Never was Ephraim’s case so desperate as when God said "Ephraim is joined with idols, let him alone"; Hosea 4:17 nor Jerusalem so near destruction as when God said, "My fury shall depart from thee; I will be quiet, and no more angry." Ezekiel 16:42 To prosper in sin is the greatest unhappiness that can befall a man out of hell. But whoso confesseth

Ecclesiastes 7:10 — and settled in the point by Arnoldus de Villanova, who showed him that it was long since foretold of these last and loosest times, that iniquity should abound - that men should be proud, lewd, heady, highminded, … Rev., De Vit. Pont. 1 Timothy 4:1 2 Timothy 3:1-4 Lay aside, therefore, these frivolous inquiries and discontented cryings out against the times, which, in some sense reflect upon God, the Author of times - for "can there be evil in an age, and he hath not done it?" - and

Song of Solomon 6:1 — turned aside? that we may seek him with thee. Whither is thy beloved gone? … — All Christ’s disciples are ζητητικοι , inquisitive after the "truth that is in Jesus," Ephesians 4:21 and are fellow helpers to it. 3 John 1:8 There is also nescio quid divinum in auscultatione, as one well noteth; that is, a strange and strong energy or forcibleness in hearing, whether publicly or in private conference, Christ and his excellencies

Hosea 14:4 — (as he is called, Exodus 15:26 ) undertake the cure, and say, I will heal their backslidings, what can hinder? Christ, in the Gospel, cured the most desperate diseases; such as all the physicians in the country might have cast their caps at, Matthew 4:23-24 ; Matthew 8:16 . Omnipotenti medico nullus insanabilis occurrit morbus (Isidor.). He refused none that came to him, Matthew 12:15 , no, not his enemies, as Malchus. Will he then reject his Ephraim, a child, bemoaning himself, though not a pleasant

Hosea 2:10 — desiderabant, apertam contemnant. Jerome). He had threatened her before with poverty, now with scorn and contempt: these go seldom asunder; but when self-procured they are very grievous. See Deuteronomy 28:15-68 . Fornicators are fools, Jeremiah 29:23 Genesis 34:7 , Shechem committed folly in Israel, and is therefore called a lad or a child Genesis 34:19 , Neque distulit puer for his witlessness, as being carried not by right reason, but blind affection. So Amnon was for this as one of the fools in Israel,

Hosea 9:4 — bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. They shall not offer wine offerings unto the Lord — Non libabunt, multo minus litabunt, they shall not have wherewith to offer sacrifice, when they are in their banishment, Hosea 3:4 , much less to serve God with cheerfulness, to exhilarate his heart with their wine offerings, Judges 9:13 , to cheer up themselves with the wine and olive offerings, Numbers 15:5 , which were symbols and signs of the merit and spirit of Christ (for

Amos 5:1 — ου καθαρματα , I called men, and not slaves. They were no better surely that our prophet had to deal with; "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers," Isaiah 1:4 , children that were corrupters; they had forsaken the Lord, provoked the Holy One of Israel, they had increased revolt. Hence this onerosa prophetia, this word, this weighty word, this burdensome prophecy. Which I take up against you — Heb. lift

Malachi 3:7 — people, Isaiah 65:2 ; and this had "been their manner from their youth," Jeremiah 22:21 , when they were in Egypt, they served idols there, Ezekiel 16:26 . In the wilderness they tempted God ten times, and hearkened not to his voice, Numbers 14:22 . Under their judges, and then their kings, they vexed him, and he bore with them "till there was no remedy," 2 Chronicles 36:16 . After the captivity they do antiquum obtinere, and are found guilty here of various omissions and commissions,

Matthew 5:15 — set up a minister, and so light a link or torch, as the word λυχνος here signifieth, among a people, but for the disusing of the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, 2 Corinthians 4:6 . The heavenly bodies enlighten not their own orbs only, but send forth their beams far and near. The grace of God (that is, the doctrine of grace) that bringeth salvation hath appeared, or shone forth, as a candle on a candlestick; or as a beacon