Bible Commentaries

Genesis 24:33 — [meat] before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. I will not eat, till I have told mine errand. — He preferred his work before his food. So did our Saviour at the well of Samaria. John 4:6-8 ; John 4:31-38 And another time, when he thought to have slaked his hunger at the barren fig tree, and found nothing but leaves, he went on to Jerusalem; and forgetting his hunger, as he had before forgot his breakfast, he turned not into a victualling

Exodus 12:2 — This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you. This month. — Called Abib in Exodus 13:4 ; with us called March or April; when the day lengthening, and the sun ascending, each thing begins to revive. To show, saith one, that by the true Passover, Christ Jesus, not only is our time and all other things sanctified, but also that we should

Nehemiah 7:4 — Ahora la ciudad era grande y grande, pero el pueblo en ella era escaso, y las casas no estaban edificadas. Ver. 4. Ahora la ciudad era grande ] Heb. Amplio en vanos o espacios. Y grande ] Sin embargo, nada tan grande como Nínive fue en la antigüedad; o Babilonia entonces; o Alcair y Quinsay en este día. Del ex Bunting dice que son sesenta millas en brújula. De

Job 26:9 — must content ourselves with a learned ignorance, 1 John 3:3 . Here darkness is, and will be, under his feet, Psalms 18:9 . And spreadeth his cloud upon it — It is fitly called his cloud, because, 1. It is his handiwork, Psalms 18:11; Genesis 9:14; Job 28:26-27 ; Job 37:15-16 ; Job 38:9; Psalms 104:5 . His sun draweth up those vapours, which, being thickened in the middle region of the air by the cold encompassing and driving them together, become a cloud. 2. He used it of old as a sign of his

Job 40:4 — He aquí, soy vil; ¿Qué te responderé? Pondré mi mano sobre mi boca. Ver. 4. He aquí, soy vil ] Ligero y poco valioso; y por lo tanto merecen ser despreciados y abandonados, como una vasija rota. El hombre humilde se vilipendia, sí, se anula a sí mismo ante Dios, como Abraham, Génesis 18:27 ; como Agur, Proverbios 30:3 ;

Joel 1:13 — and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. Gird yourselves and lament, ye priests — Be you priest, and first in the practice of humiliation: be you an example of the believers in word, in conversation, …, 1 Timothy 4:12 , a pattern of piety, τυπος . Si vis ne flere, … If others shall lament, you must begin to them; and say, as Abimolech did to his soldiers, "What ye have seen me do, make haste and do likewise," Judges

Joel 1:13 — porque la ofrenda y la libación está retenida de la casa de vuestro Dios. Ver. 13. Ceñíos y lamentaos, sacerdotes ] Sed sacerdotes y primeros en la práctica de la humillación ; sed ejemplo de los creyentes en palabra, conversación, etc., 1 Timoteo 4:12 , modelo de piedad, τυπος . Si vis ne flere, etc. Si otros se lamentan, debes empezar por ellos; y di, como Abimolec hizo a sus soldados: "Lo que me habéis visto hacer, Jueces 9:48 y haz lo mismo", Jueces 9:48 ; y como dice San Pablo a sus Filipenses:

Amos 4:9 — multiplying and dressing their orchards and vineyards; when, in the mean while, they neglected the sincere service of God; and suffered their own hearts to lie like the sluggard’s field, that was all grown over with thorns and briars, Proverbs 24:31 , that is, with lusts and sins, under which lurketh that old serpent. The palmerworm — Which is worse than the locust, as Jerome noteth; for the locust feeds only on the tops of the ears of grain as he flies (and thence hath his name in Greek,

Amos 4:9 — han hecho y que han perdido al multiplicar y aderezar sus huertos y viñedos; cuando, mientras tanto, descuidaron el servicio sincero de Dios; y dejaron que su propio corazón yaciera como el campo del perezoso, lleno de espinos y zarzas, Proverbios 24:31 , es decir, con concupiscencias y pecados, bajo los cuales acecha la serpiente antigua. La oruga ] que es peor que la langosta, como nota Jerónimo; porque la langosta se alimenta solo de las puntas de las espigas cuando vuela (y de ahí tiene su nombre

Micah 5:3 — and miseries; whereby their desires after him were increased and ineagered. The enemy oppressed them, by God’s permission, yea, by his active providence; that they might pant after a Saviour, and sigh out with old Jacob, their father, Genesis 49:18 , "O Lord, I have waited for thy salvation." Until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth — She, that is, the Virgin Mary, say some: or, she, that is, say others, the afflicted Church, according to Micah 4:9-10 ; See

Micah 5:3 — presiones y miserias; por lo que sus deseos por él aumentaron y disminuyeron. El enemigo los oprimió, con el permiso de Dios, sí, con su providencia activa; para que pudieran jadear por un Salvador, y suspirar con el viejo Jacob, su padre, Génesis 49:18 , "Oh Señor, he esperado tu salvación". Hasta el tiempo en que parió la que dio a luz ] Ella, es decir, la Virgen María, dicen unos; o ella, es decir, otros, la Iglesia afligida, según Miqueas 4:9,10 ; Ver Trapp en " Mic 4: 9 " Ver Trapp en "

Zechariah 10:10 — and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt — Whither they fled for fear of the Babylonians, Jeremiah 44:12 , and where it seems they became a mighty people, if that be true which Josephus writeth, viz. that Ptolemy Philadelphus sent back a hundred and twenty thousand of them into Judea, and by that royal beneficence obtained the seventy seniors to be

Matthew 27:24 — Cuando Pilato que nada adelantaba, sino que antes se hacía más alboroto, tomó agua y se lavó sus manos delante del pueblo, diciendo: Yo soy inocente de la sangre de este justo; allá vosotros a ella . Ver. 24. Tomó agua ] Un elemento demasiado débil para lavar la culpa; que no es purgado sino por la sangre de Cristo, o el fuego del infierno. Y se lavó las manos ] Una antigua ceremonia, usada en este caso, tanto por judíos Dt 21: 6-7 Hechos 18: 6 como por

Matthew 27:39 — And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, Reviled him, wagging their heads — God took notice of Cain’s frowns,Genesis 4:6; Genesis 4:6 , Miriam’s mutterings, Numbers 12:2 , these men’s noddings, Rabshakeh’s lofty looks, Isaiah 37:23 , Laban’s lourings (scowling), Genesis 31:2 , and sets them upon record. He is jealous for Jerusalem with a great

Deuteronomy 25:19 — shalt not forget it. — Neither did they. Saul should have utterly destroyed them, 1 Samuel 15:18-19 but wherein he failed, God stirred up the Simeonites in Hezekiah’s days to smite the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped. 1 Chronicles 4:42-43 It is ill angering the Ancient of days. His wrath lasts longer than hot coals of juniper, Psalms 120:4 his judgments are severe and durable: as we use to say of winter frosts, they never rot in the sky, but shall fall, if late, yet surely, yet

2 Corinthians 7:12 — his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. Not for his cause — That is, not so much for his cause. That suffered the wrong — viz. The father of the incestuous person. CompareGenesis 49:4; Genesis 49:4 . But that our care for you — That the Church might not suffer, as allowing such foul facts. How the primitive Christians were slandered by the heathens in this kind, who knows not? Cenalis, bishop of Auranches, wrote against

Philippians 3:13 — dixisti satis est, periisti. Satiety is a dangerous disease, and the next step to a declension. The eagle’s emblem is sublimius; a loftier position, the sun’s celerius, swifter, Psalms 19:3 ; the wheat’s perfectius, more ripened, Mark 4:28 ; Ezekiel’s profundius, more depth, Ezekiel 47:4 ; Christ’s superius, more exaltation,Luke 14:10; Luke 14:10 ; and Paul’s ulterius more humiliation. Reaching forth — επεκτεινομενος

Colossians 3:12 — word signifieth; ταπεινος , quasi πατεινος , vel εδαφεινος . or to be laid low as earth, as Paul,Philippians 4:12; Philippians 4:12 ; to have a low mind in a high conversation, as Athanasius ( υφηλου βιας ταπεινον φρονημα ). Humility

Hebrews 12:15 — Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you , and thereby many be defiled; Lest any man fail — Or, fall short, asHebrews 4:1; Hebrews 4:1 ; see the note there. Short shooting loseth many a game. He that in a race lieth down ere he come to the goal, gets not the garland. Perseverance crowns all our virtues. But it is an easy thing to fall a napping with the foolish virgins

2 Peter 1:19 — Christ the day star, Revelation 2:28 ; Revelation 22:12 . Until the day dawn — Till there be a more full gospel light. And the day star — Christ the star of Jacob, the bright morning star, Revelation 22:16 , the Sun of righteousness,Malachi 4:2; Malachi 4:2 ;