Bible Commentaries

Genesis 21:6 — Y Sara dijo: Dios me ha hecho reír, [para que] todos los que oyen se rían conmigo. Ver. 6. Dios me ha hecho reír. ] "El hijo sabio alegra al padre". Pro 10: 1 Monstri autem simil est, quando pro risu sunt fletus, sunt flagellum . Y, sin embargo, este es el caso de muchos buenos hombres. Cuántos padres se ponen a desear el deseo de Moisés, Num 11:15 "Señor, si he hallado gracia en tus ojos, mátame, para

Genesis 9:27 — Jafet, y habitará en las tiendas de Sem; y Canaán será su siervo. Ver. 27. Dios persuade a Japhet. ] Porque nadie más puede hacerlo. Los hombres pueden hablar de manera persuasiva, pero persuadir solo es propio de Dios. Él "habla al corazón"; Oseas 2:14 nosotros solo al oído. Él persuade y seduce, no solo por una persuasión moral, sino por un irresistible dibujo interior. Act 11:17 En hebreo hay una dulce aliteración; qd, Dios persuadirá al persuasivo. Los atraerá a la fe y la obediencia, Monendo

Nehemiah 7:4 — 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 este último, Paulus Venetus (quien habitó en él alrededor del año 1260) escribe, que tiene cien millas alrededor, siendo de todas las ciudades del mundo la más grande. Jerusalén era una ciudad grande y espaciosa, aunque estaba muy por debajo de estas. Y la gente allí era poca ] Pero cuán enormemente se multiplicaron

Isaiah 26:9 — inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. With my soul, …, with my spirit. — Spirit, soul, and body must all be for God The wicked with all their soul rejoice to do evil. See Ezekiel 25:6 . Attende quam non sit otiosa fides. - Oecol. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 all that is within us especially; Psalms 103:1 the fat and inwards were consecrated to him; the heart is his bride chamber, his bed of spices. Song of Solomon 6:2 In the lives of the Fathers mention is made of a certain monk to whom,

Isaiah 45:4 — while, and liberty to live quietly in their own country. For which purpose also, it was the will of God that this prophecy of Isaiah should be made known to Cyrus, for the good of the Jews, that he might favour them; and so it was, as appeareth by Ezra 1:2 , and by Josephus, Antiq., lib. xi. cap. 1. I have even called thee by thy name. — Thy name of honour; H. Stephan. for Cyrus signifieth the "sun," saith Plutarch; "Lord," say others, in the Persian; as in Hebrew it seemeth

Isaiah 51:17 — which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, [and] wrung [them] out. Awake, awake. — Suscita te, suscita te. As the Church had stirred up the arm of the Lord to awake, Isaiah 51:9 so here he doth the Church, cheering her up, and, as it were, drinking to her in a cup of nepenthe, after her bitter cup of gall and aloes, which she had drunk to drunkenness, and had none to guide her, Isaiah 51:18 as a drunken man had need to have. That

Jeremiah 45:1 — out Jeremiah’s prophecies, and then read them to the people, and afterwards to the princes. For this piece of work he expected belike some good piece of preferment, as the apostles also did for their forsaking all and following Christ. Matthew 18:1-4 ; Matthew 19:27-30 ; Matthew 20:21-29 , … Thus flesh will show itself in the best, and in many things we offend all. But instead of any such thing, Baruch, together with his master, Jeremiah, was sought for to be slaughtered; and besides,

Ezekiel 7:19 — Abite hinc, abite longe, - Away from me, away, away. Their gold shall be removed. — Shall be for a dunghill, saith the Vulgate; it shall be esteemed, as it is, the guts and garbage of the earth. Their silver and their gold. — See Proverbs 11:4 Zephaniah 1:18 Ecclesiastes 5:8 , See Trapp on " Proverbs 11:4 " See Trapp on " Zephaniah 1:18 " See Trapp on " Ecclesiastes 5:8 " They shall not satisfy Plato in Cratylo scribit Tantalum dictum esse quas παλαντατον

Joel 1:13 — offering 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,"

Joel 2:14 — Hitherto the prophet had argued from God’s gracious disposition; now here from his courteous and bounteous dealing with his converts. Who knoweth if, … — This is not the speech of one that doubteth and is uncertain, as was that of David, 1 Samuel 12:22 , who can tell that God will have mercy on me, that the child may live but of one earnestly affirming and avouching, as was that of Mordecai, Esther 4:14 , "And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Amos 5:23 — made in the mouth is nothing so sweet to our ears as that which comes from the depth of the breast. "Sing with grace in your hearts," is the best tune to all the psalms; which are therefore called "spiritual songs," Colossians 3:16 , both because they are indited by the Spirit, and are to be sung with the spirit, 1 Corinthians 14:15 , and because they being so sung, do make us more spiritual in the use of them; while we sing David’s Psalms with David’s heart. For

Zechariah 11:4 — Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of slaughter — So lately pulled out of the jaws of those lions, Zechariah 11:3 cf. Amos 3:12 , and yet destined to destruction by the Romans, those Raptores Orbis robbers of the world, (their former preservation being but a reservation to future mischief), for their desperate obstinace and incorrigibility. Feed them —

Zechariah 9:1 — word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus [shall be] the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, [shall be] toward the LORD. The burden — i.e. The bitter and burdensome prophecy. See Trapp on " Malachi 1:1 " In the land of Hadrach — Better, on the land of Hadrach; because Messiah is chad, sharp, to the nations, but rach, gentle, to the Israelites; whereby is meant, not thy land, O Immanuel, or O Messiah (as Jerome, after Rabbi Benaiah), nor

Matthew 1:12 — lawlessly wicked, quorum maxima beneficia, flagitia, supplicia, as the Centurists set it forth. Abused mercy turns into fury. Jechonias begat Salathiel — Neri begat him naturally, Jechonias, legally; adopting him for his child that was his nephew, 1 Chronicles 3:17 . And Salathiel begat Zorobabel — Who brought forth the head stone of the second temple with shoutings, crying, "Grace, grace unto it,"Zechariah 4:7; Zechariah 4:7 . He was a chieftain in the first year of Cyrus, Ezra

Matthew 1:4 — Naasson — Who was hung up in the wilderness, among the rest of their rulers, for folly committed with the mistresses of Moab. Neither escaped the common sort scot-free, for they fell in one day "three and twenty thousand," saith St Paul, 1 Corinthians 10:8 ; "Four and twenty thousand," saith Moses: whereof a thousand were the chief princes, the other were inferiors provoked to sin by their example. But why doth the apostle insist in the special punishment of the people? To show,

Matthew 23:5 — ostentation, as stage players, or painted faces. See Trapp on " Matthew 6:2 " See Trapp on " Matthew 6:5 " Saints more seek to be good than seem to be so. They make broad their phylacteries — That is, conservatories, so called. 1. Because by the use of them the law was kept in remembrance. 2. Because the superstitious Pharisees conceited, that by the wearing of them about their necks, themselves might be kept from danger, as by so many spells: what they were, see the notes above,

Matthew 26:15 — And said unto them , What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. What will ye give me — Take beed and beware of covetousness, saith our Saviour, Luke 12:15 ; for it is "the root of all evil," saith Paul,1 Timothy 6:10; 1 Timothy 6:10: a breach of the whole decalogue, as some divines have demonstrated and universal experience hath confirmed. These sordida poscinummia, as one calleth them,

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 jealousy,Zechariah 1:14; Zechariah 1:14 ; (and jealousy

Matthew 5:27 — whore that would be so had she but opportunity; and the Romans put to death a vestal virgin for singing this verse only. " Faelices nuptae! moriar ni nubere dulce est. " St Paul’s virgin is holy, not in body only, but in spirit also, 1 Corinthians 7:34 . Quae quia non licuit non facit, illa facit. Has patitur poenas peccandi sola voluntas. Juv. Sat. 13. And for the avoiding of fornications, δια τας πορνειας

John 11:9 — Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. Are there not twelve hours? — q.d. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?Job 7:1; Job 7:1 . Shall I not live out my stint? The Turks shun not the company of those that have the plague; but, pointing upon their foreheads, say, It was written there at their birth when they should die. (Blount’s Voyage into Levant.) A priest,