Bible Commentaries

Esther 6:13 — insufrible, y su consejo desagradable, para conseguir que el decreto de la masacre de los judíos se revocara o derogado, & c. Pero ni una palabra nos encontramos de nada de esta manera tendiendo. Las personas sin gracia no tienen a Dios en la cabeza, Salmo 10:4 , ni el corazón, Salmo 14:1 , ni palabras, Salmo 12:4 , ni caminos, Tito 1:16 , sino que permanecen en una postura de distancia, no, desafío, caminando en contra de él; y por eso también él, para clamar su abandono, anda en contra de ellos, Levítico

Song of Solomon 4:8 — blood sister. Thus Christ is better to his people than their prayers - better than their hopes. Hezekiah asked one life; God gave him two, adding fifteen years to his days. David asked life, and God "gave him life for ever and ever." Psalms 21:4 "Hitherto ye have asked me nothing," John 16:24 saith Christ; that is, nothing to what I am ready to give you. He stands disposed to his suitors, as Naaman did toward Gehazi. 2 Kings 5:22-23 Gehazi asked but one talent. Nay, take two, saith

Song of Solomon 4:8 — cercana. Por tanto, Cristo es mejor para su pueblo que sus oraciones, mejor que sus esperanzas. Ezequías pidió una vida; Dios le dio dos, agregando quince años a sus días. David pidió vida, y Dios "le dio vida por los siglos de los siglos". Sal 21: 4 "Hasta ahora nada me habéis pedido", dice Cristo Juan 16:24; es decir, nada de lo que estoy dispuesto a darte. Está dispuesto a sus pretendientes, como lo hizo Naamán a Giezi. 2Re 5: 22-23 Giezi pidió solo un talento. No, toma dos, dice Naamán; uno

Song of Solomon 8:1 — primero el reino de Dios y su justicia": y luego otras cosas os buscarán, se pondrán en el trato por así decirlo. Dejemos que "muchos digan: ¿Quién mostrará algo bueno?" David prefiere una mirada del rostro de Dios antes que toda la riqueza del mundo. Sal 4: 7 "Ojalá Ismael viva delante de tus ojos", dijo Abraham. ¡Oh, que pudiera ser "escrito entre los que viven en Jerusalén", ser un heredero de la vida verdaderamente llamado, por Aeterna vita vera vita! a "El Señor haga resplandecer su rostro sobre

Hosea 10:2 — stakes with another." The double-minded man is not for his service; for he will be served truly, that there be no halting; and, totally, that there be no halving. Good therefore and worthy of all acceptation is the counsel of St James to such, James 4:8 , "Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded," or ye cloven-hearted, διψυχοι . Out with the corruption that cleaveth to your hearts; and then there will be a constance

Hosea 10:2 — otro". El hombre de doble ánimo no está a su servicio; porque será servido de verdad, para que no haya detención; y, totalmente, que no se reduzca a la mitad. Bueno, por lo tanto, y digno de toda aceptación es el consejo de Santiago a tales, Santiago 4:8 , "Limpiad vuestras manos, pecadores, y purificad vuestros corazones, los de doble ánimo", o los de doble corazón, διψυχοι. Fuera la corrupción que se adhiere a vuestro corazón; y entonces habrá constancia y serenidad en sus mentes, bocas y modales;

Hosea 12:6 — will run after thee. Of turning to the Lord see the note on Zechariah 1:3 . Keep mercy and judgment — Those magnalia legis, those weightier matters of the law (as our Saviour calleth them, Matthew 23:23 ) which Ephraim had made light of, Hosea 4:1 He is therefore called upon to evidence the truth of his turning to God, by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance, Matthew 3:8 , such as are tantamount, and weigh just as much as repentance comes to. Optima et aptissima poenitentia est nova vita,

Hosea 8:4 — Latin render it, "They have reigned themselves"; like as St Paul telleth the haughty Corinthians, who, carried aloft by their waxen wings, domineered and despised others, "ye have reigned as kings without us," …, 1 Corinthians 4:8 . But our reading is according to the original; and so they are charged with a double defection; the one civil, from the house of David, "they have set up kings," …; the other ecclesiastical, from the sincere service of God, "they

Hosea 9:15 — their idolatry, secondly, for their other vile practices, thirdly, for the apostasy of their princes: all this here. Their idolatry was the worse, because committed at Gilgal, where God had done much for their forefathers; See Trapp on " Hosea 4:15 " The quality of the place adds much to the greatness of the sin, "In the land of uprightness they will deal unjustly," Isaiah 26:10 , "the faithful city is become a harlot," Isaiah 1:21 ; Isaiah 5:7 , he looked for judgment,

Hosea 9:15 — primero, por su idolatría, segundo, por sus otras viles prácticas, tercero, por la apostasía de sus príncipes: todo esto aquí. Su idolatría era peor, porque la cometieron en Gilgal, donde Dios había hecho mucho por sus antepasados; Ver Trapp en " Oseas 4:15 " La calidad del lugar añade mucho a la grandeza del pecado, "En la tierra de la rectitud Isaías 26:10 injustamente", Isaías 26:10 , "la ciudad fiel se ha convertido en una ramera", Isaías 1:21 ; Isaías 5:7 , esperaba juicio, pero he aquí una

Obadiah 1:1 — among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. The vision of Obadiah — The same, say some, that hid the Lord’s prophets, and fed them by fifty in a cave, when sought for to the slaughter by wicked Jezebel, 1 Kings 18:4 , whereupon himself also received a prophet’s reward; that is (saith Lyra), was endued with the spirit of prophecy. Jerome addeth, that he was buried at Samaria (called afterwards Sebaste, by Herod, in honour of Augustus), and that there his sepulchre

Obadiah 1:3 — strongest enemies: but herein thy pride hath befooled thee, and put the same trick upon thee that the serpent did once upon the first woman, Genesis 3:13 (the same word is there used as here), who complained, when she was in the transgression, 1 Timothy 2:14 , "The serpent hath deceived me." He is still the king of all the children of pride; and thereby cheateth them, ravisheth them of their right reason, and rendereth them the direct objects of God’s hatred and heavy displeasure, James

Jonah 4:8 — bodies with his light and heat. Whereby if he be troublesome to any Jonah, it is because God will have it so (for he is a servant, as his name שׁîשׁ in Hebrew importeth), without whom neither sun shineth nor rain falleth, Matthew 5:45 , and who by afflictions (set forth in Scripture by the heat of the sun) bringeth back his stragglers, Psalms 119:75 Matthew 13:6 ; Matthew 13:21 Revelation 7:16 ; Revelation 16:8-9 1 Peter 4:12 . That he fainted — Though the head of man hath

Micah 3:1 — God’s messengers must be mannerly in the form, yet in the matter of their message they must be resolute and plain dealing. It is probable that Joseph used some kind of preface to Pharaoh’s baker in reading him that hard destiny, Genesis 40:19 , such haply as was that of Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar, Daniel 4:19 , or as Philo brings him in with a Utinam tale somnium non vidisses. But for the matter he gives him a sound, though a sharp, interpretation. So dealeth Micah by these corrupt princes,

Habakkuk 2:1 — will say unto me — Or, in me, viz. by a prophetic spirit, by internal revelation, 2 Samuel 23:1 Zechariah 1:9 ; Zechariah 2:2 . Preachers must still hearken what the Lord God saith unto them and in them; speaking as the oracles of God, 1 Peter 4:11 , and able to say with St Paul, "I have received of the Lord that which also I deliver unto you," 1 Corinthians 11:23 . For, ut drachmam auri sine imagine Principis, sic verba Praedicantis sine authoritate Dei, contemnunt homines, saith

Zephaniah 1:3 — his house is on fire. But as for the wicked, they are gathered too, but it is for slaughter, as beasts in a pound, malefactors in a prison; and at the last day the tares shall be gathered and bundled up together for hell’s furnace, Matthew 13:41-42 . I will consume the fowls of the heaven — Made for man’s use, to be to him for food, Genesis 9:2 , for health and for delight, as companions of his life; hence it is threatened as a judgment to him to lose them, Jeremiah 4:25 , and

Haggai 2:9 — reckoned of those by Rachel’s side; because at Capernaum, in this tribe, Christ inhabited, Revelation 7:6 , in which respect also this town is said to be lifted up to heaven, Matthew 11:2-3 . Benjamin is called the beloved of the Lord, Genesis 42:4 , God’s darling (as their father Benjamin was old Jacob’s), because God dwelt between his shoulders, sc. in his temple built upon those two mountains, Moriah and Zion, Deuteronomy 33:12 . The glory of that first temple was, that the majesty

Matthew 4:13 — mighty work," saith St Mark, Mark 6:5-6 and therefore left them, saith St Matthew: than the which he could hardly have done them a greater displeasure, for "woe be unto you, if I depart from you," Hosea 9:12 . In Ezekiel 9:3 ; Ezekiel 10:4 ; Ezekiel 10:18-19 ; Ezekiel 11:22-23 , God makes various removes; and still as he goes out, some judgment comes in, till at length he was quite gone out of the city, Matthew 11:23 . And then followed the fatal calamity in the ruin thereof. Oh, pray

Matthew 5:33 — than to swear. For if the doubt or question may be assoiled, or ended by verily or truly, or such naked asseverations, we are, by the example of our Saviour, to forbear an oath. But having sworn, though to his hurt, a man must not change, Psalms 15:4 , upon pain of a curse, yea, a book full of curses, Zechariah 5:3-4 . It is not for men to play with oaths as children do with nuts; to slip them at pleasure, as monkeys do their collars; to snap them asunder, as Samson did his cords. It was an impious

Matthew 6:32 — filled us two bottles with milk against we came into the light, bore us in his arms as a nursing father, Numbers 11:12 , fed us, clothed us, kept us from fire and water, charged his angels with us, commanded all winds to blow good to us, Song of Solomon 4:16 , all creatures to serve us, Hosea 2:21-23 , and all occurrences to work together for our good, Romans 8:28 , how could we but be confident? Why art thou so sad from day to day? and what is it thou ailest or needest? Art not thou the king’s