Bible Commentaries

Genesis 24:33 — él para que comiera; pero él dijo: No comeré hasta que haya dicho mi misión. Y él dijo: Habla. Ver. 33. No comeré hasta que haya dicho mi misión. ] Prefería su trabajo antes que su comida. Lo mismo hizo nuestro Salvador en el pozo de Samaria. Juan 4:6,8 ; Joh 4: 31-38 Y en otra ocasión, cuando pensó haber saciado su hambre en la higuera estéril, y no encontró nada más que hojas, se fue a Jerusalén; y olvidando su hambre, como antes había olvidado su desayuno, no se convirtió en una casa de avituallamiento,

Ezra 4:15 — same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed. In the book of the records — Chaldee, of the remembrances, that is, the chronicles usual in all kingdoms. And know that this city is a rebellious city — See Trapp on " Ezra 4:1 " See Trapp on " Ezra 4:2 " Learn, that fidelity to governors is ever both safe and honourable. Zedekiah’s falsifying his oath to the king of Babylon, was the overthrow of that commonwealth. See what God himself saith, not without

Psalms 103:11 — guessed and gathered, in that the stars (whereof those of the first magnitude are said to be every one above a hundred and seven times as big again as the whole earth) do yet seem to us but as so many sparks or spangles. See Proverbs 25:3 Ephesians 4:10 . So great is his mercy — The heavens are exceeding high above the earth, but God’s mercy to his is above the heavens, Psalms 108:4 . The original word, gabbar, here used, is the same with that, Genesis 7:20 , used for the prevailing

Psalms 106:33 — Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. Because they provoked his spirit — So that he was in a pelt to the grieving of God’s good Spirit within him, Ephesians 4:30-31 . O tantaene animis coelestibus irae? So that he spake unadvisedly — Some render it only, he spake, or he pronounced; he should not have spoken at all to the people, as having no order from God so to do in that transaction, but only to the

Psalms 26:8 — ευπρεπειαν , comeliness. The Protestants at Lyons, in France, called their public meeting place paradise. And the place where thine honour dwelleth — i.e. Where thou thyself dwellest, or thine ark, which is called God’s glory, 1 Samuel 4:21 Psalms 78:61 , yea, God’s self, Psalms 132:5 , and God’s face, Psalms 105:4 .

Psalms 9:15 — which they hid, … — To hunters they are compared for cruelty, and to fowlers for craft. But see their success: they are sunk down in their own pit, caught in their own net. Thus it befell Pharaoh, Exodus 15:9-10 , Jabin and Sisera, Judges 4:15 ; Judges 4:22-23 , Sennacherib, 2 Chronicles 32:21 , Antiochus Epiphanes, Maxentius the tyrant, who fell into the river Tiber, from his own false bridge laid for Constantine (Euseb. lib. 9, rap. 9), the Spanish Armada, our gunpowder Papists, …

Proverbs 11:19 — righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death. As righteousness tendeth to life. — Heb., Lives; for "godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." 1 Timothy 4:8 And this is that sure reward spoken of in the former verse; for "he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting," Galatians 6:8 which indeed is the only life that deserveth so to be called and counted. So he that

Proverbs 5:17 — venerea, in the matter of the marriage bed, as some Jerome, Chrysost., Heinsius. expound it, but that "every one possess his vessel," - that is, say they, his wife, that "weaker vessel" - in sanctification and honour. 1 Thessalonians 4:4-6

Jeremiah 32:17 — thee: Ah Lord God! — This interjection in the beginning of his prayer showeth that his heart was greatly grieved and perplexed. Nevertheless he reineth in his passions, and runneth not out into a brawl instead of a prayer, as Jonah did. Jonah 4:1 See Trapp on " Jonah 4:1 " Thou hast made the heaven and earth by thy great power. — God’s might and mercy are the good soul’s Joachin and Boaz, whereon it ever resteth. These two doth Jeremiah in this prayer of his chiefly

Ezekiel 11:1 — Ezekiel 10:19 Five and twenty men. — Proceres populi, the senators of the city, with their prefect or president. The like number is now at Rome, and likewise at London; an alderman in each of the twenty-four wards, and a mayor. See Revelation 4:4 . Among whom I saw Jaazaniah. — I saw them, and knew them by name; but for no good. “ Iudex locusta civitatis est malus. ” - Scaliger.

Ezekiel 14:13 — famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Son of man. — See on Ezekiel 2:1 . When the land sinneth against me, — i.e., The inhabitants of the land; not as if the land itself were alive and indued with reason, as Origen Hom. 4, in loc. doated, and as Plato held that the Spirit of God was the soul of the world. By trespassing grievously. — Praevaricando perfide; by doing evil as men could. Then will I stretch out my hand. — See Ezekiel 14:9 . And will break the

Daniel 8:14 — will put a timely period to his people’s afflictions. Not full seven years did they suffer here, much less seventy, as once in Babylon. How he moderateth the matter., see on Revelation 2:10 ; how this prophecy was fulfilled, see Malachi 1:12-14; Malachi 1:12-14 2 Maccabees 4:12-16 cf. 1Ma 4:52-45 .

Zechariah 4:14 — Then said he, These [are] the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. These are the two anointed ones — Heb. sons of oil. See Trapp on " Zechariah 4:7 " That stand by the Lord of the whole earth — Because by the candlestick and utensils of the temple and type of the Church, which is at Christ’s right hand, Psalms 45:4 . as he at his Father’s right hand, Romans 8:34 . He is

Deuteronomy 28:4 — Bendito será el fruto de tu vientre, y el fruto de tu tierra, y el fruto de tu ganado, el aumento de tus vacas, y los rebaños de tus ovejas. Ver. 4. El fruto de tu cuerpo. ] Cuál es tu posesión principal; pero sin mi bendición serán dulces amargos, un "Bienaventurado el hombre que tiene su aljaba lleno de flechas como flechas de hombre fuerte", Sal 128: 3-4 el nudo de cuya naturaleza es refinada

Mark 9:21 — ones thus suffer: they are not innocents, but "estranged from the womb, they go astray as soon as they be born,"Psalms 58:3; Psalms 58:3 ; the first sheet or blanket wherein they are covered is woven of sin, shame, blood, and filth,Ezekiel 16:4; Ezekiel 16:4 ; Ezekiel 16:6 . Infants have sin, though unable to act it; as Paul’s viper, stiff with cold, might be handled without harm, yet was no less venomous. But no sooner can they do anything, but they are evil doing, Ut urtica statim

Luke 11:41 — But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you. But rather give alms — So Daniel counsels Nebuchadnezzar,Daniel 4:27; Daniel 4:27 . Ralph, Bishop of Chichester, A. D. 1070, drawing towards his end, delivered unto the poor with his own hands whatsoever he had in the world (I inquire not with what intention), leaving himself scarcely clothes to cover him. Alexander

John 7:8 — services, and would not come at them, because of the manifold corruptions that were then crept into them. All which notwithstanding, Christ never separated, nor commanded others so to do, but the contrary: "Go show thyself to the priest,"Matthew 8:4; Matthew 8:4 ; "The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ chair; hear them," Matthew 23:2 . It is noted as a great fault in Eli’s time, that men "abhorred the offering of the Lord," though the sin of the priests was very

Acts 15:29 — rule, and a foundation of the former. As for fornication, it is here reckoned among things indifferent, because the Gentiles held it so; as the Papists now account it a very small sin; but so did not the council. See 1 Corinthians 10:8 ; Hebrews 13:4 . See Trapp on " 1 Corinthians 10:8 " See Trapp on " Hebrews 13:4 " A learned man telleth us, that that impostor Mahomet hath (in an apish imitation of this decree of the holy synod) forbidden his followers the self-same things,

1 Samuel 31:9 — quittance with him. Men love to retaliate. To publish it in the house of their idols. — Heb., Their fray-bugs object of fear . So called, because they fright their superstitious followers, instead of instructing and comforting them. See Psalms 16:4 . See Trapp on " Psalms 16:4 " And among the people. — This David would not have had done, 2 Samuel 1:20 but God suffered it, though he some way suffered in it, to show his singular hatred of sin, and show he is set upon the punishment

2 Samuel 7:23 — and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods? And what one nation … is like thy people? — See Deuteronomy 4:7 ; Deuteronomy 33:29 . See Trapp on " Deuteronomy 4:7 " See Trapp on " Deuteronomy 33:29 " Whom God went to redeem. — Came down from heaven, as it were, to display his glorious power upon earth Exodus 3:7-8 The whole Trinity