Bible Commentaries

Genesis 4:1 — Y Adán conoció a Eva su esposa; y concibió y dio a luz a Caín, y dijo: He adquirido un varón de parte del SEÑOR. Ver. 1. He recibido un hombre del Señor. ] O, ese hombre famoso, el Señor; como si hubiera dado a luz a Jesucristo hombre. Eran palabras de esperanza, no de sustancia verba spei, non rei ; porque "Caín era del maligno", el diablo, 1Jn 3:12 como todos los

Ezra 2:1 — Estos son los hijos de la provincia que subieron del cautiverio, de los que habían sido llevados, los cuales Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia había llevado a Babilonia, y había vuelto a Jerusalén y a Judá, cada uno a su lado. ciudad; Ver. 1. Estos son los hijos de la provincia ] Es decir, de Judea, ahora provincia, aunque antes era princesa; ahora solitario y tributario que una vez fue populoso y grande entre las naciones, Lamentaciones 1:1 . Medinah, la palabra aquí traducida provincia,

Job 13:16 — He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. He also shall be my salvation — So long as I judge myself God will not judge me, 1 Corinthians 11:32 ; nay, he will surely save me: for God will save the humble person, Job 22:29 . What is humiliation but humility exercised? (Merlin in loc.) Non est igitur inanis electorum fides res evanida nec infirma, saith an interpreter here;

Job 13:16 — También él será mi salvación: porque un hipócrita no vendrá delante de él. Ver. 16. Él también será mi salvación ] Mientras yo me juzgue a mí mismo, Dios no me juzgará, 1 Corintios 11:32 ; no, ciertamente me salvará; porque Dios salvará al humilde, Job 22:29 . ¿Qué es la humillación sino la humildad ejercida? (Merlín en loc. )

Job 26:14 — viarum eius, so the Tigurines translate it; these are the ends, extremities, or utmost parts of them, the το γνωστον , as St Paul calleth it, that which may be known of God, per species creaturarum, Romans 1:19-20 , as the sun may be seen in the water after a sort; but in rota, circle, as the schools speak, in the circle wherein it runs, we are not able to behold him; so something of God may be seen in his works, in his word; his back parts we may see and

Job 31:31 — familiarity. A man is to take heed of the iniquity of his heels, that is, of his followers and attendants at the heels, as some sense that text, Psalms 49:5 , for these will be apt enough to put a man upon courses of revenge, as they dealt by David, 1 Samuel 24:4 ; 1 Samuel 26:8 2 Samuel 16:9 , and by the Son of David, Luke 9:54 . And thus Isidore, Cajetan, and others, interpret these words, as if they were added to the former, Job 31:29-30 , further to commend Job’s love to those that hated

Job 33:12 — He aquí, no eres justo en esto: te responderé que Dios es más grande que el hombre. Ver. 12. He aquí, en esto no eres justo ] En esta tu exposición a Dios, como si él te hubiera tratado injustamente (piensa lo mismo de tu postulación, o petición irrazonable, de que Dios te dé una razón por la que aflige tan gravemente a ti, Job 33:13), eres

Psalms 45:2 — reverend countenance, his stature somewhat tall, his hair after the colour of the ripe hazel nut, his forehead smooth and plain, his face without wrinkle, mixed with moderate red, his eyes grey, various, and clear (Lentulus ad Senat. ap. Magdeb. Cent. 1). Surely if Stephen’s face was "as the face of an angel," and if with his bodily eyes he could pierce the heavens, and see there what he would; how much more could the Lord Christ, whose very manhood came the nearest unto God of any

Proverbs 15:29 — remember himself. Such is God’s dealing with those that stout it out with him. "I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction (if ever) they will seek me early." Hosea 5:15 And it proved so. Proverbs 6:1 But he heareth the prayer of the righteous. — "The Lord is near to all that call upon him." Psalms 145:18 "His ears are in their prayers." 1 Peter 3:12 Yea, he can feel breath when no voice can

Song of Solomon 5:7 — they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. The watchmen that went about the city, … — See Trapp on " Song of Solomon 3:3 " The ministers that walk the round, that watch for men’s souls, Hebrews 13:17 Isaiah 61:6 that know how to "time a word," Isaiah 51:4 these smote her with the tongue, they buffeted her by just and sharp reproofs for her negligence, they unveiled her for being abroad at that time of night (which she needed not to

Jeremiah 5:1 — Spatiamini, scrutamini. Go as many of you as ye please; the verbs are plural. In the streets of Jerusalem. — Where it was strange there should be such a rarity of righteous ones. But "the faithful city was now become a harlot." Isaiah 1:21 Like as Rome is at this day. “ Tota est iam Roma lupanar. ” “Now all Rome isa brothel.” She had a Mancinel, a Savonarola, and some few other Jeremiahs, to tell her her own; but she soon took an order with them. The primitive

Hosea 11:9 — modo que ahora resuelve no ejecutar la cumbre de su calor, el extremo de su furia, porque entonces el espíritu debería fallar. Antes que él. Efraín es el hijo amado de Dios, su hijo agradable; quien, cuando oye quejarse de sí mismo, como Jeremias 30:18,20 , pronto se arrepiente del mal y clama: - “ Satis hoc pro crimine magno Paulum supplicii lenem sumpsisse parentem. " No volveré para destruir a Efraín ] No lo deshaceré dos veces, ni lo arruinaré del todo; como aquellos que han dado por muerto a

Hosea 9:13 — forsaken of God. But he may be angry enough with those that yet outwardly prosper; as he was with the old world buried in security; with Sodom, who had fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness; with the land of Shinar (where Babel was built, Genesis 11:2-4 ), fruitful beyond credulity, as Herodotus and Pliny testify; with Tyre, a maritime and magnificent city, planted in a pleasant place, in the very heart of the sea; as Venice is at this day, media insuperabilis unda, environed with her embracing

Joel 2:28 — shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And it shall come to pass afterwards — sc. In the days of the Messiah, which is called the "world to come," Hebrews 2:5 , but especially after his ascension, see John 7:37 Acts 2:17-21 , where this prophecy was fulfilled, and this place taken for the first text preached on by the apostles, Joel 2:17 , to the conversion of three thousand souls at one sermon. For together with the word there went forth a power, even that "spirit

Amos 2:4 — quia meliores esse debebant. Beset they were with enemies round about, who dealt cruelly with them; and this should have made them to cleave more closely to God; these horns pushing and scattering them, should have pushed them home to him, Zechariah 1:19: but it proved otherwise. For Judah also is found to be incorrigibly flagitious, guilty, as the former, "of three transgressions, and of four," …, worse in them than in others, because "in Judah was God known," and to them

Micah 1:5 — but the unjust knoweth no shame, will take no warning, which is a just both presage and desert of his ruin. What is the transgression of Jacob? — Say they in a chatting way; like those miscreants in Malachi, that so worded it with God, Malachi 1:1-14 ; Malachi 3:1-15 . Is it not Samaria? — Saith the prophet, in answer to that daring demand of theirs. So, what are the high places of Judah? — viz. the superstitious and carnal confidences thereof? Is it not Jerusalem? saith the prophet.

Zechariah 6:12 — "do ye think the Scripture speaketh in vain?" saith St James, not without some holy indignation, James 4:5 . Behold the man whose name is The Branch — The man Christ Jesus, who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, Romans 1:3 ; and as a Branch grew out of his roots, Isaiah 11:1 . See Trapp on " Zechariah 3:4 " Joshua, that he might not be exalted above measure with the abundance of this new honour, or think of himself more highly than he ought to think, 2 Corinthians

Malachi 2:1 — Y ahora, sacerdotes, este mandamiento es para vosotros. Ver. 1. Y ahora, oh vosotros sacerdotes, etc. ] Ahora, es decir, ahora otra vez, debo tener la otra pelea contigo, además de lo que tuve, Malaquías 1:6,11 , porque como una vez de los profetas, así ahora de los sacerdotes, en Jerusalén la profanación ha salido

Malachi 4:1 — Porque he aquí, viene el día ardiente como un horno; y todos los soberbios, y todos los que hacen maldad, serán estopa; y el día que vendrá los quemará, ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos, que no les dejará ni raíz ni rama. Ver. 1. Porque he aquí, el día viene ] Este capítulo no debe separarse del anterior; porque aquí el trato diferente de Dios con los justos y los impíos, propuesto en el versículo anterior, se amplifica aún más por varios efectos de la venida de Cristo en la

Matthew 6:30 — and tomorrow is cast into the oven — A fit resemblance of all outward things, the subject of our carking cares, likened (when they are at best) to the flower of grass, Isaiah 40:6 ; "The sun is no sooner risen," saith St James, James 1:10-11 "with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways," his riches cannot ransom him. But as grass, when ripe,