Bible Commentaries

Genesis 1:3 — Y dijo Dios: Sea la luz; y fue la luz. Ver. 3. Y Dios dice: Déjalo, etc. ] Él ordenó que "la luz brille de las tinieblas". 2 Cor 4: 6 "Habló la palabra, y fue hecho". Salmo 33:9 ; Sal 148: 5 a La creación no es un movimiento, sino una emanación simple y desnuda; es decir, cuando sin repugnancia del paciente ni labor del agente, la obra o efecto surge voluntaria y libremente de

Amos 7:4 — against the common course of nature. Some render it, and did eat up that part, or that field, sc. that mentioned Amos 7:1 , the king’s field; that as the king had chiefly offended, so he should be principally punished. Others interpret it by Amos 4:7 , "One piece was rained upon, and the piece whereon it rained not withered."

Amos 8:8 — one mourn — i.e. smart, till they mourn. National sins bring national plagues. The Hebrews hold that there is not a worse sin than oppression. St James saith, that it cries to heaven, and entereth into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth, James 5:4 , who will not fail to hear, for he is gracious, Exodus 22:27 . And it shall rise up wholly as a flood — i.e. the land shall rise up, shall seem to do so, when it is floated and flooded with water; as the sluggard’s field is said to rise

Amos 9:3 — sight — As they think, but that cannot be; for he (like the optic virtue in the eye) sees all and is seen of none. In the bottom of the sea — Which, how deep and troublesome soever, is to God a sea of glass like unto crystal, Revelation 4:6: corpus diaphanum, a pervious, clear, transparent body such as he sees through, and hath the sole command of. Thence will I command the serpent — For therre is that crooked serpent leviathan, Isaiah 27:1 , there are also creeping things innumerable

Micah 6:3 — 68:19; Psalms 68:19 , and bearing with your provocations? Forgive me that injury, 2 Corinthians 12:13 . Testify against me — "Put me in remembrance, let us plead together, declare thou against me, that thou mayest be justified," Isaiah 43:26 . See here, first, with what meekness and mildness God proceedeth against sinners: so Isaiah 5:3 . Iudicate quaeso. See, next, that God is content, for our better confliction, to submit his courses unto scanning, and to bring his proceedings with

Micah 7:20 — of Noah unto me," saith the Lord: "for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart," …, Isaiah 54:9-10 . God hath hitherto kept promise, with nights and days, Jeremiah 33:20 ; Jeremiah 33:25 , that one shall succeed the other; therefore much more will he keep promise with his people. Which thou hast sworn unto our fathers — And, in them, to

Habakkuk 1:16 — Herod. l. 2). So Antiochus (that little antichrist) is said to worship his god Mauzzim, that is, his forces and armies, Daniel 11:38 . It was Nebuchadnezzar that was here pointed at; and how he deified himself and his own doings, see Isaiah 10:13 Daniel 4:26 . And burn incense to their drags — While they ascribe to the instrument that which is due to God alone, the chief agent. Hold out, net, said they; well done, drag, … Hoc ego primus vidi, said Zabarell, Hoc ego feci, saith another. But

Zephaniah 3:18 — [who] are of thee, [to whom] the reproach of it [was] a burden. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly — Which now they cannot celebrate, as being in captivity; and are therefore in great heaviness; as was David, Psalms 42:2-3 ; Psalms 42:5 . Nothing goes nearer to a good heart than to be debarred the benefit of God’s holy ordinances, than to hear the sabbaths mocked at by the enemies, as these good souls did, Lamentations 2:7 , and to be asked, as David was, "Where

Haggai 1:7 — your ways. Consider your ways — See Haggai 1:5 . Do it early and earnestly. Excutite vos, iterumque excutite, as Tremellius rendereth that in Zephaniah 2:1 "Search you, search you, O nation not worthy to be beloved." So Lamentations 3:40 "Let us search and try our ways." Not search only, but try, and, as it were, sift them to the bran. So 2 Corinthians 13:5 "Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith: prove your own selves," as it were, with redoubled diligence,

Zechariah 10:3 — battle. Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds — Pastores Impostores; the greedy priests and false prophets, main causes of the captivity; because through their default there was no knowledge nor fear of God in the land, Isaiah 5:13 Hosea 4:6-7 Jeremiah 23:1 Ezekiel 34:1 . And I punished the goats — The grandees and governors, temporal and ecclesiastical, see Ezekiel 34:17 . They should have been as the he goats before the flock, Jeremiah 50:8 , worthy guides to God. But they were

Zechariah 14:21 — the Chaldee; that is, the Simoniac, the Churchchopper, such money-merchants as Christ whipped out of the temple, 2 John 1:2; 2 John 1:22 John 1:2; 2 John 1:2 :15 . But better render it Canaanite, who were indeed great merchants, Hosea 12:7 Ezekiel 17:4 (the Phenicians, those great merchants, were Canaanites), but here it stands for a wicked man, a hypocrite, that botch of Christian society. Pura erit Ecclesia ab omnibus inquinamentis, saith Calvin; the Church shall be purged of all such pests, see

Zechariah 8:6 — me by yourselves, and make my thoughts to be as your thoughts, my ways as your ways? there is no comparison. Abraham cared not for the deadness of his own body or his wife’s, but was strong in faith, and gave God the glory of his power, Romans 4:20 . This was it indeed that God himself minded him of when he said unto him, Genesis 17:1 , I am God Almighty, walk before me and be upright: q.d. Thou wilt never do the latter unless thou believe the former.

Matthew 1:7 — Priapi, et in luco eius. Nos, pudore pulso, stamus sub Iove, coelis apertis, said the worshippers of Priapus. The people that came thereto (the sacrifice being ended) all stepped into a thicket, which was always planted near the altar of this god; Hosea 4:13 and there, like brute beasts, they promiscuously satisfied their lusts; thereby, as they conceived, best pleasing their god (Hackwell’s Apolog.). This villany Maachah may seem to have been guilty of, and was therefore worthily removed by her

Matthew 15:32 — bless themselves with, as the proverb is, he so graciously provides, that though the young lions (or the strong ones, as the Septuagint have it) do lack and suffer hunger, yet they that seek the Lord want nothing that’s good for them, Psalms 34:10 . Aaron, though he might not bewail the death of his two sons, Leviticus 10:3 ; Leviticus 10:6-7 ; Leviticus 10:19 , because he was high priest, yet his bowels of fatherly affection towards them could not be restrained. Christ retaineth still compassion,

Matthew 18:1 — the Messiah is called Malcuth hashamajim, the kingdom of heaven; and rightly so: for, 1. The King is heavenly. 2. He hath heaven for his throne, whence he puts forth his power. 3. His subjects are heavenly minded, and trade for heavenly commodities. 4. Their country is heaven though their commoration be a while upon earth, where they are pilgrims and strangers. 5. The government of this kingdom is wholly heavenly and spiritual. (Cameron.)

Matthew 19:28 — upon twelve thrones — And so many kings. Kings they are here, but somewhat obscure ones, as Melchisedech was; but shall then appear with Christ in glory, far outshining the sun in his strength, higher than all the kings of the earth, Colossians 3:4 ; Psalms 89:27 . When Daniel had described the greatness and glory of all the four monarchies of the world, at last he comes to speak of a kingdom which is the greatest and mightiest under the whole heaven, and that is "the kingdom of the saints

Matthew 24:1 — And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. Departed from the temple — Never to return more to it. In Ezekiel 9:3 ; Ezekiel 10:4 ; Ezekiel 10:18-19 ; Ezekiel 11:22-23 , God departs by degrees, and still as he goes out, some judgment comes in; and when he was quite gone, then followed the fatal calamity in the utter ruin of the city and temple. So it was then, and so it was now,

Matthew 25:36 — me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Naked, and ye clothed me — Darius, before he came to the kingdom, received a garment for a gift of one Syloson. And when he became king he rewarded him with the command of his country Samus. Aelian, l. 4. c. 5. 1:187 Who now will say that Syloson merited such a boon for so small a courtesy? A gardener, offering a rape root (being the best present the poor man had) to the Duke of Burgundy, was bountifully rewarded by the duke, which his steward observing,

Matthew 26:40 — for his redemption. Our High Priest bears the names of all his people on his shoulders and on his breast, so that he cannot be unmindful of them. Behold he hath graven them upon the palms of his hands, their walls are continually before him, Isaiah 49:16 , he loveth to look upon the houses where they dwell. And findeth them asleep — When he should have found them at prayer for him. Prayer is the creature of the Holy Ghost; and unless he hold up men’s eyes therewhile, even Peter, James,

John 10:10 — mouth, as of illumination, revelation, deification, the inward and spiritual man. (Scultet. Annal.) Some are so cunning in their cogging the dice, as St Paul phraseth it, εν τη κυβεια , Ephesians 4:14 ; in the conveyance of their collusion, that, like serpents, they can sting without hissing; like cur dogs, suck your blood only with licking; and in the end kill you and cut your throats without biting. Muzzle them therefore, saith St Paul, and