Bible Commentaries

Proverbs 12:12 — — i.e., He so furiously pursueth his lusts, as if he desired destruction; as if he would outdare God himself; as if the guerdon of his gracelessness would not come time enough, but he must needs run to meet it. Thus thrasonical Lamech Genesis 4:23 thinks to have the odds of God, seventy to seven. Jun. in loc. Thus the princes of the Philistines, while plagued, came up to Mizpeh against Israel 1 Samuel 7:10-11 - who were there drawing water, i.e., weeping abundantly before the Lord - as it

Proverbs 15:13 — eyes. This is not till faith have healed the conscience, and till grace have hushed the affections, and composed all within. Saint Stephen looked like an angel when he stood before the council; Acts 6:15 and the apostles went away rejoicing. Acts 5:41 There are that rejoice in the face only, and not in the heart; 2 Corinthians 5:12 this is but the hypocrisy of mirth, and we may be sure that many a man’s heart bleeds within him when his face counterfeits a smile. It is for an Abraham only to

Proverbs 17:22 — notably conduce to and help on health. They that in the use of lawful means "wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31 But a broken spirit drieth the bones. — By drinking up the marrow and radical moisture. See this in David, Psalms 32:3 whose "bones waxed old," whose "moisture," or chief sap, "was turned into the drought of summer";

Proverbs 19:16 — keepeth his own soul; [but] he that despiseth his ways shall die. He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul. — This is the first fruit of shaking off sloth and sleepiness. He that "stirs up himself to take hold of God," Isaiah 64:7 and to "take hold of his covenant," Isaiah 56:4 "to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servant," Proverbs 19:6 to "love him, and keep his commandments," Exodus 20:6 to do that little he does out of love, if it be

Proverbs 20:1 — Trapp on " Proverbs 23:32 " Wine is a comfortable creature, Judges 9:12 one of the chief lenitives μαλακτικον . of human miseries, as Plato calls it; but "excess of wine" 1 Peter 4:3 οινοφλυγιαι . is, as one well saith, Blandus daemon, dulce venenum, suave Teccatum; quam qui in se habet, se non habet; quam qui facit, non facit peccatum, sed totus est peccatum. That

Proverbs 28:2 — seven rulers and in the dissensions of the two houses of York and Lancaster! causing the death of twice as many natives of England as were lost in the two conquests of France, besides eighty princes of the blood-royal slain. Daniel’s History, 249. And all this is said to be "for the transgression of a land," thus chastised by the Lord. Elihu tells Job that the hypocrite is set to reign for the people’s sin; Job 34:30 Leviticus 26:17 it is threatened as a heavy curse: "If

Proverbs 29:10 — And the queen mother of Scotland, beholding the dead bodies of her Protestant subjects, whom she had slain in battle, said that she never saw a finer piece of tapestry in all her life. But the just seek his soul. — In a good sense; as Psalms 142:4 seek the salvation of it - as Christ did of his deadliest enemies; as Paul did of his countrymen the Jews, of whom five times he received forty stripes save one; 2 Corinthians 11:24 as the disciples did of those spiteful Pharisees, that had causelessly

Proverbs 29:6 — lily is fresh, beautiful, and looks pleasantly, though among thorns, so can he amidst troubles. Paul - than whom never any out of hell suffered more - did not only glory in tribulation, but "overabound exceedingly with joy." 2 Corinthians 7:4

Ecclesiastes 1:2 — fruitless pains of trying any further conclusions. Sin hath hurled confusion over the world, and brought a vanity on the creature. This our first parents found, and therefore named their second son Abel, or vanity. David comes after and confirms it, Psalms 144:4 "Adam is as Abel," Adam is Abel’s mate. or, "Man is like to vanity." There is an allusion in the original to their two names: yea, all-Adam is all-Abel, Omnis Adam est totus Abel. when he is best underlaid - so the Hebrew

Ecclesiastes 1:8 — hearing. All things are full of labour. — Labor est etiam ipsa voluptas. Molestation and misery meet us at every turn. The whole world is a "sea of glass" (for its vanity), "mingled with fire" (for its vexation), -. Revelation 4:6 Vota etiam post usum, fastidio sunt: All things are sweeter in the ambition than in the fruition. There is a singular vanity in this splendid misery. One well compares it to a beautiful picture, drawn with white and red colours in sackcloth, which

Ecclesiastes 11:6 — the sun breaks forth. Sow mercy in the morning, sow it likewise in the evening, as those bountiful Macedonians did, to the shame of those richer but harder Corinthians, sending once and again to Paul’s necessities. 2 Corinthians 8:3 Philippians 4:16 Oh, sow much and oft of this unfailable seed into God’s blessed bosom, the fruit whereof you are sure to reap at your greatest need. Men may be thankful, or they may not, Perraro grati reperiuntur, saith Cicero: it is ten to one if any cured

Ecclesiastes 7:21 — himself above the flight of the injurious claw. Isaac’s apology to his brother Ishmael, viz., patience and silence is the best answer to words of scorn and petulance, said learned Hooker. I care not for man’s day, saith Paul. 1 Corinthians 4:3 Non cum vanum calumniatorem, I regard not a vain slanderer, saith Augustine. Wicelius and Cochleus gave out that we Lutherans betrayed the Rhodes to the Turk, saith Melanchthon. These impudent lies need no confutation, dicant ipsi talia quoad velint,

Ecclesiastes 7:6 — the Psalmist, "Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath." Psalms 58:9 Fools themselves are but thorns twisted and folded together; Nahum 1:10 "briars"; Micah 7:4 "brambles." Judges 9:14 Their laughter is also fitly compared to thorns, because it chokes good motions, scratcheth the conscience, harbours the vermin of base and baggage lusts. And as themselves, like thorns, shall be thrust away and utterly

Song of Solomon 5:15 — upon one that is mighty," Psalms 89:19 even upon Emmanuel, the mighty strong God, as he is called, Isaiah 9:6 "declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead," Romans 1:4 that your "faith and hope might be in God." 1 Peter 1:21 Trust perfectly therefore to, or hope to the end, Eις το παντελες . Prorsus, perpetuo, perfecte. "for the grace

Song of Solomon 6:5 — from me. — Or, Turn thine eyes right upon me; so Song of Solomon 6:13 he calls, "Return, return, O Shulamite"; and then the sense is, Look up unto me by faith. "Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth." Isaiah 45:22 ; Isaiah 31:1 ; Isaiah 42:18 But to keep to our translation. Christ had before confessed himself ravished with one of her eyes; and here he saith the same in effect. Stupenda sane dignatio, a wonderful condescension. We use to say, Majesty and love

Song of Solomon 7:4 — of it," saith David. Others will have the ministers meant, who, being aloft in the Church, are to the same instead of watch towers or towers of defence. And especially then when they are in their pulpits - called towers in the Hebrew Nehemiah 8:4 - reading and expounding God’s law unto his people. Thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon. — Glazed with tears of compunction and compassion - Nam faciles motus mens generosa capit - and well cleared to look into her own heart and life.

Isaiah 1:12 — walk, nor talk, nor sit, nor spit, nor laugh in the church, nor admit dogs into the churchyards. Sed quorsum haec omnia? to what end is all this, without an honest care to lift up pure hands and holy hearts in God’s presence? See Jeremiah 7:3-4 ; Jeremiah 7:9-11 .

Isaiah 1:19 — much for free grace, that the Papists say he yielded too little to freewill. Ye shall eat the good things of the land. — Ye shall, and not strangers for you. as Isaiah 1:7 The Easterlings shall not eat thy fruit, nor drink thy milk. as Ezekiel 25:4 Thine enemies shall not eat thy grain, nor the sons of the stranger drink thy wine; but they that have gathered it shall eat it and praise the Lord, and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness. Isaiah 62:8-9 Godliness

Isaiah 5:7 — consider also how truly he spoke; gradatim quidem, even by decrees. For righteousness, but behold a cry. — The clamour of the oppressed entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth, who heareth their groans, and beholdeth their grievances. Job 34:28 Psalms 12:5 James 5:4 “ Clamitat in coelum vex sanguinis et Sodomorum, Vex oppressorum, mercesque retenta laborum. ” The twofold Ecce, "Behold oppression," "Behold a cry," showeth it to be an evil action with an accent,

Jeremiah 1:3 — the days of Jehoiakim. — Called at first Eliakim by his good father Josiah, from whom he degenerated, cutting Jeremiah’s roll with a penknife and burning it, Jeremiah 36:23 at which his father’s heart would have melted. 2 Chronicles 34:27 Unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah. — Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim are not mentioned, because their reign was so short, hardly half a year. By this computation it appeareth that Jeremiah prophesied forty years at least. And the Holy Ghost