Bible Commentaries

Genesis 29:3 — conseguido algún traidor en Scodra, donde gobernaba Scanderbeg, para envenenar bien la ciudad. a El Papa ha hecho lo mismo, derramando su veneno mortal "sobre los ríos y fuentes de agua" (las Escrituras) "para que se conviertan en sangre". Apocalipsis 16: 4 Sé testigo de ese decreto pagano del Concilio de Trento; igualar, si no preferir, los apócrifos a la Escritura canónica; la vulgar traducción al original; tradiciones a la Sagrada Escritura; y afirmando que el mismo Espíritu Santo no ha de ser escuchado,

Genesis 4:8 — pecar más libremente. Ponen un bozal a la boca de su conciencia, para satisfacer sus concupiscencias sin control. Pero, ¿Zimri tuvo la paz que mató a su amo? ¿O Caín que mató a su hermano? ¿Alguno se ha enfurecido contra Dios y ha prosperado? Trabajo 9: 4 Caín se levantó contra Abel su hermano y lo mató. ] De modo que Caín era el patriarca del diablo y Abel el protomártir de la Iglesia. No hace mucho que Alfonso Diazius, un español, abogado de la corte de Roma, vino de Roma a Neoberg, en Alemania, para

Ezra 1:3 — embargo ( tanquam monstra marina ) pasaron por este pregón con oídos sordos; y prefiriendo haram domesticam arae dominicae, una pocilga porcina antes que un santuario, prefirió permanecer en Babilonia y habitar allí entre plantas y setos, 1 Crónicas 4:23 , haciendo ollas para el jardín del rey, que subir a Jerusalén. De modo que, además de este ¡Oh, sí !, por el rey, Dios estaba dispuesto a gritar: "Jo, ho, ven y huye de la tierra del norte". "Líbrate, oh Sion, que moras con la hija de Babilonia",

Ezra 2:1 — fue populoso y grande entre las naciones, Lamentaciones 1:1 . Medinah, la palabra aquí traducida provincia, a veces significa Metrópolis, aliis ius dicens, un lugar que da leyes a otros lugares, y así había sido Judea en su florecimiento. Ver Esdras 4:20 . Pero ahora era de otra manera, y así es en este día, no solo con Judea, sino con otros imperios y reinos de renombre, no pocos, todos los cuales (junto con la mayoría de esas Iglesias y lugares tan mencionados en las Escrituras) son absorbidos.

Esther 3:11 — estos gigantes de las pieles de otros hombres. Pero, ¿qué significaba que vendieran así la piel antes de tomar la bestia? El que estaba sentado en el cielo (y lo había determinado de otra manera) se rió de ellos, el Señor se burló de ellos, Salmo 2:4 . "Con él" (solo) "está la fuerza y ​​la sabiduría; el engañado y el engañador son suyos. Él lleva a los consejeros despojados, y engaña a los jueces. Él lleva a los príncipes despojados, y derriba a los poderosos", Job 12:16,17 ; Job 12:19 . El pueblo

Job 3:5 — isla de Santo Tomás, en la parte trasera de África, con la que se riega toda la isla; ni una nube de gracia como la que Dios promete crear sobre cada morada del monte Sión, y sobre sus asambleas, para que sobre toda su gloria sea una defensa, Isaías 4:5 . Pero como estaban San Pablo y su compañía antes del naufragio, Hechos 27:20 , cuando ni el sol ni la estrella aparecieron durante muchos días juntos, los cielos estaban completamente apagados, etc. Deje que la oscuridad del día lo aterrorice ]

Job 8:16 — entonces marchitarse, pero no el árbol. Ver Salmo 37:35 . El hipócrita puede abundar en abundancia en prosperidad exterior; sí, puede estar verde por un tiempo antes del sol de la persecución, como lo fue Alejandro el calderero, Hechos 19:32 2 Timoteo 4:14 . El suelo espinoso resaltaba el calor de los rayos del sol, y no se encogía en el mojado. Y su rama brota en su jardín ] El Sr. Broughton traduce, Sus retoños brotan sobre su huerto, es decir, crece lujosamente eminente en el lugar donde vive, que

Job 9:7 — dice que en la octava parte de una hora el sol corre 700 millas (De ascens. Mentis in Deum, grad. 7); pero Dios, el soberano del sol, puede hablarle y no sale. Si tan sólo da la orden al sol de que no salga, la mañana se convertirá en tinieblas, Amós 4:13 , y el día se oscurecerá con la noche, Amós 5:8 . ¿No fue así en aquellos tres días de oscuridad en Egipto? Éxodo 12:21 , en esa milagrosa parada del sol en los días de Josué, cuando el sol no salió con las antípodas una mañana, y las estrellas

Jonah 2:7 — whale’s belly, than if he had been pouring it out in God’s holy temple. Or if we understand it to be heaven, the habitation of God’s holiness, and of his glory, his prayers were come up thither for a memorial before the Almighty, Acts 10:4 , and like pillars of incense pierced into his presence, Song of Solomon 3:6 , neither would they away without their errand, but lay at God’s feet till he should command deliverance out of Zion.

Jonah 3:7 — decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: And he caused it to be proclaimed — By sound of trumpet, as Joel 2:12 ; or otherwise, as 2 Chronicles 20:3-4 ; 2 Chronicles 20:18-20 ; 2 Chronicles 22:6-7 ; at which times he that obeyeth not is culpable before God and man, Leviticus 23:29 . By the decree of the king and his nobles — Who all unanimously consenting to so good a work, iis quibus praeerant,

Micah 1:1 — contemporary, with whom he hath many things common; and this one thing above him, that he nameth Bethlehem, Christ’s birthplace, Micah 5:2 , for the which (as well as for his boldness, Jeremiah 26:18 ) he was famous in the Church, Matthew 2:6 John 7:42 . In the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah — Ahaz standeth between Jotham and Hezekiah, as a thistle or thorn between two lilies, or roses. Manasseh comes after, and degenerates into his grandfather Ahaz. To his time Micah attained not, much less

Micah 2:4 — called God’s people than it did Dives in flames, that Abraham called him son; or Judas, that Christ called him friend. How hath he removed it from me! — This is lamentation-like indeed, see Lamentations 1:1 ; Lamentations 2:1 ; Lamentations 4:1 , all beginning with the same word, How. The speech is concise and abrupt, meet for mourners. There is an elegance in the original not to be translated. How uncertain are all things here! God sits upon the circle of the earth, and shakes out the inhabitants

Nahum 1:3 — 10:17 . But what need we go farther than the text, where he is called the strong God, great in power, and that will not at all acquit the wicked — This is the last letter in his name (that nomen maiestativum, as Tertullian calleth it), Exodus 34:7 , which he will in nowise forget; as neither must we. He will not take the wicked by the hand, saith Job, Job 8:20 , nor wink at the workers of iniquity, saith David, Psalms 50:21 , but will render a just recompense to every transgression and disobedience,

Nahum 3:19 — just judgment upon thee; they shall take up this taunting speech against thee, and say, "How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers," … Isaiah 14:4-7 . For upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually? — "Thy wickedness," that is, thy wicked counsels, edicts, enterprises, have they not extended far and near for mischief to many nations? and this not for a little while,

Habakkuk 2:10 — thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house, … — Thou hast taken a wrong course both for thy house of the kingdom (so the Persians called the king’s palace, Daniel 4:27 ), which shall be blown up; and for thine own private family and posterity; it is not all thy care, pains, plotting, and practising that can preserve it from ignominy and utter ruin. God will turn thy glory into shame, and make thy name to rot and

Habakkuk 3:9 — this deserves a Selah to be set to it. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers — Exodus 17:6 Psalms 78:15-16 Deuteronomy 8:15 Nehemiah 9:15 . This cleaving the hard rock, and setting it abroach, this turning of the flint into a fountain, Psalms 114:8 , was a work of omnipotence, and is therefore so much celebrated. It maketh much to the miracle that the earth was cleft with rivers; this importeth both the plenty and the perennity thereof; for the rock, that is, the river out of the rock, followed

Zechariah 11:15 — such a time! Was not this one of those foolish, or rather furious shepherds in the next verse, who do eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces? that shall eat thy fruit, and drink thy milk, as another prophet phraseth it, Ezekiel 25:4 . Fisco potius apud multos consulitur quam Christo; attonsioni potius gregis quam attentioni, as Bishop Andrews truly complaineth. And no less justly Mr Bolton. Some follow the administration of justice as a trade only; with an unquenchable and unconscionable

Zechariah 12:11 — sorrow to be so dosed up at all, as not to bleed afresh upon every good occasion. 3. In appreciatione: In understanding, the true penitentiary doth ever judge that a good God offended, a Saviour crucified, should be the primo cause of greatest grief. 4. In intensione: in aim, for intention of displicence in the will; there being no other things with which, or for which, the will is more displeased with itself than for sinning against God. There is more cause of grief, say they, for sinning than for

Zechariah 7:3 — office is to preserve knowledge, and present it too; to teach Jacob God’s judgments, and to put incense before him, Deuteronomy 33:10 , to sell oil, Matthew 25:9 , to bring balm from Gilead, Jeremiah 8:22 , to speak as the oracles of God, 1 Peter 4:11 , which scarcely one of a thousand has the skill of, Job 33:23 . And to the prophets — Who were extraordinarily raised up sometimes by God, to assist the priests in teaching the people, and to shame them for their backwardness to such businesses.

Zechariah 8:21 — going to the stake) as fast as my old legs will carry me. Caesar never said to his soldiers, Ite, but Eamus, Go ye, but Go we. The Pharisees are justly taxed for this, that they could load others with duty, but themselves would do nothing, Matthew 23:4 . Not so these good souls in the text; every of whom was as forward for himself as zealous for another. There are those who make these to be the words of the well affected in answer to the former invitation. Let us go speedily, say some citizens: Agreed,