Bible Commentaries

Genesis 2:22 — Father ordained it; God the Son honoured it with His first miracle; God the Holy Ghost did the like, by overshadowing the betrothed Virgin. Papists and others that disgrace it appear herein more like devils than divines, if Paul may be judge; 1 Timothy 4:2-3 or Ignatius, who saith, If any call marriage a defilement, he hath the devil dwelling in him, and speaking by him. Habet inhabitatorem Draconem Apostatam. - Ignat. Epist. ad Philad.

Genesis 20:8 — Cavebis si pavebis . Romans 11:21 But they that tremble not in hearing, shall be crushed to pieces in feeling, said that martyr. Bradford Of Repent. This was a sign that the Israelites feared God, when they believed God, and his servant Moses. Exodus 4:31 The best way of prevention is to tremble at God’s judgments, while they hang in the threatenings. But frequentissimum initium calamitatis securitas , saith Paterculus. Sola igitur securitas est, nunquam esse securum, sed semper pavidum et trementem

Genesis 23:7 — he would, and might not, recover with his blood. But whatsoever David did pleased the people. What a deal of courtesy passed between Boaz and his reapers! "The Lord be with you," said he; "The Lord bless thee," said they. Ruth 2:4 The Turks’ salutation at this day is, Salaum aleek , Peace be to thee: the reply is, Aleek salaum , Peace be to thee also. Blount’s Voyage into the Levant. The Romans had their χαιρς and their υγιαινε

Genesis 25:13 — stand, and much offended; seeing so pious a person fare nothing better than those that were far worse. And what wonder, when Jeremiah and David stumbled at the same stone, ran upon the same rock, and were well-nigh shipwrecked? Jeremiah 12:1 Psalms 73:3-4 Neither they only, but many other of God’s dear servants, as it is in the same Psalm Psalms 73:10 , "Therefore his people return hither"; that is, are every whit as wise (or rather, as foolish) as I have been, to miscensure and misconstrue

Genesis 3:1 — ordinance, … Greenham, Spec. Bel. Sacr. He shoots with Satan in his own bow that thinks by parleying with him to put him off. Hath God said, Ye shall not eat? — Here he began his assault upon our first parents; here, upon Christ, Matthew 4:3 ; Matthew 3:17 and here he doth still upon us; endeavonring to elevate [ Levis : make light of] the truth and certainty of God’s word, and to weaken our faith in his precepts, promises, and menaces. And here, if he take us out of our trenches,

Ezra 1:3 — yet ( tanquam monstra marina ) passed by this proclamation with a deaf ear; and preferring haram domesticam arae dominicae, a swine sty before a sanctuary, chose rather to abide in Babylon, and there to dwell amongst plants and hedges, 1 Chronicles 4:23 , making pots for the king’s garden, than to go up to Jerusalem. So that, besides this O yes, by the king, God was fain to cry, "Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north." "Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest

Ezra 10:3 — born of them — The children of those strange wives, persisting in their Paganism. These children, though disinherited, yet were not to be altogether deserted; but nourished and nurtured also in the fear and admonition of the Lord, Ephesians 6:4 . Proving if, peradventure, God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, …, 2 Timothy 2:25 . According to the counsel of my lord — Terms full of hearty respect and humble submission. He calls Ezra My lord, as Hannah

Nehemiah 6:11 — and walks accordingly. It is a pusillanimity to do otherwise; Nehemiah will never do it, to die for it. And who is there, that, being as I am — So greatly beloved of God, Daniel 9:23 , so highly favoured of the king, Nehemiah 2:2 ; Nehemiah 2:4 , so protected hitherto, so prospered, so intrusted with the government and safety of this people, more dear to me than my very life. Would go into the temple — As a malefactor, to take sanctuary there; or as a coward, to save mine own life with

Esther 1:12 — like occasion, hotter than his seven times heated oven, or than the mountain Etna doth. Moses’s anger waxed hot in him, Exodus 32:19 , so that he knew not well what he did in it, it raised such a smoke. Jonah was ready to burst with anger, John 4:9 , his blood boiled at his heart, as brimstone doth at the match: therefore is the heart set so near the lungs, that when it is heated with anger, it may be allayed and cooled by the blast and moisture thereof. Josephus saith that he brake off the

Esther 4:3 — ground, χαμαικοιτης , 2 Samuel 12:16 ; these, and those Joel 1:13 , lodged in sackcloth and ashes, that they might watch as well as fast. See how they go linked together, Mark 13:33 . See Esther 4:16 .

Esther 5:2 — for a less offence: but, by holding out his sceptre, shows his gracious respects unto her. This was the Lord’s own work, as was likewise that of old, that Laban should leave Jacob with a kiss, Genesis 31:55 Esau meet him with a kiss, Genesis 33:4 , where the word kissed hath a prick over each letter in the original, to show the wonder of God’s work in changing Esau’s heart from his former hatred. Hebrew Text Note Let a man’s ways please the Lord, and men shall quickly befriend

Esther 7:5 — expect that the Hamanists should come and take her forcibly from him to execution, by virtue of his own edict, as Daniel’s adversaries had dealt by him, though Darius laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him, but could not? Daniel 6:14 ; and as Stephen Gardiner and his complices attempted to do by Queen Catharine Parr, had not her husband, Henry VIII, rated them away, and graciously rescued her out of their bloody fingers? That durst presume in his heart to do so? — Heb. Whose

Esther 8:7 — straits, as princes eftsoons are by the subtilties and malice of wicked counsellors, Daniel 6:15 , so that they cannot do as they would, unless they will bring all into a combustion; though usually where the word of a king is there is power, Ecclesiastes 7:4 ; and the old lord treasurer, Burleigh, was wont to say, that he knew not what an act of parliament could not do in England; and King James, in his speech in the Star chamber, A.D. 1616, said as much. Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman —

Job 1:11 — must needs be therefore done in measure, and in mercy. If he smite Job, it shall be in the branches only, and not at the root, Isaiah 27:8 , for there is a blessing in it; his hand shall not be further put forth to smite than to save, Isaiah 59:1 Acts 4:31 Psalms 144:7 . If Satan or his instruments over do, and offer to exceed their commission, he will never endure it, Zechariah 1:15 . This Satan knew very well, and therefore motioneth that God would put forth his hand and touch him; or, Put forth

Job 4:16 — Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men: and oh that we could persuade them! An image was before mine eyes — But I could not tell what to make of it. It is not the will of God that man should represent him by an image, Deuteronomy 4:15-16 . The Jews, after the captivity, were so far from idolatry, that they would not admit a carver or painter into their city. The Turks will not endure any image, no, not upon their coins, because of the second commandment. Varro saith, he that first

Hosea 5:6 — con sus rebaños, etc. no míos, sino de ellos, dice Dios; ni siquiera los poseerá, aunque le fueron ofrecidos en sacrificio; porque trajo con una mente perversa, Proverbios 21:27 , como Balac y Balaam hicieron, Números 23:1,2 , y como Caín, Génesis 4:5 , a quien por tanto Dios no tuvo respeto, porque trajo opus non personam sed personae, no él mismo, sino su sacrificio, como lo tiene Lutero; quien también llama a todos aquellos Cainistas que ofrecen a Dios la obra hecha, pero no presentan sus cuerpos

Malachi 2:11 — Judah eran llamados así porque recibieron ius Dei, la ley de la boca de Dios; de donde Josefo llama a la comunidad de Israel Yεοκρατειαν, un gobierno de Dios. Porque a ellos les pertenecían (entre varios otros preciosos privilegios recitados, Rom 9: 4-5) los pactos, es decir, 1. La ley moral en dos tablas. 2. La entrega de la ley, es decir, la ley judicial. 3. El servicio, es decir, la ley ceremonial, que era su evangelio; de donde Judea es llamada la tierra gloriosa, Daniel 11:41 (o la tierra de

Matthew 5:42 — Al que te pida, dale; y al que quiera tomar prestado de ti, no le rehúses. Ver. 42. Dale al que te pida ] Sin embargo, con discreción y elección de un objeto adecuado. a los cuales habiéndote encontrado no te cansarás de hacer el bien; porque a su tiempo Gálatas 6:9 , si no Gálatas 6:9 , Gálatas 6:9 . Dar se compara con sembrar,

Matthew 6:23 — son pastores que no entienden; todos miran por su lado, cada uno por lo que gana de su cuadrilla", Isaías 56:10,11 . a De esta clase eran los fariseos codiciosos, que devoraban las casas de las viudas; por tanto ciego, porque codicioso, Lucas 16:14 ; Lucas 20:47 , cuya propiedad el pecado es enamorar y enamorar, como lo hizo Judas, quien, aunque no quería nada en el séquito de nuestro Salvador, pero estaba lo suficientemente provisto, sin embargo, por lucro sucio vendió vilmente a su Maestro,

Ruth 1:1 — πολλη και ελαχιστη , as St Bartholomew said of divinity; of special concernment, as pointing to Christ born of Boaz a Jew, and Ruth a Gentile, as a Saviour to both sorts; Acts 10:34-35 and of singular worth: whence Hugo compareth it to a little bee, great in fruitfulness, gathering wax and honey, for light and medicine; Lavater, to such precious stones as are small in bulk, but of egregious virtue. Now it came to pass. —