Bible Commentaries

Genesis 27:19 — Y Jacob dijo a su padre: Yo soy Esaú tu primogénito; He hecho lo que me mandaste; levántate, te ruego, siéntate y come de mi caza, para que tu alma me bendiga. Ver. 19. Yo soy Esaú tu primogénito, etc. ] Aquí pronuncia tres mentiras en un soplo: además de atribuirle a Dios lo que hizo, Gen 27:20 tomando ese nombre reverendo en vano. Este fue su pecado, y lo sufrió hasta el día de su muerte: porque apenas tuvo una

Nehemiah 13:2 — pueblo, ya sea un vaso de agua fría; de modo que paga a la más mínima descortesía, o tan sólo a la negligencia de aquellos a quienes los ángeles gloriosos son espíritus ministradores, y tal vez no se consideren demasiado buenos para servirlos, Hebreos 1:14 . Pero contrató a Balaam ] Con las recompensas de la adivinación, Números 22:7 , la paga de la iniquidad, Jueces 1:11 2 Pedro 2:15 , que él corrió con avidez; y no tanto como vagar en Dios, hizo del mundo su marca de pie, hasta que tuvo una espada

Esther 10:2 — fuerza ] Lyra y Rikelius observan que Asuero tenía todo este poder y fuerza que Dios le había dado, como recompensa por su cortesía hacia los judíos, y la justicia hecha a sus enemigos. Nadie sirve a Dios de balde. Es un pagador liberal, Malaquías 1:10 . Ver a Trapp en " Mal 1:10 " Y la declaración de la grandeza de Mardoqueo] Heb. La exposición. Muchos hacen grandes comentarios sobre su propia grandeza, que una exposición correcta demostraría ser más bello que genuino. Los grandes hombres no siempre

Job 12:16 — Con él está la fuerza y ​​la sabiduría; el engañado y el engañador son suyos. Ver. 16. Con él está la fuerza y ​​la sabiduría ] es decir , la fuerza que ejerce con más sabiduría, poder y rectitud. Sic volo, sic iubeo, así lo deseo, así mando, dice el tirano, Bien o mal, así será. Volumus et iubemus, dice ese hombre de pecado, Nosotros

Job 14:1 — El hombre [que es] nacido de mujer [es] de pocos días y está lleno de problemas. Ver. 1. Hombre que nace de mujer, etc. ] O, eso lo lleva una mujer en su vientre. El diseño de Job es aquí exponer la miseria del hombre (a quien en el último versículo del capítulo anterior había comparado, 1. A una cosa podrida; 2. A una prenda devorada

Job 24:1 — ¿Por qué, viendo que los tiempos no están ocultos al Todopoderoso, los que lo conocen no ven sus días? Ver. 1. Pues, viendo que los tiempos no están ocultos al Todopoderoso ] Heb. ¿Por qué los tiempos no están ocultos al Todopoderoso? qd ¿Quién podría pensar de otra manera, que no hubiera estado en el santuario, Salmo 73:17 , y allí escuchó: ¡Ay de los impíos!

Job 32:8 — hombres; lo cual, sin embargo, no equivale a sabiduría sin la concurrencia del buen Espíritu de Dios para santificarlo todo, como el altar santifica el oro del altar. Si esto no se logra, cuanto más sabio es un hombre, más vanidoso demuestra, Romanos 1:22 . El Señor conoce los pensamientos de los sabios (incluso de los hombres más escogidos y escogidos entre ellos) que son vanos, 1 Corintios 3:20 . Y a ellos podemos decir, como Austin escribió una vez a un hombre de gran talento : Ornari abs te diabotus

Psalms 19:8 — doctrines also are mixed with many errors. Irenaeus justly taxeth Plato for this, that he did laete gypsum miscere, mingle lime with milk, stain the pure stream of divine truth with fabulous narrations and fopperies. But every word of God is pure, Psalms 12:7 ; Psalms 18:32 . See Trapp on " Psalms 12:7 " See Trapp on " Psalms 18:32 " Enliqhtening the eyes — Giving both light and sight, Acts 26:18 , the saving knowledge of God and his will, of ourselves and of our duties; and

Psalms 19:9 — judgments of the LORD [are] true [and] righteous altogether. The fear of the Lord is clean — That is, the doctrine which teacheth the true fear of God is such as cleanseth the conscience, ferreteth out corruption, sanctifieth the whole man, John 17:17 ; John 15:3 Acts 20:32 ; Acts 26:18 . Enduring for ever — "For ever, O Lord, thy word is established in heaven." Psalms 119:89 . Heaven and earth shall pass, but not one jot or tittle of the law; not one hair of that sacred head

Psalms 6:6 — costará el pecado, no nos atrevemos a ser inocentes. Tránsito voluptas, manet dolor. Nocet empta dolore voluptas, el deseo pasa, el dolor permanece. El deseo duele con la pena vacía. Pero hoy, dice un reverendo escritor (el obispo Pilkinton sobre Neh 1: 4), un hombre no puede llorar por desfigurar su rostro; el ayuno se piensa en hipocresía y vergüenza; y cuando su panza está llena, entonces, como los sacerdotes con sus borrachos, dijeron maitines y eructaron, Eructavit cor meum verbum, con buena

Proverbs 12:21 — For evil of sin: God will not lead him into temptation, but will cut off occasions, remove stumbling blocks out of his way: devoratory evils, as Tertullian calls them, he shall be sure not to fall into. "That evil one shall not touch him," 1 John 5:18 viz., tactu qualitativo, as Cajetan expounds it, with a deadly touch: nibble he may at their heels, but cannot reach their heads; shake he may his chain at them, but shall not set his fangs in them, or so far thrust his sting into them as

Ecclesiastes 7:1 — good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. A good name is better than precious ointment. — Yea, than great riches. See Trapp on " Proverbs 22:1 " The initial letter è Maiusculam. of the Hebrew word for "good" here is larger than ordinary, to show the more than ordinary excellence of a good name and fame among men. Hebrew Text Note If whatsoever David doeth doth please

Isaiah 1:4 — in the wilderness, that they were "wholly set upon wickedness," Exodus 32:22 and as the prophet saith, "What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?" Micah 1:5 A people laden with iniquity — Great and grievous offenders, Gens quae non nisi peccare didicit. - Scult. Secura et petulans. - Piscat. Luke 15:30 . guilty of many and mighty (or long) sins, Amos 5:12 quorum amplitudine praegravanfur, yet not

Hosea 7:3 — all that." Thus Balaam resolved to curse, whatever came of it; he went not aside as at other times, neither built he any more altars, but set his face towards the wilderness, as fully bent to do it, and nothing should hinder him now, Numbers 24:1-2 cf. Luke 9:51 . He also gave wicked counsel to King Balak (and so made him glad at parting, though before he had angered him) to lay a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, viz. to set fair women to tempt them to corporal and spiritual fornication,

Amos 3:4 — your sins without repentance will be your ruin, according to those threatenings; though you are so sturdy, or at least so stupid, as to fear them no more than Behemoth doth the iron weapons, which are esteemed by him as straws, or bullrushes, Job 40:15 . Shall the wrath of a king be as the roaring of a lion, Proverbs 19:12 , and as the messengers of death, Proverbs 16:14 , and shall God’s menaces be slighted? will vile men imagine him a God of clouts? One that howsoever he speaketh heavy words,

Micah 7:7 — among men, "I will look unto the Lord"; look wishly and intently, as a watchman in his watch tower doth look as far as ever he can see on every side. I also will lift up mine eyes unto those hills of heaven, from whence cometh my help, Psalms 121:1 ; I will pray and look up, Psalms 5:3 ; I will keep close communion with the Lord, and by faith commit the keeping of my soul to him in welldoing, as unto a faithful Creator, 1 Peter 4:19 . This I will do; and yet more than this. I will wait for

Zephaniah 3:10 — From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, [even] the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia — Heb. Of Chush, that is of Arabia Chusaea, which lay between Judea and Egypt. Confer Isaiah 18:1 ; Isaiah 18:7 . Some understand it of Ethiopia, which is beyond the river Nile, and hath two very great rivers. See this in part fulfilled by that Ethiopian eunuch, Acts 8:26-40 ; neither may we think that he was alone in that country. Matthias the

Haggai 2:17 — Perdidistis fructum calamitatis (Aug.). These Jews were sensible of their calamities and disasters abroad and at home, but they did not wisely inquire into the cause thereof; as David did into the cause of the famine that fell out in his days, 2 Samuel 21:1 . God had not hitherto "given them a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear," as it is Deuteronomy 29:4 . And as Isaiah 9:13 "The people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts."

Matthew 2:16 — by this passion; Ephesians 4:27 in Lamech, who slew a man in his heat, and boasted of it; as Alexander Phereas consecrated the javelin wherewith he slew Poliphron (Plutarch); in David, who swore a great oath what he would do to Nabal by such a time: 1 Samuel 25:21-22 and when Uzziah was smitten for his carting the Ark, 1 Chronicles 15:2 how untowardly spake he! (so did Jonah too), as if the fault were in God (dogs in a chase sometimes bark at their own masters). Lastly, in Theodosius at Thessalonica,

Matthew 26:26 — you up to Christ in heaven. Ut in coelum usque ad Christum penetrarent. (Beza.) This is my body — "This is" referred to bread by an anomaly of the gender (the like whereof we find, Ephesians 5:6 ), and so the apostle interpreteth it,1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 10:16 ; 1 Corinthians 11:26 . The sense then is, This bread is my true essential body, which is given for you: that is, by an ordinary metonymy, A figure of speech which consists in substituting for the name of a thing