Bible Commentaries

Genesis 17:9 — therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. Thou shalt keep my covenant. — This is the stipulation on Abraham’s part, by receiving the sacrament of circumcision, to "avouch God to be his God". Deuteronomy 26:17 Now to the making the Lord to be our God, it is required, that with highest estimations, most vigorous affections, and utmost endeavours we bestow ourselves upon him. Thus, if we choose God for our God, Psalms 73:25 we shall be assured that he hath

Genesis 24:27 — led me to the house of my master’s brethren. Who hath not left destitute my master. — He ascribeth all to God’s good providence, nothing to his good luck or service. Men play the atheists in speaking of fortune, like those Isaiah 65:11 "that prepared a table for fortune": and those Philistines, that said, "It is a chance". 1 Samuel 6:9 Augustine repented that ever he spoke such language of Ashdod.

Genesis 43:23 — [be] to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them. Peace be to you, fear not. — "The feeble minded" must be "comforted"; 1 Thessalonians 5:14 not crushed, or cashiered, as the wounded deer is by the whole herd. David, in the spirit of prophecy, pronounceth a bitter curse upon those that "persecuted him whom God hath smitten, and talked to the grief of those whom he

Genesis 45:19 — land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. Take you wagons out of the land of Egypt. — Christ also will send his wagons for us, his cherubims, and clouds to fetch us up to heaven, at the last day, 1 Thessalonians 4:15 as they did Moses and Elias. Matthew 17:3 This David foresaw, and therefore envied not the pomp and state of those men of God’s hand, that are whirled here up and down in wagons and chariots, … Psalms 17:14-15

Genesis 45:3 — Wonder, doubt, reverence, fear, hope, guiltiness, joy, grief, struck them at once. Shall it not be so with the Jews at their glorious conversion, when they shall hear, "I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom ye have persecuted and pierced?" Zechariah 12:10 Revelation 1:7 See Trapp on " Genesis 38:27 "

Genesis 9:12 — together. And as God, in Noah, made a covenant with his posterity also, and confirmed it with a sign, so doth he in Christ with the Church, and ratified it with the sacraments; besides, witnesses we have three in heaven, and three in earth, … 1 John 5:7-8

Exodus 1:15 — secrelis mulierum, that they may advise the midwives: but I doubt it is for a worse purpose; to gratify and greaten those abominable lusts wherewith they are scalded. εξεκαυθησαν , Romans 1:27

Exodus 12:15 — houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. Ye shall put away leaven. — All unsoundness in point of faith, and insincerity in point of practice. See Trapp on " 1 Corinthians 5:7 " The Jews, at this day, on the night before their passover, search and sweep every mouse hole for crumbs of leaven with wax candles. If they find none, they purposely fling down some, that they might not seem to have prayed and

Exodus 14:4 — honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I [am] the LORD. And they did so. And I will be honoured. — By subduing this sturdy rebel, and bringing "his violent dealing upon his own pate." Psalms 7:16 When the prophet cried to Jeroboam’s altar, it clave presently asunder. 1 Kings 13:2-3 But the mighty "hammer" of "God’s word," Jeremiah 23:29 with ten miracles, gave ten mighty strokes at Pharaoh’s heart, and

Exodus 19:21 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish. And many of them perish. — As the men of Bethshemesh did for prying into the ark. 1 Samuel 6:19 Arcana Dei, sunt Arca Dei: God’s secrets are his ark. Eorum quae scire nec datur, nec fas est, docta est ignorantia; scientiae appetentia, insaniae species. Calvin. Not to know what is not fit to know, is a learned ignorance; to desire

Exodus 28:34 — golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about. A golden bell and a pomegranate. — Shadowing out, (1.) The prophetic office of Christ here, and his perpetual intercession in heaven: (2) The duty of ministers; which is, Vivere concionibus, concionari moribus: to live sermons, to be fruitful as well as painful teachers: not like him of whom it was said,

Exodus 6:3 — And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. By the name of God Almighty. — See Trapp on " Genesis 17:1 " The sense is this, saith Cameron, Camer, De Eccles. Quantum illis sufficiebat tantum indulsit, non indulsit quod erat summum. He gave them enough, but not the main. But by my name JEHOVAH. — That is, by the import of this his name, the

Exodus 8:23 — And I will put a division between my people and thy people: to morrow shall this sign be. And I will put a division. — Heb., A redemption; so Luke 1:68 . Aristotle reporteth that, when from the hill Etna there ran down a torrent of fire that consumed all the houses thereabouts, in the midst of those fearful flames the river of fire parted itself, and made a kind of lane for those who ventured to

Leviticus 11:2 — Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth. These are the beasts which ye shall eat. — These, and these only; (1.) That ye may be at mine appointment for your very meat, as who am chief Lord of all; (2.) That there may be a difference betwixt you and all other people; (3.) That ye may be taught to study purity, and know that the very creatures are defiled by man’s

Leviticus 13:18 — thereof, was a boil, and is healed, Was a boil, and is healed. — Seemed to be healed, as apostates to have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of Christ, 2 Peter 2:20 and to have known the way of righteousness, 2 Peter 2:21 and yet the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. They become altogether filthy. Psalms 53:3 Forsakers of the covenant, yea, wicked doers against the covenant. Daniel 11:30 ; Daniel 11:32 These sin not common sins, as Core and his company

Leviticus 13:5 — the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more: Spread not in the skin. — So if men mend by admonition, and take up in time; if they refuse not to be reformed, hate not to be healed, as Babylon, Jeremiah 51:9 as Ephraim. Hosea 7:1 "When I would have healed Ephraim, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered," or brake out as a leprosy in his forehead. See Ezekiel 24:13 .

Leviticus 18:18 — Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time]. A wife to her sister, — i.e., Any two women together: compare Ezekiel 1:9 . Here polygamy is flatly forbidden. In which sin many of the patriarchs lived and died; not through any impiety, the Lord testifying that their hearts were upright, but merely through the mistaking of this text, as it may seem, taking the word "sister,"

Numbers 10:29 — Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel. And Moses said. — Or, Moses had said, viz., in Exodus 18:1-2 . Unto Hobab the son of Raguel. — Rabbi Solomon telleth us, that Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had seven names, viz., Ruguel, Jether, Jethro, Hobab, Heber, Cinaeus, and Phutiel. For the Lord hath spoken good. — And God’s

Numbers 31:10 — etiam ipsi ciconiarum nidi ne redeant, - said Zisca Lavat. in Deuter. Sander. Schism. Anglic., lib. i. Or rather, lest sloth or covetousness should draw any of the Israelites to hide themselves in these nests, and neglect the Promised Land. See Judges 6:1 .

Colossians 3:1 — If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. If ye then be risen with Christ — As ye profess to be,Colossians 2:12; Colossians 2:12 . Seek those things, … — As Christ risen spake and did only the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, Acts 1:3 , and waited alway for his exaltation into heaven; there should be continual ascensions in our hearts. The