Bible Commentaries

Genesis 1:23 — Y dijo Dios: Produzca la tierra seres vivientes según su especie, bestias y serpientes y animales de la tierra según su especie. Y fue así. Ver. 24, 25. Deja la tierra, etc. ] He aquí que la tierra, en sí misma un elemento muerto, produce, por orden de Dios, criaturas vivientes, mansas, salvajes y reptantes. "¿Por qué, entonces, habría de considerarse algo increíble" que la misma tierra, por mandato

Genesis 1:24 — And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Ver. 24, 25. Let the earth, … — Lo here the earth, in itself a dead element, brings forth, at God’s command, living creatures, tame, wild, and creeping. "Why then should it be thought a thing incredible," that the same earth, at

Genesis 14:2 — disposition, which was fierce, vast, contumacious, and malignant. We that are Christians, as we cannot but, with the prophet Isaiah, count and call war a singular evil; so we must acknowledge with him, that it is an evil of God’s own creating. Isaiah 45:7 "I make peace, and create evil," Malum per αντονομασιαν ut bellum, quia minime bellum per antiphrasin . that is, war. I, is emphatic and exclusive, as who should say, I, and I

Genesis 14:2 — Génesis 14:2 [que éstos] hicieron guerra contra Bera rey de Sodoma, y ​​contra Birsa rey de Gomorra, Sinab rey de Adma, y ​​Semeber rey de Zeboim, y el rey de Bela, que es Zoar. Ver. 2. Que estos hicieron la guerra. ] La guerra es el matadero de la humanidad y

Genesis 3:5 — ojos del cuerpo a la confusión y la vergüenza. Él les prometió lo primero, pero tiene la intención de lo segundo, y así los engaña, como lo hace a miles de personas hoy en día, con el engranaje de un dado, como san Pablo tiene εν τη κυβεια , Efesios 4:14 dándoles una manzana. a cambio del paraíso. Así de edad hizo trampa Acab y Creso d con promesas de victoria; lo cual, cuando sucedió lo contrario, tuvo un agujero para escabullirse y salvar su crédito con un equívoco. Así, en los últimos tiempos,

Esther 5:14 — life, Nulla cunctatio satis diuturna esse possit? were it not fit that he were tried first? Haman’s malice will bear no delays, he is in pain till the business be despatched; he cannot sleep till he have caused this innocent man to fall, Proverbs 4:16 , though he fall with him, as the dragon doth with the elephant, whose blood he sucketh out, and perisheth by his falling weight (Philippians 1:0 . viii. c. 12). Speak thou unto the king — It will be but dictum, factum, said and done, he will

Esther 9:2 — length than we be of one mind (Camer. Med. Histor. Cent. 2, c. 23). What a shame is this! If nothing else will, yet our common misery, and the hatred of our enemies, should unite us, as it did these exiles; and it was foretold by Jeremiah, Jeremiah 50:4 , that Judah and Israel, that could not agree at other times, yet when they should be both in a weeping condition they should better agree. So did Basil and Eusebius against the Arians; Ridley and Hooper against the Papists, … And it is high

Job 10:22 — and [where] the light [is] as darkness. A land of darkness, … — This is not a description of hell, and of the state of the damned (as some would have it), for Job never meant to come there, no more than Jacob did, Genesis 37:35 ; Genesis 42:38 ; but it is such an elegant description of the grave, as exceedeth the phantasy of poet, and the rhetoric of all heathen orators. There is something like it in David’s Psalms, especially Psalms 88:11-12 , where the grave is called a place

Proverbs 6:17 — Ireland, he forgetting himself, and neglecting his duty, uncivilly turneth his back, as it were in contempt, with a scornful look. She waxing impatient, gave him a cuff on the ear, bidding him begone with a vengeance, … Camden’s Elisab. 494. For avoiding of all discontent and distempers this way occasioned, it were to be wished that men would first get humble hearts, - the apostle makes humble mindedness the first virtue, Ephesians 4:2 as here a proud look is made the first vice, the

Ecclesiastes 5:8 — reward for the righteous; verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth." Psalms 58:11 For he that is higher than the highest regardeth. — And "wherein they deal proudly, he is above them," Exodus 18:11 and overtops them; Psalms 2:4 sets a day for them, and "sees that their day is coming." Psalms 37:13 "The Most High cuts off the spirit of princes" Psalms 76:12 - he slips them off, as one should slip off a flower between his fingers; or he cuts them off, as

Isaiah 1:1 — comminatorias et consolatorias. In the New Testament he is cited by Christ and his apostles sixty different times at least; and by the more devoted heathens he was not a little respected, as appeareth by the history of that Ethiopian eunuch. Acts 8:26-40 The vision. — That is, The several visions or doctrines so certainly and clearly revealed to him by God, as if he had seen them with his bodily eyes. See Isaiah 2:1 Nahum 1:1 . For they are not to be hearkened to who hold that these seers, the

Hosea 10:5 — the people" (saith holy Habakkuk, Habakkuk 3:16 ). I shall rejoice in the God of my salvation; when those that fear not God shall be at their wits’ end; yea, they shall be mad for the sight of their eyes that they shall see, Deuteronomy 28:34 . Because of the calves of Bethaven — Calves in the feminine gender, she-calves, by way of contempt and derision, as Jerome noteth; as Isaiah 3:12 , "women rule over them." The Jews at this day look upon women as a lower creation, and

Hosea 11:7 — people should stand doubtful as sceptics, and adhere to nothing certainly; to be in religion as idle beggars are in their way, ready to go which way soever the staff falleth; but that they should strive to a full assurance in what they believe, Luke 1:4 , to be fully persuaded, as Luke 1:1 , and to a firm purpose of heart in what they should practise, Acts 11:23 . Irresolution against sin or for God can hardly consist with the power of godliness: be not off and on with him, halt not, hang not in doubt

Hosea 13:9 — but by disobedience and disorder among ourselves; that is the way wherewith God will plague us if he mind to punish us. We use to say, No man is hurt but by himself. "Ye have not injured me at all," saith St Paul to the Galatians, Galatians 4:12 ; you cannot do it unless I will. The devil can do nothing at us if we give not way to him. And though there were no devil, yet our corrupt nature would act Satan’s part against itself; it would have a supply of wickedness (as a serpent hath

Hosea 14:8 — latter to be the better translation. Here, then, God promiseth, first, what Ephraim shall do, or rather, what he by his grace will cause him to do; he shall utterly abominate and abandon his idols, whereunto his heart had been joined, or glued, Hosea 4:17 ; secondly, what he will thereupon do for Ephraim; what special favour he will show him, and what a gracious compensation he will make him: "I have heard him, and observed him," … Ephraim, now grown penitent, shall say (see the like

Hosea 2:4 — Gilgal, for there I hated them." God is not of himself μισανθρωπος , a hater of mankind, but the contrary, φιλανθρωπος , Titus 3:4 . But such is the venomous nature of sin, and so contrary is it to God’s both holy nature and just law, that he cannot but hate it in whomsoever he finds it: yet with thin difference, that he pities it rather in his saints, and hates it in his

Amos 3:7 — (Chrysost.). Was it not to show that "the Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and of great kindness?" Psalms 103:8 . And this he hath commanded his prophets to make known, that the goodness of God may lead men to repentance, Romans 2:4 . As, if they turn his grace into wantonness, and pervert his patience to presumption, their commission is to declaim against such practices with all authority, Titus 2:15 , and to proclaim hell fire, in case men amend not. Necessity is laid upon them

Habakkuk 1:13 — so εχει θεος εκδικον ομμα , he hath a holy eye that cannot behold evil and bear with it. Hence that of Joshua to the people, Joshua 24:19 , "Ye cannot serve the Lord," sc. unless ye first throw all your lusts out of service: "for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your trangressions nor your sins." Now, therefore, if Cave, spectat Cato, was

Matthew 1:21 — excellent argument of our Saviour’s Divinity and omnipotence; forasmuch as the angel ascribeth unto him that which the Psalmist affirmeth of Jehovah, that he shall "redeem Israel from all his iniquities," Psalms 130:8 ; cf. Hosea 13:4 . λυτρωσεται . Christus autem, non Pater, factus est απολυτρωσις .

Matthew 3:6 — the other side, God will not own a viperous brood, though baptized, that bring not forth fruits meet for repentance. To such, baptism is not the mark of God’s child, but the brand of a fool that maketh a vow and then breaketh it, Ecclesiastes 5:4 . For the font is Beersheba, the well of an oath; and there we swear (as David did) "to keep God’s righteous judgments," Psalms 119:106 ; Isaiah 10:1-19 . Now, if Zedekiah and Shimei paid so dearly for their perjury, for their fast and