Bible Commentaries

Genesis 3:15 — and that wicked one [the devil] toucheth him not." John 5:18 That is, Tactu qualitativo , saith Cajetan, with a deadly touch; he thrusteth not his sting so far into him as to do him to death. For Christ, "who is our life," Colossians 3:4 can as soon die at the right hand of his heavenly Father, as in the heart of a faithful Christian; since "our life is hid with Christ in God"; his life is bound up in his child’s life. He shall make the broken horns of Satan to be the

Genesis 3:15 — Dios se guarda a sí mismo, y el maligno [el diablo] no le toca . "Jn 5:18 Es decir, Tactu qualitativo , dice Cayetano, con un toque mortal; no clava su aguijón en él hasta el punto de hacer él a la muerte. Porque Cristo, "que es nuestra vida", Col 3, 4 puede morir tan pronto a la diestra de su Padre celestial, como en el corazón de un cristiano fiel; ya que "nuestra vida está escondida con Cristo en Dios"; su vida está ligada a la vida de su hijo. Él hará de los cuernos rotos de Satanás las trompetas

Ezra 1:2 — Jerusalem, which [is] in Judah. The Lord God of heaven hath given me — This good language Cyrus might well learn of Daniel, who flourished under his reign, Daniel 5:28 , and probably acquainted him with the prophecies that went before of him, Isaiah 44:28 ; Isaiah 45:1 . Jaddeus, the high priest, did the like, many years after, to Alexander the Great; who not only thereupon spared the Jews, but highly honoured them, as Josephus relateth. Here, then, we see this potentate of the earth giveth unto

Esther 1:1 — Messiah. 2. Ruth at Pentecost; because therein is set down the genealogy of David their first king. 3. The Lamentations of Jeremiah on the ninth day of the fifth month (that is, of August); in regard to the Babylonian captivity, and ruin of the Temple. 4. Ecclesiastes, at the feast of Tabernacles; in a thankful remembrance of the Divine providence asserted in that book; and exercised over them in a special manner, when they wandered in the wilderness. 5. Lastly, this of Esther, on the fourteenth and

Job 1:3 — guerrear con ninguno: el caballo es una criatura guerrera, preparada para el día de la batalla. Pero Beza señala que en ese país tenían poco uso de caballos, ya que usaban camellos para llevar cargas y asnos para montar. Ver Jueces 5:10 ; Jueces 10:4 . Y una casa muy grande ] Tenía una gran cantidad de sirvientes a su alrededor, y él mismo era el más grande, según el poeta griego (por lo que Lutero estaba tan impresionado, que lo tradujo con ciertos ritmos), Eις εστι δουλος οικιας ο δεσποτης. Algunos

Song of Solomon 1:2 — abruptamente, a la manera de una tragedia, a través de la impaciencia del amor y una santa impotencia del deseo después, no sólo de una unión, sino también de una unidad con aquel a quien ama su alma. "Que me bese", etc. Besar es una muestra de amor, 1Pe 5:14 Luk 7:45 y de reconciliación. 2Sa 14:33 Y aunque καταφιλειν ουκ εστι φιλειν, como observa Filón, el amor no siempre está en un beso - Joab y Judas podían besar y matar, Caveatur osculum Iscarioticum, consignar su traición con tan dulce símbolo de amistad

Song of Solomon 1:2 — begins here abruptly, after the manner of a tragedy, through impatience of love, and a holy impotence of desire after, not a union only, but a unity also with him whom her soul loveth. "Let him kiss me," &c. Kissing is a token of love, (1 Peter 5:14; Luke 7:45) and of reconciliation. (2 Samuel 14:33) And albeit καταφιλειν ουκ εστι φιλειν, as Philo observeth, love is not always in a kiss - Joab and Judas could kiss and kill, Caveatur osculum Iscarioticum, consign their treachery with so sweet a

Song of Solomon 2:4 — Me llevó a la casa del banquete y su estandarte sobre mí [era] amor. Ver. 4. Me llevó a la casa de banquetes. ] Heb., A la casa del vino, donde me da lo que es mejor que la bebida de manzana, como Cantares de los Cantares 2:3 . Así como los sufrimientos de Cristo abundan en nosotros, también abunda nuestro consuelo en Cristo.

Daniel 1:1 — dunghill knew not the worth of this peerless pearl, highly prized both by his predecessor and successor, to whom he was a secretis of their privy council. Famous he was grown, and worthily, for his extraordinary wisdom Ezekiel 28:3 and holiness, Ezekiel 14:14 so that the angel Gabriel styleth him "a man of desires," or a desirable man. Daniel 9:23 Seneca calleth Cato virtutum vivam imaginem, a lively picture of virtues. Pliny Lib. ii. saith that the same Cato Censorius was an excellent orator,

Hosea 11:9 — him and to his mourners," Isaiah 57:16-18 . For I am God, and not man — Yea, such a God as the like is not, for pardoning iniquity, and passing by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage, Micah 7:18 . It is natural to him, Exodus 34:6 ; it is usual, Nehemiah 9:17 , there he is called a God of pardons, as, Isaiah 55:7 , he is said to multiply pardons. He hath commanded men to forgive an offending but repenting brother, seventy times seven times in a day, Matthew 18:22 . What then

Hosea 3:3 — God’s time is not yet come; for they are not yet throughly humbled. Were they but ripe, he is ready; when help is seasonable, his fingers itch (saith one) to be doing, as the mother’s breast aches when it is time the child had suck, Exodus 12:40-41 . At midnight were the firstborn slain and Israel sent away, because then exactly the 400 or 430 years of their captivity in Egypt were expired. So Daniel 5:30 , "In that night was Belshazzar slain"; because then exactly the seventy years

Hosea 7:14 — it is; indeed they cant, or charm, rather than pray; Isaiah 26:16 , they poured forth a charm, ìçשׁ when thy chastening was upon them), but they pray not with their heart. Their hearts are exercised with covetousness, 2 Peter 2:14 , and inhabited by the devil, Acts 5:3 . Simon Magus’ heart was not right with the Lord, Acts 8:21 . How could it be, when it was "in the gall of bitterness, and bond of perdition," Acts 8:23 , as every unregenerate heart is? Hence though

Hosea 7:16 — in our sublimity, εν τω υψει , or in that we are exalted, James 1:9 . For indeed the most High stoopeth to the true convert (who considering his distance, repents and abhors himself in dust and ashes, Job 42:6 ), he dwelleth in the highest heavens and lowest hearts, Isaiah 57:17 . They are like a deceitful bow — A rotten bow (though otherwise fair) when an arrow is drawn to the head breaks and deceives the archer. Or thus, when a man shoots with

Jonah 1:3 — flee unto Tarshish — Tarsus, in Cilicia, St Paul’s country, Acts 21:39 ; Acts 22:3 , rather than the city Tunis, in Africa, as Vatablus will have it, or the East Indies, as others. Tarshish sometimes signifieth the main ocean, as Psalms 48:7 (whence some take it here for the sea), but that may be by a metonymy A figure of speech which consists in substituting for the name of a thing the name of an attribute of it or of something closely related. ŒD of the adjunct; because Tarsus

Micah 7:1 — cry out with the prophet Isaiah, "Who hath believed our report?" And again, "O my leanness, my leanness! woe is me, for there is only as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done," Isaiah 24:13 ; Isaiah 24:16 . Hei mihi quam pingui macer est mihi taurus in arvo. Though he had worn himself to a very skeleton in the Lord’s work; yet had he laboured in vain, Israel was not gathered, Isaiah 49:4-5 , and hence his woeful complaint. The

Malachi 1:8 — they would have been ashamed or afraid to present to some petty prince, that had any power to punish such an affront. The law for sacrifices see Leviticus 22:20 Deuteronomy 15:21 . A blind sacrifice he offereth who worshippeth he knoweth not what, John 4:22 , that is, to seek, and grope in the dark, Acts 17:27 , when they yield not the obedience of faith, bring not to God an intelligible, reasonable service, such as whereof they can render a sound reason out of the word of God, Romans 12:1 ; who binds

Malachi 2:6 — and then to say, γλυκεια η αληθεια , truth is sweet. It is so indeed to those that "have their senses exercised to discern good and evil," Hebrews 5:14 . But most men cannot brook downright truth: the hearing of it galls them, as they write of some creatures, that they have fel in aure, their gall in their ears. Hence truth breeds hatred, and plain dealing is generally disgusting; it is bitter in the

Matthew 3:7 — of pirates. This generation of vipers conceited themselves to be Abraham’s seed: so do many of the serpent’s seed today, because of their baptism; but all in vain, unless they walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, Romans 4:12 . The old serpent hath stung them, neither is there any antidote for such but the flesh (not of the biting viper, but) of the slain Messiah, foreshadowed by the brazen serpent. See Isaiah 27:1 . God hath promised to break for us the serpent’s

Matthew 4:11 — the angels came and ministered unto him — Perhaps food to his body, as once to Elias, 1 Kings 19:5-6 , but certainly comfort to his soul, as to Jacob, Hagar, Daniel, Zacharias, Joseph, Cornelius, Paul, … Daniel 9:21 ; Luke 1:11 ; Acts 10:4 ; Acts 27:23 . Socrates and Theodoret tell us of one Theodorus, a martyr, put to extreme torments by Julian the apostate, and dismissed again by him, when he saw him unconquerable. Ruffinus tells us that he met with this martyr, a long time after this

Matthew 5:39 — ourselves, that have done us injury), "but against principalities and powers," Ephesians 6:12 ; q.d. while we are busy in breaking those darts that men shoot from afar against us; we are oppressed by the devil near at hand to us, Ephesians 4:26 . Cur adeo laboramus ulciscendis infirmissimorum hominum iniuriis? Dum haec tela eminus proiecta frangimus, a diabolo opprimimur. Roloc. in locum. Here, by the way, magistrates must be admonished to take heed how they aggravate punishment upon a