Bible Commentaries

Ezra 1:2 — que [está] en Judá. Ver. 2. El Señor Dios de los cielos me ha dado ] Este buen lenguaje Ciro bien podría aprender de Daniel, quien floreció bajo su reinado, Daniel 5:28 , y probablemente lo familiarizó con las profecías que le precedieron, Isaías 44:28 ; Isaías 45:1 . Jaddeus, el sumo sacerdote, hizo lo mismo, muchos años después, con Alejandro Magno; quien no solo perdonó a los judíos, sino que los honró en gran manera, como relata Josefo. Aquí, entonces, vemos que este potentado de la tierra

Esther 1:1 — por el Mesías. 2. Rut en Pentecostés; porque en él está escrita la genealogía de David, su primer rey. 3. Las Lamentaciones de Jeremías el noveno día del quinto mes (es decir, de agosto); con respecto al cautiverio babilónico y la ruina del templo. 4. Eclesiastés, en la fiesta de los Tabernáculos; en un recuerdo agradecido de la providencia divina afirmada en ese libro; y ejerció sobre ellos de una manera especial, cuando vagaban por el desierto. 5. Por último, el de Ester, los días catorce y quince

Job 2:9 — gettest thou by it? Is not this thy fear, thy confidence; the uprightness of tby ways, and thy hope? Lo, Eliphaz (who should have had more grace and government of his tongue than Job’s wife) scoffeth religious Job, as some sense that text, Job 4:6 , rendering the words thus: Is not thy fear (or religion) become thy folly? Where is now thine uprightness, and hope of reward? It is an ancient and an ordinary slur and slander cast upon the ways of God, as if they were unprofitable, as if God were

Psalms 1:1 — Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. The Book of Psalms — So Christ calleth it, Luke 20:42 . The Hebrew word signifieth hymns, or praises, because the greater part of these psalms serve to set forth the praise of God. This title seemeth to be taken from Psalms 145:1 , called David’s Hymn, or Psalm of praise; so highly prized by the

Song of Solomon 1:15 — slighted. But Christ affirms her "fair," yea, "twice fair," yea, the "fairest among women" - sic suum cuique pluchrum, so doth he even "err in her love," as the wise man phraseth it (Proverbs 5:9) - as himself is said to be the "fairest among men," (Psalms 45:2) where the Hebrew word likewise is of double form - Thou art fair, thou art fair above the sons of Adam, to note out double, that is, excellent beauty, such as draweth love and liking. Now it is a maxim in the civil law, Uxor fulget radiis mariti,

Song of Solomon 3:2 — seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city, … — The holy city Jerusalem, whither "the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel." Psalms 122:4 There was the likeliest place to find Christ; there his parents found him once, after three days’ search, Luke 2:46 sitting in the temple; there he dwelt among men; there he gave gifts unto men, and therehence he went forth abroad the whole world,

Song of Solomon 4:1 — que salieran y vieran a su Esposo en toda su valentía, y para ayudar a coronarlo; así que aquí, de manera intercambiable, Cristo llama a todas las personas a contemplar a su hermosa esposa en toda la "hermosura que él ha puesto sobre ella", Eze 16:14 y esa corona de doce estrellas que ha puesto sobre su cabeza, Apocalipsis 12: 1. que "en todo ella se enriquece con él, y no se retrasa en ningún don". 1 Corintios 1:5 ; 1 Cor 1: 7 Tienes ojos de paloma.] En particular, Cristo alaba sus ojos, cabello,

Song of Solomon 5:2 — candlelight too, as those wise virgins did; Matthew 25:5 she slept with open eyes as the lion doth, she slept but half-sleep; the spirit was willing to wake, but the flesh was weak and overweighed it, as it fared with those sleepy disciples. Matthew 26:41 Fain would this flesh make strange that which the Spirit doth embrace. O Lord, how loath is this loitering sluggard to pass forth into God’s path! said Mr Sanders Acts and Mon., fol. 1359. in a letter to his wife, a little before his death, with

Song of Solomon 5:6 — trouble; he saveth them out of their distress; he sendeth his word and healeth them," Psalms 107:17-20 he sendeth for them by his Spirit, and brings them back again into his own bosom, "that his banished be not expelled from him," 2 Samuel 14:14 though to themselves and others they may for the present seem to be as "water spilled on the ground, that cannot be gathered up again." Those fragrant footsteps and heart attracting stamps of his favour, that sweet smelling myrrh, mentioned

Hosea 14:2 — but such as are humble, earnest, and direct to the point, avoiding vain babblings. Here is a form prescribed in the text (forms of prayer therefore are not so unlawful as some conceive them), words put into their mouths (as the phrase is, 2 Samuel 14:3 ), that they might not miss. Men must as well look to their words as to their feet, when they come before God; and see that their affections in prayer be not without answerable expressions. Take with you such words as may testify that ye turn heartily

Hosea 2:15 — out of the land of Egypt. I will give her her vineyards from thence — Or, from thenceforth: either from that time, or from that place. God, as out of his melting heartedness toward her, he thinks she hath suffered double for all her sins, Isaiah 40:2 (though she think she hath suffered less than her sins, Ezra 9:13 ); so he is ready, upon her repentance, to make her (strait) a plentiful amends. He destroyed her vineyards and damped her mirth, Hosea 2:11-12 . Now she shall have all again, with

Hosea 2:15 — que subió de la tierra de Egipto. . Ver. 15. Le daré sus viñedos de allí ] O, de ahora en adelante: ya sea de ese tiempo, o de ese lugar. Dios, como debido a su desánimo hacia ella, él piensa que ella ha sufrido el doble por todos sus pecados, Isaías 40:2 (aunque ella piensa que ha sufrido menos que sus pecados, Esd 9:13); así que él está listo, tras su arrepentimiento, para hacerle (estrecho) una abundante reparación. Él destruyó sus viñedos y apagó su alegría, Oseas 2:11,12 . Ahora tendrá todo

Amos 8:5 — garden of spiritual duties, whereof there is so great variety for the good soul to breathe itself in and not be sated; and then are taken into Christ’s wine cellar, and (after a holy manner) inebriated with Divine consolations, Song of Solomon 2:4-5 2 Corinthians 1:5 , such as the cock on the dunghill knows not, such as pass all carnal men’s understanding. They find no more relish in holy days and duties than they do in the white of an egg or in a dry chip; the work they do at such times,

Jonah 4:5 — would rather return and live, admits no excuse. But that expecting its overthrow (according to that God had threatened by him), he secured himself by separating from those sinners against their own souls, was well and wisely done of him. See Isaiah 48:20 ; Isaiah 52:11 2 Corinthians 6:17 Revelation 16:4 Lot did so from Sodom, the people from Core and his accomplices, John and his disciples from Cerinthus the heretic: he sprung out of the bath from that blasphemer ( εξηλατο

Micah 7:18 — none can do it at all but he; as the blind Pharisees saw and could say. Men may pardon the trespass, but God alone the transgression. But say they could do something that way; yet nothing like our God, who maketh his power appear to be great, Numbers 14:17 , in pardoning such offences as no God or man besides would pardon. See Jeremiah 3:1 Nehemiah 9:31 . He forgiveth iniquity, transgression and sin, Exodus 34:6-7 , that is, all sorts of sins, to all sorts of sinners, without exception, Matthew 12:31

Zechariah 3:1 — acusar a los hermanos, es seguro que no será apropiado, y su súplica de ser echado fuera de la corte por nuestro abogado ante el Padre, Jesucristo el justo, quien aparece por nosotros (como lo hizo aquí para Josué) para quitar el pecado, Hebreos 9:24 ; Hebreos 9:26 , y para quitar las iniquidades de sus cosas más santas. De pie ante el ángel del Señor ] es decir, ante Cristo, su mejor amigo, y desempeñando su oficio de sumo sacerdote. Tal es la malicia y la insolencia de Satanás (dice un intérprete

Malachi 3:13 — Encontrarás a algunos, dice Erasmo, que si la muerte está amenazada, pueden despreciarla; pero, para ser desmentidos, no pueden tolerar, ni reprimirse de la venganza. "Como arma asesina en mis huesos", dice David, "mis enemigos me reprochan", Salmo 42:10 . Los discursos desesperados y las blasfemias que imponen al Señor cualquier cosa que no parezca su majestad, algo común entre los judíos incluso hasta el día de hoy, de ninguna manera puede eliminarlos. Vea cómo Dios aplasta un lenguaje tan orgulloso

Matthew 6:7 — πολυλογια πολυμωρια , In multiloquio stultilofuium. "A man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell?" Ecclesiastes 10:14 . Such a one also was that Battus (to whom the Evangelist here hath relation), an egregious babbler. - sub illis In common discourse it is a sign of weakness to lay on more words upon a matter than needs must: how much more in prayer! Take we heed we

Matthew 7:21 — Esau’s rough hands. Audi, nemo melius: specta, nemo peius: Loquitur hic ut Piso, vivit ut Gallonius. All men admire Cicero’s tongue, saith St Austin, not so his practice. Ciceronis linguam omnes fere mirantur, pectus non ita. Confess. iii. 4. Seneca could give excellent counsel to others, which himself did not take. In plerisque, contra facere visus est Seneca quam philosophabatur. Dio. He is much taxed for flattery, luxury, covetousness, …, and something he confesseth hereof (though

Matthew 7:21 — justas profesiones y profundas protestas de amor, cuando el corazón de los hombres no está con él, cuando no existe el poder de la religión, la práctica de la piedad. No le desagradan las hojas de la profesión, pues como son de uso medicinal, Ezequiel 47:12 , son buenos incentivos para forzar la necesidad de más fruto. Pero busca más que hojas. Baja a su jardín para ver cómo avanza, en justicia, paz, gozo en el Espíritu Santo; en mansedumbre, ternura, amor; en paciencia, humildad, alegría; en la mortificación