Bible Commentaries

Genesis 17:9 — Por tanto, guardarás mi pacto, tú y tu descendencia después de ti por sus generaciones. Ver. 9. Guardarás mi pacto. ] Esta es la estipulación por parte de Abraham, al recibir el sacramento de la circuncisión, de "declarar que Dios es su Dios". Deu 26:17 Ahora bien, para hacer que el Señor sea nuestro Dios, se requiere que con las estimaciones más elevadas, los afectos más vigorosos y los mayores esfuerzos nos demos a Él. Por lo tanto, si elegimos a Dios como nuestro Dios, Salmo 73:25, estaremos seguros

Genesis 18:23 — Y acercándose Abraham, dijo: ¿Destruirás también al justo con el impío? Ver. 23. Y Abraham se acercó. ] Un privilegio propio de quienes tienen "un corazón sincero", "plena certeza de fe" y "una buena conciencia". Hebreos 10:22 "El hipócrita no vendrá delante de él" Job 13:16 Tendrá que estar afuera como vagabundo a la puerta, que no sabe si el amo le da limosna o garrote. Pero el recto entra en la sala; sí, "habita en la presencia de Dios", Sal 140: 13 a la luz de su

Genesis 22:7 — holocausto? ] Isaac no debía saber ahora qué pertenecía a un sacrificio. Hacía mucho tiempo que su padre le había enseñado lo que debía hacerse al servicio de Dios. "Cuando era joven, mi padre me enseñó", dice Salomón, Pro 4: 4 y también su madre, Pro 31: 1-31 en la lección de Lemuel. Plantus tenellas frecuentius adaquare proderit , dice Primasius. a a Primas, en Philip. Greg. Moral., Lib. gorra xxvii. 14.

Genesis 24:27 — la casa de los hermanos de mi señor. Ver. 27. ¿Quién no ha dejado desamparado a mi amo? ] Él lo atribuye todo a la buena providencia de Dios, nada a su buena suerte o servicio. Los hombres juegan a los ateos al hablar de fortuna, como aquellos Isa 65:11 "que prepararon una mesa para la fortuna": y esos filisteos, que dijeron: "Es una casualidad". 1 de Samuel 6: 9 Agustín se arrepintió de haber hablado tal idioma de Ashdod.

Genesis 29:27 — proverbio) una nueva habilidad en el gorro de un bribón. Buscarán en el cráneo del diablo, pero encontrarán un truco resbaladizo u otro, para engañar e ir más allá de aquellos con los que tratan. Pero que lo miren; "Dios es el vengador de todos los tales", 1 Tesalonicenses 4: 6 cuyos, no sólo cabezas, sino "vientres preparan engaño". Trabajo 15:35

Genesis 37:13 — Y dijo Israel a José: Tus hermanos apacientan [las ovejas] en Siquem? ven, y te enviaré a ellos. Y él le dijo: Heme aquí. Ver. 13. Y él le dijo: Aquí estoy. ] "Los hijos obedecen a tus padres" - quorum divina est dignitas, dice Crisóstomo: nuestros padres son Yεοι εφεστιοι, dice otro; y Filón, porque esto hace que el quinto mandamiento sea parte de la primera tabla, "porque esto

Ezekiel 48:8 — which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand [reeds in] breadth, and [in] length as one of the [other] parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. Shall be the offering. — Whereof see Ezekiel 45:1-7 . Of five and twenty thousand reeds. — Which being exactly cast up, saith one, come to forty-five miles, and therefore cannot be meant of any city to be built by the Jews again after their return from Babylon, but must be understood as the Church

Daniel 2:5 — had dreamed of monarchies, and now forgotten his dream. He might have hereby learned that kingdoms are but phantasmata, ludicra, empty bubbles, pleasant follies, children and tales of fancy, … "The fashion of this world passeth away"; 1 Corinthians 7:31 "Surely every man walketh in a vain shadow." Psalms 39:6 Ye shall be cut in pieces. — Practisers of unjust; flatteries do often meet with unjust frowns.

Daniel 7:12 — the beasts. — The four great monarchies, as was before noted, had their times and their turns - their rise and their ruin. Yet their lives were prolonged for a season. — Such is the Lord’s lenity, respiting his enemies for a time. 1 Kings 21:29 The Persian and Turk are yet puissant princes. The success that the Antichristian rout yet hath in some places maketh good that which was sometimes said of dying Carthage, Morientium nempe bestiarum violentiores esse morsus, i.e., The bites

Habakkuk 3:12 — thresh the heathen in anger. Thou didst march through the land in indignation — Heb. Thou didst walk in pomp, as a conqueror, through the land, sc. of Canaan, in contempt of the opposite forces, treading upon the necks of thine enemies, Joshua 10:24 . Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger — See Amos 1:3 Micah 4:13 . God, by the hands of Joshua, did all this. The most of the old inhabitants were destroyed. Some few fled into Africa, and left written upon a pillar for a monument to posterity,

Matthew 12:47 — desiring to speak with thee. Behold, thy mother and thy brethren — This was a weakness in his mother; though otherwise full of grace, yet not without, original sin, as the Sorbonists contend, but had need of a Saviour, as well as others, Luke 1:47 . Scipio permits not a wise man so to do amiss once in his whole life, as to say, non putaram. How much better Crates, the philosopher, Omnibus malis punicis inest granum putre. who said that in every pomegranate there is at least one rotten kernel

Matthew 21:11 — him; but of Nazareth of Galilee. They had not profited so much, or made so far progress in the mystery of Christ, as to know him to have been born a Bethlehemite. And to nourish this error in the people it was, that the devil, that old impostor, Mark 1:24 , though he confessed Christ to be the "holy one of God," yet he calleth him "Jesus of Nazareth." Satan etsi semel videatur verax, millies est mendax et semper fallax, Satan never speaks truth, but with a mind to deceive.

Matthew 21:28 — to day in my vineyard. But what think you? — Christ reporteth himself to their own consciences, while he proveth John Baptist’s ministry to be from heaven, by the happy success he had in converting the vilest sinners. See Jeremiah 23:22 ; 1 Corinthians 9:2 . The people’s fruitfulness is the minister’s testimonial, 2 Corinthians 3:2 . If but one of a city, or two of a family be gained to God, it is a sign that the pastors are according to God’s own heart,Jeremiah 3:14-15;

Matthew 24:49 — yet to be among wine bibbers and flesh mongers, as Solomon hath it,Proverbs 23:20; Proverbs 23:20 , to company with such as a frequent and immoderate bibber, as Peter’s word ( εν ποτοις ) importeth, 1 Peter 4:3 ; to drink ad numerum, as Bullinger expresseth it, though there follow not an utter alienation of mind, this is here threatened. Excessive drinking is drunkenness, Ephesians 5:18 though men be strong to bear it,Isaiah 5:22; Isaiah 5:22 .

Matthew 24:6 — He looked not downward on the rushing and roaring streams of dangers that run so swiftly under him, for that would have made him giddy: but steadfastly fastened on the power and promise of God all-sufficient, and was safe. So at the sack of Ziglag, 1 Samuel 30:6 .

Matthew 25:31 — glorious suns shall shine in the firmament, and among and above them all the Sun of righteousness, in whom our nature is advanced above the brightest cherub. Upon the throne of his glory — Perhaps upon his angels, who are called thrones, Colossians 1:16 , and possibly may bear him aloft by their natural strength, as on their shoulders.

Mark 10:39 — baptized withal shall ye be baptized: Ye shall indeed drink of the cup — But not of that bitter cup of his Father’s wrath, which he drank off in his passion. Only the saints fill up that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ, Colossians 1:24 , υστερηματα , non προτερηματα . Ye shall be baptized — And come out of the waters of affliction with as little hurt as a babe doth out

Luke 16:15 — There may be malum opus in bona materia, as in Jehu’s zeal. Two things make a good Christian, good actions and good aims. And though a good aim doth not make a bad action good (as in Uzzah), yet a bad aim makes a good action bad (as in Jehu, Hosea 1:4 , whose justice was approved, but his policy punished).

John 15:6 — say; but his meaning is, that temporaries, of all others, make the fiercest, hottest fire, because they are trees most seared and fuel fully dry. Nahum tells us that such are but as stubble laid out in the sun to dry, that it may burn the better, John 1:10 ; or like grapes, let to hang in the sunshine till they be ripe, for the winepress of God’s wrath, Revelation 19:15 .

Acts 7:48 — to it (as the Chinese chain their gods, that they may be sure of them), crying, "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord," when they little respected the Lord of the temple. The disciples also were taxed with this error, Matthew 24:1 , and thought that the temple and the world must needs end together; quasi absque stationibus non staret mundus. But our Saviour undeceiveth them there.