Bible Commentaries

Genesis 4:4 — arrojaron dinero de bronce b en la tesorería. "Pero maldito sea el tramposo que tiene un macho en su rebaño y ofrece a Dios una cosa corrupta". "Ofrécelo ahora a tu príncipe", ¿se contentará con tu basura? He aquí, "Soy un gran Rey", dice Dios. Malaquías 1:8 ; Mal 1:14 Él se basa en su antigüedad y busca ser honrado con lo mejor de nuestra sustancia. María que amó mucho, no pensó demasiado en su dulce Salvador. Ella trajo una caja de alabastro de ungüento de gran precio, y la derramó sobre él, y él la

Genesis 7:4 — ya que, en este versículo presente, Dios dice que los destruirá o los borrará; es decir, dicen que, una salida de la tierra del siglo venidero, la tierra de los vivos. No lo niego, pero muchos de sus "espíritus están en prisión"; así dice San Pedro. 1Pe 3:19 Pero además, en el capítulo siguiente, el mismo apóstol nos dice que "por esto también a los muertos se les ha predicado el evangelio, para que sean juzgados según los hombres en la carne, pero vivan según la Dios en el espíritu ". 1Pe 4: 6 Compare

Song of Solomon 7:7 — pleasant fruit; and that it will not bow downward or grow crooked, though heavy weights be hanged upon it. The Church is all this and more; ever green, even in the winter of affliction, when the oak loseth her leaves See Trapp on " Song of Solomon 1:16 " full of the "fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God." Philippians 1:11 See Trapp on " Philippians 4:14 " See Trapp on " Philippians 4:11 " Neither can she be long

Isaiah 53:7 — afflicted, — Heb., It, the punishment of our sin, was exacted; and he, being our surety, was afflicted. Or, It was exacted, and he answered, i.e., satisfied. Yet he opened not his mouth. — Though he "suffered, the just for the unjust," 1 Peter 3:18 with the unjust, upon unjust causes, under unjust judges, and by unjust punishments. Silence and sufferance was the language of this holy Lamb, "dumb before the shearer," insomuch as that Pilate wondered exceedingly. The eunuch

Jeremiah 23:6 — Ikharim. This is a most mellifluous and sweet name of our Lord Jesus Christ, importing his Godhead, as the righteous Branch of David Jeremiah 23:5 did his manhood; and besides assuring us that as he hath for us fulfilled all righteousness, Matthew 3:15 so he is by God made unto us righteousness, 1 Corinthians 1:30 and that we are become the righteousness of God in him. 2 Corinthians 5:21 This one name of Christ is a strong tower; Proverbs 18:10 it is such as will answer all our doubts and objections,

Daniel 11:6 — their tyrant Timarch, and he took it upon him, to his utter undoing; for this god was afterwards poisoned by his wife, Laodice. Pausan., Appian. To make an agreement. — Marriages made in policy, to serve dishonest ends, are ever of ill success. 1 Samuel 18:21 ; 1 Samuel 18:28 But she shall not retain the power of the arm. — Her interest in her husband, her queendom, and her life were soon after lost. She was not sent home again, as Anne of Cleves was here, but sent out of the world, together

Hosea 3:5 — David by a patronymic surname (as also elsewhere), not without allusion to the apostasy of the ten tribes from the house of David, and so from the true God; which now also they shall bewail as the root of their sin and ruin, Jeremiah 30:9 Ezekiel 34:24 1 Kings 12:26 . And David their king — Called by Daniel, Messiah the Prince, Daniel 9:25 ; and by Peter, Christ the Lord, Acts 2:36 . See Luke 1:32 . Some think he is here called the goodness of God. They shall fear the Lord and his goodness —

Amos 3:1 — three articles in the original; and there is not the least tittle in the text upon which there hangeth not a mountain of sense, said the Rabbis; this next verse ( àú äøáø çæä ; so Matthew 22:21 ; τα του Yεου τω Yεω ). That the Lord hath spoken — And shall he not do it? Who ever waxed fierce against God and prospered? Job 9:4 . Against you, O children of Israel

Micah 1:3 — forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place — That is, say they, out of Judea and his temple there, leaving it to the Chaldeans and Assyrians. See Ezekiel 3:12 , and chapters 9-11, where God makes various withdrawals from the cherubins to the threshold, from thence to the east gate, from thence to mount Olivet, quite out of the city, Ezekiel 11:23 , and when God was gone, then followed the fatal calamity,

Micah 6:10 — See Trapp on " Micah 2:2 " The Vulgate reads it (and Gualther disliketh it not), Is there yet fire in the house of the wicked? sc. the fire of God’s wrath? and treasures of wickedness, as fuel cast upon it, to consume all? see James 5:1-3 . Treasures of wickedness profit not, Proverbs 10:2 , since to heap up sin is to heap up wrath, Romans 2:5 , and to rake together ill-gotten goods is to carry home a fardel of plaguey clothes, and death with them. Ephraim said, "Yet I am become

Micah 7:12 — destruction of it by his soldiers, whom he could not restrain from firing the temple). To the new Jerusalem, the Church of the New Testament, in the antitype: from whence the gospel was sent out to "every creature which is under heaven," Colossians 1:23 , and whereunto people of all sorts flowed, and many nations came, Micah 4:1-2 , with highest acclamations, most vigorous affections, and utmost endeavours bestowing themselves upon the Lord Christ, Acts 2:9 . Jerusalem in the Hebrew tongue is of

Micah 7:2 — said, as one doth of faithful friends in this age, that they are all (for the most part) gone on pilgrimage; and their return is uncertain. And there is none upright among men — None (to speak of) that maketh straight paths for his feet, Hebrews 12:13 , that foots it aright ( ορθοπαδει ), according to the truth of the gospel, Galatians 2:14 , that walketh evenly, Genesis 17:1 , and accurately ( ακριβως

Habakkuk 2:8 — vilified. Because of men’s blood — Heb. Bloods, every drop whereof had a tongue to cry to God for vengeance, saying, Give them blood to drink, for they are worthy, Oh let not bloody and deceitful men live out half their days, Revelation 16:6 Psalms 55:23 . That soldier can never answer it to God that hath not a good cause, and striketh not rather as a justicer than as a soldier. And for the violence of the land — Heb. Of the earth, though principally of that land of desires, the

Zephaniah 3:4 — good, and bad with bad; like that French apostate of whom Beza saith that he had religionem ephemeram, for every day a new religion, ab his ad illos, ab illis ad hos leviter iens et levius transiens, double-minded and unstable in all his ways, James 1:8 . And treacherous persons — Viri perfidiarum, most perfidious persons. This is their true title, whom the world counteth and calleth facile, facetious, fair conditioned, comporting, condescending, people pleasing preachers. Can there be a worse

Zechariah 5:8 — thereof. And he said, This is wickedness — viz. This woman, a figure of the whole sinful nation of the Jews; as were Aholah and Aholibah, Ezekiel 23:36 ; Ezekiel 23:44 , and Babylon the Great, the mother of fornications and abominations, Revelation 17:5 , to whom I may add that grand-daughter of hers, Katherine de Medicis, Queen mother; who by her wickedness wonderfully troubled all France for thirty years together. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah — The angel, as an executioner

Zechariah 7:1 — king Darius — Two years and a month after the former sermon. The word of the Lord was precious in those days. "The Lord gave the word": but it cannot be said that "great was the company of those that preached it," Psalms 68:11 ; during the captivity they complained that there was no more any prophets; neither any among them that knew how long their misery should last. Soon after their return God stirred them up Haggai and Zechariah; and after that Malachi; and then there

Zechariah 8:3 — of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain. I am returned unto Zion — After a long absence, as it may seem by the late troubles, and that dismal dispersion, Zechariah 7:14 . God was gone aside and returned to his place, till they should acknowledge their offence and seek his face: In their affliction, said he, they will seek me early. Neither was he frustrated, as appeareth, Hosea 5:15 ; cf. Hosea 6:1 . Come, and let

Matthew 10:42 — the greatest beggar in the world, as one that shareth in all his saints’ necessities. Relieve him therefore in them; so shall you lay up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come; yea, you shall lay hold on eternal life,1 Timothy 6:19; 1 Timothy 6:19 . Of Midas it is fabled, that whatever he touched he turned into gold. Sure it is that whatsoever the hand of charity touch, be it but a cup of cold water, it turns the same, not into gold, but into heaven itself. He is

Matthew 15:22 — towards him; or else that she was abashed to come into his presence, as being of an accursed kindred, devoted to destruction. Have mercy upon me, O Lord — She acknowledged her own sin in her daughter’s sufferings. So did that other good woman, 1 Kings 17:18 . Her son was dead, her sin was called to remembrance. And so must we see ourselves beaten on our sick children’s backs, as David did, 2 Samuel 12:16 , and be humbled, labouring to mend by education what we have marred by propagation. Thou

Matthew 24:36 — That the Lord will come it is certo certius, not more sure, than what time he will come is to us most uncertain. Various guesses have been given about it by both ancient and modern writers; most of which time hath already refuted. In the year of grace 1533 there was one that foolishly foretold that the day of judgment should happen in October next ensuing. And this he gathered out of these words, Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum. Likewise out of these, Videbunt in quem transfixerunt; the numerals of