Bible Commentaries

Genesis 2:20 — Y puso Adán nombre a todo ganado, a las aves de los cielos ya todo animal del campo; pero para Adán no se halló ayuda idónea para él. Ver. 20. Adán dio nombres. ] Un signo de su soberanía; Números 32:38 ; Num 32:41 un argumento también de su sabiduría, al darles nombres según su naturaleza, como bien saben los hebristas. Pero para Adán no se encontró, etc. ] Dios puso a todas las criaturas delante de él, antes de darle una esposa: (1.) Para que, viendo los sexos,

Genesis 6:14 — Hazte un arca de madera de gofer; harás aposentos en el arca, y la arrojarás por dentro y por fuera con brea. Ver. 14. Hazte un arca. ] O cofre, o ataúd. Y, de hecho, según la descripción aquí expuesta, el arca, en forma, era como un ataúd para el cuerpo de un hombre, seis veces más largo que ancho, y diez veces más alto que alto: y por lo tanto apto para averiguarlo.

Ezekiel 46:20 — court, to sanctify the people. Where they shall bake the meat offering, — i.e., The ministers shall indite or boil good matters in their hearts for the use of the people, and then their tongues shall be as the pen of a ready writer. Psalms 45:1 They shall not feed their hearers with crude and indigested stuff, but such as is well boiled and baked with the fire of the Holy Spirit, kindled on the hearth of their own hearts; that from the heart they may speak to the heart. To sanctify the people.

Daniel 10:18 — Then there came again and touched me [one] like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me, Then there came again and touched me. — Not all at once, but by four degrees, was Daniel raised: (1.) He is set upon his knees and palms of his hands, Daniel 10:10 an emblem of prayer; (2.) He is caused to stand upon his feet, though trembling and silent; Daniel 10:11 ; Daniel 10:15 (3.) His mouth is opened to speak, though not without much weakness,

Daniel 2:1 — And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. And in the second year. — Of Daniel’s advancement. Daniel 1:19-20 Or, as Josephus hath it, post annum secundum Aegyptiacae vastitatis, in the second year after that Nebuchadnezzar had subdued Egypt, and other countries, and so established his monarchy, whereupon likely was begun a new computation of the years

Daniel 2:8 — The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me. I know of certainty. — There is no halting before a cripple. Politicians can sound the depth of one another. Daniel 11:27 That ye would gain the time. — Chald., Buy or redeem it - that is, make your advantage of it to evade the danger. And indeed if these sorcerers could have gained longer time much might have been done; for either the king might have died or

Matthew 14:13 — cities. When Jesus heard of it, … — Dangers must be declined, where they may be with a safe conscience. David and Peter (who had both paid for their learning) say both, What man is he that loveth life, and would see good (or quiet) days?Psalms 34:12; Psalms 34:12 ; 1 Peter 3:10 . They followed him on foot — Hotfoot, as they say. So the people resorted to Bishop Ridley’s sermons, swarming about him like bees, and coveting the sweet juice of his godly discourses. Whose diligence and

Matthew 21:21 — secum disceptare. Budaeus. He that doubteth debateth it, as it were, with himself, puts the case to and fro, sometimes being of one mind, sometimes of another. Now "let not such a man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord," James 1:7 ; "If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established," Isaiah 7:9 .

Matthew 22:17 — Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? Is it lawful — They make it a case of conscience. Dissembled sanctity is double iniquity. Covetousness goes cloaked or coloured, 1 Thessalonians 2:5 . So doth malice most times; but God will wash off its varnish with rivers of brimstone. To give tribute — Κηνσον , a kind of coin proper to this purpose. The Jews paid then to the Romans, as now

Matthew 24:51 — twain, that is, tear his soul from his body by main force, Job 27:8 , throw him out of the world, as it were, by a firma eiectione, and hurl him into hell, there to undergo most exquisite torments, such as they did here that were sawn asunder, Hebrews 11:36-38 ; hewn in pieces, as Agag, 1 Samuel 15:33 ; torn limb from limb, as Daniel 3:29 ; 2 Samuel 12:31 . And appoint him his portion with hypocrites — Hypocrites then are the freeholders of hell; other sinners are but as tenants and inmates to

Matthew 26:16 — to betray him. And from that time he sought — So it was no sudden, but a prepensed wickedness, done in cold blood, and upon mature deliberation. God’s people when they sin, they are surprised, and taken before they are aware, Galatians 6:1 . There is no way of wickedness in them, ordinarily,Psalms 139:24; Psalms 139:24 . It is of incogitancy: put them in mind, and they mend all. Or, it is of passion: and passions last not long. They deny not Christ that bought them: they can do nothing

Matthew 9:32 — still gags many to this day, that they cannot pray to God, profess his name, utter themselves to the good of others. The spirit of faith is no indweller, but sits in the door of the lips. "I believed, therefore have I spoken," 2 Corinthians 4:13 . The Carthusian monks speak together but once a week. It is a shame to Christians that they speak not often one to another, Malachi 3:16 , that they come together, not for the better, but for the worse, 1 Corinthians 11:17 . Inveniar sane superbus,

Luke 2:25 — formerly famous for its alleged medicinal virtues. ŒD by tasting whereof (as harts do) they shook off all the piercing shafts of their afflictions. Some Jews conclude the Messiah when he comes shall be called Menahem, the Comforter, from Lamentations 1:6 .

John 19:26 — she lack nothing; for so will God bless thee, and give thee long life upon earth and prosperity. The Athenians punished such with death as nourished not their aged parents. And St Paul saith, that to requite parents is good and acceptable before God, 1 Timothy 5:4 . καλον , sc. coram hominibus. (Scult.)

John 19:28 — in obedience to God’s command, and with an aim at his glory; to go about our earthly affairs with heavenly minds, and in serving men to serve God; to taste God in the creature, and whether we eat or drink, or whatever else we do, to set up God, 1 Corinthians 10:31 . Every action is a step either to heaven or hell. The poor servant in being faithful to his master, "serves the Lord Christ," Colossians 3:24 , who was more careful here of fulfilling the Scripture and working out our salvation,

John 5:29 — shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. They that have done good — In die iudicii plus valebit conscientia pura quam marsupia plena. Bern., Daniel 12:1-2 . Though other things be darkly delivered, yet when the Jews were to lose land and life, the resurrection is plainly described. So Hebrews 11:35 . Unto the resurrection of damnation — As Pharaoh’s baker came forth to be hanged when

John 9:28 — Tertullian saith), to signify that all his disciples, though they pretended learning, yet they were silly and ignorant people. Est enim Satanae pectus mendaciis faecundissimum, saith Luther. The basest can revile (as the abjects did David, Psalms 35:15 ), and every black mouth cast dirt upon Christ’s disciples as the offscouring of all things, 1 Corinthians 4:13 .

Acts 10:4 — queen-mother of Scotland was heard to say, that she more feared the fastings and prayers of John Knox and his disciples than an army of twenty thousand men. For a memorial before God — How did the angel know this? Angels have a threefold knowledge: 1. Natural; 2. Revealed, as Daniel 9:20-23 , and here; 3. Experimental,Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 3:10 .

Acts 12:11 — Faith cannot he idle, or ungrateful for benefits received. If Peter have none else to tell it to, he will tell himself what God had done for him by his angel; and what great cause he had to be really and substantially thankful. So doth David, Psalms 103:1-4 , … A good man can never be alone; for, in defect of other company, he can fruitfully converse with himself, and commune with his own conscience, and thereupon lift up many a humble, joyful, and thankful heart to God.

Acts 16:32 — keeper’s daughter, and others of his household. Also the rest that were with him in the prison, said, That if Tyndale were not a good Christian man, they could not tell whom to trust. The word of God is not bound, saith Paul the prisoner, Philippians 1:13 . His bonds were manifest in all Caesar’s court, and to all others. In the Book of Martyrs we read also of one Bowler, a perverse Papist, converted by Doctor Sands and Master Bradford, whose keeper he was for over twenty weeks; and afterwards