Bible Commentaries

Genesis 1:17 — E hizo Dios dos grandes lumbreras; la lumbrera mayor para gobernar el día, y la lumbrera menor para gobernar la noche: [hizo] también las estrellas. Gen 1:17 Y los puso Dios en la expansión de los cielos para alumbrar sobre la tierra, Ver. 16,17. También hizo las estrellas. ] Ser receptáculos de esa primera luz, de donde se les llama "estrellas de luz", Sal 148: 3 y trabajar sobre los cuerpos inferiores,

Genesis 27:28 — muerte, o en prisión, y en peligro de vida. b Nuevamente, los partidarios de la religión que ahora se usa, tuvieron maravillosa buena suerte y prosperidad en todas las cosas. Estos magos, estos "disputadores de este mundo", como los llama el apóstol, 1 Cor 1:20 o no sabían, o no creían, que la Iglesia es la heredera de la Cruz, Ecclesia haeres Crucis, como un antiguo habla; que la oposición es, como Calvino le escribió al rey francés, el genio Evangelii , el genio malo que persigue el evangelio;

Genesis 3:21 — También a Adán y a su mujer hizo Jehová Dios túnicas de pieles y los vistió. Ver. 21. Abrigos de pieles y vestidos. ] Dios los vistió de cuero, cuando aún había mejores medios de vestir, para humillarlos sin duda y llevarlos al arrepentimiento. Si Dios creó estas pieles de nuevo, o las quitó de las espaldas de ovejas y cabras sacrificadas

Ecclesiastes 10:16 — Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, — s.c. , In understanding, though not in years, such as was Shechem, Genesis 34:19 , Neque distulit puer and Rehoboam. 1 Kings 14:21 2 Chronicles 13:7 Solomon was a child king; so was Josiah, Uzziah, our Edward VI; and yet it was well with the land in their days. “ Hic regum decus et iuvenum flos, spesque honorum, Deliciae

Ecclesiastes 3:6 — properly get what they cannot long hold. How much better therefore were it to seek God! Cuius inventio est ipsum semper quaerere (as Nyssen hath it here), the finding of whom is always to seek him, and in seeking of whom there is so great reward. Hebrews 11:6 "Seek ye me and ye shall live." Amos 5:4 "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion." Amos 5:8 Seek him "in a time when he may be found." Psalms 32:6 "Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation."

Song of Solomon 2:6 — called unto you, my friends, to relieve and raise me, falling into a spiritual swoon; but behold the "consolation that is in Christ, the comfort of love, the fellowship of the Spirit, the bowels and mercies of my dear husband": Philippians 2:1-2 he hath fulfilled my joy, he hath prevented your help, or at least he hath wrought together with the means, and made it successful. You have stayed me with flagons, but he hath "restored my soul": Psalms 23:2 you have bolstered me up with

Hosea 13:16 — become desolate," or be found guilty, rea peragetur, (as the Chaldee hath it, and the words may bear). How can she be otherwise, whereas she hath rebelled against her God — She hath embittered him, or bitterly provoked him to wrath, as Hosea 12:14 See Trapp on " Hosea 12:14 " who therefore sent in the Assyrian to desolate her: "that bitter and hasty nation, to march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that were not theirs," Habakkuk 1:6 . This

Hosea 14:6 — — That goodly tree, Leviticus 23:40 , that retaineth her greenness in the depth of winter; yea, in that universal deluge, Noah’s dove met with an olive leaf. "The Lord hath called thy name," saith the prophet to the Church, Jeremiah 11:16 , "a green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit." The cypress is fair, but not fruitful; the fig tree fruitful, but not fair and flourishing. But the olive tree is both fair and fruitful; her fruit also is of singular use to mankind,

Jonah 3:5 — even to the least of them. So the people of Nineveh believed God — See the mighty power of God’s holy word. "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds," 2 Corinthians 10:4 , to the laying flat those walls of Jericho, making the devil fall as lightning from the heaven of men’s hearts, Luke 10:18 . These Ninevites, though rich, great, peaceable, prosperous, profane above measure (as great cities use to be), …,

Micah 4:13 — unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion — "Go in this thy might" (wherewith thou so lustily threshest out thy wheat by the winepress, said the angel to Gideon, Judges 6:14 ), and thresh the Midianites another while, "thou shalt smite them as one man," Judges 6:16 ; thresh them as the sheaves of the floor, that lie ready for the flail, or, as the custom of those countries was, Deuteronomy 25:4 1 Corinthians

Nahum 1:11 — — Many there are, but one among and above the rest; sc. Sennacherib, that bold Briareus, that lifteth up his hundred hands at once against heaven, and threateneth to cut off at a blow God’s people, as if they had all but one neck. See Nahum 1:9 . "He is come up over all his channels, and gone over all his banks," Isaiah 8:7 ; but God shall soon put a stop to him, and with an "overrunning flood" (that he may be even with him) "make an utter end of his place,"

Nahum 3:14 — biting taunt, or mock ( sarcasmus ), whereby the prophet laugheth to scorn the fortifications of the Ninevites and their diligence and providence in defending themselves, which shall nothing avail them, because God will curse their enterprises, Psalms 127:1-2: see the like sarcasm Nahum 2:1 . In those eastern countries there was a great scarcity of water. Draw thee good store, for the better holding out the siege; for if water fail thee thou must needs yield. Fortify thy strong holds — But they

Zephaniah 2:8 — children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified [themselves] against their border. I have heard the reproach of Moab — How can he but hear who is all ear? who is both above us, and within us, in whom we subsist, Colossians 1:17 . And what will he sooner be sensible of than the reproachings of his people? see Isaiah 37:28 ; Isaiah 57:3-4 ; "But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore." (See how he becalls them.) "Against

Matthew 12:32 — world, neither in the world to come. And whosoever speaketh a word, … — As Peter did through infirmity, Paul through ignorance; those poor souls whom he haled to prison, and for fear of death compelled them to blaspheme Christ, Acts 26:11 . Tertullian reports the like of Claudius Herminianus, a persecuter in Cappadocia, quod tormentu quosdam a proposito suo excidere fecerat, that for spite that his own wife was turned Christian, he forced many, by tormenting them, to reneague Christ.

Matthew 2:2 — born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? — As presupposing a common notice. But the "kingdom of God cometh not by observation," Luke 17:21 , neither is it of this world. Christ is somewhat an obscure King here, as Melchisedec was; and his kingdom consists in righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost, which the stranger worldling meddles not with, Proverbs 14:10 ; Romans 14:17

Matthew 20:22 — what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. Ye know not what ye ask — Ye ask and miss, "because ye ask amiss," James 4:1 . A prayer for things not lawful begs nothing but a denial, as Moses did, in praying to enter into the land, Deuteronomy 3:25 ; as Job did in that peevish request of his, that God would "let loose his hand, and cut him off," Job 6:8-9 ; as

Matthew 24:15 — the sun! Whoso readeth, let him understand — Let him strive to do so by reading with utmost attention, diligence, and devotion, weeping as John did, till the sealed book was opened; digging deep in the mine of the Scriptures for the mind of God, 1 Corinthians 2:15 , and holding it fast when he hath it, lest at any time he should let it slip, Hebrews 2:1 . Admirable is that, and applicable to this purpose, which Philostratus relateth of the precious stone Pantarbe, of so orient, bright, and sweet

Matthew 26:41 — enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Watch and pray — Yea, watch, while ye are praying, against corruption within, temptations without. Satan will be interrupting as the Pythoness did Paul praying, Acts 16:16 ; as the fowls did Abraham sacrificing, Genesis 15:11 ; as the enemies did Nehemiah with his Jews, building, who therefore prayed and watched, watched and prayed. Among all actions, Satan is ever busiest in the best; and most in the best part of

Matthew 5:1 — naturally bear downward, as the poise of a clock. And when he was set — Either as being weary, or as intending a longer sermon. This at his first onset upon his office, and that at his last (when he left the world and went to his Father, John 14:15-17 ), being the longest and liveliest that are recorded in the Gospels. He preached, no doubt, many times many hours together. But as his miracles, so his oracles, are no more of them written than might suffice to make us believe, and live through

Acts 5:5 — month, which he there named. The friar died immediately before the day came without remorse of conscience, … The Judge of the earth keepeth his petty sessions now, letting the law pass upon some few, reserving the rest till the great assizes, 1 Timothy 5:24 . Some flagitious persons he punisheth here, lest his providence, but not all, lest his patience and promise of a general judgment, should be called in question. (Aug. in Psalms 30:1-12 ) Very remarkable was God’s hand upon Mistress