Bible Commentaries

Genesis 22:5 — yo y el muchacho iremos más allá y adoraremos, y volveremos a ti. Ver. 5. Quedaos aquí con el asno. ] Esto, los hebreos usan como proverbio, contra los que son torpes e incapaces. Zofar dice que "el hombre nace como un pollino de asno salvaje". Job 11:12 Como "potro de asno" por rudeza, y "asno salvaje" por rebeldía. Importa que es indómito e intransitable, hasta que se le ponga un corazón nuevo. Agur no tenía el entendimiento de un hombre, hasta que se lo pidió a Itiel y Ucal. Pro 30: 1-2 Quiere

Genesis 6:4 — hijas de los hombres, y les engendraron [hijos], éstos se convirtieron en valientes que desde la antigüedad fueron varones de renombre. Ver. 4. Había gigantes. ] Gigantes, cuasi Gηγενεις, de tierra. Eran "de la tierra, hablaron de la tierra", Juan 3:31 y la tierra los escuchó; les oí, digo, y caí delante de ellos; como hacen las bestias del campo ante el león rugiente. Por eso se les llama en hebreo Nephilim ; como caído de Dios, cayó sobre los hombres, Job 1:15 y por temor y fuerza, hizo que otros

Matthew 10:3 — Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Bartholomew — This, say some, was that Nathanael, John 1:45-49 He is by Dionysius quoted to have said of divinity, Et magnam esse et minimam ( και πολλην, και ελαχιστην ), that it was large in

Matthew 11:2 — Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, Now when John had heard in the prison — "Put this fellow in prison," said Ahab of Micaiah, 1 Kings 22:27 ; who is thought to have been he that told him so barely of letting go Benhadad. So Jeremiah, that concionator admirabilis (as Kerkerman calleth him), was for forty years’ pains and patience cast into a deep and dirty dungeon. Kerk.

Matthew 13:17 — which ye hear, and have not heard them . Desired to see those things that ye see, … — They saw them, and saluted them only afar off, and in the dark glass of the ceremonies. "But we all with open face," …,2 Corinthians 3:18; 2 Corinthians 3:18 . The sea about the altar was brazen, and what eyes could pierce through it? Now our sea about the throne is glass, like to crystal, clearly conveying the light and sight of God to our eyes. 1 Kings 7:23 ; Revelation 4:6 . All God’s

Matthew 13:24 — Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: The kingdom of heaven — viz. here on earth. For we have eternal life already, 1. In pretio, 2. Promisso, 3. Primitiis, in the price, promise, firstfruits. As God prepared Paradise for Adam, so he hath heaven for his. Howbeit, he reserves not all for hereafter; but gives a grape of Canaan in this wilderness, where by righteousness,

Matthew 14:32 — are used by God to sweep his great house and purge the air. Scopus mundi. Rupert. Virgil, Aeneid, i. 65. If the prince of the air make use of them to sweep God’s children, as he did Job’s children, out of the world, it cannot be said, as 1 Kings 19:11 , that God is not in that wind; for he numbereth their hairs, and counts their flittings; and being the great Aeolus, lays laws upon the winds and waves, which instantly obey him. No sooner was Christ in the ship but they were all at land.

Matthew 18:23 — Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. Which would take account of his servants — This God doth daily. 1. In the preaching of the law with its direction or correction, which he that trembleth not in hearing, saith that martyr, shall be crushed to pieces in feeling. 2. In trouble of conscience, which when open, tells us all we have done, and writes bitter

Matthew 21:27 — And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things. We cannot tell — Lie and all: they could tell, and would not. Their reasonings within themselves, Matthew 21:25 , testify that they knew the truth, but would not acknowledge it; Mendacio nodum secant quem solvere sine impietate vel periculo non possunt, Parcus in loc. they profess their ignorance rather: and such dealing we have from many learned Papists.

Matthew 24:17 — is deformity, of Satan enmity, of war misery. God yet offereth us mercy, as Alexander did those he warred against, while the lamp burned. Oh, let us break off our sins by repentance, and be abrupt in it, lest we should seem to come short, Hebrews 4:1 .

Matthew 26:54 — fulfilled," saith he, "that have foretold my death?" This was his constant care, even when he hung upon the cross, to fulfil the Scriptures; and so to assure us that he was the very Christ. That thus it must be — Why must? but because it was, 1. So decreed by God. 2. Foretold by the prophets; every particular of Christ’s sufferings, even to their very spitting in his face. 3. Prefigured in the daily morning and evening sacrifice; this Lamb of God was sacrificed from the beginning of

Matthew 27:44 — cruelty in composing comedies out of the tragedies of the church, and so to draw blood from that back which is yet blue from the hand of the Almighty. God threateneth Edom for but looking upon Jacob’s affliction in the day of their calamity, Obadiah 1:13 .

Matthew 27:9 — pastoral pains with that perverse people; and hereupon Christ (who is hereby proven to be God), for all his inestimable worth, and incomparable love to lost mankind. If we be at any time undervalued, as we are sure to be (for the world knows us not, 1 John 3:2 ), what so great a matter is it? Was not the Lord Christ infinitely underrated?

Luke 17:6 — of the holy of holies, by which means he wrought all his miracles; and that, lest he should lose it, he cut a hole in his thigh, and sewed it therein. Get we but the true faith of God closed up in our hearts (that most holy faith, as St Jude Judges 1:20 calleth it), and you may work wonders. See Trapp on " Matthew 17:20 "

John 2:11 — doctors, and fasting forty days, these were rather miracles wrought upon Christ than by him. He works his first miracle for confirmation of God the Father’s first ordinance. His disciples believed on him — So they did before, but now more. So 1 John 5:13 . The apostle writes to "them that believed on the name of the Son of God, that they might believe on the name of the Son of God," i.e. that they might be confirmed, continued, and increased in it. Faith is not like Jonah’s

John 21:1 — according to his promise, Matthew 26:32 ; that they might believe and remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was verily raised from the dead according to the gospel, 2 Timothy 2:8: this being a doctrine of greatest consequence and comfort, 1 Corinthians 15:4 . Peter thought himself sufficiently assured of it, and therefore said, I go a fishing; but he was deceived, and needed further confirmation.

John 21:3 — we eat,2 Thessalonians 3:8; 2 Thessalonians 3:8 . Res age tutus eris. Undertake wil will be safe to do. Ovid. And that night they caught nothing — Labour we never so hard, unless God bless it, and stop that hole in the bottom of the bag, Haggai 1:6 , those secret issues and drains of expense, at which men’s estates run out, we shall be forced to say with Severus the emperor, Omnia feci et nihil profuit. Everything I have done and nothing profited. (Spartian.)

John 9:24 — Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. Give God the glory — It appears, Joshua 7:19 ; 1 Samuel 6:5 , that this was some solemn form, in use among that people when they required an oath of delinquents. This the hypocrites made use of, as when the devils adjured Christ by the living God not to cast them out. So their forefathers would

Acts 13:48 — believed. Glorified in the word — That is, received it into their hearts (as some copies read this text, εδεξαντο ), suffering it to indwell richly in them (as becometh such a guest), Colossians 3:16 ; yea, to rule and bear sway, yielding thereunto the obedience of faith, which is the greatest honour that can be done to the word; as the contrary is, to despise prophesying, 1 Thessalonians 5:19 , to cast God’s word behind our backs, Psalms

Acts 5:41 — presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. Worthy to suffer shame — That they were graced so to be disgraced for Christ, Elegantissimum oxymorum, most elegant oxymoron saith Casaubon. So Philippians 1:29 ; "To you it is given (as an honorary) to suffer." Which (saith Father Latimer) is the greatest promotion that God gives in this world. Martyr etiam in catena gaudet, for even a martyr in chains is happy, saith Augustine. Master Glover,