Bible Commentaries

Genesis 12:2 — make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will make of thee a great nation. — Why then should the scornful Jews call us nations or Gentiles in contempt? yea, heathen bastards, heathen dogs, as they do at this day? Pareus in Romans 11:25 . See my True Treasur. , p. 297. Surely, either themselves are of this great Goi or nation here mentioned, or else they have not Abraham to their father; choose them which. I will bless thee. — As a father his children, with all spiritual

Genesis 8:1 — be merciful? … But forgetfulness befalls not the Almighty. The butler may forget Joseph; and Joseph, his father’s house: Ahasuerus may forget Mordecai; and the delivered city the poor man that by his wisdom preserved it. Ecclesiastes 9:15 The Sichemites may forget Gideon; but "God is not unfaithful to forget your work and labour of love," saith the apostle. Hebrews 6:10 And there is "a book of remembrance written before him," saith the prophet, "for them that

Job 10:8 — work without either tool or toil, Isaiah 40:28 . But this is attributed to him after the manner of men, to show the curious workmanship showed in man’s creation, the masterpiece of all his works of wonder. This David sweetly singeth of, Psalms 139:1-24 , and Galen admireth in that excellent book of his, De usu partium humani corporis, setting forth the praises of that God whom he knew not, and singing a hymn unto him. Man, saith one, is cura divini ingenii, he is God’s escutcheon, wherein

Job 13:26 — and accordingly thou inflictest hard and heavy things upon me, as is most elegantly described in the following verses by metaphor fetched from the course of courts, Humanitus dictum ex usu forensi (Jun.). Sin is an evil and a bitter thing, Jeremiah 2:19 Hebrews 12:15 Acts 8:23 ; and hath bitter effects, Ruth 1:20 Exodus 1:14 . This made that holy man, Mr Paul Baine, say, The sweet ways of my youth did breed such worms in my soul, as that my heavenly Father will have me yet a little while continue

Proverbs 16:1 — — He saith not ‘of man’ as if it were in man’s power to dispose of his own heart, but "in man," as wholly wrought by God; for our sufficiency is not in ourselves, but "in him (as we live, so) we move" Acts 17:28 - understand it of the motions of the mind also. It is he that "fashioneth the hearts of men," Psalms 33:13 shaping them at his pleasure. He put small thoughts into the heart of Ahasuerus, but for great purposes. And so he did into the

Proverbs 30:8 — for me: Remove far from me vanity and lies, — i.e., All sorts of sins, those lying vanities that promise much happiness to those that pursue them, but perform little enough; "shame" at the best, but usually "death." Romans 6:21 ; Romans 6:23 Free me both from the damning and from the domineering power of sin; both from the sting and stain of it; from the guilt and filth; from the crime and curse; from the power and punishment. Let my person be justified, and my lusts mortified.

Ecclesiastes 11:8 — rejoice, …, — q.d., Say he live pancratice et basilice, and sit many years in the world’s warm sunshine, yet he must not build upon a perpetuity, as good Job did, but was deceived, when he said, "I shall die in my nest," Job 29:18 and holy David, when he concluded, "I shall never be moved." Psalms 30:6 For as sure as the night follows the day, a change will come, a storm will rise, and such a storm as to wicked worldlings will never be blown over. Look for it, therefore,

Song of Solomon 4:12 — Un jardín cercado [es] mi hermana, [mi] esposa; un manantial cerrado, una fuente sellada. Ver. 12. Un jardín cerrado es mi hermana, mi esposa. ] Bella y dulce la había afirmado antes; ahora porque “ Lis est cum forma magna pudicitae. " La disputa es con su gran modestia. Las mujeres hermosas tienen muchas que las desean y las esperan. Eι μεν καλην,

Isaiah 1:2 — heavens, and give ear, O earth. — Exordium patheticum! Moses-like, he calleth heaven and earth, brutas illas mutasque creaturas, to record against God’s rebels, whose stupendous stupidity is hereby taxed. Deuteronomy 4:26 ; Deuteronomy 30:19 ; Deuteronomy 31:28 Heaven and earth do hear and obey God’s voice, for "they are all his servants," Psalms 119:91 keeping their constant course. Only man, that great heteroclite, A person that deviates from the ordinary rule; an ‘anomaly’.

Hosea 13:4 — god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me. Yet I am the Lord thy God, … — Yet for all the sorrow; and though I thus threaten thee: "for since I spake against thee, I do earnestly remember thee still," …, Jeremiah 31:20 . It is easy to observe all along this chapter, an interchange of menaces and mercies, as in the preceding verse and this, so Hosea 13:8-9 ; Hosea 13:13-14 ; Hosea 13:16 ; Hosea 14:1 , to show how soon the Lord repents him of the evil, and how ready

Hosea 14:2 — enmienda. Demanda a Dios que te dé esas palabras que él te pide que tomes: ve a él en sus propias palabras, pon sus promesas en juego; anhelamos la ayuda de su Espíritu Santo, sin la cual, ¿qué podemos hacer? Romanos 8:26 . Dile a Dios, como Job 37:19 , " Job 37:19 lo que te diremos; porque no podemos ordenar nuestras palabras a causa de las tinieblas. "David promete no solo orar, sino ordenar sus oraciones, ponerlas en buen orden, de modo que la palabra signifique, Salmo 5:3 ," Por la mañana dirigiré

Hosea 7:13 — ¡Ay de ellos! porque han huido de mí: ¡destrucción sobre ellos! porque se rebelaron contra mí; aunque los redimí, ellos hablaron mentira contra mí. Ver. 13. ¡Ay de ellos! porque han huido de mí ] Como lo hizo Caín (el patriarca del diablo) cuando salió de la presencia del Señor, en la familia de su padre, a la tierra de Nod, Génesis 4:16 , siendo él mismo un "no tener", es decir, un fugitivo, Oseas

Joel 2:1 — words and figures, because he had to do with a people that were harder than rocks, Jeremiah 5:8 ; as also, because there is an absolute necessity of repentance. Aut poenitendum, aut pereundum, as our Saviour tells his disciples twice in a breath, Luke 13:2 ; Luke 13:5 . The prophet had urged them hereunto from the evils they felt or feared, Joel 1:1-20 . Pain and penitence are words of one derivation. God plagueth men that he may make them cry peccavi; I have sinned, not peril only, I am undone, as

Joel 3:3 — cast lots for my people — Impiously and imperiously domineering over them as those rude soldiers that cast the dice upon our Saviour’s coat, at his passion. It was ordinary to divide by lots the enemies they had taken in the fight, Nahum 3:10 Obadiah 1:11 Lamentations 3:53 Judges 5:30 ; but at base rates thus to sell God’s people ignominiously, and that to satisfy their lewd lusts - this was unsufferable. And have given a boy for an harlot — Heb. that boy, as afterwards that

Zechariah 11:16 — is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land — Evil shepherds (that is, rulers in State and Church, see Jeremiah 6:3 Nahum 3:18 Isaiah 44:28 ) are set up by God for a punishment of a sinful people. See Trapp on " Zechariah 11:15 " The evil shepherd here meant was Antiochus Epiphanes, saith Theodoret; Herod, the infanticide, saith Montanus; Titus and the Romans, saith

Zechariah 12:2 — Poison in wine works more furiously. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of giddiness, saith the Church, Psalms 60:3 . In the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red, it is full mixed, … The prophet here seems to allude to Jeremiah 25:15 Isaiah 29:8 Jeremiah 51:7 . Ovid saith of the river Gallus, that whoso drinketh of it runneth mad immediately. Jerome telleth of a lake, near Naples, whereinto, if a dog be thrown, he presently dieth. The like is reported, by Josephus, of the Lake

Zechariah 14:14 — out at his lips. So did Zisca, and the rest of Christ’s worthy warriors, who, by faith (and yet by force of arms too), waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens, subdued kingdoms, fought the Lord’s battles, Hebrews 11:32 ; Hebrews 11:34 . They saw, by faith, what is on the other side of the shore of this mortality; and that put mettle into them. The valour of the Gauls was admired by the Romans; it proceeded from that instruction they had from their Druids, of the

Matthew 3:1 — came John the Baptist — Whom Chrysologus fitly calleth fibulam legis et gratiae, the bond or buckle of both Testaments. He standeth as that angel, with one foot on the sea (the law), and with the other foot on the land (the gospel), Revelation 10:1 . Preaching in the wilderness of Judea — A place wherein we find six cities with their villages, Joshua 15:62 , but called a wilderness, because more thinly inhabited. In which sense we may say of Germany, that Aceldama or field of blood, and

Matthew 5:38 — reconciliarse con ellos. b Carne y sangre sugiere que es cuestión de buen temple ser rápido en el contacto, tan adelante en el retorno como otros lo son en el ofrecimiento incorrecto. "Porque si un hombre encuentra a su enemigo, ¿lo dejará ir bien?" dijo Saúl, 1 Samuel 24:19 . Esto va bastante en contra de los principios de la naturaleza y la política común. Dar la vuelta y la venganza se cuenta como valor; que, sin embargo, la palabra de Dios llama cobardía, deshonra y pérdida de la victoria (ηττημα), 1 Corintios

Matthew 7:14 — Porque estrecha es la puerta, y angosto es el camino que lleva a la vida, y pocos son los que la hallan. Ver. 14. Porque estrecha es la puerta, y angosto el camino, etc. ] "En la torre de Lollards, pasando por seis o siete puertas llegué a mi alojamiento" (dice Philpot, mártir) "por muchos estrechos; donde llamé a la memoria, ese estrecho es el camino al cielo".