Bible Commentaries

Genesis 26:10 — … Non est, mihi crede, flagitium, adolescentem belluari, potare, scortari, fores effringere. And this poisonful position passed, it seems, for current at Corinth; whence the apostle Paul so strives to uproot that wretched opinion, by many arguments. 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 And 1 Corinthians 10:8 instead of the cloak of heat of youth, he puts upon fornication a bloody cloak, bathed in the blood of three and twenty thousand.

Genesis 48:5 — be mine. As Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. — God hath in like sort adopted us for his dear children; saying, "I will be a Father unto them, and they shall be my sons and my daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 2 Corinthians 6:18 This St John calls a royalty or prerogative, εξουσια , John 1:12 such as he elsewhere stands amazed at. 1 John 3:1 And well he may; for all God’s children are "firstborn," and so "higher

1 Kings 11:13 — Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; [but] will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen. I will not rend away all. — Here is a second mitigation of the sentence. See 1 Kings 11:12 . The Lord is gracious and full of compassion: he quickly repenteth him of the evil, and leaveth a blessing behind him. One tribe. — Benjamin is reckoned as part of Judah, because within him. Joshua 19:1 ; Joshua 19:9 For David my

2 Kings 5:18 — plead an upright soul in a prostrate body, pretend Nathanael in the skin of a Nicodemus. The words may be taken of the time past, and so some read, The Lord be merciful unto me, for I have gone into the house of Rimmon. So the word is used in Psalms 51:1 ; Psalms 52:1 ; Psalms 54:1 .

1 Chronicles 29:22 — [to be] priest. And did eat and drink before the Lord. — So should we in all our feasts and merry meetings: to feed without fear is a foul fault. With great gladness. — For they had also that continual feast of a good conscience. Proverbs 15:15 And they made Solomon … king the second time. — For the first time 1 Kings 1:38-39 it was done hastily, suddenly, and in a manner tumultuarily, by reason of Adonijah’s sedition; but this here was done with good respite and great

Psalms 116:13 — I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. I will take the cup of salvation — Calicem salutum, vel omnis salutis (Vatab. Trem.). As in the drink offerings, or as at the feast after the peace offerings. See 1 Chronicles 16:3 . Wherein the feast maker was wont to take a festival great cup; and in lifting it up to declare the occasion of that feast; and then, in testimony of thankfulness, to drink thereof to the guests, that they in order might pledge him.

Psalms 116:6 — The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. The Lord preserveth, the simple — Heb. the persuasible (opposed to the scorner, Proverbs 19:25 ), the plain hearted (opposed to the guileful, 2 Corinthians 1:12 ; 2 Corinthians 11:3 Romans 16:19 ), the destitute of human help, that committeth himself to God, and patiently resteth on him for support and help, Psalms 102:1-17 . I was brought

Psalms 12:6 — pure words — Free from all insincerity or falsehood; and not like those of Saul’s flatterers, vile and vicious. All God’s promises are infallible, and such as a man may write upon, as they say. They are yea and Amen, 2 Corinthians 1:20 , that is, truth and assurance. God hath hitherto kept promise with nights and days, that they shall one succeed another, Jeremiah 33:20 ; Jeremiah 33:25 , therefore much more will he keep promise with his people. As silver tried in a furnace —

Psalms 76:2 — In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion. In Salem also is his tabernacle — i.e. In Jerusalem, which was first called Salem, Genesis 14:18 Hebrews 7:1 . Secondly, Jebus, 1 Chronicles 11:4 Joshua 15:8 ; Joshua 18:28 . Thirdly, Jerusalem, Joshua 15:63 2 Samuel 5:6 , not as if ιερον Sολυμων , or Sολομωντος

Proverbs 29:24 — to sin or to conceal it, as bad as to commit it. By the one as well as by the other, a man may easily become, as Korah did, "a sinner against his own soul," and cruelly cut the throat of it. Let our public thieves look to this. See Isaiah 1:23 . He heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not. — See Leviticus 5:1 . See Trapp on " Leviticus 5:1 " To conceal treason is treason, so here. "Have no fellowship therefore with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove

Proverbs 4:19 — The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. Is as darkness. — That little light they had by nature they imprison, κατεχοντωυ , Romans 1:18 and are justly deprived of. And as for those sparkles of the light of joy and comfort that hypocrites have, it is but as a flash of lightning which is followed with a thunder clap, or like the light smitten out of the flint; (1.) they cannot warm

Isaiah 56:5 — mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. Even unto them will I give in mine house. — In the Church of the New Testament. Ephesians 2:19-21 A place. — Heb., A hand. A door keeper’s place in God’s house is worth having; Psalms 84:10 this was that one thing that he so dearly begged. Psalms 27:4 And a name. — That new name, Revelation 2:17 that power or prerogative-royal

Isaiah 64:4 — thee, [what] he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, — scil., The mysteries of the gospel revealed by the Spirit; whereunto the angels also desire to look, as the apostles witness. 1 Corinthians 2:9 1 Peter 1:12 Neither hath the eye seen, O God, besides thee. — Or, A God beside thee, i.e., That can do as thou doest. For him that waiteth for him. — For "them that love him," saith the apostle. It is by faith

Jeremiah 36:3 — excellent use that may be made of reading them. A man may be thereby doubtless converted where preaching is wanting, as various were in Queen Mary’s days, when the Word of God was precious; Foxe’s Martyrol. as Augustine was by reading Romans 13:1-14 ., Fulgentius by the Frophet Jonah, Franciseus Junius by John 1:1-51 ., …; the eunuch, Acts 8:26-39 and those noble Bereans, Acts 17:11 were notably prepared for conversion by this ordinance. That I may forgive their iniquity and their

Deuteronomy 7:9 — Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he [is] God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; The faithful God. — The God of Amen. Psalms 31:6 "The Amen, the faithful and true witness," Revelation 3:14 that "will not suffer his faithfulness to fail, nor alter the thing that is gone out of his lips," Psalms 89:33 all his precepts, predictions, promises, menaces, being

Ephesians 1:5 — good pleasure of his will, Having predestinated us — Interpreters have observed that this word that signifies to predestinate is but six times to be found in the New Testament (never in the Old), being referred but twice to things, Acts 4:28 ; 1 Corinthians 2:7 , four times to persons, Romans 8:29-30 Ephesians 1:5 ; Ephesians 1:11 , and never applied to reprobates, but to elect persons only. Howbeit divines under predestination do usually consider the decree both of election and reprobation.

Philippians 3:21 — Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Like unto his glorious body — Which is the standard. See Trapp on " 1 Corinthians 15:38 " See Trapp on " 1 Corinthians 15:44 " Now we may say to our souls as he did to his, O anima, quam deforme hospitium nacta es? Poor soul, what an ill lodging room hast thou gotten! But at the resurrection all shall be

Joshua 18:11 — Judah and the children of Joseph. Between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. — This was as well as heart could wish; what could God do more for Jacob’s darling, and for the fulfilling of Moses’s prophecy? Deuteronomy 33:12 It is a great happiness doubtless to be well neighboured; and yet a greater to be near the place where God’s honour dwelleth. The league betwixt Judah and Benjamin lasted, as if they had been but one tribe, when the rest revolted with Jeroboam.

Hebrews 12:15 — Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you , and thereby many be defiled; Lest any man fail — Or, fall short, asHebrews 4:1; Hebrews 4:1 ; see the note there. Short shooting loseth many a game. He that in a race lieth down ere he come to the goal, gets not the garland. Perseverance crowns all our virtues. But it is an easy thing to fall a napping with the foolish virgins

Revelation 14:1 — And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads. A lamb — In opposition to that counterfeit lamb, Revelation 13:12 . A lion he can show himself at pleasure. Stood — Ready pressed for action, as at the stoning of Stephen, or he stood sentinel for such as he here reserved to himself under the reign and rage of Antichrist. A hundred forty and four thousand