Bible Commentaries

Genesis 1:28 — Make it habitable by driving out the wild beasts that infest and annoy it. Make it arable also, and useful to yourselves and yours. The creatures are man’s servants and household stuff. "God hath put all things under his feet," Psalms 8:1-9 that be may raise himself thereby to God his maker. Qui dominari in caetera possit, natus homo est. A wise philosopher could say, that man is the end of all things in a semicircle; that is, all things in the world are made for him, and he is made

Genesis 1:28 — domina. ] Hágala habitable expulsando a las fieras que la infestan y la molestan. Hazlo también arable y útil para ti y para los tuyos. Las criaturas son sirvientes del hombre y cosas de la casa. "Dios puso todas las cosas debajo de sus pies", Sal 8: 1-9 para que así se eleve a Dios su Hacedor. aUn filósofo sabio podría decir que el hombre es el fin de todas las cosas en un semicírculo; es decir, todas las cosas del mundo están hechas para él, y él está hecho para Dios; para conocerlo y reconocerlo,

Genesis 11:9 — the world’s end. Hebricians, saith Reuchlin, drink of the fountains; Grecians of the rivers; Latinists of the standing pools only. Hebraei bibunt fontes, Greci rivos, Latini paludes . There were that mocked at the multitude of tongues. Acts 2:13 And the monks were mad almost at such Camilli literarii as chased out barbarism and brought in the learned languages. Joh. Manlii. loc. com., p. 130. But let us acknowledge it a singular gift of God, as for the gathering of the Church at first, Acts

Genesis 11:9 — retenidas y mantenidas en las iglesias de Cristo hasta el fin del mundo. Los hebricos, dice Reuchlin, beben de las fuentes; Griegos de los ríos; Latinistas de las piscinas de pie solamente. a Hubo quienes se burlaron de la multitud de lenguas. Act 2:13 Y los monjes se enojaron casi con esos Camilli literarii que expulsaron la barbarie y trajeron las lenguas eruditas. b Pero reconozcámoslo como un don singular de Dios, en cuanto a la reunión de la Iglesia al principio, Hechos 2: 1-4, así todavía para

Genesis 32:24 — Y Jacob se quedó solo; y luchó con él un hombre hasta que rayaba el alba. Ver. 24. Y Jacob se quedó solo. ] A propósito, para la oración secreta: así la Iglesia la mete en "las hendiduras de las rocas"; Hijo 2:14 Isaac, al campo; Daniel, al lado del río; Cristo, al monte; Peter, hasta el tejado o la azotea de la casa; para que derramen sus oraciones y se consuelen con Dios en secreto. Esto puede parecer que hace un hipócrita, ya sea por costumbre o por vanagloria:

Genesis 4:8 — judge, nor world to come, nor reward for justice, nor vengeance for wickedness, … Certain it is that those that are set to go on in sin do lay hold upon all the principles in their heads, and "imprison them in unrighteousness," Romans 1:18 that they may sin more freely. They muzzle the mouths of their consciences, that they may satisfy their lusts without control. But had Zimri peace that slew his master? or Cain that slew his brother? hath any ever waxed fierce against God and prospered?

Genesis 4:8 — juicio, ni juez, ni mundo por venir, ni recompensa por la justicia, ni venganza por la iniquidad, etc. Es cierto que los que están dispuestos a seguir en pecado se aferran a todos los principios en su cabeza y los "aprisionan en la injusticia", Rom 1:18 para que puedan pecar más libremente. Ponen un bozal a la boca de su conciencia, para satisfacer sus concupiscencias sin control. Pero, ¿Zimri tuvo la paz que mató a su amo? ¿O Caín que mató a su hermano? ¿Alguno se ha enfurecido contra Dios y ha

Ezra 2:1 — Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; Now these are the children of the province — That is, of Judaea, now a province, though formerly a princess; now solitary and tributary that was once populous and great among the nations, Lamentations 1:1 . Medinah, the word here rendered province, sometimes signifieth Metropolis, aliis ius dicens, a place that giveth laws to other places, and so Judaea in her flourish had been. See Ezra 4:20 . But now it was otherwise, and so it is at this day, not

Nehemiah 4:4 — ουτιδανοι , no bodies. So Paul (the most precious man upon earth) and his companions (the glory of Christ, and a royal diadem in the hand of Jehovah, Isaiah 62:3 ) were looked upon as the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things, 1 Corinthians 4:13 . What matter is it, then, what becometh of us? We have a God to turn us to, and Demetrius hath testimony of the truth; that is enough, let Diotrephes prate what he pleaseth, 3 John 1:9 . And turn their reproach upon their own heads

Job 4:13 — was in thoughts, the word properly signifieth branches, or boughs of trees, which are many, thick, intertwined, and crossing one another, In the multitude of my perplexed thoughts within me, saith David, thy comforts have refreshed my soul, Psalms 94:19 . The same word is rendered vain thoughts, or wavering cogitations, Psalms 119:113 , such as David’s soul hated. Carnal hearts are exchanges and shops of vain thoughts, stews of unclean thoughts, slaughter houses of cruel and bloody thoughts;

Psalms 37:1 — of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. Fret not thyself because of evil-doers — Who prosper in the world when better men suffer many times. This made good David sick of the fret, as himself testifieth, Psalms 73:14-16 , till better informed and settled, by repairing to the sanctuary, Psalms 73:17 . He wrote this thirty-seventh psalm for the good of God’s people; lest they, being scandalized in like manner, and stumbling at the same stone that he had done,

Psalms 4:1 — Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. » Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me [when I was] in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer. To the chief Musician — Or, To the most excellent music master, 1 Chronicles 25:1-2 , to the chief chanter, Asaph, was this, and some other psalms, committed, that they might be sung in the best manner, and with greatest care. So Alexander, on his death bed, left his kingdom τω Kρατιστω

Isaiah 4:5 — assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory [shall be] a defence. And the Lord will create. — For the safeguard and security of his peculiar people thus purified unto himself, Titus 2:14 and that they may serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all and every day of their lives. Luke 1:74-75 God, rather than fail, will "create," as he did of old in Egypt and the wilderness, "a cloud by day, a flaming

Hosea 13:15 — his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels. Though he be fruitful among his brethren — In allusion to his name Ephraim, which signifieth fruitful and flourishing, Genesis 41:52 . Confer Genesis 48:16 ; Genesis 48:19-20 ; Genesis 49:22 . See the like allusions Amos 5:5 Micah 1:10 . An east wind shall come — Which is violent and hurtful to the fruits of the earth. The wind of the Lord — A mighty strong wind, meaning

Hosea 14:1 — Dominum, all the way to God, as far as to the Lord: give not the half, but the whole turn; and take it for a mercy that you are yet called upon to return, and may be received; "that yet there is hope in Israel concerning this thing," Ezra 10:2 . All the former part of the prophecy had been mostly denunciations; this last chapter is wholly consolatory; the Sun of Righteousness loves not to set in a cloud. Return unto the Lord thy God — He is yet thy God: no such argument for our turning

Amos 7:17 — shall surely go into captivity forth of his land. Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife, … — Thou shalt be sure of thy share in the common calamity, which thou wilt not hear of; but thou shalt hear and be ashamed, …, Isaiah 26:11 . So little is gotten by thwarting with God, and seeking to frustrate his counsel. With these froward pieces God will show himself froward, Psalms 16:4 ; and if they walk contrary to him, he will also walk as cross to them, Leviticus 26:21 ; he will

Jonah 2:7 — When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord — And could say, as the Church in Isaiah 63:16 , when at lowest, "Doubtless thou art our father, our redeemer, thy name is from everlasting." As there is in the creatures an instinct of nature to do after their kind; so there. is of grace in the saints to run to God. "Yea, in the

Micah 1:1 — The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. The word of the Lord, … — See Trapp on " Hosea 1:1 " To Micah the Morasthite — To distinguish him from Micaiah, the son of Imlah, who prophesied in Ahab’s days, over a hundred years before this. Micah the Morasthite, so called from the place of his birth or abode, which is made famous

Nahum 3:19 — him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?" Surely no; there is a manifest difference. "He hath torn," saith the Church, "and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up," Hosea 6:1 . Hence that distinction of punishment, or pain, in condemnantem, et corrigentem, in poenam vindictae, et poenam medelae. Afflictions and temporal evils are in the nature, to the wicked of a curse, to the godly of a cure; to the former mortal, to the

Matthew 14:3 — found to have a Herod’s heart towards their faithful ministers? Were there but a sword (of authority) in their hand, as he said to his ass, they would surely slay them, Numbers 22:29 . They would deal by them no better than Saul did by David, 1 Samuel 18:10 , while he was playing upon his harp to ease Saul’s distracted mind, he cast a spear at him. The most savoury salt (if they can do withal) must be cast out, and trodden underfoot; as Calvin and other faithful ministers were driven