Bible Commentaries

Genesis 17:3 — — It was fit he should, now that God talked with him. Such a posture of body befits us at the hearing of the word, as may best express our reverence, and further our attention. Balak is bid to rise up to hear Balaam’s parable. Numbers 23:18 Eglon, though a fat unwieldy man, riseth up from his seat to hear God’s message from Ehud. Judges 3:20 The people in Nehemiah "stood up" Nehemiah 8:5 to hear the law read and expounded. Constantine the Great would not be entreated to

Genesis 18:2 — three men stood by him: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And he lift up his eyes and looked. — As "pursuing hospitality" (that is the apostle’s expression, Romans 12:13 ), and waiting an opportunity of doing good. Charity is no churl. "The liberal man deviseth liberal things"; Isaiah 32:8 "he considereth the poor and needy". Psalms 41:1 Praeoccupat vocem petituri , as Augustine expounds it,

Ezra 1:2 — Judá. Ver. 2. El Señor Dios de los cielos me ha dado ] Este buen lenguaje Ciro bien podría aprender de Daniel, quien floreció bajo su reinado, Daniel 5:28 , y probablemente lo familiarizó con las profecías que le precedieron, Isaías 44:28 ; Isaías 45:1 . Jaddeus, el sumo sacerdote, hizo lo mismo, muchos años después, con Alejandro Magno; quien no solo perdonó a los judíos, sino que los honró en gran manera, como relata Josefo. Aquí, entonces, vemos que este potentado de la tierra da al Señor la gloria

Esther 1:1 — Y sucedió que en los días de Asuero, (este [es] Asuero que reinó, desde la India hasta Etiopía, [sobre] ciento siete y veinte provincias :) Ver. 1. Y sucedió en los días de Asuero ] Este libro está en hebreo llamado Ester, porque ella es una de las partes principales en él mencionada y memorizada. Los rabinos lo llaman Meguilá Ester, es decir, el volumen de Ester; y además díganos que hay cinco

Song of Solomon 3:6 — propio novio, embelesado por la belleza y la dulzura de su esposa, y maravillado por la hermosura que él mismo pone sobre ella; también puede hacerlo , para quantum mutatur ab illa. un Tal cambio que ha obrado en ella, como nunca se conoció en todo. Eze 16: 6-14 Moisés se casó con una mujer etíope y no pudo cambiar su tono. David se casó con una mujer desdeñosa, una Mical burlona, ​​y no pudo enmendar sus condiciones. La esposa de Job siguió siendo, como se dice de Helena, después de los problemas troyanos

Hosea 2:5 — conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. For their mother hath played the harlot — Being a "wife of whoredoms," Hosea 1:2 See Trapp on " Hosea 1:2 " therefore I will not have mercy upon her children, but will root out all her increase, Job 31:12 . Either she shall commit whoredom, and not increase, Hosea 4:10 ; or if she do, it is for mischief she shall bring

Hosea 2:5 — madre se prostituyó; la que los concibió se deshonró; porque dijo: Iré tras mis amantes, que me dan mi pan y mi agua, mi lana y mi lino, mi aceite y mi bebida. Ver. 5. Porque su madre se ha prostituido ] Siendo una "esposa de fornicaciones", Oseas 1:2 Ver Trapp en " Os 1: 2 ", por lo tanto, no tendré misericordia de sus hijos, sino que arrancaré todos sus frutos, Job 31:12 . O cometerá prostitución y no aumentará, Oseas 4:10 ; o si lo hace, es por maldad que dará a luz hijos al asesino: o al

Hosea 4:13 — Sacrifican sobre las cimas de los montes, y queman incienso en los collados, debajo de los robles, álamos y olmos, porque su sombra es buena; por tanto, tus hijas forzarán, y tus esposas adulterarán. Ver. 13 Sacrifican sobre las cimas de los montes, y queman incienso sobre los collados, etc. ] Como más cerca del cielo; y en una imitación de los patriarcas, quienes, antes de que se erigiera el tabernáculo, sacrificaban en lugares altos (como Abraham en

Zechariah 3:1 — Y me mostró al sumo sacerdote Josué que estaba delante del ángel del SEÑOR, y Satanás estaba a su diestra para resistirlo. Ver. 1. Y me mostró al sumo sacerdote Josué ] En una visión sin duda; y para que con este fin, tanto el profeta como por él también el pueblo, pudieran ser anunciados de que no luchan contra sangre y carne, hombres como ellos, sino contra iniquidades espirituales

Deuteronomy 23:2 — Belial set upon him, as Saul did upon his son Jonathan, and say, "Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman." So of the base and beastly woman, "Do not I know that thou hast done this to the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?" 1 Samuel 20:30 The mutinous Janizaries called their Emperor Bajizet II, drunkard, beast, rascal, bastard, bengi, that is, bachelor, or scholar; and told him, moreover, that they would teach him to use his great place and calling with more sobriety and

Deuteronomy 8:9 — The worst is, that as Aristotle was wont to tax his Athenians, that whereas they were famous for two things, the best land, and the best laws, frumentis uterentur, legibus nequaquam, they abused their plenty, and lived lawlessly; Laert, lib. v. cap. 1. so it may be said of us, that we live in God’s good land, but not by God’s good laws.

Hebrews 11:25 — people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Choosing rather to suffer — The happiest choice that ever the good man made. It was a heavy charge that Elihu laid upon Job, that he had chosen iniquity rather than affliction, Job 36:21 . The Church is said to come from the wilderness (of troubles and miseries), leaning on her beloved,Song of Solomon 8:5; Song of Solomon 8:5 . The good soul will not break the hedge of any commandment to avoid any piece of foul way. Quas non oportet

Hebrews 12:16 — Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Fornicator or profane — He instanceth in some roots of bitterness. Esau’s profaneness appeared in these particulars: 1. In that he was no sooner asked for the birthright but he yielded. 2. That he parted with it for a trifle, a little red, red, as he called it in his haste and hunger. 3. That he did this, being, as he thought, at point of death. 4. That he went his

Hebrews 12:2 — to one point, to Christ alone. The author and finisher — The Alpha and Omega, the beginner and ender. In all other things and arts, non est eiusdem invenire et perficere, the same man cannot begin and finish. But Christ doth both, Philippians 1:5 . Endured the cross — Ran with courage, though he ran with the cross upon his back all the way. Despising the shame — Whereof man’s nature is most impatient. Christ shamed shame (saith an interpreter), as unworthy to be taken notice

1 Peter 1:13 — himself and break out into a brawl with God, after his embassage faithfully discharged to the Ninevites, and the sweet comforts that came in to his soul thereupon! Gird up the loins of your mind, … — Gird yourselves and serve God, Luke 17:8 . A loose, discinct, and diffluent mind is unfit for God’s service. Girding implies, 1. Readiness; 2. Nimbleness, handiness, and handsomeness. The main strength of the body is in the loins. Therefore some say, the strong purposes and resolutions

Judges 11:1 — skinner’s daughter, on whom Robert Duke of Normandy begat our William the Conqueror. Howbeit God made choice of such a one here to be a deliverer of his people; and hath registred him among other of his worthies, famous for their faith. Hebrews 11:32 This is for the comfort of bastards, if believers and born of God. John 1:12-13 We read in our Chronicles of one Faustus, the son of Vortiger, who wept himself blind for the sin of his incestuous parents. And that David had good assurance that the

2 Peter 2:1 — reprobates, in the same sense wherein it is said that the gods of Damascus smote or plagued Ahaz,2 Chronicles 28:23; 2 Chronicles 28:23 , that is, in his opinion they did so: for an idol is nothing in the world, and can do neither good nor evil, Jeremiah 10:5 ; 1 Corinthians 8:4 . Or, that bought them, viz. in laying down a sufficient price for all sinners, in taking upon him the common nature of all men, and in preaching to them in the gospel that he died for sinners indefinitely, offering salvation,

Ruth 1:6 — are vocal and disciplinary. Her daughters-in-law, moved by her virtues, arise to go with her. If moral virtue could be seen with mortal eyes, it would attract all hearts to itself, saith Plato. How much more then would true grace, Song of Solomon 6:1 which is such an elixir, as by contaction, if there be any disposition of goodness in the same metal, it will render it of the property! That she might return from the country of Moab. — Where, although she had been courteously used, yet her heart

Ruth 3:10 — did not reproach her, for coming in that manner, and at that time of night, as a light housewife; nor harbour any evil suspicion of her, as unfit to make an honest man’s wife; but considering her former behavior, which was commendable, Ruth 3:11 and her present kindness to the living and to the dead, he candidly interpreteth what she had done, and calling her "daughter," comforteth and commendeth her, as here. Blessed be thou. — Or, "Blessed art thou of the Lord."

1 Samuel 7:10 — δε θυω , Yea, but I am serving my gods, and therefore I fear them not; Plut., in Vita Numae. how much more might Samuel say so! But the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day. — As Hannah had foretold; 1 Samuel 2:10 as happened; Joshua 10:10 Judges 4:15 as also at the prayers of the thundering legion under Antoninus, the emperor; Euseb., lib. v. cap. 5. and in the days of Theodosius, when that good prince, being to fight with Eugenius the tyrant, Dominum