Bible Commentaries

Genesis 12:14 — to a wanton young gentleman. The eye (that light of all the members) is an ornament to the whole body. And yet that lightsome part of the body draweth too oft the whole soul into darkness. This Job knew, and therefore "made a covenant" Job 31:1 to look to his looks; Joh. Manlii, loc. com., p. 345. sith of looking came lusting. Charles V., when the city of Antwerp thought to gratify him in a mask with the sight of certain fair maids brought in before him almost naked, he would not once look

Genesis 20:5 — and she, even she herself said, He [is] my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. Said he not unto me, She is my sister? … — Here Abraham and Sarah, though both famous, he for his faith, Romans 4:19 and she for not being afraid with any amazement, 1 Peter 3:6 yet here they show some trepidation. Sense, saith one, Mr Vines’s Fast Sermon: fights sore against faith, when it is upon its own dunghill, I mean in a sensible danger. Nature’s

Genesis 22:11 — delights to bring his people to the mount, yea, to the very brow of the hill, till their feet slip, and then delivers them. He reserves his holy hand for a dead lift. Only be sure you look to your calling; for it was otherwise with Jephthah, Judges 11:1 whom St Augustine calls facinorosum et improbum , a lewd and naughty man, in his questions upon the Old Testament. What then would he have said to Thomas the Anabaptist, who beheaded his brother Leonard, in the sight of his parents, at Sangal in

Genesis 3:23 — forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Therefore the Lord God sent him forth. — He gently dismissed him, as the word signifies; placed him over against Paradise, in the sight thereof (as Stella Stella in Luke 7:1-50 . observeth out of the Septuagint) that, by often beholding, the sorrow of his sin, might be increased, that his "eye might affect his heart" Iisdem, quibus videmus, oculis flemus. Lamentations 3:5 Yet, "lest he should be swallowed

Genesis 9:26 — and therefore, as he is first named, Genesis 9:23 before his elder brother Japhet; so here he hath the first and chief blessing. It is good to be first in a good matter, yea, prompt and "present to every good work," as Paul hath it. Titus 3:1 And Canaan shall be his servant. — This curse was not fulfilled for many hundred years after, till the sins of the Amorites were grown full, and then it was accomplished. God’s forbearance is no acquittance. He can also turn a curse into

Job 2:10 — Pero él le dijo: Hablas como habla una de las insensatas. ¿Qué? ¿Recibiremos el bien de la mano de Dios, y no recibiremos el mal? En todo esto Job no pecó con sus labios. Ver. 10. Pero él le dijo ] Él no se sobresaltó y se echó sobre ella con su puño poco varonil (Crisóstomo dice que es el mayor reproche del mundo para un hombre golpear a su esposa), pero la reprendió, y eso , como se merecía; y lo mismo hizo Jacob, su mejor

Song of Solomon 6:10 — ¿Quién es la que mira como la mañana, hermosa como la luna, clara como el sol y terrible como un ejército con estandartes? Ver. 10. ¿Quién es la que mira como la mañana? ] Este es el elogio que le hacen las reinas y concubinas, y se expresa a modo de pregunta, no porque dudaran, sino porque admiraban su excelencia. Vea algo similar en Sal 77:13 Miqueas 7:17 . Primero, la Iglesia

Hosea 1:2 — Y bienaventurado el pueblo (dice uno) que tiene tales ministros, que no les dirán nada más que lo primero que Dios ha dicho en ellos: diciendo, con David y Pablo: Creemos, por eso hemos hablado; también creemos , y por tanto habla ", 2 Corintios 4:13 ; hemos experimentado lo que entregamos; creemos y estamos seguros, que Dios está en nosotros de verdad, y que predicamoscum gratia et privilegio, con gracia y privilegio. El comienzo ] De ahí que algunos deduzcan que Oseas fue el primer profeta: Oseas

Hosea 11:4 — de mi filantropía, sí, por gracia singular, he tratado civilmente, es más, cortésmente con ellos, de manera amistosa y afable, y no como hubiera podido hacerlo por mi soberanía y según mi justicia. Los atraje por las cuerdas de un hombre, es decir, 1. Suave y favorablemente; adaptándome a sus disposiciones (que a menudo son tan diferentes como sus rostros), contratándolos a la obediencia, afligiéndolos en medida, con varas de hombres, 2 Samuel 7:14 , adaptados a la debilidad de los hombres. Si

Hosea 5:11 — or at least as a foolish child (so this prophet calleth him), he was soon won over, he came off with litle ado. Jeroboam did but hold up his finger, and he had him straight; a mere crass stupidity carried away to those dumb idols even as he was led, 1 Corinthians 12:2 ; a Melchite, such a generation of heretics there were in the primitive Church, so called because they followed the examples and decrees of the emperors; resolving to be of the king’s religion, whatsoever it were, right or wrong

Hosea 5:11 — Efraín [es] oprimido [y] quebrantado en juicio, porque voluntariamente anduvo en pos del mandamiento. Ver. 11. Efraín es oprimido y quebrantado en juicio ] Calumniam passus est Ephraim, así lo tiene la Vulgata: Efraín fue acusado falsamente y calumniado; Sufrió mucho por los malvados acusadores, quienes depravaron sus buenas acciones, lo arrastraron ante los

Malachi 3:15 — Y ahora llamamos felices a los orgullosos; sí, los que obran iniquidad son puestos en pie; sí, [los que] tientan a Dios incluso son librados. Ver. 15. Y ahora llamamos felices a los orgullosos ]. Los que, hirviendo e hinchados de rencor y enojo contra Dios y su pueblo, Éxodo 18:11 con arrogancia e insolencia, haciendo maldad con las manos, Éxodo 18:11 ; Éxodo 21:11 , y trabajando sus propios

Matthew 6:4 — Para que tu limosna sea en secreto; y tu Padre que ve en lo secreto, te recompensará en público. Ver. 4. Tu Padre que ve en secreto ] Y acepta mejor el servicio secreto. Cantares de los Cantares 2:14 ; "Oh tú que estás en las hendiduras de las rocas, déjame ver tu rostro, déjame oír tu voz", etc. a Él es todo ojo (πανοφθαλμος), escudriña los corazones y prueba las riendas, esas partes más abstrusas y remotas del cuerpo, asientos de la concupiscencia;

Matthew 7:11 — pureness, or chastity; intimating, that through the corruption of his nature, even while he was exhorting them to chastity, some unchaste motions might steal upon him unawares. εν παση αγνεια , 1 Timothy 5:2 A tree may have withered branches by reason of some deadly blow given to the root, and yet there may remain some sap within, which will bud and blossom forth again. Or as of some wild fig tree, saith a Father, that grows in the walls of

Philippians 3:20 — cannot skill of. πολιτευμα . Ut municipes caelorum nos gerimus. Sic reddit Piscator. A fly cannot make of a flower what a bee can. There is a generation whose names are written in the earth, Jeremiah 17:13 ; these make earth their throne, heaven their footstool, Isaiah 66:1 , and are loth to die, because they have treasures in the field. But the saints, though their commoration be on earth, yet their conversation is in heaven; as the pearl grows in

1 Timothy 4:15 — thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Meditate upon these things — And so digest them, turn them in succum et sanguinem. Let your heart study a good matter, that your pen may be as the tongue of a ready writer, Psalms 45:1 , and not present crude and rude stuff. When it was objected to Demosthenes that he was no sudden speaker, but came ever to the court after premeditation, he answered, Se si fieri posset, dicturum non tantum scripta sed etiam sculpta; that he would

Hebrews 5:7 — others? cry, Conqueror tibi lachrimis Iesu Christi, I cry to thee with Christ’s tears. Unto him that was able to save him, … — Neither let any here object that many martyrs suffered with less ado, nay, with great joy and triumph. For, 1. What were all their sufferings to his? 2. He therefore suffered the worst, that they might the better suffer. 3. They were lifted up with the sense of God’s love, which he for present felt not. 4. Their bodily pains were miraculously mitigated;

1 Peter 5:8 — millstone under the insupportable wrath of God. The word αντιδικος , here rendered an adversary, properly signifies an adversary at law. Against whom we have an advocate, Jesus Christ, the just one, 1 John 2:2 , who appears for us, Hebrews 9:24 , to non-suit all accusations, and to plead our cause. The devil, the accuser, often makes that to be treason in the saints that is but petty larceny. In prosperity he makes us lay our hearts too near it;

2 Peter 1:4 — sorrow, riches out of poverty, and glory out of shame; so doth grace turn the dirt of disgrace into gold. As Moses’ hand, it turns a serpent into a rod. In fine, to be made partaker of the divine nature, noteth two things, saith a reverend man: 1. A fellowship with God in his holiness; the purity which is eminently and infinitely in God’s most holy nature, is formally of secundum modum creaturae, fashioned in us. 2. A fellowship with God in his blessedness, viz. in the beatific vision

Revelation 21:16 — Babylon of old (as Herodotus describeth it), which yet was taken by Cyrus, Alexander, and various other enemies. Heaven also is taken, but by another kind of violence than by force of arms. The solid square whereby it is here set forth commends it to us: 1. For stable and unshaken,Hebrews 12:28; Hebrews 12:28 . Immota manet, as it is said of Venice, which yet stands in the sea, and hath but one street that is not daily overflowed (the Venetian motto is, Nec fluctu nec flatu movetur ). 2. For such as looketh