Bible Commentaries

Genesis 12:1 — Y el SEÑOR había dicho a Abram: Sal de tu tierra, de tu parentela y de la casa de tu padre, a la tierra que yo te mostraré. Ver. 1. Ahora el Señor le había dicho a Abram. ] ¿Pero no era esto para ordenarle que hiciera lo que estaba en contra de la naturaleza? No, sino solo contra la naturaleza corrupta, que debe ser negada y mortificada, o no se puede tener el cielo. El padre y

Genesis 13:10 — Y Lot alzó los ojos y contempló toda la llanura del Jordán, que estaba bien regada en todas partes, antes que el SEÑOR destruyera Sodoma y Gomorra, como el huerto del SEÑOR, como la tierra de Egipto, como vienes a Zoar. Ver. 10. Y Lot alzó los ojos. ] Este fue "los deseos de los ojos" de los que habla San Juan, 1Jn 2, 16 cuando luego cayó en "los deseos de la carne", Génesis 19:33 a su posteridad incestuosa en "la vanagloria de la vida". Hemos oído hablar del orgullo de

Genesis 22:13 — Y Abraham alzó los ojos y miró, y he aquí detrás de él un carnero atrapado en un matorral por sus cuernos; y Abraham fue, tomó el carnero y lo ofreció en holocausto en lugar de su hijo. Ver. 13. He aquí, detrás de él, un carnero. ] Sé como el ángel llamado detrás de él; que cuando se volvió para escuchar, vio al carnero atrapado en un matorral, heb. Sabbech , que significa la perplejidad; enrollamiento o unión de un arbusto o zarza. Y a esto

Genesis 26:22 — seremos fructíferos en la tierra. Ver. 22. Y partió de allí, etc. ] Vean aquí un patrón de carácter paciente y pacífico, no roto por las continuas injurias y afrentas de los filisteos, que lo difamaron y abusaron de él, "Yo soy la paz", dice David; Sal 120: 7 y yo, dice Isaac; y yo, dice todo hijo de paz, todo hijo de sabiduría. Qué bien podría el buen Isaac tomar el de David y decir: "Mis pies están en un lugar llano " a Sal. 26:12 ahora que estaba en Rehoboth especialmente, y Dios le había hecho lugar:

Genesis 27:42 — mera misericordia del "Padre de las luces", que se complació en poner una sentencia divina en boca del rey. Sorex suo perit indicio. Hunc tibi pugionem mittit Senatus, dixit ille: detexit facinus fatuus, et non implevit. Así que aquí. Ver similares, 1 Samuel 19: 2 Hechos 9:24 ; Hechos 23:16 . Y ella envió y llamó a Jacob. ] ¿Por qué no reunió a sus dos hijos y los hizo amigos, haciendo que el menor renunciara a su bendición al mayor? Porque prefería el cielo antes que la tierra, y la eternidad

Genesis 45:11 — Y allí te alimentaré; porque todavía hay cinco años de hambre; no sea que tú, y tu casa, y todo lo que tienes, caigan en la pobreza. Ver. 11. Y allí te alimentaré. ] Retribuir a los padres es "bueno y agradable ante Dios". 1 Timoteo 5: 4 En Atenas, una que era la muerte no ser amable con los padres y cuidar de ellos. La cigüeña alimenta a su antiguo padre y madre con admirable piedad, dice

Genesis 50:2 — su enfermedad; que si él mismo o alguien que conociera se hubiera recuperado de algo parecido, podría saber por qué medios o quedarse para probar la habilidad que tenía con el paciente. d La física es, sin lugar a dudas, la ordenanza de Dios. Éxodo 21:19 Él se llama a sí mismo, "Jehová Rophe", Éxodo 15:26 el Señor el médico. Y un médico vale más que muchos otros, dice el poeta pagano. e Utilizarlos debemos, cuando sea necesario, Marco 2:17 1Ti 4: 4 pero no idolatrarlos, como 2 Crónicas 16:12 . Y

Micah 4:12 — But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord — Nothing like their thoughts, Isaiah 55:8 . Confer Isaiah 10:7-8 Zechariah 11:15-16 . His thoughts are fatherly, while theirs are butcherly. The physician in setting leeches to his patient seeks his good; he aims not at filling the leech’s gorge; neither will he set more on him than will make for his health.

Micah 5:11 — throw down all thy strong holds: And I will cut off the cities of thy land — Thy fenced cities and places of strength, for like reason as before, that thou mayest look upon my name alone as a strong tower, and thereto run and be safe, Proverbs 18:10 , that thou mayest hover and cover under my wings, Psalms 91:1-2 , and there hold thee as secure as in a tower of brass or town of war. "Blessed be the Lord" (saith David, who could not be safe in Keilah, that had gates and bars), "for

Nahum 3:8 — and good trading is to be had thither people will repair apace. No (that is Alexandria) was the nursing mother of Egypt (Amon, i.e. Nutritia Alma mater ), and Egypt was called the world’s barn or storehouse, horreum unde hauriatur, Genesis 42:1 . It is called, Jeremiah 46:25 , Amon de No; Ezekiel 30:13 , Hamon No; and Ezekiel 30:14 ; Ezekiel 30:16 , No, without any addition. This was the old name of this city before it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, to whom God had given Egypt as his pay

Zechariah 11:8 — Caiaphas, and others: or, I removed those three sorts of shepherds of the old law, viz. princes, prophets, and priests. Thus Theodoret and Vatablus. Diodati understands the text of the three chief empires that had tyrannized over the people, Zechariah 11:6 ; Zechariah 11:3 ; Zechariah 11:12 ; Zechariah 11:10 . Namely, the Chaldean, Persian, and Grecian empire, which were destroyed by the Son of God, Daniel 2:45 . But they do best, in mine opinion, that by these three shepherds understand those three

Zechariah 12:1 — declaration of his mind and counsel for Israel’s comfort and his enemies’ confusion. To the Israel of God it is onus sine onere, such a burden as the wings are to the bird, a burdenless burden. To the enemies, a burdensome stone, Zechariah 12:3 , heavier than the sand of the sea, Job 6:3 . For Israel — Not against Israel, though Calvin so taketh it; and by Israel understandeth the ten tribes, and those other captives that, loth to leave those houses they had built and those gardens

Zechariah 7:12 — hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant — That hardest of stones, harder than the flint, Ezekiel 3:9 , than the nether millstone, Job 41:24 . Pliny saith of it, Durities eius est inenarrabilis, et simul ignium victrix natura et nunquam incalescens. The hardness of this stone is unspeakable: the fire cannot burn it, nor so much as heat it through; the hammer cannot break it; and therefore

Zechariah 8:13 — hands be strong. As ye were a curse among the heathen — The people of God’s wrath, and of his curse, Isaiah 34:5 , abhorred and accursed by all nations, Jeremiah 24:9 ; lastly, a proverb and a pattern for any fearful imprecation, Ezekiel 14:8 , as those that had the bloody weals of God’s visible vengeance on their backs, and, Cain-like, had his manifest mark upon their persons and proceedings. The Turks at this day so hate the Jews for crucifying Christ, that they use to say, in

Zechariah 9:12 — Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare [that] I will render double unto thee; Turn ye to the strong hold — i.e. To Christ, the Rock of Ages, Isaiah 26:4 ; the hope of Israel, Jeremiah 17:13 ; the expectation of all the ends of the earth, Luke 2:25 ; Luke 2:38 . Or to the promise, that strong tower, whereunto the righteous run and are safe; that are Christi munitissima, the strongest defence of Christ, as Cyril here saith, strong hold

Matthew 1:2 — senectutis et emeritae fidei filius. Bucholcer. whence he is said to be "born after the spirit,"Galatians 4:29; Galatians 4:29 . Isaac begat Jacob — After twenty years’ expectance, and many a hearty prayer put up therewhile, Genesis 25:21 . The Hebrew word is, "to frequent and multiply prayer." So Adam lived "an hundred and twenty years ere he begat Seth;" whom God set as another seed instead of Abel,Genesis 5:3; Genesis 5:3 ; cf. Genesis 4:25 , when Cain’s

Matthew 16:23 — him Satan, and that it would not be seemly that Christ should bid Satan follow him, he is forced to confess that it is the speech of one that bids another be packing out of his presence with indignation, like that of Christ to the tempter, Matthew 4:1-11 "Get thee hence, Satan." Prosit tibi sternutatio tun. (Maldonatus.) When the executioner wished Polycarp to be merciful to himself, he bade him hold his peace; he was his tormentor, not his counsellor. Thou art an offence unto me —

Matthew 26:74 — usually, execrations are but expletives, and horrible oaths interjections of speech. But though Israel play the harlot, yet why should Judah offend? come not ye to Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear "The Lord liveth," Hosea 4:15 . David swore once such an oath, and it was enough of that once, 1 Samuel 25:22 . But Peter swears and forswears again and again, and that after warning; as Aaron went down and did that in the valley which he heard forbidden in the Mount, and then

Matthew 9:9 — — The other evangelist call him Levi; so shrouding his shame under a name less known. He plainly and ingenuously sets down his own more common name, and the nature of his offence, like as David doth penance in a white sheet, as it were, Psalms 51:1 , which is an evident argument, both of the Scripture’s divinity, and of the evangelist’s gracious simplicity. If any should upbraid him with his old evil courses, he could readily have answered, as Austin did in like case, Quae tu reprehendis

1 Samuel 31:4 — su incircuncisión: como si su condición hubiera sido mejor que la de ellos, porque estaba circuncidado. Mientras que los privilegios externos no benefician a los profanos; pero, por tanto, son peores, porque deberían ser mejores. Gálatas 5:6 ; Gal 6:15 Y abusar de mí, ] es decir, de mi cuerpo, del cual se preocupó más que de su preciosa alma; una falla común. Su cuerpo fue abusado, sin embargo. Pero su escudero no lo haría. ] Tampoco lo haría Eras, el escudero de Marco Antonio: pero, para no entrometerse