Bible Commentaries

Genesis 23:8 — domicilium credebant, et portum corporis appellabant . - Turneb. Job also calls the grave "the congregation house of all living". Job 30:23 As the apostle after him calleth heaven "the congregation house of the firstborn". Hebrews 12:23 The Hebrews call it gnolam hammalachim , the world of angels; and the author to the Hebrews, saith that the saints are come by Christ "to an innumerable company of angels". πανηγυριν , Hebrews

Genesis 24:5 — τεκνον ; as the Romans, in Plutarch, said of Pompey. Swear not in heat and choler, as David did when he was going against Nabal; but soon after blessed Abigail for better counsel. Swear not in jest, lest you go to hell in earnest. James 5:12 Swear not petty oaths, those civilised compliments, and interjections of common talk, Faith and truth, … Thou must not swear by thy hairs, thou canst not make one of them white or black; much less by faith and truth, that is more worth than

Genesis 35:1 — and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. Ver. l. Arise, go up to Bethel. — This is not the first time that God tells him of that vow, and calls for performance. See Genesis 31:13 . It is with us, as with children - Eaten bread is soon forgotten: deliverances, commonly, are but nine days’ wonderment at most; and it is ten to one, that any leper returns to give praise to God. If anything arouse and raise up our hearts

Nehemiah 9:6 — of it; which is enough to answer all our doubts, and to fill us with strong consolation, had we but skill to spell all the letters in it. Thou hast made heaven — With great skill and artifice thou hast made it, three stories high, 2 Corinthians 12:2 Hebrews 11:10 . The heaven of heavens — Called the highest, Luke 2:14 , and the third heaven, 2 Corinthians 12:2 . Of this heaven no natural knowledge can be had, nor any help by human arts, geometry, optics, …; for it is neither aspectable

Esther 3:11 — Psalms 2:4 . "With him" (alone) "is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty," Job 12:16-17 ; Job 12:19 . The people also, to do with them — Here Haman was made, here he had more than heart could wish, as Psalms 73:7 , and holdeth himself, therefore, no doubt, the happiest man under heaven. But nihil sane infelicius est felicitate

Job 10:1 — habet vires, a death more like. Life is sweet, and every creature maketh much of it, from the highest angel in heaven to the lowest worm on earth. The Scripture setteth it forth as a sweet mercy, Genesis 45:28 Lamentations 3:39 Esther 7:3 Jeremiah 39:18 ; Jeremiah 51:5 . But God can so embitter it with outward and inward troubles, that it shall become a burden. "I am weary of my life" (saith good Rebekah, Genesis 27:46 ), and "What good shall my life do me?" David, forced to be

Job 2:8 — ointments he had none, nor baths, to lenify his soreness. Physicians and friends were far from him. He looked on his right band, and beheld, but there was no man that would know him: refuge failed and perished from him; no man cared for his soul, Psalms 142:4 . He had still a wife and servants, and (as some think) his household stuff left him. He should therefore by them have been helped; but they helped on his misery, jeering him, and jesting at him, as he afterwards complaineth. Himself, therefore,

Job 30:1 — if death be threatened, can despise it; but to be despised or belied they cannot brook; but least of all by base persons: Quilibet ab aquila quam corvo discerpi mavult. Job was now grown ancient, and had been honourable, as he had set forth, Job 29:1-25 . Old age and honour, in the Greek tongue, are near akin, Cognata sunt, γηρας et γερας , ut ηθος et εθος ; and, Inque sue precio ruga

Job 4:9 — perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. By the blast of God they perish — He puts himself to no great pain to punish them; but blows them away as so many dust heaps; he nods them to destruction, saith the psalmist, Psalms 80:16 ; he can as easily do it as bid it to be done. So Caesar Metellus. If the Lord do but arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and all that hate him fly before him, Psalms 64:1 . If he but put his head out of the windows of heaven, as it were, and say,

Job 5:17 — man be Enosh (that is the word here), a sorry, sickly, miserable man, so the world esteemeth him? yet blessed is the man (there he is called Geber, the gallant man) "whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law," Psalms 94:12 . Oh the happiness, the μυρισμακαριοτης , the present and future happiness of that man whom God correcteth, and withal instructeth, chastening him with pain upon his bed,

Amos 1:11 — Así ha dicho el SEÑOR; Por tres pecados de Edom, y por el cuarto, no desviaré [su castigo]; porque persiguió a su hermano a espada, y desechó toda compasión, y su ira se desgarró para siempre, y guardó su ira para siempre. Ver. 11. Por tres transgresiones de Edom, etc. ] es decir, de los edomitas, los rabinos entienden a los romanos, esos falsos hermanos los sabuesos del Papa. Vea el paralelo hecho por el Dr. Taylor, en su sermón llamado Romish Edomite. Porque persiguió a espada

Amos 5:8 — que hagáis la paz, y haréis la paz con él, Isaías 27:5 . Destacar no arranca; ya que es él quien hizo a Bootes y Orión, etc., es decir, de poder infinito; y hace todo lo que quiere en el cielo y en la tierra, "el único que hace maravillas", Salmo 72:18 . Ver Amós 4:12,13 . Quimá y Cesil, es decir, Pléyades y Orión, se mencionan dos veces juntos en Job. Estrellas conocidas que son, y conocidas por los pastores y cosas por el estilo. Amos, probablemente, era un astrónomo como solían ser los pastores.

Habakkuk 2:15 — ¡Ay del que da de beber a su prójimo, que le pone tu odre, y también lo embriaga, para que mires su desnudez! Ver. 15. ¡Ay del que da de beber a su prójimo! ] Los babilonios (entre otras sus prácticas abominables antes mencionadas) eran muy adictos a la borrachera, como lo registran Herodoto, Ctesias y otros. Su tierra estaba enferma de bebida, y por eso los escupía:

Haggai 2:14 — Entonces respondió Hageo y dijo: Así es este pueblo, y así es esta nación delante de mí, dice el SEÑOR; y así es toda obra de sus manos; y lo que ofrecen allí es inmundo. Ver. 14. Así es este pueblo, y así es esta nación antes de mí ] Aunque puro a sus propios ojos, Proverbios 30:12 , y para el mundo irreprensible, como Pablo los Fariseos, Filipenses 2:14,15 , y los mismos -justiciaries, Lucas 16:14,15 "Vosotros sois los

Zechariah 14:12 — Y esta será la plaga con que el SEÑOR herirá a todo el pueblo que peleó contra Jerusalén; Su carne se consumirá mientras estén de pie, y sus ojos se consumirán en sus agujeros, y su lengua se consumirá en su boca. Ver. 12. Y esta será la plaga con la que el Señor herirá, etc. ] Las promesas precedentes que fueron tan grandes y gloriosas, el profeta ahora las amplía e ilustra en los siguientes versículos; y, primero, la conquista de los enemigos, Zacarías 14:12,15 ;

Zechariah 4:6 — Dios, sin y sobre todo ayuda humana, debería bastar para la reconstrucción y conservación del templo material y de la verdadera Iglesia. A Zorobabel ] El Tirsatha, o magistrado principal, Esdras 2:63 , también llamado, como se cree, Sesbasar, Esdras 1:8 . Él era un tipo de Cristo; a quien también Dios el Padre habla aquí acerca de su Iglesia para ser reunidos por la predicación del evangelio. No con ejército, ni con fuerza ] como Mahoma en Oriente y el español en las Indias; pero por el poder de

Matthew 16:24 — corrupción de todo el estado; el pecador debe ser deshecho, tomado en pedazos, antes de que la nueva criatura pueda ser hecha en él; debe estar completamente muerto al pecado, antes de que pueda vivir a la justicia, como dice San Pedro (απογενομενοι), 1 Pedro 2:24 ; y la palabra que usa allí implica que la vieja estructura debe ser completamente disuelta, y todo el hombre debe morir y ser ofrecido en holocausto completo. En lugar de un carnero, dice Orígenes, debemos matar nuestras iracundas pasiones;

Matthew 7:7 — sabemos cómo abandonarnos en el cumplimiento de ellas; nuestro Salvador responde, como lo hizo Isaías antes que él: "Buscad al Señor mientras puede ser hallado, llamadle mientras está cerca", Isaías 55:6 ; y como aconseja Santiago después de él, Santiago 1: 5 "Si alguno quiere sabiduría, pídala a Dios. "" Pide ", dice," y te será dado. "Corre al gran Doctor de la Iglesia, como Agur hizo con Itiel y Ucal, Proverbios 30:1 , y él te enseñará; busca su rostro y su favor. y ciertamente la hallaréis; llamad

2 Samuel 11:4 — more apt to conceive with child. Or, And when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned home; that is, from that legal uncleanness contracted by her carnal copulation with David, - yea, though he had been her own husband. See Exodus 19:15 Leviticus 15:18 1 Samuel 21:4 . But doth Bathsheba make conscience of ceremonial, and none of moral purity? Or, doth David’s deceitful heart make him think that he may the more safely lie with Bathsheba, because she was purified? And she returned

2 Samuel 18:3 — ten thousand of us. — Christ, of whom David was a type, is "the chief of ten thousand": and so every good heart holdeth him. When David was in danger of being slain by Ishbibenob the giant, Abishai interposed and rescued him. 2 Samuel 21:17 When our Henry II was in imminent peril of his life at the siege of Bridgenorth, A.D. 1155, Hubert de St Clare preserved his sovereign’s life with the loss of his own. Speed, 501. When Mauricius, the young Saxon prince, valiantly charging the