Bible Commentaries

Genesis 14:8 — absolutely subdued the country. A desire more martial than Christian; a design of revenge beyond his life. Such spirits are raised in men "that delight in war". Psalms 68:30 "Oh! pray for the peace of Jerusalem." So saith David. Psalms 122:6 And so doth David in the next verse, "Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces." The Athenians, when they had gotten the better at sea of the Lacedemonians, were so overjoyed, that they then first set up altars to the

Genesis 20:7 — thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that [are] thine. Now therefore restore. — Let knowledge reform what ignorance offended in. "The times of ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent". Acts 17:30 As a master, when he sets up his servant a double light, expects more work and better. We have a privilege not only above the blind Ethnics, but above the Church of the Old Testament. The sea about the altar was brazen; 1 Kings 7:23 and what eyes

Genesis 3:5 — should change ten times in the year, they would ever be ready at hand to change with it, and so follow the cry, and rather utterly forsake God, and be of no religion, than that they would forego lust, or living, for God or religion. Act. et Mon., fol. 1441. Then your eyes shall be opened. — There is an opening of the eyes of the mind to contemplation and joy. There is also an opening of the eyes of the body to confusion and shame. He promised them the former, but intends the latter, and so cheats

Esther 5:11 — Wolsey, under Henry VIII. That Haman had feathered his nest well appears by his large offer to the king of ten thousand talents of silver, … Now riches render a man glorious in the world’s eye; hence they go coupled together, Proverbs 3:16 ; Proverbs 8:18 . Hence that of Laban’s grumbling sons, Genesis 31:1 , "Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s" (nay, not all, but as avarice made Sejanus think all which he acquired not, to be lost, Quicquid non acquiritur

Esther 5:3 — half of the kingdom. Then said the king unto her — He perceived both by this her bold adventure, and also by her countenance and habit, that she had some very great suit to him. He therefore accosteth her (as the Lord did the angel, Zechariah 1:13 ) with good words and comfortable words. And this way one man may be an angel, nay, a god, to another, Genesis 33:10 . Indeed, it is God that comforteth by the creature, as by a conduit-pipe. The air yieldeth light as an instrument; the water may

Esther 7:6 — "a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment," Ecclesiastes 8:5 . The men of Issachar in David’s days were in great account, because they had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, and when to do it, 1 Chronicles 12:32 . The adversary — Heb. The man adversary, the Lycanthropos, the man of might that distresseth us, angustiator, that is, our calamity; as the people of Rome once, by an elegant solecism, cried out, Calamitas nostra Magnus est Our

Esther 8:15 — — Suitable to his new condition. This he might lawfully do, no doubt, as did Joseph, Daniel, Solomon. Generally those that are in king’s houses are clothed in softs, and go gorgeously. There is indeed a blame worthy excess herein, Zephaniah 1:8 Isaiah 3:18 . Alcisthenes’s costly cloak, prized at one hundred and twenty talents; Demetrius, king of Macedonia’s, robe of state, which none of his successors would wear, propter invidiosam impendii magnificentiam on account of their

Job 14:4 — otherwise, since I do but my kind? But was this a sufficient plea? David was of another mind when he alleged this as a great aggravation of his bloodguiltiness, "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me," Psalms 51:5: q.d. I have not only fallen into these foul sins, but I have done it out of the venomousness and vitiosity of my nature, commonly called original, and by the apostle inhabiting sin, Romans 7:17 , as by the schools peccatum peccans, the sinning sin,

Job 4:20 — (Aristot.). Man’s life is a vapour, saith St James, a bubble, say the heathens, a blast, a dream, a shadow, a dream of a shadow, … They perish for ever — That is, they die once for all. For "if a man die, shall he live again?" Job 14:14 . No such matter. In this war, as there is no discharge, Ecclesiastes 8:8 , so neither is it granted to any man to err twice; therefore Austin said that he would not for the gain of a million worlds be an atheist for half an hour; because he knew

Proverbs 6:9 — eight in the affairs of his state; which space, having then no other divice for it, he measured by a great wax light divided into so many parts, receiving notice by the keeper thereof, as the several hours passed in the burning. Daniel’s Chro. 13. The Jews divided likewise the day into three parts, the first, ad Tephilla, for prayer; the second, ad Torah, for reading the law; the third, ad Malachah, for work; no talk of sleep. Their work would, likely, keep them waking. As for the law, what

Ecclesiastes 7:4 — his winding sheet. Ut somnus mortis, sic lectus imago sepulchri. If he hears but the clock strike, sees the glass run out, it is as a death’s head to preach memento mori to him; he remembers the days of darkness, as Solomon bids, Ecclesiastes 11:8 acts death aforehand, takes up many sad and serious thoughts of it, and makes it his continual practice so to do, as Job and David did. The wiser Jews digged their graves long before, as that old prophet; 1 Kings 13:30 Joseph of Arimathea had his

Daniel 6:10 — prince, in such a dangerous case, against the king’s law and proclamation, set out in such a terrible time, take upon him to write and to admonish that which no counsellor dared once speak unto him in defence of Christ’s gospel. Acts and Mon., 1591. He went into his house. — He left the court, as no fit air for piety to breathe in, and got home, where he might more freely and comfortably converse with his God. Exeat aula qui velit esse pius. Tutissimus est qui rarissime cum hominibus,

Micah 4:9 — total desesperación, escribe Miconio a Calvino, de los enemigos de la Iglesia: Me alegro de que Cristo sea el Señor de todo, porque de otra manera no habría tenido ninguna esperanza de ayuda. David, en profunda angustia, se consuela en el Señor su Dios, 1Sa 30: 6 Salmo 119:94 , "Yo soy tuyo, sálvame", dice, qd mi profesa sujeción a ti exige tu cuidado y protección de mí, y aquí se queda él mismo. Los reyes y los consejeros son grandes estancias en un estado, pero Cristo no está atado a ellos. Estas son

Zechariah 3:7 — atrios, y te daré lugar para caminar entre estos que están cerca. Ver. 7. Si andas en mis caminos y guardas mi mandato] Es decir, si andas en todos los mandamientos (morales) y ordenanzas (Levítico) irreprensibles, como lo hizo el santo Zacarías, Lucas 1:6 , y así te apruebas. justo delante de Dios, cuidando primero de ti mismo, y luego de todo tu rebaño, que es tu encargo, el depósito del Espíritu Santo y la compra de la propia sangre de Cristo, Hechos 20:28 . La piedad es el camino hacia la felicidad;

Malachi 3:10 — todos los diezmos al alfolí, para que haya alimento en mi casa, y probadme ahora con esto, dice el SEÑOR de los ejércitos, si no os abro las ventanas de los cielos y os derramo bendición, para que [ no habrá] [espacio] suficiente [para recibirlo]. Ver. 10. Traed todos los diezmos al alfolí ] Todos, pecuniarios o personales, todos y de toda clase. En el alfolí ] El lugar para los diezmos, como se le llama, Nehemías 13:11,13 , el granero del diezmo, como lo tiene la Vulgata. Para que haya comida en mi

Matthew 1:3 — engendró a Esrom; y Esrom engendró a Aram; Ver. 3. Y Judá engendró a Phares y Zara ] Jerónimo es engañado, que deriva el linaje de los fariseos de este Phares. Tomaron su nombre cualquiera de Pharash, para exponer como intérpretes de la ley, Romanos 2:18 ; o de Pharas, para separar con un- "Apártate más, porque soy más santo que tú". Josefo dice que los fariseos parecían superar a todos los demás tanto en santidad como en profundidad de aprendizaje: BJ i. 4. En cuanto a Pharos, él era un rompedor (de

Matthew 10:17 — Pero cuidado con los hombres, porque te entregarán a los concilios y te azotarán en sus sinagogas; Ver. 17. Pero cuidado con los hombres ] Hombres absurdos y perversos, dice Pablo, 2 Tesalonicenses 3:2 ; "hombres brutales, hábiles para destruir", dice el profeta, Ezequiel 21:31 ; "Comedores de hombres", dice el salmista, Salmo 14:4 ; caníbales, que no

Matthew 2:19 — Pero cuando Herodes murió, he aquí, un ángel del Señor se apareció en sueños a José en Egipto, Ver. 19. Pero cuando Herodes murió ] No mucho después de esta carnicería en Belén, cayó en una enfermedad repugnante y repugnante, de la cual murió: y también Sulla, ese hombre ensangrentado antes que él; b también lo hicieron Maximino y otros después de él.

Matthew 4:5 — hecho, ya que después fue aprehendido, atado y crucificado por esa tripulación maldita. Los asaltos espirituales pueden ser rechazados por el escudo de la fe; no admitan físicamente tal repulsión. Una hija de Abraham puede ser atada por Satanás, Lucas 13:16 , una María Magdalena poseída, un Job molesto, un Pablo encajonado, etc. κολαφιζη , 2Co 12: 7 En cuanto a las almas de los santos, están a salvo del rasguño de Satanás; agitar su cadena contra ellos él puede, reunir sus fuerzas, Apocalipsis 12:7

2 Corinthians 7:11 — especie de Dios, qué cuidado obró en vosotros, sí, qué limpieza de vosotros mismos, sí, qué indignación, sí, qué temor, sí, qué vehemente deseo, sí, qué celo, sí ¡ Qué venganza! En todas las cosas os habéis aprobado para ser claros en este asunto. Ver. 11. Qué cuidado ] Gr. qué estudio, que (dice Cicerón) es una seria y seria flexión y aplicación de la mente a algo con gran deleite, σπουδη, Vehemens ad aliquam rem magna cum voluptate application. Aquí se traduce cuidado, no de timidez, sino de diligencia,