Bible Commentaries

Exodus 23:32 — Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. No covenant with them. — Because devoted to destruction; and they will be drawing thee to idolatry, as it also happened in Judges 1:1-36 Judges 2:1-23 .

1 Kings 20:39 — battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. Thy servant went ont. — Parabolically all, as 1 Samuel 12:1-2 , …, See Trapp on " 1 Samuel 12:1 " … to bring Ahab to pass an impartial sentence against himself, in the person of another.

1 Chronicles 10:1 — Ahora los filisteos pelearon contra Israel; y los hombres de Israel huyeron de delante de los filisteos y cayeron muertos en el monte de Gilboa. Ver. 1. Ahora los filisteos. ] Ver com. 1 Samuel 31:1,2 , 1 Samuel 31:1,2 , etc.

Job 10:19 — I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. I should have been as though I had not been — Here he sings the same song as Job 3:1-26 Job 4:1-21 . It is hard to say how oft a child of God may discover the same infirmity. Our lives are fuller of sins than the firmament is of stars or the furnace of sparks. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave — He makes mention

Psalms 2:7 — ministros del evangelio, cuyo oficio es presentar a Cristo al mundo en todos sus oficios y eficacias, y llevar a tantos como sea posible a la obediencia de la fe. Tú eres mi Hijo ] David lo fue por adopción y aceptación, Salmo 89:26,27 ; sino Cristo, 1. Por generación eterna, Pro 8: 22-23 Hebreos 1:5 Hebreos 1:2 . Por unión hipostática, Dios tuvo un solo Hijo (como Abraham tuvo a su Isaac), aunque por lo demás él era el Padre de muchas naciones. En este día te he engendrado ] Entiéndelo en el día

Ecclesiastes 3:10 — the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. I have seen the travail that God, … — Not fortune, but Providence ordereth all cross occurrences; "a wheel" there is "within a wheel"; Ezekiel 1:1-28 then when men may think things run on wheels, at sixes and sevens, as they say. "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God." 1 Peter 5:6 His holy hand hath a special stroke in all our travails. He both ordaineth Acts 2:1-47 and ordereth

Deuteronomy 28:38 — Sacarás mucha semilla al campo, y recogerás poco; porque la langosta lo consumirá. Ver. 38. Porque la langosta lo consumirá. ] Vea esto cumplido en Joe 1: 4 Amós 4:9 ; Amós 7:1,2 Hageo 1:6 ; Hageo 1:11 .

John 20:15 — seekest thou? — Where the angels left, the Lord begins. God hath for our sakes taken the preaching of the gospel from the angels, and given it to ministers, who have thenceforth also changed names; for ministers are called angels,Revelation 2:1; Revelation 2:1 , and angels ministers,Hebrews 1:14; Hebrews 1:14 .

Acts 18:17 — Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things. Took Sosthenes — A beloved brother of St Paul’s, 1 Corinthians 1:1 ;

Acts 2:42 — And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Doctrine and fellowship — So the Philippians,Philippians 1:5; Philippians 1:5 . See Trapp on " Philippians 1:5 "

Romans 1:30 — Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Haters of God — And so God-murderers,1 John 3:15; 1 John 3:15 . See Trapp on " 1 John 3:15 "

Romans 12:5 — So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. One body in Christ — See Trapp on " 1 Corinthians 12:12 " See Trapp on " 1 Corinthians 12:13 " And every one members — Try thy membership, if, 1. Sociable with Christ and Christians. 2. Useful and serviceable to the body. 3. Compassionate, as Paul; "Who is afflicted,"

1 Thessalonians 2:4 — But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. But as we were allowed — Enabled and counted faithful,1 Timothy 1:12; 1 Timothy 1:12 . Not as pleasing men — See Trapp on " Galatians 1:10 " Men be they pleased or displeased, God must not be displeased. But God — Who looketh upon displeasing service as a double dishonour. Which trieth

1 Peter 4:17 — For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Judgment must begin — The mortality at Corinth began at the believers,1 Corinthians 11:30; 1 Corinthians 11:30 . Infidels escaped scotfree. God’s cup is first sent to Jerusalem. There was bread in Moab, when there was none in Israel, Ruth 1:1 . The stormy shower lighteth first on the high hills, and having washed

Judges 7:1 — all the people that [were] with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. Beside the well of Harod. — That is, Of terror; see 1 Samuel 28:1 ; 1 Samuel 29:1 so called from the fear that there surprised Gideon’s army, who seeing the multitude of their enemies, said, as Caesar did at Rubicon, Yet we may go back; and so they did. Judges 7:3

2 Peter 3:3 — Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, Scoffers — Those worst kind of sinners, Psalms 1:1 ; those abjects of the people, Psalms 35:15 ; those pests ( λοιμος ), as the Septuagint render them, LXXE Psalms 1:1 ; those atheists that jeer when they should fear, and put far away the evil day, that make no

1 John 2:1 — Hijitos míos, estas cosas os escribo para que no pequéis. Y si alguno hubiere pecado, abogado tenemos para con el Padre, a Jesucristo el justo: Ver. 1. Que no pequéis ] Presumiendo de un perdón fácil y rápido. El peor tipo de papistas dirá: Cuando hemos pecado, debemos confesar; y cuando hayamos confesado, debemos pecar nuevamente, para que podamos confesar nuevamente; dando cuenta tanto de confesar

1 John 4:8 — it. If God were well known, he could not but be best beloved, and all that are his, for his sake. For God is love — Not formally, but causally, say schoolmen; he is the fountain of love, and draws all hearts that have any knowledge of him. See 1 John 4:16 ; Song of Solomon 1:3 . See Trapp on " 1 John 4:16 " See Trapp on " Song of Solomon 1:3 "

Revelation 3:11 — crown. That no man take thy crown — Not that crown of eternal life (for that is unlosable), but that honour that God hath put upon thee, Revelation 3:9 . A Christian may, by falling into reproachful courses, "lose what he hath wrought," 2 John 1:8 . 2 John 1:1 . In respect of the praise of men. 2. In respect of inward comfort. 3. In respect of the degrees of glory in heaven; he may miss being a pillar in the temple of God, as Revelation 3:1 .

1 Samuel 8:2 — de su primogénito fue Joel; y el nombre de su segundo, Abías: [eran] jueces en Beerseba. Ver. 2. Ahora el nombre de su primogénito era Joel. ] Lo que alguna una tendrá que ser Joel el profeta, el hijo de Petuel, es decir, de Samuel, dicen ellos, Joe 1: 1 ya que esto se llama Joel Vasni. 1 Crónicas 6:28 ; 1Cr 6:33 Después podría arrepentirse de su gobierno sin justicia, que no es más que un robo con autoridad, y ser profeta como lo fue su padre. Sin embargo, tuvo un buen hijo, a saber, Heman, el