Bible Commentaries

Esther 4:6 — cerraduras, para significar que debe ser rápido para oír, lento para hablar. A la calle de la ciudad ] La calle ancha, como la palabra significa; Rechob, πλατεια: allí lo guardó Mardoqueo, y no podía acercarse más al patio, porque estaba de luto. Ver Ester 4:2 . Tiberio el emperador, falsificando el dolor en el funeral de Druso, había un velo entre los muertos y él, porque siendo sumo sacerdote en verdad, no podía ver ningún objeto de duelo. Las estatuas de los dioses fueron transportadas o cubiertas (por

Job 11:17 — repentance, with a daily increase thereof, as the sun shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Fame followeth virtue, as the shadow doth the body at the very heels. "If there be any virtue, if any praise," saith the apostle, Philippians 4:8 . Where the one is the other will be. Abel for his faith and righteousness is yet spoken of (as some render Hebrews 11:4 ), though dead long ago. "The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance," Psalms 112:6 . Thou shalt shine forth,

Job 11:17 — arrepentimiento, con un aumento diario del mismo, a medida que el sol brilla cada vez más hasta el día perfecto. La fama sigue a la virtud, como la sombra al cuerpo pisándole los talones. "Si hay alguna virtud, si alguna alabanza", dice el apóstol, Filipenses 4:8 . Donde está el uno estará el otro. Aún se habla de Abel por su fe y justicia (como algunos traducen Heb 11: 4), aunque murió hace mucho tiempo. "Los justos serán tenidos en memoria eterna", Salmo 112:6 . Resplandecerás, serás como la mañana ] Isaías

Job 13:12 — bodies of clay — i.e. To images made of clay or earth; or, that which is highest in you, even your best enjoyments, your chiefest eminences, or greatest elevations, are like to a lump of clay, terrae quam terimus, terrae quam gerimus. See Job 4:19 . See Trapp on " Job 4:19 "

Job 24:6 — crops, and tread their vintages in the end of the year ( sero colligunt ), as the Hebrew importeth, without either food or wages, or so much as a cup to drink, as the eleventh verse sets forth; which is extreme cruelty, and flatly forbidden, Deuteronomy 24:14-15 , and order taken that the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn should not be muzzled, Deuteronomy 25:4 . Quantum igitur iudicium, saith Brentius, How great judgments of God then will light upon those who do that to men of the same flesh,

Job 3:22 — Julián el apóstata con tanta confianza? ¿Y muchos hoy en día que tienen pocas razones para ser tan pródiga en su vida y aparentemente aficionado a la muerte? ¿No es porque están terriblemente cegados por el dios de este mundo presente, 2 Corintios 4:4¿Quién tiene su mano negra delante de sus ojos, para que no vean las malas consecuencias de la muerte y se salven? que porque no lo hacen, ¿qué más hacen sino regocijarse en gran manera (o con júbilo, como la palabra aquí significa) en su lamentable

Job 41:11 — — Who can tax me wath injustice, who am bound to no man, but owner of all things? If any one can say I am beholden to him, let him prove it, and I shall readily requite it, he shall have no cause at all to complain about me as ungrateful, Romans 11:34-35 . Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine — The devil told our Saviour that all was his, and to whomsoever he would he gave it, Luke 4:6 . The pope also (that firstborn of the devil) takes upon him, as lord of all, to dispose of spirituals

Psalms 16:6 — wherewith they measured land when they parted it. See Deuteronomy 32:9 Psalms 105:11 ; Psalms 78:55 Acts 26:18 Ephesians 1:11 . David, having God for his portion, could say with Jacob, I have all things, Genesis 33:11 . Paul also saith the same, Philippians 4:18 , and further telleth us that, having nothing, he yet possessed all things; for why, he had got the divine art of contentation, Philippians 4:12 , and so could be either on the top of Jacob’s ladder or at the bottom; he could sing either Placentia

Proverbs 10:12 — seek his hurt. I could like that exposition well if it were not Calvin’s, said Maldonat; and that reformed religion, if Luther had not had a hand in it, said George Duke of Saxony. But love covereth all sins. — See Trapp on " 1 Peter 4:8 " See Trapp on " 1 Corinthians 13:4 " Love hath a large mantle. If I should find a bishop commitring adultery, said Constantine the Great, I would cover that foul fact with mine imperial robe rather than it should come abroad to the

Proverbs 24:12 — imposturum faciunt et patientur, defraud themselves, as the emperor said of him that sold glass for pearl. Deo obscura clarent, muta respondent, silentium confitetur. Isidor. God’s "eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men." Psalms 11:4 The former points out his knowledge, the latter his critical descant. Doth not he that pondereth the heart consider? — No man needs a window in his breast - as the heathen Momus wished - for God to look in at; for every man before God is all window,

Ecclesiastes 2:16 — there is no remembrance of the wise. — viz., Unless he be also wise to salvation, for then he shall be had in everlasting remembrance. Or otherwise, either he shall be utterly forgotten, as being not written among the living in Jerusalem, Isaiah 4:3 or else he shall not have the happiness to be forgotten in the city where he had so done; Ecclesiastes 8:10 I mean, where he had been either a dogmatic, or at least a practical atheist, as the very best of the philosophers were, Romans 1:18-31 1 Corinthians

Isaiah 28:1 — drunken sleep - a drunkenness with prosperity, which made them proud and dissolute, even the king of Israel and his counsellors also, not considering that in maxima libertate minima est licentia; " it is not for kings to drink wine." Proverbs 31:4 Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower. — Or, And to the fading flower of his goodly gallantry. Some conceive that the prophet here alludeth to the etymology of the word Ephraim, whereof see Genesis 41:42 , but Ephraim was now declining and

Isaiah 29:15 — contrivances, ut ita libere in omnes veneres et scelera ruant. From the Lord. — Which cannot be, because he is all eye, and the searcher of hearts; he is intimo nostro intimior nobis, and will bring to light the hidden things of darkness. 1 Corinthians 4:5 Their works are in the dark. — Out of sight, but not out of the light of his countenance. Psalms 90:8 Deo obscura liquent, muta respondent, silentium confitetur. "All things are naked and open before the eyes of him with whom we have to

Isaiah 59:12 — for our iniquities, we know them. — Our consciences are burdened with them, and we feel the terrors of God in our souls. Conscientia nihil aliud est quam cordis scientia; Conscience is the reflection of the soul upon itself. See 1 Corinthians 4:4 . So here, "As for our iniquities, we know them" - namely, by a second act of the understanding, whereby, after we think or know a thing, we think what we think, and know what we know, and this is properly the action of conscience.

Isaiah 63:17 — mercy. "Return for thy servants’ sake," the good people that are yet left among us; give us hearts of flesh, and lead us in the way everlasting. Here observe that God’s best children may find in themselves hardness of heart, Hosea 4:16 yet not total, but mixed with softness and tenderness in every part, so that though they resist, neglect, profit not as they might do - through pride, worldliness, voluptuousness, Matthew 13:22 Luke 21:34 hypocritical hiding of any sin, Psalms 32:3-4

Jeremiah 23:22 — others. And had caused my people to hear my words. — And not their own fancies or cunningly devised fables. 2 Peter 1:16 Then they should have turned them from the evil of their way. — Not but that a goodly preacher may want success; Isaiah 49:4 See Trapp on " Isaiah 49:4 " And, on the contrary, a bad minister may be a means of good to others, as the dull whetstone edgeth iron, and the lifeless heaven enliveneth other creatures. The head of a toad may yield the precious stone bufonites,

Ezekiel 8:1 — Sabbath day, saith Junius. As I sat in mine house. — In Mesopotamia, among the captives. And the elders of Judah sat before me. — Sedentes et quiescentes apti sunt ad percipiendam S. S. gratiam. As their wont was, upon the Sabbath day. 2 Kings 4:23 These Jews were ever learning, but never came to the knowledge of the truth. Yet God still bore with them, and taught them better. Hinc apparet μακροθυμια Dei. - Lavat. That the hand of the Lord

Numbers 30:2 — son libres, o tienen el consentimiento de sus gobernadores; (2.) Los que tienen conocimiento y juicio para discernir un voto o juramento; Eclesiastés 5:3 ; Eclesiastés 5: 5 (3.) Son concienzudos, como Jacob, Ana, etc. No devotos como Herodes, Mateo 14: 7 esos asesinos, Hechos 23:14 esos idólatras. Jeremías 44:27 No romperá su palabra. ] Si lo hace, abrirá una gran brecha en su conciencia y romperá su consuelo en gran medida. "Mejor no prometer que no pagar". Eclesiastés 5: 4 Es un pecado tan malo

Matthew 15:18 — πανσπερμια , as Empedocles saith in Aristotle. As in that chaos, Genesis 1:2 , were the seeds of all creatures; so in the heart, of all sins. In this sea are not only that leviathan the devil (who there sets up his forts and strongholds,2 Corinthians 10:4; 2 Corinthians 10:4 , and doth intrench and incage himself), but creeping things innumerable, Psalms 104:26 , making that which should be the temple of God a den of thieves, a palace of pride, a slaughter house of malice, a brothel house of uncleanness,

Matthew 5:48 — 32:19 ; and in seeking and keeping (as much as may be) peace with all men and holiness; purifying ourselves as he is pure, 1 John 3:3 ; (in quality, though we cannot in an equality), from the love of every lust (the ground of all our wranglings, James 4:1 ), but especially from the passions and perturbations of the heart, possessing ourselves in patience. For if patience have her perfect work we shall be perfect and entire, wanting nothing, James 1:4 . For "perfect" St Luke hath it, "Be