Bible Commentaries

Genesis 29:8 — flocks be gathered together, and [till] they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep. We cannot, until all the flocks. — As we are not, by the example of these shepherds, to enterprise things above our strength, Psalms 131:1 so neither to be discouraged by every difficulty; but to lend, and borrow help one of another; each man "pleasing his neighbour for his good, and serving him in love, to edification". Romans 14:1-2 “ Divisae his operae, sed mens

1 Kings 11:9 — chastisements laid on his children are the fruits of love displeased. The Antinomians say - but not truly - that God is never displeased with his people, fall they never so foully; no, not with a fatherly displeasure. See to the contrary, Isaiah 57:17 1 Corinthians 11:30 . Which had appeared unto him twice. — Good turns aggravate unkindnesses. See on 1 Kings 9:2 .

1 Chronicles 4:40 — the Simeonites to set upon them, as the wealth of Cyprus did the old Romans; Sext. Rufus and as the pearls usually cast out with the flood and gathered at the ebb, drew Caesar’s affection for the conquest of Britain. Suetonius, Julius Caesar, l. 1. c. 47. 1:95 For quiet, and peaceable. — See on Judges 18:27-28 . And they of Ham had dwelt there. — The cursed Canaanites.

2 Chronicles 3:4 — And the porch that [was] in the front [of the house], the length [of it was] according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height [was] an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. And the porch. — See on 1 Kings 6:3 . And he overlaid it within with pure gold. — Such was Christ’s inside; Colossians 2:9 in his outside was no such desirable beauty; so Isaiah 53:2 the Church’s glory is inward, Psalms 45:13 in the hidden man of the heart.

2 Chronicles 32:4 — the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? And the brook. — Called Gihon. 2 Chronicles 32:30 This was one of those rivers the waters whereof made glad the city of God. See 1 Kings 1:33 . Come and find much water. — Take we like care that Satan, when he cometh to assault us, find not much matter. "Mortify therefore your earthly members, fornication, … and covetousness." Colossians 3:5

Leviticus 5:9 — shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar: it [is] a sin offering. Upon the side of the altar. — The north side, and not upon the east: (1.) that Israel might not symbolise with the heathens, who worshipped toward the east; (2.) To signify that they had no more under the law than dark "shadows of good things to come," Hebrews 10:1 "until the time of reformation." Hebrews

Numbers 4:15 — forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear [it]: but they shall not touch [any] holy thing, lest they die. These [things are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation. Lest they die. — As Uzzah did. 1 Chronicles 13:10 The burden of the sons of Kohath. — Who, as they had the honos, so the onus See Numbers 4:1 . “ Fructus honos oneris, fructus honoris onus. ”

Deuteronomy 1:31 — thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. As a man doth bear his son. — Charily and tenderly, as his own heart; not hating them, as they desperately belied the Lord. Deuteronomy 1:27 "For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?" 1 Samuel 24:19 Will he accommodate him as God did these murmurers? Never was any prince served in such state as they were.

Ephesians 1:18 — eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, The glory of his inheritance — The glory of heaven is inconceivable,Revelation 21:1-27; Revelation 21:1-27 , search is made through all the bowels of the earth for something to shadow it by. No natural knowledge can be had of the third heaven, nor any help by human arts, as Aristotle acknowledges. The glory thereof is fitter to be

Philippians 1:17 — προσλαβου . Take him to thee, put him in thy bosom, make much of him. How effectually doth this great apostle plead the cause of this poor fugitive, now happily brought home to Christ. He deals as one that had himself received mercy,1 Corinthians 7:25; 1 Corinthians 7:25 . Steep thy thoughts (saith one) in the mercies of God, and they will dye thine, as the dye vat doth the cloth, Colossians 3:12 .

1 Thessalonians 3:10 — Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? Night and day praying exceedingly — Prayer must be constant and instant, with utmost assiduity and intention of affection, Luke 18:1 . See Trapp on " Luke 18:1 " And might perfect that which is lacking in your faith — Faith is not as Jonah’s gourd, that grew up in a night; or as a bullet in a mould, that is made in a moment; but is perfected by degrees and

2 Thessalonians 3:3 — saints may find and fetch comfort from God under whatsoever disasters. They go always under a double guard, the peace of God within them, Philippians 4:7 , φρουρησει , and the power of God without them, 1 Peter 1:5 , φρουρουμενοι . How then can they possibly miscarry?

1 Timothy 1:5 — Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: Now the end of the commandment — Or, of the charge, to wit, of that charge, to teach no other doctrine, …, 1 Timothy 1:3-4 . As if the apostle had said, This is that which a teacher should aim at, to beget such a love in his hearers’ hearts, as may speak them true believers and good livers. Boni Catholici sunt (saith Augustine) qui et fidem integram

1 Timothy 3:7 — — For a workman that needeth not to be ashamed; such a one as may muzzle the black mouth of any Campian, that shall say, as he doth of our Church, Ministris eorum nihil vilius; this is most true of Popish greasy hedge priests. See Trapp on " 1 Timothy 3:6 " Of the devil — Or, of the slanderer, who by carrying tales and finding faults, do the devil’s work. See Trapp on " 1 Timothy 3:6 "

1 Timothy 3:8 — as the planet Mercury, good in conjunction with good, and bad with bad. Lingua in vitulis marinis duplex est, a Sea calves are double tongued. Ministers must neither be sea calves nor moon calves; double tongued, nor unstable, or double minded,James 1:8; James 1:8 . See Trapp on " Acts 2:3 " a Tyriosque bilingues. Virg. Bartholin. in Anatom.

2 Timothy 2:26 — And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. Recover themselves — ανανηψωσι . Put away their spiritual drunkenness, 1 Samuel 1:14 , and go forth and shake themselves, as Samson, out of sin’s lethargy. "Out of the snare of the devil," i.e. heretical doctrines or sensual pleasures; both which do intoxicate men’s brains and make them dead drunk. Taken

Hebrews 3:14 — For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; Ver. 14: For we are made partakers — Christ’s consorts, co-heirs with him, Romans 8:17 . This we are in present, if we persevere to the end. The beginning of our confidence — Gr. υποστασεως

1 Samuel 18:7 — as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. Saul hath slain his thousands, …, — q.d., Saul is to be commended, but David ten times more. This praise of the women given to David flew far and near, 1 Samuel 21:11 ; 1 Samuel 29:5 and was the rise of all his following troubles: likeas in the gospel, he whom our Saviour cured, - and in addition charged him to say nothing, - when he divulged the miracle, though of a good intent, caused a persecution

1 Samuel 3:14 — unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever. That the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be purged. — Hence some concluded that their sin was that sin unto death, 1 John 5:16 for which "there remaineth no more sacrifice," Hebrews 10:26 and that they were damned, because so hardened that they could not repent. Romans 1:28 If some of that race proved right, as they did, yet the temporal punishment of losing

2 Samuel 15:9 — Dutch have a proverb, Where God intendeth to destroy any man, he first putteth out his eyes. And went to Hebron. — The fittest place for his purpose, because ancient and famous, the place of his birth, and where he had many friends. See Judges 9:1 . See Trapp on " Judges 9:1 "