Bible Commentaries

Psalms 15 overview — declaraciones más explícitas y formales que tenemos en el Antiguo Testamento sobre ese tema. La forma en que se presenta el asunto es la de una pregunta en el primer verso, y la respuesta a esa pregunta en los otros versos del salmo. I. La pregunta. Salmo 15:1. La pregunta es, ¿a quién se le permitirá residir con Dios en su tabernáculo? ¿Quién tendrá derecho al privilegio de vivir en su santo monte (es decir, Sión, considerada como la morada de Dios y el emblema del cielo)? En otras palabras, ¿quién tiene

Psalms 46:4 — suave flujo; un río de riberas llenas, que difunde alegría, fertilidad y belleza donde sea que fluye Esta imagen, para representar felicidad, abundancia, paz, alegría, es una que a menudo se emplea en las Escrituras. Compare Isaías 32:2; Isaías 33:21; Isaías 41:18; Salmo 1:3; Apocalipsis 22:1; Salmo 36:8. La "idea" aquí es simplemente que Jerusalén estaría tranquila y serena en medio de todas las agitaciones externas en el mundo, tranquila como una corriente que fluye suavemente. Las corrientes,

Psalms 65:12 — places, the places of rocks and sands. The word wilderness in the Scriptures does not mean, as with us, a tract of country covered with trees, but a place of barren rocks or sands - an uncultivated or thinly inhabited region. See the notes at Matthew 3:1; notes at Isaiah 35:1. In those wastes, however, there would be valleys, or places watered by springs and streams that would afford pastures for flocks and herds. Such are the “pastures of the wilderness” referred to here. God’s passing along those

Psalms 65:12 — lugares de rocas y arenas. La palabra desierto en las Escrituras no significa, como con nosotros, una extensión de país cubierta de árboles, sino un lugar de rocas o arenas estériles, una región poco cultivada o poco habitada. Vea las notas en Mateo 3:1; notas en Isaías 35:1. En esos desechos, sin embargo, habría valles o lugares regados por manantiales y arroyos que proporcionarían pastos para rebaños y manadas. Tales son los "pastos del desierto" mencionados aquí. El paso de Dios por esos valles

Isaiah 2:19 — mountains abounded with caves that offered a safe retreat for those who were in danger. Many of those caverns were very spacious. At En-gedi, in particular, a cave is mentioned where David with six hundred men hid himself from Saul in the “sides” of it; 1 Samuel 24:0. Sometimes caves or dens were artificially constructed for refuge or defense in danger; Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6. Thus, ‘because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong

Isaiah 29:17 — acerca el momento en que habrá "otras" anulaciones: cuando los impíos sean cortados, y cuando se derrame sobre la nación tales juicios que los sordos oirán, y los ciegos vean, y cuando los que tengan errado en espíritu llegará a comprender ' Isaías 29:18. Y el Líbano será instruido en un campo fructífero - Esta es evidentemente una expresión proverbial, que denota cualquier gran revolución de las cosas. Es probable que en los tiempos de Isaías toda la cadena del Líbano no estuviera cultivada, ya

Matthew 1:21 — Acts 7:45; Hebrews 4:8. It was a very common name among the Jews.He shall save - This expresses the same as the name, and on this account the name was given to him. He saves people by dying to redeem them; by giving the Holy Spirit to renew them John 16:7-8; by His power in enabling them to overcome their spiritual enemies, in defending them from danger, in guiding them in the path of duty, in sustaining them in trials and in death; and He will raise them up at the last day, and exalt them to a world

Matthew 4:23 — of religion to be performed at any other place. Accordingly, the praises of God were sung in the schools of the prophets; and those who chose were assembled by the prophets and seers on the Sabbath, and the new moons, for religious worship, 2Ki 4:23; 1 Samuel 10:5-11. The people would soon see the necessity of providing convenient places for their services, to shelter them from storms and from the heat, and this was probably the origin of synagogues. At what time they were commenced is unknown. They

Luke 24:22-23 — Ciertas mujeres - Ver Mateo 28:1; Juan 20:12. Una visión de los ángeles - Una aparición de ángeles, o habían visto ángeles. Ver Juan 20:12.

Acts 14:15 — God, who is not subject to these affections, who is most blessed and immortal. Such a Being only is to be worshipped; and the apostles remonstrated strongly with them on the folly of paying religious homage to beings like themselves. Compare James 5:17, “Elias (Elijah) was a man subject to like passions as we are, etc.”That ye should turn from these vanities - That you should cease to worship idols. Idols are often called vanities, or vain things, Deuteronomy 32:21; 2Ki 17:15; 1 Kings 16:13, 1 Kings

Acts 20:32 — church, when human strength fails or is withdrawn, we may commit that church to the safe keeping and tender care of God.I commend you - I commit you; I place you παρατίθεμαι paratithemai in his hands and under his protection. See the notes on Acts 14:23.And to the word of his grace - That is, to his gracious word; to his merciful promise. Paul refers, doubtless, to the gospel, including its promises of support, its consoling truths, and its directions to seek all needful help and comfort in God.Which

Romans 3:21 — apostle, having shown the entire failure of all attempts to be justified by the “Law,” whether among Jews or Gentiles, proceeds to state fully the plan of justification by Jesus Christ in the gospel. To do this, was the main design of the Epistle, Romans 1:17. He makes, therefore, in the close of this chapter, an explicit statement of the nature of the doctrine; and in the following parts of the Epistle he fully proves it, and illustrates its effects.The righteousness of God - God’s plan of justifying

Romans 8:15 — Every sinner is subject to such fear. He has everything of which to be alarmed. God is angry with him; his conscience will trouble him; and he has everything to apprehend in death and in eternity. But it is not so with the Christian; compare 2 Timothy 1:7.The spirit of adoption - The feeling of affection, love, and confidence which pertains to children; not the servile, trembling spirit of slaves, but the temper and affectionate regard of sons. Adoption is the taking and treating a stranger as one’s

1 Corinthians 11:14 — second nature;” but the usage in this case is not arbitrary, but is founded in an anterior universal sense of what is proper and right. A few, and only a few, have regarded it as comely for a man to wear his hair long. Aristotle tells us, indeed (Rhet. 1: - see Rosenmuller), that among the Lacedemonians, freemen wore their hair long. In the time of Homer, also, the Greeks were called by him καρηκομόωντες Ἀχαῖοι karēkomoōntes Achaioi, long-haired Greeks; and some of the Asiatic nations adopted the

1 Corinthians 9:15 — “glorying,” the advantages of my course, to be of more value than life itself.Than that any man should make my glorying void - His glorying, or boasting, or “joying,” as it may be more properly rendered τὸ καύχημά μου to kauchēma mou; compare Philippians 1:26; Hebrews 3:6), was:(1) That he had preached the gospel without expense to anybody, and had thus prevented the charge of avarice 1 Corinthians 9:18; and,(2) That he had been able to keep his body under, and pursue a course of self-denial that would

2 Corinthians 6:3 — Giving no offence in anything - We the ministers of God, 2 Corinthians 6:1. The word rendered “offence” means, properly, stumbling; then offence, or cause of offence, a falling into sin. The meaning here is, “giving no occasion for contemning or rejecting the gospel;” and the idea of Paul is, that he and his fellow-apostles

1 Timothy 1:20 — Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander - Hymeneus is nowhere else mentioned in the New Testament, except in 2 Timothy 2:17, where he is mentioned in connection with Philetus as a very dangerous man. An Alexander is mentioned in Acts 19:33, which some have supposed to be the same as the one referred to here. It is not certain, however, that the same person is intended;

1 Peter 4:16 — Yet if any man suffer as a Christian - Because he is a Christian; if he is persecuted on account of his religion. This was often done, and they had reason to expect that it might occur in their own case. Compare the notes at 1 Peter 3:17. On the import of the word Christian, and the reasons why the name was given to the disciples of the Lord Jesus, see the notes at Acts 11:26.Let him not be ashamed - Ashamed of religion so as to refuse to suffer on account of it. (2)Ashamed

1 Peter 5:5 — unto the elder - That is, with the respect due to their age, and to the offices which they sustain. There is here, probably, a particular reference to those who sustained the office of elders or teachers, as the same word is used here which occurs in 1 Peter 5:1. As there was an allusion in that verse, by the use of the word, to age, so there is in this verse to the fact that they sustained an office in the church. The general duty, however, is here implied, as it is everywhere in the Bible, that

1 John 4:12 — No man hath seen God at any time - See the notes at John 1:18, where the same declaration occurs. The statement seems to be made here in order to introduce a remark to show in what way we may know that we have any true knowledge of God. The idea is, “He has never indeed been seen by mortal eyes. We are not,