Bible Commentaries

Job 3:17 — debería temer morir, si está preparado, cuando esa sea la condición de los muertos? ¿Quién está allí que no esté de alguna manera preocupado por los impíos, por su vida impía e impía; por persecución, desprecio y calumnia? compare 2 Pedro 2:8; Salmo 39:1. ¿Quién está allí que no esté cansado en algún momento con su carga de cuidados, ansiedad y problemas? ¿Quién está allí cuya fuerza no se agota, y a quien el descanso no es agradecido y refrescante? ¿Y quién está allí, por lo tanto, a quién, si está

Psalms 29 overview — caprice, or under the dominion of chance, well might we tremble.The psalm properly consists of three parts:I. The duty of ascribing praise and glory to God; of giving to him the glory due to his name; of worshipping him in the beauty of holiness, Psalms 29:1-2.II. The description of the storm, Psalms 29:3-9. The thunder is seven times spoken of as “the voice of the Lord” (compare Revelation 10:3, “And when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices”); and some special effect is referred to as resulting

Isaiah 11 overview — This chapter Isaiah 11:0 is connected with the preceding as part of the same general prophecy. In that, the prophet bad described the invasion of Sennacherib, and had given the assurance that Jerusalem should be safe, notwithstanding the threatened invasion. The general

Isaiah 21 overview — The prophecy which commences this chapter occupies the first ten verses. That it relates to Babylon is apparent from Isaiah 21:2, Isaiah 21:9. The object is to foretell the destruction of that city by the Medes and Persians, and the design is the same as in the more extended and minute description of the same event in Isaiah 13:0; Isaiah 14:0: Whether it was delivered at the

Numbers 24:21 — esta banda errante de madianitas ya había entrado en Canaán, quizás a lo largo de las orillas del Mar Muerto, y por rutas impracticables para la gran hueste de Israel, y había, como una especie de avanzada, comenzado el camino. conquista del país. De 1 Crónicas 2:54 , aprendemos que los recabitas eran una rama de los ceneos; y el nombre Salmaites, siempre dado a los Kenites en los Targums, los conecta con Salma, el hijo de Caleb, allí mencionado. muestra cuán tenazmente, durante muchos siglos, se

Romans 7 overview — design of the chapter is not very difficult to understand. It is, evidently, to show the insufficiency of the Law to produce peace of mind to a troubled sinner. In the previous chapters he had shown that it was incapable of producing justification, Rom. 1–3. He had shown the way in which people were justified by faith; Romans 3:21-31; Romans 4:0. He had shown how that plan produced peace, and met the evils introduced by the fall of Adam; Romans 5:0.He had shown that Christians were freed from the Law

2 Corinthians 6 overview — God in vain. To induce them to make a wise improvement of the privileges which they enjoyed, he quotes a passage from Isaiah, and applies it as meaning that it was then an acceptable time, and that they might avail themselves of mercy, 2 Corinthians 6:1-2.II. He enumerates the labors and self-denials of the ministry. He refers to their sincerity, zeal, and honesty of life. He shows how much they had been willing to endure in order to convey the gospel to others, and how much they had in fact endured,

Galatians 5 overview — of circumcision, or that he had so practiced it as to show that he believed that it was obligatory on others. Under his example, or pleading his authority, it seems the false teachers there had urged the necessity of its observance; see Galatians 5:11. The argument and the exhortation consist of the following parts:I. He exhorts them to stand firm in the liberty of Christianity, and not to be brought again under bondage; Galatians 5:1.II. He solemnly assures them, that if they depended on circumcision

Joshua 5:4-7 — exacta. Porque debe haber habido niños varones nacidos en el desierto durante el primer año después del Éxodo, y estos deben haber sido circuncidados antes de la celebración de la Pascua en Sinaí en el primer mes del segundo año (comparar Números 9:1 , y ). Las declaraciones de los versos son, sin embargo, lo suficientemente cercanas a los hechos para el propósito en cuestión; es decir, para dar razón de la circuncisión general que se registra aquí. La razón por la cual se omitió la circuncisión

James 1:26 — propensity will neutralize it all, and show that there is no true religion at heart.This man’s religion is vain - As all religion must be which does not control all the faculties of the body and the mind. The truths, then, which are taught in this verse are:(1) That there may be evidences of piety which seem to be very plausible or clear, but which in themselves do not prove that there is any true religion. There may be much zeal, as in the case of the Pharisees; there may be much apparent love of Christians,

James 4:14 — is as beautiful as it is just. Job says, O remember that my life is Wind; Mine eyes shall no more see good. Job 7:7.So the Psalmist, For he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away and that cometh not again. Psalms 78:39.Compare 1 Chronicles 29:15; Job 14:10-11.And then vanisheth away - Wholly disappears. Like the dissipated vapor, it is entirely gone. There is no remnant, no outline, nothing that reminds us that it ever was. So of life. Soon it disappears altogether. The works

1 Peter 1:10 — that they might understand exactly what was implied in that which they were appointed to record in respect to the salvation which was to be made known through the Messiah. See the following places where the same word is used which occurs here: Luke 11:50-51; Acts 15:17; Romans 3:11; Hebrews 11:6; Hebrews 12:17.And searched diligently - ἐξερευνάω exereunaō. Compare Daniel 9:2-3. The word used here means to search out, to trace out, to explore. It is not elsewhere used in the New Testament, though

2 Peter 2:16 — made to utter a reproof; a reproof as directly from heaven as though the stones had cried out beneath his feet, or the trees of the wood had uttered the language of remonstrance. As to the nature of the miracle here referred to, it may be remarked: (1)That it was as easy for God to perform this miracle as any other; and, (2)That it was a miracle that would be as likely to be effectual, and to answer the purpose, as any other.No one can show that it could not have occurred; and the occasion was one

2 Peter 2:17 — These are wells without water - Jude 1:12-13 employs several other epithets to describe the same class of persons. The language employed both by Peter and Jude is singularly terse, pointed, and emphatic. Nothing to an oriental mind would be more expressive than to say of professed religious

2 Peter 2:3 — that sinned, 2 Peter 2:4 to the old world, 2 Peter 2:5 and to Sodom and Gomorrah, 2 Peter 2:6 would occur to them; and the same justice which had overthrown them might be regarded as on its way to effect their destruction. Compare the notes at Isaiah 18:4.And their damnation slumbereth not - Their condemnation, (Notes, 1 Corinthians 11:29) yet here referring to future punishment. “Mr. Blackwell observes, that this is a most beautiful figure, representing the vengeance that shall destroy such incorrigible

Revelation 11:17 — work had been I accomplished. Nothing else could have I defended the church in its many trials; nothing else could have established it upon the earth.Which art, and wast, and art to come - The Eternal One, always the same. See the notes on Revelation 1:8. The reference here is to the fact that God, who had thus established his church on the earth, is unchanging. In all the revolutions which occur on the earth, he always remains the same. What he was in past times he is now; what he is now he always

Revelation 12:11 — victory was ever more signal than what was gained when it could be said that “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”By the blood of the Lamb - The Lord Jesus - the Lamb of God. See the notes at Revelation 5:6; compare the notes on John 1:29. The blood of Christ was that by which they were redeemed, and it was in virtue of the efficacy of the atonement that they were enabled to achieve the victory. Compare the notes on Philippians 4:13. Christ himself achieved a victory over Satan by

Revelation 15:3 — And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God - A song of thanksgiving and praise, such as Moses taught the Hebrew people to sing after their deliverance from Egyptian bondage. See Exodus 15:0. The meaning here is, not that they would sing that identical song, but that, as Moses taught the people to celebrate their deliverance with an appropriate hymn of praise, the redeemed would celebrate their delivery and redemption in a similar manner.

Revelation 21:20 — The fifth, sardonyx - This word does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. The “name” is derived from “Sardis,” a city in Asia Minor (notes on Revelation 3:1), and ὄνυξ onux, a nail - so named, according to Pliny, from the resemblance of its color to the flesh and the nail. It is a silicious stone or gem, nearly allied to the onyx. The color is a reddish yellow, nearly orange (Webster, Dictionary).The

Revelation 3:10 — shall have grace to sustain you.Which shall come upon all the world - The phrase used here - “all the world” - may either denote the whole world; or the whole Roman empire; or a large district of country; or the land of Judaea. See the notes on Luke 2:1. Here, perhaps, all that is implied is, that the trial would be very extensive or general - so much so as to embrace the world, as the word was understood by those to whom the epistle was addressed. It need not be supposed that the whole world literally