Bible Commentaries

Job overview — argument against the reality of the person. WHERE JOB LIVED.—"Uz," according to GESENIUS, means a light, sandy soil, and was in the north of Arabia-Deserta, between Palestine and the Euphrates, called by PTOLEMY (Geography, 19) Ausitai or Aisitai. In Genesis 10:23; Genesis 22:21; Genesis 36:28; 1 Chronicles 1:17; 1 Chronicles 1:42, it is the name of a man. In Jeremiah 25:20; Lamentations 4:21; Job 1:1, it is a country. Uz, in Genesis 22:21, is said to be the son of Nahor, brother of Abraham—a different person

Job 33:24 — applied to Jesus Christ, of a price paid for deliverance (Exodus 21:30), an atonement (that is, means of selling at once, that is, reconciling "two" who are estranged), a covering, as of the ark with pitch, typical of what covers us sinners from wrath (Genesis 6:14 Psalms 32:1). The pit is primarily here the grave (Psalms 32:1- :), but the spiritual pit is mainly shadowed forth (Psalms 32:1- :).

Ecclesiastes 12:6 — gloomy picture of old age applies to those who have not "remembered their Creator in youth." They have none of the consolations of God, which they might have obtained in youth; it is now too late to seek them. A good old age is a blessing to the godly (Genesis 15:15; Job 5:26; Proverbs 16:31; Proverbs 20:29).

Song of Solomon 2:9 — 9. he standeth—after having bounded over the intervening space like a roe. He often stands near when our unbelief hides Him from us (Genesis 28:16; Revelation 3:14-20). His usual way; long promised and expected; sudden at last: so, in visiting the second temple (Malachi 3:1); so at Pentecost (Acts 2:1; Acts 2:2); so in visiting an individual soul, Zaccheus (Luke 19:5; Luke 19:6; John

Ezekiel 21:27 — rule of the earth delegated to them by God, abused it by unrighteousness, and so forfeited the "right." He both has the truest "right" to the rule, and exercises it in "right." It is true the tribal "scepter" continued with Judah "till Shiloh came" (Genesis 49:10) but there was no kingly scepter till Messiah came, as the spiritual King then (John 18:36; John 18:37); this spiritual kingdom being about to pass into the literal, personal kingdom over Israel at His second coming, when, and not before,

Ezekiel 38:2 — ("Meshech . . . Tubal") undertook an expedition against Egypt [HERODOTUS, 1.103-106]. These names might be adopted by Ezekiel from the historical fact familiar to men at the time, as ideal titles for the great last anti-Christian confederacy. Magog— (Genesis 10:2; 1 Chronicles 1:5). The name of a land belonging to Japheth's posterity. Maha, in Sanskrit, means "land." Gog is the ideal political head of the region. In Revelation 20:8, Gog and Magog are two peoples. the chief prince—rather, "prince

Daniel 8:17 — divisions, not necessarily one formerly of the four of the third kingdom. The event will tell. "Time of the end" may apply to the time of Antiochus. For it is the prophetic phrase for the time of fulfilment, seen always at the end of the prophetic horizon (Genesis 49:1; Numbers 24:14).

Amos 1:11 — 11. Edom . . . did pursue his brother— (Isaiah 34:5). The chief aggravation to Edom's violence against Israel was that they both came from the same parents, Isaac and Rebekah (compare Genesis 25:24-26; Deuteronomy 23:7; Deuteronomy 23:8; Obadiah 1:10; Obadiah 1:12; Malachi 1:2). cast off all pity—literally, "destroy compassions," that is, did suppress all the natural feeling of pity for a brother in distress. his wrath for ever—As Esau

Habakkuk 3:7 — 7. the tents—that is, the dwellers. Cushan—the same as Cush; made "Cush-an" to harmonize with "Midi-an" in the parallel clause. So Lotan is found in the Hebrew of Genesis for Lot. BOCHART therefore considers it equivalent to Midian, or a part of Arabia. So in Numbers 12:1, Moses' Midianite wife is called an Ethiopian (Hebrew, Cushite). MAURER thinks the dwellers on both sides of the Arabian Gulf, or Red Sea, are

Zephaniah 2:14 — pastures for sheep and haunts for wild beasts shall be where once there was a teeming population (compare Zephaniah 2:6). MAURER, needlessly for the parallelism, makes it "flocks of savage animals." beasts of the nations—that is, beasts of the earth (Genesis 1:24). Not as ROSENMULLER, "all kinds of beasts that form a nation," that is, gregarious beasts (Proverbs 30:25; Proverbs 30:26). cormorant—rather, the "pelican" (so Psalms 102:6; Isaiah 34:11, Margin). bittern— (Isaiah 34:11- :). MAURER translates,

Deuteronomy 2:14 — arms from the original inhabitants, the Emims, a race, terrible, as their name imports, for physical power and stature ( :-), in like manner as the Edomites had obtained their settlement by the overthrow of the original occupiers of Seir, the Horims (Genesis 14:6), who were troglodytes, or dwellers in caves. Moses alluded to these circumstances to encourage his countrymen to believe that God would much more enable them to expel the wicked and accursed Canaanites. At that time, however, the Moabites,

Deuteronomy 2:17 — arms from the original inhabitants, the Emims, a race, terrible, as their name imports, for physical power and stature ( :-), in like manner as the Edomites had obtained their settlement by the overthrow of the original occupiers of Seir, the Horims (Genesis 14:6), who were troglodytes, or dwellers in caves. Moses alluded to these circumstances to encourage his countrymen to believe that God would much more enable them to expel the wicked and accursed Canaanites. At that time, however, the Moabites,

Deuteronomy 2:8 — arms from the original inhabitants, the Emims, a race, terrible, as their name imports, for physical power and stature ( :-), in like manner as the Edomites had obtained their settlement by the overthrow of the original occupiers of Seir, the Horims (Genesis 14:6), who were troglodytes, or dwellers in caves. Moses alluded to these circumstances to encourage his countrymen to believe that God would much more enable them to expel the wicked and accursed Canaanites. At that time, however, the Moabites,

1 Corinthians 15:45 — of his body. the last Adam—the LAST Head of humanity, who is to be fully manifested in the last day, which is His day (John 6:39). He is so called in Job 19:25; see on Job 19:25- : (compare Job 19:25- :). In contrast to "the last," Paul calls "man" (Genesis 2:7) "the FIRST Adam." quickening—not only living, but making alive (John 5:21; John 6:33; John 6:39; John 6:40; John 6:54; John 6:57; John 6:62; John 6:63; Romans 8:11). As the natural or animal-souled body (Romans 8:11- :) is the fruit of

Galatians 3:29 — 3:16- :). But one new "seed" of a righteous succession could be found. One single faultless grain of human nature was found by God Himself, the source of a new and imperishable seed: "the seed" (Psalms 22:30) who receive from Him a new nature and name (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 53:11; John 12:24). In Him the lineal descent from David becomes extinct. He died without posterity. But He lives and shall reign on David's throne. No one has a legal claim to sit upon it but Himself, He being the only

1 Timothy 6:11 — 11. But thou—in contrast to the "some" (1 Timothy 6:10). man of God—who hast God as thy true riches (Genesis 15:1; Psalms 16:5; Lamentations 3:24). Applying primarily to Timothy as a minister (compare Lamentations 3:24- :), just as the term was used of Moses (Lamentations 3:24- :), Samuel (1 Samuel 9:6), Elijah, and Elisha; but, as the exhortation is

James 1:13 — to entice us to worse things, nor does He tempt any of His own accord" (literally, "of Himself" compare the antithesis, James 1:17- :, "Of His own will He begat us" to holiness, so far is He from tempting us of His own will) [BENGEL]. God is said in Genesis 22:1 to have "tempted Abraham"; but there the tempting meant is that of trying or proving, not that of seducement. ALFORD translates according to the ordinary sense of the Greek, "God is unversed in evil." But as this gives a less likely sense, English

2 Peter 1:4 — Jesus (Ephesians 5:30). The "divine power" enables us to be partakers of "the divine nature." escaped the corruption—which involves in, and with itself, destruction at last of soul and body; on "escaped" as from a condemned cell, compare 2 Peter 2:18-20; Genesis 19:17; Colossians 1:13. through—Greek, "in." "The corruption in the world" has its seat, not so much in the surrounding elements, as in the "lust" or concupiscence of men's hearts.

Revelation 4:11 — Version "are": another oldest manuscript, B, reads, "They were not, and were created," were created out of nothing), that is, were existing, as contrasted with their previous non-existence. With God to will is to effect: to determine is to perform. So in Genesis 1:3, "Let there be light, and there was light": in Hebrew an expressive tautology, the same word and tense and letters being used for "let there be," and "there was," marking the simultaneity and identity of the will and the effect. D. LONGINUS [On

1 Samuel 16:1 — the people's choice, the fruit of their wayward and sinful desires for their own honor and aggrandizement. The next was to be a king who would consult the divine glory, and selected from that tribe to which the pre-eminence had been early promised (Genesis 49:10).