Category: Commentary

  • Commentary on the Book of Jonah – Haimo of Auxerre

    I’m grateful to translator Deborah Everhart (and in general the consortium for the teaching of the Middle Ages) for providing a very readable translation from the original Latin of Haimo of Auxerre’s Commentary on Jonah. Haimo died around A.D. 875. So this is not an “early church” commentary, but it is part of Western church…

  • "Twice Dead" in Jude 12

    What does the expression, “twice dead,” in Jude 12[fn1] mean? According to a friend of mine, some non-Calvinists have tried to argue that it refers to folks who were once saved, but are saved no longer. That explanation misses the point, because it is attempting to force a view onto the verse that the verse…

  • Proverbs 3:21-35

    Proverbs 3:21-3521 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. 23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid:…

  • Proverbs 3:11-20

    Proverbs 3:11-20 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth. 13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. 14 For the merchandise of…

  • Proverbs 3:1-10

    Proverbs 3:1-101 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. 3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 4 So shalt thou…

  • Proverbs 2

    Proverbs 21My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid…

  • Proverbs 1:20-33

    Proverbs 1:20-33 20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23Turn…

  • Proverbs 1:17-19

    Proverbs 1:17-19Pro 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Pro 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. Pro 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners…

  • Proverbs 1:10-16

    Proverbs 1:10-1610My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13We shall find all precious…

  • Proverbs 1:8-9

    Proverbs 1:8-98My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. The first commandment of the second table of the law is “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be…