創世記 38:2-8 JC

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:2

Verse 2 2.And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite. I am not satisfied with the interpretation which some give of “merchant” to the word Canaanite. For Moses charges Judah with perverse lust, because he took a wife out of that nation with which the children of Abraham were divinely commanded to be at perpetual strife. For neither he nor his other brethren were ignorant that they sojourned in the land of Canaan, under the stipulation, that afterwards their enemies were to be cut off... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:7

Verse 7 7.And the Lord slew him. We know that long life is reckoned among the gifts of God; and justly: for since it is by no means a despicable honor that we are created after the image of God, the longer any one lives in the world, and daily experiences God’s care over him, it is certain that he is the more bountifully dealt with by the Lord. Even amidst the many miseries with which life is filled, this divine goodness still shines forth, that God invites us to himself, and exercises us in... read more

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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:8

Verse 8 8.Go in unto thy brother’s wife. Although no law had hitherto been prescribed concerning brother’s marriages, that the surviving brother should raise up seed to one who was dead; it is, nevertheless, not wonderful that, by the mere instinct of nature, men should have been inclined to this course. For since each man is born for the preservation of the whole race, if any one dies without children, there seems to be here some defect of nature. It was deemed therefore an act of humanity to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:1-30

The house of Judah: a family record of sin and shame. I. THE WICKEDNESS OF ER AND ONAN . 1. Early . On any hypothesis Er and Onan can have been little more than boys when they were married, and yet they appear to have arrived at a remarkable precocity in sin. Nor was it simply that they had shed the innocence and purity of youth, but they had also acquired a shameful proficiency in vice. Young scholars are mostly apt learners, especially in the devil's school. 2.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:1-30

The goodness and severity of God. These occurrences in the family of Judah would seem Judah is a wanderer from his brethren; a sensual, self-willed, degenerate man; yet it is in the line of this same wanderer that the promised seed shall appear. The whole is a lesson on the evil of separation from the people of God . Luther asks why such things were placed in Scripture, and answers, read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:2

And Judah saw there the daughter of a certain (literally, of a man, a ) Canaanite ,—not of a merchant (Onkelos), but of an inhabitant of the land of Canaan— whose name was Shuah ;—"Wealth," "Riches," "Cry for Help" (Gesenius). This was not the name of Judah's wife ( LXX .), but of her father—(vide Genesis 38:12 )—and he took her,— i.e. married her (viz. Genesis 6:2 ; Genesis 24:67 )— and went in unto her . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:3

And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er —"Watcher" (Gesanius). What is commonly regarded as an idiosyncrasy of the Elohist, viz; the naming of a child by its father, here occurs in a so-called Jehovistic section. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:4

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan —"Strength" (Gesenius). The naming of a child by its mother a peculiarity of the so-called Jehovist; but vide Genesis 16:15 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:5

And she yet again conceived (lit; and she added again ) , and bare a son; and called his name Shelah :—"Prayer" (Gesenius), "Peace" (Furst)— and he ( i.e. Judah) was — sc; absent (Gerlach); or, translating impersonally, it was, i.e. the event happened (Murphy)— at Chezib ,—probably the same as Achzib ( Joshua 15:44 ; Micah 1:14 , Micah 1:15 ) and Chezeba ( 1 Chronicles 4:22 ), which in the partitioning of the land fell to the sons of Shelah, and was here mentioned... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:6

And Judah took a wife (cf. Genesis 21:21 ; Genesis 24:4 ) for Er his firstborn, —"by the early marriage of his sons Judah seems to have intended to prevent in them a germinating corruption (Lange)— whose name as Tamar— "Palm tree" (Gesenius). Though the name was Shemitic, it does not follow that the person was. Cf. Melchisedeck and Abimelech. Yet she is not expressly called a Canaanite, though it is more than probable she was. Lange conjectures that she may have been of Philistine... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 38:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 38:6

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