Notas al pie

1. Matthew 3:1 Not when Joseph went to dwell at Nazareth, but a great while after, about the space of 15 years: for in the 30 year of his age was Jesus baptized of John: therefore by those days is meant, at that time that Jesus remained as yet an inhabitant of the town of Nazareth.
2. Matthew 3:1 John, who through his singular holiness and rare austereness of life caused all men to cast their eyes upon him, prepareth the way for Christ following fast on his heels, as the Prophet Isaiah foretold, and delivereth the sum of the Gospel, which in short space after should be delivered more fully.
3. Matthew 3:1 In a hilly country, which was notwithstanding inhabited, for Zechariah dwelt there, Luke 1:40, and there was Joab’s house, 1 Kings 2:34; and besides these, Joshua maketh mention of six towns that were in the wilderness, Josh. 15:62.
4. Matthew 3:2 The word in the Greek tongue signifieth a changing of our minds and heart from evil to better.
5. Matthew 3:2 The kingdom of Messiah, whose government shall be heavenly, and nothing but heavenly.
6. Matthew 3:3 Make him a plain and smooth way.
7. Matthew 3:4 Locusts were a kind of meat which certain of the East people use, which were therefore called devourers of Locusts. . . .
8. Matthew 3:5 The people of Jerusalem.
9. Matthew 3:6 Acknowledging that they were saved only by free remission and forgiveness of their sins.
10. Matthew 3:7 There is nothing that stoppeth up the way of mercy and salvation against us so much as the opinion of our own righteousness doth.
11. Matthew 3:8 True repentance is an inward thing which hath its seat in the mind and heart.
12. Matthew 3:9 The faith of the fathers availeth their unbelieving children nothing at all: and yet for all that God playeth not the liar, nor dealeth unfaithfully in his league which he made with the holy fathers.
13. Matthew 3:9 Think not that you have any cause to be proud of Abraham.
14. Matthew 3:9 In your hearts.
15. Matthew 3:11 We may neither dwell upon the signs which God hath ordained as means to lead us unto our salvation, neither upon them: but we must climb up to the matter itself, that is to say, to Christ, who inwardly worketh that effectually, which is outwardly signified unto us.
16. Matthew 3:11 The outward sign putteth us in mind of this, that we must change our lives and become better, assuring us as by a seal, that we are engrafted into Christ; whereby our old man dieth and the new man riseth up, Rom. 6:4.
17. Matthew 3:12 The triumphs of the wicked shall end in everlasting torment.
18. Matthew 3:12 Will cleanse it thoroughly, and make a full riddance.
19. Matthew 3:13 Christ sanctified our baptism in himself.
20. Matthew 3:15 All such things as it hath appointed us to keep.
21. Matthew 3:16 To John.
22. Matthew 3:17 Christ’s full consecration and authorizing to the office of mediatorship, is showed by the father’s own voice, and a visible sign of the holy Ghost.
23. Matthew 3:17 The Greek word betokeneth a thing of great account, and such as highly pleaseth a man. So then the Father saith, that Christ only is the man whom when he beholdeth, look what opinion he had conceived of us, he layeth it clean aside.