SEV Biblia, Chapter 12:42
La reina del austro se levantar en el juicio con esta generacin, y la condenar; porque vino de los fines de la tierra para oír la sabiduría de Salomn; y he aquí ms que Salomn en este lugar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 12:42
Verse 42. The queen of the south] In 1 Kings x. 1, this queen is said to be of Saba, which was a city and province of Arabia Felix, to the south, or south-east, of Judea. Uttermost parts of the earth] peratwn thv ghv-a form of speech which merely signifies, a great distance. See Deut. xxviii. 49.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 42. The queen of the south , etc.] Called the queen of Sheba, ( <111001> Kings 10:1). Sheba was one of the sons of Joktan, a grandchild of Arphaxad, who settled in the southern parts of Arabia: hence this queen is called the queen of the south. Sheba is by the Targumist called Zemargad: and this queen the queen of Zemargad: she goes by different names. According to some, her name was Maqueda f765 , and, as others say, Balkis f766 : a Jewish chronologer tells us, that the queen of Sheba, who is called Nicolaa, of the kingdom of Jaman, or the south, came to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, and gave him much riches: and Josephus calls her Nicaulis, queen of Egypt and Ethiopia; of whom it is here said, that she shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it : the meaning is, as before; that she shall rise from the dead, and stand as a witness against that generation at the day of judgment, and, by her example and practices, which will then be produced, condemn them, or aggravate their condemnation: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth ; an hyperbolical expression, meaning a great way off from a far country, a very distant part of the world from Jerusalem, hml tmkj [wml , to hear the wisdom of Solomon; the very phrase used by the above Jewish writer. And behold, a greater than Solomon is here ; one that was infinitely greater than Solomon was, in everything; so particularly in that, in which he excelled others, and on the account of which the queen of the south came unto him, namely, wisdom: for he is the wisdom of God, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. The Jews themselves own, that the king, meaning the Messiah, that shall be raised up of the seed of David, hmlm rty hyhy hmkj l[b , shall be a greater master of wisdom, or wiser than Solomon. Now what an aggravation of the condemnation of the Jews will this be another day, that a Gentile woman, living in a foreign and distant land, should, upon the fame of the wisdom of Solomon, leave her own kingdom and country, and come to Jerusalem, to hear his wise discourses about things natural, civil, and moral; and yet the Jews, who had a greater than Solomon in the midst of them, and had no need to take much pains to come to the sight and hearing of him, yet rejected him as the Messiah, blasphemed his miracles, and despised his ministry; though it was concerned about things of a spiritual and evangelic nature, and the eternal welfare of immortal souls.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 38-45 - Though Christ is always ready to hear and answer holy desires an prayers, yet those who ask amiss, ask and have not. Signs were grante to those who desired them to confirm their faith, as Abraham an Gideon; but denied to those who demanded them to excuse their unbelief The resurrection of Christ from the dead by his own power, called her the sign of the prophet Jonah, was the great proof of Christ's being the Messiah. As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale, an then came out again alive, thus Christ would be so long in the grave and then rise again. The Ninevites would shame the Jews for no repenting; the queen of Sheba, for not believing in Christ. And we have no such cares to hinder us, we come not to Christ upon suc uncertainties. This parable represents the case of the Jewish churc and nation. It is also applicable to all those who hear the word of God, and are in part reformed, but not truly converted. The unclea spirit leaves for a time, but when he returns, he finds Christ is no there to shut him out; the heart is swept by outward reformation, but garnished by preparation to comply with evil suggestions, and the ma becomes a more decided enemy of the truth. Every heart is the residenc of unclean spirits, except those which are temples of the Holy Ghost by faith in Christ.
Greek Textus Receptus
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