Melito, the Philosopher.Melito, the Philosopher. [a.d. 160-170-177.] Melito(1) may have been the immediate successor of the angel (or apostle) of the...
THE COMING REVIVAL Wilt Thou not revive us again, that Thy people may rejoice in Thee? ?Ps. lxxxv. 6. O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the ye...
Chapter?12 The parable of the vineyard and husbandmen. (1-12) Question about tribute. (13-17) Concerning the resurrection. (18-27) The great command ...
Psalm LIII. (LIV.).Psalm LIII. (LIV.). For the end among the hymns, of the meaning of David when the Ziphims came and said Saul: behold, is not David ...
Letter CCIV(1) Letter CCIV(1) To the Neocaesarcans.(2) 1. [There has been a long silence on both sides, revered and well-beloved brethren, just as if...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. These last verses reveal to us the great representative man, who answered to the full character laid down, and therefore by his ow...
The Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God Concerning the ChastisementsThe Apocalypse of the Holy Mother of God Concerning the ChastisementsI. The all-h...
Chapter?103This psalm calls more for devotion than exposition; it is a most excellent psalm of praise, and of general use. The psalmist, I. Stirs up h...
KNOWLEDGE. Great God, I thank thee for those powers of mind thou hast bestowed on the human race, which raise us so far above the brutes that perish...
Chapter?4Comparing this chapter with the close of the foregoing chapter, the comfortable promises here with the terrible threatenings there, we may, w...
seven angels These are seven specific angels who are said to stand before God. Some have identified these with angels which are named in the books of ...
123 Isaiah xxi. 11. P.M. 1?What of the night, watchman, what of the night? The wintry gale sweeps by, The thick shadows fall, and the night bird'...
seventh angel sounded The seventh angel sounds the seventh trumpet (Rev. Rev. 8:2+). This last of the seven trumpets is not to be confused with the ?l...
? ? OF THE DEATH OF THE BODY. The things to be enquired into, are, What death is ? who are the subjects of it? what the causes of it, and its proper...
Chapter?143This psalm, as those before, is a prayer of David, and full of complaints of the great distress and danger he was in, probably when Saul pe...
Chapter?14After an account of the great trials and sufferings which the servants of God had endured, we have now a more pleasant scene opening; the da...
Book XVIIBook XVII------------Argument-This book the history of the city of God is traced during the period of the kings and prophets from Samuel to D...
?EXPOSITION Verse 154. Plead my cause, and deliver me. In the last verse he had prayed, Deliver me, and here he specifies one method in which that del...
Chapter?52David, no doubt, was in very great grief when he said to Abiathar (1 Sa.?22:22 ), I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy fath...
As we have continued in our study of the book of Revelation, we have observed how the number of fellow saints who share our understanding of the text...