Chapter?49This chapter is a prophecy; the likest to it we have yet met with was that of Noah, ch.?9:25 , etc. Jacob is here upon his death-bed, makin...
Chapter?1The history of Samuel here begins as early as that of Samson did, even before he was born, as afterwards the history of John the Baptist and ...
Chapter?28This chapter is a very large exposition of two words in the foregoing chapter, the blessing and the curse. Those were pronounced blessed in ...
Chapter?2Solomon having pronounced all vanity, and particularly knowledge and learning, which he was so far from giving himself joy of that he found t...
Chapter?30The prophecy of this chapter seems to relate (as that in the foregoing chapter) to the approaching danger of Jerusalem and desolations of Ju...
Chapter?31Job had often protested his integrity in general; here he does it in particular instances, not in a way of commendation (for he does not her...
PART IV. THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD. CHAPTER I. THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. In contemplating the words and acts of God, as in contemplating ...
Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...
Chapter?15In this chapter the apostle treats of that great article of Christianity?the resurrection of the dead. I. He establishes the certainty of ou...
DR LIGHTFOOT in this Journal (n. 264 ff.) has demolished M. Renan's ingenious theory about the composition of the Epistle to the Romans, and along wi...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...