The Life of Feeling. ? We walk by faith, not by sight.'?2 Cob. V. 7. 'Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.' ?John Xx. 29. 'S...
Nature, Natural The Hebrew language has no word for nature equivalent to the Greek word physis [fuvsi]. Hebrew thought and language were essentially c...
BAND The English word has two generic meanings, each shading off into several specific meanings: (1) that which holds together, binds or encircles: ...
Excursus on Usury.Excursus on Usury.The famous canonist Van Espen defines usury thus: Usura definitur lucrum ex mutuo exactum aut speratum;(1) and the...
Chapter?11The apostle, having reconciled that great truth of the rejection of the Jews with the promise made unto the fathers, is, in this chapter, fu...
Chapter?39This chapter continues and concludes the prophecy against Gog and Magog, in whose destruction God crowns his favour to his people Israel, wh...
Chapter?30It is a melancholy But now?? which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the forego...
Homily XV.Homily XV. John i. 18.-No man hath seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.[1...
Chapter?26With this chapter Moses concludes the particular statutes which he thought fit to give Israel in charge at his parting with them; what follo...
Chapter 1The first verse of this chapter is intended for a title to the whole book, and it is probable that this was the first sermon that this prophe...
Chapter?38This chapter proceeds in the history of Hezekiah. Here is, I. His sickness, and the sentence of death he received within himself (v.?1). II....
HEBREWS. CHAPTER VII. Christ's Priesthood After the Order of Melchizedec. SUMMARY.--The High Dignity of Melchizedec as a Priest. Abraham Paid Him ...
in the midst The Levites, who performed the priestly duty of the OT, camped around the glory of the Lord which resided in the Tabernacle (Num. Num. 1:...
Chapter?128This, as the former, is a psalm for families. In that we were taught that the prosperity of our families depends upon the blessing of God; ...
Chapter?8Three more of the plagues of Egypt are related in this chapter, I. That of the frogs, which is, 1. Threatened (v.?1-4). Inflicted (v.?5, v.?6...
Chapter?32In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition ...
Chapter?16In this chapter we have the institution of the annual solemnity of the day of atonement, or expiation, which had as much gospel in it as per...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
Chapter?27Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of t...
Chapter?9In this psalm, I. David praises God for pleading his cause, and giving him victory over his enemies and the enemies of his country (v.?1-6), ...