my two witnesses The TR text indicates that it is an angel which is speaking with John (Rev. Rev. 11:1+). Yet here, the speaker speaks of the two witn...
Opening the Fifth and Sixth Seals 1 fifth seal With the opening of the fifth seal, we break from the judgments associated with the four horsemen. ?T...
Chapter?19There are two excellent books which the great God has published for the instruction and edification of the children of men; this psalm treat...
Chapter?16Hagar is the person mostly concerned in the story of this chapter, an obscure Egyptian woman, whose name and story we never should have hear...
Chapter?28Orders being given for the fitting up of the place of worship, in this and the following chapter care is taken about the priests that were t...
THE BODY AS THE SEVENFOLD MEANS OF SELF-REPRESENTATION TO THE SOUL. Sec. X. The saying of Thomasius8 is true, in addition to that of Harless and Ho...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter 6Hitherto, it should seem, Isaiah had prophesied as a candidate, having only a virtual and tacit commission; but here we have him (if I may so...
Chapter?3Solomon having shown the vanity of studies, pleasures, and business, and made it to appear that happiness is not to be found in the schools o...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. The general title of this prophecy (v.?1), with the general scope of it (v.?2). II. God?s particular controversy ...
We now come to the inquiry, What do the Scriptures teach us respecting the Antichrist? We begin by asking whether the Old Testament speaks of him as t...
Chapter 99:2? In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the p...
Knowledge of God The key biblical terms for knowledge assume a personal familiarity, even an intimateinvolvement, with the known object. Similarly, kn...
Nature, Natural The Hebrew language has no word for nature equivalent to the Greek word physis [fuvsi]. Hebrew thought and language were essentially c...
Chapter?30In this chapter we have, I. A continuation of the prophecy against Egypt, which we had in the latter part of the foregoing chapter, just bef...
Chapter?30In this chapter we have an account of the increase, I. Of Jacob?s family. Eight children more we find registered in this chapter; Dan and Na...
CHAPTER 15. THREE THINGS BRIEFLY TO BE REGARDED IN CHRIST--VIZ. HIS OFFICES OF PROPHET, KING, AND PRIEST. The principal parts of this chapter are--I....
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?15Absalom?s name signifies the peace of his father,?? yet he proves his greatest trouble; so often are we disappointed in our expectations fro...
Chapter?33Yet Moses has not done with the children of Israel; he seemed to have taken final leave of them in the close of the foregoing chapter, but s...