PENTATEUCH, 3 III. Some Literary Points. 1. Style of Legislation: No general estimate of the Pentateuch as literature can or need be attempted. Prob...
Chapter?24Marriages and funerals are the changes of families, and the common news among the inhabitants of the villages. In the foregoing chapter we h...
Chapter?8The evangelist having, in the foregoing chapters, given us a specimen of our Lord?s preaching, proceeds now to give some instances of the mir...
Chapter?23This chapter carries on and concludes the history of Christ?s sufferings and death. We have here, I. His arraignment before Pilate the Roman...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth. His breath goes from his body, and his body goes to the grave. His spirit goes...
Chapter?26The prophet had soon done with those four nations that he set his face against in the foregoing chapters; for they were not at that time ver...
Chapter?12In this chapter we have divers excellent discourses of our Saviour?s upon various occasions, many of which are to the same purport with what...
Chapter?1The history of Job begins here with an account, I. Of his great piety in general (v.?1), and in a particular instance (v.?5). II. Of his grea...
Homily LXXXIII.Homily LXXXIII. John xviii. 1.-When Jesus had spoken these words, He went forth with His disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a g...
Chapter?1This evangelist begins with the account of Christ?s parentage and birth, the ancestors from whom he descended, and the manner of his entry in...
Chapter?32In this chapter we have, I. Jeremiah imprisoned for foretelling the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of king Zedekiah (v.?1-5). II...
Chapter?11In this chapter we have the history of that illustrious miracle which Christ wrought a little before his death?the raising of Lazarus to lif...
Part III. How the Ruler, While Living Well, Ought to Teach and Admonish Those that are Put Under Him.Part III. How the Ruler, While Living Well, Ought...
Chapter?3In this chapter our apostle treats of church-officers. He specifies, I. The qualifications of a person to be admitted to the office of a bish...
PAPYRUS pa-pi'-rus (Cyperus papyrus; bublos, biblos, whence biblion, a roll, ta biblia, the Books = the Bible): 1. Papyrus Paper 2. Egyptian Papyri ...
Chapter?29Three chapters we had concerning Tyre and its king; next follow four chapters concerning Egypt and its king. This is the first of them. Egyp...
Chapter?1The inspired historian begins his narrative of the Acts of the Apostles, I. With a reference to, and a brief recapitulation of, his gospel, o...
Chapter?9The apostasy of Israel after the death of Gideon is punished, not as the former apostasies by a foreign invasion, or the oppressions of any n...
Chapter?49The cup of trembling still goes round, and the nations must all drink of it, according to the instructions given to Jeremiah, ch.?25:15 . Th...
Homily XV.Homily XV. ROM. VIII. 28.-And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God.Here he seems to me to have mooted this w...