Chapter?3The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the two foregoing chapters, but the composition is somewhat different; that was in long ve...
Chapter?3This chapter, and that which follows it, give us the history of Israel?s passing through Jordan into Canaan, and a very memorable history it ...
Chapter?3In this chapter, I. The church gives an account of a sore trial wherewith she was exercised through the withdrawing of her beloved from her, ...
Chapter 11It is a very good transition in prophecy (whether it be so in rhetoric or no), and a very common one, to pass from the prediction of the tem...
he cried mightily with a loud voice The angel serves as a divine herald, announcing that which is about to take place. He signals that an event of gre...
Ver. 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy Though this word of prophecy is generally understood of the writings and prophecies of the Old Test...
Chapter?33Pompous prefaces, like the teeming mountain, often introduce poor performances; but Elihu?s discourse here does not disappoint the expectati...
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....
PSALM 92 OVERVIEW. TITLE -- A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath day. This admirable composition is both a Psalm and a Song, full of equal measures of sol...
CHAPTER IV. THE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES OF THE TIME OF JOSHUA AND OF THE JUDGES. ? 13. Yahweh and His Anointed in the Thanksgiving Song of Hannah. TT...
Chapter?26We have here an account of the business of the Levites. That tribe had made but a very small figure all the time of the judges, till Eli and...
they had a king over them These locusts are to be contrasted with natural locusts which have no king: ?The locusts have no king, yet they all advance...
Chapter?19Some ceremonial precepts there are in this chapter, but most of them are moral. One would wonder that when some of the lighter matters of th...
Chapter?2In the close of the foregoing chapter we had an account of the first disciples whom Jesus called, Andrew and Peter, Philip and Nathanael. The...
Chapter?49This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; an...
Footnotes(1 )Eusebius seems to have adopted this name as a token of friendship and respect for Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. See McGiffert, Prolegome...
Homily IX.Homily IX. Hebrews vi. 1-3.-Therefore leaving the principles of the Doctrine of Christ,(1) let us go on unto perfection, not laying again th...
Chapter?39God proceeds here to show Job what little reason he had to charge him with unkindness who was so compassionate to the inferior creatures and...
Chapter?20We have here, I. The great danger and distress that Jehoshaphat and his kingdom were in from a foreign invasion (v.?1, v.?2). II. The pious ...
Chapter?10Hitherto we have been in the porch or preface to the proverbs, here they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are disti...