?EXPOSITION Having offered earnest intercession for the afflicted but penitent nation, the sacred poet in the true spirit of faith awaits a response f...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. Make me to hear joy and gladness. He prays about his sorrow late in the Psalm; he began at once with his sin; he asks to hear pard...
Letter LXXI(1) Letter LXXI(1) Basil to Gregory.(2) 1. I Have received the letter of your holiness, by the most reverend brother Helenius. and what yo...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 11. God hath spoken once. So immutable is God that he need not speak twice, as though he had changed; so infallible, that one utteran...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 17. Evening and morning, and at noon, will I pray. Often but none too often. Seasons of great need call for frequent seasons of devot...
Sermon LXX. [CXX. Ben.]Sermon LXX. [CXX. Ben.] On the same words of John i., In the beginning was the word, etc.1. The beginning of John's Gospel, In ...
Tractate XL.Tractate XL. John VIII. 28-32.I. Of the holy Gospel according to John, which you see in our hand, your Charity has already heard much, whe...
Sermon XVI. On the Fast of the Tenth Month.Sermon XVI. On the Fast of the Tenth Month. I. The Prosperous Must Show Forth Their Thankfulness to God, by...
?EXPOSITION Verse 7. For he is our God. Here is the master reason for worship. Jehovah has entered into covenant with us, and from all the world besid...
2 Kings 7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host, &c.] Or ...
Homily XVII.Homily XVII.-------- Chapter I.-Simon Comes to Peter.The next day, therefore, as Peter was to hold a discussion with Simon, he rose earlie...
?EXPOSITION Verse 8. Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust. Lord, my sorrow makes me deaf, -- cause me to hear: ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. Their essential material is dead metal, their attributes ...
Psalm CXXXV. Psalm CXXXV. 1. Very pleasant ought it be to us, and we should rejoice because it is pleasant, to which this Psalm exhorteth us. For it s...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. Here we enter upon one of the most wonderful passages in the whole of the Old Testament, a passage in which the incarnate Son of G...
Hymn XIV. Hymn XIV. (Resp.-Blessed be he who became beyond measure low, that he might make us beyond measure great)1. Of the Birth of the Firstborn, l...
The Book of MatthewChapter 11 Verses:11:1In their cities - The other cities of Israel.11:2He sent two of his disciples - Not because he doubted himsel...
The Book of 1?CorinthiansChapter 16Verses:16:1The saints - A more solemn and a more affecting word, than if he had said, the poor.16:2Let every one - ...
-. THE FIRST GREAT GROUP OF PARABLES. (Beside the Sea of Galilee.)Subdivision B.PARABLE OF THE SOWER. a?MATT. 13:3-23; b?MARK 4:3-25; c?LUKE 8:...
Matthew 11:5 The blind receive their sight Our Lord here, has reference to several prophecies concerning the Messiah, in ( Isaiah 35:6 ) ( Isaiah 61:...