Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Hannah?s song of thanksgiving to God for his favour to her in giving her Samuel (v.?1-10). II. Their return to th...
Chapter?8This chapter gives us a further account of Gideon?s victory over the Midianites, with the residue of the story of his life and government. I....
Chapter?41God?s kindness and truth have often been the support and comfort of the saints when they have had most experience of man?s unkindness and tr...
Chapter?37This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversat...
Chapter?15In this chapter, we have our Lord Jesus, as the great Prophet teaching, as the great Physician healing, and as the great Shepherd of the she...
Chapter?7Solomon had given many proofs and instances of the vanity of this world and the things of it; now, in this chapter, I. He recommends to us so...
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...
4:1? And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan1, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness2JESUS TEMPTED IN THE WILDERNESS. Mat...
Chapter?22This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David?s psalms (Ps.?18, ) with some little variation. We ha...
Chapter?4David was a preacher, a royal preacher, as well as Solomon; many of his psalms are doctrinal and practical as well as devotional; the greates...
Chapter?91Some of the ancients were of opinion that Moses was the penman, not only of the foregoing psalm, which is expressly said to be his, but also...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 14. Almost every word of this verse has furnished matter for discussion to scholars, for it is very obscure. We will, therefore, rest...
12:1? In the mean time1, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together2, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say u...
Chapter?8In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one...
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...
BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY $ IV. Literary Growth and Origin--Canonicity.$ Thus far the books of the Old Testament and New Testament have been taken si...
Chapter?4The work of a Christian is twofold?doing the will of God and suffering his pleasure. This chapter directs us in both. The duties we are here ...
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...
Chapter?9After Christ?s departure out of the temple, in the close of the foregoing chapter, and before this happened which is recorded in this chapter...
Chapter?15When we left the prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, so pathetically poring out his prayers before God, we had reason to hope th...