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...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
Chapter?102Some think that David penned this psalm at the time of Absalom?s rebellion; others that Daniel, Nehemiah, or some other prophet, penned it ...
Chapter?2In this chapter, I. Christ speaks both concerning himself and concerning his church (v.?1, v.?2). II. The church speaks 1. Remembering the pl...
Beyond the interpretive issue mentioned above, which we feel is conclusive, there are many other reasons for taking Babylon in the book of Revelation...
Chapter?3In this chapter we have the further preparation of the prophet for the work to which God called him. I. His eating the roll that was presente...
Chapter?6Daniel does not give a continued history of the reigns in which he lived, nor of the state-affairs of the kingdoms of Chaldea and Persia, tho...
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?13Hitherto the prophecies of this book related only to Judah and Israel, and Jerusalem especially; but now the prophet begins to look abroad, ...
Chapter?8We have already seen what occurred upon opening six of the seals; we now come to the opening of the seventh, which introduced the sounding of...
Chapter 9: OTHER PRE-EXILIAN PROPHETIC BOOKS. In the preceding historical survey we have passed by several books which can better be consider...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Chapter 1In this chapter we have, I. The common circumstances of the prophecy now to be delivered, the time when it was delivered (v. 1), the place wh...
Chapter?34Having read how Moses finished his testimony, we are told here how he immediately after finished his life. This chapter could not be written...
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?63In this chapter we have, I. God coming towards his people in ways of mercy and deliverance, and this is to be joined to the close of the for...
Chapter?2This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which re...
PART IV. THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD. CHAPTER I. THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. In contemplating the words and acts of God, as in contemplating ...
Chapter?36We have here, I. A short but sad account of the utter ruin of Judah and Jerusalem within a few years after Josiah?s death. 1. The history of...
Chapter?8The passages of story recorded in this chapter oblige us to look back. I. We read before of a Shuuammite woman that was a kind benefactor to ...