In a key passage concerning ?the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,? Paul relates that the Day of Christ (NU?Day of t...
Chapter?31The prophecy of this chapter, as the two chapters before, is against Egypt, and designed for the humbling and mortifying of Pharaoh. In pass...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Another vision which the prophet saw, not for his own entertainment, but for his satisfaction and the edification...
The scene which John is shown next is an extension of what has preceded. In the previous chapter, Revelation 11 , John was shown two witnesses who pro...
THE FOURTH BOOK. AUGUSTINE'S LIFE FROM NINETEEN TO EIGHT-AND-TWENTY ? HIMSELF A HANICH.SAN, AND SEDUCING OTHERS TO THE SAME heresy ? partial OBEDIENC...
Chapter?33Yet Moses has not done with the children of Israel; he seemed to have taken final leave of them in the close of the foregoing chapter, but s...
Chapter?5Israel have now got over Jordan, and the waters which had opened before them, to favour their march forward, are closed again behind them, to...
Animals [N]God as Creator and Sustainer. Animals, like the rest of the uNIVerse, are created by God. In Genesis 1, God's approval of the created world...
Chapter?32We have here Jacob still upon his journey towards Canaan. Never did so many memorable things occur in any march as in this of Jacob?s little...
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?13In this chapter we have, I. The commands God gave to Israel, 1. To sanctify all their firstborn to him (v.?1, v.?2). To be sure to remember ...
Chapter?19We have here a further account of the good reign of Jehoshaphat, I. His return in peace to Jerusalem (v.?1). II. The reproof given him for h...
Chapter?27Moses having very largely and fully set before the people their duty, both to God and one another, in general and in particular instances,?h...
Chapter?9At this chapter begins another sermon, which is continued to the end of ch. 11. It is called, The burden of the word of the Lord,?? for every...
Blessed is he Luther?s comments underscore the need for a consistently literal interpretation of this book: ?Even if it were a blessed thing to believ...
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?4The penman of this chapter is Nebuchadnezzar himself: the story here recorded concerning him is given us in his own words, as he himself drew...
Chapter?13It is a memorable and very melancholy story which is related in this and the following chapter, of the turning back of Israel from the borde...
Chapter?16In the close of the foregoing chapter we left David flying from Jerusalem, and Absalom entering into it; in this chapter, I. We are to follo...
Chapter?11We are now come to the Passion-Week, the week in which Christ died, and the great occurrences of that week. I. Christ?s riding in triumph in...