Chapter?10This chapter is an ordination sermon, which our Lord Jesus preached, when he advanced his twelve disciples to the degree and dignity of apos...
Chapter?25 Verse 1 This verse is the title of this latter collection of Solomon?s proverbs, for he sought out and set in order many proverbs, that by...
Chapter?15 Verse 1 Solomon, as conservator of the public peace, here tells us, 1. How the peace may be kept, that we may know how in our places to kee...
Chapter?29After that excellent discourse concerning wisdom in the foregoing chapter Job sat down and paused awhile, not because he had talked himself ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. The law concerning Nazarites, 1. What it was to which the vow of a Nazarite obliged him (v.?1-8). A remedial law ...
Chapter?4In this chapter, we have, I. The parable of the seed, and the four sorts of ground (v.?1-9), with the exposition of it (v.?10-20), and the ap...
Chapter?12The wise and penitent preacher is here closing his sermon; and he closes it, not only like a good orator, but like a good preacher, with tha...
Chapter?73This psalm, and the ten that next follow it, carry the name of Asaph in the titles of them. If he was the penman of them (as many think),...
Chapter?45In this chapter is further represented to the prophet, in vision, I. The division of the holy land, so much for the temple, and the priests ...
Up to this point, we have spent considerable time discussing background information in order to better prepare the reader for the verse-by-verse expo...
Chapter?7This chapter presents us with Gideon in the field, commanding the army of Israel, and routing the army of the Midianites, for which great exp...
Chapter?26As in the history of the Acts of the Apostles that of their preaching and that of their suffering are interwoven, so it is in the account we...
BEGINNING OF THE MINISTRY OF JOHNTHE BAPTIST, THE FOREUNNER.2-1. JOHN THE BAPTIST'S PERSON AND PREACHING. (In the wilderness of Jud?a, and on th...
CHAPTER VI THE DIVINE DECREES. Augustine: De predestinatione; Epistola CXOIV., Ad Sixtum. Anselm: Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis. Calv...
TN considering this question three points will be taken in succession. I shall endeavour to show:? I. That the writer was intimately acquainted with...
Chapter?3The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. In the foregoing chapters we hav...
PALESTINE, 1 pal'-es-tin (pelesheth; Phulistieim, Allophuloi; the King James Version Joel 3:4 (the Revised Version (British and American) Philistia), ...
Chapter?16Samson?s name (we have observed before) signifies a little sun (solparvus); we have seen this sun rising very bright, and his morning ray st...
Chapter?19The three remaining chapters of this book contain a most tragical story of the wickedness of the men of Gibeah, patronised by the tribe of B...
Chapter 31This chapter is added to Solomon?s proverbs, some think because it is of the same author, supposing king Lemuel to be king Solomon; others o...