Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans. Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans. [de Natura Boni Contra Manichaeos.] C....
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me. The same request as in the last verse. The little child having begun to walk, asks to be still...
Chapter?17This excellent chapter is the same with 2 Sa. 7. It will be worth while to look back upon what was there said upon it. Two things in general...
Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it For there is but a second, not a third: this is suggested in opposition to the numerous commandments in t...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. O my God. This title is more dear than the name Jehovah, which is used in the first sentence. Already the sweet singer has drawn n...
Job 11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? &c.] By which he means, either lies in common, untruths wilfully told, which are sins of a scandal...
Seventh Day. WAITING ON GOD: B plea in praeer. 'Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on Thee.'?Ps. xxr. 21. TJ^OR the third tim...
Genesis 2:15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden This is observed before in ( Genesis 2:8 ) and is here repeated to int...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 18. For I will declare mine iniquity. The slander of his enemies he repudiates, but the accusations of his conscience he admits. Open...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 24. Be of good courage. Keep up your spirit, let no craven thoughts blanch your cheek. Fear weakens, courage strengthens. Victory wai...
1 Samuel 1:26 And she said, O my lord According to the Targum, it is a supplication or request, I beseech thee, my lord; that is, to look upon her son...
Chapter?58 Hypocrisy reproved. (1,2) A counterfeit and a true fast, with promises to real godliness, and, (3-12) to the keeping the sabbath. (13,14) ...
Psalms 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion Hermon was a very high hill beyond Jordan; the Sidonians c...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 13. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary, or in holiness. In the holy place we understand our God, and rest assured that all his ways ...
Chapter?61 David seeks God upon former experience. (1-4) He vows to serve God. (5-8) Verses 1-4 David begins with prayers and tears, but ends ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth. Having passed beyond stern integrity into open handed benevolence he looks kindly upon al...
Chastisement. 'Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, 0 Lord, and teachest out of Thy law; that Thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversit...
Chapter?33 The glorious majesty of God. (1-5) The blessings of the twelve tribes. (6-23) Strength to believers. (24,25) The excellency of Israel. (26...
Chapter?1 The second epistle to the Thessalonians was written soon after the first. The apostle was told that, from some expressions in his first let...
Chapter?10Hitherto we have been in the porch or preface to the proverbs, here they begin. They are short but weighty sentences; most of them are disti...