Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. A general charge drawn up against Israel for those high crimes and misdemeanors by which they had obstructed the ...
Legalism The term legalism commonly denotes preoccupation with form at the expense of substance. While it is now used metaphorically in all areas of h...
World [N]The biblical concept of world falls into five categories: the physical world, the human world, the moral world, the temporal world, and the c...
Time [N] [T]It is debatable whether the Bible contains enough information to formulate a full-scale doctrine of time; nonetheless, the significance of...
Family Life and Relations The Old Testament. In Western societies individuals are often considered the societal units, brought together by some common...
Chapter?4An instance of the wisdom God granted to Solomon we had in the close of the foregoing chapter. In this we have an account of his wealth and p...
Chapter?6It is a very surprising scene that opens in this chapter. Haman, when he hoped to be Mordecai?s judge, was made his page, to his great confus...
Ascension of Jesus Christ Event, recorded most fully in ac 1:1-11, by which Christ concluded his postresurrection appearances, left the earth, and was...
Chapter?45The prophecy we have in this chapter concerns Baruch only, yet is intended for the support and encouragement of all the Lord?s people that s...
Motives Motives pose at least a twofold dilemma: (1) the status of a good deed done for the wrong reason or an evil deed done with good (or even witho...
Chapter?16Hagar is the person mostly concerned in the story of this chapter, an obscure Egyptian woman, whose name and story we never should have hear...
Mercy [N] [T] [E]Mercy is a concept integral to an understanding of God's dealings with humankind. In English translations of the Bible, it comes to e...
Chapter?6Moses, in this chapter, goes on with his charge to Israel, to be sure to keep up their religion in Canaan. It is much the same with ch. 4. I....
Chapter?113This psalm begins and ends with Hallelujah;?? for, as many others, it is designed to promote the great and good work of praising God. I. We...
Heal, Health With characteristic realism the Bible accepts the prevalence in God's world of ill-health and affliction, although originally it had no p...
Chapter?1The history of Job begins here with an account, I. Of his great piety in general (v.?1), and in a particular instance (v.?5). II. Of his grea...
Chapter?4Solomon, having shown the vanity of this world in the temptation which those in power feel to oppress and trample upon their subjects, here f...
Chapter?44In this chapter we have, I. The appropriating of the east gate of the temple to the prince (v.?1-3). II. A reproof sent to the house of Isra...
Persecution [N] [T] [E]Just as the Bible graphically describes the introduction and spread of sin in the world, it also depicts the presence and reali...
Chapter?6The closing words of the foregoing chapter gave us some hopes that God and his Israel, notwithstanding their sins and his wrath, might yet be...