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?32In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition ...
PSALM 35 OVERVIEW Title. A Psalm of David. Here is all we know concerning this Psalm, but internal evidence seems to fix the date of its composition i...
THE BODY AS THE SEVENFOLD MEANS OF SELF-REPRESENTATION TO THE SOUL. Sec. X. The saying of Thomasius8 is true, in addition to that of Harless and Ho...
Chapter?10We may conjecture that the prophecy of this chapter was delivered after the first captivity, in the time of Jeconiah or Jehoiachin, when man...
Chapter?9In this and the following chapter we have Job?s answer to Bildad?s discourse, wherein he speaks honourably of God, humbly of himself, and fee...
Nature, Natural The Hebrew language has no word for nature equivalent to the Greek word physis [fuvsi]. Hebrew thought and language were essentially c...
Chapter?54The key of this psalm hangs at the door, for the title tells us upon what occasion it was penned?when the inhabitants of Ziph, men of Judah ...
Chapter?4In this chapter we have, I. A most earnest and pathetic exhortation to obedience, both in general, and in some particular instances, backed w...
Chapter?38In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job?s friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he t...
Chapter?50This psalm, as the former, is a psalm of instruction, not of prayer or praise; it is a psalm of reproof and admonition, in singing which we ...
CHAPTER 20. OF PRAYER--A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,--I. Connection...
THE CONFESSIONS OF AUGUSTINE, BISHOP OF HIPPO. THE FIRST BOOK. CONFESSION OF THE GREATNESS AND UNSEARCHABLENESS OF GOD ? OF GOD'S MERCIES IN INFAN...
PSALM 19 OVERVIEW Subject. It would be idle to enquire into the particular period when this delightful poem was composed, for their is nothing in its ...
Having taken the scroll from the Father, the Lamb now begins to open the seals. As each seal is opened, a new judgment comes upon the earth. John is ...
Chapter?104It is very probable that this psalm was penned by the same hand, and at the same time, as the former; for as that ended this begins, with B...
Chapter?9The prophet had, in vision, seen the wickedness that was committed at Jerusalem, in the foregoing chapter, and we may be sure that it was not...
FOOL; FOLLY fool nabhal, 'ewil, kecil, cakhal and forms; aphron, aphrosune, moros): I. In the Old Testament. 1. General: Taking the words generally...
Chapter?19 Verse 1 Here see, 1. What will be the credit and comfort of a poor man, and make him more excellent than his neighbour, though his poverty ...
Beyond the interpretive issue mentioned above, which we feel is conclusive, there are many other reasons for taking Babylon in the book of Revelation...