One reason this intervention of Christ will come upon an unsuspecting world is because much teaching concerning Jesus reduces Him from His full three...
Chapter?2In this chapter, I. Christ speaks both concerning himself and concerning his church (v.?1, v.?2). II. The church speaks 1. Remembering the pl...
let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches See commentary on Revelation 2:7. overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? hidden manna The manna is set...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Psalms, Theology of The Book of Psalms is a sizable collection of musical poems and prayers of diverse authorship and form. Psalms are independent lit...
Chapter?37This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversat...
The Canons of the Council of Orange?INTRODUCTIONThe Council of Orange was an outgrowth of the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. This controv...
PSALM 2 OVERVIEW Title. We shall not greatly err in our summary of this sublime Psalm if we call it THE PSALM OF MESSIAH THE PRINCE; for it sets forth...
S. AUGUSTINE CONCERNING FAITH OF THINGS NOT SEEN. This tract was thought spurious by some, but is known to be St. Augustine's by his mention of it ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me. He did not miss a friend for want of looking for ...
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 ...
Chapter?11The old distinction between the sons of God and the sons of men (professors and profane) survived the flood, and now appeared again, when me...
Chapter?11The apostle, having reconciled that great truth of the rejection of the Jews with the promise made unto the fathers, is, in this chapter, fu...
Chapter?18In this chapter we have, I. A general declaration of God?s ways in dealing with nations and kingdoms, that he can easily do what he will wit...
Beyond the interpretive issue mentioned above, which we feel is conclusive, there are many other reasons for taking Babylon in the book of Revelation...
Introduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansIntroduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansWritten Between 356 And 360.There is no absolutely...
Opening the Fifth and Sixth Seals 1 fifth seal With the opening of the fifth seal, we break from the judgments associated with the four horsemen. ?T...
Chapter?24 Verses 1-2 Here, 1. The caution given is much the same with that which we had before ch.?23:17 ), not to envy sinners, not to think them ha...
Chapter?12In this and the two following chapters we have Job?s answer to Zophar?s discourse, in which, as before, he first reasons with his friends se...
Chapter?109Whether David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul, or when his son Absalom rebelled against him, or upon occasion of some othe...