Chapter?54The death of Christ is the life of the church and of all that truly belong to it; and therefore very fitly, after the prophet had foretold t...
THE TWOFOLD ASPECT OF THE SOUL Sec. IX. Every spirit has its doxa, even as God has; but not every doxa is called t?W. Scripture nowhere speaks of ...
PART IV. THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD. CHAPTER I. THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. In contemplating the words and acts of God, as in contemplating ...
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?53The two great things which the Spirit of Christ in the Old-Testament prophets testified beforehand were the sufferings of Christ and the glo...
BARUCH, BOOK OF One of the Apocryphal or Deutero-canonical books, standing between Jeremiah and Lamentations in the Septuagint, but in the Vulgate (Je...
?EXPOSITION Verse 78. Let the proud be ashamed. He begged that the judgments of God might no longer fall upon himself, but upon his cruel adversaries....
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
Homily XXXIII.Homily XXXIII. Hebrews xii. 28, 29.-Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace [or gratitude,](1) whereby...
Chapter?16In the close of the foregoing chapter we left David flying from Jerusalem, and Absalom entering into it; in this chapter, I. We are to follo...
Chapter?27It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing ...
Chapter?78This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked hi...
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?1The narrative which this evangelist gives us (or rather God by him) of the life of Christ begins earlier than either Matthew or Mark. We have...
Footnotes(1 )Eusebius seems to have adopted this name as a token of friendship and respect for Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. See McGiffert, Prolegome...
?EXPOSITION Verse 12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD. The psalmist's mind is growing quiet. He no longer complains to God or argues w...
S. AUGUSTINE ON PATIENCE' 1. That virtue of the mind which is called Patience, is so Db great a gift of God, that even in Him who bestoweth the sam...
Homily XVI.Homily XVI. ACTS VII. 6, 7.-And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them int...
Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. Daniel?s prayer for the restoration of the Jews who were in captivity, in which he confesses sin, and acknowledge...
Chapter?22All the evangelists, whatever they omit, give us a particular account of the death and resurrection of Christ, because he died for our sins ...