On Admonition and Repentance.On Admonition and Repentance.1. Not of compulsion is the doctrine; of free-will is the word of life. Whoso is willing to ...
Chapter?24 Christ foretells the destruction of the temple. (1-3) The troubles before the destruction of Jerusalem. (4-28) Christ foretells other sign...
Chapter?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we left Israel in their cities, but we may well imagine what a bad posture their affairs were in, the g...
Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold. Exodus Xxv. 31 The meaning of the golden lamp-stand, which was the third piece of furniture in the inne...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Hence, present distress must not be viewed as if it would last for ever; it is not the ...
1. THE people mourned for Aaron thirty days, and when this mourning was over, Moses removed the army from that place, and came to the river Arnon, ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 20. My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times. True godliness lies very much in desires. As we a...
Chapter?65In this psalm we are directed to give to God the glory of his power and goodness, which appear, I. In the kingdom of grace (v.?1), hearing p...
?EXPOSITION In this section the Psalmist seems to draw still nearer to God in prayer, and to state his case and to invoke the divine help with more o...
The Waves of Time. The times that went over him.?1 Chron. xxix. 30. HIS is a fragment from the chronicler's close of his life of King David. He is r...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness. He does not lean to injustice in order to ease himself, but like a pillar s...
?EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS Verse 18. The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him. Not only near by his omnipresence, but to sympathiz...
Chapter?40In this chapter, I. Orders are given for the setting up of the tabernacle and the fixing of all the appurtenances of it in their proper plac...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. The general inscription or title of this book, with the time of the continuance of Jeremiah?s public ministry (v....
Chapter?8Solomon, in this chapter, comes to recommend wisdom to us as the most powerful antidote against both the temptations and vexations that arise...
Chapter?11With this chapter Moses concludes his preface to the repetition of the statutes and judgments which they must observe to do. He repeats the ...
Chapter?10The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter?to encourage the Jews that had returned with hopes that though...
1. NOW as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because there remained none to be the objects of their fury, (for they would n...
ProcatechesisProcatechesisOrPrologue to the Catechetical Lectures of Our Holy Father, Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem.------------ 1. Already there is ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 3. Say unto God. Turn all your praises to him. Devotion, unless it be resolutely directed to the Lord, is no better than whistling to...