Chapter?59In this chapter we have sin appearing exceedingly sinful, and grace appearing exceedingly gracious; and, as what is here said of the sinner?...
Chapter?6Much ado there was to bring Moses to his work, and when the ice was broken, some difficulty having occurred in carrying it on, there was no l...
Chapter?30This and the following chapter are an appendix to Solomon?s proverbs; but they are both expressly called prophecies in the first verses of b...
Chapter?26The narrative of the death and sufferings of Christ is more particularly and fully recorded by all the four evangelists than any part of his...
THE TENTH BOOK. HAVING IN THE Note books SPOKEN OF HIMSELF BEFORE HIS RECEIVING THE RITE OF BAPTISM, IN THIS AUGUSTINE CONFESSES WHAT HE THEN WAS ? BU...
Chapter?8The prophet proceeds, in this chapter, both to magnify and to justify the destruction that God was bringing upon this people, to show how gri...
Chapter?28This chapter is a very large exposition of two words in the foregoing chapter, the blessing and the curse. Those were pronounced blessed in ...
Chapter?9In this chapter the prophet goes on faithfully to reprove sin and to threaten God?s judgments for it, and yet bitterly to lament both, as one...
Chapter?5It is now time to enquire what has become of the ark of God; we cannot but think that we shall hear more of that sacred treasure. I should ha...
Chapter?51The prophet, in this chapter, goes on with the prediction of Babylon?s fall, to which other prophets also bore witness. He is very copious a...
Chapter?48God, having in the foregoing chapter reckoned with the Babylonians, and shown them their sins and the desolation that was coming upon them f...
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life The Greek lacks the article: the tree. There are several trees, ea...
\\INTRODUCTION TO THE SONG OF SOLOMON\\ This book is entitled, in the Hebrew copies, Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs. The Septuagint and Vulgate Lat...
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
Footnotes(1 )Eusebius seems to have adopted this name as a token of friendship and respect for Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. See McGiffert, Prolegome...
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...
Chapter?35In this chapter we have three communions and three funerals. I. Three communions between God and Jacob. God ordered Jacob to Beth-el; and, i...
Chapter?5Reproof for sin and threatenings of judgment are intermixed in this chapter, and are set the one over against the other: judgments are threat...
Chapter?18We have an account in this chapter of another interview between God and Abraham, probably within a few days after the former, as the reward ...
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 ...