BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY $ IV. Literary Growth and Origin--Canonicity.$ Thus far the books of the Old Testament and New Testament have been taken si...
Chapter?14The former chapter directed the priests how to convict a leper of ceremonial uncleanness. No prescriptions are given for his cure; but, when...
Chapter?7God having set up house (as it were) in the midst of the camp of Israel, the princes of Israel here come a visiting with their presents, as t...
ABSTINENCE abs'-ti-nens: Abstinence as a form of asceticism reaches back into remote antiquity, and is found among most ancient peoples. It may be d...
Chapter?10This chapter is an ordination sermon, which our Lord Jesus preached, when he advanced his twelve disciples to the degree and dignity of apos...
Chapter?3At the start of this chapter, concerning the baptism of John, begins the gospel (Mk.?1:1 ); what went before is but preface or introduction; ...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XXVI. The Preparation for the Lord's Death. SUMMARY.--The Declaration to the Disciples That the Time Was at Hand. The Wicked Co...
Chapter 18We left the prophet Elijah wrapt up in obscurity. It does not appear that either the increase of the provision or the raising of the child h...
Chapter?2This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which re...
Chapter?5In this chapter, we have, I. Christ preaching to the people out of Peter?s ship, for want of a better pulpit (v.?1-3). II. The recompence he ...
Chapter?3I. The apostle exhorts us to set our hearts upon heaven and take them off from this world (v.?1-4). II. He exhorts to the mortification of si...
Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. The commission Christ gave to his twelve apostles to go out for some time to preach the gospel, and confirm it by...
Chapter?5The apostle, having spoken in the end of the foregoing chapter concerning the resurrection, and the second coming of Christ, proceeds to spea...
Chapter?1Evidence given concerning Christ?s person and excellency (v.?1, v.?2). The knowledge thereof gives us communion with God and Christ (v.?3), a...
Chapter?18In the course of the foregoing chapter we left David in triumph; now in this chapter we have, I. The improvement of his triumphs; he soon be...
Chapter?3In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly ...
Chapter?1We have here, I. An account of the penman of this epistle, a character of the church, the blessings and privileges of that happy society (v.?...
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...
Chapter?15It is generally agreed that Christ?s discourse in this and the next chapter was at the close of the last supper, the night in which he was b...
Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...