Cuthbert Sydenham, A. M.?This divine was born at Truro in Cornwall, in the year 1622, and educated in St. Alban's-hall, Oxford. He continued at Oxfor...
Genesis 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine From his sleep, which his wine brought on him; when the force and strength of that was gone, and when not on...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober As in body, so in mind; let us cast off the works of darkness, and have no fellowship wit...
Proverbs 31:4 [It is] not for kings, O Lemuel It is not fit for them, it is very unbecoming them; it is dishonourable to them, to such as Lemuel was, ...
2 Timothy 2:26 And that they may recover themselves Or awake, and come to themselves, and appear to be sober, and in their right mind: the metaphor is...
Book Introduction - 1?Corinthians Read first chapter of 1?Corinthians WRITER: The Apostle Paul. His relation to the church at Corinth is set forth in ...
The Book of AmosChapter 2Chapter Overview: God's controversy with Moab, ver. 1 - 3. With Judah, ver. 4, 5. And with Israel, ver. 6 - 8. The aggrav...
NABAL na'-bal (nabhal, foolish or wicked; Nabal): A wealthy man of Maon in the highlands of Judah, not far from Hebron, owner of many sheep and goats...
William Cole, D.D.?This learned divine was most probably educated in Corpus Christi college, Oxford, where he took his doctor's degree. Upon the comm...
Overview - 1?Peter 5 1?He exhorts the elders to feed their flocks; 5?the younger to obey; 8?and all to be sober, watchful, and constant in the faith...
Chapter?5 Elders exhorted and encouraged. (1-4) Younger Christians are to submit to their elders, and to yield with humility and patience to God, and...
TO THE READER. What! another hymn-book? Why surely the world has hymn-books enough. Well, that may be, and yet here is something like another. It is ...
CHAPTER 2 Titus 2:1-15 . DIRECTIONS TO TITUS: HOW TO EXHORT VARIOUS CLASSES OF BELIEVERS: THE GRACE OF GOD IN CHRIST OUR GRAND INCENTIVE TO L...
Romans 7:12 Therefore the law is holy This is a conclusion or inference drawn from the preceding discourse, in commendation of the law; that standing ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. The righteous -- the object of the tyrant's hatred -- shall outlive his enmity, and also shall see, before his own face, the end o...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. Lo, then would I wander far off. Yet when David was far off, he sighed to be once more near Jerusalem; thus, in our ill estate we ...
Bare him witness (emarturoun). Imperfect active, perhaps inchoative. They all began to bear witness that the rumours were not exaggerations ( Isaiah ...
Christopher Blackwood received a learned education, and was probably trained up at one of our universities. He was beneficed in Kent, and possessed of...
Chapter 3 3:1 This 1 [is] a true saying, 2 If a man a desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. (1) Having completed the treatise of doc...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together Either with the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, the second coming of Christ, and ...