Habakkuk 2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it The graven images the church of Rome enjoins the worship of; the i...
Hebrews 10:20 By a new and living way Which is Christ, the God-man and Mediator; who is called the new way, not as to contrivance, revelation, or use;...
Chapter 7474:1 Maschil of Asaph. O God, a why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? [why] doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? (a) The...
The Book of LamentationsChapter 4Chapter Overview: Zion bewaileth her misery: confesseth her sins, ver. 1 - 6. Miseries of the chief ones: women who...
1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? &c.] The Syriac, Ethiopic, and Vulgate Latin versions, put the last clause first; so the Alexand...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. Let us now hear the witnesses in court. Let the wretch speak for himself, for out of his own mouth he will be condemned. His mout...
Psalm CXLIII. Psalm CXLIII. 1. ...The title of the Psalm is, To David himself, when his son was pursuing him. We know from the Books of Kings that thi...
?EXPOSITION Verse 10. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD. There is a something about every creature which redounds to the honour of God. The skil...
Job 10:3 [Is it] good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress? &c.] This God does not approve of in others; he dehorts men from it; he threatens to puni...
Acts 27:23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God One of the ministering, spirits that stand before God, and who was sent by him to the apo...
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you Which is both an encouragement to persons conscious of their own weakness to work, as before exhor...
2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son The illative particle, therefore, shows the connection between this and the preceding chapter; the appellation, t...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 24. God first gives us holiness, and then rewards us for it. We are his workmanship; vessels made unto honour; and when made, the hon...
Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous That is, the church's people, or the members of the church; otherwise the Lord's people, who are t...
?EXPOSITION Verse 167. My soul hath kept thy testimonies. My outward life has kept thy precepts, and my inward life -- my soul, has kept thy testimoni...
?EXPOSITION Verse 10. He delighteth not in the strength of the horse. Not to great and strong animals doth the Creator in any measure direct his speci...
PHARAOH HOPHRA hof'-ra (par`oh chophra`; Houaphre): 1. Sole King, 589-570 BC: He is so called in Scripture (Jeremiah 44:30); Herodotus calls him Apr...
Job 10:8 Thine hands have made me, and fashioned together round about, &c.] This and what follow are an illustration of and an enlargement upon, the w...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. My substance was not hid from thee. The substantial part of my being was before thine all seeing eye; the bones which make my fr...
Song of Solomon 7:2 Thy navel [is like] a round goblet According to some, not the navel itself is meant; but a covering of it, a jewel or plate of gol...