Chapter?49This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; an...
Chapter?20All things being prepared for the solemn promulgation of the divine law, we have, in this chapter, I. The ten commandments, as God himself s...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
Chapter?8In this chapter we have an account of the persecutions of the Christians, and the propagating of Christianity thereby. It was strange, but ve...
Chapter?13In this chapter we have, I. Some further promises relating to gospel-times. Here is a promise of the remission of sins (v.?1), of the reform...
TEMPLE, A2 II. EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC SKETCH I. Introductory. 1. Relation to History of Temple: Wellhausen has said that Ezekiel 40-48 are the most im...
Chapter?14Divers things were foretold, in the two foregoing chapters, which should come to pass in that day;?? this chapter speaks of a day of the Lor...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. The discontent that was among the disciples about the distribution of the public charity (v.?1). II. The election...
Chapter?68This is a most excellent psalm, but in many places the genuine sense is not easy to come at; for in this, as in some other scriptures, there...
SOUL AND BLOOD. Sec. XI. Upon the relation of the soul to the blood, Scripture contains statements not merely casual, but deliberate, to which it ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have Christ?s exposition of the moral law, which he came not to destroy, but to fulfil, and to fill up, by his gospel. I. ...
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?14The former chapter directed the priests how to convict a leper of ceremonial uncleanness. No prescriptions are given for his cure; but, when...
Chapter?21 Verse 1 Note, 1. Even the hearts of men are in God?s hand, and not only their goings, as he had said, ch.?20:24 . God can change men?s mind...
Chapter?15The apostle, in this chapter, continues the discourse of the former, concerning mutual forbearance in indifferent things; and so draws towar...
Chapter?15In this chapter the apostle treats of that great article of Christianity?the resurrection of the dead. I. He establishes the certainty of ou...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. Christ, the royal bridegroom, goes on to describe the beauties of his spouse, the church, in many instances, and to expre...
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?28We are the more concerned to take notice of and to improve what is here recorded concerning blessed Paul because, after the story of this ch...
Chapter?23In the foregoing chapter, we had our Saviour?s discourses with the scribes and Pharisees; here we have his discourse concerning them, or rat...