Chapter?35It was promised, in the foregoing chapter, that when the time to favour Zion, yea, the set time, should come, especially the time for sendin...
Chapter?30Moses is, in this chapter, further instructed, I. Concerning the altar of incense (v.?1-10). II. Concerning the ransom-money which the Israe...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 14. In the daytime also he led them with a cloud. HE did it all. He alone. He brought them into the wilderness, and he led them throu...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Chapter?28Now that the people were numbered, orders given for the dividing of the land, and a general of the forces nominated and commissioned, one wo...
Chapter?10We have in this chapter an account of the conquest of the kings and kingdoms of the southern part of the land of Canaan, as, in the next cha...
Homily LXXIII.Homily LXXIII. John xiii. 36.-Simon Peter said unto Him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go thou canst not follo...
Chapter?4We left all hands at work for the building of the wall about Jerusalem. But such good work is not wont to be carried on without opposition; n...
Chapter?2We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of...
THE SEVEN POWERS OF THE SOUL Sec. VI. We have shown from Holy Scripture in Div. I. Sec. III., that there is an eternal sevenfold doxa or glory of ...
Chapter?21The laws recorded in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they are not accommodated to our constitution, espe...
Chapter 11It is a very good transition in prophecy (whether it be so in rhetoric or no), and a very common one, to pass from the prediction of the tem...
Chapter?2In this chapter, I. Christ speaks both concerning himself and concerning his church (v.?1, v.?2). II. The church speaks 1. Remembering the pl...
Chapter 22:3? And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. cloven tongues tongues, as of fire, parting a...
Chapter?6Great and long preparation had been making for the building of the temple, and here, at length, comes an account of the building of it; a nob...
Chapter?33The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter?to confirm the promise of the restoration of the Jews, notwith...
Chapter?139Some of the Jewish doctors are of opinion that this is the most excellent of all the psalms of David; and a very pious devout meditation it...
Chapter?38This chapter proceeds in the history of Hezekiah. Here is, I. His sickness, and the sentence of death he received within himself (v.?1). II....
Chapter?37Elihu here goes on to extol the wonderful power of God in the meteors and all the changes of the weather: if, in those changes, we submit to...
Homily XIV.Homily XIV. Hebrews viii. 1, 2.-Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest; who is set down on the...