Chapter?31This chapter belongs to the book of the wars of the Lord,?? in which it is probable it was inserted. It is the history of a holy war, a war ...
Chapter?41Two things Providence is here bringing about:?I. The advancement of Joseph. II. The maintenance of Jacob and his family in a time of famine;...
Chapter?41The description here given of the leviathan, a very large, strong, formidable fish, or water-animal, is designed yet further to convince Job...
Chapter?51This chapter is designed for the comfort and encouragement of those that fear God and keep his commandments, even when they walk in darkness...
Chapter?10The eighth and ninth of the plagues of Egypt, that of locusts and that of darkness, are recorded in this chapter. I. Concerning the plague o...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES (kohen, priest; nothing is definitely known as to the origin of the word; Lewi, Levite, on which see LEVI): I. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF...
Chapter?18Whatever country it is that is meant here by the land shadowing with wings,?? here is a woe denounced against it, for God has, upon his peop...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XVIII. The Greatest in the Kingdom. SUMMARY.--Who Shall Be Greatest? Becoming As Little Children. Causing the Little Ones to Stum...
SANCTUARY sank'-tu-a-ri, sank'-tu-a-ri (miqdash, miqqedhash, qodhesh, holy place; hagion): 1. Nature of Article 2. The Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis T...
Chapter?21The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the two main hinges upon which the door of salvation turns. He came into the world on purpose...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter?4Comparing this chapter with the close of the foregoing chapter, the comfortable promises here with the terrible threatenings there, we may, w...
Chapter?71David penned this psalm in his old age, as appears by several passages in it, which makes many think that it was penned at the time of Absal...
Homily XX.Homily XX. ROM. XII. 1.-I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,holy, accep...
Chapter?17 Verse 1 These words recommend family-love and peace, as conducing very much to the comfort of human life. 1. Those that live in unity and q...
Chapter?50This psalm, as the former, is a psalm of instruction, not of prayer or praise; it is a psalm of reproof and admonition, in singing which we ...
CHAPTER 20. OF PRAYER--A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,--I. Connection...
CHAPTER 13. TWO THINGS TO BE OBSERVED IN GRATUITOUS JUSTIFICATION. The divisions of this chapter are,--I. The glory of God, and peace of conscience, ...
Chapter?16This chapter begins Job?s reply to that discourse of Eliphaz which we had in the foregoing chapter; it is but the second part of the same so...
Chapter?67This psalm relates to the church and is calculated for the public. Here is, I. A prayer for the prosperity of the church of Israel (v.?1). I...