Luke 14:28 For which of you intending to build a tower Taking up a profession of Christ and his Gospel, is like building a tower; which, as a tower, m...
Chapter 55:8? But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. salvat...
Chapter?19 The destruction of Sodom, and the deliverance of Lot. (1-29) The sin and disgrace of Lot. (30-38) Verses 1-...
Chapter?9 God blesses Noah, and grants flesh for food. (1-3) Blood, and murder forbidden. (4-7) God's covenant by the rainbow. (8-17) Noah plants a v...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 THESSALONIANS 5\\ In this chapter the apostle discourses concerning the suddenness of Christ's coming, and the necessity of sobr...
Chapter 22:1 But 1 speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: (1) The fifth admonition: the doctrine must not only be generally pure, but also...
Awe, Awesome Webster's dictionary defines awe as mingled dread, veneration, and wonder. English Bible translations employ the words awe or awesome alm...
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand With respect to particular persons, the end of life, and which is the end of all things in this world...
Homily IX.Homily IX. 1 Thessalonians v. 1, 2.-But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. For ...
Elucidations.Elucidations.IPersecutions threaten, p. 116.We have reserved this heroic tract to close our series of the ascetic essays of our author be...
1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind With the girdle of truth; see ( Ephesians 6:14 ) since angels desire to look into the mysteries ...
Job 13:18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause Or judgment F20; that is, he had looked over his cause afresh, had reviewed the state of his case, had...
1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not The apostle represents the Corinthians as inebriated with bad principles and notions, and as f...
Titus 2:5 To be discreet Or temperate in eating and drinking, so the word is rendered in ( Titus 2:2 ) or to be sober both in body and mind; or to be ...
Jeremiah 12:1 Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee The six first verses of this chapter properly belong to the preceding, being of the s...
Leviticus 2:11 No meat offering which ye shall bring unto the Lord shall be made with leaven It might be used in peace offerings, and in the wave loav...
NOTES ON The Song of SOLOMON NOTES ON The Song of SOLOMON That this book was of Divine i...
Chapter?3 The qualifications and behaviour of gospel bishops. (1-7) And of deacons and their wives. (8-13) The reason of writing about these, and oth...
Chapter?2 The vanity and vexation of mirth, sensual pleasure, riches, and pomp. (1-11) Human wisdom insufficient. (12-17) This world to be used accor...
Chapter?10 The sin and death of Nadab and Abihu. (1,2) Aaron and his sons forbidden to mourn for Nadab and Abihu. (3-7) Wine forbidden to the priests...