Chapter?65In this psalm we are directed to give to God the glory of his power and goodness, which appear, I. In the kingdom of grace (v.?1), hearing p...
Chapter?37This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversat...
Chapter?2The thousands of Israel, having been mustered in the former chapter, in this are marshalled, and a regular disposition is made of their camp,...
Chapter?5Eliphaz, in the foregoing chapter, for the making good of his charge against Job, had vouched a word from heaven, sent him in a vision. In th...
?EXPOSITION Verse 33-40. A sense of dependence and a consciousness of extreme need pervade this section, which is all made up of prayer and plea. The ...
JAMES. CHAPTER V. Warnings to the Rich. SUMMARY.--The Sins of Rich Men. The Judgments Coming Upon Them. Patience Under Affliction. The Examples...
MAKE, MAKER mak, mak'-er (`asah, nathan, sum; poieo, tithemi, kathistemi): 1. As Used in the Old Testament: Make is a frequently used word, meaning ...
Chapter?27In this chapter we have the civil list, including the military, I. The twelve captains for every separate month of the year (v.?1-15). II. T...
Homily XXI.Homily XXI. Hebrews x. 32-34.-But call to remembrance the former days, in which after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of affl...
HEBREWS. CHAPTER X. Christ's Sacrifice Offered Once for All. SUMMARY.--The Imperfection of the Sacrifices of the Law. In Such Sacrifices God Had N...
The woman which John sees riding the Beast of seven heads and ten horns is called a harlot, indicating certain practices and priorities which stand o...
Chapter?130This psalm relates not to any temporal concern, either personal or public, but it is wholly taken up with the affairs of the soul. It is re...
a loud voice from heaven The NU text has from the throne. A loud voice from heaven told John not to write what the seven thunders uttered (Rev. Rev. ...
THORN IN THE FLESH thorn (skolops te sarki): Paul thus characterizes some bodily ailment which afflicted him and impaired his usefulness (2?Corinthia...
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...
TRUMPETS, FEAST OF 1. Description: In Leviticus 23:23-25 the first day (new moon) of the seventh month is set apart as a solemn rest, a memorial of b...
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?41The description here given of the leviathan, a very large, strong, formidable fish, or water-animal, is designed yet further to convince Job...
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?10In this chapter we have, I. Orders given about the making and using of silver trumpets, which seems to have been the last of all the command...