Chapter?4Comparing this chapter with the close of the foregoing chapter, the comfortable promises here with the terrible threatenings there, we may, w...
Chapter?66This is a thanksgiving-psalm, and it is of such a general use and application that we need not suppose it penned upon any particular occasio...
Chapter?10We may conjecture that the prophecy of this chapter was delivered after the first captivity, in the time of Jeconiah or Jehoiachin, when man...
Chapter?13Hitherto the prophecies of this book related only to Judah and Israel, and Jerusalem especially; but now the prophet begins to look abroad, ...
Chapter?21In this chapter we have, I. Isaac, the child of promise born into Abraham?s family (v.?1-8). II. Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman, cast out...
Chapter?12This chapter gives an account of one of the most memorable ordinances, and one of the most memorable providences, of all that are recorded i...
?EXPOSITION Verse 113. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. In this paragraph the Psalmist deals with thoughts and things and persons which ar...
Chapter?141David was in distress when he penned this psalm, pursued, it is most likely, by Saul, that violent man. Is any distressed? Let him pray; Da...
Chapter?17Enough had been done in the chapter before to quash all pretensions of the families of the tribe of Levi that would set up in competition wi...
SIRACH, BOOK OF si'-rak, or The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach: I. NAME II. CANONICITY III. CONTENTS IV. TEACHING 1. Religion 2. Morals 3. M...
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 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?129This psalm relates to the public concerns of God?s Israel. It is not certain when it was penned, probably when they were in captivity in Ba...
Chapter?3This chapter and the next are concerning the tribe of Levi, which was to be mustered and marshalled by itself, and not in common with the oth...
Chapter?30One would have thought that the threatenings in the close of the foregoing chapter had made a full end of the people of Israel, and had left...
Chapter 17David is the man whom God now delights to honour, for he is a man after his own heart. We read in the foregoing chapter how, after he was an...
Chapter?51Though David penned this psalm upon a very particular occasion, yet, it is of as general use as any of David?s psalms; it is the most eminen...
Homily XIII.Homily XIII. John i. 15.-John beareth witness of Him, and crieth, saying, This is He of whom I spake, saying, He that cometh after me is p...
Chapter?12The apostle (Gal.?4:25, Gal.?4:26 ) distinguishes between Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children???the remaining carcas...
Chapter?5This chapter is the only authentic history extant of the first age of the world from the creation to the flood, containing (according to the ...