Chapter?11 The apostle gives the reasons for speaking in his own commendation. (1-14) Shows that he had freely preached the gospel. (5-15) Explains w...
Psalms 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth Either through vehement desires of communion with God deferred, see ( Psalms 84:2 ) or through afflictive d...
Psalms 119:67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray From God; from his word, his ways and worship; like a lost sheep from the shepherd, the fold, the ...
1 Thessalonians 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren Of the coming of Christ, his appointed time and his day, as the Ethiopic version render...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 17. For I am ready to halt. Like one who limps, or a person with tottering footsteps, in danger of falling. How well this befits us a...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 16. His own eyes were fixed upon God, but he feared that the Lord had averted his face from him in anger. Oftentimes unbelief suggest...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 17. The troubles of my heart are enlarged. When trouble penetrates the heart it is trouble indeed. In the case before us, the heart w...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 22. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. This is a very comprehensive prayer, including all the faithful and all their tria...
Numbers 21:4 And they journeyed from Mount Hor After the battle with the king of Arad, and the defeat of him: by the way of the Red sea, to compass t...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 13. He shall spare the poor and needy. His pity shall be manifested to them; he will not allow their trials to overwhelm them; his ro...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. They are not in trouble as other men. The prosperous wicked escape the killing toils which afflict the mass of mankind; their brea...
Chapter?97 The Lord Jesus reigns in power that cannot be resisted. (1-7) His care of his people, and his provision for them. (8-12) Verses 1...
Letter CCXLVIII.(1) Letter CCXLVIII.(1) To Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium. So far as my own wishes are concerned I am grieved at living at such a di...
Overview - James 1 1?We are to rejoice under the cross; 5?to ask patience of God; 13?and in our trials not to impute our weakness, or sins, to him, 1...
Patience [N] God, is the God of Romans 15:5 Christ, an example of Isaiah 53:7 ; Acts 8:32 ; Matthew 27:14 Enjoined Titus 2:2 ; 2?Peter 1...
Job 2:3 And the Lord said unto Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, o...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 22. Thy burden, or what thy God lays upon thee, lay thou it upon the Lord. His wisdom casts it on thee, it is thy wisdom to cast it ...
PREFACE. The design of this Volume is indicated, perhaps, with sufficient clearness, by its title. It is intended to illustrate some of the doctrine...
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial, &c.] By which may be meant either the destruction of Jerusalem, which was at ha...
Letter XII(1) . On His Work Against Eunomius.Letter XII(1) . On His Work Against Eunomius.We Cappadocians are poor in well-nigh all things that make t...