Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark The allusion is to the white line, or mark, which the runners in the Olympic games made up to, and to which h...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 CORINTHIANS 6\\ The principal view of this chapter is to dissuade Christians from going to law with one another before Heathens...
2 Thessalonians 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you Not only observe the above things to your comfort, to support you under sufferings, but we ...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER V. The Sermon on the Mount. SUMMARY.--The Beatitudes. The Salt of the Earth. The Light of the World. The Relation of Christ to th...
Homily IV.Homily IV. Chapter. II. Verses 1-3.-And you did He quicken, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, wherein aforetime ye walked,...
Ecclesiastes 1:4 [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh This shows that a man can have no profit of all his labour under the s...
Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous That is, the church's people, or the members of the church; otherwise the Lord's people, who are t...
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God By adoption, secretly in God's predestination, and in the covenant of grace; and openly in regeneration...
Fall of man [N]an expression probably borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revolt of our first parents from God, an...
'Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.? Matt. V. 5. [|HE originality of Christ's moral teaching lies not so much in the novelty of ...
25:1? Then1 shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins2, who took their lamps3, and went forth to meet the bridegroom4. Matthew 25:1-13 C...
10:1? And he arose from thence1 and cometh into the borders of Judaea and beyond the Jordan2: and multitudes come together unto him again3; and, as he...
2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, &c.] The happiness of the future state of the saints is signified by a crow...
Chapter?24 God's benefits to their fathers. (1-14) Joshua renews the covenant between the people and God. (15-28) Joshua's death, Joseph's bones buri...
Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire Death (representing the bodies of the dead which had lain in the earth and sea) and Hades (the p...
Jesus Christ [S]By anyone's account, Jesus of Nazareth is the most significant person who has ever lived.He has influenced more lives and had more wri...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup. With what confidence and bounding joy does Jesus turn to Jehovah, whom ...
Chapter 6060:1 Arise, shine; for thy a light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. (a) The time of your prosperity and happiness: whi...
Lecture XV.Lecture XV.On the Clause, and Shall Come in Glory to Judge the Quick and the Dead; Of Whose Kingdom There Shall Be No End,Daniel VII. 9-14....
SAINTS SAVED WITH DIFFICULTY, AND THE CERTAIN PERDITION OF SINNERS. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinne...