Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s parabolical discourse concerning himself as the door of the sheepfold, and the shepherd of the sheep (v...
OF THE BEING OF GOD. SOME, because the Being of God is a first principle, not to be disputed; and because that there is one is a self-evident propos...
Homily V.Homily V. Hebrews ii. 16, 17.-For verily He taketh not hold of Angels, but of the seed of Abraham He taketh hold.(1) Wherefore in all things ...
Chapter?28The strain of this chapter is very unlike the rest of this book. Job forgets his sores, and all his sorrows, and talks like a philosopher or...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. A particular message which God sent to Israel by an angel, and the impression it made upon them (v.?1-5). II. A g...
Chapter?26As in the history of the Acts of the Apostles that of their preaching and that of their suffering are interwoven, so it is in the account we...
Homily XI.Homily XI. Hebrews vi. 13-16.-For when God made promise to Abraham, because lie could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, saying, Sure...
Chapter?12The apostle, having at large cleared and confirmed the prime fundamental doctrines of Christianity, comes in the next place to press the pri...
Since it is often said that the premillennial view of a literal, earthly Millennial Kingdom rests upon what is held to be an obscure foundation in Re...
Chapter?2That many returned out of Babylon upon Cyrus?s proclamation we were told in the foregoing chapter; we have here a catalogue of the several fa...
Chapter?16This chapter relates wholly to the kingdom of Israel, and the revolutions of that kingdom?many in a little time. The utter ruin of Jeroboam?...
Chapter?26The narrative of the death and sufferings of Christ is more particularly and fully recorded by all the four evangelists than any part of his...
Chapter?6Nothing that occurred in the quiet and peaceable times of Israel is recorded; the forty years? rest after the conquest of Jabin is passed ove...
Chapter?1Thus prophet is sent first to convince and then to comfort, first to discover sin and to reprove for that and then to promise the coming of h...
78 QOMATTER?A SABBATH IN THE DESERT. tude, no living being near except our little company of Arabs, not knowing what might be the extent of the injur...
Chapter?21 Verse 1 Note, 1. Even the hearts of men are in God?s hand, and not only their goings, as he had said, ch.?20:24 . God can change men?s mind...
Chapter?22Here are three separate messages which God entrusts the prophet to deliver concerning Judah and Jerusalem, and all to the same purport, to s...
Chapter?12After the prediction of the troubles of the Jews under Antiochus, prefiguring the troubles of the Christian church under the anti-christian ...
Chapter?22This chapter begins the story of the reign of good king Josiah, whose goodness shines the brighter because it came just after so much wicked...
Chapter?3Still the correspondence is kept up between God and his prophet. In the first chapter he spoke to God, then God to him, and then he to God ag...