Chapter?4John Baptist said concerning Christ, He must increase, but I must decrease; and so it proved. For, after John had baptized Christ, and borne ...
Chapter?16It is some rebuke to Barnabas that after he left Paul we hear no more of him, of what he did or suffered for Christ. But Paul, as he was rec...
Chapter?20This evangelist, though he began not his gospel as the rest did, yet concludes it as they did, with the history of Christ? resurrection; not...
Chapter?10The dissolving of the peculiar church-state of the Jews, and the rejection of that polity by the repealing of their ceremonial law, the vaca...
Chapter?7In this chapter the apostle answers some cases proposed to him by the Corinthians about marriage. He, I. Shows them that marriage was appoint...
Chapter?1In this chapter we may observe, I. The preface and introduction to the whole epistle, to v.?16. II. A description of the deplorable condition...
Chapter?2This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which re...
Chapter?31Job had often protested his integrity in general; here he does it in particular instances, not in a way of commendation (for he does not her...
Chapter?12It was a melancholy account which we had in the close of the foregoing chapter of the dishonour done to our Lord Jesus, when the scribes and...
Chapter?18In this chapter we have, I. The parable of the importunate widow, designed to teach us fervency in prayer (v.?1-8). II. The parable of the P...
Chapter?20We have four things in this chapter. I. The parable of the labourers in the vineyard (v.?1-16). II. A prediction of Christ?s approaching suf...
Chapter?10It is a turn very new and remarkable which the story of this chapter gives to the Acts of the apostles; hitherto, both at Jerusalem and ever...
Chapter?13Our Saviour having finished his public discourses, in which he endured the contradiction of sinners,?? now applies himself to a private conv...
Chapter?8The evangelist having, in the foregoing chapters, given us a specimen of our Lord?s preaching, proceeds now to give some instances of the mir...
Chapter?4It was, more than any thing else, the glory of the land of Israel, that it was Emmanuel?s land (Isa.?8:8 ), not only the place of his birth, ...
Chapter?14John the Baptist had said concerning Christ, He must increase, but I must decrease, Jn.?3:30 . The morning-star is here disappearing, and th...
Chapter?14We have, in this chapter, a further account of the progress of the gospel, by the ministry of Paul and Barnabas among the Gentiles; it goes ...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s declining for some time to appear publicly in Judea (v.?1). II. His design to go up to Jerusalem at the ...
Chapter?28In the foregoing chapters, we saw the Captain of our salvation engaged with the powers of darkness, attacked by them, and vigorously attacki...
Chapter?2It was said (ch.?1:17 ) that Daniel had understanding in dreams; and here we have an early and eminent instance of it, which soon made him fa...