Excursus on Usury.Excursus on Usury.The famous canonist Van Espen defines usury thus: Usura definitur lucrum ex mutuo exactum aut speratum;(1) and the...
Chapter?1The foundation of all religion being laid in our relation to God as our Creator, it was fit that the book of divine revelations which was int...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
?EXPOSITION From this point David and our Lord for awhile part company, if we accept the rendering of our version. The severe spirit of the law breath...
One of the legends associated with the tribes is that they were deported to a mysterious land where they continue to live as a separated group maintai...
In the previous chapter, John saw the seven angels having the seven last plagues wherein the wrath of God is complete (Rev. Rev. 15:1+). He was also ...
Chapter?6The glory of the Lord, in the vehicle of a thick cloud, having filled the house which Solomon built, by which God manifested his presence the...
Chapter?11Poor Job?s wound?s were yet bleeding, his sore still runs and ceases not, but none of his friends bring him any oil, any balm; Zophar, the t...
Chapter?36Elihu, having largely reproved Job for some of his unadvised speeches, which Job had nothing to say in the vindication of, here comes more g...
Chapter?15In this chapter we have a solemn treaty between God and Abram concerning a covenant that was to be established between them. In the former c...
Chapter?33The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter?to confirm the promise of the restoration of the Jews, notwith...
\\INTRODUCTION TO OBADIAH\\ The title of this Book, in the Hebrew copies, is usually Sepher Obadiah, the Book of Obadiah: the Vulgate Latin version c...
Chapter?19 Christ condemned and crucified. (1-18) Christ on the cross. (19-30) His side pierced. (31-37) The burial of Jesus. (38-42) ...
Now we come upon a subject of great importance: the primacy (ultimate importance) of Scripture. While the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture is o...
Chapter?22This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David?s psalms (Ps.?18, ) with some little variation. We ha...
Chapter?77This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. The com...
Homily XIV.Homily XIV. Hebrews viii. 1, 2.-Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest; who is set down on the...
Chapter?14In this and the two following chapters we have the history of the reign of Asa, a good reign and a long one. In this chapter we have, I. His...
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...
Book II.Book II.This book can hardly be said to form part of a dialogue. It is rather an argument from Scripture to prove the point of the Augustinian...