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?148This psalm is a most solemn and earnest call to all the creatures, according to their capacity, to praise their Creator, and to show forth ...
PSALM 92 OVERVIEW. TITLE -- A Psalm or Song for the Sabbath day. This admirable composition is both a Psalm and a Song, full of equal measures of sol...
CHAPTER IV. THE MESSIANIC PROPHECIES OF THE TIME OF JOSHUA AND OF THE JUDGES. ? 13. Yahweh and His Anointed in the Thanksgiving Song of Hannah. TT...
Chapter?15Absalom?s name signifies the peace of his father,?? yet he proves his greatest trouble; so often are we disappointed in our expectations fro...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
Chapter?147This is another psalm of praise. Some think it was penned after the return of the Jews from their captivity; but it is so much of a piece w...
Chapter?38This chapter, and that which follows it, are concerning Gog and Magog, a powerful enemy to the people of Israel, that should make a formidab...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have the performance of what was foretold in the foregoing chapter, both concerning the destruction of the old world and t...
LI. Christ is our Shield. By this name or in this relation He has always been known to the saints. God said to Abraham, I am thy Shield?Gen. 15: 1. P...
Chapter?3This chapter, and that which follows it, give us the history of Israel?s passing through Jordan into Canaan, and a very memorable history it ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have the return of the ark to the land of Israel, whither we are now gladly to attend it, and observe, I. How the Philisti...
Chapter?38In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job?s friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he t...
Chapter?50In this chapter, I. Those to whom God sends are justly charged with bringing all the troubles they were in upon themselves, by their own wil...
ADORATION ad-o-ra'-shun: Though this word never occurs in English Versions, it represents aspects of worship which are very prominent in the Bible. ...
VIII. SAVED AS BY FIRE. 1 O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am...
Chapter?27Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of t...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. The prophet, in the name of the church, sadly laments the woeful decay of religion in the age wherein he lived, and the d...
Homily LI.Homily LI. John vii. 37, 38.-In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unt...
Chapter?4In this chapter, I. Jesus Christ, having espoused his church to himself ch.?3:11 ), highly commends her beauty in the several expressions of ...