JOY joi (simchah; chara): 1. Terms: The idea of joy is expressed in the Old Testament by a wealth of synonymous terms that cannot easily be differen...
Seventh Commandment. THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY. ?????41. The purport of this commandment is, that as God loves chastity and purity, we ought to ...
Chapter?28This chapter is a very large exposition of two words in the foregoing chapter, the blessing and the curse. Those were pronounced blessed in ...
Homily XV.Homily XV. John i. 18.-No man hath seen God at any time; the Only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.[1...
Chapter?15In this chapter, we have our Lord Jesus, as the great Prophet teaching, as the great Physician healing, and as the great Shepherd of the she...
As has often been the case in the past, the nations will be led of God to participate in the campaign which leads to their ultimate demise. Believing...
Chapter?18Whatever country it is that is meant here by the land shadowing with wings,?? here is a woe denounced against it, for God has, upon his peop...
CHAPTER 13. TWO THINGS TO BE OBSERVED IN GRATUITOUS JUSTIFICATION. The divisions of this chapter are,--I. The glory of God, and peace of conscience, ...
Chapter?8God, having given the prophet a clear foresight of the people?s miseries that were hastening on, here gives him a clear insight into the peop...
THE TENTH BOOK. HAVING IN THE Note books SPOKEN OF HIMSELF BEFORE HIS RECEIVING THE RITE OF BAPTISM, IN THIS AUGUSTINE CONFESSES WHAT HE THEN WAS ? BU...
Chapter?1We have here the first alphabet of this lamentation, twenty-two stanzas, in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and her pre...
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?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 20. OF PRAYER--A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,--I. Connection...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have an answer expected by the prophet (v.?1), and returned by the Spirit of God, to the complaints which the prophet made...
Chapter?14It does not appear upon what occasion this psalm was penned nor whether upon any particular occasion. Some say David penned it when Saul per...
Opening the Fifth and Sixth Seals 1 fifth seal With the opening of the fifth seal, we break from the judgments associated with the four horsemen. ?T...
Tracing Key Redemptive Themes Another way of reading each passage of Scripture in light of the whole biblical story is finding and tracing...
Praise [N] [T]Praise, mostly of God, is a frequent theme in the psalms, the Hebrew title of which is Praises. Yet praise is a theme that pervades the ...
Chapter?115Many ancient translations join this psalm to that which goes next before it, the Septuagint particularly, and the vulgar Latin; but it is, ...