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...
Homily LXV.Homily LXV. John xi. 49, 50.-And one of them, Caiaphas, being the High Priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,nor co...
Chapter?52History is the best expositor of prophecy; and therefore, for the better understanding of the prophecies of this book which relate to the de...
Chapter?22We have here the famous story of Abraham?s offering up his son Isaac, that is, his offering to offer him, which is justly looked upon as one...
Chapter?27In this chapter the prophet goes on to show, I. What great things God would do for his church and people, which should now shortly be accomp...
Chapter?39This chapter continues and concludes the prophecy against Gog and Magog, in whose destruction God crowns his favour to his people Israel, wh...
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...
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?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...
Chapter?2In the close of the foregoing chapter we had an account of the first disciples whom Jesus called, Andrew and Peter, Philip and Nathanael. The...
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 II. THE PROPHETIC BENEDICTIONS OF THE DYING PATRIARCHS. ? 8. Jacob's artful Procurement of the Blessing of the ICERO says:1 Appropinquante ...
?EXPOSITION This portion of the gigantic psalm sees the Psalmist in extremis. His enemies have brought him to the lowest condition of anguish and dep...
Chapter?13In this chapter, we have, I. The favour which Christ did to his countrymen in preaching the kingdom of heaven to them (v.?1-2). He preached ...
Chapter?31This chapter goes on with the good words and comfortable words which we had in the chapter before, for the encouragement of the captives, as...
Chapter?118It is probable that David penned this psalm when he had, after many a story, weathered his point at last, and gained a full possession of t...
Footnotes(1 )Eusebius seems to have adopted this name as a token of friendship and respect for Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. See McGiffert, Prolegome...
Chapter?10The Septuagint translation joins this psalm with the ninth, and makes them but one; but the Hebrew makes it a distinct psalm, and the scope ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. The miracle of the loaves (v.?1-14). II. Christ?s walking upon the water (v.?15-21). III. The people?s flocking a...
Chapter 1This is the shortest of all the books of the Old Testament, the least of those tribes, and yet is not to be passed by, or thought meanly of, ...