Chapter?20All things being prepared for the solemn promulgation of the divine law, we have, in this chapter, I. The ten commandments, as God himself s...
Chapter?12In this chapter we have divers excellent discourses of our Saviour?s upon various occasions, many of which are to the same purport with what...
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?22All the evangelists, whatever they omit, give us a particular account of the death and resurrection of Christ, because he died for our sins ...
Chapter?24Our Lord Jesus went gloriously down to death, in spite of the malice of his enemies, who did all they could to make his death ignominious; b...
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?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...
GOSPELS, THE SYNOPTIC si-nop'-tik: I. INTRODUCTORY 1. Scope of This Article 2. The Gospels in Church Tradition II. THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM 1. Nature...
Chapter?27It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing ...
Chapter?33The prophet has now come off his circuit, which he went as judge, in God?s name, to try and pass sentence upon the neighbouring nations, and...
CHAPTER IV PAUL AND JESUS 1 The review of Paul's life has prepared the way for the principal subject of investigation. What was the origin of the re...
Chapter?13Our Saviour having finished his public discourses, in which he endured the contradiction of sinners,?? now applies himself to a private conv...
Chapter?11In this chapter, I. Christ teaches his disciples to pray, and quickens and encourages them to be frequent, instant, and importunate in praye...
Chapter?8Most of this chapter is a repetition of divers passages of Christ?s preaching and miracles which we had before in Matthew and Mark; they are ...
Chapter?11In this chapter we have the history of that illustrious miracle which Christ wrought a little before his death?the raising of Lazarus to lif...
Chapter?4We left Christ newly baptized, and owned by a voice from heaven and the descent of the Holy Ghost upon him. Now, in this chapter, we have, I....
Chapter?8In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s evading the snare which the Jews laid for him, in bringing to him a woman taken in adultery (v.?1-11). I...
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?18Hitherto this evangelist has recorded little of the history of Christ, only so far as was requisite to introduce his discourses; but now tha...
IV. ST PAUL AND SENECA. HPHE earliest of the Latin fathers, Tertullian, writing about a Senecatra-*- century and a half after the death of Seneca, ...