Pomegranate. [N] [E]The pomegranate tree, Punicu granatum , derives its name from the Latin pomum granatum , grained apple. The Romans gave it the na...
Overview - Exodus 9 1?The murrain of beasts. 8?The plague of boils and blains. 13?The message of Moses about the hail. 22?The plague of hail. 27?Phar...
Overview - 1?Kings 20 1?Ben-hadad, not content with Ahab's homage, besieges Samaria. 13?By the direction of a prophet, the Syrians are slain. 22?As th...
?EXPOSITION Verse 8. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Our iniquities are our worst dangers: if saved from these, we are saved altog...
Historical Introduction.Historical Introduction.With regard to the Synod of Gangra we know little beside what we learn from its own synodal letter. Th...
Giles Wigginton, A. M.?This zealous puritan was born at Oundlc in Northamptonshire, educated in Trinity college, Cambridge, and, in 1566, made second...
NOTES ON THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST MARK NOTES ON THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ...
Job 34:36 My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end This is my opinion, or what I bring in F15 adduce, and lay before you, men of understandin...
Thomas Gataker, B. D.?This celebrated divine was the son of Mr. Thomas Gataker, another puritan divine, the pastor of St. Edmund's, Lombard-street, Lo...
Job 9:8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens The expanse, or what we commonly translate firmament; but has its name in the Hebrew language from its b...
Compassion [N]That (human) disposition that fuels Acts of kindness and mercy. Compassion, a form of love, is aroused within us when we are confronted ...
Job 4:21 Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? &c.] Either the soul which is in them, and is the most excellent part of them; this, th...
1 Samuel 13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel Out of the 300,000 that went with him to fight the Ammonites, and returned with him to Gilga...
Thomas Edwards, A. M.?This very singular person was born in the year 1599, and educated in Trimty college, Cambridge, where he took his degrees in art...
Thomas Lydiat, A.M.?This celebrated scholar was born at Alkrington, or Okerton, near Banbury, in Oxfordshire, early in the year 1572, and educated fi...
Robert Cawdrey.?He was a divine of good reputation for learning and piety, but a great sufferer for nonconformity. Having entered into the sacred fun...
John Ley, A. M.?This laborious divine was born at Warwick, February 4, J583, and educated at Christ's Church, Oxford. Having finished his studies at t...
The Book of LukeChapter 19Verses:19:1He passed through Jericho - So that Zaccheus must have lived near the end of the town: the tree was in the town i...
TN the last number of this Journal (in. p. 51 sq.) Mr Hort criticised and condemned a theory which I had suggested in the preceding number (n. p. 264 ...
Transfiguration [N]An event in Jesus' life in which his appearance was radiantly transformed. The transfiguration is recorded in each of the Synoptic ...