PETER. CHAPTER II. The Temple of Living Stones. SUMMARY.--Desiring the Sincere Milk. The Living Stone. The Spiritual Temple. The Stone the Buil...
XLV. COMFORT TO THE MOURNER. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble;...
Chapter?116This is a thanksgiving psalm; it is not certain whether David penned it upon any particular occasion or upon a general review of the many g...
MAKE, MAKER mak, mak'-er (`asah, nathan, sum; poieo, tithemi, kathistemi): 1. As Used in the Old Testament: Make is a frequently used word, meaning ...
Chapter?28Now that the people were numbered, orders given for the dividing of the land, and a general of the forces nominated and commissioned, one wo...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 7\\ \\\\. The name of this psalm, Shiggaion, either respects the music or the matter of the psalm. Some take it to be the na...
MEEKNESS mek'-nes (`anawah; praotes, prautes): Meekness in the Old Testament (`anawah, `anwah) is from `anaw, suffering, oppressed, afflicted, denoti...
Chapter?5This chapter, though it has the same number of verses with the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, is not alphabetical, as they were, but the scope of it is t...
The scene which John is shown next is an extension of what has preceded. In the previous chapter, Revelation 11 , John was shown two witnesses who pro...
Chapter?33Yet Moses has not done with the children of Israel; he seemed to have taken final leave of them in the close of the foregoing chapter, but s...
Homily XIV.Homily XIV. Hebrews viii. 1, 2.-Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest; who is set down on the...
When the New Testament opens, we find John the Baptist preaching, Mat. 3:2) [emphasis added]. Later, when John was imprisoned, Jesus too preached, ?t...
Introduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansIntroduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansWritten Between 356 And 360.There is no absolutely...
Chapter?33The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter?to confirm the promise of the restoration of the Jews, notwith...
Chapter?1Israel was now to be formed into a commonwealth, or rather a kingdom; for the Lord was their King?? (1 Sa.?12:12 ), their government a theocr...
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last God is said to be ?everlasting? (Gen. Gen. 21:33). He ?inhabits eternity? (Isa. Isa. 57:15) and i...
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?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a gracious promise of deliverance in Mount Zion and Jerusalem; now this whole chapter is a comme...
Chapter?11Jerusalem was walled round, but it was not as yet fully inhabited, and therefore was weak and despicable. Nehemiah?s next care is to bring p...
After the Lamb has opened six of the seven seals, there is a pause in the action while the servants of God are sealed for protection from the judgment...