Chapter?28We have here, I. Jacob parting with his parents, to go to Padanaram; the charge his father gave him (v.?1, v.?2), the blessing he sent him a...
Chapter?20One would have thought that such an excellent confession of faith as Job made, in the close of the foregoing chapter, would satisfy his frie...
Chapter?5This chapter, and part of the next, concern the trespass-offering. The difference between this and the sin-offering lay not so much in the sa...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. David declining in his health (v.?1-4). II. Adonijah aspiring to the kingdom, and treating his party, in order to...
Chapter?8The passages of story recorded in this chapter oblige us to look back. I. We read before of a Shuuammite woman that was a kind benefactor to ...
Chapter?2This chapter begins the story of Moses, that man of renown, famed for his intimate acquaintance with Heaven and his eminent usefulness on ear...
Chapter?51The prophet, in this chapter, goes on with the prediction of Babylon?s fall, to which other prophets also bore witness. He is very copious a...
Chapter?78This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked hi...
Chapter?89Many psalms that begin with complaint and prayer end with joy and praise, but this begins with joy and praise and ends with sad complaints a...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. They also do no iniquity. Blessed indeed would those men be of whom this could be asserted without reserve and without explanatio...
?EXPOSITION Verse 78. Let the proud be ashamed. He begged that the judgments of God might no longer fall upon himself, but upon his cruel adversaries....
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
In the previous chapter, John was shown an ideal time on earth when Satan was bound and Christ and the saints ruled for one thousand years. As wonder...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. The dispute between God and Moses finishes, and Moses applies himself to the execution of his commission, in obedience to...
Homily XVIII.Homily XVIII. Hebrews x. 8-13.-Above when He said, Sacrifice and offering, and burnt-offerings, and [offering] for sin, Thou wouldest not...
Chapter?2How Nehemiah wrestled with God and prevailed we read in the foregoing chapter; now here we are told how, like Jacob, he prevailed with men al...
Chapter?29 Verse 1 Here, 1. The obstinacy of many wicked people in a wicked way is to be greatly lamented. They are often reproved by parents and frie...
Chapter?24Christ?s preaching was mostly practical; but, in this chapter, we have a prophetical discourse, a prediction of things to come; such however...
Chapter?1In this chapter, after the introduction (v.?1), we have, I. An awakening call to a sinful people to repent of their sins and return to God (v...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. The law concerning Nazarites, 1. What it was to which the vow of a Nazarite obliged him (v.?1-8). A remedial law ...