DayspringAn up-rising, hence sunrising.And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to p...
Overview - Isaiah 42 1?The office of Christ, graced with meekness and constancy. 5?God's promise unto him. 10?An exhortation to praise God for his Go...
Isaiah 42:7 To open the blind eyes Of the idolatrous Gentiles, who were spiritually blind, and knew not the wretchedness of their case; the exceeding ...
Overview - Luke 1 1?The preface of Luke to his whole gospel. 5?The conception of John the Baptist; 26?and of Christ. 39?The prophecy of Elisabeth and...
Luke 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness God's elect among the Jews, who were not only in a state of unregeneracy, which is a state of dar...
Job 12:22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness The deep things of God, his own deep things which lie in his heart, wrapped up in darkness impene...
Galatians 3:23 But before faith came This is to be understood, not of the grace of faith, which was under the former dispensation, as now; the Old Tes...
1-8. THE BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST. (Hill Country of Jud?a, B. C. 5.) c?LUKE 1:57-80. ? ? ? c?57 Now Elisabeth's time was fulfi...
?EXPOSITION Verse 6. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. Men who guard a city, and women who wait by the sick, lon...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 20. Have respect unto the covenant. Here is the master key, -- heaven's gate must open to this. God is not a man that he should lie; ...
The Third HomilyThe Third HomilyOn the Annunciation to the Holy Virgin Mary.(1) Again have we the glad tidings of joy, again the announcements of libe...
Chapter 11:1 Forasmuch as 1 many have a taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, (1)...
Psalm CVII. Psalm CVII. 1. This Psalm commendeth unto us the mercies of God, proved in ourselves, and is therefore the sweeter to the experienced. And...
CHAPTER 12. CHRIST, TO PERFORM THE OFFICE OF MEDIATOR, BEHOVED TO BECOME MAN. The two divisions of this chapter are, I. The reasons why our Mediator ...
But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet ...
1:1? Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters1 which have been fulfilled among us2,LUKE'S PREFACE AND DEDI...
You remember that strange, half-involuntary forty years of Moses in the wilderness of Midian, when he had fled from Egypt. You remember, too, the al...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. Christ confirming the doctrine he had preached in the former chapter, with two glorious miracles?the curing of on...
Chapter?1The narrative which this evangelist gives us (or rather God by him) of the life of Christ begins earlier than either Matthew or Mark. We have...
Book II.Book II. 1. Jerome says that the defenders of Origen are united in a federation of perjury. 2. Jerome's commentaries on Ephesians follow Orige...