FAITH TESTED AND CROWNED 'And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I...
CHAPTER 14 Birth of Isaac - Ishmael sent away - Trail of Abraham's faith in the Command to sacrifice Isaac - Death of Sarah - Death of Abraham (GENES...
XXIV. OUR SAFETY. 1 I WIll love thee, O Lord, ray strength. 2 The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom...
Introductory Notice to the Early LiturgiesINTRODUCTORY NOTICE TO THE EARLY LITURGIESIt is in curious contrast with the work of Brett and others like-m...
Chapter?22We have here the famous story of Abraham?s offering up his son Isaac, that is, his offering to offer him, which is justly looked upon as one...
Chapter?37The threatenings of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem for their sins, which we had in the former part of this book, were not so terribl...
Chapter?19Jerusalem?s great distress we read of in the foregoing chapter, and left it besieged, insulted, threatened, terrified, and just ready to be ...
Chapter?21In this chapter we have, I. The notice Christ took, and the approbation he gave, of a poor widow that cast two mites into the treasury (v.?1...
Chapter?15What we read of the sufferings of Christ, in the foregoing chapter, was but the prologue or introduction; here we have the completing of the...
Chapter?6A great variety of observable passages we have, in this chapter, concerning our Lord Jesus, the substance of all which we had before in Matth...
Chapter?2This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which re...
Chapter?6Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially...
Chapter?1The history of Job begins here with an account, I. Of his great piety in general (v.?1), and in a particular instance (v.?5). II. Of his grea...
Chapter?12In this chapter we have the story, I. Of the martyrdom of James the apostle, and the imprisonment of Peter by Herod Agrippa, who now reigned...
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?9In this chapter we have, I. The commission Christ gave to his twelve apostles to go out for some time to preach the gospel, and confirm it by...
Chapter?21The evangelist seemed to have concluded his history with the foregoing chapter; but (as St. Paul sometimes in his epistles), new matter occu...
Chapter?15In this chapter, we have our Lord Jesus, as the great Prophet teaching, as the great Physician healing, and as the great Shepherd of the she...
Chapter?12In this chapter, we have, I. Christ?s clearing of the law of the fourth commandment concerning the sabbath-day, and vindicating it from some...
Chapter?10This chapter is an ordination sermon, which our Lord Jesus preached, when he advanced his twelve disciples to the degree and dignity of apos...