Homily XXXI.Homily XXXI.Matthew Chapter 9, Verse 18 While He spake these things unto them, behold, there came in(1) a ruler, and worshipped Him, sayin...
MUSIC mu'-zik: I. IMPORTANCE 1. The Sole Art Cultivated 2. A Wide Vocabulary of Musical Terms 3. Place in Social and Personal Life 4. Universal L...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. Sing unto the LORD with the harp. Skill in music should not be desecrated to the world's evil mirth, it should aid the private de...
?EXPOSITION The prophet now puts into the mouth of the assembly a song, foretelling the future conquests of Jehovah. Verse 28. Thy God hath commanded ...
1. AFTER this, when the country was greatly afflicted with a famine, David besought God to have mercy on the people, and to discover to him what wa...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. Thou art my hiding place. Terse, short sentences make up this verse, but they contain a world of meaning. Personal claims upon our...
1. WHEN the Philistines understood that David was made king of the Hebrews, they made war against him at Jerusalem; and when they had seized upon t...
Chapter?25David, having settled the courses of these Levites that were to attend the priests in their ministrations, proceeds, in this chapter, to put...
MACCABAEUS; MACCABEES mak-a-be'-us (Makkabaios), mak'-a-bez (hoi Makkabaioi): I. PALESTINE UNDER KINGS OF SYRIA 1. Rivalry of Syria and Egypt 2. Pa...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth. Upon consideration, the psalmist finds little room to bewail the length of life,...
LOCUST lo'-kust: The translation of a large number of Hebrew and Greek words: 1. Names: (1) 'arbeh from the root rabhah, to increase (compare Arabi...
VI ? Christmas and the Aesthetes world is round, so round that the schools of optimism and pessimism have been arguing from the beginning whether it...
CHAPTER IV. RESTITUTION. A third element of successful prayer is RESTITUTION. If I have at any time taken what does not belong to me, and am not wi...
Chapter?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we left Israel in their cities, but we may well imagine what a bad posture their affairs were in, the g...
1. AFTER the slaughter of file Magi, who, upon the death of Cambyses, attained the government of the Persians for a year, those families which were...
Justin on the Sole Government of God. Justin on the Sole Government of God.(1) [Translated by the Rev. G. Reith, M.a.]-------- Chapter I.-Object of th...
PSALM 118 OVERVIEW. AUTHOR AND SUBJECT. In the book Ezra 3:10-11 , we read that when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the...
OLIVES, MOUNT OF ol'-ivz, (har ha-zethim (Zechariah 14:4), ma`aleh ha-zethim, the ascent of the mount of Olives (2?Samuel 15:30, the King James Versio...
WORSHIP wur'-ship (Anglo-Saxon: weorthscipe, wyrthscype, honor, from weorth, wurth, worthy, honorable, and scipe, ship): 1. Terms 2. Old Testament ...
1. A RESOLUTION was now taken by Titus to relax the siege for a little while, and to afford the seditious an interval for consideration, and to see...