Up to this point, we have spent considerable time discussing background information in order to better prepare the reader for the verse-by-verse expo...
\\INTRODUCTION TO HEBREWS\\ That this epistle was written very early appears from hence, that it was imitated by Clement of Rome, in his epistle to ...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
CHAPTER 15. THE BOASTED MERIT OF WORKS SUBVERSIVE BOTH OF THE GLORY OF GOD, IN BESTOWING RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND OF THE CERTAINTY OF SALVATION. The divisi...
around about Multitudes surround God?s throne (1K. 1K. 22:19; Rev. Rev. 5:11+; Rev. 7:11+), but in concentric positions. Those closest to God appear ...
OF THE OBJECT OF WORSHIP. TWO things are to be observed and considered,?That the Lord God is the object of worship,?that he alone is the object of w...
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 1 pol, I. Sources 1. The Acts 2. The Thirteen Epistles (1) Pauline Authorship (2) Lightfoot's Grouping (a) First Group (1 and...
Chapter?1In this epistle we have, I. The preface (v.?1-7). II. The substance and body of it (v.?8-21). And then the conclusion (v.?22to the end.) Vers...
II CHRIST IN CREATION S the Father expresses himself in the Son, so the Son expresses himself in creation; first, in the creation of what we call...
Chapter?4The work of a Christian is twofold?doing the will of God and suffering his pleasure. This chapter directs us in both. The duties we are here ...
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?11Poor Job?s wound?s were yet bleeding, his sore still runs and ceases not, but none of his friends bring him any oil, any balm; Zophar, the t...
Chapter?40In this chapter, I. Orders are given for the setting up of the tabernacle and the fixing of all the appurtenances of it in their proper plac...
But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues The two-thirds left from the population prior to the sounding of the sixth trumpet (Rev...
\\INTRODUCTION TO THE SONG OF SOLOMON\\ This book is entitled, in the Hebrew copies, Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs. The Septuagint and Vulgate Lat...
COLOSSIANS, EPISTLE TO THE ko-losh'-ans, ko-los'-i-anz: This is one of the group of Paul's epistles known as the Captivity Epistles (see PHILEMON, EP...
Chapter?43The contents of this chapter are much the same with those of the foregoing chapter, looking at the release of the Jews out of their captivit...
THE UNABOLISHED ANTINOMY. Sec. VI. There is no portion of Scripture which affords us a more profound psychological insight into the internal condi...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Chapter?3In this chapter our apostle treats of church-officers. He specifies, I. The qualifications of a person to be admitted to the office of a bish...