Chapter?123 Confidence in God under contempt. - Our Lord Jesus has taught us to look unto God in prayer as our Father in heaven. In every prayer a g...
WALKING WITH GOD. For even hereunto were ye called; because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that we should follow his steps: who ...
Psalms 37:40 And the Lord shall help them In their distress, and out of their troubles, when none else can, and they themselves cannot; and that seaso...
Philippians 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two Life and death; or between these two counsels, as the Arabic version reads; two thoughts and desires...
Haggai 2:6 For thus saith the Lord of hosts; &c.] For the further encouragement of the builders of the temple, they are told, from the Lord of hosts, ...
Chapter?4 Miseries from oppression. (1-3) troubles from envy. (4-6) The folly of covetousness. (7,8) The advantages of mutual assistance. (9-12) the ...
Jeremiah 31:15 Thus saith the Lord, a voice was heard in Ramah Which signifies a high place; hence the Targum paraphrases it, ``in the high place of ...
Daniel 7:19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast; &c.] What it represented, what kingdom or monarchy was meant by it; for, by the above ans...
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded, saying That he might not be thought to suggest this without any foundation, he gives them an instance, wherein a comma...
Chapter?15 The Divine judgments about to come upon the Moabites. - This prophecy coming to pass within three years, would confirm the prophet's miss...
Chapter?5 Eliphaz urges that the sin of sinners in their ruin. (1-5) God is to be regarded in affliction. (6-16) The happy end of God's correction. (...
Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name [is] better than precious ointment The word good is not in the text, but is rightly supplied, as it is by Jarchi; for of ...
104, SERMON XXXV. PREACHED UPON WHITSUNDAY. John xvi. 8, 9, 10, 11. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, ...
Chapter 55:1 Call now, if there be any that will a answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? (a) He wills Job to consider the example of...
Chapter?1 This prophet denounces the certain and approaching destruction of the Assyrian empire, particularly of Nineveh, which is described very min...
Chapter?3 The sins and judgments of Nineveh. (1-7) Its utter destruction. (8-19) Verses 1-7 When proud sinners are brought down, others sho...
Psalms 123:4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease That are in easy and affluent circumstances; abound in the thi...
Micah 5:3 Therefore will he give them up Or notwithstanding, as this particle signifies; see ( Hosea 2:14 ) ; though all this shall be, yet, previous ...
II. THE METHOD OF SALVATION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him...
Job 8:3 Doth God pervert judgment? &c.] In his dealings with men in the way of his providence; no, he does not; here Bildad opposes himself to Job, wh...