PSALM 19 OVERVIEW Subject. It would be idle to enquire into the particular period when this delightful poem was composed, for their is nothing in its ...
Homily XVIHomily XVI-------- Chapter I.-Simon Wishes to Discuss with Peter the Unity of God.At break of day Peter went out, and reaching the place whe...
Book XII.Book XII.1. At length, with the Holy Ghost speeding our way, we are approaching the safe, calm harbour of a firm faith. We are in the positio...
?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: wrapping the light about him as a monarch puts on his robe. The conception is ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. Therefore. How fond the psalmist is of therefores! his poetry is no poetic rapture without reason, it is as logical as a mathemati...
Vision FirstVision FirstAgainst Filthy and Proud Thoughts, and the Carelessness of Hermas in Chastising His Sons. Chapter I.He who had brought me up, ...
Psalm CXXXV. Psalm CXXXV. 1. Very pleasant ought it be to us, and we should rejoice because it is pleasant, to which this Psalm exhorteth us. For it s...
CHAPTER 1 Genesis 1:1, 2 . THE CREATION OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. 1. In the beginning--a period of remote and unknown antiquity, hid in the depths...
Chapter?4In this chapter the prophetical scene opens; and, as the epistolary part opened with a vision of Christ (ch. 1), so this part is introduced w...
Letter LX. To Adelphius(1) , Bishop and Confessor: Against the Arians.Letter LX. To Adelphius(1) , Bishop and Confessor: Against the Arians.We have re...
Chapter?45Cyrus was nominated, in the foregoing chapter, to be God?s shepherd; more is said to him and more of him in this chapter, not only because h...
Book IV.Book IV.1. The earlier books of this treatise, written some time ago, contain, I think, an invincible proof that we hold and profess the faith...
Book III.Book III. Chapter I. Statement of the reasons wherefore the matters, treated of shortly in the two former, are dealt with more at length in t...
Book XIIBook XII------------Argument-Augustin first institutes two inquiries regarding the angels; namely, whence is there in some a good, and in othe...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. Who is like unto the LORD our God? The challenge will never be answered. None can be compared with him for an instant; Israel's G...
Homily V.Homily V. John chapter 1, verse 3.- All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.[1.] Moses in the beginn...
Chapter?104It is very probable that this psalm was penned by the same hand, and at the same time, as the former; for as that ended this begins, with B...
Chapter 3838:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the a whirlwind, and said, (a) That his words might have greater majesty, and that Job might know wit...
?EXPOSITION Verse 7. To him that made great lights. This also is a creating miracle worthy of our loudest thanks. What could men have done without lig...
?EXPOSITION We have now come to the tenth portion, which in each stanza begins with Jod, but it certainly does not treat of jots and titles and other...