Luke 9:25 For what is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world, &c.] Or what profit will it be unto him? all the honours, riches, and enjoyments of...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 12. They rewarded me evil for good. This is devilish; but men have learned the lesson well of the old Destroyer, and practise it most...
Job 33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread Through the force of pain he loses his appetite for food, and even a nausea of it takes place; he loathes i...
On the Subject of the Soul. On the Subject of the Soul.(1) You have instructed us, most excellent Tatian,(2) to forward for your use a discourse upon ...
SOUL AND BLOOD. Sec. XI. Upon the relation of the soul to the blood, Scripture contains statements not merely casual, but deliberate, to which it ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 7. Return, unto thy rest, O my soul. He calls the rest still his own, and feels full liberty to return to it. What a mercy it is tha...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. Their eyes stand out with fatness. In cases of obesity the eyes usually appear to be enclosed in fat, but sometimes they protrude;...
Chapter?1 The name of this book signifies The Preacher. The wisdom of God here preaches to us, speaking by Solomon, who it is evident was the author....
Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is slacked Is not put into execution against offenders: the civil magistrates, whose office it is to do justice accordi...
My soul thirsteth for Thee . . . My soul shall be satisfied. . . . My soul followeth hard after Thee.?Psalm Ixiii. 1, 5, 8. IT is a wise advice whic...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 3. My heart was hot within me. The friction of inward thoughts produced an intense mental heat. The door of his heart was shut, and w...
A Treatise on the Soul. A Treatise on the Soul.(1) [Translated by Peter Holmes, D.D.]-------- Chapter I.-It is Not to the Philosophers that We Resort ...
THE BODY AS THE SEVENFOLD MEANS OF SELF-REPRESENTATION TO THE SOUL. Sec. X. The saying of Thomasius8 is true, in addition to that of Harless and Ho...
Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things [are] full of labour Or are laborious F7; gotten by labour, and attended with fatigue and weariness; riches are got by lab...
HEALTH AND SICKNESS. Sec. XV. In what, then, according to Scripture, consists the essence of sickness? Many will think that an answer to this ques...
Galatians 5:24 And they that are Christ's Not all as yet that are secretly so, who are chosen in him, and by him, are given by the Father to him in co...
PSALM 62 OVERVIEW Title. To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. This is the second Psalm which is dedicated to Jeduthun, or Ethan, the former one being t...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. The bravest spirit is sometimes sorely put to it. A heavy fo...
On the Flesh of Christ. On the Flesh of Christ.(1) This was written by our author in confutation of certain heretics who denied the reality of Christ...
CHAPTER 11 Proverbs 11:1-31 . 1. (Compare Margin). The Hebrews used stones for weights. just--complete in measure. 2. Self-conceit is untea...