Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before That is, that went before Christ; accordingly the Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, and ...
Homily XX.Homily XX. John i. 43, 44.-The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, Follow Me. Now Philip...
That a time might come, when, through unfaithfulness to their covenant, the Jews would cease to exist as a nation, and be scattered over the earth, w...
Friend, Friendship Most of the Old Testament words translated friend, friendship, or be friendly come from two Hebrew roots, rh and hb. The most com...
The earliest mention of Babylon and the region it occupies, the land of Shinar, is found not long after the global flood:Cush begot Nimrod; he began ...
Chapter?5This chapter gives us some account of the two tribes and a half that were seated on the other side Jordan. I. Of Reuben (v.?1-10). II. Of Ga...
Chapter?129This psalm relates to the public concerns of God?s Israel. It is not certain when it was penned, probably when they were in captivity in Ba...
The scene which John is shown next is an extension of what has preceded. In the previous chapter, Revelation 11 , John was shown two witnesses who pro...
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, 1 lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and laid me down in that place to sleep ; and as I s...
Chapter?15Though the land was not completely conquered, yet being (as was said in the close of the foregoing chapter) as rest from war for the present...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. A threatening of the destruction of Israel for their idolatry, and the destruction of their idols with them (v.?1...
Chapter?54The key of this psalm hangs at the door, for the title tells us upon what occasion it was penned?when the inhabitants of Ziph, men of Judah ...
Chapter?46How judgment began at the house of God we have found in the foregoing prophecy and history; but now we shall find that it did not end there....
Chapter?38This chapter, and that which follows it, are concerning Gog and Magog, a powerful enemy to the people of Israel, that should make a formidab...
THORN IN THE FLESH thorn (skolops te sarki): Paul thus characterizes some bodily ailment which afflicted him and impaired his usefulness (2?Corinthia...
Chapter?23This chapter begins Job?s reply to Eliphaz. In this reply he takes no notice of his friends, either because he saw it was to no purpose or b...
Chapter?14The idea which this chapter gives us of Samson is not what one might have expected concerning one who, by the special designation of heaven,...
Homily XXIII.Homily XXIII. Hebrews xi. 7.-By faith Noah, being warned of God(1) of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the sav...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. The eclipsing of the glory of the ark, by its privacy in Kirjath-jearim for many years (v.?1, v.?2). II. The appe...
Chapter?8David having sought first the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, settling the ark as soon as he was himself well settled, we are h...