Chapter?110This psalm is pure gospel; it is only, and wholly, concerning Christ, the Messiah promised to the fathers and expected by them. It is plain...
Chapter?1This book begins with the laws concerning sacrifices, of which the most ancient were the burnt-offerings, about which God gives Moses instruc...
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...
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?7Job, in this chapter, goes on to express the bitter sense he had of his calamities and to justify himself in his desire of death. I. He compl...
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?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?32In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition ...
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...
Chapter?1After the introduction (v.?1, v.?2) the apostle begins with the narrative of his troubles and God?s goodness, which he had met with in Asia, ...
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,...
Chapter?3This chapter, and that which follows it, give us the history of Israel?s passing through Jordan into Canaan, and a very memorable history it ...
Chapter?30One would have thought that the threatenings in the close of the foregoing chapter had made a full end of the people of Israel, and had left...
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?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...
Chapter?24In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a general prediction of the utter ruin of Jerusalem, that it should be forsaken and forgotten, ...
Chapter?2In this chapter, I. Christ speaks both concerning himself and concerning his church (v.?1, v.?2). II. The church speaks 1. Remembering the pl...
Chapter?1Thus prophet is sent first to convince and then to comfort, first to discover sin and to reprove for that and then to promise the coming of h...
Chapter?2We left Job honourably acquitted upon a fair trial between God and Satan concerning him. Satan had leave to touch, to touch and take, all he ...
Chapter?8The passages of story recorded in this chapter oblige us to look back. I. We read before of a Shuuammite woman that was a kind benefactor to ...