Chapter?8The affections between Christ and his spouse are as strong and lively here, in this closing chapter of the song, as ever, and rather more so....
Chapter?91Some of the ancients were of opinion that Moses was the penman, not only of the foregoing psalm, which is expressly said to be his, but also...
Chapter?14The former chapter directed the priests how to convict a leper of ceremonial uncleanness. No prescriptions are given for his cure; but, when...
Chapter?8In this chapter we have an account of the persecutions of the Christians, and the propagating of Christianity thereby. It was strange, but ve...
ABSTINENCE abs'-ti-nens: Abstinence as a form of asceticism reaches back into remote antiquity, and is found among most ancient peoples. It may be d...
Chapter?68This is a most excellent psalm, but in many places the genuine sense is not easy to come at; for in this, as in some other scriptures, there...
TEMPLE, A2 II. EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC SKETCH I. Introductory. 1. Relation to History of Temple: Wellhausen has said that Ezekiel 40-48 are the most im...
Chapter?37This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversat...
Chapter?66The scope of this chapter is much the same as that of the foregoing chapter and many expressions of it are the same; it therefore looks the ...
Chapter?1Evidence given concerning Christ?s person and excellency (v.?1, v.?2). The knowledge thereof gives us communion with God and Christ (v.?3), a...
Chapter?18In the course of the foregoing chapter we left David in triumph; now in this chapter we have, I. The improvement of his triumphs; he soon be...
Chapter 18We left the prophet Elijah wrapt up in obscurity. It does not appear that either the increase of the provision or the raising of the child h...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
Chapter?13In this chapter we have, I. Some further promises relating to gospel-times. Here is a promise of the remission of sins (v.?1), of the reform...
Chapter?3At the start of this chapter, concerning the baptism of John, begins the gospel (Mk.?1:1 ); what went before is but preface or introduction; ...
Chapter?7In this chapter the apostle answers some cases proposed to him by the Corinthians about marriage. He, I. Shows them that marriage was appoint...
Chapter?26The narrative of the death and sufferings of Christ is more particularly and fully recorded by all the four evangelists than any part of his...
Chapter?2The scope of the first two chapters of this epistle may be gathered from ch.?3:9 , We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they ar...
Chapter?3In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have Christ?s exposition of the moral law, which he came not to destroy, but to fulfil, and to fill up, by his gospel. I. ...