BIBLE, THE, IV CANONICITY $ IV. Literary Growth and Origin--Canonicity.$ Thus far the books of the Old Testament and New Testament have been taken si...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have three sermons preached by the prophet Haggai for the encouragement of those that are forward to build the temple. In ...
Chapter?14The departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt (which was indeed the birth of the Jewish church) is made yet more memorable by further...
Chapter?6The closing words of the foregoing chapter gave us some hopes that God and his Israel, notwithstanding their sins and his wrath, might yet be...
Chapter?13In this chapter, we have, I. The favour which Christ did to his countrymen in preaching the kingdom of heaven to them (v.?1-2). He preached ...
Chapter?13In the close of the foregoing chapter we left Jeroboam attending his altar at Beth-el, and there we find him in the beginning of this, when ...
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...
Chapter?5In this chapter the apostle asserts, I. The dignity of believers (v.?1). II. Their obligation to love, and the trial of it (v.?1-3). III. The...
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?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...
Chapter?1We have here, I. The inscription, as usual (v.?1, v.?2). II. His thanksgiving to God for what he had heard concerning them?their faith, love,...
JESUS CHRIST, 4C2 Second Period--After the Mission of the Twelve till the Departure from Galilee I. From the Death of the Baptist till the Discourse ...
Chapter?5The apostle, having spoken in the end of the foregoing chapter concerning the resurrection, and the second coming of Christ, proceeds to spea...
Chapter?1We have here, I. An account of the penman of this epistle, a character of the church, the blessings and privileges of that happy society (v.?...
Chapter?16None of Christ?s miracles are recorded in this chapter, but four of his discourses. Here is, I. A conference with the Pharisees, who challen...
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 ...
Chapter?10This chapter is an ordination sermon, which our Lord Jesus preached, when he advanced his twelve disciples to the degree and dignity of apos...
Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...
Chapter?17In this chapter we have, I. Christ in his pomp and glory transfigured (v.?1-13). II. Christ in his power and grace, casting the devil out of...