Chapter?15In this chapter the apostle treats of that great article of Christianity?the resurrection of the dead. I. He establishes the certainty of ou...
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?49This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; an...
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?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?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?31Job had often protested his integrity in general; here he does it in particular instances, not in a way of commendation (for he does not her...
Chapter?28We are the more concerned to take notice of and to improve what is here recorded concerning blessed Paul because, after the story of this ch...
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?12In this chapter, we have, I. Christ?s clearing of the law of the fourth commandment concerning the sabbath-day, and vindicating it from some...
Chapter?29 Verse 1 Here, 1. The obstinacy of many wicked people in a wicked way is to be greatly lamented. They are often reproved by parents and frie...
Chapter?61In this chapter, I. We are sure to find the grace of Christ, published by himself to a lost world in the everlasting gospel, under the type ...
Chapter?13Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in th...
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. ...
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?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?1In this chapter we may observe, I. The preface and introduction to the whole epistle, to v.?16. II. A description of the deplorable condition...
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...
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...