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?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?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 5In this chapter the prophet, in God?s name, shows the people of God their transgressions, even the house of Jacob their sins, and the judgmen...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER XXVIII. Paul at Rome. SUMMARY.--Thrown on the Island of Malta. The Kindness of the People. A Viper Fastens on Paul's...
Chapter?1This book begins with the laws concerning sacrifices, of which the most ancient were the burnt-offerings, about which God gives Moses instruc...
Chapter?5The last news we had of Haman left him in his cups, 3:15. Our last news of queen Esther left her in tears, fasting and praying. Now this chap...
Chapter?7Here is, I. The law of the trespass-offering (v.?1-7), with some further directions concerning the burnt-offering and the meat-offering (v.?8...
Chapter?11In this chapter we have, I. Peter?s necessary vindication of what he did in receiving Cornelius and his friends into the church, from the ce...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XXVI. The Preparation for the Lord's Death. SUMMARY.--The Declaration to the Disciples That the Time Was at Hand. The Wicked Co...
Chapter?4In going over the last two chapters, where we met with so many good things that the apostles did, I wondered what was become of the scribes a...
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?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?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?21David has now quite taken leave both of Saul?s court and of his camp, has bidden farewell to his alter idem?his other self, the beloved Jona...
Chapter?27The last verse of the foregoing chapter seemed to close up the statute-book; yet this chapter is added as an appendix. Having given laws con...
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?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?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?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 ...