ABIATHAR a-bi'-a-thar, ab-i-a'-thar ('ebhyathar, father of super-excellence, or, the super-excellent one is father. With changed phraseology these are...
Chapter?117This psalm is short and sweet; I doubt the reason why we sing it so often as we do is for the shortness of it; but, if we rightly understoo...
Chapter?96This psalm is part of that which was delivered into the hand of Asaph and his brethren (1 Chr.?16:7 ), by which it appears both that David w...
Chapter?8David having sought first the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, settling the ark as soon as he was himself well settled, we are h...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XVIII. The Greatest in the Kingdom. SUMMARY.--Who Shall Be Greatest? Becoming As Little Children. Causing the Little Ones to Stum...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XXIV. The Judgments on the Jewish Nation. SUMMARY.--The Temple to Be Utterly Destroyed. The Questions Asked on the Mount of Oliv...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER X. The Call and Charge to the Apostles. SUMMARY.--The Twelve Apostles. The Charge. To Whom Sent. How to Go. What to Preach. What...
Chapter?15Ezekiel has again and again, in God?s name, foretold the utter ruin of Jerusalem; but, it should seem, he finds it hard to reconcile himself...
JUDAS ISCARIOT is-kar'-i-ot (Ioudas Iskariotes, i.e. 'ish qeriyoth, Judas, man of Kerioth): One of the twelve apostles and the betrayer of Jesus; for...
Chapter?8This psalm is a solemn meditation on, and admiration of, the glory and greatness of God, of which we are all concerned to think highly and ho...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XVII. The Transfiguration. SUMMARY.--The Transfigured Lord. Moses and Elias. The Voice from the Cloud. The Lunatic Healed. The...
Chapter?11Pharaoh had told Moses to get out of his presence ch.?10:28 ), and Moses had promised this should be the last time he would trouble him, yet...
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 ...
SACRIFICE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 2 VI. Rationale of the Efficacy of Christ's Sacrifice. 1. Jesus' Teaching: Jesus emphasizes His voluntary spirit in...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XIV. The Miracles Beyond and Upon the Sea of Galilee. SUMMARY.--Herod's Opinion of Christ. The Death of John the Baptist. Jesus C...
Chapter?13In this chapter we have a further account concerning Abram. I. In general, of his condition and behaviour in the land of promise, which was ...
Chapter?4David was a preacher, a royal preacher, as well as Solomon; many of his psalms are doctrinal and practical as well as devotional; the greates...
Chapter?35As after a prediction of God?s judgments upon the world (ch4) follows a promise of great mercy to be had in store for his church (ch5), so h...
Chapter?7God having set up house (as it were) in the midst of the camp of Israel, the princes of Israel here come a visiting with their presents, as t...
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...