BLASPHEMY blas'-fe-mi (blasphemia): In classical Greek meant primarily defamation or evil-speaking in general; a word of evil omen, hence, impious, a...
a loud voice from heaven The NU text has from the throne. A loud voice from heaven told John not to write what the seven thunders uttered (Rev. Rev. ...
Chapter?1After the inscription (v.?1, v.?2) we have, I. The charge given to Timothy (v.?3, v.?4). II. The true end of the law (v.?5-11), where he show...
Chapter?2We left Job honourably acquitted upon a fair trial between God and Satan concerning him. Satan had leave to touch, to touch and take, all he ...
SAMUEL, BOOKS OF || I. PLACE OF THE BOOKS OF SAMUEL IN THE HEBREW CANON II. CONTENTS OF THE BOOKS AND PERIOD OF TIME COVERED BY THE HISTORY III. SU...
CHAPTER 10. THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW. This chapter consists of four parts. I. The sum, utility, and necessity of this d...
Chapter?33Yet Moses has not done with the children of Israel; he seemed to have taken final leave of them in the close of the foregoing chapter, but s...
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?12In this chapter we have, I. The prophet?s humble complaint to God of the success that wicked people had in their wicked practices (v.?1, v.?...
Chapter?21This is Job?s reply to Zophar?s discourse, in which he complains less of his own miseries than he had done in his former discourses (finding...
CHAPTER 17. OF THE LORD'S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT. This chapter is divided into two principal heads.--I. The first part shows what i...
Chapter?6This chapter chiefly consists of two parts. In the former the apostle gives us several plain and practical directions, which more especially ...
Chapter?9Solomon, in this chapter, for a further proof of the vanity of this world, gives us four observations which he had made upon a survey of the ...
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?30The prophecy of this chapter seems to relate (as that in the foregoing chapter) to the approaching danger of Jerusalem and desolations of Ju...
Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. The famous story of St. Paul?s conversion from being an outrageous persecutor of the gospel of Christ to be an il...
Chapter?8In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s evading the snare which the Jews laid for him, in bringing to him a woman taken in adultery (v.?1-11). I...
Chapter?16It is some rebuke to Barnabas that after he left Paul we hear no more of him, of what he did or suffered for Christ. But Paul, as he was rec...
Chapter?23In the foregoing chapter, we had our Saviour?s discourses with the scribes and Pharisees; here we have his discourse concerning them, or rat...