The Treasury of David is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed....
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. Men to be good at all must be good at hea...
he shall rule them This promise is closely related to that given to the Laodicean overcomer: ?I will grant to sit with Me on My throne as I also over...
PREFACE. At the end of all these years the last page of this Commentary is printed, and the seventh preface is requested. The demand sounds strangel...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous. The people of God are not to expect immunity from trial b...
Chapter?125This short psalm may be summed up in those words of the prophet (Isa.?3:10, Isa.?3:11 ), Say you to the righteous, It shall be well with hi...
Chapter?15The scope of this short but excellent psalm is to show us the way to heaven, and to convince us that, if we would be happy, we must be holy ...
Footnotes(1 )Christus Comprobator, p. 99, sq.(1 )O twn Paterwn Pathr; o twn Nussaewn fwsthr, Council. Nic. II. Act. VI. Edition of Labbe, p. 477.-Nice...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Another vision which the prophet saw, not for his own entertainment, but for his satisfaction and the edification...
HEART AND HEAD. Sec. XII. Quid sine capite est homo, cries Ambrose, cum totus in capite sit! According to thorough investigation and evidence of ...
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...
Having taken the scroll from the Father, the Lamb now begins to open the seals. As each seal is opened, a new judgment comes upon the earth. John is ...
Chapter?129This psalm relates to the public concerns of God?s Israel. It is not certain when it was penned, probably when they were in captivity in Ba...
let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches See commentary on Revelation 2:7. overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? hidden manna The manna is set...
THE SEVEN POWERS OF THE SOUL Sec. VI. We have shown from Holy Scripture in Div. I. Sec. III., that there is an eternal sevenfold doxa or glory of ...
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...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter?63In this chapter we have, I. God coming towards his people in ways of mercy and deliverance, and this is to be joined to the close of the for...
Chapter?3Solomon?s reign looked bloody in the foregoing chapter, but the necessary acts of justice must not be called cruelty; in this chapter it appe...