The Treasury of David is in the public domain and may be freely used and distributed....
PSALM 126 OVERVIEW. Title. -- A Song of Degrees. This is the seventh Step, and we may therefore expect to meet with some special perfection of joy in ...
white robe These are the white robes promised to the overcomers, for their nakedness is clothed (Rev. Rev. 12:11+ cf. Rev. Rev. 3:5+, Rev. 3:18+). Th...
\\INTRODUCTION TO PSALMS\\ The title of this book may be rendered the Book of Praises, or Hymns; the psalm which our Lord sung at the passover is c...
Chapter?126It was with reference to some great and surprising deliverance of the people of God out of bondage and distress that this psalm was penned,...
THE DISTINCTION OF SEX. Sec. VI. If the contrarieties of male and female, or rather the contra- rieties which lay at the foundation of the separat...
Chapter?120This psalm is the first of those fifteen which are here put together under the title of songs of degrees.?? It is well that it is not mater...
Chapter?97This psalm dwells upon the same subject, and is set to the same tune, with the foregoing psalm. Christ is the Alpha and the Omega of both; t...
Chapter?85Interpreters are generally of the opinion that this psalm was penned after the return of the Jews out of their captivity in Babylon, when th...
Chapter?8We left the plotter hanging, and are now to see what becomes of his plot. I. His plot was to raise an estate for himself; and all his estate,...
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?8Job?s friends are like Job?s messengers: the latter followed one another close with evil tidings, the former followed him with harsh censures...
Chapter?33The scope of this chapter is much the same with that of the foregoing chapter?to confirm the promise of the restoration of the Jews, notwith...
Chapter?9In this psalm, I. David praises God for pleading his cause, and giving him victory over his enemies and the enemies of his country (v.?1-6), ...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have the return of the ark to the land of Israel, whither we are now gladly to attend it, and observe, I. How the Philisti...
Chapter?17This chapter contains articles of agreement covenanted and concluded upon between the great Jehovah, the Father of mercies, on the one part,...
Chapter?52The greater part of this chapter is on the same subject with the chapter before, concerning the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, whic...
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?31This chapter goes on with the good words and comfortable words which we had in the chapter before, for the encouragement of the captives, as...
The Canons of the Council of Orange?INTRODUCTIONThe Council of Orange was an outgrowth of the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. This controv...