Chapter?1 This epistle shows Christ as the end, foundation, body, and truth of the figures of the law, which of themselves were no virtue for the sou...
Chapter?3Solomon having shown the vanity of studies, pleasures, and business, and made it to appear that happiness is not to be found in the schools o...
PSALM 143 OVERVIEW. Title. A Psalm of David. It is so much like other Davidic psalms that we accept the title without a moment's hesitation. David's h...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have a twofold comparison stated: I. Between the evangelical and legal dispensation; and the excellency of the gospel abov...
Chapter?13This psalm is the deserted soul?s case and cure. Whether it was penned upon any particular occasion does not appear, but in general, I. Davi...
Chapter?84Though David?s name be not in the title of this psalm, yet we have reason to think he was the penman of it, because it breathes so much of h...
Chapter?61David, in this psalm, as in many others, begins with a sad heart, but concludes with an air of pleasantness?begins with prayers and tears, b...
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...
PSALM 6 OVERVIEW Title. This Psalm is commonly known as the first of the PENITENTIAL PSALMS, (The other six are Psalms 32:1-11 38:1-22 51:1-19 102:1...
Praise [N] [T]Praise, mostly of God, is a frequent theme in the psalms, the Hebrew title of which is Praises. Yet praise is a theme that pervades the ...
Chapter?12It is supposed that David penned this psalm in Saul?s reign, when there was a general decay of honesty and piety both in court and country, ...
CHAPTER 45 Isaiah 45:1-25 . THE SUBJECT OF THE DELIVERANCE BY CYRUS IS FOLLOWED UP. Isaiah 45:1-7 . These seven verses should have been app...
Chapter?102Some think that David penned this psalm at the time of Absalom?s rebellion; others that Daniel, Nehemiah, or some other prophet, penned it ...
Chapter?3The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the two foregoing chapters, but the composition is somewhat different; that was in long ve...
In our day, the most striking presence upon the Temple Mount is the Islamic Dome of the Rock.Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock 1 The Dome of the...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
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...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, or rather filling with good thy soul. No man is ever filled to satisfaction but a beli...
Chapter?34This psalm was penned upon a particular occasion, as appears by the title, and yet there is little in it peculiar to that occasion, but that...
Chapter?32We have here Jacob still upon his journey towards Canaan. Never did so many memorable things occur in any march as in this of Jacob?s little...