God, Names of Names are more than labels. In Old Testament times a name expressed identification, but also identity. Significant meaning often attache...
Chapter?77This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. The com...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have God?s answer to Solomon?s prayer. I. His public answer by fire from heaven, which consumed the sacrifices (v.?1), wit...
Chapter?148This psalm is a most solemn and earnest call to all the creatures, according to their capacity, to praise their Creator, and to show forth ...
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...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. I cried unto thee, O Lord. As man would not regard him, David was driven to Jehovah, his God. Was not this a gain made out of a l...
Chapter?10The prophet had observed to us (ch.?8:4 ) that when he was in vision at Jerusalem he saw the same appearance of the glory of God there that ...
THE FIFTH BOOK. AUGUSTINE'S TWENTY-NINTH YEAR? FAUSTUS, A SNARE OF SATAN TO MANY, MADE AN INSTRUMENT OF DELIVERANCE TO AUGUSTINE BY SHOWING THE IGNOR...
Chapter?4An instance of the wisdom God granted to Solomon we had in the close of the foregoing chapter. In this we have an account of his wealth and p...
Chapter?11Poor Job?s wound?s were yet bleeding, his sore still runs and ceases not, but none of his friends bring him any oil, any balm; Zophar, the t...
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?28We have here, I. Jacob parting with his parents, to go to Padanaram; the charge his father gave him (v.?1, v.?2), the blessing he sent him a...
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?103This psalm calls more for devotion than exposition; it is a most excellent psalm of praise, and of general use. The psalmist, I. Stirs up h...
VII UNION WITH CHRIST HE degeneration of sin is to be overcome only by regeneration from above. The initial work of Christ's Spirit is fortunatel...
?EXPOSITION Verse 11. For he shall give his angels charge over thee. Not one guardian angel, as some fondly dream, but all the angels are here alluded...
Chapter?21The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the two main hinges upon which the door of salvation turns. He came into the world on purpose...
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?6Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially...
Homily VIII.Homily VIII. Hebrews v. 1-3.-For every high priest taken from among men, is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offe...