Chapter?23The historian is now drawing towards a conclusion of David?s reign, and therefore gives us an account here, I. Of some of his last words, wh...
Chapter?33In this chapter we have, I. A particular account of the removals and encampments of the children of Israel, from their escape out of Egypt t...
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 ...
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...
?EXPOSITION Verse 25-32. Here, it seems to me, we have the Psalmist in trouble bewailing the bondage to earthly things in which he finds his mind to b...
CHAPTER 16. THE WORLD, CREATED BY GOD, STILL CHERISHED AND PROTECTED BY HIM. EACH AND ALL OF ITS PARTS GOVERNED BY HIS PROVIDENCE. The divisions of t...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. The prophet, in the name of the church, sadly laments the woeful decay of religion in the age wherein he lived, and the d...
Chapter?41Two things Providence is here bringing about:?I. The advancement of Joseph. II. The maintenance of Jacob and his family in a time of famine;...
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?32In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition ...
Chapter?13In this chapter we have, I. The commands God gave to Israel, 1. To sanctify all their firstborn to him (v.?1, v.?2). To be sure to remember ...
God, Names of Names are more than labels. In Old Testament times a name expressed identification, but also identity. Significant meaning often attache...
Chapter?27This whole chapter is taken up with an account of Paul?s voyage towards Rome, when he was sent thither a prisoner by Festus the governor, up...
THE FALSE PRE-EXISTENCE. Sec. I The history of the soul, like all temporal history, has its beginning and its ending in eternity. Not as though eter...
Chapter?33We read, in the former chapter, how Jacob had power with God, and prevailed; here we find what power he had with men too, and how his brothe...
Chapter?33Pompous prefaces, like the teeming mountain, often introduce poor performances; but Elihu?s discourse here does not disappoint the expectati...
Chapter?28This chapter is a very large exposition of two words in the foregoing chapter, the blessing and the curse. Those were pronounced blessed in ...
Chapter?18In this chapter we have, I. A general declaration of God?s ways in dealing with nations and kingdoms, that he can easily do what he will wit...
Chapter?19As Assyria was a breaking rod to Judah, with which it was smitten, so Egypt was a broken reed, with which it was cheated; and therefore God ...
Chapter?7We have done with the visions, but not with the revelations of this book; the prophet sees no more such signs as he had seen, but still the w...