Chapter?110This psalm is pure gospel; it is only, and wholly, concerning Christ, the Messiah promised to the fathers and expected by them. It is plain...
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?142This psalm is a prayer, the substance of which David offered up to God when he was forced by Saul to take shelter in a cave, and which he a...
Chapter?1We have here the first alphabet of this lamentation, twenty-two stanzas, in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and her pre...
Chapter?15Perhaps Job was so clear, and so well satisfied, in the goodness of his own cause, that he thought, if he had not convinced, yet he had at l...
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 105. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. We are walkers through the city of this world, and we are often called to go out into its dark...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 4. We will not hide them from their children. Our negligent silence shall not deprive our own and our father's offspring of the preci...
Chapter?2In the close of the foregoing chapter we had an account of the first disciples whom Jesus called, Andrew and Peter, Philip and Nathanael. The...
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?6Daniel does not give a continued history of the reigns in which he lived, nor of the state-affairs of the kingdoms of Chaldea and Persia, tho...
Chapter?23Saul, having made himself drunk with the blood of the priests of the Lord, is here, in this chapter, seeking David?s life, who appears here ...
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?17 Verse 1 These words recommend family-love and peace, as conducing very much to the comfort of human life. 1. Those that live in unity and q...
Chapter?14We left the host of Israel in a very ill posture, in the close of the foregoing chapter; we saw in them no wisdom, nor strength, nor goodnes...
Chapter?27It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing ...
Chapter?5In this chapter we have, I. An order, pursuant to the laws already made, for the removing of the unclean out of the camp (v.?1-4). II. A repe...
CHAPTER III. METHOD OF THEOLOGY. I. Requisites To The Study.?The requisites to the successful study of theology have already in part been indicated ...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. God contending with Israel, by the judgments, but are reprieved, and the judgments turned away at the prayer of A...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have Christ?s exposition of the moral law, which he came not to destroy, but to fulfil, and to fill up, by his gospel. I. ...