The shape of the locusts was like Up to this point, the creatures which come up out of the bottomless pit have been identified as ?locusts? (Rev. Rev...
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?106We must give glory to God by making confession, not only of his goodness but our own badness, which serve as foils to each other. Our badne...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter?27Moses having very largely and fully set before the people their duty, both to God and one another, in general and in particular instances,?h...
Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...
Chapter?13In this chapter, we have, I. The favour which Christ did to his countrymen in preaching the kingdom of heaven to them (v.?1-2). He preached ...
Chapter?15In this chapter, we have our Lord Jesus, as the great Prophet teaching, as the great Physician healing, and as the great Shepherd of the she...
Chapter?40At this chapter begins the latter part of the prophecy of this book, which is not only divided from the former by the historical chapters th...
Chapter?6The cries of oppressed poverty being stilled, we are now to enquire how the building of the wall goes forward, and in this chapter we find it...
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. ...
CHAPTER II. MATERIAL OF THEOLOGY. I. Sources Op Theology.?God himself, in the last analysis, must be the only source of knowledge with regard to hi...
Some have tried to malign premillennialism by suggesting that it is a relatively novel development of recent times?that it is not a view which finds ...
Homily XXVI.Homily XXVI. ROM. XIV. 14.-I know, and am persuaded by (Gr. in) the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself, but to him that e...
Chapter?14 Verse 1 Note, 1. A good wife is a great blessing to a family. By a fruitful wife a family is multiplied and replenished with children, and ...
Chapter?12In this chapter we have the story, I. Of the martyrdom of James the apostle, and the imprisonment of Peter by Herod Agrippa, who now reigned...
PART IV. THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD. CHAPTER I. THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. In contemplating the words and acts of God, as in contemplating ...
Chapter?20In this chapter, I. The prophet is consulted by some of the elders of Israel (v.?1). II. He is instructed by his God what answer to give the...