Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. The answer which God, in a vision, gave to Solomon?s prayer, and the terms he settled with him (v.?1-9). II. The ...
Chapter?6Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially...
Chapter?4In this chapter we have the wedding between Boaz and Ruth, in the circumstances of which there was something uncommon, which is kept upon rec...
Chapter?8The affections between Christ and his spouse are as strong and lively here, in this closing chapter of the song, as ever, and rather more so....
Chapter?3The battle between Joab and Abner did not end the controversy between the two houses of Saul and David, but it is in this chapter working tow...
Chapter?12Though the vision of God?s glory had gone up from the prophet, yet his word comes to him still, and is by him sent to the people, and to the...
Chapter?4Solomon, having shown the vanity of this world in the temptation which those in power feel to oppress and trample upon their subjects, here f...
Chapter?21In this chapter provision is made, I. For the putting away of the guilt of blood from the land, when he that shed it had fled from justice (...
Chapter?6It is a very surprising scene that opens in this chapter. Haman, when he hoped to be Mordecai?s judge, was made his page, to his great confus...
Chapter?5Solomon, in this chapter, discourses, I. Concerning the worship of God, prescribing that as a remedy against all those vanities which he had ...
Chapter?78This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked hi...
Chapter?6Eliphaz concluded his discourse with an air of assurance; very confident he was that what he had said was so plain and so pertinent that noth...
Chapter?4In this chapter we have another comfortable vision, which, as it was explained to the prophet, had much in it for the encouragement of the pe...
CHAPTER IV. THE WORKS OF GOD; OR THE EXECUTION OF THE DECREES. SECTION I.?CREATION. I. Definition Op Creation. By creation we mean that free act ...
Chapter?119This is a psalm by itself, like none of the rest; it excels them all, and shines brightest in this constellation. It is much longer than an...
CHAPTER II. DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY. In the nature of the one God there are three eternal distinctions which are represented to us under the figure ...
Chapter?1The history of Job begins here with an account, I. Of his great piety in general (v.?1), and in a particular instance (v.?5). II. Of his grea...
FIFTH PERIOD. FROM REHOBOAM AND JEROBOAM I. UNTIL THE END OF THE DIVIDED KINGDOM. THE PERIOD OF ISRAEL'S CONFLICTS WITH THE WORLD - EMPIRES, AND OF P...
THE THREE FORMS OF THE DIVINELY-WROUGHT ECSTASY, AND THE THEOPNEUSTIA. Sec. V. We begin by recapitulation. The natural spirit-life of man is rooted...
CHAPTER III. INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES. L Definition Of Inspiration. By the inspiration of the Scriptures, we mean that special divine influen...