?EXPOSITION Verse 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help. Heaped up is his happiness. He has happiness indeed: the true and the real d...
Chapter?68This is a most excellent psalm, but in many places the genuine sense is not easy to come at; for in this, as in some other scriptures, there...
Footnotes(1 )Christus Comprobator, p. 99, sq.(1 )O twn Paterwn Pathr; o twn Nussaewn fwsthr, Council. Nic. II. Act. VI. Edition of Labbe, p. 477.-Nice...
Chapter?132It is probable that this psalm was penned by Solomon, to be sung at the dedication of the temple which he built according to the charge his...
Chapter?2The second alphabetical elegy is set to the same mournful tune with the former, and the substance of it is much the same; it begins with Ecah...
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?7Still the ark is David?s care as well as his joy. In this chapter we have, I. His consultation with Nathan about building a house for it; he ...
Chapter?48This psalm, as the two former, is a triumphant song; some think it was penned on occasion of Jehoshaphat?s victory (2 Chr 17), others of Sen...
Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. Orders given about the making and using of silver trumpets, which seems to have been the last of all the command...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. Christ, the royal bridegroom, goes on to describe the beauties of his spouse, the church, in many instances, and to expre...
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...
Chapter?28Orders being given for the fitting up of the place of worship, in this and the following chapter care is taken about the priests that were t...
leave out the court which is outside the temple ??? ????? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ?????? [T?n aul?n t?n ez?then tou naou ekbale ez?then] , a play o...
let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches See commentary on Revelation 2:7. overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? hidden manna The manna is set...
Chapter?28The account we have of David?s exit, in the beginning of the first book of Kings, does not make his sun nearly so bright as that given in th...
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?34This psalm was penned upon a particular occasion, as appears by the title, and yet there is little in it peculiar to that occasion, but that...
Chapter?51Though David penned this psalm upon a very particular occasion, yet, it is of as general use as any of David?s psalms; it is the most eminen...
Chapter?43The prophet, having given us a view of the mystical temple, the gospel-church, as he received it from the Lord, that it might appear not to ...
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...