Chapter?26Holy David is in this psalm putting himself upon a solemn trial, not by God and his country, but by God and his own conscience, to both whic...
Chapter?14Job had turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to God and himself. ...
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?23This chapter begins Job?s reply to Eliphaz. In this reply he takes no notice of his friends, either because he saw it was to no purpose or b...
Chapter?10Job owns here that he was full of confusion (v.?15), and as he was so was his discourse: he knew not what to say, and perhaps sometimes scar...
Chapter?11Poor Job?s wound?s were yet bleeding, his sore still runs and ceases not, but none of his friends bring him any oil, any balm; Zophar, the t...
Chapter?2This chapter is an appendix to the history of the creation, more particularly explaining and enlarging upon that part of the history which re...
?EXPOSITION Verse 12. Blessed art thou, O LORD. These are words of adoration arising out of an intense admiration of the divine character, which the w...
Chapter?29This woe to Ariel, which we have in this chapter, is the same with the burden of the valley of vision?? ch.?22:1 ), and (it is very probable...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
Chapter?16Hagar is the person mostly concerned in the story of this chapter, an obscure Egyptian woman, whose name and story we never should have hear...
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?38This chapter, and that which follows it, are concerning Gog and Magog, a powerful enemy to the people of Israel, that should make a formidab...
Chapter?10We have in this chapter an account of the conquest of the kings and kingdoms of the southern part of the land of Canaan, as, in the next cha...
CHAPTER 21. OF THE ETERNAL ELECTION, BY WHICH GOD HAS PREDESTINATED SOME TO SALVATION, AND OTHERS TO DESTRUCTION. The divisions of this chapter are,-...
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...
II CHRIST IN CREATION S the Father expresses himself in the Son, so the Son expresses himself in creation; first, in the creation of what we call...
Chapter?38In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job?s friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he t...
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...
Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. Judgment threatened, which the sinners shall not escape (v.?1-4), which an almighty power shall inflict (v.?5, v....