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?30In this chapter we have an account of the increase, I. Of Jacob?s family. Eight children more we find registered in this chapter; Dan and Na...
?EXPOSITION Verse 92. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. That word which has preserved the heavens a...
Chapter?8The prophet proceeds, in this chapter, both to magnify and to justify the destruction that God was bringing upon this people, to show how gri...
Chapter?8God, having given the prophet a clear foresight of the people?s miseries that were hastening on, here gives him a clear insight into the peop...
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?1This chapter gives us a more particular account of the beginning of Daniel?s life, his original and education, than we have of any other of t...
Chapter?1Thus prophet is sent first to convince and then to comfort, first to discover sin and to reprove for that and then to promise the coming of h...
Chapter?19Some ceremonial precepts there are in this chapter, but most of them are moral. One would wonder that when some of the lighter matters of th...
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 ...
SEVENTH PERIOD. FROM JESUS' ENTOMBMENT UNTIL HIS RESURRECTION. THE CONCLUDING SABBATH OF THE OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY. ? 9 8. The Sabbath of the Cr...
Chapter?2It is probable that this chapter was Jeremiah?s first sermon after his ordination; and a most lively pathetic sermon it is as any we have is ...
Chapter 25We have here some intermission of David?s troubles by Saul. Providence favoured him with a breathing time, and yet this chapter gives us ins...
CHAPTER 17. USE TO BE MADE OF THE DOCTRINE OF PROVIDENCE. This chapter may be conveniently divided into two parts:--I. A general explanation is given...
Chapter?1The narrative which this evangelist gives us (or rather God by him) of the life of Christ begins earlier than either Matthew or Mark. We have...
Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. Daniel?s prayer for the restoration of the Jews who were in captivity, in which he confesses sin, and acknowledge...
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 ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 13. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. This earnest and humble prayer teaches us ...
Chapter?37The threatenings of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem for their sins, which we had in the former part of this book, were not so terribl...
Chapter?23 Verses 1-3 The sin we are here warned against is luxury and sensuality, and the indulgence of the appetite in eating and drinking, a sin th...