MEEKNESS mek'-nes (`anawah; praotes, prautes): Meekness in the Old Testament (`anawah, `anwah) is from `anaw, suffering, oppressed, afflicted, denoti...
PSALM 86 OVERVIEW Title. -- A Prayer of David. We have here one of the five psalms entitled Tephillahs or prayers. This psalm consists of praise as we...
the angel See the discussion concerning the identity of the angel at Revelation 1:20. church in Philadelphia See commentary on Seven Churches of Asia....
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
Praise [N] [T]Praise, mostly of God, is a frequent theme in the psalms, the Hebrew title of which is Praises. Yet praise is a theme that pervades the ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 28. That thou givest them they gather. God gives it, but they must gather it, and they are glad that he does so, for otherwise their...
Chapter?29It is the probable conjecture of some very good interpreters that David penned this psalm upon occasion, and just at the time, of a great st...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. Men to be good at all must be good at hea...
Chapter?145The five foregoing psalms were all of a piece, all full of prayers; this, and the five that follow it to the end of the book, are all of a ...
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...
PSALM 138 OVERVIEW Title. A Psalm of David. This Psalm is wisely placed. Whoever edited and arranged these sacred poems, he had an eye to apposition a...
4.3.2.4.1 - Daniel saw Seven Heads In the book of Daniel, all we find mentioned in relation to the sequence of kingdoms is the four beasts and the cor...
PSALM 143 OVERVIEW. Title. A Psalm of David. It is so much like other Davidic psalms that we accept the title without a moment's hesitation. David's h...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
Chapter?1The foundation of all religion being laid in our relation to God as our Creator, it was fit that the book of divine revelations which was int...
Chapter?18This chapter is concerning Moses himself, and the affairs of his own family. I. Jethro his father-in-law brings to him his wife and children...
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?27Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of t...
Chapter 6Hitherto, it should seem, Isaiah had prophesied as a candidate, having only a virtual and tacit commission; but here we have him (if I may so...
Animals [N]God as Creator and Sustainer. Animals, like the rest of the uNIVerse, are created by God. In Genesis 1, God's approval of the created world...