Chapter?149The foregoing psalm was a hymn of praise to the Creator; this is a hymn of praise to the Redeemer. It is a psalm of triumph in the God of I...
Chapter?3The apostle, in this chapter, carries on his discourse concerning justification. He had already proved the guilt both of Gentiles and Jews. N...
Chapter?147This is another psalm of praise. Some think it was penned after the return of the Jews from their captivity; but it is so much of a piece w...
?EXPOSITION This section is given up to memories of prayer. The Psalmist describes the time and the manner of his devotions, and pleads with God for ...
Chapter?13This psalm is the deserted soul?s case and cure. Whether it was penned upon any particular occasion does not appear, but in general, I. Davi...
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 ...
Chapter?62The business of prophets was both to preach and pray. In this chapter, I. The prophet determines to apply closely and constantly to this bus...
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...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me. He did not miss a friend for want of looking for ...
Chapter?2In this chapter, I. Christ speaks both concerning himself and concerning his church (v.?1, v.?2). II. The church speaks 1. Remembering the pl...
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?4In this chapter we have, I. A most earnest and pathetic exhortation to obedience, both in general, and in some particular instances, backed w...
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...
The shape of the locusts was like Up to this point, the creatures which come up out of the bottomless pit have been identified as ?locusts? (Rev. Rev...
Chapter?33Yet Moses has not done with the children of Israel; he seemed to have taken final leave of them in the close of the foregoing chapter, but s...
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?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?39God proceeds here to show Job what little reason he had to charge him with unkindness who was so compassionate to the inferior creatures and...
Chapter?1The first part of Moses?s farewell sermon to Israel begins with this chapter, and is continued to the latter end of the fourth chapter. In th...
CHAPTER 21. OF THE ETERNAL ELECTION, BY WHICH GOD HAS PREDESTINATED SOME TO SALVATION, AND OTHERS TO DESTRUCTION. The divisions of this chapter are,-...