Chapter?26This chapter is a song of holy joy and praise, in which the great things God had engaged, in the foregoing chapter, to do for his people aga...
Chapter?21The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the two main hinges upon which the door of salvation turns. He came into the world on purpose...
Chapter?34God having in the foregoing chapter intimated to Moses his reconciliation to Israel, here gives proofs of it, proceeding to settle his coven...
THE SEVENTH BOOK. AUGUSTINE'S THIRTY-FIRST YEAR ? HE IS GRADUALLY EXTRICATED FROM HIS ERRORS, BUT STILL WITH MATERIAL CONCEPTIONS OF GOD ? AIDED BY A...
Chapter?2The scope of the first two chapters of this epistle may be gathered from ch.?3:9 , We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they ar...
Chapter?40At this chapter begins the latter part of the prophecy of this book, which is not only divided from the former by the historical chapters th...
Chapter 17This chapter gives us an account of the captivity of the ten tribes, and so finishes the history of that kingdom, after it had continued abo...
Chapter?2This chapter begins the story of Moses, that man of renown, famed for his intimate acquaintance with Heaven and his eminent usefulness on ear...
Chapter?60This whole chapter is all to the same purport, all in the same strain; it is a part of God?s covenant with his church, which is spoken of in...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES (kohen, priest; nothing is definitely known as to the origin of the word; Lewi, Levite, on which see LEVI): I. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF...
Chapter?17So sad was the character both of the princes and people of Israel, as described in the foregoing chapter, that one might have expected God w...
Chapter?3In this chapter the apostle, I. Blames the Corinthians for their carnality and divisions (v.?1-4). II. He instructs them how what was amiss a...
Chapter?56After the exceedingly great and precious promises of gospel grace, typified by temporal deliverances, which we had in the foregoing chapter,...
Chapter?41This chapter, as the former, in intended both for the conviction of idolaters and for the consolation of all God?s faithful worshippers; for...
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 ...
Chapter?42The prophet seems here to launch out yet further into the prophecy of the Messiah and his kingdom under the type of Cyrus; and, having the g...
Chapter?12The wise and penitent preacher is here closing his sermon; and he closes it, not only like a good orator, but like a good preacher, with tha...
Chapter?5Hitherto we have seen visions of peace only, and all the words we have heard have been good words and comfortable words. But the pillar of cl...
CHAPTER 2. OF FAITH. THE DEFINITION OF IT. ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES. This chapter consists of three principal parts.--I. A brief explanation of certai...
Chapter?12In this chapter, we have, I. The parable of the vineyard let out to unthankful husbandmen, representing the sin and ruin of the Jewish churc...