Chapter?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a gracious promise of deliverance in Mount Zion and Jerusalem; now this whole chapter is a comme...
THE LIKENESS OF GOD IN MAN. Sec. II. Scripture nowhere says of any one of the visible creatures that surround us, that it is created after the imag...
Chapter?110This psalm is pure gospel; it is only, and wholly, concerning Christ, the Messiah promised to the fathers and expected by them. It is plain...
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...
Image of God It would be difficult to overstate the centrality of the image of God as a crucial themein biblical theology. From the beginning of the e...
LI. Christ is our Shield. By this name or in this relation He has always been known to the saints. God said to Abraham, I am thy Shield?Gen. 15: 1. P...
Chapter?52The greater part of this chapter is on the same subject with the chapter before, concerning the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, whic...
let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches See commentary on Revelation 2:7. overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? hidden manna The manna is set...
Chapter?9In this psalm, I. David praises God for pleading his cause, and giving him victory over his enemies and the enemies of his country (v.?1-6), ...
Chapter?91Some of the ancients were of opinion that Moses was the penman, not only of the foregoing psalm, which is expressly said to be his, but also...
Chapter?3The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the two foregoing chapters, but the composition is somewhat different; that was in long ve...
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...
IV. THE NATURAL CONDITION. Nil dignius est anima, nil exccllentius bac tinica cognitione, quaro qui perfectam haberet Deo similis esset, imo Deus i...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. The prophet, in the name of the church, sadly laments the woeful decay of religion in the age wherein he lived, and the d...
Chapter?63In this chapter we have, I. God coming towards his people in ways of mercy and deliverance, and this is to be joined to the close of the for...
Chapter?37This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversat...
Chapter?16This chapter gives us an account of the victualling of the camp of Israel. I. Their complaint for want of bread (v.?1-3). II. The notice God...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler. Assuredly no subtle plot shall succeed against one who has the eyes of...
FOOL; FOLLY fool nabhal, 'ewil, kecil, cakhal and forms; aphron, aphrosune, moros): I. In the Old Testament. 1. General: Taking the words generally...
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...