HEBREWS. CHAPTER X. Christ's Sacrifice Offered Once for All. SUMMARY.--The Imperfection of the Sacrifices of the Law. In Such Sacrifices God Had N...
A major theme throughout Scripture is the impending arrival of God?s Kingdom on earth. Although the Kingdom will be a time of great blessing, peace, ...
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?8In the close of the foregoing chapter we left the world in ruins and the church in straits; but in this chapter we have the repair of the one...
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...
Chapter?31This chapter is an abridgment of the foregoing chapter; the heads of it are much the same. Here is, I. A woe to those who, when the Assyrian...
Chapter?48This psalm, as the two former, is a triumphant song; some think it was penned on occasion of Jehoshaphat?s victory (2 Chr 17), others of Sen...
Chapter?19This chapter introduces the solemnity of the giving of the law upon mount Sinai, which was one of the most striking appearances of the divin...
Having taken the scroll from the Father, the Lamb now begins to open the seals. As each seal is opened, a new judgment comes upon the earth. John is ...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter?12In this and the two following chapters we have Job?s answer to Zophar?s discourse, in which, as before, he first reasons with his friends se...
Chapter?17This chapter contains articles of agreement covenanted and concluded upon between the great Jehovah, the Father of mercies, on the one part,...
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...
Opening the Fifth and Sixth Seals 1 fifth seal With the opening of the fifth seal, we break from the judgments associated with the four horsemen. ?T...
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?6Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially...
Chapter?129This psalm relates to the public concerns of God?s Israel. It is not certain when it was penned, probably when they were in captivity in Ba...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have an answer expected by the prophet (v.?1), and returned by the Spirit of God, to the complaints which the prophet made...
Chapter?144The four preceding psalms seem to have been penned by David before his accession to the crown, when he was persecuted by Saul; this seems t...
Chapter?20We are here returning to the story of Abraham; yet that part of it which is here recorded is not to his honour. The fairest marbles have the...