FAITH THE SOLE SAVING ACT. John Tu 28, 29.? Thon said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said u...
OFFENCE; OFFEND o-fens', o-fend' (mikhshol, 'asham, chaTa'; skandalon, skandalizo): Offend is either transitive or intransitive As transitive it is p...
Chapter?50In this chapter, I. Those to whom God sends are justly charged with bringing all the troubles they were in upon themselves, by their own wil...
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...
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...
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life The Greek lacks the article: the tree. There are several trees, ea...
Chapter?13In this chapter we have, I. The commands God gave to Israel, 1. To sanctify all their firstborn to him (v.?1, v.?2). To be sure to remember ...
Chapter?3In this chapter, I. The church gives an account of a sore trial wherewith she was exercised through the withdrawing of her beloved from her, ...
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...
Chapter?13Mention had been made, in the chapter before, of the vain visions and flattering divinations with which the people of Israel suffered themse...
Chapter?49This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; an...
Chapter?4In this chapter, I. Jesus Christ, having espoused his church to himself ch.?3:11 ), highly commends her beauty in the several expressions 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?18In this chapter Bildad makes a second assault upon Job. In his first discourse (ch. 8) he had given him encouragement to hope that all shoul...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. The inscription of the book, (v.?1). II. A magnificent display of the glory of God, in a mixture of wrath and jus...
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?15Ezekiel has again and again, in God?s name, foretold the utter ruin of Jerusalem; but, it should seem, he finds it hard to reconcile himself...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
Chapter?18This psalm we met with before, in the history of David?s life, 2 Samuel 2 That was the first edition of it; here we have it revived, altered...