When the New Testament opens, we find John the Baptist preaching, Mat. 3:2) [emphasis added]. Later, when John was imprisoned, Jesus too preached, ?t...
Chapter?143This psalm, as those before, is a prayer of David, and full of complaints of the great distress and danger he was in, probably when Saul pe...
Chapter?11In this psalm we have David?s struggle with and triumph over a strong temptation to distrust God and betake himself to indirect means for hi...
?EXPOSITION Verse 6. We have sinned with our fathers. Here begins a long and particular confession. Confession of sin is the readiest way to secure an...
He is coming The OT Scriptures predicted a ?coming one? (Deu. Deu. 18:15-18; Ps. Ps. 2:1; Ps. 22:1; Ps. 118:26; Isa. Isa. 9:6; Isa. 48:16; Isa. 53:1;...
Footnotes(1 )Christus Comprobator, p. 99, sq.(1 )O twn Paterwn Pathr; o twn Nussaewn fwsthr, Council. Nic. II. Act. VI. Edition of Labbe, p. 477.-Nice...
another sign appeared in heaven Like the woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, a second sign is introduced. These two signs are mean...
he cried mightily with a loud voice The angel serves as a divine herald, announcing that which is about to take place. He signals that an event of gre...
Chapter?92It is a groundless opinion of some of the Jewish writers (who are usually free of their conjectures) that this psalm was penned and sung by ...
Chapter?26Moses here receives instructions, I. Concerning the inner curtains of the tent or tabernacle, and the coupling of those curtains (v.?1-6). I...
\\INTRODUCTION TO FIRST KINGS\\ This, and the following book, properly are but one book, divided into two parts, and went with the Jews under the co...
Chapter?26This is Job?s short reply to Bildad?s short discourse, in which he is so far from contradicting him that he confirms what he had said, and o...
Chapter?17Syria and Ephriam were confederate against Judah ch.?7:1, ch.?7:2 ), and, they being so closely linked together in their counsels, this chap...
Chapter?17Two passages of story are recorded in this chapter, I. The watering of the host of Israel. 1. In the wilderness they wanted water (v.?1). In...
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?7We are now to attend the second banquet to which the king and Haman were invited: and there, I. Esther presents her petition to the king for ...
All who dwell on the earth The ones who not only physically dwell on the earth, but whose affections and complete allegiance are entirely upon the ea...
HEART AND HEAD. Sec. XII. Quid sine capite est homo, cries Ambrose, cum totus in capite sit! According to thorough investigation and evidence of ...
Chapter?32This psalm, though it speaks not of Christ, as many of the psalms we have hitherto met with have done, has yet a great deal of gospel in it....
Salvation [N] [T] [E]Of the many Hebrew words used to signify salvation, yasa [[;vy] (to save, help in distress, rescue, deliver, set free) appears mo...