In the previous chapter, we saw a dragon with seven heads and ten horns who attempted to intercept the promised child and subsequently persecuted the...
Chapter?5Eliphaz, in the foregoing chapter, for the making good of his charge against Job, had vouched a word from heaven, sent him in a vision. In th...
?EXPOSITION From this point David and our Lord for awhile part company, if we accept the rendering of our version. The severe spirit of the law breath...
The Book of PsalmsChapter 18Chapter Overview: David triumphs in God, ver. 1 - 3. Praises God for his past deliverances, ver. 4 - 19. Takes the comf...
Chapter?12After the laws concerning clean and unclean food come the laws concerning clean and unclean persons; and the first is in this chapter concer...
Chapter?31The prophecy of this chapter, as the two chapters before, is against Egypt, and designed for the humbling and mortifying of Pharaoh. In pass...
He who has an ear ?Every man ?hath an ear? naturally, but he alone will be able to hear spiritually to whom God has given ?the hearing ear?; whose ?e...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
Chapter?1This is a psalm of instruction concerning good and evil, setting before us life and death, the blessing and the curse, that we may take the r...
Chapter?4We left all hands at work for the building of the wall about Jerusalem. But such good work is not wont to be carried on without opposition; n...
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?22This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David?s psalms (Ps.?18, ) with some little variation. We ha...
Chapter?21The laws recorded in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they are not accommodated to our constitution, espe...
Nature, Natural The Hebrew language has no word for nature equivalent to the Greek word physis [fuvsi]. Hebrew thought and language were essentially c...
4.3.2.4.1 - Daniel saw Seven Heads In the book of Daniel, all we find mentioned in relation to the sequence of kingdoms is the four beasts and the cor...
Psalms, Theology of The Book of Psalms is a sizable collection of musical poems and prayers of diverse authorship and form. Psalms are independent lit...
Chapter?1In this chapter, after the title of the book (v.?1), we have Christ and his church, Christ and a believer, expressing their esteem for each o...
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...
PSALM 143 OVERVIEW. Title. A Psalm of David. It is so much like other Davidic psalms that we accept the title without a moment's hesitation. David's h...
in the midst The Levites, who performed the priestly duty of the OT, camped around the glory of the Lord which resided in the Tabernacle (Num. Num. 1:...