?EXPOSITION Verse 62. At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. He was not afraid of the robbers; he rose, ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth. Upon consideration, the psalmist finds little room to bewail the length of life,...
Chapter?22The Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, testifies in this psalm, as clearly and fully as any where in all the Old Testament, the su...
Homily XIII.Homily XIII. John i. 15.-John beareth witness of Him, and crieth, saying, This is He of whom I spake, saying, He that cometh after me is p...
CHAPTER 20. OF PRAYER--A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,--I. Connection...
Chapter?11 Verse 1 As religion towards God is a branch of universal righteousness (he is not an honest man that is not devout), so righteousness towar...
Homily LI.Homily LI. John vii. 37, 38.-In the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unt...
Homily LXV.Homily LXV. John xi. 49, 50.-And one of them, Caiaphas, being the High Priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,nor co...
Chapter?1We have here the first alphabet of this lamentation, twenty-two stanzas, in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and her pre...
Chapter?107The psalmist, having in the two foregoing psalms celebrated the wisdom, power, and goodness of God, in his dealings with his church in part...
Chapter?6In this chapter, I. The daughters of Jerusalem, moved with the description which the church had given of Christ, enquire after him (v.?1). II...
THE COMMENCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE THREEFOLD LIFE. Sec, VIII. Wherever the Holy Scripture speaks of the act of begetting and conception, e.g. ...
Chapter?44We are not told either who was the penman of this psalm or when and upon what occasion it was penned, upon a melancholy occasion, we are sur...
Chapter?22David, being driven from Achish, returns into the land of Israel to be hunted by Saul. I. David sets up his standard in the cave of Adullam,...
THE TENTH BOOK. HAVING IN THE Note books SPOKEN OF HIMSELF BEFORE HIS RECEIVING THE RITE OF BAPTISM, IN THIS AUGUSTINE CONFESSES WHAT HE THEN WAS ? BU...
Chapter?17In this chapter, I. God convicts the Jews of the sin of idolatry by the notorious evidence of the fact, and condemns them to captivity for i...
Chapter?3This chapter is one of the most excellent in all this book, both for argument to persuade us to be religious and for directions therein. I. W...
Chapter?2In the close of the foregoing chapter we had an account of the first disciples whom Jesus called, Andrew and Peter, Philip and Nathanael. The...
2. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. [So that h...
Chapter?54The death of Christ is the life of the church and of all that truly belong to it; and therefore very fitly, after the prophet had foretold t...