Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...
Chapter?1The narrative which this evangelist gives us (or rather God by him) of the life of Christ begins earlier than either Matthew or Mark. We have...
Chapter?4In this chapter we have the wedding between Boaz and Ruth, in the circumstances of which there was something uncommon, which is kept upon rec...
Book II.Book II.This book can hardly be said to form part of a dialogue. It is rather an argument from Scripture to prove the point of the Augustinian...
Chapter?8The affections between Christ and his spouse are as strong and lively here, in this closing chapter of the song, as ever, and rather more so....
?EXPOSITION Verse 92. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. That word which has preserved the heavens a...
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
Chapter?8The building and furniture of the temple were very glorious, but the dedication of it exceeds in glory as much as prayer and praise, the work...
Chapter?28In the foregoing chapters, we saw the Captain of our salvation engaged with the powers of darkness, attacked by them, and vigorously attacki...
Chapter?78This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked hi...
Footnotes(1 )Eusebius seems to have adopted this name as a token of friendship and respect for Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. See McGiffert, Prolegome...
Chapter?25The law of this chapter concerns the lands and estates of the Israelites in Canaan, the occupying and transferring of which were to be under...
Chapter?27It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing ...
Chapter?17God was, in the foregoing chapter, reckoning with the people of Judah, and bringing ruin upon them for their treachery in breaking covenant ...
Chapter?10This chapter and the two next (which conclude this book) make up one entire vision and prophecy, which was communicated to Daniel for the us...
?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?103This psalm calls more for devotion than exposition; it is a most excellent psalm of praise, and of general use. The psalmist, I. Stirs up h...
Chapter?1Thus prophet is sent first to convince and then to comfort, first to discover sin and to reprove for that and then to promise the coming of h...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES (kohen, priest; nothing is definitely known as to the origin of the word; Lewi, Levite, on which see LEVI): I. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF...
SANCTUARY sank'-tu-a-ri, sank'-tu-a-ri (miqdash, miqqedhash, qodhesh, holy place; hagion): 1. Nature of Article 2. The Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis T...