Chapter 17David is the man whom God now delights to honour, for he is a man after his own heart. We read in the foregoing chapter how, after he was an...
Chapter?106We must give glory to God by making confession, not only of his goodness but our own badness, which serve as foils to each other. Our badne...
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?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?11The old distinction between the sons of God and the sons of men (professors and profane) survived the flood, and now appeared again, when me...
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. An introduction, or preface, making way for, and leading to, what is principally designed by the apostle (v.?1-4)...
SLEEPING, WAKING, DREAMING. Sec. XIV. The soul, as we have concluded on biblical grounds, as well in respect of the spirit whose self-manifestatio...
Chapter?5In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s gracious acceptance of the invitation which his church had given him, and the kind visit which he made t...
Chapter?3The battle between Joab and Abner did not end the controversy between the two houses of Saul and David, but it is in this chapter working tow...
Chapter?14This chapter gives us an account of that fatal quarrel between God and Israel upon which, for their murmuring and unbelief, he swore in his ...
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?16In the close of the foregoing chapter we left David flying from Jerusalem, and Absalom entering into it; in this chapter, I. We are to follo...
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?8Solomon, in this chapter, comes to recommend wisdom to us as the most powerful antidote against both the temptations and vexations that arise...
Chapter?35A variety of methods is tried, and every stone turned, to awaken the Jews to a sense of their sin and to bring them to repentance and reform...
Chapter?79This psalm, if penned with any particular event in view, is with most probability made to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem and the temp...
Chapter?1In this chapter, after the introduction (v.?1), we have, I. An awakening call to a sinful people to repent of their sins and return to God (v...
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...
Chapter?2That many returned out of Babylon upon Cyrus?s proclamation we were told in the foregoing chapter; we have here a catalogue of the several fa...