Chapter?13Mention had been made, in the chapter before, of the vain visions and flattering divinations with which the people of Israel suffered themse...
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...
Chapter?83This psalm is the last of those that go under the name of Asaph. It is penned, as most of those, upon a public account, with reference to th...
Chapter?3The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the two foregoing chapters, but the composition is somewhat different; that was in long ve...
Chapter?33This is a psalm of praise; it is probable that David was the penman of it, but we are not told so, because God would have us look above the ...
Chapter?7The success of one good design for God and our generation should encourage us to proceed and form some other; Nehemiah did so, having fortifi...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
?EXPOSITION In this section the Psalmist seems to take firm hold upon God himself; appropriating him ( Psalms 119:57 ), crying out for him ( Psalms 1...
CHAPTER 45 Isaiah 45:1-25 . THE SUBJECT OF THE DELIVERANCE BY CYRUS IS FOLLOWED UP. Isaiah 45:1-7 . These seven verses should have been app...
?EXPOSITION Verse 113. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. In this paragraph the Psalmist deals with thoughts and things and persons which ar...
Beyond the interpretive issue mentioned above, which we feel is conclusive, there are many other reasons for taking Babylon in the book of Revelation...
Chapter?67This psalm relates to the church and is calculated for the public. Here is, I. A prayer for the prosperity of the church of Israel (v.?1). I...
Introduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansIntroduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansWritten Between 356 And 360.There is no absolutely...
Chapter?17This chapter contains articles of agreement covenanted and concluded upon between the great Jehovah, the Father of mercies, on the one part,...
Chapter?52The greater part of this chapter is on the same subject with the chapter before, concerning the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, whic...
Chapter?63In this chapter we have, I. God coming towards his people in ways of mercy and deliverance, and this is to be joined to the close of the for...
?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?9At this chapter begins another sermon, which is continued to the end of ch. 11. It is called, The burden of the word of the Lord,?? for every...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, or rather filling with good thy soul. No man is ever filled to satisfaction but a beli...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 26. My flesh and my heart faileth. They had failed him already, and he had almost fallen; they would fail him in the hour of death, a...