Chapter?5It is now time to enquire what has become of the ark of God; we cannot but think that we shall hear more of that sacred treasure. I should ha...
Chapter?80This psalm is much to the same purport with the foregoing. Some think it was penned upon occasion of the desolation and captivity of the ten...
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
Chapter?31This chapter goes on with the good words and comfortable words which we had in the chapter before, for the encouragement of the captives, as...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have an answer expected by the prophet (v.?1), and returned by the Spirit of God, to the complaints which the prophet made...
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...
Chapter?59In this chapter we have sin appearing exceedingly sinful, and grace appearing exceedingly gracious; and, as what is here said of the sinner?...
Chapter?11The apostle, having reconciled that great truth of the rejection of the Jews with the promise made unto the fathers, is, in this chapter, fu...
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?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...
PSALM 89 OVERVIEW. We have now reached the majestic Covenant Psalm, which, according to the Jewish arrangement closes the third book of the Psalms. I...
Chapter?65We are now drawing towards the conclusion of this evangelical prophecy, the last two chapters of which direct us to look as far forward as t...
?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?4This chapter is another single alphabet of Lamentations for the destruction of Jerusalem, like those in the first two chapters. I. The prophe...
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?22This chapter is a continuation of Christ?s discourses in the temple, two or three days before he died. His discourses then are largely recor...
Chapter?13At this chapter begins the story of Samson, the last of the judges of Israel whose story is recorded in this book, and next before Eli. The ...
Chapter?7This chapter is an occasional sermon, in which the prophet sings both of mercy and judgment to those that did not perceive or understand eith...
Chapter?27This whole chapter is taken up with an account of Paul?s voyage towards Rome, when he was sent thither a prisoner by Festus the governor, up...