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?2The second alphabetical elegy is set to the same mournful tune with the former, and the substance of it is much the same; it begins with Ecah...
Chapter?66This is a thanksgiving-psalm, and it is of such a general use and application that we need not suppose it penned upon any particular occasio...
ACROSTIC a-kros'-tik: The acrostic, understood as a short poem in which the first letters of the lines form a word, or name, or sentence, has not ye...
FREEDOM. Sec. III. Man as such is free: this is a thought which, thus expressed, nowhere occurs in Scripture; for 't?Sn is everywhere in the Old Te...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have the return of the ark to the land of Israel, whither we are now gladly to attend it, and observe, I. How the Philisti...
Chapter 11It is a very good transition in prophecy (whether it be so in rhetoric or no), and a very common one, to pass from the prediction of the tem...
Chapter?11Poor Job?s wound?s were yet bleeding, his sore still runs and ceases not, but none of his friends bring him any oil, any balm; Zophar, the t...
Chapter?91Some of the ancients were of opinion that Moses was the penman, not only of the foregoing psalm, which is expressly said to be his, but also...
Chapter?30Moses is, in this chapter, further instructed, I. Concerning the altar of incense (v.?1-10). II. Concerning the ransom-money which the Israe...
leave out the court which is outside the temple ??? ????? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ?????? [T?n aul?n t?n ez?then tou naou ekbale ez?then] , a play o...
Chapter?4In this chapter, I. Jesus Christ, having espoused his church to himself ch.?3:11 ), highly commends her beauty in the several expressions of ...
Chapter?15Perhaps Job was so clear, and so well satisfied, in the goodness of his own cause, that he thought, if he had not convinced, yet he had at l...
Chapter?5The psalm is a prayer, a solemn address to God, at a time when the psalmist was brought into distress by the malice of his enemies. Many such...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
Chapter?12It is supposed that David penned this psalm in Saul?s reign, when there was a general decay of honesty and piety both in court and country, ...
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...
Chapter?1Israel was now to be formed into a commonwealth, or rather a kingdom; for the Lord was their King?? (1 Sa.?12:12 ), their government a theocr...
Chapter?51This chapter is designed for the comfort and encouragement of those that fear God and keep his commandments, even when they walk in darkness...
Chapter?15In this chapter, I. Israel looks back upon Egypt with a song of praise for their deliverance. Here is, I. The song itself (v.?1-19). The sol...