Chapter?21The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are the two main hinges upon which the door of salvation turns. He came into the world on purpose...
Jerusalem [N] [T] [E] [H] [S]The Name. The name Jerusalem occurs 806 times in the Bible, 660 timesin the Old Testament and 146 times in the New Testa...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me. He did not miss a friend for want of looking for ...
Chapter 1The first verse of this chapter is intended for a title to the whole book, and it is probable that this was the first sermon that this prophe...
Chapter?9In this and the following chapter we have Job?s answer to Bildad?s discourse, wherein he speaks honourably of God, humbly of himself, and fee...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. I cried unto thee, O Lord. As man would not regard him, David was driven to Jehovah, his God. Was not this a gain made out of a l...
Chapter?50In this chapter, I. Those to whom God sends are justly charged with bringing all the troubles they were in upon themselves, by their own wil...
Chapter?17 Verse 1 These words recommend family-love and peace, as conducing very much to the comfort of human life. 1. Those that live in unity and q...
Chapter?28We have here, I. Jacob parting with his parents, to go to Padanaram; the charge his father gave him (v.?1, v.?2), the blessing he sent him a...
Animals [N]God as Creator and Sustainer. Animals, like the rest of the uNIVerse, are created by God. In Genesis 1, God's approval of the created world...
sixth seal ?It would be difficult to paint any scene more moving or more terrible than that described at the opening of the sixth seal.?1 Up to now,...
Chapter?35In this chapter we have three communions and three funerals. I. Three communions between God and Jacob. God ordered Jacob to Beth-el; and, i...
?EXPOSITION Verse 12. Blessed art thou, O LORD. These are words of adoration arising out of an intense admiration of the divine character, which the w...
Chapter?51Though David penned this psalm upon a very particular occasion, yet, it is of as general use as any of David?s psalms; it is the most eminen...
Chapter?144The four preceding psalms seem to have been penned by David before his accession to the crown, when he was persecuted by Saul; this seems t...
Chapter?13Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in th...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 18. If I regard iniquity in my heart. If, having seen it to be there, I continue to gaze upon it without aversion; if I cherish it, h...
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...
Since it is often said that the premillennial view of a literal, earthly Millennial Kingdom rests upon what is held to be an obscure foundation in Re...
Chapter?6The two kingdoms of providence and grace are what we are all very nearly interested in, and therefore are concerned to acquaint ourselves wit...