Chapter?14In this and the two following chapters we have the history of the reign of Asa, a good reign and a long one. In this chapter we have, I. His...
In our day, the most striking presence upon the Temple Mount is the Islamic Dome of the Rock.Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock 1 The Dome of the...
Chapter?2In this chapter, I. Christ speaks both concerning himself and concerning his church (v.?1, v.?2). II. The church speaks 1. Remembering the pl...
?EXPOSITION Verse 9. The Lord preserveth the strangers. Many monarchs hunted aliens down, or transported them from place to place, or left them as out...
?EXPOSITION Verse 39. Turn away my reproach which I fear. He feared just reproach, trembling lest he should cause the enemy to blaspheme through any g...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
THE FOURTH BOOK. AUGUSTINE'S LIFE FROM NINETEEN TO EIGHT-AND-TWENTY ? HIMSELF A HANICH.SAN, AND SEDUCING OTHERS TO THE SAME heresy ? partial OBEDIENC...
Chapter?47The scope of this psalm is to stir us up to praise God, to stir up all people to do so; and, I. We are directed in what manner to do it, pub...
Chapter?148This psalm is a most solemn and earnest call to all the creatures, according to their capacity, to praise their Creator, and to show forth ...
Chapter?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a gracious promise of deliverance in Mount Zion and Jerusalem; now this whole chapter is a comme...
Chapter?110This psalm is pure gospel; it is only, and wholly, concerning Christ, the Messiah promised to the fathers and expected by them. It is plain...
Chapter?111This and divers of the psalms that follow it seem to have been penned by David for the service of the church in their solemn feasts, and no...
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?23This chapter begins Job?s reply to Eliphaz. In this reply he takes no notice of his friends, either because he saw it was to no purpose or b...
Chapter 2With this chapter begins a new sermon, which is continued in the two following chapters. The subject of this discourse is Judah and Jerusalem...
Chapter?37Elihu here goes on to extol the wonderful power of God in the meteors and all the changes of the weather: if, in those changes, we submit to...
Chapter?132It is probable that this psalm was penned by Solomon, to be sung at the dedication of the temple which he built according to the charge his...
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...
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...
Chapter?33Yet Moses has not done with the children of Israel; he seemed to have taken final leave of them in the close of the foregoing chapter, but s...