BAND The English word has two generic meanings, each shading off into several specific meanings: (1) that which holds together, binds or encircles: ...
Chapter?1This is a psalm of instruction concerning good and evil, setting before us life and death, the blessing and the curse, that we may take the r...
Music [T] [E] [S]Teachers of 1?Chronicles 15:22 ; 1 Chronicles 25:7 1 Chronicles 25:8 ; 2?Chronicles 23:13 Physical effect of, on man 1 Samuel ...
Chapter?2We left Jonah in the belly of the fish, and had reason to think we should hear no more of him, that if he were not destroyed by the waters of...
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...
FOOL; FOLLY fool nabhal, 'ewil, kecil, cakhal and forms; aphron, aphrosune, moros): I. In the Old Testament. 1. General: Taking the words generally...
Chapter?47This chapter reads the Philistines their doom, as the former read the Egyptians theirs and by the same hand, that of Nebuchadnezzar. It is s...
?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?139Some of the Jewish doctors are of opinion that this is the most excellent of all the psalms of David; and a very pious devout meditation it...
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?4Job having warmly given vent to his passion, and so broken the ice, his friends here come gravely to give vent to their judgment upon his cas...
?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 ...
Introduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansIntroduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansWritten Between 356 And 360.There is no absolutely...
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?10We have in this chapter an account of the conquest of the kings and kingdoms of the southern part of the land of Canaan, as, in the next cha...
Chapter?50This psalm, as the former, is a psalm of instruction, not of prayer or praise; it is a psalm of reproof and admonition, in singing which we ...
Chapter?39At this chapter we return to the story of Joseph. We have him here, I. A servant, a slave in Potiphar?s house (v.?1), and yet there greatly ...
Chapter?71David penned this psalm in his old age, as appears by several passages in it, which makes many think that it was penned at the time of Absal...
Homily XX.Homily XX. ROM. XII. 1.-I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,holy, accep...