Chapter?13Mention had been made, in the chapter before, of the vain visions and flattering divinations with which the people of Israel suffered themse...
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?26The narrative of the death and sufferings of Christ is more particularly and fully recorded by all the four evangelists than any part of his...
Chapter?2In the close of the foregoing chapter we had an account of the first disciples whom Jesus called, Andrew and Peter, Philip and Nathanael. The...
Chapter?22This chapter is a psalm, a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards inserted among David?s psalms (Ps.?18, ) with some little variation. We ha...
Chapter?109Whether David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul, or when his son Absalom rebelled against him, or upon occasion of some othe...
The Messiah came as the prophets had foretold. He was of the house of David, son of a virgin, born at Bethlehem; but His people knew Him not. He was ...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have the performance of what was foretold in the foregoing chapter, both concerning the destruction of the old world and t...
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...
Chapter?6Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially...
THE TENTH BOOK. HAVING IN THE Note books SPOKEN OF HIMSELF BEFORE HIS RECEIVING THE RITE OF BAPTISM, IN THIS AUGUSTINE CONFESSES WHAT HE THEN WAS ? BU...
THE CHILDREN FOR CHRIST. Forty-fifth Day. Baptized into Christ 'We who died to sin, shall we live any longer therein? Or are ye ignorant that all ...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. A general charge drawn up against Israel for those high crimes and misdemeanors by which they had obstructed the ...
Chapter?118It is probable that David penned this psalm when he had, after many a story, weathered his point at last, and gained a full possession of t...
?EXPOSITION Verse 78. Let the proud be ashamed. He begged that the judgments of God might no longer fall upon himself, but upon his cruel adversaries....
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
Salvation [N] [T] [E]Of the many Hebrew words used to signify salvation, yasa [[;vy] (to save, help in distress, rescue, deliver, set free) appears mo...
Chapter?24In this chapter we have, I. A repetition of the laws concerning the lamps and the show-bread (v.?1-9). II. A violation of the law against bl...
Chapter?15 Verse 1 Solomon, as conservator of the public peace, here tells us, 1. How the peace may be kept, that we may know how in our places to kee...
Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...