Chapter?14The departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt (which was indeed the birth of the Jewish church) is made yet more memorable by further...
Chapter?3The scope of this chapter is the same with that of the two foregoing chapters, but the composition is somewhat different; that was in long ve...
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?37This psalm is a sermon, and an excellent useful sermon it is, calculated not (as most of the psalms) for our devotion, but for our conversat...
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...
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...
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...
Chapter?32In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth. Upon consideration, the psalmist finds little room to bewail the length of life,...
FIRST SECTION-i. 4-14. The Son of God more than the Angels. V. THE SON-A MORE EXCELLENT NAME. L?4. Having become by so muoh better than the angel...
Chapter?72The foregoing psalm was penned by David when he was old, and, it should seem, so was this too; for Solomon was now standing fair for the cro...
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?78This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked hi...
Chapter?19 Verse 1 Here see, 1. What will be the credit and comfort of a poor man, and make him more excellent than his neighbour, though his poverty ...
ElucidationsElucidationsIDisciple of the holy Peter, p. 551.The early use of the originals of this liturgy in the Alexandrian patriarchate accounts fo...
Chapter?6The closing words of the foregoing chapter gave us some hopes that God and his Israel, notwithstanding their sins and his wrath, might yet be...
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...
In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life The Greek lacks the article: the tree. There are several trees, ea...
Chapter?11In this chapter we have, I. The constant and unwearied diligence of our Lord Jesus in his great work of preaching the gospel (v.?1). II. His...
Chapter 17David is the man whom God now delights to honour, for he is a man after his own heart. We read in the foregoing chapter how, after he was an...