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...
Chapter?49This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; an...
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?20Such plain dealing as Jeremiah used in the foregoing chapter, one might easily foresee, if it did not convince and humble men, would provoke...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous. The people of God are not to expect immunity from trial b...
Introduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansIntroduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansWritten Between 356 And 360.There is no absolutely...
Chapter?17In this chapter, I. God convicts the Jews of the sin of idolatry by the notorious evidence of the fact, and condemns them to captivity for i...
Chapter?17This chapter contains articles of agreement covenanted and concluded upon between the great Jehovah, the Father of mercies, on the one part,...
Chapter?17David being in great distress and danger by the malice of his enemies, does, in this psalm, by prayer address himself to God, his tried refu...
Chapter?24Job having by his complaints in the foregoing chapter given vent to his passion, and thereby gained some ease, breaks them off abruptly, and...
Chapter?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we left Israel in their cities, but we may well imagine what a bad posture their affairs were in, the g...
?EXPOSITION This portion of the gigantic psalm sees the Psalmist in extremis. His enemies have brought him to the lowest condition of anguish and dep...
Chapter?29This woe to Ariel, which we have in this chapter, is the same with the burden of the valley of vision?? ch.?22:1 ), and (it is very probable...
Chapter?22We have here the famous story of Abraham?s offering up his son Isaac, that is, his offering to offer him, which is justly looked upon as one...
Chapter?39This chapter continues and concludes the prophecy against Gog and Magog, in whose destruction God crowns his favour to his people Israel, wh...
Chapter?6In this chapter, I. The royal preacher goes on further to show the vanity of worldly wealth, when men place their happiness in it and are eag...
Chapter?18In this chapter Bildad makes a second assault upon Job. In his first discourse (ch. 8) he had given him encouragement to hope that all shoul...
Now we come upon a subject of great importance: the primacy (ultimate importance) of Scripture. While the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture is o...
THE TWOFOLD ASPECT OF THE SOUL Sec. IX. Every spirit has its doxa, even as God has; but not every doxa is called t?W. Scripture nowhere speaks of ...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have the law concerning the meat-offering. I. The matter of it; whether of raw flour with oil and incense (v.?1), or baked...