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...
Chapter?2The thousands of Israel, having been mustered in the former chapter, in this are marshalled, and a regular disposition is made of their camp,...
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?9Solomon here continues to appear great both at home and abroad. We had this account of his grandeur, 1 Ki0. Nothing is here added; but his de...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA\\ The Jews distinguish the prophets into former and latter; the first of the former prophets is Joshua, or Sepher Joshua, t...
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?10We may conjecture that the prophecy of this chapter was delivered after the first captivity, in the time of Jeconiah or Jehoiachin, when man...
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?4In this chapter, I. Jesus Christ, having espoused his church to himself ch.?3:11 ), highly commends her beauty in the several expressions of ...
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 13. TWO THINGS TO BE OBSERVED IN GRATUITOUS JUSTIFICATION. The divisions of this chapter are,--I. The glory of God, and peace of conscience, ...
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?13Hitherto the prophecies of this book related only to Judah and Israel, and Jerusalem especially; but now the prophet begins to look abroad, ...
Chapter?38This chapter, and that which follows it, are concerning Gog and Magog, a powerful enemy to the people of Israel, that should make a formidab...
Chapter?26David?s troubles from Saul here begin again; and the clouds return after the rain, when one would have hoped the storm had blown over, and t...
Jerusalem [N] [T] [E] [H] [S]The Name. The name Jerusalem occurs 806 times in the Bible, 660 timesin the Old Testament and 146 times in the New Testa...
Chapter?12In this and the two following chapters we have Job?s answer to Zophar?s discourse, in which, as before, he first reasons with his friends se...
Chapter?12The apostle (Gal.?4:25, Gal.?4:26 ) distinguishes between Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children???the remaining carcas...
Chapter?25After the threatenings of wrath in the foregoing chapter we have here, I. Thankful praises for what God had done, which the prophet, in the ...
Chapter?39This chapter continues and concludes the prophecy against Gog and Magog, in whose destruction God crowns his favour to his people Israel, wh...