Chapter?23This chapter begins Job?s reply to Eliphaz. In this reply he takes no notice of his friends, either because he saw it was to no purpose or b...
Chapter?38This chapter proceeds in the history of Hezekiah. Here is, I. His sickness, and the sentence of death he received within himself (v.?1). II....
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?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...
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...
Chapter?45Cyrus was nominated, in the foregoing chapter, to be God?s shepherd; more is said to him and more of him in this chapter, not only because h...
The Canons of the Council of Orange?INTRODUCTIONThe Council of Orange was an outgrowth of the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. This controv...
CHAPTER V. THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES. Charnocke: On the Attributes. Howe: Oracles of God, Lectures XVII.-XXV. Sckleiermacher: Glaubenslehre, g 50-56; 79...
Chapter?8The prophet proceeds, in this chapter, both to magnify and to justify the destruction that God was bringing upon this people, to show how gri...
PERSONAL LIFE AND NATURAL LIFE. Sec. II. Natural life is neither an idea nor an expression absolutely foreign to Scripture. It is true that the Old...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter?9In this and the following chapter we have Job?s answer to Bildad?s discourse, wherein he speaks honourably of God, humbly of himself, and fee...
Chapter?102Some think that David penned this psalm at the time of Absalom?s rebellion; others that Daniel, Nehemiah, or some other prophet, penned it ...
Chapter?13Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in th...
Chapter?38In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job?s friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he t...
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?104It is very probable that this psalm was penned by the same hand, and at the same time, as the former; for as that ended this begins, with B...
XXV. THE KING IN HIS BEAUTY. 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. 20 The Lord rewarded me...
Chapter?42If the book of Psalms be, as some have styled it, a mirror or looking-glass of pious and devout affections, this psalm in particular deserve...
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...