Chapter?8The passages of story recorded in this chapter oblige us to look back. I. We read before of a Shuuammite woman that was a kind benefactor to ...
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?18When the prophet had condemned Ephriam for lies and deceit he comforted himself with this, that Judah yet ruled with God, and was faithful w...
Chapter?15Perhaps Job was so clear, and so well satisfied, in the goodness of his own cause, that he thought, if he had not convinced, yet he had at l...
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 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...
PSALM 138 OVERVIEW Title. A Psalm of David. This Psalm is wisely placed. Whoever edited and arranged these sacred poems, he had an eye to apposition a...
THE COMMENCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE THREEFOLD LIFE. Sec, VIII. Wherever the Holy Scripture speaks of the act of begetting and conception, e.g. ...
Chapter?27Here is, I. The case of Zelophehad?s daughters determined (v.?1-11). II. Notice given to Moses of his death approaching (v.?12-14). III. Pro...
Chapter?6Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially...
Chapter?10The Septuagint translation joins this psalm with the ninth, and makes them but one; but the Hebrew makes it a distinct psalm, and the scope ...
TRADUCIANISM AND CREATIONISM. Sec. VII. Setting aside ihe details of the answers that may be or have been given, the question runs, Is the spiritua...
Chapter?39As the prophet Isaiah, after he had largely foretold the deliverance of Jerusalem out of the hands of the king of Assyria, gave a particular...
Chapter?5How bravely Nehemiah, as a wise and faithful governor, stood upon his guard against the attacks of enemies abroad, we read in the foregoing c...
Chapter?13There are three good lessons taught us in this chapter, where the apostle enlarges more upon his precepts than he had done in the foregoing ...
Chapter?29 Verse 1 Here, 1. The obstinacy of many wicked people in a wicked way is to be greatly lamented. They are often reproved by parents and frie...
Chapter?5Reproof for sin and threatenings of judgment are intermixed in this chapter, and are set the one over against the other: judgments are threat...
Chapter?8Solomon, in this chapter, comes to recommend wisdom to us as the most powerful antidote against both the temptations and vexations that arise...
Chapter?4This chapter is another single alphabet of Lamentations for the destruction of Jerusalem, like those in the first two chapters. I. The prophe...
Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. Christ?s parabolical discourse concerning himself as the door of the sheepfold, and the shepherd of the sheep (v...