Chapter?21The laws recorded in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they are not accommodated to our constitution, espe...
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...
my two witnesses The TR text indicates that it is an angel which is speaking with John (Rev. Rev. 11:1+). Yet here, the speaker speaks of the two witn...
Chapter?122This psalm seems to have been penned by David for the use of the people of Israel, when they came up to Jerusalem to worship at the three s...
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 6Hitherto, it should seem, Isaiah had prophesied as a candidate, having only a virtual and tacit commission; but here we have him (if I may so...
Chapter?27Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of t...
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?8This psalm is a solemn meditation on, and admiration of, the glory and greatness of God, of which we are all concerned to think highly and ho...
Chapter?39God proceeds here to show Job what little reason he had to charge him with unkindness who was so compassionate to the inferior creatures and...
Chapter?34This psalm was penned upon a particular occasion, as appears by the title, and yet there is little in it peculiar to that occasion, but that...
Chapter?7God having set up house (as it were) in the midst of the camp of Israel, the princes of Israel here come a visiting with their presents, as t...
Chapter?9This chapter intimates to us that one end of recording all these genealogies was to direct the Jews, now that they had returned out of captiv...
Chapter?9The prophet in this chapter (according to the directions given him, ch.?3:10, ch.?3:11 ) saith to the righteous, It shall be well with thee, ...
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?3This chapter is one of the most excellent in all this book, both for argument to persuade us to be religious and for directions therein. I. W...
Chapter?46In this chapter we have, I. Some further rules given both to the priests and to the people, relating to their worship (v.?1-15). II. A law c...
Chapter?3We are now called to attend the public affairs of Israel, in which we shall find Elisha concerned. Here is, I. The general character of Jehor...
THE TENTH BOOK. HAVING IN THE Note books SPOKEN OF HIMSELF BEFORE HIS RECEIVING THE RITE OF BAPTISM, IN THIS AUGUSTINE CONFESSES WHAT HE THEN WAS ? BU...
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...