Chapter?36In this chapter we have an account of the posterity of Esau, who, from him, were called Edomites, that Esau who sold his birthright, and los...
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?47In this chapter we have, I. The vision of the holy waters, their rise, extent, depth, and healing virtue, the plenty of fish in them, and an...
Chapter?3In the close of the foregoing chapter we had a gracious promise of deliverance in Mount Zion and Jerusalem; now this whole chapter is a comme...
?EXPOSITION Verse 17. There will I make the horn of David to bud. In Zion David's dynasty shall develop power and glory. In our notes from other autho...
THE BODY AS THE SEVENFOLD MEANS OF SELF-REPRESENTATION TO THE SOUL. Sec. X. The saying of Thomasius8 is true, in addition to that of Harless and Ho...
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...
?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?51This chapter is designed for the comfort and encouragement of those that fear God and keep his commandments, even when they walk in darkness...
Chapter?4Comparing this chapter with the close of the foregoing chapter, the comfortable promises here with the terrible threatenings there, we may, w...
CHAPTER 21. OF THE ETERNAL ELECTION, BY WHICH GOD HAS PREDESTINATED SOME TO SALVATION, AND OTHERS TO DESTRUCTION. The divisions of this chapter are,-...
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?20This chapter is the history of a war between Ben-hadad king of Syria and Ahab king of Israel, in which Ahab was, once and again, victorious....
PSALM 126 OVERVIEW. Title. -- A Song of Degrees. This is the seventh Step, and we may therefore expect to meet with some special perfection of joy in ...
FOURTH PERIOD. FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE KINGDOM UNTIL ITS DIVISION, THE PERIOD OF DAVID AND SOLOMON, OR THE RISING AND SETTING OF THE ROYAL GLORY....
THE FALSE DOCTRINE OF THE SOUL'S SLEEP. Sec. IV. Proceeding from the sound premises, that the combination and unity of spirit and body is the peculi...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. An introduction, or preface, making way for, and leading to, what is principally designed by the apostle (v.?1-4)...
?EXPOSITION Verse 25-32. Here, it seems to me, we have the Psalmist in trouble bewailing the bondage to earthly things in which he finds his mind to b...
Psalms, Theology of The Book of Psalms is a sizable collection of musical poems and prayers of diverse authorship and form. Psalms are independent lit...