Chapter?26The narrative of the death and sufferings of Christ is more particularly and fully recorded by all the four evangelists than any part of his...
Chapter?31This chapter goes on with the good words and comfortable words which we had in the chapter before, for the encouragement of the captives, as...
CHAPTER 20. OF PRAYER--A PERPETUAL EXERCISE OF FAITH. THE DAILY BENEFITS DERIVED FROM IT. The principal divisions of this chapter are,--I. Connection...
Chapter?12 Verse 1 We are here taught to try whether we have grace or no by enquiring how we stand affected to the means of grace. 1. Those that have ...
Chapter?7This chapter presents us with Gideon in the field, commanding the army of Israel, and routing the army of the Midianites, for which great exp...
WE have seen in some of its features what Nature was as made, or its creation condition. We pass to its second condition, that of Unnature.1 The per...
CHAPTER 17. USE TO BE MADE OF THE DOCTRINE OF PROVIDENCE. This chapter may be conveniently divided into two parts:--I. A general explanation is given...
Chapter?14This chapter gives us an account of that fatal quarrel between God and Israel upon which, for their murmuring and unbelief, he swore in his ...
Chapter?22David, being driven from Achish, returns into the land of Israel to be hunted by Saul. I. David sets up his standard in the cave of Adullam,...
Homily I.Homily I. ROM. I. 1, 2.-Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an Apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God, (which He promised afore ...
Chapter?26This chapter is a solemn conclusion of the main body of the levitical law. The precepts that follow in this and the following book either re...
Chapter?22Eliphaz here leads on a third attack upon poor Job, in which Bildad followed him, but Zophar drew back, and quitted the field. It was one of...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. A threatening of the destruction of Israel for their idolatry, and the destruction of their idols with them (v.?1...
Chapter?24The last words of David, which we read in the chapter before, were admirably good, but in this chapter we read of some of his last works, wh...
Chapter 2The scope of this chapter seems to be much the same with that of the foregoing chapter, and to point at the same events, and the causes of th...
God, Names of Names are more than labels. In Old Testament times a name expressed identification, but also identity. Significant meaning often attache...
APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE, 1 I. Apocalypses Proper. As above indicated, all these take the Book of Daniel as their model, and imitate it more or less cl...
CHAPTER 14. IN THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, AND ALL THINGS IN IT, THE TRUE GOD DISTINGUISHED BY CERTAIN MARKS FROM FICTITIOUS GODS. In this chapter com...
PAPYRUS pa-pi'-rus (Cyperus papyrus; bublos, biblos, whence biblion, a roll, ta biblia, the Books = the Bible): 1. Papyrus Paper 2. Egyptian Papyri ...
CHAPTER IV. THE WORKS OF GOD; OR THE EXECUTION OF THE DECREES. SECTION I.?CREATION. I. Definition Op Creation. By creation we mean that free act ...