Chapter?54The key of this psalm hangs at the door, for the title tells us upon what occasion it was penned?when the inhabitants of Ziph, men of Judah ...
THE FIFTH BOOK. AUGUSTINE'S TWENTY-NINTH YEAR? FAUSTUS, A SNARE OF SATAN TO MANY, MADE AN INSTRUMENT OF DELIVERANCE TO AUGUSTINE BY SHOWING THE IGNOR...
Chapter?3Solomon having shown the vanity of studies, pleasures, and business, and made it to appear that happiness is not to be found in the schools o...
Chapter?17Enough had been done in the chapter before to quash all pretensions of the families of the tribe of Levi that would set up in competition wi...
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?32In this chapter we have, I. The song which Moses, by the appointment of God, delivered to the children of Israel, for a standing admonition ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. Sweet Evening Hymn! I shall not sit up to watch through fear, but I will lie down; and then I will not lie awake listening to ever...
Chapter?40The waters of the sanctuary which this prophet saw in vision (ch.?47:1 ) are a proper representation of this prophecy. Hitherto the waters h...
Chapter?5This chapter contains the triumphal song which was composed and sung upon occasion of that glorious victory which Israel obtained over the fo...
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...
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?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?56After the exceedingly great and precious promises of gospel grace, typified by temporal deliverances, which we had in the foregoing chapter,...
Chapter?21This is Job?s reply to Zophar?s discourse, in which he complains less of his own miseries than he had done in his former discourses (finding...
Chapter?20All things being prepared for the solemn promulgation of the divine law, we have, in this chapter, I. The ten commandments, as God himself s...
PSALM 93 OVERVIEW. This brief Psalm is without title or name of author, but its subject is obvious enough, being stated in the very first line. It is...
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?119This is a psalm by itself, like none of the rest; it excels them all, and shines brightest in this constellation. It is much longer than an...
Footnotes(1 )Eusebius seems to have adopted this name as a token of friendship and respect for Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. See McGiffert, Prolegome...
CHAPTER II. DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY. In the nature of the one God there are three eternal distinctions which are represented to us under the figure ...