Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Hannah?s song of thanksgiving to God for his favour to her in giving her Samuel (v.?1-10). II. Their return to th...
Footnotes(1 )Christus Comprobator, p. 99, sq.(1 )O twn Paterwn Pathr; o twn Nussaewn fwsthr, Council. Nic. II. Act. VI. Edition of Labbe, p. 477.-Nice...
?EXPOSITION Verse 12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD. The psalmist's mind is growing quiet. He no longer complains to God or argues w...
Chapter?36Elihu, having largely reproved Job for some of his unadvised speeches, which Job had nothing to say in the vindication of, here comes more g...
?EXPOSITION Verse 4. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. So that when we have done all we are unprofitable servants, we have done ...
Chapter?77This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. The com...
Chapter?4Job having warmly given vent to his passion, and so broken the ice, his friends here come gravely to give vent to their judgment upon his cas...
Chapter?24Job having by his complaints in the foregoing chapter given vent to his passion, and thereby gained some ease, breaks them off abruptly, and...
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...
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...
let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches See commentary on Revelation 2:7. overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? hidden manna The manna is set...
LI. Christ is our Shield. By this name or in this relation He has always been known to the saints. God said to Abraham, I am thy Shield?Gen. 15: 1. P...
Chapter?59This psalm is of the same nature and scope with six or seven foregoing psalms; they are all filled with David?s complaints of the malice of ...
Chapter?55As we had much of Christ in the 53rd chapter, and much of the church of Christ in the 54th chapter, so in this chapter we have much of the c...
Chapter?29This woe to Ariel, which we have in this chapter, is the same with the burden of the valley of vision?? ch.?22:1 ), and (it is very probable...
Chapter?7In this chapter, I. Christ, the royal bridegroom, goes on to describe the beauties of his spouse, the church, in many instances, and to expre...
?EXPOSITION Verse 113. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. In this paragraph the Psalmist deals with thoughts and things and persons which ar...
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?10We have in this chapter an account of the conquest of the kings and kingdoms of the southern part of the land of Canaan, as, in the next cha...
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 ...