Nature, Natural The Hebrew language has no word for nature equivalent to the Greek word physis [fuvsi]. Hebrew thought and language were essentially c...
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...
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...
Chapter?97This psalm dwells upon the same subject, and is set to the same tune, with the foregoing psalm. Christ is the Alpha and the Omega of both; t...
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...
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...
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...
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?2In this chapter, I. Christ speaks both concerning himself and concerning his church (v.?1, v.?2). II. The church speaks 1. Remembering the pl...
Chapter?96This psalm is part of that which was delivered into the hand of Asaph and his brethren (1 Chr.?16:7 ), by which it appears both that David w...
Ver. 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy Though this word of prophecy is generally understood of the writings and prophecies of the Old Test...
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...
God, Names of Names are more than labels. In Old Testament times a name expressed identification, but also identity. Significant meaning often attache...
PSALM 99 OVERVIEW. This may be called THE SANCTUS, or, THE HOLY, HOLY, HOLY PSALM, for the word holy is the conclusion and the refrain of its three m...
PSALM 138 OVERVIEW Title. A Psalm of David. This Psalm is wisely placed. Whoever edited and arranged these sacred poems, he had an eye to apposition a...
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 III. THE PREDICTIONS OF THE MOSAIC PERIOD CONCERNING THE FUTURE SALVATION. ? 10. The Promise of a Prophet after Moses, arid like him. T...
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?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, ...
CHAPTER II. MATERIAL OF THEOLOGY. I. Sources Op Theology.?God himself, in the last analysis, must be the only source of knowledge with regard to hi...