PETER. CHAPTER III. The End of All Things. SUMMARY.--The Purpose of the Second Epistle. The Sayings of Scoffers. God's Apparent Delay to Give Oppo...
Nature, Natural The Hebrew language has no word for nature equivalent to the Greek word physis [fuvsi]. Hebrew thought and language were essentially c...
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...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 11. Power was displayed in the hurricane whose course this Psalm so grandly pictures; and now, in the cool calm after the storm, that...
Chapter?1This is a psalm of instruction concerning good and evil, setting before us life and death, the blessing and the curse, that we may take the r...
Chapter?37Elihu here goes on to extol the wonderful power of God in the meteors and all the changes of the weather: if, in those changes, we submit to...
?EXPOSITION Verse 104. Through thy precepts I get understanding. God's direction is our instruction. Obedience to the divine will begets wisdom of min...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have a twofold comparison stated: I. Between the evangelical and legal dispensation; and the excellency of the gospel abov...
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...
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...
?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...
Chapter?45Cyrus was nominated, in the foregoing chapter, to be God?s shepherd; more is said to him and more of him in this chapter, not only because h...
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...
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...
Chapter?12In this chapter we have, I. The prophet?s humble complaint to God of the success that wicked people had in their wicked practices (v.?1, v.?...
Chapter?36It is uncertain when, and upon what occasion, David penned this psalm, probably when he was struck at either by Saul or by Absalom; for in i...
'Being made free from sin, ye became bond-servants of righteousness. Being made free from sin, ye have your fruit unto sanctifieation.'?Kom. vi. 18, 2...
?EXPOSITION Verse 92. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. That word which has preserved the heavens a...
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....