Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
?EXPOSITION Verse 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted. Even though the affliction came from bad men, it was overruled for good ends: thou...
?EXPOSITION Verse 72. The law of thy mouth. A sweetly expressive name for the word of God. It comes from God's own mouth with freshness and power to o...
?EXPOSITION In this ninth section the verses all begin with the letter Teth. They are the witness of experience, testifying to the goodness of God, t...
?EXPOSITION Verse 76. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. Having confessed the righteou...
?EXPOSITION Verse 39. Turn away my reproach which I fear. He feared just reproach, trembling lest he should cause the enemy to blaspheme through any g...
?EXPOSITION Verse 63. I am a companion of all them that fear thee. The last verse said, I will, and this says, I am. We can hardly hope to be right in...
?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 4. PENITENCE, AS EXPLAINED IN THE SOPHISTICAL JARGON OF THE SCHOOLMEN, WIDELY DIFFERENT FROM THE PURITY REQUIRED BY THE GOSPEL. OF CONFESSION...