?EXPOSITION Verse 23. Search me, O God, and know my heart. David is no accomplice with traitors. He has disowned them in set form, and now he appeals ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 141. I am small and despised: yet do I not forget thy precepts. That fault of forgetfulness which he condemned in others ( Psalms 11...
Obadiah Sedgwick, B. D.?This excellent person was brother to Mr. John Sedgwick, another puritan divine, born at Marlborough in Wiltshire, in the year...
Golden Rule [N]The Old Testament. The term Golden Rule is not found in Scripture, but is the popular way of referring to the words of Jesus in Matthew...
?EXPOSITION Verse 161. Princes have persecuted me without a cause. Such persons ought to have known better; they should have had sympathy with one of ...
Chapter?33This is a psalm of praise; it is probable that David was the penman of it, but we are not told so, because God would have us look above the ...
Abortion [N]Humankind as God's Unique Image-Bearer. Although only a handful of Old Testament texts, all in Genesis, explicitly portray humankind as Go...
Treatise XII. Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews.Treatise XII.(1) Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews.Cyprian to his son Quirinus, gr...
PSALM 119 Psalms 119:1-176 . This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. It is divided into twenty-two parts or stanzas, denoted by the ...
Poetry [N] [E]Introduction. The significance of studying biblical poetry lies largely in the amount of the Bible that is penned in poetic style. No do...
Chapter?26Holy David is in this psalm putting himself upon a solemn trial, not by God and his country, but by God and his own conscience, to both whic...
Eve [N] [E] [H] [S]All four passages in the Bible that contain the name Eve refer to the wife of the original man, Adam ( Gen 3:20 ; 4:1 ; 2 Col 11:...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 28. But it is good for me to draw near to God. Had he done so at first he would not have been immersed in such affliction; when he di...
Melito, the Philosopher.Melito, the Philosopher. [a.d. 160-170-177.] Melito(1) may have been the immediate successor of the angel (or apostle) of the...
Book XVIIBook XVII------------Argument-This book the history of the city of God is traced during the period of the kings and prophets from Samuel to D...
Chapter?51Though David penned this psalm upon a very particular occasion, yet, it is of as general use as any of David?s psalms; it is the most eminen...
Lecture XIV.Lecture XIV.On the Words, and Rose Again from the Dead on the Third Day, and Ascended into the Heavens, and Sat on the Right Hand of the F...
?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?139Some of the Jewish doctors are of opinion that this is the most excellent of all the psalms of David; and a very pious devout meditation it...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 9. For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up. His burning ardour, like the flame of a candle, fed on his strength and consumed it....