FELIX; ANTONIUS fe'-liks, an-to'-ni-us (Phelix, from Latin felix, happy): A Roman procurator of Judea, appointed in succession to Cumanus by the empe...
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant The apostle had exhorted to each of these before; see ( 1 Peter 1:13 ) ( 4:7 ) but thought fit to repeat them; sobri...
Sermon LVIII. [CVIII. Ben.]Sermon LVIII. [CVIII. Ben.] On the words of the gospel, Luke xii. 35, Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burnin...
CHAPTER IX Battling with Booze The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.?Billy Sunday...
Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years Not lunar years, as Varro F4, but solar years, which consisted of thre...
Chapter?5 Elders exhorted and encouraged. (1-4) Younger Christians are to submit to their elders, and to yield with humility and patience to God, and...
WISDOM. ?I remember a gentleman of Boston, a man high in life, a Congressman, who was accustomed to carry with him little cards and distribute them w...
2 Peter 1:9 But he that lacketh these things Or in, and with whom, they are not; that is, these virtues, as the Arabic version reads, as faith, virtue...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 CORINTHIANS 9\\ The principal things in this chapter are the proof of the apostle's office and authority; arguments for his own ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 13. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder. Over force and fraud shalt thou march victoriously; bold opponents and treacherous adv...
Chapter?13 The duty of subjection to governors. (1-7) Exhortations to mutual love. (8-10) To temperance and sobriety. (11-14) Verses 1-7 Th...
11 Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.?2 Peter ii. 19. I PROPOSE in my present discourse to discuss the moral state of ...
SERMON II. CHRISTIAN MODERATION. Proverbs xvi. 32.? He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that t...
CHAPTER 40 Genesis 40:1-8 . TWO STATE PRISONERS. 1. the butler--not only the cup-bearer, but overseer of the royal vineyards, as well as the ...
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity Or love. The Jews speak (atwnmyhmd hytdweo) , of a feast of faith F2. These here seem to be the Ag...
? Thomas Holland, D. D.?This celebrated scholar and divine was born at Ludlow in Shropshire, in the year 1539, and educated in Exeter college, Oxford;...
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth This advice may be considered as serious; and either as relating to natural, corporeal, and tempo...
Homily XIII.Homily XIII. A further thanksgiving to God for the change in the late melancholy aspect of affairs. Reminiscence of those who were dragged...
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty There is the liberty of grace, and the liberty of glory; the former of these is here meant, and lies...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it. He bears his light to the boundaries of the so...