Chapter?2The scope of the first two chapters of this epistle may be gathered from ch.?3:9 , We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they ar...
Chapter?39As the prophet Isaiah, after he had largely foretold the deliverance of Jerusalem out of the hands of the king of Assyria, gave a particular...
Chapter?3What the apostle says of another of the prophets is true of this, who was also his contemporary?Esaias is very bold,?? Rom.?10:20 . So, in th...
Chapter?6In this chapter we have, I. A sinful people studying to put a slight upon God?s threatenings and to make them appear trivial, confiding in th...
Chapter?12In the foregoing chapter we had the vexation which the people gave to Moses; in this we have his patience tried by his own relations. I. Mir...
Chapter?3In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly ...
Chapter?62The business of prophets was both to preach and pray. In this chapter, I. The prophet determines to apply closely and constantly to this bus...
Chapter 14In this chapter, I. More weight is added to the burden of Babylon, enough to sink it like a mill-stone; I. It is Israel?s cause that is to b...
Chapter?13In this chapter, we have, I. The favour which Christ did to his countrymen in preaching the kingdom of heaven to them (v.?1-2). He preached ...
Chapter?24Christ?s preaching was mostly practical; but, in this chapter, we have a prophetical discourse, a prediction of things to come; such however...
Chapter?4The good work of rebuilding the temple was no sooner begun than it met with opposition from those that bore ill will to it; the Samaritans we...
Chapter?23We have here, I. The happy continuance of the goodness of Josiah?s reign, and the progress of the reformation he began, reading the law (v.?...
Chapter?7In this chapter we have, I. A general charge drawn up against Israel for those high crimes and misdemeanors by which they had obstructed the ...
Chapter?22Eliphaz here leads on a third attack upon poor Job, in which Bildad followed him, but Zophar drew back, and quitted the field. It was one of...
Chapter?2In this chapter we have, I. Another vision which the prophet saw, not for his own entertainment, but for his satisfaction and the edification...
Chapter?15It is generally agreed that Christ?s discourse in this and the next chapter was at the close of the last supper, the night in which he was b...
Chapter?1We have here the first alphabet of this lamentation, twenty-two stanzas, in which the miseries of Jerusalem are bitterly bewailed and her pre...
Chapter?2We left Job honourably acquitted upon a fair trial between God and Satan concerning him. Satan had leave to touch, to touch and take, all he ...
Chapter?5This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued d...
Chapter?7This chapter continues and concludes Christ?s sermon on the mount, which is purely practical, directing us to order our conversation aright, ...