In Job 37:15 ידע בּ does not, as Job 35:15 (Ew. 217, S. 557), belong together, but בּ is the temporal Beth. שׂוּם is equivalent to שׂים לבּו (vid., on Job 34:23); עליהם does not refer to נפלא...
Lord will not allow so much as one of them to be predominant in his real disciples, Matthew 6:25, because such immoderate, distracting care, is on our part a disparagement to our heavenly Father’s good providence, Matthew 6:32; with Psalm 55:22 127:1,2 Mt 4:18,19 1 Peter 5:7....
In their meticulously researched commentary to "The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Volume II," editors Margaret Hannay, Noel Kinnamon and Michael Brennan have argued that the Countess of Pembroke's translation of the Psalms of David indicate her having used a wide ...
which sees in this psalm and in the two succeeding ones, echoes of that supernatural deliverance of Israel in the time of Hezekiah, when‘The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold,’and Sennacherib and all his army were, by the blast of the breath of His nostrils, swept into swift...
John 3:21.ὁ δὲ ποιῶν…“On the other hand, he who does the truth” … This is one of John’s comprehensive phrases which perhaps lose by definition. “To do the truth” is at any rate to live up to what one knows; to live an honest, conscientious life. John implies...
Nathaniel West possibly went too far in asserting dogmatically that several other Old Testament passages refer tothe Millennium. He asserted this of Ezekiel 38:8; 37:25, 26, 28; Hosea 3:4, 5;Psalm 72:7. Some...
For the words rendered balm, spices and myrrh really balsam, gum-tragacanth and ladanum), see Note on Genesis 37:25. Honey.—As both the honey made by bees and date honey were common in Egypt, many suppose that this was grape-honey, prepared by boiling down the juice of ripe grapes ...
He raiseth up them that are cast down, (Psalm 146:8,) and the like. Hence we may clearly see how great is the folly of those who imagine that there is in mankind some degree of merit or worthiness, which would hold a place antecedent to God's choice. 29. That no flesh should gl...