CHAPTER 4 When the things of God are to be taught precept must be upon precept, and line upon line, not only because the things themselves are of great worth and weight, but because men’s minds, at the best, are unapt to admit them and …
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YOU COMPLETELY TRANSFORM HIS ILLNESS
PSALM 41 1 Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him; 2 the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will …
Commentary On Job 42:1-17
CHAPTER 42 Solomon says, “Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof,” Eccl. 7:8. It was so here in the story of Job; at the evening-time it was light. Three things we have met with in this book which, I confess, have …
Commentary On Job 41:1-34
CHAPTER 41 The description here given of the leviathan, a very large, strong, formidable fish, or water-animal, is designed yet further to convince Job of his own impotency, and of God’s omnipotence, that he might be humbled for his folly in making so bold with …
Commentary On Job 40:1-24
CHAPTER 40 Many humbling confounding questions God had put to Job, in the foregoing chapter; now, in this chapter, I. He demands an answer to them (v. 1, 2). II. Job submits in a humble silence (v. 3–5). III. God proceeds to reason with him, …
Commentary On Job 38:1-41
CHAPTER 38 In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job’s friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the judge upon the bench …
WHO IS THE MAN WHO FEARS THE LORD?
PSALM 25 10 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. 11 For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great. 12 Who is the man who fears the …
The Sadducees Ask About the Resurrection
Mark 12:18–27 (ESV) 18 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying, 19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man …
Commentary On Job 2:1-10
Job 2:1–6 (ESV) 1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” …
Commentary On John 18:36-38
An Account Of The Nature And Constitution Of Christ’s Kingdom John 18:36–38 (ESV) 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. …