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| 1. | 1 and 2 Timothy, Fragmentary Notes on |
| (1 Timothy) |
| 2. | 1 Corinthians 2, Thoughts on |
| We get two things very distinctly here:—the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world to our glory (and that in the person of the Christ), which the princes of this world did not know, or they would not have crucified the Lord |
| 3. | 1 Samuel, Thoughts on |
| The first book of Samuel commences with the promise of the king. |
| 4. | 1 Thessalonians, Thoughts on |
| There is great power of walk shown forth in this chapter. It brought persecution, but the word had power in them. The world's hatred of them was a proof that there was testimony to the truth. There was the witness of it constantly brought before others, as well as that |
| 5. | Achill Herald Appendix |
| The author's charges differ from the Bishop of Kilmore's. There is no reason for evading either—least of all for not meeting the more violent of the two. |
| 6. | Adam and Christ |
| There is a second man into whose condition we are brought. The first man was the highest in order as a creature and withal responsible. But through the second man, the Lord from heaven, he has a place far above all creatures, being brought into the place (by redemption) of |
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| 10. | All Will Give Account of Themselves to God |
| Surely there is great gain in light and love in giving an account of ourselves to God. Not a trace then remains of our old evil: we shall be like Christ. If a person fears to have all out thus before God, I do not believe he is free in |
| 11. | Baptism and the Lord's Supper |
| Baptism and the Lord's supper (1 Cor. 10) are for the wilderness. One introduces into the wilderness, but it is Christ's death, not mine only. I thereon reckon myself dead as a consequence, planted in baptism in the likeness of His. But we have not in Romans resurrection with |
| 12. | Bethel, Penial, Beersheba |
| There are four stages in the journey of the life of Jacob (see Gen. 25-49): his residence at home in Canaan; his sojourn in Padan-aram; his second residence in Canaan; his sojourn and death in Egypt. |
| 13. | Brought to God |
| After the establishment of our faith in the great truths of the epistles, we are led back to the gospels, to enter into and dwell upon the blessedness and fullness of Him, in whom all the truths have their center and accomplishment. |
| 14. | By My Name Jehovah Was I Not Known to Them |
| Q. I have always had difficulty with the exact meaning of Ex. 6:3 3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. (Exodus 6:3): "By my name Jehovah was I not known to them." This seems very absolute. I have written out all the places where the word Jehovah occurs. I find it occurs 195 times until Ex. 6:33 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. (Exodus 6:3). |
| 15. | Calling and Hope of the Christian, The |
| The right application of the truth of the Church in both its calling and its hopes depends, more than many Christians are aware, upon the spiritual condition of the soul. I doubt not, indeed, that spiritual condition has much to do with all apprehension of divine truth, but of this |
| 16. | Christ, The Person of |
| Stability is in the person of Christ, first, for eternal life, and also for the ways of God on earth. If the church was spued out of His mouth, He was the faithful witness, the beginning of the creation of God. This is the theme of John. For Paul, the |
| 17. | Christ the Wisdom of God |
| The wisdom of God is a wonderful thing. It must put things in their place, or it is not wisdom. That the cross does. We are sinners. We must come as such. All then is changed. Yet all is manifested, what sin is and what holiness, what hatred and what |
| 18. | Clergy: Is It of God?, The |
| That God has appointed or given a ministry in His Church, for its edification and for the evangelizing of the world, is as certain as the word of God can make it. The question does not lie there, but in this: Is the clergy that ministry? Mr. I. [a colonial |
| 19. | Clergy: Is It of God?, The |
| On the face of the epistles one gives us the order of God's house, the other tells of departure and perilous times. All the beloved ones of Asia, whose order he had established, bad turned away from him; and while insisting more than ever on christian courage, grief comes out |
| 20. | Communion With God, When Out of |
| When we slip out of communion with God, how wretched we are, and how we contribute to the unhappiness of others! Whereas in communion with God there is power to enable us to resist the devil, to enjoy the Lord and to promote the true blessing of His people. The |
| 21. | Conscience |
| As regards conscience I have more than one thing to note. First, speaking (as infidels and annihilationists do) of its being the effect of education, &c., is all confusion. This confounds the intrinsic power to judge with a rule by which it judges. No one denies that it may be |
| 22. | Correspondence |
| WILL your correspondent, " C. E. S.," kindly state his authority, if any, for saying " Some inspired communications (written by the Spirit of God) have perished?"—" Thoughts on Canticles," Bible Treasury, March, 1869, p. 225. |
| 23. | Correspondence: Difference Between Members of the Body and the Church |
| To the editor of the "Bible Treasury." |
| 24. | Corruption |
| When corruption governs a thing which God made for blessing, he rejects it; or replaces it by introducing something better. Those who would perpetuate or continue that which is spoiled rest under the effects of an evil which they count licensed by the word of God |
| 25. | Cross of Christ, The |
| The cross is the place where all that was against us, our transgressions and iniquities—in fact, the things done, and the nature which did them—were laid upon Christ: " our old man is crucified with him." He bore the full judgment of God on their account in His sufferings on |
| 26. | Dead to Sin, Not to Creation: Correction |
| ALL exclusive points are out of place at the Lord's table. It is clear Christ's death is before us; but εἰς τὴω ἐμὴν ἀνάμνησιω, or εἰς τὴν ἀνάμνησίω μου does not affect the question as to whether it is a remembrance of Himself or only of His death. One |
| 27. | Death Is Gain |
| The death brought into this world through sin, as the consequence of Adam's fall, separated us from God—from life also, as towards ourselves, our own natural existence—from present peace as moral beings—and from everlasting blessing. Death as the wages of sin, made us personally conscious of guilt before God—of, |
| 28. | Death to the Christian? (Duplicate), What Is |
| Look at what death is to the believer. The hope of the believer is not death; it is not to be unclothed (that is of himself) but clothed upon, that mortality may be swallowed up of life. The purpose of God is nothing less than that we should be conformed |
| 29. | Ecclesiastical System on Earth |
| The rejection of the last phase of the ecclesiastical system on earth is the starting-point of the properly prophetic portion of the Revelation. (chap. 4-22.). |
| 30. | Eirenicon or a United Christendom, The |
| DR. Pusey's bold proposition of a united Christendom, published in his " Eirenicon," has been more than welcomed of late by ecclesiastics in the Anglican Church. The silence which prevailed for so many months on the direct proposal, led some to suppose the idea was likely to be confined to |
| 31. | Ephesians 6:10-20, Thoughts on |
| It might seem strange at first sight that, in an epistle in which we get the greatest unfolding of the privileges we have as saints, at the same time, conflict is most brought out where we have specially the relationship of Father and of the Bride—there specially, in conflict, saints |
| 32. | Epistles and Gospels |
| We are brought " to God," who cannot do less than bring to heaven those who are already brought to Himself. |
| 33. | Errata |
| Page 243, col. 1, line 17, read, "be, in Him whom the sacrifice prefigured would be—" |
| 34. | Erratum |
| Page 190, col. 2, line 13, for "presented" read punished. |
| 35. | Erratum |
| ROMANIS31.—Page 221, first paragraph. Put "and" before, NOT after, the parenthesis, thus:—" and (in its true sense, &c.) Protestantism." |
| 36. | Everlasting Punishment |
| [The following paper, though written originally in German and in view of the special form of the error which is rampant among the evangelicals of that land, has a sorrowful interest for us here too.-ED. B. T.] |
| 37. | Everlasting Punishment |
| " But," say they, " can it be called just, if the condemnation of all the wicked is an everlasting one, though they have not all deserved the same punishment:" In answer to this question we remark according to scripture, In the day of judgment it will be more tolerable |
| 38. | Exodus |
| This book, like others in the Old Testament history, differs from Genesis, in that it has one or more leading topics, instead of giving the comprehensive circle which has been shown to be characteristic of that which so fittingly opens the revelations of God. It is the account of God's |
| 39. | Extract From Correspondence: Revised by the Writer |
| There may be, and no doubt is, practical failure in this as in other matters; but I do not think that, as a principle, or as a rule practically, the so-called " exclusive" Brethren refuse the table to any Christian who may be walking consistently, merely because he may be |
| 40. | Father, The |
| " I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it." These words were spoken to the Father by Christ respecting the saints. They tell us that the great business of the Lord was to acquaint saints with the Father, that such had already been His business, and that |
| 41. | Fragment: 2 and 3 John |
| The two briefer epistles (2 and 3) of John show truth as to Christ's person to be the test of true love, and to be held fast when antichrists come in. Along with this, we see the free ministration of truth, which those who assume clerical authority oppose |
| 42. | Fragment: Cast in and Cast Out |
| "They Cast Him Out." Cast Out? Yes; but Where To? Into the Bosom of Jesus. Oh! That Is Cast in! Never Mind the Pharisees |
| 43. | Fragment: Certainty of What God Is |
| Revelation does not tell me that I have a conscience and aspirations; it gives me the answer to them, and that is what I want—not to be told I have got such: I do not want a book for that. To answer this need of my soul, I want a |
| 44. | Fragment: Christ Our Object |
| If our souls go on with God, sweet as is the assurance that we, washed in the blood of Christ, belong to God, yet the uppermost thought will in the long run be Himself. We shall come back to His person. We shall in our praises weave with it what |
| 45. | Fragment: Divine Law |
| The divine law asserts God's authority, and declares man's responsibility, but does not, save in type, go beyond the exercise of His judgment. The gospel reveals what God is and what He has done for the sinner in Christ. The law only required what man should be. |
| 46. | Fragment: Dying for an Enemy |
| Man could die for a benefactor perhaps; but he is not capable, in true simple-hearted love, of unostentatiously dying for an enemy. God's becoming a man to do it silences the heart, and creates, by the sovereign title of love, a new order of feeling. |
| 47. | Fragment: Ear to Hear |
| In Rev. 2; 3, simultaneously with bringing in the Lord's coming, the " ear to hear" comes after distinguishing the overcomers. Such a remnant only is looked for. |
| 48. | Fragment: French Revolution |
| At the French revolution man emancipated himself—to have what? Uncertainty in everything, and a ruin from which he found no resource. Conscience and the bible, under God's good hand, emancipated at the reformation—imperfectly, but really; man's will, without the bible, at the revolution |
| 49. | Fragment: God's Ways Behind the Scenes |
| God's ways are behind the scenes: but He moves all the scenes which He is behind. We have to learn this, and let Him work, and not think much of man's busy movements: they will accomplish God's—the rest of them all perish and disappear. We have only in peace to |
| 50. | Fragment: Government of God |
| I think that the children of God have too much forgotten the government of God—day by day. This supposes salvation. But God passes over nothing, just because we are His children |
| 51. | Fragment: In the Spirit |
| John "was in the spirit on the Lord's day." it is his place and privilege as a christian that is spoken of, not the prophetic period. On the resurrection-day, on which christians meet, the apostle, removed from their society, enjoyed the special elevating power of the holy spirit, though alone; |
| 52. | Fragment: Inspiration of Scripture |
| "Some inspired communications have perished," i.e., are not in existence; e.g., the word of the Lord by Jonah the prophet of Gath-Hepher concerning the restoring of the coasts of Israel, from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain (2 Kings 14:25 25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher. (2 Kings 14:25)); the prophecy of Urijah the |
| 53. | Fragment: Liberty, Joy, Blessing, and Clearness of the Truth |
| No man can ever get into the liberty, joy, blessing, and clearness of the truth, unless he is acting on what he knows. |
| 54. | Fragment: Lift Up, Bear, Offer To |
| Αἴρω is to lift up or take away—never to bear on oneself. Ἀναφέρω is to bear, but as a sacrifice on the altar (or spiritually), for which ὐποφέρω is never used. Προσφέρω is to offer to, as in Heb. 9:14 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14) |
| 55. | Fragment: Man Departed Before God Drove Him Out |
| In the garden of Eden man, conscious of sin and unable to bear the presence of God, withdrew from Him before God drove him out. |
| 56. | Fragment: Mohammedanism |
| Mohammedanism has borrowed much from revelation; but it met the lusts of men as on God's part (who, as He is there represented, will and does satisfy them); Christianity does so not even in thought. |
| 57. | Fragment: Moses |
| Note the difference of Moses in his intercourse with God at the bush, and what he was in Egypt—how entirely, when God is working by him, all questioning is gone. He is possessed and moves on in unhesitating energy every step, not so much thinking about the power as animated |
| 58. | Fragment: Person Not Merely Doctrine |
| It is a person whom we know, and not merely a doctrine. By this precious means which God used truths with respect to Jesus are far more connected with the Old Testament history. |
| 59. | Fragment: Read His Word |
| By far the best means of assuring oneself of the truth and authority of God's word is to read His word itself. |
| 60. | Fragment: Receiving or Rejecting Him |
| The presence of God himself, a man among men, changed the position of everything. Either man must receive, as a crown of blessing and of glory, the one whose presence was to banish all evil, and develop and perfect every element of good, furnishing at the same time an object |
| 61. | Fragment: The Altar and the Laver |
| The altar comes before the laver in what is presented to man, nor can the laver be without the altar. |
| 62. | Fragment: The French Revolution |
| The working of the mere will of man, under the impulse of evil, brought about the French revolution. The Bible was not there as a restraining power, nor as formative of human inquiry and thought. Superstition and a hollow state of society came down with a tremendous crash, and all |
| 63. | Fragment: Walking in the Light |
| The world is selfish. The flesh, the passions, the desires of the mind, seek their own gratification. But, if I walk in the light, self has no place there; I can enjoy the light and all I see in it with another, and there is no jealousy. If another possess |
| 64. | Fragmentary Notes |
| Negatives are universal, and are therefore dangerous things. If I say a thing is not in scripture, I must know all scripture to say so. |
| 65. | Fragments Gathered Up: 1 Corinthians 14 |
| 1 Cor. 14 Power is subject to intelligence. So it is in God. His wisdom necessarily in action precedes His power and guides it. Just so the wisdom and moral guidance of the Spirit go before power and guide its use. It is for profit; and the spirits |
| 66. | Fragments Gathered Up: 2 Corinthians 3-6 |
| What a ministry Paul speaks of in 2 Cor. 3-6! Thoroughly of God, yet it passed through man's heart to reach man's heart, which indeed is of the essence of Christianity. Not surely that it is by mall's strength, but God's made good in man's weakness. |
| 67. | Fragments Gathered Up: Alienation in Nature and Standing |
| Besides our actual sins, there are two points of our state connected with the fall in Adam: our alienation from God in nature and will; and our alienation from God in condition, place, or standing. Both must be corrected. The former is by having Christ for our life, being born |
| 68. | Fragments Gathered Up: Baptism |
| Paul alone puts baptism, as far as I am aware, on the ground of death and resurrection with Christ. Thus it becomes the means of doctrinally bringing the Christian on to the point, where, on the new ground and in a new position, he is united to Christ as |
| 69. | Fragments Gathered Up: Church Seen Only in Christ |
| In the book of Revelation, as in all prophecy, the Church is seen only in Christ: so the rapture in chap. 12, and the saints are seen in full distinctness in chap. 19. Only before the prophecy begins, their place in respect of the judgments is seen (in chap. 4, |
| 70. | Fragments Gathered Up: Ephesians 4-5 |
| In Eph. 4; 5 God. is in every way brought in. The new man is after God, &c., and the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit of God. |
| 71. | Fragments Gathered Up: Genesis 3; 1 John |
| Gen. 3-1 John. |
| 72. | Fragments Gathered Up: Hebrews 1 and 2 |
| Heb. 1; 2 Before presenting Christ in service founded on His person, chapter i. not simply gives the natures to which the respective services belonged, but presents His personal glory and place—what He is, not what He does for others. In order to this last, it states His divine |
| 73. | Fragments Gathered Up: Hebrews 10 |
| Heb. 10—Here we see sin and atonement as estimated by God's thoughts and dealing. He before all, in His counsels (the volume of the book), dealt with sin in the way of His will. Christ offers Himself to come and do it-. Sin is judged, thought of as God |
| 74. | Fragments Gathered Up: Job 33 and 34 |
| Job 33 differs from chapter 36. The former speaks of God's ways with man, the latter of His ways with the righteous. Hence it does not follow from the first that man is converted: only God deals with him. If he hears, it is well, he gets the blessing. |
| 75. | Fragments Gathered Up: John 1:28 |
| John 1:28 28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. (John 1:28). The ground of God's first relationship with man was innocence; the next was sin, in respect of which He has developed what He is and glorified Himself in grace and divine righteousness. Hence this leads to what is heavenly, because it displays as He is there. In |
| 76. | Fragments Gathered Up: Matthew 26-28 |
| Matt. 26-28 |
| 77. | Fragments Gathered Up: Numbers in Scripture |
| Numbers In Scripture.—Seven is completeness in an inward way—constituted completeness in a thing in itself, not in relationship to others, not compounded but constitutive completeness. Seven cannot be divided—it is the highest uncomposed number that cannot. Twelve is the most divisible of all, and means administrative completeness in man. So |
| 78. | Fragments Gathered Up: Promise and Covenant With Abraham |
| In Luke 1 the horn is raised up in the house of David, but all the expectation and testimony of the Spirit of God is connected with the promise to Abraham, when Christ (not Moses) is born. The angel only speaks of the fact. The heart of the saint |
| 79. | Fragments Gathered Up: Revelation 4-22 |
| The rejection of the last phase of the ecclesiastical system on earth is the starting-point of the properly prophetic portion of the Revelation (chap. 4-22.). |
| 80. | Fragments Gathered Up: Revelation of God |
| Does not the nature of the effect produced as to the knowledge of God, where Christianity has existed. (or even Judaism), prove that there was a revelation of God? |
| 81. | Fragments Gathered Up: Righteousness, Life, Salvation |
| Righteousness—Life—Salvation. |
| 82. | Fragments Gathered Up: Son of God Reveals God Himself |
| It is the Son of God who reveals God Himself, and thus becomes the center of His counsels, the manifestation of His glory, and the object of His ways. |
| 83. | Fragments Gathered Up: The Fulness of Him That Filleth All in All |
| The fullness of Him that filleth all in all is not simply Godhead, but Christ in redemption. Eph. 4:10 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) (Ephesians 4:10) leads one to this. It is redemption, He who went into the lower parts of the earth is now far above all heavens. |
| 84. | Fragments Gathered Up: Typical Meaning of the Tabernacle Metals |
| Typical Meaning of the Tabernacle Metals.—Gold is intrinsic righteousness in God's nature—that which we approach in Him. I do not mean His essence, but what we approach. We come to the gold within in virtue of the blood, which not only introduces us but has glorified God perfectly as |
| 85. | Fragments Gathered Up: "We Know" |
| " We know" is a technical expression for the portion of Christians—known to them as such. " We know that the law is spiritual;" "we know that the Son of God is come;" and so on. |
| 86. | Fragments: God's Sacrifice |
| God was manifest in the flesh to fulfill a work of self-sacrifice for me. A man's sacrificing himself for me would present the highest human claim on a grateful heart; but God's doing it (that new, lovely, yet infinite fact, capable of filling the whole moral world) puts all that |
| 87. | Genesis |
| The first book of the Bible is the remarkable preface, as the Apocalypse is the equally striking conclusion, of the revelations of God. Its office is to present the germ, in one form or another, of nearly all the ways of God and man, which we find separately developed in |
| 88. | Gifts and Calling of God, The |
| God has at all times a mind of His own in reference to those whom He has determined to bless. This mind, in its broadest view towards man, as meeting his condition and need as a sinner, is made known by the gospel to faith through the person of God's |
| 89. | Glory of God, The |
| The path of the glory through scripture may be easily tracked, and has much moral value for us connected with it. |
| 90. | Glory of the Only-Begotten, The |
| " The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth." |
| 91. | Glory That Excelleth, The |
| This chapter contrasts two glories-that of " the letter," and that of " the Spirit"-law-glory, and gospel-glory, or old and new covenant glories. |
| 92. | God Is for Us, What |
| 93. | Gold of the Mercy Seat, The |
| The gold on the mercy-seat is intrinsic, and so proper divine righteousness; the brazen altar is governmental righteousness in connection with sin. Both answer to the character of acceptance in Christ. God has in the cross judged and put away sin. He has dealt with sin so that we are |
| 94. | Grace and Truth |
| Scripture speaks of grace as well as truth. It speaks of God's love who gave His only-begotten Son that sinners like you and me might be with Him, know Him, enjoy Him forever, and enjoy Him now; that the conscience, perfectly purged, might be in joy in His presence, without |
| 95. | Greatness, True |
| I do not know that there is a more touching lesson in any of the words or ways of our Lord Jesus Christ than that which comes before us at the last supper. |
| 96. | Heads of Psalms: Book 5 |
| We begin here a new sphere. Israel restored is the occasion of the display of all the characters of God's dealings with the world as to His righteousness and judgment; and, by the introduction of the personal history of Christ in His rejection and exaltation, of deeper principles of His |
| 97. | Heads of Psalms: Book 5 |
| The division of this closing Psa. 118 (closing, i.e., as to this subject) is this: first, the celebration of the truth for. Israel. Compare 1 Chron. 16:34 and the structure of that psalm very particularly; 2 Chron. 5:13; 7:3 13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; (2 Chronicles 5:13)
3 And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. (2 Chronicles 7:3); Ezra 3:1111 And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. (Ezra 3:11); Psa. 106; 107; 136 |
| 98. | Heads of Psalms: Book 5 |
| Psa. 135 This and the following psalm seem to me to be the praise to which the songs of degrees have led. Jehovah is celebrated, the name of Jehovah, and is called to be by the servants of Jehovah. They stood now in the house of Jehovah, in the |
| 99. | Heave and Wave Offerings |
| The heave-offering תְּרומָה (t’rumah) and wave-offering תְּנופָה (t’nuphah) formed part of the provision made by the Lord for the priests and their families. By a grant, everlasting in its duration, god thus endowed the house of Aaron: "And this is thine, the heave-offering of their gifts, with all |
| 100. | How to Study the New Testament |
| Such is the title of Dean Alford's small book before me. The first volume is devoted to the gospels and the acts of the apostles. Experience chews how few can form a just estimate of what is written with a knowledge beyond that of most and in a style attractive |
| 101. | How to Study the New Testament |
| IT is pleasant to observe an improvement in tone as to the writer of this Gospel, and that the Dean no longer labors under the indecision of the earliest issue of his larger work, as if there could be any doubt that Matthew and Levi are but two names of |
| 102. | How to Study the New Testament |
| The Dean appears to seize the bearing of this third gospel more distinctly than that of the first two. Pages 79-95 are a fair account of his leading characteristics in sketching the general course of the gospel. One of the few notices which must be excepted is the use made |
| 103. | I Have Brought You Unto Myself |
| There are two subjects of special importance, between our souls and God: how God made us His—and the new associations into which He brings us, as suited to Himself. |
| 104. | Immortality and Everlasting Punishment |
| My Dear Brother,-As this question, this evil heresy, is the one by which, most commonly just now, Satan seeks to perplex the minds of the simple, I write a line to you in connection with the tract sent to me. A great many human names are introduced, but scripture is |
| 105. | Inspiration: Ecclesiastes Dictated |
| From two opposite points of view is life on earth generally regarded by mankind. The one half view it as a prospect opening out before them; the other half take a retrospective survey of all they have passed through. Like the cloudless morning of a long summer's day does it |
| 106. | Jeremiah 1, Notes on |
| On the consideration of the second of the four great prophets we propose to enter. Here we are not in presence of the comprehensive scope of divine purpose such as we have seen in Isaiah; but we are about to deepen our acquaintance with one who yields to none in |
| 107. | Jeremiah 11-13, Notes on |
| This section opens with the call of Jehovah to hear the words of the covenant between Him and His people. It is the covenant of law, not the ways of grace. By this Israel had bound themselves; but they forgot, transgressed, and despised it, not more to His dishonor than |
| 108. | Jeremiah 14-15, Notes on |
| This section opens with a graphic picture of the pressure of death on the Jews and Jerusalem, which filled the land with mourning and leveled the great and small, man and beast, in common privation and suffering. (Ver. 1-6.) This draws out the prophet in touching intercession. "O Lord, though |
| 109. | Jeremiah 16-17, Notes on |
| The prophet has, in this section, a new picture of the excessive evil of the people and of the impending judgments and woes. |
| 110. | Jeremiah 18-20, Notes on |
| The prophet is now told to betake himself to the potter's house, where he was to hear Jehovah's words. There he beholds a vessel of clay marred in the potter's hands, and another vessel made as he would. (Ver. 1-4.) "Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, |
| 111. | Jeremiah 21-24, Notes on |
| Zedekiah’s message to the prophet in the last struggle with the king of Babylon, gave occasion to the section before us. " Inquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the Lord will deal with us |
| 112. | Jeremiah 25, Notes on |
| This chapter has a central relation to what goes before and after, not more in fact than in force. We have seen the evils of the people of God, especially of Judah, laid bare. They had refused all the patient perseverance of God's increasingly solemn warnings, as well as His |
| 113. | Jeremiah 26, Notes on |
| The second half of this book consists of special circumstances. Here it is a question of the prophet's call to fidelity in his office. |
| 114. | Jeremiah 27-28, Notes on |
| It is well known that an error has crept into the text of the prefatory verse. The reader has only to compare verses 3 and 12, with 19, 20, to make this clear and certain. For "Jehoiakim" in verse 1 read Zedekiah. |
| 115. | Jeremiah 29, Notes on |
| In this chapter the prophet instructs the captives in Babylon as to their stay in the strange land, the right feeling to be cultivated toward its sovereign, and the falsity of the hopes their prophets were giving out. The Lord in His due time would prove His goodness to His |
| 116. | Jeremiah 30-31, Notes on |
| The next communication from Jehovah pledges that He will bring back His people to the land He gave their fathers. (Ver 1-3.) Has this been accomplished? No more than an earnest of it. It is His work and shall not fail when fulfilled in power. One of the peculiarities of |
| 117. | Jeremiah 32, Notes on |
| The crisis was now at hand. Jerusalem was undergoing its last siege. The king of Babylon had begun it ere the ninth year of Zedekiah closed, and took the city early in his eleventh year, after having invested it some eighteen months, though not without an interruption. The occasion of |
| 118. | Jeremiah 33, Notes on |
| This chapter completes the part of the prophecy which has for its object to assure the people of their ultimate restoration to their laud from captivity and dispersion. And hence it is remarkably full as well as distinct. |
| 119. | Jeremiah 34, Notes on |
| This chapter begins a new series, in which the proof of the wickedness of the people is brought out. We see their spasmodic efforts at repentance. Alas! it was no true work of God in their conscience, but simply the pressure of calamity for a time, which led them to |
| 120. | Jeremiah 35, Notes on |
| It is striking the pains God takes with His people and the way in which He condescends to employ the example of men (before of birds and beasts) as a parable for instructing His people, if they are but willing to listen. We learn that there was in the holy |
| 121. | Jeremiah 36, Notes on |
| The last chapter presented the Lord's admonitions to, if not reproach of, Judah in contrast with the fidelity of the Rechabites to their father, even though their obligations were of small intrinsic account. Chapter 36 adds an awful view of the obstinate unbelief of the king with its profane issue, |
| 122. | Jeremiah 37, Notes on |
| The last two chapters presented an episode quite out of historical connection with what went before or follows after. They spewed us the contrast between the sons of Rechab and the men of Judah, and the presumptuous profanity of the king, albeit Josiah's son Jehoiakim. People or prince, all was |
| 123. | Jeremiah 38, Notes on |
| The testimony of God never fails in the end to rouse the enmity of man. And so the prophet proved, especially at their hands who seek present influence in the earth. " Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, |
| 124. | Jeremiah 39, Notes on |
| The inevitable hour was now at band. Hopes founded on man are vain, most of all for God's people when He is morally judging. Unbelief is abundant in nothing but devices to parry (not so much conviction as) submission to God. At length, however, the due moment arrives to accomplish |
| 125. | Jeremiah 40, Notes on |
| This is the first of a series of chapters which present the disorder and moral confusion that reigned among the Jews left behind in or near the land when the rest were carried captives to Babylon. Judgment by the hand of man has no softening effect on those who slight |
| 126. | Jeremiah 41, Notes on |
| The history of the degradation of the Jews in or near the land is still pursued. " Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with |
| 127. | Jeremiah 7-10, Notes on |
| This section of our prophet starts from the temple as its groundwork, though of course branching out into all directions of the people's iniquity. |
| 128. | Jeroboam and Rehoboam or God in Government |
| God's glory must be maintained. " Before all the people I will be glorified" was God's announcement by Moses to Aaron in the day of his brother's greatest honor and deepest distress. (Lev. 10:3 3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. (Leviticus 10:3).) His sons Nadab and Abihu had " offered strange fire before the Lord, which he |
| 129. | John 14 |
| In John 14 (after the opening verses) we have first Christ himself on earth, and the Father seen in Him; then Christ in heaven, and we knowing by the Comforter sent down that we are in Him and He in us. In chapter 15 is our place on earth |
| 130. | John 17 |
| It is very natural that Jesus should have deeply felt, before leaving this world, all the circumstances in which His disciples were about to find themselves. At the moment when the Son had accomplished His work, and completely glorified the Father in the midst of all the difficulties and all |
| 131. | John 20:19, Notes on |
| "Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you." It is a great thing to say |
| 132. | John 3, Thoughts on |
| It is of great moment that the children of God should observe the fact, that we are not only spoken to in the scriptures, according to our actual state, but addressed as standing in the various relations which the Father's counsel has purposed—or else in what the finished work of |
| 133. | Jonathan and David or Faith and Its Difficulties |
| The knowledge of God, by which any are separated off from the world which lies in the wicked one, can only be by faith in His effectual calling, the truth and power of which carry out the soul in hope of the glory which lies beyond. |
| 134. | Jonathan and David or Faith and Its Difficulties |
| In the meanwhile David "goes in peace," as Jonathan said. But why are they parted? Did they not make a covenant with one another? Why does one go in peace, and the other go back into the city? Is there no difference in these two paths which these sworn |
| 135. | Joshua 1-13 |
| CHAT. 1 The first thought is to cross the Jordan. |
| 136. | Joshua 5 |
| We must remember that all these things which are written "happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come." This expression, " ends of the world," has its importance as also this, " once in the end of |
| 137. | Jude |
| The point in the Epistle of Jude is departure from original standing, and contains strong warning to us in the last days. It is not the same as 2 Peter, where you get the angels judged for having sinned. In Jude it is apostasy: " They kept not their first |
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| 139. | Kinsman's Duty, A |
| There is a difference between getting into the light and into the spirit of the word. |
| 140. | Lamentations, Thoughts on |
| In reading the Lamentations one cannot fail to be struck with the abrupt introduction of the subject of chapter 3. The occasion of the composition of the book is manifest on the surface of it. Jerusalem had fallen a prey to the Chaldeans, the Gentiles had entered those sacred courts |
| 141. | Law and the Sabbath, The |
| Man under law (converted or unconverted, regenerate or not) is lost, unless Christ be a mere maker-up of deficiency. For the law must press a man for what he is himself, if he be under it. " As many as are of the works of the law are under the |
| 142. | Life and Incorruptibility |
| Surprising as the statement may seem, there is hardly anything which souls have so imperfect an idea of, as the grace and purpose of God in its full scope and range—those good tidings which He announces to the prodigal. They see not to what this purpose reaches, or what |
| 143. | Lord's Prayer, The |
| As to this, I have no quarrel with any. I leave every one perfectly free to use or not to use it. No Christian, in his senses, but thinks whatsoever the Lord did or said was absolutely perfect in its place. The question is, What is the place He gave |
| 144. | Luke 10:1-16, Notes on |
| The mission of the seventy is peculiar to Luke. It has in itself a character of grace about it, though really on its rejection the harbinger of imminent judgment to Israel. all things are now made manifest since the transfiguration of the Lord. The former mission preceded that great event |
| 145. | Luke 10:17-24, Notes on |
| The seventy come back, when their mission was ended and their testimony given, saying, "Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name." This was a great witness of Messiah's power. Men in Israel always looked, and of course especially the faithful, for the manifestation of divine power |
| 146. | Luke 10:25-37, Notes on |
| The immense change from law to grace was set forth remarkably in the incident which now follows; and the more so, because the law was now directly introduced in order to show what man was under it, and that there is nothing which really fulfills the law but grace. Those |
| 147. | Luke 10:38-42, Notes on |
| We here enter upon a new section of the gospel. The Spirit of God sets before us, speaking now generally, two things: first, the unspeakable value of the word of God, and more particularly of the word of Jesus; secondly, as we shall see another time, the place and exceeding |
| 148. | Luke 11:1-4, Notes on |
| But blessed as receiving Jesus by faith may be, and sitting at His feet in the delight of love to hear from Him more and more, prayer must not be forgotten. It has an incalculable value for us here below. It is in this world that we pray. Worship is |
| 149. | Luke 11:14-26, Notes on |
| There is great care in this gospel to show the connection of Satan with men; just as we have seen the privilege of the believer in the possession of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of God is the power of communion for the new man, for those that are born |
| 150. | Luke 11:27-36, Notes on |
| The power that delivers a man's body, in this respect breaking the thralldom of Satan, however true, is eclipsed by that which is still more precious. Nevertheless men could not but feel the homage that was due to power, and this so beneficent. " And it came to pass as |
| 151. | Luke 11:5-13, Notes on |
| The Lord here enforces prayer, and this on considerations drawn (as often in Luke) from the human heart, as spewing still more powerfully what God feels in answer to the earnestness of men. |
| 152. | Luke 5:12-26, Notes on |
| We have seen that the call—the special ministerial call—of Peter and the rest, was taken out of its historical place, in order to present the Lord uninterruptedly in the activity of His grace, when He entered upon His manifestation. |
| 153. | Luke 5:27-39, Notes on |
| We have seen the grace which both cleanses and forgives. The soul needs both. God is "faithful to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." But now it will be found, that it is not only grace which characterizes the power of God, but the direction |
| 154. | Luke 6:1-11, Notes on |
| The evangelist is inspired to introduce these accounts of two sabbaths here. Very probably also they took place at this point of time. If so, it is because the moral object of the Spirit in Luke coincided here with the historical order. Thus we may infer from a comparison with |
| 155. | Luke 6:12-26, Notes on |
| The pronounced enmity of the religious leaders led our Lord to special prayer. From man He turns to God. But there was another reason. He was about to call others to take up the work in which He had been engaged, and to carry it out to the ends of |
| 156. | Luke 6:27-38, Notes on |
| There is no such open contrast with the law as in Matt. 5-7 The reason is manifest. Matthew has the Jews full in view, and therefore our Lord contrasts " ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall |
| 157. | Luke 6:39-49, Notes on |
| The first principle that the Lord here lays down is the necessity of a man himself seeing in order to lead others aright. This has been constantly lost sight of in Christendom. It was not in the same way necessary to priesthood in Israel, though there were duties of a |
| 158. | Luke 7:1-18, Notes on |
| We have already had the leper in chapter 5, which Matthew displaces, in order to put it along with the centurion's servant, which opens our chapter; the one being used to show the dealings of the Lord Jesus and the character of His ministry among the Jews, and the other |
| 159. | Luke 7:19-35, Notes on |
| Up to the end of chapter 6, the Lord is still within the precincts of Israel, though undoubtedly there are principles of grace which intimate much more-the outgoing of divine mercy toward every soul of man. Yet until the end of that chapter the Lord does not actually go beyond |
| 160. | Luke 7:36-50, Notes on |
| As illustrating wisdom justified of all her children, as well as the superiority of the new system of grace, the kingdom of God as it was about to come in, the Spirit leads Luke to give the story of the woman who followed Jesus into the house of the |
| 161. | Luke 8:1-18, Notes on |
| The last chapter broke out into the widest sphere, and brought in divine power over human sickness, and death; yea, more, divine grace in presence of nothing but sin. Nevertheless moral ways are produced according to God's own nature. Grace does not merely forgive. Those who are forgiven are born |
| 162. | Luke 8:19-39, Notes on |
| Jesus was going everywhere preaching and evangelizing, followed by the twelve, and not without the return of grateful hearts in the women who ministered of their substance. He came not a King as yet, but a sower; and instead of governing in righteous power, was but creating a light of |
| 163. | Luke 8:40-56, Notes on |
| Two other scenes (interwoven, it is true) close the chapter. The Lord is appealed to by Jairus, the ruler of the synagogue. "He fell down at Jesus' feet and besought him that he would come into his house." This was the way in which a Jew expected to be healed—by |
| 164. | Luke 9:1-17, Notes on |
| THE last chapter sheaved Christ's testimony to the change that was coming. This chapter gives us the twelve entrusted with the same testimony. They were to go forth representatives of Christ everywhere, invested with the power of the kingdom. They had both power and authority over all demons and to |
| 165. | Luke 9:18-36, Notes on |
| The Lord is again praying alone, as we have found Him in previous parts of this Gospel, and indeed in others. So it was at His baptism, when the Holy Ghost descended on Him; and afterward in His ministry, when we are told that He withdrew Himself into the wilderness |
| 166. | Luke 9:37-56, Notes on |
| The next scene plunges us at once into the realities of the world as it is, the more painfully felt because of the bright vision of the age to come on the mount of transfiguration, whether in the sample of the kingdom of the Son of man (or the inner |
| 167. | Luke 9:57-62, Notes on |
| In all this context, since the transfiguration, human flesh is judged in its various forms. Indeed even there the flesh was shown quite incompetent to appreciate the glory of God, or the new things of His kingdom. Thenceforward disciples and man manifest their unbelief and consequent powerlessness before Satan; their |
| 168. | Malachi, Brief Thoughts on |
| The captivity did not purify Israel. The returned captives deny the love and despise the judgment of the Lord. See chapter 1:2; 2:17. |
| 169. | Matthew 13, Notes on |
| In these parables we have the character and importance of the word shown, and its effects. The object of revealing truth in this manner is made known to us by the Lord in His answer to the disciples, saying, "Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of |
| 170. | Matthew 14-15, Reflections on |
| I have been occupied with these chapters; for they occupy evidently a special place between the mysteries of the kingdom on the judicial rejection of the Jews at the end of chapter xii. (which goes on to the end of the age) and the Church and kingdom glory in chapters |
| 171. | Ministry?, What Is |
| What about about ministry? One is as far from the Establishment and from the denominations on this ground as on that of the unity of the body, while owning that real ministers may be found, even if in a false position. Indeed the two subjects cannot be separated. For all |
| 172. | Miracles |
| It is very simple but important to see that miracles do not necessarily imply the setting aside laws. Man produces effects previously unknown by them—change them he cannot. The only difference is that man uses the laws themselves as force to produce the effects; God, the fiat of his will. |
| 173. | New Song (Duplicate), The |
| All is mischief and disturbance; but all is ripening that revolted and apostate material, through the judgment of which the Lord is to take the kingdom. "The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved, he uttered his voice, the earth melted." |
| 174. | Notes on Jeremiah 2-6 |
| The opening charge of the prophet to the people occupies these five chapters. |
| 175. | Notes on Roman 6:12-14 |
| It is to be observed that verse 11 carries the subject beyond the reasoning of verse 8, where our living with Christ is shown to be a just and sure consequence for the believer: if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. It is |
| 176. | Old Testament Saints, The Rising of the |
| Q. When will the Old Testament saints be raised? Are they included in " them that are Christ's at his coming" (1 Cor. 15:23 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. (1 Corinthians 15:23)), and raised when the Church is caught up? (1 Thess. 4) in which case they would be said to "sleep through Jesus," and to |
| 177. | Order of Creation |
| Angels were created before any of the progressive creation, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. The highest of creatures were first created and abide (as unfallen) in their estate; then the progressive creation as a general rule from inanimate to |
| 178. | Our Genesis |
| There is a striking correspondence between "the beginning" in the Book of Genesis, and in the Gospel of John, though the subjects of each are so vastly different. The Creator in one, and the Word in the other, alike come forth into the respective circles in which each is to |
| 179. | Our Place With Christ Glorified |
| We must know our place with Christ glorified before we can accept the cross as our practical portion here. |
| 180. | Panoply of God, The |
| One great thing in Christianity is, that it brings us back to God. Not only have we mercies from God, providential and the like, but we are brought to God. Towards the Jew God had a vail before His face, and He said, " I dwell in the thick darkness;" |
| 181. | Paul's Epistles in What Order Written? |
| (* [This paper professes to be simply an inquiry, commits none but the writer, and is intended, if it may be, to elicit the judgment of others,-ED.]) |
| 182. | Perfect |
| This word "perfect" seems to intimate that character of mind which is answerable to God in the given place or dispensation He is at the time occupying.* |
| 183. | Philippians 1-4, Notes on |
| The Epistle to the Philippians presents the development of two distinct subjects. On the one hand it shows us the ties of affection which exist between the Lord's servant and those to whom he had been blessed; and on the other, christian experience. It is perhaps the only epistle which |
| 184. | Philippians 1-4, Notes on |
| The Epistle to the Philippians looks at the Christian as on a journey with an object before him, and that object the actual winning of Christ, the laying hold of that for which he had been laid hold of by Christ; and therefore salvation is looked at as a thing |
| 185. | Philippians 1:21 |
| Phil. 1:21 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Philippians 1:21).—Christ was the whole of Paul's life; for him to live was Christ, and to die gain; for he would gain Christ! It was what Paul realized. |
| 186. | Philippians 4, Thoughts on |
| It is a great thing to rejoice always. It is important to consider the apostle's own history in connection with these epistles. When he was writing this, he was in prison at Rome. He had been cut short in his ministry, and as he looked on, he had to say, |
| 187. | Philosophers and the Truth |
| Where superstition has bound down the will and degraded religion below the standard of natural conscience, it awaits only an adequate impulse from good or from evil to break the chains. |
| 188. | Powers That Be - Capital Punishment |
| Human government, it has been justly said, finds its root in the authority which God conferred upon Noah. There was no such thing, properly speaking, in the antediluvian earth. Adam had a most extensive dominion, but no power over life. "And God said, let us make man in our |
| 189. | Presbyterianism |
| However unfeignedly one may rejoice in the prosperity of Christians, wherever they may be placed, as we clearly ought, and as I trust I do; however much we may desire the influence of christian truth over the youths of a country, in contrast with the infidelity and popery now so |
| 190. | Presbyterianism |
| But the Moderator enters into detail. The office-bearers, he tells us, of the church were elected by the people. There is some difficulty in uniting many statements connected with scriptural questions, because traditional habits have set aside every trace of scriptural ideas or ways. For instance: are preachers (ministers, so |
| 191. | Presence of the Spirit, The |
| I mean to speak a little of the general truth of the presence of the Holy Ghost, and in truth there cannot be a more general statement than that which the Lord Himself furnishes in these words. But the two great parts of the testimony and work of the Holy |
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| 207. | Progress of Man - What? |
| That there is progress in knowledge, in civilization, up to a certain point in man's development as a race, is partially true. That a part of the race has been placed under progressive religious light is also true. But that this is the obliteration of individuality, or of individual responsibility |
| 208. | Promises to the Seven Churches, The |
| There is a point of much interest, which I desire to trace, in connection with the promises to the seven churches. It will be found, on an examination of these promises separately, that they embrace all that God had committed to man, or to the nation of Israel, under responsibility |
| 209. | Proverbs 7, Practical Reflections on |
| In this seventh chapter we have another aspect of Wisdom's ways. It is not open wickedness in which the will is active against which it directs its remonstrances; it speaks of the snares laid for those who have no intention to do evil, but whose lusts and passions lay them |
| 210. | Proverbs 8:1-8, Practical Reflections on |
| Wisdom is not in this world simplicity, but leads us into it. Simplicity is the blessed result in the highest way, when God is all to the new nature. But God is wise in Ms ways in ordering all things, and we are now in a scene of evil and |
| 211. | Proverbs 8:9-36, Practical Reflections on |
| But there is another character of divine wisdom; it is straight and simple, because it is profound and perfect. It is itself—itself in the midst of confusion and complication, but always itself. Human subtlety and wisdom must take the tortuous course which seeks to avoid the evil which it belongs |
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| 219. | Punishment, Everlasting |
| [The subjoined paper by the Incumbent of Eaton Chapel, Eaton Square, was submitted for examination by one whose mind seems needlessly perplexed by a different gospel which is not another. "The views," says this enquirer, " herein expressed are being extensively received, and that by well-instructed and devout Christians [??]. |
| 220. | Punishment of Sin, A Few Words on the |
| Can a sinner atone for his sins, either in this life or in the next? |
| 221. | Purged With Blood |
| " AND almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." |
| 222. | Relative and the Absolute, The |
| I HAVE largely sought to spew elsewhere that knowledge is relative; i. e., necessarily according to the form and measure of being which knows. I am so constituted as to conclude certain things; and they are true to me. I meet a closed door, and am such that I say, |
| 223. | Repentance and the Preaching of It |
| From Genesis to Revelation repentance is from time to time brought before us. At one period of the history it is spoken of God, at another it is urged on man. " The Lord repented that he had made man." " He repented that He had made Saul king." " |
| 224. | Revelation 2:1-11, Thoughts on |
| It is good to be occupied with spiritual affections, or rather with the subjects which vivify them, with those things which are not seen, which God has revealed to us, and which are of the world to come. |
| 225. | Revelation 3:7-13 |
| The Lord is here the One who sets before the saints the "open door." As the good Shepherd in John 10, to Him the porter opens, and He sets the door open for them, the door connected with the word, the testimony. great door and effectual is opened unto |
| 226. | Revelation, On |
| The first thing I find in the Apocalypse is that this revelation was not committed to the Church as being in its natural relationship with the Head of the house. Just as we have distinguished in prophecy these two cases-that in which the people were acknowledged of God and that |
| 227. | Revelation, On |
| In chapter 11 the prophet makes the beast to ascend out of the bottomless pit without developing its history. Now be begins afresh, and although it is a fresh taking up of the thing, at the same time it is, as it were, the sequel. Having given the history of |
| 228. | Revelation, Outline of |
| Let us look a little at the different forms of evil in connection with the Revelation. |
| 229. | Review |
| Vestiarium Christianum. The origin and gradual development of the dress of holy ministry in the Church. By the Revelation Wharton B. Marriott, M.A., F.S.A., care. London: Rivington, Waterloo Place. 1868. |
| 230. | Romanism |
| At the root of Romanism lies infidelity, not of course in the gross form of denying Christianity in its fundamental truths, or the historical basis of Christianity; but in the annulling those truths on which the blessing of the soul depends, or their application to it. It is a sensuous |
| 231. | Romans 1-8 |
| I should like to go a little into the question, How are we saved? In the first eight chapters of Romans we get the gospel fully brought out. It is just the answer to the question, How can a man be just with God? This is the great question of |
| 232. | Romans 4:1-11, Notes on |
| The previous reasoning, and especially the statement of the apostle towards the close of chapter iii., had made justification to depend evidently and exclusively on the expiatory work of Jesus. God was thereby just and the justifier of him that believes in Jesus. And this, as he had further shown, |
| 233. | Romans 4:12-18, Notes on |
| Justification, then, is not of works: else man might boast of himself, instead of God being glorified. It is really according to grace, and not debt; and God reserves his prerogative of justifying the ungodly. Thus God and man have their due place; and as Abraham illustrated the principle, so |
| 234. | Romans 4:19-25, Notes on |
| We are thus gradually advancing to the great principle of resurrection, which, while, it bears mainly on life, as we shall see in chapters v.—viii., plays also a most momentous part in justification. For this too the case of Abraham is employed: " And, not being weak in faith, he |
| 235. | Romans 5:1-2, Notes on |
| The weighty theme of justification has been now fully treated, on the side both of Christ's blood shed in expiation and of His resurrection as carried through death in the power of God; that is to say, both negatively and positively, bearing all the consequences of our sins and manifesting |
| 236. | Romans 5:11, Notes on |
| Yet there is another boast we have as believers, in virtue of Christ's death and resurrection; and it is infinite, though entered on already. It is not now simply in hope of the glory of God; nor is it in our tribulations, looking on to the end of the Lord |
| 237. | Romans 5:12, Notes on |
| From this verse to the end of chapter 8, we have not so much a distinct portion of the Epistle as a needed and most weighty appendix to that which precedes. Hitherto the great truth of the remission of the believer's sins has been fully set forth, closing with the |
| 238. | Romans 5:12 - Romans 8 |
| I purpose to look at the testimony given us in the first part of the Epistle to the Romans (chap. 1-8), not merely as a doctrine or theory, but endeavoring to regard it as an individual, to look certain things in the face which are brought before us. It is |
| 239. | Romans 5:13-14, Notes on |
| The parenthesis now begins. The apostle meets a possible objection, and certainly proves that the existence of sin is independent of law. " For until [the] law sin was in [the] world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law." Thus the Jew could not even |
| 240. | Romans 5:15-17, Notes on |
| Having spoken of Adam as typical of Christ, the apostle at once proceeds to guard and clear the statement. The point of comparison is the bearing of a head on his family. He that believed the scripture (and every Jew was tenacious of the Pentateuch) must own that Adam's fall |
| 241. | Romans 5:18-19, Notes on |
| The argument is now resumed from verse 12, but strengthened by the parenthetical instruction of verses 13-17. This both enforced the analogy between Adam and Christ for evil and good over those who pertain to them respectively, and also pointed out the enormous preponderance of good over evil in Christ, |
| 242. | Romans 5:20-21, Notes on |
| Thus the doctrine of headship, and of a race or family depending on the head for evil or good, has been distinctly laid down; and Adam and Christ stand confronted as those respectively under whom all ultimately must be classed. This necessarily brought in a wholly different principle from the |
| 243. | Romans 5:3-5, Notes on |
| The soul that believes has been thus shown us enjoying the results of justification as to past, present, and future. Admirable as a groundwork, it is not everything. God would bless the believer according to what is in His heart, yet with full consideration of passing circumstances. And this last |
| 244. | Romans 5:5-8, Notes on |
| It may have been noticed that, though the apostle had carefully proved the ruin of man and the righteousness of God in which the believer has part, it is not so with His love. Of this he first speaks here as a thing not demonstrated but known and enjoyed. He |
| 245. | Romans 5:9-10, Notes on |
| WE have now to note the reasoning of the apostle, not indeed to prove the love of God; but beginning with it as known through the Holy Ghost given to us, he draws conclusions after a truly divine sort. Thus the consciousness of the Christian has its just and full |
| 246. | Romans 6:1-4, Notes on |
| That grace should so triumphantly rise above sin, even where sin abounded most, leads to the various objections of unbelief and the answers of the Holy Spirit for our furtherance and joy of faith. Grace in no way slights sin. From first to last Christianity and evil are proved to |
| 247. | Romans 6:15-18, Notes on |
| Verse 15 puts a new question. It is no longer, as in verse 1, " Shall we continue in sin that grace may exceed?" This is the primary objection to grace for Christians just delivered from the ruin of the first man. Moral relaxation is dreaded, if where sin abounded, |
| 248. | Romans 6:19-23, Notes on |
| For having spoken of the Christian as enslaved to righteousness, the apostle hastens to excuse his language. He had shown the impossibility of a middle place, maintaining the absoluteness of the surrender to God, which is made good in the heart and ways of the believer; he had characterized the |
| 249. | Romans 6:5-11, Notes on |
| The apostle carries out the comparison of our blessing after the pattern of Christ to actual resurrection. " For if we have become united in nature with the likeness of his death, we shall be also [with that] of his resurrection, knowing this that our old man was crucified with |
| 250. | Romans 7 |
| For the better understanding of this chapter, I shall commence a little in advance of it. The apostle, having demonstrated by the power of the Spirit of God the iniquity of man—every man under sin, whether Jew or Gentile, responds to that condition by the propitiation through faith in the |
| 251. | Romans 7:1-6, Notes on |
| The apostle had already laid down that sin should not have dominion over the Christian, because he is not under law but under grace. He now unfolds the relations of the believer, even had he been a Jew, to the law; and this he does with admirable wisdom which the |
| 252. | Romans 7:14-20, Notes on |
| The apostle turns now to a discussion of the working of the law, and the discovery which the renewed man makes of no good thing in him, that is, in his flesh. It is one set free reflecting on his state when under law. " For we know that the |
| 253. | Romans 7:21-25, Notes on |
| Verses 21-23 furnish the conclusion from the discussion we have seen doubly pursued. " I find then the law for me wishing to do the right thing that evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man, but I see a |
| 254. | Romans 7:7-13, Notes on |
| The passage on which we now enter has been the occasion of as extraordinary discord in thought and comment as any other in the epistle, and I cannot but think with small fruit as to intelligence of God's mind revealed in it. The source of the difficulty is the ordinary |
| 255. | Romans 8:1, Notes on |
| We have seen in chapter 7., first, the doctrine in the opening verses; then the discussion of the manner in which the law works in the soul that is born again but that does not realize the deliverance with which he began, not only conflict under law but the discovery |
| 256. | Scripture Not Methodical |
| Were subjects treated methodically and separately in scripture, especially in the new testament, they would be much less perfectly understood. It is in life and power, whether that of Christ or that of the Holy Ghost in the inspired writers, that they develop themselves to our hearts. |
| 257. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Acts 8:37 |
| Q. I have seen it stated that "the whole of Acts 8:37 37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. (Acts 8:37), If thou believest with all,' &c., is universally pronounced by Biblists as an interpolation. It exists in only one Greek MS., having no place in the other MSS. It is marked in our Greek Text as spurious, |
| 258. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Characteristics of Scripture Readings |
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| 259. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Dative and Accusative Time |
| Q. What is the difference in the use of the dative and accusative of time, as in Acts 13:20 20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. (Acts 13:20), &c.? B. |
| 260. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Ephesians 5:26 |
| Q. Eph. 5:26 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (Ephesians 5:26), Is it true that the laver, and not "the washing," of the water is here intended? Is it correct to say that we must not join ἐν ῥήματι ("in the word") with τῶ λουτρῷ nor with τοῦ ὔδατος, because the former would require |
| 261. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Fine Linen in Revelation 19 |
| Q. Rev. 19:8 8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. (Revelation 19:8)—What is the meaning of the inspired explanation of the symbolical "fine linen?" B. |
| 262. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Force of Christ Dying for All |
| Q. 2 Cor. 5:14, 15 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. (2 Corinthians 5:14-15).—What is the force of Christ dying for all? and in what sense are all dead as proved by His death? |
| 263. | Scripture Queries and Answers: God's Answering Prayer and General Laws |
| Q. How Do You Reconcile God's Answering Prayer With General Laws? |
| 264. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Greek and Hebrew Questions |
| Q. 1. What authorities have ἔξοδον and δόξαν in Luke 9:31 31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. (Luke 9:31) respectively? Which is to be preferred? |
| 265. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Greek in John 6:57 |
| Q. John 6:57 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. (John 6:57). Why is it διὰ τὸν πατέρα, and not διὰ τοῦ π, as the Authorized Version might imply? And why not χάριν? |
| 266. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Greek Sequence Term in Luke |
| Q. Does the term καθεξῆς in Luke 1 imply historic sequence as is the groundwork of several harmonies of the Gospels? |
| 267. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Greek Translated "Save" |
| Q. When ἀλλὰ is used substantially as εἰ μὴ, are they precisely the same, as after the transfiguration scene, &c.? Compare Matt. 17:8 8 And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only. (Matthew 17:8) with Mark 9:8. 0. P. |
| 268. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Homage and Worship |
| Q. In the Bible Treasury for December there is an article on Προσκυνέω. Would the writer be so good as to say what he means by doing homage or doing obeisance to Jesus Christ, and what her means by worshipping the Father? |
| 269. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Matthew 11:12 and Luke 16:16 |
| Q. What is the bearing of Matt. 11:12 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. (Matthew 11:12), and Luke 16:1616 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it. (Luke 16:16)? |
| 270. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Matthew 13 and 2 Thessalonians 2 |
| Q. How may Matt. 13. be reconciled with 2 Thess. 2, upon the following points? In the prophetic teaching of the Lord Jesus, when on earth, in Matt. 13, there is no present hope, but a prolonged exhortation, at the end of the age, when |
| 271. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Matthew 24:29 |
| Q. Matt. 24:29 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: (Matthew 24:29).—Is there any ground to identify the shaking of "the powers of the heavens" (or, as in Mark 13, " the powers that are in the heavens") with the fall of the dragon and his hosts from heaven in Rev. 12? The time does not |
| 272. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Offering of the Firstfruits |
| Q. Lev. 2:12-16 12 As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savor. 13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt. 14 And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears. 15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering. 16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord. (Leviticus 2:12-16). Why were the firstfruits to be offered and not burnt? What was intended by the corn out of full ears?—J.D. |
| 273. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Parable of the Virgins to Jewish Remnant or to Christendom? |
| Q. Matt. 7:22, 23 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. (Matthew 7:22-23); Luke 13:25-2825 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are: 26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. 27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. (Luke 13:25-28). Do these texts warrant the inference that the parable of the virgins (Matt. 25) refers to the Jewish remnant, rather than to Christendom? |
| 274. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Prophecy |
| Q. 1. Do the events occurring under the seals, trumpets, and vials, from Rev. 6 to xix., occupy the whole of Daniel's seventieth week (Dan. 9:27 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. (Daniel 9:27)), or the latter half only? |
| 275. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Questions About "Washed," "Cleansed," and "Sanctified" |
| Q. John 3 Cor. 6, Eph. 5, and Titus 3—What is the meaning of "washing" or " washed" in some of these scriptures? Is the new birth the same as regeneration? If not, wherein do they differ? and how is "cleansed" or "washed" to be distinguished from |
| 276. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Revelation 1:20 and 14:13 |
| Q. 1. What do the "stars" of the seven churches represent? (Rev. 1:20 20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. (Revelation 1:20).) |
| 277. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Romans 8:10 |
| Q. Rom. 8:10 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. (Romans 8:10). Can this mean that the body indeed is dead (i. e., by the sentence on the first Adam), but the spirit is life because of righteousness (i.e., righteousness would also be the cause)? The force would be, that though the body be or remain |
| 278. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Sleep in Jesus, Dead in Christ |
| Q. 1 Thess. 4:14, 16 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. (1 Thessalonians 4:14)
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (1 Thessalonians 4:16).—What is the force of the expressions, and what the distinction, of "sleep in Jesus," and "dead in Christ;" especially with reference to the connection of "Jesus" with "sleep," and of " Christ" with " dead?" W. |
| 279. | Scripture Queries and Answers: The Body of Christ a Heavenly Designation? |
| 4. Q. Is "the body of Christ" a heavenly designation? S. |
| 280. | Scripture Queries and Answers: The Indwelling of the Holy Ghost |
| Q. Acts 2; 8:10; 19 Rom. 8, &c.—It being allowed that Acts 2 is the descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost to form and indwell the Church, but only taking effect on Jewish believers, would Acts 10:44 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. (Acts 10:44) be explained of a similar descent upon the |
| 281. | Scripture Queries and Answers: Two Miracles at Cana of Galilee |
| Q. What is the special connection or the contrast between the two miracles at Cana of Galilee, with the bearing of what lies between? (John 2—4.) |
| 282. | Self-Consciousness and the Infinite |
| All effort to make consciousness, or self-consciousness, a rational perception of difference and identity is simply infirmity in abstraction. If I think of another, I know that I am not that other; but this is not necessary to, and no part of, the consciousness that I exist. When not asleep, |
| 283. | Self-Consciousness and the Infinite |
| Mansel at the end of Lecture in. happily contradicts himself. He is not exact. Thus, when he says we can conceive such attributes at the utmost only indefinitely but we cannot conceive them as infinite, how can he make the distinction if he cannot tell what infinite is? That one |
| 284. | Self-Consciousness and the Infinite |
| Personality is evidently in self-consciousness. Reality, that is, material reality, is that which hinders in its nature my will from finding nothing. I cannot of course have the consciousness of another's personality or self-consciousness; but I can see that he is one who has it, and know what it is |
| 285. | Self-Consciousness and the Infinite |
| Mansel is on wholly false ground as to this, because (while saying it is impossible by ideas) he confounds the revelation of God with ideas of Him, or human knowledge. He does not see here revelation of God in Christ, with the Holy Ghost giving perception of it and |
| 286. | Serpent's Judgment, The |
| The skeptic sneers at the sentence on the serpent, the meaning of which is evidently its entire humiliation. Going on its belly and eating dust would present this thought to any one familiar with scripture. The import of the words is, beyond all question, the expression of judicial degradation, and |
| 287. | Single Heart of Grace |
| When a person is seen pursuing his way or his purpose, undaunted by resistance on the one hand, unseduced by solicitations on the other, we have a full witness of the singleness and devotedness of his soul to the business he has in hand. |
| 288. | Song of Solomon, Thoughts on |
| Of all the songs of Solomon, amounting to 1,005, there is only one that has come down to our day. Written by the Spirit of God, and inserted in the volume of the book, whilst some inspired communications have perished, this survives, and will, may we not say it, be |
| 289. | Songs of Degrees, The |
| There are fifteen psalms bearing the above title. Unlike other psalms bearing titles similar to one another, these are collected together in one (the 5th) book, forming a little series of themselves. Addressed to none of the chief singers, but simply in some cases bearing the names of their authors |
| 290. | Spirit of Prophecy, The |
| One might have thought that prophecy we not the testimony of Jesus, as it was not (like the epistles) to the church about itself from its head. But the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. |
| 291. | Spiritual Man |
| It is well for us to consider what marks the spiritual man. First, a spirit of dependence, whatever may be the state of faith and the blessings we may have realized. Secondly, an entire confidence in the goodness of God; for God is love. Thirdly, Christ, the constant object of |
| 292. | Superstition - the Will and Natural Conscience |
| What is the truth philosophers are following? Where is it? The truth they are following is truth they have not got. What is this truth they are seeking? They do not know: if they knew, they would not be following it. |
| 293. | Sympathies of Jesus and His Isolated Position Among Men, The |
| Lecture on Matt. 3; 4:1-11, followed by an extract from an exhortation |
| 294. | Sympathies of Jesus and His Isolated Position Among Men, The |
| Lecture on Matt. 3; 4:1-11, followed by an extract from an exhortation. |
| 295. | Talmud, The |
| If the writer of a recent article in the "Quarterly" meant to catch men by a sudden surprise, his friends have reason to congratulate him. High-churchmen have paid homage; low-churchmen, and no-churchmen, down to the most cynical of skeptics, have lavished no ordinary praise. Protests have not been wanting; and |
| 296. | Talmud, The |
| . (Continued.) |
| 297. | Talmud, The |
| The reader will have noticed the indifference already betrayed by our reviewer, as by worldly men in general, for the mysteries of Christianity as compared with its morals. It would be too gross to deny the practical fruits which the faith of Christ has manifested in the face of the |
| 298. | Talmud, The |
| The reviewer next sketches the growth of the vast mass of discussion and exegesis, which followed the collection of the Mishnah, and much of which afterward entered the Talmud, as the Gemara or commentary on that text: and this in a double form-the Palestinian in East Aramean toward the end |
| 299. | Times of Daniel and the Christian Hope, The |
| We are all more or less ignorant, as well as liable to error; but an interpretation of prophecy, which may be quite mistaken, ought not to drift one into slighting our Lord's solemn warning (Matt. 24:48 48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; (Matthew 24:48)) and giving up a sweet and weighty christian duty, urged not only |
| 300. | To Correspondents |
| E. J. S. C. can send a copy of what he deems suitable, though of course subject to the Editor's judgment. |
| 301. | Truth and One's Cross, The |
| The truth spreads; but it is another thing to take up one's cross. And I observe that, when one does not act according to the truth, there is no solidity: one trifles with religious views. When one follows the truth, difficulties are there and the opposition of the world; that |
| 302. | Two Epistles to the Thessalonians, Notes on the |
| First Epistle. |
| 303. | We Are Wrought for the Glory of God Himself |
| We are wrought for the glory by God himself; and we have the earnest of the Spirit till we are there, and know that Christ has so entirely overcome death that, if the time was come, we should be transformed into glory without dying at all: mortality would be swallowed |
| 304. | What God Is to Us in Christ |
| There are two ways in which we may look at our relationship to God, and rightly: first, our coming to Him; and, secondly, our souls looking at the dealings of God towards us. |
| 305. | What Is the Church and Our Present Duty? |
| I fully recognize that there was an organization in apostolic and scriptural times, but affirm that what exists now is not the scriptural organization at all, but mere human invention, each sect arranging itself according to its own convenience, so that, as an external body, the Church is ruined; |
| 306. | What Is the Meaning of the Greek Translated "To Worship"? |
| A Correspondent sends a paper which censures J. N. D.'s translation on the ground that " when direct to God the Father, in every instance, he has the word ‘worship' in his New Translation;" " in every instance where the Lord Jesus is worshipped, he has used the word |