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February 19—Morning Devotion
"The prisoner of Jesus Christ."—Ephesians 3:1 My soul! art thou a prisoner of Jesus Christ? See to it, if so, that, like the apostle, thou art bound with Jesu's chains for "the hope of Israel." They are golden chains. When Paul and Silas were fast bound in the prison, the consciousness of this made them sing for joy. Men have…
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140 Devil
DEVIL Calumniator, or slanderer; a fallen angel, especially the chief of them. He is called Abaddon in Hebrew, Apollyon in Greek, that is, destroyer.--Angel of the bottomless pit, Rev. 9:11.--Prince of the world, John 12:31.--Prince of darkness, Eph. 6:12.--A roaring lion, and an adversary, 1 Pet. 5:8.—A sinner from the beginning, 1 John 3:8.—Beelzebub, Matt. 12:24.--Accuser, Rev. 12:10.--Belial, 2 Cor.…
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2 Thessalonians: Chapter 2, Verse 5
“Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, &c.” At Thessalonica, for the apostle had been there in person, and had preached there with great boldness and success; he had declared the whole counsel of God, and the Gospel came in power and worked effectually in them, and yet there was too great a forgetfulness of it; with…
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February 18—Morning Devotion
"And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me."—Jeremiah 32:40 Precious consideration to a poor exercised soul, that a covenant God in Christ, hath not only engaged for himself, but undertaken for…
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139 Satan
SATAN Is a Hebrew word, and signifies an adversary, or enemy, and is commonly applied in Scripture to the devil, or the chief of the fallen angels. "By collecting the passages," says Cruden, "where Satan, or the devil, is mentioned, it may be observed, that he fell from heaven with all his company; that God cast him down from thence…
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2 Thessalonians: Chapter 2, Verse 4
“Who opposeth, &c.” Or is an opposer, an adversary of Christ, the antichrist; who opposes him in his kingly office, styling himself the head and spouse of the church, assuming to himself all power in heaven and in earth, taking upon him to dispense with the laws of Christ, and to make new ones; who opposes him in his priestly…
