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103 Commentary
COMMENTARY An exposition, book of annotations or remarks. There are some people so wise in their own conceit, and think human helps of so little worth, that they despise commentaries on the Scriptures altogether: but every student or preacher whose business is to explain the sacred oracles, to make known the mind of God to others, to settle cases of…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 5, Verse 12
“And we beseech you, brethren, etc.]” Not in a natural or civil, but spiritual relation; and what follows relating to the ministers of the word, the apostle addresses this church on their behalf, not in an imperious and authoritative manner, but by way of entreaty, with great humility and strong affection: “know them that labour among you;” Who were not…
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SINAI – The Way Of Death
Sinai is a desert; a barren, desolate, inhospitable and largely lifeless place. How suitable that God should give the law in Sinai. It is the place of death and the killing letter. Here Moses received the Ten Commandments on two tables of stone. Today travellers to Mount Sinai reach the summit along a steep track of 3,750 so-called steps of…
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January 12—Morning Devotion
"If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold."—Leviticus 25:25 How poor was I and wretched before I knew Jesus! I had not only sold, as far as I had power to sell, some of my…
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102 Catechism
CATECHISM A form of instruction by means of questions and answers. There have been various catechisms published by different authors, but many of them have been but ill suited to convey instruction to juvenile minds. Catechisms for children should be so framed as not to puzzle and confound, but to let the beams of divine light into their minds by…
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1 Thessalonians: Chapter 5, Verse 11
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, etc.]” Either with the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, the second coming of Christ, and the thoughts of being for ever with him, and one another, and so may be a repetition of the advice in (1 Thessalonians 4:18) or with this consideration, that they were not in a state of darkness, ignorance, and…
