Bible Commentaries

Genesis overview — Genesis 1:1 The Sublime Introduction Genesis 1:1 The Beginning Genesis 1:3‘All the Blessings of the Light’ Genesis 1:5‘Day and Night’ Genesis 1:14 Sun and Moon Genesis 1:26 The Divine Image in Man Genesis 1:31 The Divine Verdict Genesis 2:1 The Completed

Genesis 13:10-11 — THE WORLDLY CHOICE ‘And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where.… Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan.’ Genesis 13:10-11 The lesson to be gained from the history of Abraham and Lot

Matthew 1:23 — THE DIVINE PRESENCE ‘They shall call His Name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’ Matthew 1:23 This glorious statement is made on the basis of a glorious prophecy which Isaiah uttered at an important era in Jewish history ( Isaiah

Matthew 28:20 — THE PRESENCE OF THE RISEN LORD ‘Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.’ Matthew 28:20 I. The presence of Christ as our priest.—Christ is present with us as our Priest. In dark and troublesome days, when persecution and disaster

Deuteronomy 34:7 — AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS OLD ‘Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died.’ Deuteronomy 34:7 I. The story of the death of Moses is one of the most pathetic in the Bible.—A life that had been spent in the service of others, that had

Luke 17:20-21 — THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM ‘And when He was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the

John 14:15-17 — THE MISSION OF THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH ‘If ye love Me, ye will keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may be with you for ever, even the Spirit of truth.’ John 14:15-17 (R.V.) It is very important

John 19:5 — LESSONS FROM CALVARY ‘Behold the Man.’ John 19:5 Jesus said, “I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.” Year by year we see these words more perfectly fulfilled. The power of the Cross is seen in the increased observance of Good Friday; and

John 5:28-29 — THE TWO RESURRECTIONS ‘Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the

1 Corinthians 1:22-23 — A MESSAGE FOR JEW AND GREEK ‘The Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified.’ 1 Corinthians 1:22-23 St. Paul is here contrasting the expectations which men would naturally form of the Gospel of Christ

1 Corinthians 14:15 — FAITH AND SCIENCE ‘I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also.’ 1 Corinthians 14:15 In these words St. Paul, the greatest preacher of Christ the world has ever seen, declares that he, at any rate, must combine the

1 Corinthians 9:25 — THE INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN ‘Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.’ 1 Corinthians 9:25 The few ivy leaves soon fade away. The glory is ephemeral, and the hero is soon forgotten in the presence of newer and younger bloods.

2 Corinthians 13:14 — A THREEFOLD BENEDICTION ‘The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost.’ 2 Corinthians 13:14 Upon this text I base what is to me the absolute inference, that in the mind of St. Paul, when he wrote

Galatians 5:1 — LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY ‘Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.’ Galatians 5:1 We are bound to assert for the Church of Jesus Christ her true and rightful place in the affairs of men. I. The Church is the

2 Timothy 2:3 — THE WAR OF THE LORD ‘Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.’ 2 Timothy 2:3 The good soldier of Jesus Christ! I. Eyes fixed.—He turns neither to the right hand nor to the left. Through evil report and good report, in

Hebrews 10:10 — ATONEMENT THROUGH THE CROSS ‘In which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all.’ Hebrews 10:10 (R.V.m.) There are three points in connection with the Scriptural representation of the doctrine of

James 1:5 — THE GIFT OF WISDOM ‘If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.’ James 1:5 This is one of the many beautifully practical thoughts which fill and characterise St.

1 Peter 1:13 — COMING GRACE ‘Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end [perfectly marg.] for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.’ 1 Peter 1:13 There is to be a revelation of Jesus Christ. He

1 John 5:12 — THE SOURCE OF CHRISTIAN LIFE ‘He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.’ 1 John 5:12 To live for God on earth, and with Him in heaven; to work for His glory here and reign in it hereafter, is the chief end

1 Samuel 8:4-8 — WANTED—A KING! ‘Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel unto Ramah, and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy way; now make us a king to judge us like all the nations,’ etc. 1 Samuel