CLVI. Christ our Passover.
1 COR. v. 7. “Even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.” THE allusion in the text may have been suggested to the apostle either by the time of year,…
CLV. Man’s Judgment.
1 COR. iv. 3. "With me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment." ST. PAUL was far from being indifferent…
CLIV. Paul’s Salutation.
ROM. xvi. 1. "I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea." BY means of the light supplied by this paragraph,…
CLIII. The Old Testament.
ROM. xv. 4. "For what- soever things were written aforetime were written for our learn- ing, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope." THE things…
CLII. Our Account.
ROM. xiv. 12. "So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God." WHEN St. Paul says that every man shall give account of himself to God,…
CLI. Living and Dying to the Lord.
ROM. xiv. 8. "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the…
CL. The Living Sacrifice.
ROM. xii. 1. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."…
CXLIX. The Jews.
ROM. xi. 15. "For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?" I. THESE…
CXLVIII. All Day Long.
ROM. x. 21. "But to Israel He saith, All day long I have stretched forth My hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." ST. PAUL is quoting the prophet Isaiah,…
CXLVII. Victory.
ROM. viii. 37. "More than conquerors." THE key-note of the text is Victory. It is the characteris- tic of all God's works, that whatever He does, He does abundantly. There…