From Reformation to Reformation

8. The parts of the Epistle are as many as the chapters, inasmuch as it was written in a very free manner. Interpreters of the Epistle,...

7. Chronotaxis. The time of writing is not able to be determined with certainty. It is not of much importance to our faith and...

6. The Argument of the Epistle. Its great usefulness at this time. Therefore, thus the Holy Apostle exhorts the twelve dispersed tribes...

Samuel having appointed a king unto the people, testifieth his own integrity, to which they witness, 1-5. He setteth before them the...

5. The occasion for the Epistle was twofold, the afflictions of the faithful and the distortion of the Apostolic doctrine concerning...

5. The parts of the book are two: I. The rise of Esther from the condition of a ward to Royal marriage with Ahasuerus (Esther 1; 2). ...

5. The history of one hundred and eighteen years is narrated in it. In this book is described the history of one hundred and eighteen...

HOLY FATHERS: Augustine.[1] REFORMED: Amyraut,[2] de Brais,[3] de la Faye,[4] Gomarus,[5] Johann Jakob Grynæus,[6] Heidegger,[7]...

4. The scope/goal of the book is set forth. Which individual things have this scope prefixed, that the governors of the people, and the...

Verse 10:[1] And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: (see Josh. 10:10;...

John seeth four angels holding the four winds, 1; and another angel coming to seal the servants of God in their foreheads, 2, 3. The...

3. The argument of the book is the matters conducted under five Kings of Judah, and eight Kings of Israel. Now, the first book of Kings...

Verse 9:[1] (Ecclus. 46:16[2]) And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and (Ps. 99:6;...

Verse 8:[1] And the children of Israel said to Samuel, (Is. 37:4) Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us (Heb. Be not silent from...

2. There appear to have been diverse writers of the book. The Collector appears to have been either Jeremiah, or Ezra. Now, there were...

Verse 7:[1] And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines...

1. The inscription of the Book. The two following books are called מלכים/Kings, namely, of Judah and of Israel, whose affairs the...

Verse 15:[1] And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every...

INTERPRETERS OF ALL, OR MOST OF, THE PAULINE EPISTLES HOLY FATHERS: Anselm, Ambrose, Bede, Chrysostom,[1] Jerome,[2] Œcumenius,...

Verse 3:[1] And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do (Deut. 30:2-10; 1 Kings 8:48; Isa. 55:7; Hos. 6:1; Joel 2:12)...