Wesley Corpus

3. As to the degrees or measures of fasting, we have instances of some who have fasted several days together. So Moses, Elijah, and our blessed Lord, being endued with supernatural strength for that p...

Hearts - By slight and low thoughts of God, or by neglecting to give God the praise for the mercies which they enjoyed. Thus - It was his constant course at the end of every feasting time, to offer a ...

Having introduced some other things, he adds, "Besides faith, there is no one but may see that repentance is required as necessary to justification. Now, repentance is not one work alone, but is, as i...

Went up to fight - This was done after Joshua's death, and seems to be here inserted, that all the chief places where the Danites dwelt, tho' far distant, might be mentioned together; and to give an a...

Chapter III Solomon marries Pharaoh's daughter, ver. 1. His religion, ver. 2 - 4. His prayer for wisdom, and the answer, ver. 5 - 15. He decides the dispute between the two harlots, ver. 16 - 28. Phar...

Chapter XXV Their disobedience to the prophets reproved, ver. 1 - 7. The seventy years of captivity foretold, ver. 8 - 11. and after that the destruction of Babylon, ver. 12 - 14. By a cup of wine is ...

The land - Babylon, or the land of Chaldea. At one end - Cyrus entered the city at one end, by the channel of the river, which he had drained, and surprized Belshazzar in the midst of his feast. The p...

3. May they not minister also to us, with respect to our bodies, in a thousand ways which we do not now understand They may prevent our falling into many dangers, which we are not sensible of; and may...

Chapter I Ahasuerus feasts his great men, ver. 1 - 9. Sends for his queen, who refuses to come, ver. 10, 11. He divorces her, ver. 12 - 22. Ahasuerus - Many suppose this to be Darius Hystapas, for his...

But because the land of Edom is sometimes taken more largely, and so reacheth even to the Red - sea, and therefore mount Sinai was near to it, and because Paran was also near Sinai, being the next sta...

The same spirit that the giants before the flood were acted by, Gen 6:4, now revived in him; so soon was that tremendous judgment, which the pride and tyranny of those mighty men brought upon the worl...

Chapter XXV Their disobedience to the prophets reproved, ver. 1 - 7. The seventy years of captivity foretold, ver. 8 - 11. and after that the destruction of Babylon, ver. 12 - 14. By a cup of wine is ...

How powerful a means this is to avert the wrath of God, we may learn from the remarkable instance of Ahab. "There was none like him who did sell himself" -- wholly give himself up, like a slave bought...

Righteousness shall be to us. We shall be owned and pronounced by God to be righteous and holy persons, if we sincerely obey him, otherwise we shall be declared to be unrighteous and ungodly. Or, merc...

Chapter IX Ezra is troubled at the marriages with strange women, ver. 1 - 4. His solemn confession to God, ver. 5 - 15. I rent - Both mine inner and my upper garment. Evening sacrifice - When the peop...

6. And although none but their great Creator is omnipresent; although none beside him can ask, "Do not I fill heaven and earth" yet, undoubtedly, he has given an immense sphere of action (though not u...

6. And although none but their great Creator is omnipresent; although none beside him can ask, "Do not I fill heaven and earth" yet, undoubtedly, he has given an immense sphere of action (though not u...

They saw the God of Israel - That is, they had some glimpse of his glory, in light and fire, though they saw no manner of similitude. They saw the place where the God of Israel stood, so the seventy, ...

Shall be wasted - Shall be by degrees diminished by the incursions of divers enemies, till at last the Assyrian comes to compleat the work and carries them into captivity. For the Kenites who lived pa...