Isaiah 15:1
CONTENTS The prophet here enters upon the subject of history: and a woeful account it is. Not a word of comfort through the whole.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS The prophet here enters upon the subject of history: and a woeful account it is. Not a word of comfort through the whole.... [ Continue Reading ]
Here is a sad account of Moab! And in order to enter into a full apprehension of the history, we must consult the scripture account concerning this people. If we look back to the original settlement of Israel, we shall find that this was a nation descended from Lot, Genesis 13:10; and the very Moab... [ Continue Reading ]
I pause over this verse to remark, and admire, the tender mercies of the Prophet. Though an enemy, yet the Prophet weeps over Moab. Alas! who that is born of a woman, but must feel for the miseries induced by sin in our common nature? Methinks here is a loud appeal to the ministers of Jesus, to have... [ Continue Reading ]
Everything contained in these verses is like the Prophet's roll, written within, and without, and full of nothing else but lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Alas! what an awful thing must it be, to be full of this world's sorrow, and without the knowledge of, and an interest in Christ to soften it... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS READER, in the history of Moab, behold the history of every man by nature, exposed to the just judgment of God, the curse of his broken law, and all the terrors, which will one day fall upon the wicked! their hatred to God and his Christ, is manifested by their hatred to his people; nei... [ Continue Reading ]