Psalm 150

Preface to Volume 7, Psalms 125-150 At the end of all these years, the last page of this Commentary is printed, and the seventh preface is requested. This demand sounds strange in my ears. A preface when the work is done? It is only nominally a preface--it is really a farewell. I introduce my closin... Read More

Preface to Volume 5, Psalms 104-118 It has been three and a half years since we published volume four of The Treasury of David. We have had many inquiries as to when volume five would appear. Our publishers have given hopeful replies, but their patience has been strained with our slow progress and l... Read More

Access to God Arthur Pink The matter of our approach into the presence of God is one of vital importance—yet it is one (like so many others these days) upon which much confusion and misconception exists. We will not now attempt to canvass the principal errors pertaining thereto, for there would be l... Read More

DIRECTION XI.--SECOND GENERAL PART. [How to perform the duty commanded--a directory for prayer.] 'Praying always with all prayer and supplication,' &c. (Eph. 6:18). Having despatched the duty of prayer in general, we now come to give an account of the several branches in the exhortation; which toget... Read More

I print the Psalms as poetry; they are so in Hebrew. G.V.W. [Publisher's note: In Present Testimony the Psalms are rendered in full as the Authorised Version, here only the notes are reproduced.] First Book (Pss. 1 - 51) "The faithful are looked at as not yet driven out from Jerusalem; hence covenan... Read More

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. It has pleased the Most High to reveal Himself to us (in that which men call the New Testament), under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost (Matt. 28: 19). In this we learn redemption eternal and for Heaven. Of old, in the Creation of the world, He had ... Read More

“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatev... Read More

Christian Henry Bateman, 1813-1889 "Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song." (Psalm 95:1) A New Testament church should always be a singing church, for sacred song is the natur... Read More

The Structure Book I (1 - 41) Christ in the counsel of God the source of all blessing for His people (Israel). Book II (42 - 72) Their ruin, but redemption in the latter days. Book III (73 - 89) The holiness of God in His dealings with them. Book IV (90 - 106) The failed first man replaced by the Se... Read More

Tortured (5178) (tumpanizo is from the Greek word tumpanon = a tambourine or drum; English = tympanic membrane or eardrum) is a very picturesque verb which means to stretch on an instrument of torture resembling a drum and thus to beat to death. Vine comments that The verb tumpanizo signifies either... Read More