Bible Commentaries

Nehemiah 9:5

Notice:—

I. The tablets on which this glory is inscribed. (1) God's glory is conspicuously written on the tablet of His works: (a) in their vastness; (b) in their harmony; (c) in their perpetuity. (2) God's glory is inscribed in the Divine ways: (a) in their equity; (b) in their inscrutableness; (c) in their beneficence. (3) God's glory is written most legibly on the tablet of His word.

II. Notice the mirrors from which God's glory is reflected. When we search for mirrors to reflect God's glory, we find them here, in the testimony of devout intelligence; we find them in the past in the unbroken evidence of ages; and we find them yonder in the perfection of those spirits whom God Himself has perfected.

III. Notice the elements by which this glory is obscured. It is obscured (1) by restless, clamorous passions; (2) by the reluctant judgments of God.

IV. Notice the clemency amidst which this glory is enshrined. It is a clemency which inclines to the feeblest cry, and which inspires and accepts the feeblest song.

A. Mursell, Lights and Landmarks, p. 39.

References: Nehemiah 9:9-11.—E. White, Christian World Pulpit, vol. xxv., p. 120. Nehemiah 9:12.—S. Gregory, Ibid., vol. xxviii., p. 85. Nehemiah 9:17.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. xxii., No. 1272. Nehemiah 9:20.—Ibid., Evening by Evening, p. 47. Nehemiah 9:38.—Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 115. Nehemiah 12:27.—A. J. Griffith, Christian World Pulpit, vol. xvi., p. 171. Nehemiah 12:42.—Homiletic Magazine, vol. x., p. 143. Nehemiah 12:42, Nehemiah 12:43.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. xvii., No. 1027. Nehemiah 13:2.—W. Walters, Christian World Pulpit, vol. xix., p. 371; Parker, Fountain, June 6th, 1878. Nehemiah 13:4.—S. Baring-Gould, One Hundred Sermon Sketches, p. 69. Nehemiah 13:18.—J. Budgen, Parochial Sermons, vol. i., p. 141. Nehemiah 13:31.—E. Monro, Practical Sermons, vol. iii., p. 179.