To this end, his expositions of Galatians and Ephesians are designed to maintain a focus on the more general aspects of a passage over and above possible treatments of particulars. Rather, they are a chapter-by-chapter study with explanations of the most important and instructive verses in each chapter. This book contains three extracts from Simeon's 21 Volume 'Horae Homileticae' (published in 1831), which he preached as a 'simple, continuous exhibition' of the 'system of Christianity' and the power that fully develops the Christian, spiritually and practically. The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us. These expository outlines are not a verse-by-verse explanation of Galatians and Ephesians. And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. The volumes of Horae Homileticae have been called 'a valley of dry bones': be a prophet and they will live. He published hundreds of sermons and outlines of sermons (called 'sermon skeletons'), still in print, that to some were an invitation to clerical plagiarism. Horæ homileticæ, or Discourses, in the form of skeletons upon the whole Scriptures.
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