Horae Homileticae, Volume 9: Jeremiah to Daniel
Overview
Charles Simeon eloquently expounds on scripture in the classic Horae Homileticae Collection. In the series' ninth volume Simeon provides expert analysis on three of the four major prophets. This electronic resource contains more than 570 pages of commentary on Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel and Daniel.
These expository outlines (or "skeletons") are not a verse-by-verse explanation of the English Bible. Rather, they are a chapter-by-chapter study with explanations of the most important and instructive verses in each chapter. Simeon's aim with this commentary is "Instruction relative to the Composition of Sermons." To this end, his exposition of the Scriptures is designed to maintain a focus on the more general aspects of a passage over and above possible treatments of particulars. His test for a sermon, as he teaches in Horae Homileticae, is threefold: does it humble the sinner, exalt the Saviour and promote holiness?
Opposing all human systems of divinity, Simeon's commentary is also marked by an avoidance of any possible systemization of God's Word and entanglement with theological controversies. A self-described "moderate Calvinist" or, more plainly, a "Biblical Christian," Simeon believed that the Bible should speak for itself. "Be Bible Christians, not systems Christians" was his maxim; "My endeavor is to bring out of Scripture what is there, and not to thrust in what I think might be there. I have a great jealousy on this head; never to speak more or less than I believe to be the mind of the Spirit in the passage I am expounding." With Horae Homileticae this conviction is soundly applied.
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Top Highlights
“pride: but to confess it openly, to take shame to himself for it publicly before” (Page 490)
“EVERY created being derives its existence and support from God: yet man is prone to depend on the creature rather than on him.” (Page 141)
“Look not on your afflictions as tokens of God’s wrath, but rather as expressions of his love. There is a need for them, else they never would have been sent; and if they operate to purify your souls from dross, you will have reason to be thankful for them to all eternity. Be not, then, so anxious for the removal of your trials, as for the sanctification of them to your souls.” (Pages 324–325)
“Nor should a discovery of his purposes relax, but rather quicken, our diligence in prayer—” (Page 185)
“ in following his lusts, he dreamed of nothing but pleasure;” (Page 147)
Praise for the Print Edition
[Horae Homileticae] is the best place to go for researching Simeon's theology. You can find his views on almost every key text in the Bible … What Simeon experienced in the word was remarkable. And it is so utterly different from the counsel that we receive today that it is worth looking at …
—John Piper
If Wilberforce is the most famous evangelical layman in the Church of England, then Simeon is the most famous evangelical clergyman.
—Who's Who in Christian History
[The volumes of Horae Homileticae] have been called 'a valley of dry bones': be a prophet and they will live.
—Charles Spurgeon
Product Details
- Title: Horae Homileticae, Volume 9: Jeremiah to Daniel
- Author: Charles Simeon
- Series: Horae Homileticae
- Publisher: Holdsworth and Ball
- Publication Date: 1832
- Pages: 571