Horae Homileticae, Volume 18: Philippians to 1 Timothy
Overview
In Volume 18 of Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae commentary series the author analyzes Philippians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians and 1 Timothy. A quick glance at the table of contents is all it takes to realize that Simeon has skillfully divided these Epistles into manageable, coherent sections. Although this volume was written over 150 years ago, Simeon's work applies today more than ever.
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
“ONE of the strongest characteristics of our fallen nature is selfishness. The one desire of an unregenerate man is to gratify self.” (Page 50)
“ONE of the most distinguished peculiarities of our holy religion is, that it suggests entirely new motives to action.” (Page 223)
“NEVER can we lay too great a stress on the practical duties of Christianity, provided we keep them in their proper place, and perform them not for the purpose of making them a justifying righteousness before God, but of evincing the sincerity of our faith in Christ, and the truth of our love to him. The things of this world always stand, as it were, in competition with him; and the carnal man gives to them a decided and habitual preference.” (Page 539)
“It was not a mere creature that took upon him our nature, but God himself, as the Scriptures both of the Oldh and New Testamenti uniformly assert.” (Pages 504–505)
“But love is a laborious grace: it is always seeking for something which it may do, either for God or man. It cannot endure to be idle.” (Page 271)
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 18: Philippians to 1 Timothy
- Author: Charles Simeon
- Series: Horae Homileticae
- Publisher: Holdsworth and Ball
- Publication Date: 1832
- Pages: 552