\\INTRODUCTION TO MALACHI\\ This book, in the Hebrew copies, is called Sepher Malachi, the Book of Malachi; in the Vulgate Latin version, the Prophec...
CURSE kurs ('alah (Numbers 5:21,23,17, etc.), me'erah (Proverbs 3:33; Malachi 2:2, etc.), klalah (Genesis 27:12,13); katara (Galatians 3:10,13)): Thi...
Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded Or blew his trumpet: and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood; somewhat like one of the plagues of...
Lawrence Chadderton, D. D.?This celebrated divine was born at Chadderton in Lancashire,, in the year 1537, having descended from a wealthy family. He ...
Job 34:24 He shall break in pieces mighty men without number Such as are mighty in bodily strength, as the giants of the old world, and such as were i...
Job 34:6 Should I lie against my right? &c.] No; I ought not: this though Job had not said in so many words, yet this seems to be his sense in ( Job 2...
\\INTRODUCTION TO AMOS\\ This book in the Hebrew Bibles is called Sepher Amos, the Book of Amos; and, in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, the P...
Job 26:5 Dead [things] are formed from under the waters It is difficult to say what things are here meant; it may be understood of lifeless things, as...
FINE fin (adj., from Latin finire, to finish): Indicates superior quality. Only in a few instances does fine represent a separate word: (1) Tobh, go...
HARVEST har'-vest (qatsir; therismos): To many of us, harvest time is of little concern, because in our complex life we are far removed from the actu...
Weights and Measures. A. WEIGHTS. --The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments the preference on all doubt...
Job 22:2 Can a man be profitable unto God? &c.] Eliphaz imagined that Job thought so, by his insisting so much on his integrity, and complaining of hi...
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men He thought of the condition of the children of men, their sinful and p...
Genesis 28:17 And he was afraid Not with a servile but filial fear; not with a fear of the wrath and displeasure of God, but with a fear of his grace ...
Micah 7:10 Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it] The Chaldeans and Edomites shall see people of the Jews rising out of their calamities, brough...
John Pendarves, A. B.?This person was born in Cornwall, in the year 1622, and educated at Exeter college, Oxford. In the year 1642, when the nation wa...
Under date of Nov. 12, 1857, Mr. M. writes: ? The long looked-for and long prayed-for day had now arrived when the desire of my heart was granted to...
CRETE kret (Krete, ethnic Kretes, Acts 2:11; Titus 1:12): An island bounding the Aegean Sea on the South. It stretches from 34 degrees 50' to 35 degr...
Transfiguration [N]An event in Jesus' life in which his appearance was radiantly transformed. The transfiguration is recorded in each of the Synoptic ...
Nathaniel Bernard, A. M.?This excellent minister was educated in Emanuel college, Cambridge, afterwards lecturer at St. Sepulchre's, London, and a gr...