DEUTERO-CANONICAL, BOOKS du-ter-o-ka-non'-i-kal: A term sometimes used to designate certain books, which by the Council of Trent were included in the...
Psalms 59:6 They return at evening It was at evening Saul sent messengers to watch David's house, that they might take him in the morning; but missing...
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son It is said that God spared not the angels that sinned, nor the old world, which was full of violence, nor S...
Matthew 22:7 But when the king heard thereof Of this maltreatment, and barbarous usage of his servants, their cries coming up into his ears, and their...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. Send thee help from the sanctuary. Out of heaven's sanctuary came the angel to strengthen our Lord, and from the precious remembra...
Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? &c.] Meaning Joseph, who was by trade a carpenter, and whose son Jesus was supposed to be; and who very...
?EXPOSITION Verse 48. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting. Has not his mercy endured for ever, and should not his praise...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 14. For all the day long have I been plagued. He was smitten from the moment he woke to the time he went to bed. His griefs were not ...
I am A trademark of the book of John which records the self-identification of Jesus using this phrase. Jesus said unless you believe ?I am? (John John...
Letter CLXIV(1) Letter CLXIV(1) To Ascholius.(2) 1. IT would not be easy for me to say how very much delighted I am with your holiness's letter. My w...
Introductory Note to the Epistle Concerning the Martyrdom of Polycarp.Introductory Note to the Epistle Concerning the Martyrdom of Polycarp.--------In...
Epistle LXXVII. Epistle LXXVII.(1) The Reply of Nemesianus, Dativus, Felix, and Victor, to Cyprian. Argument.-This Epistle and the Two Following Conta...
Epistle XXXII. Epistle XXXII.(1) To the Clergy and People, About the Ordination of Aurelius as a Reader. Argument.-Cyprian Tells the Clergy and People...
Epistle XXXVI. Epistle XXXVI.(1) To the Clergy, Bidding Them Show Every Kindness to the Confessors in Prison. Argument.-He Exhorts His Clergy that Eve...
Executions at Colchester It was before mentioned that twenty-two persons had been sent up from Colchester, who upon a slight submission, were afterwa...
Rev. John Rough This pious martyr was a Scotchman. At the age of seventeen, he entered himself as one of the order of Black Friars, at Stirling, in S...
Cuthbert Symson Few professors of Christ possessed more activity and zeal than this excellent person. He not only labored to preserve his friends fro...
CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT kan'-un $ I. TWO PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS$ 1. Early Christians Had the Old Testament 2. No Intention of Writing the Ne...
Introductory Note to Tatian the Assyrian.INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO TATIAN THE ASSYRIAN.[Translated by J. E. Ryland.] [a.d. 110-172.] It was my first intent...
1 Corinthians 7:10 And unto the married I command To the unmarried and widows he spoke by permission, or only gave advice and counsel to remain unmarr...