John 3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, we speak that we do know, &c.] Meaning either himself, and John the Baptist his forerunner, who preached th...
Book Introduction - Galatians Read first chapter of Galatians WRITER: The Apostle Paul ( 1:1 ) DATE: Galatians was probably written A.D. 60, during P...
\\INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS 19\\ This chapter contains various laws, ceremonial and moral, tending to the sanctification of men, in imitation of the ...
Jeremiah 4:2 And thou shalt swear, the Lord liveth Or by the living Lord, by him and him only; not by the creatures, but by the God of truth. This is ...
Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men Here Christ applies the foregoing simile to his disciples, and more fully opens the meaning and design...
Ezekiel 16:11 And I decked thee also with ornaments The Targum interprets this of the ornament of the words of the law; see ( Proverbs 1:8 Proverbs 1...
1 Peter 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy Which is a periphrasis of God the Father, who had called them, not merely in an external way, by ...
Elucidation.Elucidation.The story of the Revelation is of little consequence, though, if this were Gregory's genuine work, it would be easy to account...
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation In a literal sense, as the people of the Jews were that descended from him, and in a spiritual sen...
Hand [N]Called by Galen the instrument of instruments. It is the symbol of human action ( Psalms 9:16 ; Job 9:30 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; 1?Timothy 2:8 ). W...
Thessalonians, Epistles to theThe first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all Paul's epistles. It was in all probability written from Cori...
Overview - 1?Samuel 14 1?Jonathan goes and miraculously smites the Philistine's garrison. 15?A divine terror makes them beat themselves. 17?Saul, not ...
Romans 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints Or communicating, as many versions render the word; distributing more properly belongs to the off...
Philippians 3:12 Not as though I had already attained Or received; he had received much grace out of the fulness of it in Christ; he had received the ...
John 17:23 I in them Christ is in his saints; not as he is in all the world, being the omnipresent God; or as he is in every man, communicating the li...
29th Day Election Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you that ye should go and bear fruit.?Ver. 16. The branch does not choose th...
Colossians 3:12 Put on therefore As the apostle had argued for the putting off of the members of the body, from their having put off the old man himse...
1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, &c.] Not to any office, as to that of bishops or presbyters; for though the apostl...
Job 10:10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk Expressing, in modest terms, his conception from the seed of his parents, comparable to milk, from being...
Psalms 32:2 Blessed [is] the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, &c.] Or does not think of it F14; with respect unto men, at least to the harm...