Nicolaitans (followers of Nicolas ), a sect mentioned in ( Revelation 2:6 Revelation 2:15 ) whose deeds were strongly condemned. They may have been ...
Law. [N] [B] [E]The word is properly used, in Scripture as elsewhere, to express a definite commandment laid down by any recognized authority; but wh...
Overview - Deuteronomy 31 1?Moses encourages the people. 7?He encourages Joshua. 9?He delivers the law unto the priests to be read in the seventh ye...
For Christ sent me not to baptize (ou gar apesteilen me Cristo baptizein). The negative ou goes not with the infinitive, but with apesteilen (from ap...
To Philippi (ei Pilippou). The plural like Aqhnai (Athens) is probably due to separate sections of the city united (Winer-Moulton, Grammar, p. 220). ...
Pressed upon him (epikeisqai). Luke in this paragraph ( Matthew 5:1-11 ; Mark 1:16-20 ; Matthew 4:18-22 ) does not follow the chronology of Mark as...
MORIAH, LAND OF mo-ri'-a ('erec ha-moriyah; eis ten genitive ten hupselen): Abraham was directed by God to take his son Isaac, to go into the land of...
2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.] Meaning either the goodness of God, both to the giver and receiver; for that the one ...
Chapter 11:3? But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;...
Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep [him] in perfect peace Peace with God in Christ through his blood, in a way of believing, and as the fruit and effect of hi...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 9. I will take no bullock out of thy house. Foolishly they dreamed that bullocks with horns and hoofs could please the Lord, when ind...
Romans 6:3 Know ye not that so many of us as, etc.] You must know this, you cannot be ignorant of it, that whoever were baptized into Jesus Christ, w...
Chapter?13 The invasion of the Philistines. (1-7) Saul sacrifices, He is reproved by Samuel. (8-14) The policy of the Philistines. (15-23) V...
Festivals, ReligiousThere were daily ( Leviticus 23 ), weekly, monthly, and yearly festivals, and great stress was laid on the regular observance of t...
Chapter?25 Verses 1-3 God needs not search into any thing; nothing can be hid from him. But it is the honour of rulers to search out matters, (...
If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy No one is to add to or take away from God?s word (Deu. Deu. 4:2; Deu. 12:32; Pr. Pr....
Luke 16:28 For I have five brethren Meaning his brethren and countrymen, according to the flesh; who when he was alive, stood in such a relation to hi...
LUKE. CHAPTER III. Jesus Anointed by the Holy Spirit. SUMMARY.--John's Preaching and Baptism. John's Witness of Christ. Herod and Herodias. Jes...
Matthew 26:34 Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee Christ, the more strongly to asseverate what he was about to say, uses the word verily, or p...
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine The comparison in this, and the following verses, is the concluding part of our Lord's ...