1. AND now did the madness of the Sicarii, like a disease, reach as far as the cities of Cyrene; for one Jonathan, a vile person, and by trade a we...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 5. Every day they wrest my words. This is a common mode of warfare among the ungodly. They put our language on the rack, they extort ...
JESUS JUSTUS je'-zus jus'-tus Iesous ho legomenos Ioustos, Jesus that is called Justus, Colossians 4:11): 1. A Jew by Birth: One of three friends of...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. He will have need to pray, he will be led to pray aright and the answer shall sure...
2 Timothy 4:13 The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus About the word here rendered a cloak, interpreters are not agreed: some take it for a garmen...
Tractate CXIVTractate CXIV John XVIII. 28-32.1. Let us now consider, so far as indicated by the evangelist John, what was done with, or in regard to, ...
Ninth Day. BE PERFECT! Perfect as the Father. 'Ye shall therefore bo perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.'?Matt. V. 48. PERFECT before Go...
Deuteronomy 32:29 O that they were wise These are not the words of God, and so no instances of mere velleities, and unsuccessful wishes in him, and as...
Ezeki-el [N] [E] [H](the strength of God ), one of the four greater prophets, was the son of a priest named Buzi, and was taken captive in the captiv...
Ecclesiastes 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God In private conversation care should be t...
Thomas [N] [E] [H](a twin ), one of the apostles. According to Eusebius, his real name was Judas. This may have been a mere confusion with Thaddeus, ...
Psalms 56:8 Thou tellest my wanderings Not his sins; though these are aberrations or wanderings from the ways of God's commandments; yet these are not...
Romans 1:7 To all that be in Rome These words contain both the inscription of the epistle, and the apostle's usual salutation, as in all his epistles,...
The Canonical Answers of TimothyThe Canonical Answers of TimothyThe Most Holy Bishop of Alexandria, Who Was One of the CL Fathers Gathered Together at...
Chapter?8 Desire for communion with Christ. (1-4) The vehemence of this desire. (5-7) The church pleads for others. (8-12) And prays for Christ's com...
1. Now, in the second year of the reign of Joash over Israel, Amaziah reigned over the tribe of Judah in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jehoaddan...
1. NOW when the king's brother, Monobazus, and his other kindred, saw how Izates, by his piety to God, was become greatly esteemed by all men, they...
HYMN him (humnos): In Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:19 Paul bids his readers sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Gregory of Nyssa (4th century)...
SEBA se'-ba (cebha'; Saba (Genesis 10:7; 1?Chronicles 1:9); Greek ibid., but Codex Vaticanus has (Saban): 1. Forms of Name, and Parentage of Seba: T...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised. Worship should be somewhat like its object -- great praise for a great God. There i...