STORK stork (chacidhah; variously rendered in the Septuagint: Leviticus 11:19, erodios; Deuteronomy 14:18, pelekan; Job 39:13, hasida (transliteratio...
1 John 2:16 For all that [is] in the world This is the sum of the evil things in the world; or these following are the objects of sin in the world, or...
Genesis 4:15 And the Lord said unto him In order to satisfy him, and make him easy in this respect, that: he need not fear an immediate or bodily deat...
CHAPTER 11 Numbers 11:1-35 . MANNA LOATHED. 1. When the people complained it displeased the Lord, &c.--Unaccustomed to the fatigues of travel...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. I will abundantly bless her provision. It must be so. How can we be without a blessing when the Lord is among us? We live upon h...
OSTRICH os'-trich (ya`anah; strouthos; Latin Struthio camelus): The largest bird now living. The Hebrew words ya`anah, which means greediness, and ba...
?EXPOSITION Verse 29. He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish. So that the plague was not a mere colouring of the water with red earth,...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. Thou turnest man to destruction, or to dust. Man's body is resolved into its elements, and is as though it had been crushed and g...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 16. He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat. Famine would have been an unknown word, they would have been fed on th...
MANNA man'-a (man; manna): The Hebrew man is probably derived, as Ebers suggests, from the Egyptian mennu, food. In Exodus 16:15, we have a suggested...
Chapter 5252:3 a For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah ...
Chapter?15 The law of the meat-offering and the drink-offering The stranger under the same law. (1-21) The sacrifice for the sin of ignorance. (22-29...
An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther This illustrious German divine and reformer of the Church was the son of John Luther and Mar...
Tractate CIII.Tractate CIII. John XVI. 29-33.1. The inward state of Christ's disciples, when before His passion He talked with them as with children o...
Acts 19:29 And the whole city was filled with confusion For the workmen that made the silver shrines very likely ran up and down in the city, crying o...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. And he gave them their request. Prayer may be answered in anger and denied in love. That God gives a man his desire is no proof ...
^BELARD, Peter, his genius, industry, and learning, iii. 339; his self-sufficiency and heretical propensities, ib; his cele- brity in the philosophi...
There are so many problems and dangers associated with preterism, it is difficult to know how to enumerate them. Here we will touch on our main conce...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 9. The picture becomes blacker, for here is the cunning of the lion, and of the huntsman, as well as the stealthiness of the robber. ...
BITTERN bit'-ern (qippodh; Latin Botaurus stellaris; Greek echinos): A nocturnal member of the heron family, frequenting swamps and marshy places. It...