Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of Many modern interpreters believe that eschatology, the doctrine of the endtimes, is the center of the apost...
Chapter?50This psalm, as the former, is a psalm of instruction, not of prayer or praise; it is a psalm of reproof and admonition, in singing which we ...
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 1 pol, I. Sources 1. The Acts 2. The Thirteen Epistles (1) Pauline Authorship (2) Lightfoot's Grouping (a) First Group (1 and...
Righteousness [N] [T] [E]God the Father is righteous (just); Jesus Christ his Son is the Righteous (Just) One; the Father through the Son and in the S...
Destroy, Destruction Destroy in the Bible usually refers to violent action causing physical death ( Num 16:33 ; Psalm 2:12 ; Heb. abad [d;b'a]). But ...
Chapter?20All things being prepared for the solemn promulgation of the divine law, we have, in this chapter, I. The ten commandments, as God himself s...
This book is to be regarded as a continuation from Heaven of the teaching which the Lord began when on earth. (Acts i, 1.) A considerable number of y...
Chapter?28We have here, I. Jacob parting with his parents, to go to Padanaram; the charge his father gave him (v.?1, v.?2), the blessing he sent him a...
Leadership [N]The Old Testament. In the earliest days of the Old Testament, leadership of the people of God was by the family head or patriarch, to wh...
Sexuality, Human Foundations This essay is based on the following premises: (1) Those functions founded in the unfallen created order that God proclai...
CHAPTER II. THE RECONCILIATION OF MAN TO GOD, OR THE APPLICATION OF REDEMPTION THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. SECTION I.?THE APPLICATION OF...
XV. 1 Thessalonians 5, 25.?Brethren, pray for us. This brief request, standing, as it does, in a series of laconic exhortations, is a striking illus...
Chapter?1After the introduction (v.?1) the apostle begins with a thanksgiving to God for the saving benefits bestowed on them (v.?2-5). And then menti...
Chapter?2In this chapter Paul treats, I. Of prayer, with many reasons for it (v.?1-8). II. Of women?s apparel (v.?9, v.?10). III. Of their subjection,...
Blessed is he Luther?s comments underscore the need for a consistently literal interpretation of this book: ?Even if it were a blessed thing to believ...
VII. PRETERITION AND THE LOPSIDED VIEW OF THE DIVINE DECREE The doctrine of the Divine decree is inseparably connected with that of the manifestatio...
Chapter?21The laws recorded in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they are not accommodated to our constitution, espe...
Eighteenth Day. THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST. ftfje fLioertg of ttyt Spirit 'The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of si...
CHAPTER 1. OF THE TRUE CHURCH. DUTY OF CULTIVATING UNITY WITH HER, AS THE MOTHER OF ALL THE GODLY. The three divisions of this chapter are,--I. The a...
Chapter?1In this chapter we have, I. The preface or introduction to the epistle, showing from and to whom it was written, with the apostle?s salutatio...