During the year ending May 26, 1855, Mr. M. received toward the erection of the second new Orphan House five thousand two hundred and fortytwo pounds...
Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.] By abstaining from all servile work and business, and from all pleasures and recreations lawfu...
Numbers 9:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai While the people of Israel were encamped there, before they took their journey fr...
John Holmes was brought up under Bishop Jewel, and was an excellent preacher, and a man of great piety. Bishop Woolton of Exeter having obtained a go...
ASYLUM a-si'-lum: The custom of fleeing to specially sacred places to obtain the protection of a deity is found all over the world (Post, Grundriss, ...
Bishop. [N] [B] [E]The word originally signified an overseer or spiritual superintendent. The titles bishop and elder, or presbyter, were essentially...
Overview - Genesis 2 1?The first Sabbath. 4?Further particulars concerning the manner of creation. 8?The planting of the garden of Eden, and its sit...
Overview - Leviticus 25 1?The sabbath of the seventh year. 8?The jubilee in the fiftieth year. 14?Of oppression. 18?A blessing of obedience. 23?The r...
PENTECOST pen'-te-kost: 1. In the Old Testament: As the name indicates (pentekoste), this second of the great Jewish national festivals was observed...
CHAPTER 28 Numbers 28:1-31 . OFFERINGS TO BE OBSERVED. 2. Command the children of Israel, and say unto them--The repetition of several laws...
ORDINANCE or'-di-nans: 1. Old Testament Use: This word generally represents chuqqah, something prescribed, enactment, usually with reference to matt...
Festivals. [N]I. The religious times ordained int he law fall under three heads: Those formally connected with the institution of the Sabbath; This h...
Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law The ten commandments, and all other laws, both ceremonial and civil: which Moses...
Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers Meaning not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Moses, Aaron, and others, who were living at the time of th...
First of all (en prwtoi). Among first things. In primis. Not to time, but to importance. Which I also received (o kai parelabon). Direct revelation c...
CHAPTER 26 Matthew 26:1-16 . CHRIST'S FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEATH, AS NOW WITHIN TWO DAYS, AND THE SIMULTANEOUS CONSPIRACY OF THE JEWISH ...
Overview - 1?Corinthians 11 1?He reproves them, because in holy assemblies, 4?their men prayed with their heads covered, 6?and women with their head...
Month [N] [S]Among the Egyptians the month of thirty days each was in use long before the time of the Exodus, and formed the basis of their calculatio...
Thank offering, or Peace offering, the properly eucharistic offering among the Jews, in its theory resembling the meat offering and therefore indicat...
Concubine [B] [S]in the Bible denotes a female conjugally united to a man, but in a relation inferior to that of a wife. Among the early Jews, from va...