Kill, Killing The Old Testament. The Old Testament uses many terms to refer to the act ofkilling, some of which can be used interchangeably (see 2 Sa...
Micah 4:8 And thou, O tower of the flock The words Migdal Eder are left by some untranslated, and think that place to be intended so called, which was...
BOTTLE bot'-'-l (chemeth, no'-dh, nebhel, baqbuq, 'obh; askos): The most literal rendering of all the words for bottle in English Versions of the Bib...
-. FIRST WITHDRAWAL FROM HEROD'S TERRITORY AND RETURN. (Spring, A. D. 29.)Subdivision B.FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND. a?MATT. 14:13-21; b?MARK 6:33-4...
Joel 3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day When antichrist shall be destroyed; the Jews converted; the power of godliness revived, and the presen...
CHAPTER 3 Revelation 3:1-22 . THE EPISTLES TO SARDIS, PHILADELPHIA, AND LAODICEA. 1. Sardis--the ancient capital of Lydia, the kingdom of wea...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega These are the words of Christ himself, appearing at once, and confirming what John had said of him, concerning his...
Abstain, Abstinence Forbearance of certain activities as a matter of command and voluntary practice for moral and religious purposes. The word-group t...
CHAPTER 15. THE BOASTED MERIT OF WORKS SUBVERSIVE BOTH OF THE GLORY OF GOD, IN BESTOWING RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND OF THE CERTAINTY OF SALVATION. The divisi...
CHAPTER 18 Isaiah 18:1-7 . Isaiah announces the overthrow of Sennacherib's hosts and desires the Ethiopian ambassadors, now in Jerusalem, to...
Isaiah, Theology of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, was an eighth-century prophet who appeared at a critical time inJudah's history, proclaiming a message of...
CHAPTER 8. THE CREDIBILITY OF SCRIPTURE SUFFICIENTLY PROVED IN SO FAR AS NATURAL REASON ADMITS. This chapter consists of four parts. The first contai...
Gospel [N] [E]Glad tidings or good news, from Anglo-Saxon godspell.The Old Testament. Good news is proclaimed widely ( 1 Sam 31:9 ; Psalm 96:2-3 ; ...
2. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. [The Jews' feast of Tabernacles.] Tisri. Let us draw down this month from its beginning to this fe...
Matthew 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood Or the blood of all the righteous men, as the Syriac: Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versio...
CHAPTER 2 Jeremiah 2:1-37 . EXPOSTULATION WITH THE JEWS, REMINDING THEM OF THEIR FORMER DEVOTEDNESS, AND GOD'S CONSEQUENT FAVOR, AND A DENUNC...
Chapter?4It was, more than any thing else, the glory of the land of Israel, that it was Emmanuel?s land (Isa.?8:8 ), not only the place of his birth, ...
CHAPTER 25 Matthew 25:1-13 . PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. This and the following parable are in Matthew alone. 1. Then--at the time referred ...
CHAPTER 2. MAN NOW DEPRIVED OF FREEDOM OF WILL, AND MISERABLY ENSLAVED. Having in the first chapter treated of the fall of man, and the corruption of...