Call, Calling This prominent biblical term is used with particular theological significance in three ways: in connection with worship, with election, ...
SERVICE sur'-vis: Six Hebrew, two Aramaic and four Greek words are so rendered. 1. In the Old Testament: In the Old Testament the word most used fo...
SONS OF GOD (NEW TESTAMENT) 1. New Testament Terms: Two Greek words are translated son, teknon, huios, both words indicating sonship by parentage, th...
Gentleness [N]Sensitivity of disposition and kindness of behavior, founded on strength and prompted by love.The Old Testament. Gentleness is suggested...
Citizenship [E] [S]The concept of spiritual citizenship is most clearly expressed in Philippians 3:20, where Paul writes, Our citizenship (politeuma [...
Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory for . . . Their gladness and rejoicing is because the marriage has come. As in the First Coming of Chri...
Chapter?117This psalm is short and sweet; I doubt the reason why we sing it so often as we do is for the shortness of it; but, if we rightly understoo...
Power [N]Power is an English logical construct referring to a variety of ideas relating to ability, capacity, authority, and might/strength. In human ...
PETER. CHAPTER III. Various Practical Duties. SUMMARY.--Duties of Women. Of Husbands. Duties of Christians Towards Each Other. Attitude Towards Ad...
But the cowardly Cowardly is ??????? [deilois] : ?timid [ones],?1 ?persons showing fear in a shameful way.?2 The word is used to describe lack of fa...
LUKE. CHAPTER XVIII. Parables Concerning Prayer. SUMMARY.--The Widow and the Unjust Judge. The Pharisee and the Publican. Little Children Brough...
Mission Basic Definition. Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether supernatural or human, to speak or do God's will so that h...
Spirituality [N]Hebrew Spirituality. Hebrew spirituality is a life lived within the framework defined by God's saving Acts in his history with his peo...
\\INTRODUCTION TO HEBREWS\\ That this epistle was written very early appears from hence, that it was imitated by Clement of Rome, in his epistle to ...
Hell [N] [T] [E] [S]Place of God's final retributive punishment. Scripture progressively develops this destiny of the wicked: the Old Testament outli...
ULTIMATE FATES THE decision of the will for or against Christ necessarily determines whether the subsequent evolution of the individual shall be an u...
Necromancy [N]Form of divination in which a person calls upon the dead to receive communication that clarifies knowledge. Ugaritic texts from the midd...
Chapter?1We have here, I. The inscription, as usual (v.?1, v.?2). II. His thanksgiving to God for what he had heard concerning them?their faith, love,...
Chapter?26Moses here receives instructions, I. Concerning the inner curtains of the tent or tabernacle, and the coupling of those curtains (v.?1-6). I...
INTRODUCTION THE headings ( Ephesians 1:1 Ephesians 3:1 claims to be that of Paul. This claim is confirmed by the testimonies of IREN?US, [Again...