Neighbor [N]Once a lawyer, in an attempt to rationalize his own racial prejudice, asked Jesus, And who is my neighbor? ( Luke 10:29 ). This lawyer-scr...
Oil [N] [T] [E] [S]The most common word for oil in the Old Testament is the Hebrew word shemen [,m,v]. It occurs 192 times, and in the large majority ...
Chapter?4Ezekiel was now among the captives in Babylon, but they there had Jerusalem still upon their hearts; the pious captives looked towards it wit...
Hebrews, Theology of The theological epicenter of the Epistle to the Hebrews may be summed up in one word: Christology. No biblical document outside o...
Mind/Reason That part of the human being in which thought takes place and perception and decisions to do good, evil, and the like come to expression. ...
Poor and Poverty, Theology of Poverty in Scripture can be both social and spiritual. The words poor and poverty cover a wide range of meaning, overlap...
not defiled with women Defiled is ??????????? [Emolynth?san] : ?Causing something to be dirty soil, smear, stain; metaphorically, as keeping the life...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
Jeremiah, Theology of To state the theology of a book is to offer a synthesis of the material from a theologicalrather than historical angle of vision...
WITHIN THE BODY?THE INTESTINES AND THE KIDNEYS. Sec. XIII. The most usual Old Testament denominations of the parts inside the body, situated belo...
JAMES. CHAPTER V. Warnings to the Rich. SUMMARY.--The Sins of Rich Men. The Judgments Coming Upon Them. Patience Under Affliction. The Examples...
Chapter?14It does not appear upon what occasion this psalm was penned nor whether upon any particular occasion. Some say David penned it when Saul per...
Life [N] [E]God (Yahweh) as the Source and Sustainer of Life. According to Genesis 2:7, the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and br...
Disease [N]To understand the biblical records concerning illness it is necessary to think oneself back into a world that knew nothing of germs, bacter...
Chapter?26This is Job?s short reply to Bildad?s short discourse, in which he is so far from contradicting him that he confirms what he had said, and o...
Footnotes(1 )Eusebius seems to have adopted this name as a token of friendship and respect for Pamphilus, bishop of Caesarea. See McGiffert, Prolegome...
ISAIAH, 1-7 i-za'-ya, i-zi'-a: 1. Name 2. Personal History 3. Call 4. Literary Genius and Style 5. Traditions concerning His Martyrdom 6. Period...
SOUL AND SPIRIT IN THE MIDST OF DEATH. Sec. I. Sleep, as we have shown in Div. IV. Sec. XIV., is the periodical sinking down of the seventh, sixth, f...
Wealth [N]The most basic English definitions of wealth are the condition of being happy and prosperous and spiritual well-being (OED). But the most co...
Chapter?29Three chapters we had concerning Tyre and its king; next follow four chapters concerning Egypt and its king. This is the first of them. Egyp...