GODS ('elohim; theoi): I. IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 1. Superhuman Beings (God and Angels) 2. Judges, Rulers 3. Gods of the Nations 4. Superiority of Y...
Chapter?13Moses is still upon that necessary subject concerning the peril of idolatry. In the close of the foregoing chapter he had cautioned them aga...
Chapter 88:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priest...
Book IV.(1) Book IV.(1) ------------Argument-In this book it is proved that the extent and long duration of the Roman empire is to be ascribed, not to...
Book II. Book II.(1) Chapter I.-The Heathen Gods from Heathen Authorities. Varro Has Written a Work on the Subject. His Threefold Classification. The...
CHAPTER 18 Jeremiah 18:1-23 . GOD, AS THE SOLE SOVEREIGN, HAS AN ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO DEAL WITH NATIONS ACCORDING TO THEIR CONDUCT TOWARDS HIM; ...
Book IIBook II------------Argument-In this book Augustin reviews those calamities which the Romans suffered before the time of Christ, and while the w...
CHAPTER 10 Judges 10:1-5 . TOLA JUDGES ISRAEL IN SHAMIR. 1. after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, Tola--that is, to save. Deliverance...
Acts of Sharbil, Acts of Sharbil,(1) Who Was a Priest of Idols, and Was Converted to the Confession of Christianity in Christ.(2) In the fifteenth yea...
Book IV.Book IV.1. We would ask you, and you above all, O Romans, lords and princes of the world, whether you think that Piety, Concord, Safety, Honou...
Book IIIBook III------------Argument-As in the foregoing book Augustin has proved regarding moral and spiritual calamities, so in this book he proves ...
CHAPTER 57 Isaiah 57:1-21 . THE PEACEFUL DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS FEW: THE UNGODLINESS OF THE MANY: A BELIEVING REMNANT SHALL SURVIVE THE GENER...
Book V.Book V.1. Admitting that all these things which do the immortal gods dishonour, have been put forth by poets merely in sport, what of those fou...
Book I. Of the False Worship of the Gods.Book I. Of the False Worship of the Gods. Preface.-Of What Great Value the Knowledge of the Truth is and Alwa...
CHAPTER 35 Genesis 35:1-15 . REMOVAL TO BETHEL. 1. God said unto Jacob, Arise, &c.--This command was given seasonably in point of time and te...
CHAPTER 13 Jeremiah 13:1-27 . SYMBOLICAL PROPHECY ( Jeremiah 13:1-7 ). Many of these figurative acts being either not possible, or not proba...
1. THIS Amon imitated those works of his father which he insolently did when he was young: so he had a conspiracy made against him by his own serva...
Chapter 1111:1 Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, [even] I, a stood to confirm and to strengthen him. (a) The angel assures Daniel that God ...
1. A VERY sad calamity now befell the Jews that were in Mesopotamia, and especially those that dwelt in Babylonia. Inferior it was to none of the c...
Chapter?10In this chapter we have, I. The peaceable times Israel enjoyed under the government of two judges, Tola and Jair (v.?1-5). II. The troubleso...