Whom he chose (ou exelexato). Indirect aorist middle indicative. In Mark alone. Explains the sovereign choice of God in the end by and for himself. ...
Ezekiel 33:29 Then shall they know that I am the Lord An omniscient Being, that could foresee and foretell what would come to pass; and omnipotent, ab...
?A theocracy is a form of government in which God?s rule is administered by one or more representatives over a possession of God in accordance with Hi...
Caesar, [N] [E]always in the New Testament the Roman emperor, the sovereign of Judea. ( John 19:12 John 19:15 ; Acts 17:7 ) [N] indicates this entr...
Pardon [N] [T] [B]the forgiveness of sins granted freely ( Isaiah 43:25 ), readily ( Nehemiah 9:17 ; Psalms 86:5 ), abundantly ( Isaiah 55:7 ; Roman...
2 Chronicles 11:13 And the priests and the Levites, that were in all Israel In the ten tribes, in the cities assigned to them therein: resorted to hi...
1 Samuel 16:17 And Saul said unto his servants Approving of, and pleased with the advice they gave: provide me now a man that can play well, and brin...
\\INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 18\\ This chapter expresses the sovereign power of God ever his creatures, and his usual methods of dealing with them; it ...
VI. PRETERITION NECESSARY TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD IN ELECTION 1 It is generally conceded by those who advocate a revision of the Confession, that ...
1 Corinthians 12:18 But now hath God set the members The members of a natural body, as they are all made and fashioned by God in the form they be, so ...
2 Kings 15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah The same with Azariah: he is sometimes c...
1 Samuel 24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, &c.] His conscience accused him, and he repented of what he had done: beca...
1 Kings 2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the Lord Which was made by him, and in his presence, and in which he was appealed to, and so by n...
1 Kings 1:16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king Not only as being her husband, but her sovereign; and this behaviour might intimate, t...
AHUZZATH a-huz'-ath ('achuzzath, possession): A friend perhaps a minister, of Abimelech, king of Gerar. He together with Phicol, commander of the arm...
Leviticus 22:33 That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God, &c.] Whereby he showed himself to be their covenant God and Father, who had...
Jeremiah 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord Make, and mar, and remake at pleasure? certainly he could. God is...
Ambrose. Ambrose.(1) A Memorial(2) a which Ambrose, a chief man of Greece, wrote: who became a Christian, and all his fellow-senators raised an outcry...
2 Chronicles 13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up Notwithstanding it was well known the kingdom wa...
Luke 20:25 And he said unto them, render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's The Arabic version renders it, give to the king what is th...