NOTES ON ST PAUL'S FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS NOTES ON ST PAUL'S FIRST EPISTLE TO T...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 CORINTHIANS 2\\ The apostle, in this chapter, pursues the same argument as before, that the Gospel needed not the wisdom and art...
Overview - Romans 11 1?God has not cast off all Israel. 7?Some were elected, though the rest were hardened. 16?There is hope of their conversion. 18?...
Fear (pobo). Like a bond-slave ( Romans 8:15 ), not the reverence of a son (eulabeia, Hebrews 5:7 ) or the obedience to a father (en pobwi, 1?Peter...
If we (ean hmei). Condition of third class (ean and aorist middle subjunctive euaggelishtai). Suppose I (literary plural) should turn renegade and pr...
Overview - Luke 9 1?Christ sends his apostles to work miracles, and to preach. 7?Herod desires to see Christ. 10?The apostles return. 12?Christ feeds...
Become death unto me? (emoi egeneto qanato?). Ethical dative emoi again. New turn to the problem. Admitting the goodness of God's law, did it issue i...
For the sake of the Name (uper tou onomato). The name of Jesus. See Acts 5:4 ; Romans 1:5 for uper tou onomato and James 2:7 for the absolute us...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
Lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would (mh pw elqwn ouc oiou qelw eurw uma). An idiomatic construction after the verb ...
Even (de). Not adversative here. It defines here. Through faith in Jesus Christ (dia pistew [Ihsou] Cristou). Intermediate agency (dia) is faith and ...
By reason of the exceeding greatness (th uperbolh). Instrumental case, by the excess. That I should not be exalted overmuch (ina mh uperairwmai). Pre...
Ministers of Christ (uphreta Cristou). Paul and all ministers (diakonou) of the New Covenant ( 1?Corinthians 3:5 ) are under-rowers, subordinate rowe...
Beast [B]This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals ( Exodus 22:5 ; Numbers 20:4 Numbers 20:8 Numbers 20:11 ; Psalms 78:48 ); of beas...
This treasure (ton qhsauron touton). On qhsauron see Matthew 6:19-21 . It is the power of giving the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of G...
Overview - Isaiah 40 1?The promulgation of the Gospel. 3?The preaching of John Baptist. 9?The preaching of the apostles. 12?The prophet, by the omni...
When we were children (ote hmen nhpioi). Before the epoch of faith came and we (Jews and Gentiles) were under the law as paedagogue, guardian, stewar...
Concerning our affliction (uper th qlipsew hmwn). Manuscripts read also peri for in the Koin uper (over) often has the idea of peri (around). Paul ha...
Chapter 11:2? Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every pla...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 14. In the daytime also he led them with a cloud. HE did it all. He alone. He brought them into the wilderness, and he led them throu...