In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life The Greek lacks the article: the tree. There are several trees, ea...
great hail This recalls the plague of hail which struck Egypt prior to the Exodus:And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. So there was hail, a...
INTRODUCTION ITS GENUINENESS is attested by 2?Peter 3:1 Also by POLYCARP (in EUSEBIUS [Ecclesiastical History, 4.14]), who, in writing to the Phi...
Chapter?5 Christ's sermon on the mount. (1,2) Who are blessed. (3-12) Exhortations and warnings. (13-16) Christ came to confirm the law. (17-20) The ...
the great day of His wrath The great day is The Day of the Lord, a unique time yet future when God will radically intervene in history to demonstrate...
CHRISTIAN kris'-chan, kris'-ti-an (Christianos): 1. Historicity of Acts 11:26 2. Of Pagan Origin 3. The Christian Attitude to the Name 4. Was ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 2 PETER\\ Though there was, among the ancients, a doubt concerning the authority of this epistle, which is first mentioned by Orig...
INTRODUCTION THIS is called by EUSEBIUS ([Ecclesiastical History, 2.23], about the year 330 A.D). the first of the Catholic Epistles, that is, the ...
CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT $ I. CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF JESUS$ 1. Birth of Jesus (1) Death of Herod (2) Census of Quirinius (3) Star of the...
Some preterist interpreters, such as Chilton, believe that Babylon is a code name for Jerusalem:1 The primary thrust of the prophecy has been directe...
Now we come upon a subject of great importance: the primacy (ultimate importance) of Scripture. While the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture is o...
Crown [N] [E] [S]The concept of the crown originates from a cap, turban, or more formal metallic crown that was decorated with jewels. Its placement o...
He laid hold of the dragon Laid hold is ???????? [ekrat?se] : ?take into one?s possession or custody . . . arrest . . . apprehend someone.?1 The dra...
LITERATURE, SUB-APOSTOLIC, 1 lit'-er-a-tur, sub-ap-os-tol'-ik (Christian): I. EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS 1. Authorship and Date 2. Occas...
Here is wisdom This phrase indicates that what follows constitutes a riddle of sorts requiring great wisdom to comprehend. A similar statement introd...
I saw the dead, small and great Every category of man now stands on an individual basis before God. Wealth, power, fame, is all immaterial now. As the...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 26. My flesh and my heart faileth. They had failed him already, and he had almost fallen; they would fail him in the hour of death, a...
\\INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 65\\ This chapter contains an answer to the prayer begun \\#Isa 63:15\\, and continued in the preceding chapter; in which re...
who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
hail At this juncture, we once again encounter a major fork in the road of interpretation where many interpreters insist on understanding the effects ...