who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
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...
He laid hold of the dragon Laid hold is ???????? [ekrat?se] : ?take into one?s possession or custody . . . arrest . . . apprehend someone.?1 The dra...
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...
Death of Christ The Place in the Gospels. In the records of Jesus that the Gospels give us, it is clear that a place of supreme significance is given ...
After seventy years of captivity in Babylon which God had prophesied (2Chr. 2Chr. 36:21; Jer. Jer. 25:11; Jer. 29:10; Dan. Dan. 9:2), and as God had ...
Then the woman fled The connective, ?Then,? indicates a sequence between the catching up of the child and the fleeing of the woman. But are these two ...
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...
BABYLON IN THE NEW TESTAMENT Babylon Babulon, is used in New Testament in at least two different senses: 1. Mesopotamian Babylon: In Matthew 1:11,12...
Blessed is he Luther?s comments underscore the need for a consistently literal interpretation of this book: ?Even if it were a blessed thing to believ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
hail At this juncture, we once again encounter a major fork in the road of interpretation where many interpreters insist on understanding the effects ...
\\INTRODUCTION TO HEBREWS\\ That this epistle was written very early appears from hence, that it was imitated by Clement of Rome, in his epistle to ...
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...
\\INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA\\ This book, in the Hebrew Bibles, at least in some copies, is called Sopher Hosea, the Book of Hoses; and, in the Vulgate L...