\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 THESSALONIANS\\ Thessalonica was a very large, populous, and flourishing city, it was liberae conditionis, as Pliny says {a}, a ...
In our discussion, we saw passages which recognized the potential for persons to be blotted out of the Book of Life (Ex. Ex. 32:32-33; Ps. Ps. 69:28;...
in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and of all who were slain on the earth Who were slain is ?????????? [esphagmen?n] , perfect passive...
they heard The MT text has ?????? [?kousa] instead of ??????? [?kousan] indicating I heard?emphasizing what John heard said to the two witnesses rathe...
Guide to Book AbbreviationThe following table lists (in alphabetical order) the names of each of the books of the Bible and it's corresponding shortes...
he who overcomes See Who is the Overcomer? keeps my works Jesus spoke of the need for endurance, especially as lawlessness would abound and the love ...
Puffeth up (pusioi). From pusiow (present indicative active). See on Galatians 4:6 . Pride may be the result, not edification (oikodomei) which come...
I know Perfect tense, ???? [oida] , ?I have known.? His knowledge of their past works results in the commendations and exhortations which presently f...
Scripture knows of two births, two deaths, and two resurrections. Everyone is physically born once. Those who do not undergo the second birth, the sp...
remember . . . how you have received The church at Sardis is given a command similar to that of the Ephesian church: to remember what they had earlie...
took the scroll ??????? [eil?phen] , perfect tense. An aorist use of the perfect tense encountered in narratives.1 The emphasis is on the past action...
The fruit of the Spirit (o karpo tou pneumato). Paul changes the figure from works (erga) in verse 1?Peter 19 to fruit as the normal out-cropping o...
So then (ara oun). Accordingly then. The illative ara is supported (Ellicott) by the collective oun as in 1?Thessalonians 5:6 ; Galatians 6:10 , et...
a male child who was to rule with a rod of iron To rule is ?????????? [Poimainein] : ?Herd, tend, (lead to) pasture.?1 Elsewhere, it is translated a...
from the east Literally, from the rising of the sun. Within Scripture, east is often the direction of the deliverance or judgment of God (Gen. Gen. 41...
As we enter our study of the book of Revelation, it will serve us well to remember that the book is ?the revelation of Jesus Christ? (Rev. Rev. 1:1+)...
The use of first to describe a resurrection which follows after Christ?s resurrection, gives us an initial clue that first cannot denote absolute chr...
Whatever the case may be concerning the red horses, the similarities between Zechariah?s vision of the chariots and the horsemen shown John are:Four d...
LUKE. CHAPTER XI. Rebuking the Pharisees. SUMMARY.--Teaching the Disciples to Pray. Parable of the Three Loaves. Earnestness in Prayer. The Cha...
And the Spirit and the bride say, ?Come!? Say is ???????? [legousin] , present tense: they are saying. The invitation is for the present and is ongoi...