CYRIA sir'-i-a (Kuria): The word means lady, feminine of lord, and it is so translated in the King James Version and the text of the Revised Version ...
LADY la'-di: This word should be taken in the sense of mistress in Isaiah 47:5,7 (Hebrew gebhereth) (so the American Standard Revised Version). In Ju...
GODSPEED god'-sped (chairo): Godspeed occurs only in 2John 1:10,11 the King James Version as the translation of chairein, the infin. of chairo, and i...
ELECT LADY e-lekt' la'-di (eklekte kuria; 2John 1:1): In accordance with strict grammatical usage these words of address may be translated in three w...
SISTER sis'-ter ('achoth): Used repeatedly in the Old Testament of a female (1) having the same parents as another; or (2) having one parent in com...
JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF, PART 4-9 IV. Canonicity and Authorship. 1. Traditional View: As to the reception of the Epistle in the church, it is needless...
EXCOMMUNICATION eks-ko-mu-ni-ka'-shun: Exclusion from church fellowship as a means of personal discipline, or church purification, or both. Its germs...
PERSON OF CHRIST, 4-5 IV. Teaching of John. 1. The Epistles: In the circumstances in which he wrote, John found it necessary to insist upon the elem...
WRITING, 2 V. Materials. The materials used in writing include almost every imaginable substance, mineral, vegetable, and animal: gold, silver, copp...
GNOSTICISM nos'-ti-siz'-m: I. GENERAL DEFINITION II. SOURCES OF GNOSTICISM 1. Alexandrian Philosophy 2. Zoroastrianism III. NATURE OF GNOSTICISM ...