Unto them (pro autou). The lictors by the jailor. The reply of Paul is a marvel of brevity and energy, almost every word has a separate indictment sh...
BAND The English word has two generic meanings, each shading off into several specific meanings: (1) that which holds together, binds or encircles: ...
Chapter 88:3? Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; a...
Apostle [N] [E] [S](Gk. apostolos [ajpovstolo]). Envoy, ambassador, or messenger commissioned to carry out the instructions of the commissioning aget....
UNKNOWN GOD un-non', (agnostos theos): In Acts 17:23 (St. Paul's speech in Athens) the American Standard Revised Version reads: I found also an altar...
LUKE, THE GOSPEL OF || 1. Text 2. Canonicity 3. Authorship 4. Sources 5. Credibility 6. Characteristics 7. Date 8. Analysis LITERATURE 1. Te...
Doubt It is possible to have questions (or doubts) about persons, propositions, or objects. Philosophically and epistemologically doubt has been deeme...
PILATE; PONTIUS pi'-lat, pi'-lat, pon'-shi-us (Pontios Peilatos): 1. Name and Office 2. Pilate's Procuratorship 3. Pilate and Jesus Christ 4. Pila...
SILAS si'-las (Silas, probably contraction for Silouanos; the Hebrew equivalents suggested are shalish, Tertius, or shelach (Genesis 10:24) (Knowling)...
\\INTRODUCTION TO GALATIANS\\ The persons to whom this epistle is written were not such who made up a single church only, in some certain town or ci...
COVETOUSNESS kuv'-et-us-nes: Has a variety of shades of meaning determined largely by the nature of the particular word used, or the context, or both...
PHILIP, THE EVANGELIST One of the seven chosen to have the oversight of the daily ministration of the poor of the Christian community in Jerusalem (Ac...
Chapter 22:3? And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. cloven tongues tongues, as of fire, parting a...
PHOENIX fe'-niks (Phoinix; the King James Version Phenice): A harbor in Crete (Acts 27:12). The Alexandrian corn ship carrying Paul and the author of...
\\INTRODUCTION TO ROMANS\\ Though this epistle is in order placed the first of the epistles, yet it was not first written: there were several epi...
Age, Old (the Aged) Though the Bible seldom discusses old age directly, there are several terms that relate to this topic. The most common Hebrew expr...
SEA, THE GREAT (ha-yam ha-gadhol): 1. Names of the Sea: This is the name given to the Mediterranean, which formed the western boundary of Palestine ...
Overview - Galatians 6 1?He moves them to deal mildly with a brother that has slipped, 2?and to bear one another's burden; 6?to be liberal to their ...
ANDREW an'-droo (Andreas, i.e. manly. The name has also been interpreted as the mighty one, or conqueror): Andrew was the first called of the Twelve ...
PRAYER prar (deesis, proseuche, (enteuxis; for an excellent discussion of the meaning of these see Thayer's Lexicon, p. 126, under the word deesis; th...