Overview - Luke 24 1?Christ's resurrection is declared by two angels to the women that come to the sepulchre. 9?These report it to others. 13?Christ ...
The governor under Aretas (o eqnarch Hareta). How it came to pass that Damascus, ruled by the Romans after B.C. 65, came at this time to be under the...
PROVOCATION; PROVOKE prov-o-ka'-shun, pro-vok': Provoke, literally, to call forth, hence, to excite or stir up, whether in a good or bad sense, appea...
ADVICE; ADVISE; ADVISEMENT ad-vis', ad-viz', ad-viz'-ment: Aside from their regular meaning these words are peculiarly employed as follows: (1) Advi...
Psalms 104:24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works The psalmist having taken notice of many of the works of creation, stops and wonders at the number of...
Isaiah 24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest, &c.] Or, prince F16; no order or rank of men will fare better than another; their...
Overview - Exodus 3 1?Moses keeps Jethro's flock. 2?God appears to him in a burning bush. 9?He sends him to deliver Israel. 13?The name of God. 15?H...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 8-12 _VIII. The Speeches in Acts._ This matter is important enough to receive separate treatment. Are the numerous speeches rep...
FORMER for'-mer: The word in the sense of maker, framer, occurs only in Jeremiah 51:19, He is the former (from yatsar, to form) of all things. The ad...
Overview - Luke 14 1?Christ heals the dropsy on the sabbath; 7?teaches humility; 12?to feast the poor; 15?under the parable of the great supper, show...
Overview - Psalms 16 1?David, in distrust of merits, and hatred of idolatry, flees to God for preservation. 5?He shews the hope of his calling, of th...
TERAH (1) te'-ra (terach; Septuagint Tharra, or (with New Testament) Thara; on the name see especially HDB, under the word): The son of Nahor and fat...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
When we were children (ote hmen nhpioi). Before the epoch of faith came and we (Jews and Gentiles) were under the law as paedagogue, guardian, stewar...
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...
Genesis 43:3 And Judah spake unto him Reuben the eldest son had met with a repulse already, ( Genesis 42:36 ) ; Simeon the next was now in Egypt, ( Ge...
Overview - Matthew 12 1?Christ reproves the blindness of the Pharisees concerning the breach of the sabbath, 3?by scripture, 9?by reason, 13?and by ...
Overview - Philippians 4 1?From particular admonitions, 4?he proceeds to general exhortations, 10?shewing how he rejoiced at their liberality towards...
Overview - Acts 3 1?Peter preaching to the people that came to see a lame man restored to his feet, 12?professes the cure not to have been wrought by ...
PIECE OF SILVER Two words are thus rendered in the Old Testament (ratstse-khaceph, and qesiTah) and two in the New Testament argurion, and drachme). T...