Consolation [N]Attempt to comfort someone who is in sorrow. The most frequently encountered Hebrew term is niham [WjIn]; parakaleo [parakalevw], param...
Exodus, Theology of The disclosure of God in the Book of Exodus develops from a distant deity of an oppressed people in Egypt to one in intimate relat...
CHAPTER 9 Ecclesiastes 9:1-18 . 1. declare--rather, explore; the result of my exploring is this, that the righteous, &c., are in the hand of ...
Cloud, Cloud of the Lord The Old Testament. The Literal Cloud. Natural phenomena involving clouds are depicted occasionally in the Old Testament, but ...
Zechariah, Theology of Introduction. Authorship. The book of Zechariah falls naturally into two parts: chapters 1-8 and 9-14. In the first part we fin...
CHAPTER II. THE ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH. By the ordinances, we mean those outward rites which Christ has appointed to be administered in his church...
BIRDS burds (`ayiT; Greek variously ta peteina (Matthew 13:4) ta ornea tou ouranou (Revelation 19:17) ornis (Matthew 23:37; Luke 13:34) Latin, avis; O...
Suffering [N]The experience of physical pain and/or mental distress. The words and phrases in the Bible expressing this concept are too numerous to li...
Footnotes(1 )Christus Comprobator, p. 99, sq.(1 )O twn Paterwn Pathr; o twn Nussaewn fwsthr, Council. Nic. II. Act. VI. Edition of Labbe, p. 477.-Nice...
TAX; TAXING taks, taks'-ing: I. INTRODUCTION 1. General Considerations 2. Limits of the Discussion II. TAXES IN ISRAEL UNDER SELF-GOVERNMENT 1. I...
Chapter?15It is generally agreed that Christ?s discourse in this and the next chapter was at the close of the last supper, the night in which he was b...
TEXT AND MANUSCRIPTS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT || I. SOURCES OF EVIDENCE FOR THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 1. Autographs of the New Testament Writers 2....
ALTAR ol'-ter (mizbeach, literally, place of slaughter or sacrifice, from zabhach, which is found in both senses; bomos, (only in Acts 17:23), thusias...
Chapter?9The apostasy of Israel after the death of Gideon is punished, not as the former apostasies by a foreign invasion, or the oppressions of any n...