FINISHER fin'-ish-er (teleiotes): This word is applied to Jesus (Hebrews 12:2), and comes from teleioo, to complete, to make perfect; hence, it means...
AUTHOR o'-ther: This word is used to translate two Greek words: (1) aitios, literally, cause, hence, author. Hebrews 5:9, He became the author of et...
Looking unto (aporwnte ei). Present active participle of aporaw, old verb to look away, looking away to Jesus. In N.T. only here and Philippians 2:2...
PREFACE. This work is an enlarged and amended edition of the author's Lectures on Theology, printed in 1876 for the use of students in the Rochester ...
Looting unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.?Heb. xii. 2. WE have heard, in the previous chapter, the great musterroll of the heroes o...
Adam, the Second Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation ( Col 1:15 ). Like the first Adam, he is the ruler of creat...
HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE he'-brooz, I. TITLE II. LITERARY 1. The Author's Culture and Style 2. Letter, Epistle or Treatise? 3. A Unity or a Compos...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 26. My flesh and my heart faileth. They had failed him already, and he had almost fallen; they would fail him in the hour of death, a...
Persecution [N] [T] [E]Just as the Bible graphically describes the introduction and spread of sin in the world, it also depicts the presence and reali...
Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of In our culture names serve primarily to distinguish one person from another. In Bibletimes names had other significan...
WITH CHRIST In tfje Srfjool of $rager. Twenty-sixth Lesson. '/ have prayed for thee;' Or, Christ the Intercessor. 'But I have prayed for thee, ...
Chapter?12The apostle, in this chapter, applies what he has collected in the chapter foregoing, and makes use of it as a great motive to patience and ...
WITH CHRIST In tfjc School of $rager. Eleventh Lesson. 'Believe that ye have received;' Or, The Faith that Takes. 'Therefore I say unto you, Al...
WITH CHEIST In tfje Scfjool of $rager. 0 Thirteenth Lesson. 'Prayer and fasting;' Or, The Cure of Unbelief. 'Then came the disciples to Jesus...
'And He spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint. . . . And the Lord said, Hear what the unrighteous judg...
Who for the joy that was set before Him, endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.?Heb. xii. 2....
ASCENSION a-sen'-shun: Most modern Lives of Christ commence at Bethlehem and end with the Ascension, but Christ's life began earlier and continued la...
THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. ?ije Itnofoleoge of tfje Son of ffioo tijt Strength of tije (tifyvisti&n Life. FIRST HALF-DOCTRINAL.-Chap. i.-x. 18. T...
Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna On the Day that They Met in the Temple.(1) I. Although I have before, as briefly...
CHAPTER 12 Hebrews 12:1-29 . EXHORTATION TO FOLLOW THE WITNESSES OF FAITH JUST MENTIONED: NOT TO FAINT IN TRIALS: TO REMOVE ALL BITTER ROOTS ...