New Self Paul refers to the transformation that occurs at conversion as the creation of a new self. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off...
Body of Christ The body metaphor for the people of God is a powerful image that bespeaks the new historical reality brought about in Christ. It surfac...
Isaiah 14:7 The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet The troubler of them being gone; and which will be the ease of the people of God, who in the la...
Daniel 3:21 Then these men were bound in their coats Their upper coats, cloaks, or mantles, as Aben Ezra and Jacchiades; though, according to the use ...
Genesis 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal According to Hillerus F13, this name, and Jubal and Tubal, after mentioned, all signify a river; why Lamech should ca...
in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel This refers to the time period during which the seventh angel sounds and the final seven bowl judgmen...
Union with Christ [T]According to the New Testament, the religious experience of the earliest Christians was derived from and dependent upon Christ. C...
After these things ???? ????? [Meta tauta] , the standard phrase John uses to demarcate sections of his vision (Rev. Rev. 1:19+; Rev. 4:1+; Rev. 7:1+...
Colossians 4:14 Luke, the beloved physician Luke the Evangelist, though some doubt it, is here intended, who was a constant companion of the apostle i...
Job 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth Either taken literally, he being one like Obadiah, that feared God from his youth upward, ( 1 Kings 18:3 1 ...
Deuteronomy 2:23 And the Avim, which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah The same with the Avites, who appear to have inhabited some part of the land of...
Psalms 57:2 I will cry unto God most high To remember him in his low estate, and who is higher than the highest, than Saul and his mighty men with him...
Judges 14:1 And Samson went down to Timnath A city which by lot fell to the tribe of Judah, but was afterwards given to the tribe of Dan, and now in t...
Death of Christ The Place in the Gospels. In the records of Jesus that the Gospels give us, it is clear that a place of supreme significance is given ...
Isaiah 15:2 He is gone up to Bajith That is, Moab; the king or people of Moab, particularly the inhabitants of the above cities. Bajith signifies hous...
Envy [N] [T]Sin of jealousy over the blessings and achievements of others, especially the spiritual enjoyment and advance of the kingdom of Christ fre...
Jeremiah 31:22 How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? &c.] From place to, place, from country to country, from one kingdom to anoth...
Assurance [N] [T] [E]In the midst of a world filled with uneasiness and insecurity, assurance of a person's security in God is one of the hallmarks of...
cast out This is the first stage in the de facto fulfillment of what was previously accomplished de jure at Christ?s First Coming (Luke Luke 10:18; Jo...
I am A trademark of the book of John which records the self-identification of Jesus using this phrase. Jesus said unless you believe ?I am? (John John...