CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
Citizenship [E] [S]The concept of spiritual citizenship is most clearly expressed in Philippians 3:20, where Paul writes, Our citizenship (politeuma [...
Demon [E] [S]Spirit being who is unclean and immoral in nature and activities. When demons were created, how they came to be demonic, and their organi...
these will make war ???????????? [Polem?sousin] , which indicates a protracted engagement rather than a single battle. The same word is translated, so...
you are about to suffer The Smyrnaeans were about to enter a time of testing. God often warns his servants prior to a time of trial (Eze. Eze. 2:3-7;...
Elect, Election The term elect means essentially to choose. It involves discriminatory evaluation of individuals, means, ends, or objects with a view ...
Exaltation [N]In the Bible exaltation most often refers to the lofty position of God and of Jesus Christ, but sometimes the term is applied to human b...
Sanctification [N] [T] [E]The generic meaning of sanctification is the state of proper functioning. To sanctify someone or something is to set that pe...
Opening the Fifth and Sixth Seals 1 fifth seal With the opening of the fifth seal, we break from the judgments associated with the four horsemen. ?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 ...
CHAPTER VI THE DIVINE DECREES. Augustine: De predestinatione; Epistola CXOIV., Ad Sixtum. Anselm: Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis. Calv...
CHAPTER III. THE DECREES OF GOD. I. Definition Of Decrees. By the decrees of God we mean that eternal plan by which God has rendered certain all t...
Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
Chapter?5In which the apostle gives particular directions, first to the elders, how to behave themselves towards their flock (v.?1-4); then to the you...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
Chapter?5In this chapter, we have, I. Christ?s casting the legion of devils out of the man possessed, and suffering them to enter into the swine (v.?1...
CHAPTER II. THE RECONCILIATION OF MAN TO GOD, OR THE APPLICATION OF REDEMPTION THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. SECTION I.?THE APPLICATION OF...
CHAPTER IV. TRINITY IN UNITY. Athanasius: Contra Arianos; De Decretis Synodi Nicaenae (Oxford Library, Tr.). Augustine: De Trinitate; De Civitate, X...
CHAPTER IV. THE WORKS OF GOD; OR THE EXECUTION OF THE DECREES. SECTION I.?CREATION. I. Definition Op Creation. By creation we mean that free act ...
by Alfred Edersheim 1876 Chapter 7 The Upbringing of Jewish Children The tenderness of the bond which united Jewish parents to their children appe...