The woman which John sees riding the Beast of seven heads and ten horns is called a harlot, indicating certain practices and priorities which stand o...
Hope [N] [T] [E]To trust in, wait for, look for, or desire something or someone; or to expect something beneficial in the future.The Old Testament. Th...
EPHESIANS. CHAPTER IV. The Unity of the Church. SUMMARY.--The Exhortation to Unity. The Seven Bonds of Unity. The Various Gifts Given to the Chu...
Nature, Natural The Hebrew language has no word for nature equivalent to the Greek word physis [fuvsi]. Hebrew thought and language were essentially c...
Satan [N] [E] [H] [S]The Hebrew word satan [f'f] means an adversary, one who resists. It is translated as Satan eighteen times in the Old Testament, ...
Resurrection [N] The Old Testament. In the Old Testament, the idea of bodily resurrection evolves from a vague concept into a developed expectation. B...
Chapter?28Orders being given for the fitting up of the place of worship, in this and the following chapter care is taken about the priests that were 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 ...
The Canons of the Council of Orange?INTRODUCTIONThe Council of Orange was an outgrowth of the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius. This controv...
who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
Church [E] [S](Hebrew: qahal, edah; Greek: ekklesia)(The people of God; the collective body of believers. (Also, CONGREGATION, ASSEMBLY, THE BODY OF C...
Woman [T] [E]In an age of women's liberation, modern Bible readers have understandably scrutinized Scripture for its teachings on gender. Assessments ...
Chapter?12The apostle, having at large cleared and confirmed the prime fundamental doctrines of Christianity, comes in the next place to press the pri...
Jesus dictates letters to the remaining three of the Seven Churches of Asia. This chapter completes the record of ?the things which are? (Rev. Rev. 1...
EPHESIANS, EPISTLE TO THE \Contents \I. AUTHENTICITY 1. External Evidence 2. Internal Evidence \II. PLACE AND DATE OF WRITING \III. DESTINATION 1. Ti...
Building [N] [E]From Sacred Space to Holy House The localized presence of God and God's glory among his people is central to the unfolding story of th...
CHAPTER VI THE DIVINE DECREES. Augustine: De predestinatione; Epistola CXOIV., Ad Sixtum. Anselm: Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis. Calv...
PHILIPPIANS. CHAPTER III. Attaining to the Power of the Resurrection. SUMMARY.--A Warning Against Judaizing Teachers. Paul's Grounds for Boasting ...
Murder [N] [T] [E] [S]The Old Testament. Although the Israelites did not have a term that precisely fits our present-day idea of murder, they differen...
CHAPTER XVII THE KINGDOM Part I.?Its Nature WE here enter the region of the yet unfulfilled purpose of God, and known to us only through prophecy....