Gospel [N] [E]Glad tidings or good news, from Anglo-Saxon godspell.The Old Testament. Good news is proclaimed widely ( 1 Sam 31:9 ; Psalm 96:2-3 ; ...
Grace [T] [E]The word grace in biblical parlance can, like forgiveness, repentance, regeneration, and salvation, mean something as broad as describing...
they sang ???????? [adousin] , present tense: they are singing. A historical present which describes an event which has already transpired using the p...
OI THE INTERNAL ACTS AND WORKS OF GOD ; AND OF HIS DECREES IN GENERAL. THE acts and works of God may be distinguished into internal and external. The...
ROMANS. CHAPTER XIII. The Christians and Civil Government. SUMMARY.--Civil Government an Appointment of God. A Protection to the Law-Abiding. A Te...
Foreigner [N] [E]Person from a different racial, ethnic, and linguistic group as in contrast to a native. Circumstances during biblical times often fo...
New Jerusalem The eternal climax of redemptive history is previewed in John's description of the new Jerusalem in Revelation 21-22. The new Jerusalem ...
Body [N]Old Testament. The doctrine of creation sets forth the essential corporeality of human existence. When God created Adam and Eve, he provided t...
Wages [N] [E] [S]Payment given for services rendered. The semantic field of this term is usually found in economic contexts, where payment means some ...
Mission Basic Definition. Mission is the divine activity of sending intermediaries, whether supernatural or human, to speak or do God's will so that h...
Micah, Theology of Although unlike Isaiah ( 6:1-9 ), Jeremiah ( 1:4-10 ), and Ezekiel (2:1-3:27) Micah gives his audience no autobiographical account ...
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...
I. Obedience To Moral Law Is And Must Be, Under EVERY DISPENSATION OF THE DlVINE GOVERNMENT, THE UNALTERABLE CONDITION OF SALVATION. II. Under A G...
who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
the angel Some have suggested this particular angel to be Archippus (Col. Col. 4:17) who was named as the first bishop of Laodicea in the Apostolical ...
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 VI THE DIVINE DECREES. Augustine: De predestinatione; Epistola CXOIV., Ad Sixtum. Anselm: Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis. Calv...
The Book of IsaiahChapter 9Chapter Overview: Joy in the midst of affliction, ver. 1 - 5. The birth, person, office, and kingdom of Christ, ver. 6, 7...
Work [N]For contemporary humanity the meaning and character of work have been divorced from religion, being largely shaped by secular ideologies assoc...
Law [N] [E] [S]The Nature of Biblical Law. The usual Hebrew term translated as law is tora [h'r/T]. Tora [h'r/T], used 220 times in the Old Testament,...