II CHRIST IN CREATION S the Father expresses himself in the Son, so the Son expresses himself in creation; first, in the creation of what we call...
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 ; ...
Chapter?2The apostle here directs Titus about the faithful discharge of his own office generally (v.?1), and particularly as to several sorts of perso...
\\INTRODUCTION TO THE SONG OF SOLOMON\\ This book is entitled, in the Hebrew copies, Shir Hashirim, the Song of Songs. The Septuagint and Vulgate Lat...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER XX. The Second Visit to Europe and Return. SUMMARY.--Paul Departs to Macedonia. And to Greece. Paul at Troas. The...
?EXPOSITION Verse 26. I have declared my ways. Open confession is good for the soul. Nothing brings more ease and more life to a man than a frank ackn...
THE REVELATION OF JOHN. CHAPTER I. The Vision of the Son of Man. SUMMARY.--Preface. John to the Seven Churches. In the Spirit on the Lord's Day....
COLOSSIANS, EPISTLE TO THE ko-losh'-ans, ko-los'-i-anz: This is one of the group of Paul's epistles known as the Captivity Epistles (see PHILEMON, EP...
Animals [N]God as Creator and Sustainer. Animals, like the rest of the uNIVerse, are created by God. In Genesis 1, God's approval of the created world...
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 ...
Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of In our culture names serve primarily to distinguish one person from another. In Bibletimes names had other significan...
CHAPTER 22. THIS DOCTRINE CONFIRMED BY PROOFS FROM SCRIPTURE. The divisions of this chapter are,--I. A confirmation of the orthodox doctrine in oppos...
Chapter?43The contents of this chapter are much the same with those of the foregoing chapter, looking at the release of the Jews out of their captivit...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Church [E] [S](Hebrew: qahal, edah; Greek: ekklesia)(The people of God; the collective body of believers. (Also, CONGREGATION, ASSEMBLY, THE BODY OF C...
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 1 pol, I. Sources 1. The Acts 2. The Thirteen Epistles (1) Pauline Authorship (2) Lightfoot's Grouping (a) First Group (1 and...
CHAPTER 16. REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES BY WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO THROW ODIUM ON THIS DOCTRINE. The divisions of this chapter are,--I. The calumnie...
Chapter?13There are three good lessons taught us in this chapter, where the apostle enlarges more upon his precepts than he had done in the foregoing ...
THE LIKENESS OF GOD IN MAN. Sec. II. Scripture nowhere says of any one of the visible creatures that surround us, that it is created after the imag...
Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of Many modern interpreters believe that eschatology, the doctrine of the endtimes, is the center of the apost...