Heart [N] [E]Heart (Hebrew lebab/leb [b'bel], Gk. kardia [kardiva]) occurs over one thousand times in the Bible, making it the most common anthropolog...
FULLNESS fool'-nes: The translation of pleroma, which is generally, but not invariably, rendered fullness in the New Testament. Etymologically, plero...
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 ...
four living creatures See commentary on Revelation 4:6. the elders See commentary on Revelation 4:4. a Lamb ?When John turned, he saw, not a Lion, acc...
who were sealed ????????????? [esphragismen?n] , perfect passive participle, ones having been sealed. The angel recounts the total number of individua...
PETER. CHAPTER II. The Temple of Living Stones. SUMMARY.--Desiring the Sincere Milk. The Living Stone. The Spiritual Temple. The Stone the Buil...
Consecrate The Meanings of qds in the Sinai Legislation. In the Sinai material ( Exod 19:1-nu ; 10:10 ) qds [v;d'q], which is translated consecrate/s...
The intent of the book of Revelation is provided by the very first word of the first verse: ??????????? [Apokalypsis] 1 which Strong defines as ?1 a ...
Grace [T] [E]The word grace in biblical parlance can, like forgiveness, repentance, regeneration, and salvation, mean something as broad as describing...
around about Multitudes surround God?s throne (1K. 1K. 22:19; Rev. Rev. 5:11+; Rev. 7:11+), but in concentric positions. Those closest to God appear ...
CHAPTER II. MATERIAL OF THEOLOGY. I. Sources Op Theology.?God himself, in the last analysis, must be the only source of knowledge with regard to hi...
PHILIPPIANS. CHAPTER III. Attaining to the Power of the Resurrection. SUMMARY.--A Warning Against Judaizing Teachers. Paul's Grounds for Boasting ...
Church [E] [S](Hebrew: qahal, edah; Greek: ekklesia)(The people of God; the collective body of believers. (Also, CONGREGATION, ASSEMBLY, THE BODY OF C...
VIII THREE IMPUTATIONS IHAVE reserved until now my treatment of what I regard as the point in theology which most needs explanation, and which I con...
CHAPTER VI THE DIVINE DECREES. Augustine: De predestinatione; Epistola CXOIV., Ad Sixtum. Anselm: Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis. Calv...
EPHESIANS, EPISTLE TO THE \Contents \I. AUTHENTICITY 1. External Evidence 2. Internal Evidence \II. PLACE AND DATE OF WRITING \III. DESTINATION 1. Ti...
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,...
INTRODUCTION ITS GENUINENESS is attested by 2?Peter 3:1 Also by POLYCARP (in EUSEBIUS [Ecclesiastical History, 4.14]), who, in writing to the Phi...
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...
EPHESIANS. CHAPTER I. The Foreordination of the Church. SUMMARY.--The Salutation. Our Election and Adoption by Grace. This the Source of Salvation...