CHAPTER VI THE DIVINE DECREES. Augustine: De predestinatione; Epistola CXOIV., Ad Sixtum. Anselm: Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis. Calv...
Education in Bible Times Education is essential to the survival of any social group, since a community secures its continued existence and development...
Woman [T] [E]In an age of women's liberation, modern Bible readers have understandably scrutinized Scripture for its teachings on gender. Assessments ...
Church [E] [S](Hebrew: qahal, edah; Greek: ekklesia)(The people of God; the collective body of believers. (Also, CONGREGATION, ASSEMBLY, THE BODY OF C...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Providence of God The word providence comes from the Latin providentia (Gk. pronoia [provnoia]) and means essentially foresight or making provision be...
Chapter?4Paul here foretels, I. A dreadful apostasy (v.?1-3). II. He treats of Christian liberty (v.?4, v.?5). III. He gives Timothy divers directions...
Chapter?68This is a most excellent psalm, but in many places the genuine sense is not easy to come at; for in this, as in some other scriptures, there...
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...
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...
Chapter?118It is probable that David penned this psalm when he had, after many a story, weathered his point at last, and gained a full possession of t...
Chapter?17This chapter contains articles of agreement covenanted and concluded upon between the great Jehovah, the Father of mercies, on the one part,...
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 8. OF THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN ARTICLES OF FAITH. THE UNBRIDLED LICENCE OF THE PAPAL CHURCH IN DESTROYING PURITY OF DOCTRINE. This chapter ...
Zechariah, Theology of Introduction. Authorship. The book of Zechariah falls naturally into two parts: chapters 1-8 and 9-14. In the first part we fin...
Chapter?11The apostle, having reconciled that great truth of the rejection of the Jews with the promise made unto the fathers, is, in this chapter, fu...