As I live (zw egw). I live. The LXX here ( Isaiah 45:23 ) has kat emautou omnnuw, I swear by myself. Shall confess to God (exomologhsetai twi qewi). ...
I am A trademark of the book of John which records the self-identification of Jesus using this phrase. Jesus said unless you believe ?I am? (John John...
have made us The TR text reads as shown. The MT and NU texts read ?have made them.? See discussion concerning textual variants in the preceding verse....
Went out (exhlqen exw). Note both ex and exw (went out outside), since the Sanhedrin would not come into Pilate's palace. Apparently on a gallery ove...
That believe not (oi ou pisteuousin). Failure to believe kills the life in the words of Jesus. Knew from the beginning (hdei ex arch). In the N.T. we...
He is puffed up (tetupwtai). Perfect passive indicative of tupow, for which see Titus 3:6 . Knowing nothing (mhden epistameno). Present middle parti...
Tender mercy (splagcna eleou). Bowels of mercy literally ( 1?Peter 3:8 ; James 3:11 ). Revised margin has it, hearts of mercy. The dayspring from on...
Nor seeking glory of men (oute zhtounte ex anqrwpwn doxan). Upon the repudiation of covetousness follows naturally the repudiation of worldly ambitio...
Overview - 1?Samuel 8 1?By occasion of the ill government of Samuel's sons, the Israelites ask a king. 6?Samuel praying in grief, is comforted by God...
Overview - 1?Samuel 13 1?Saul's select band. 3?He calls the Hebrews to Gilgal against the Philistines, whose garrison Jonathan had smitten. 5?The Ph...
Overview - Judges 10 1?Tola judges Israel in Shamir. 3?Jair, whose thirty sons had thirty cities. 6?The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel. 10...
Overview - 1?Samuel 7 1?They of Kirjath-jearim bring the ark into the house of Abinadab, and sanctify Eleazar, his son to keep it. 2?After twenty yea...
After these things ???? ????? [Meta tauta] , the standard phrase John uses to demarcate sections of his vision (Rev. Rev. 1:19+; Rev. 4:1+; Rev. 7:1+...
He went out into the mountains to pray (exelqein auton ei to oro proseuxasqai). Note ex- where Mark 3:13 has goeth up (anabainei). Luke alone has t...
DESPAIR de-spar': The substantive only in 2?Corinthians 4:8, perplexed, but not in (the Revised Version (British and American) yet not unto) despair,...
Follow after peace (eirhnhn diwkete). Give peace a chase as if in a hunt. With all men (meta pantwn). Like Paul's use of diwkw with eirhnhn in Roman...
The Scripture (h graph). Genesis 15:6 . Was justified by works (ex ergwn edikaiwqh). Condition of first class, assumed as true for the sake of argum...
Overview - 2?Chronicles 29 1?Hezekiah's good reign. 3?He restores religion. 5?He exhorts the Levites. 12?They sanctify themselves, and cleanse the h...
And this (kai touto). Either nominative absolute or accusative of general reference, a common idiom for and that too ( 1 Corinthians 6:6 1 Corinthia...
Overview - 2?Samuel 13 1?Amnon loving Tamar, by Jonadab's counsel feigning himself sick, ravishes her. 15?He hates her, and shamefully turns her away....