God is a Spirit (pneuma o qeo). More precisely, God is Spirit as God is Light ( 1?John 1:5 ), God is Love ( 1?John 4:8 ). In neither case can we read...
The same is known of him (outo egnwstai up autou). Loving God (condition of first class again) is the way to come to know God. It is not certain whet...
Romans 1:19 Because that which may be known of God There are some things which could not be known of God by the light of nature; as a trinity of perso...
He that loveth not (o mh agapwn). Present active articular participle of agapaw keeps on not loving. Knoweth not God (ouk egnw ton qeon). Timeless ao...
Psalms 77:13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary Or in holiness {y}; that is, is holy, so the Syriac version, and to which the Targum agrees. ``O Go...
Colossians 1:3 We give thanks to God Meaning himself and Timothy. This is the beginning of the epistle, which is introduced with a thanksgiving to God...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help. Heaped up is his happiness. He has happiness indeed: the true and the real d...
John 17:3 And this is life eternal That is, the beginning and pledge of it, the way unto it, and means of it, and what will certainly issue in it: th...
If ye had known me (ei egnwkeite me). Past perfect indicative of ginwskw, to know by personal experience, in condition of second class as is made plai...
Chapter 4 4:1 1 Beloved, believe not every a spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the wo...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. In God is my salvation and my glory. Wherein should we glory but in him who saves us? Our honour may well be left with him who sec...
Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.] Either God personally considered, God in the person of Christ; so the Shechinah, with the Jews, is cal...
First Day. 0 WAITING ON GOD: TEbe 'My Knl wtiteth only upon God [marg: b iflent unto God]; from Him cometh my *?lv?tion.'? Pa. Uii. 1 (a. v.). ...
James 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God These words are a continuation of the address of the man that has works, to him that boasts of his fai...
Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God God is one in nature and essence, though there are three persons in the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; whence ...
Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead This is our Lord's reasoning upon the passage; showing from hence, that since God is the God of these persons...
\\INTRODUCTION TO 1 JOHN 4\\ In this chapter the apostle cautions against seducing spirits; advises to try them, and gives rules by which they may b...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 28. But it is good for me to draw near to God. Had he done so at first he would not have been immersed in such affliction; when he di...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7-15. The address which follows is directed to the professed people of God. It is clearly, in the first place, meant for Israel; but ...
Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this, &c] Or this is the sense of the parable, as the Arabic version renders it: the seed is the word of God, the Gospel,...