This is Elijah (auto estin Eleia). Jesus here endorses John as the promise of Malachi. The people understood Malachi 4:1 to mean the return of Elij...
Matthew 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.] Not externally only, but internally; he that has ears given him to hear, so as to understand, let h...
John 8:47 He that is of God Who is born, not of blood, by carnal descent from any person, or of the carnal will, or by the power of freewill, or of th...
Overview - Luke 14 1?Christ heals the dropsy on the sabbath; 7?teaches humility; 12?to feast the poor; 15?under the parable of the great supper, show...
Job 36:15 He delivereth the poor in his affliction The righteous or godly poor; who are not only poor in worldly things, but poor in spirit; who are h...
?EXPOSITION Verse 2. Lord, hear my voice. It is all we ask; but nothing less will content us. If the Lord will but hear us we will leave it to his sup...
Hear, Hearing Most Old Testament words for hear(ing) come from the root sm [[;m'v], hear, or zn [;z'a], (give) ear, although qsb [b;v'q], pay attent...
Mark 7:32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf There were two sorts of persons that were called deaf among the Jews; one that could neither hear ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 8. They that make them are like unto them. Those who make such things for worship are as stupid, senseless, and irrational as the fi...
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save It is not for want of power in the Lord, that he has not as yet destroyed th...
EAR er ('ozen; ous, otion, the latter word (literally, earlet) in all the Gospels only used of the ear of the high priest's servant, which was cut off...
Ezekiel 40:4 And the man said unto me, Son of man The glorious and illustrious Person before described, who appeared in a human form, spoke to the pro...
Genesis 21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad By which it appears that he cried also; but whether it was in prayer to God, or through the distress ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 16. They have mouths. For their makers fashioned them like themselves. An opening is made where the mouth should be, and yet it is n...
Romans 11:8 According as it is written In ( Isaiah 29:10 ) ( 6:10 ) which passages the apostle seems to refer to, though it is not exactly word for wo...
Tractate XXIITractate XXII John V. 24-30.Upon the discourses delivered yesterday and the day before, follows the Gospel lesson of to-day, which we mus...
Letter CXXX(1) Letter CXXX(1) To Theodotus bishop of Nicopolis.1. You have very rightly and properly blamed me, right honourable and well beloved bro...
LIGHT AND SHINING Mark 4:21-25:?And he said unto them, Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel, or under the bed, and not to be put on the sta...
1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous Who are so not merely in the sight of men, but of God; nor in their own account, and by t...
PSALM 49 OVERVIEW Title. To the Chief Musician, a Psalm for the sons of Korah. This is precisely the same as on former occasions, and no remark is nee...