Among commentators of the last book of the Bible, a stark dividing line can be seen in regard to where they go looking for an understanding of the sy...
Glorification In the Scripture the idea of glorification deals with the ultimate perfection of believers. The word glorification is not used in the He...
If we go back to the original language of the New Testament, we find the rapiemur of 1Th. 1Th. 4:17 in the Vulgate to be a translation of the Greek t...
Denial To know what is true, yet confess a falsehood; the forsaking of self in wholehearted consecration to Christ and in service to his kingdom. The ...
Job 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it Not Ethiopia Abyssinia, or that which lies beyond Egypt in Africa; for, as LudolphusFOOTNOTES: F24 ...
2 Samuel 13:23 And it came to pass after two full years Two complete years after the rape was committed; so long Absalom kept it in his mind, and was ...
The letters recognize that each church is composed of both believers and church-going unbelievers. ?Church? (????????? [Ekkl?sias] ) is a compound wor...
Isaiah 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of [their] tinkling ornaments [about their feet] With which they made a tinkling as they w...
SERVICE sur'-vis: Six Hebrew, two Aramaic and four Greek words are so rendered. 1. In the Old Testament: In the Old Testament the word most used fo...
Sin unto Death The expression sin unto death ( 1 John 5:16-17 ) appears in a context concerning confident, effective prayer (cf. 1 John 3:21-22 ; 4:...
Atonement, the Explained Romans 5:8-11 ; 2 Corinthians 5:18 2 Corinthians 5:19 ; Galatians 1:4 ; 1?John 2:2 ; 4:10 Foreordained Romans 3:...
mystery As is frequently the case within Scripture, the answers to our questions are ?in the back of the book? (in this case, the back of the chapter)...
Chapter 1515:2? And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? 1 Lo...
cast out This is the first stage in the de facto fulfillment of what was previously accomplished de jure at Christ?s First Coming (Luke Luke 10:18; Jo...
Church, the [T] Definition of the Church. The New Testament word for church is ekklesia [ejkklhsiva], which means the called out ones. In classical Gr...
Chapter 22:3? And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. sanct...
\\INTRODUCTION TO LEVITICUS\\ This book is commonly called by the Jews Vajikra, from the first word with which it begins, and sometimes \^Mynhk trwt...
Firstborn [N] [S]Frequently employed in the Bible in the literal sense of offspring, firstborn acquired metaphorical applications over time. Two such ...
Firstfruits [S](Heb. resit [tyivaer]; Gk. aparche [ajparchv]). The concept of firstfruits derives from God's creation work. Because God created everyt...
Adam [N] [B] [H] [S]red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the nam...