the angel See the discussion concerning the identity of the angel at Revelation 1:20. church in Philadelphia See commentary on Seven Churches of Asia....
four living creatures See commentary on Revelation 4:6. the elders See commentary on Revelation 4:4. a Lamb ?When John turned, he saw, not a Lion, acc...
King, Christ as The Old Testament. Beginning with Genesis 1:1, the Bible portrays God as the Lordand Sovereign over all creation, God Most High ( Gen ...
the great river Euphrates and its water was dried up At the sounding of the sixth trumpet, the second woe, four angels were released who had previous...
7-3. BARREN FIG-TREE. TEMPLE CLEANSED. (Road from Bethany and Jerusalem. Monday, April 4, A. D. 30.) a?MATT. 21:18-19; b?MARK 11:12-18; c?LUKE 1...
HEART AND HEAD. Sec. XII. Quid sine capite est homo, cries Ambrose, cum totus in capite sit! According to thorough investigation and evidence of ...
Wages [N] [E] [S]Payment given for services rendered. The semantic field of this term is usually found in economic contexts, where payment means some ...
LUKE. CHAPTER VII. The Widow's Son Raised from the Dead. SUMMARY.--The Centurion's Servant Healed. The Son on the Widow of Nain Raised. John's Mes...
Deliver The Old Testament. The concept of deliverance occurs in the Old Testament with two meanings. The first is in a nontheological sense signifying...
Evil [N]As a prerequisite for any discussion of evil, moral evil must be distinguished from physical or natural evil. This essay uses the term moral e...
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...
God, Names of Names are more than labels. In Old Testament times a name expressed identification, but also identity. Significant meaning often attache...
overcomes See. Who is the Overcomer? I will make him a pillar in the temple Some have seen this as an allusion to the pillars in Solomon?s Temple. 1K....
Temptation, Test While the number of terms denoting temptation and testing is small, their range of meaning is wide, extending from a secular sens...
Matthew, Theology of In writing his work, the author of the first Gospel sought to make the life, teachings, and work of Jesus relevant to his own Chr...
I saw the dead, small and great Every category of man now stands on an individual basis before God. Wealth, power, fame, is all immaterial now. As the...
Joel, Theology of The Book of Joel has been dated by conservative scholars from the ninth to the fifthcenturies b.c.: more recent scholars tend to dat...
Mind/Reason That part of the human being in which thought takes place and perception and decisions to do good, evil, and the like come to expression. ...
Forgiveness [N]Terminology. There are several Hebrew terms equivalent to the English to forgive, as defined below. The three most common are verbs (u...
Mediator, Mediation On the human plane, mediation takes place in the Bible, as it has in many cultures throughout history, both in innocent circumstan...