Power [N]Power is an English logical construct referring to a variety of ideas relating to ability, capacity, authority, and might/strength. In human ...
GATHER gath'-er ('acaph, qabhats; sullego, sunago): Gather, transitive to bring together, collect, etc., and intransitive to come together, assemble,...
Eternal Life, Eternality, Everlasting Life The divinely bestowed gift of blessedness in God's presence that endures without end. This relates especial...
Footnotes(1 )He came in with a slow and stately step; he spoke with a broken utterance, sometimes with a kind of disjointed sobs rather than words. He...
Footnotes(1 )Christus Comprobator, p. 99, sq.(1 )O twn Paterwn Pathr; o twn Nussaewn fwsthr, Council. Nic. II. Act. VI. Edition of Labbe, p. 477.-Nice...
Demon [E] [S]Spirit being who is unclean and immoral in nature and activities. When demons were created, how they came to be demonic, and their organi...
Fire [N] [T] [E] [S]One of the most arresting and suggestive metaphors in the Bible is that of fire, a phenomenon common to all cultures ancient and ...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER XIII. The Era of Gentile Missions. SUMMARY.--Fasting and Prayer at Antioch. The Holy Spirit Directs Paul and Barnab...
Levite [E]Pentateuch. The Hebrew word for Levite (lew) indicates a descendant of Levi, the son of Jacob and Leah ( Gen 29:34 ). There were three famil...
AUTHORITY IN RELIGION o-thor'-i-ti rabhah; toqeph; exousia; exousiazo; katexousiazo; epitage; huperoche; authenteo; dunastes _I. GENERAL IDEA_ 1. Of...
Heal, Health With characteristic realism the Bible accepts the prevalence in God's world of ill-health and affliction, although originally it had no p...
Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel By whom is meant, not a created angel, but an eternal one, the Lord Jesus Christ; as appears from his name Michael,...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
CHAPTER 4 Colossians 4:1-18 . EXHORTATIONS CONTINUED. TO PRAYER: WISDOM IN RELATION TO THE UNCONVERTED: AS TO THE BEARERS OF THE EPISTLE, TYC...
Discipline [N]The Old Testament Concept of Discipline. The notion of the discipline of God, and eventually the concept of the community and its leader...
CHAPTER 15 Acts 15:1-35 . COUNCIL AT JERUSALEM TO DECIDE ON THE NECESSITY OF CIRCUMCISION FOR THE GENTILE CONVERTS. 1, 2. certain men--See th...
CHAPTER 7 Daniel 7:1-28 . VISION OF THE FOUR BEASTS. This chapter treats of the same subject as the second chapter. But there the four kingd...
BARUCH, BOOK OF One of the Apocryphal or Deutero-canonical books, standing between Jeremiah and Lamentations in the Septuagint, but in the Vulgate (Je...
Wealth [N]The most basic English definitions of wealth are the condition of being happy and prosperous and spiritual well-being (OED). But the most co...
CHAPTERS 5-8 SERMON ON THE MOUNT. That this is the same Discourse as that in Luke 6:17-49 --only reported more fully by Matthew, and less ...