Scribes [T] [S]anciently held various important offices in the public affairs of the nation. The Hebrew word so rendered (sopher) is first used to des...
Phenicia [N]( Acts 21:2 ) = Phenice ( 11:19 ; 15:3 ; RSV, Phoenicia), Gr. phoinix, a palm, the land of palm-trees; a strip of land of an average brea...
Agriculture. [N] [E]This was little cared for by the patriarchs. The pastoral life, however, was the means of keeping the sacred race, whilst yet a f...
Appear, Appearance The Old Testament. The Hebrew word most commonly used for appearance in the Old Testament is raa [h'a'r]. The seeing of God leads t...
THIRD PERIOD. FROM THE SOJOURN IN EGYPT UNTIL THE ARRIVAL IN SHILOH. THE PERIOD OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ISRAEL, AND THE SPRING-TIME IN THE LAND OF PRO...
Miracle [E]Although English speakers regularly use miracle to refer to a broad range of wondrous events, the biblical concept is limited to those not ...
Having seen the Father and His glorious throne, John?s attention is now drawn to a scroll held in the Father?s hand. The redeeming Lamb takes the scro...
Homily III.Homily III. Hebrew i. 6-8.-And again when He bringeth in the First-Begotten into the world, He saith, And let all the angels of God worship...
Homily II.Homily II. 2 Timothy i. 8-10.-Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner: but be thou partaker of th...
Chapter?49This psalm is a sermon, and so is the next. In most of the psalms we have the penman praying or praising; in these we have him preaching; an...
Of the present Authority of the Council, and of its Place. 3. Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the peopl...
CHAPTER VII. THE MESSIANIC ELEMENTS IN THE PROPHETIC LITERATURE FROM JORAM TO HEZEKIAH. ? 26. The Relation of the three oldest Prophetie Writing...
INDEX. Abortions,question of their resurrection, 136, 7. Abraham, Christ the promised Seed of, 6, 8. His example cited, 296, 297, 298, 300, 30...
? ? OF THE DEATH OF THE BODY. The things to be enquired into, are, What death is ? who are the subjects of it? what the causes of it, and its proper...
OI THE INTERNAL ACTS AND WORKS OF GOD ; AND OF HIS DECREES IN GENERAL. THE acts and works of God may be distinguished into internal and external. The...
OF THE BEING OF GOD. SOME, because the Being of God is a first principle, not to be disputed; and because that there is one is a self-evident propos...
? 67. What is here to be understood by Principium When theology abandoned its proper and original character, it also ceased to speak of a principiu...