Carcase (ptwma). As in Revelation 14:12 , the corpse. Originally a fallen body from piptw, to fall, like Latin cadaver from cado, to fall. The prove...
Job 39:28 She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.] Where she and her young are safe: so PlinyFOOTNOTES:...
Overview - Daniel 4 1?Nebuchadnezzar confesses God's kingdom, 4?makes relation of his dreams, which the magicians could not interpret. 8?Daniel hear...
Overview - Matthew 24 1?Christ foretells the destruction of the temple; 3?what and how great calamities shall be before it; 29?the signs of his comin...
Matthew 24:28 For wheresoever the carcass is Not Christ, as he is held forth in the Gospel, crucified and slain, through whose death is the savour of ...
THE EAGLE.Did you ever see an eagle? There were once a great many among the rocksand mountains of our own country, but they will not stay where there...
Lamentations 4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heavens, &c.] That fly in the heavens; and which, as they have a quick sight to d...
Deuteronomy 32:11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest Her young ones in it, to get them out of it: Jarchi says the eagle is merciful to its young, and do...
Daniel 7:4 The first was like a lion That which rose up first, the kingdom of the Babylonians, as the Syriac version expresses it; or the Assyrian mon...
EAGLE e'-g'-l (nesher; aetos; Latin aquila): A bird of the genus aquila of the family falconidae. The Hebrew nesher, meaning to tear with the beak, ...
Genesis 15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses Upon the birds, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech interpret it, whose carcasses were whole; or...
WINGS wingz (kanaph; pterux): Biblical references to the wings of birds are common, especially in Psalms, many of them exquisitely poetical. Often th...
THE LION.You have seen pictures of the lion a hundred times, I suppose, andperhaps you have seen it alive; would you not like to know what theBible sa...
?EXPOSITION Verse 5. Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things, or rather filling with good thy soul. No man is ever filled to satisfaction but a beli...
Daniel 4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, &c.] Whence it appears that this was a true history, and a matter of fact; and ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 6. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. If he could not resist as an eagle, he wou...
Ezekiel 17:3 And say, thus saith the Lord God The riddle is not the prophet's, nor the parable his, but the Lord God's; and exceeding beautiful and ap...
Deuteronomy 33:25 Thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass Either they should have such an abundance of these metals, that they could if they would have ma...
6-31. JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM. TEN LEPERS. CONCERNING THE KINGDOM. (Borders of Samaria and Galilee.) c?LUKE 17:11-37. ? ? ? c?11 And it came to ...
PSALM 103 Psalms 103:1-22 . A Psalm of joyous praise, in which the writer rises from a thankful acknowledgment of personal blessings to a liv...