Tractate C.Tractate C. John XVI. 13-15 (continued).1. When our Lord gave the promise of the coming of His Holy Spirit, He said, He shall teach you all...
Matthew 12:38 Then certain of the Scribes and Pharisees answered Not the same that charged him with casting out devils, by the prince of devils; but o...
Matthew 2:14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother, &c.] That is, as soon as he awoke out of sleep, and rose from his bed, he did as h...
Acts 21:38 Art thou not that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar Josephus speaks F9 of one that came out of Egypt to Jerusalem, and gav...
BAR-JESUS bar-je'-zus (Bariesous): A certain sorcerer (Greek magos), a false prophet, a Jew whom Paul and Silas found at Paphos in Cyprus in the trai...
Numbers 22:5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor In consequence of the consultation held by the king of Moab with the elders of M...
Jeremiah 39:3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in Into the city: a breach being made in the walls to take possession of it: and sat in ...
The Book of EzraChapter 4Chapter Overview: The adversaries, not being allowed to build with them, endeavour to hinder the work, ver. 1 - 5. They fa...
1. SO Claudius sent Felix, the brother of Pallas, to take care of the affairs of Judea; and when he had already completed the twelfth year of his r...
1. A legend not much unlike that of the Chapel of Loretto. Forasmuch as our evangelist makes only a transient mention of Nazareth in this place, not ...
Acts 24:24 And after certain days Some days after this trial: when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess; to Caesarea, having been to...
Persecution Under Julian the Apostate This emperor was the son of Julius Constantius, and the nephew of Constantine the Great. He studied the rudime...
Homily VII.Homily VII.-------- Chapter I.-Peter Addresses the People.And on the fourth day of our stay in Tyre,(1) Peter went out about daybreak, and ...
SIMON MAGUS ma'-gus (Simon, Greek form of Hebrew shim`on; Gesenius gives the meaning of the Hebrew word as hearing with acceptance; it is formed from ...
Acts 13:6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos The Alexandrian copy, and the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, the whole isle; fo...
Now when Jesus was born (tou de Ihsou gennhqento). The fact of the birth of Jesus is stated by the genitive absolute construction (first aorist passi...
Simon [N] [E] [H](contracted form of Simeon, a hearing ). Son of Mattathias. [MACCABEES] Son of Onias the high priest, whose eulogy closes the praise...
CHAPTER 1 Israel About To Take Possession Of The Land Of Promise - Decisive Contest Showing The Real Character Of Heathenism - Character And History O...
Mark 5:15 And they come to Jesus Who had wrought this miracle, and of which, and whom, the keepers of the swine had given them some account: and see ...
Homily IV.Homily IV.-------- Chapter I.-Bernice's Hospitality.Thus I Clement, departing from Caesarea Stratonis, together with Nicetas and Aquila, ent...