Gentleness [N]Sensitivity of disposition and kindness of behavior, founded on strength and prompted by love.The Old Testament. Gentleness is suggested...
Heart [N] [E]Heart (Hebrew lebab/leb [b'bel], Gk. kardia [kardiva]) occurs over one thousand times in the Bible, making it the most common anthropolog...
Forgiveness [N]Terminology. There are several Hebrew terms equivalent to the English to forgive, as defined below. The three most common are verbs (u...
Ethics The ancient world did not consider religion to be morally inspiring, creative, or corrective; the reputed behavior of gods and goddesses repell...
MATTHEW. CHAPTER XXVIII. The Resurrection. SUMMARY.--The Women at the Sepulcher. The Message of the Angel. The Risen Lord. The Report of the Gu...
Q1: What is thy only comfort in life and death? That I with body and soul, both in life and death, ( rom 14:7 rom 14:8 ) am not my own, ( 1?Corinthia...
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...
ROMANS. CHAPTER X. The Jews Excluded from Unbelief. SUMMARY.--Paul's Desire for Israel. The Jews Zealous, but not According to Knowledge. They Se...
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 ...
Sanctuary [N] [E]In the Old Testament the word miqdas [v'D.qim] (from qds, holy, implying a distinction between space that is sacred versus profane) ...
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...
Death, Mortality Death is the absence or withdrawal of breath and the life force that makes movement, metabolism, and interrelation with others possib...
Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of In our culture names serve primarily to distinguish one person from another. In Bibletimes names had other significan...
GALATIANS. CHAPTER III. Justification Belongeth to Abraham's Children by Faith. SUMMARY.--The Spirit Imparted to Galatian Christians Through the ...
Testimony [N] [E]The biblical concept of testimony or witness is closely allied with the conventional Old Testament legal sense of testimony given in ...
Job, Theology of Introduction. The reader who desires to unlock the rich theological treasurescontained in the Book of Job should assume its literary ...
The Book of MatthewChapter 5Verses:5:1And seeing the multitudes - At some distance, as they were coming to him from every quarter. He went up into the...
OF THE OBJECT OF WORSHIP. TWO things are to be observed and considered,?That the Lord God is the object of worship,?that he alone is the object of w...
CHAPTER VI THE DIVINE DECREES. Augustine: De predestinatione; Epistola CXOIV., Ad Sixtum. Anselm: Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis. Calv...
OF REDEMPTION BY CHRIST. I. I Shall settle the meaning of the word ; and shew what it supposes, includes, and is designed by it. Our English word Re...