Overview - Isaiah 40 1?The promulgation of the Gospel. 3?The preaching of John Baptist. 9?The preaching of the apostles. 12?The prophet, by the omni...
Isaiah 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn These being utterly destroyed; or there being none to pass through them, meaning the gates of the cit...
Overview - Ezra 2 1?The number that return of the people; 36?of the priests; 40?of the Levites; 43?of the Nethinims; 55?of Solomon's servants; 61?of t...
FOREST for'-est: (1) choresh (compare proper name Harosheth), 2?Chronicles 27:4. In 1?Samuel 23:15 translated wood; in Isaiah 17:9, wood; in Ezekiel ...
Transfiguration [N]An event in Jesus' life in which his appearance was radiantly transformed. The transfiguration is recorded in each of the Synoptic ...
'The Holy Wab,' like each of the two parts of the Pilgrim's Progress, takes the form of one continuous narrative. It falls naturally, however, into s...
Job 12:16 With him [is] strength and wisdom Which is repeated from ( Job 12:13 ) ; though different words are used but expressive of the same things; ...
Amos 1:5 I will break also the bar of Damascus Or bars, the singular for the plural, by which the gates of the city were barred; and, being broken, th...
\\INTRODUCTION TO HOSEA\\ This book, in the Hebrew Bibles, at least in some copies, is called Sopher Hosea, the Book of Hoses; and, in the Vulgate L...
Job 5:12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty Or, it disappointeth; that is, the rain, as some Jewish commentators F13 interpret it, and the who...
\\INTRODUCTION TO MATTHEW\\ The subject of this book, and indeed of all the writings of the New Testament, is the Gospel. The Greek word \~euaggelio...
Genesis 10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim Mizraim was the second son of Ham, of whom (See Gill on Genesis 10:6). Ludim he is said to beget, the word being...
Weights and Measures. A. WEIGHTS. --The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments the preference on all doubt...
Hosea 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness Not Jacob or Israel personally, with the few souls that went down with him into Egypt; for the...
Chapter?20 The preface to the ten commandments. (1,2) The commandments of the first table. (3-11) Of the second table. (12-17) The fear of the people...
CHAPTER 1 - Of the Holy Scriptures1. The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedi...
JESUS CHRIST, 2 LITERATURE Jesus Christ: The Founder of the Christian religion; the promised Messiah and Saviour of the world; the Lord and Head of ...
VII. Writings Spurious and Dubious.VII. Writings Spurious and Dubious.Under this head will be ranked besides writings objections against which have be...
CHAPTER 6 The building of Solomon?s temple ? preparations for it ? plan and structure of the temple, internal fittings ? history of the temple ? jewis...
Chapter?5Hitherto we have seen visions of peace only, and all the words we have heard have been good words and comfortable words. But the pillar of cl...