APOSTLE a-pos'-l ([ @apostolos], literally, one sent forth, an envoy, missionary): For the meaning of this name as it meets us in the New Testament, ...
CHAPTER 16 PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY. Acts 15:41-18:22'. Acts 15:41-16:5'. VISITATION OF THE CHURCHES FORMERLY ESTABLISHED, TIMOTHEUS...
PRIESTS AND LEVITES (kohen, priest; nothing is definitely known as to the origin of the word; Lewi, Levite, on which see LEVI): I. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF...
PENTATEUCH, 2B 3. Answer to the Critical Analysis: (1) The Veto of Textual Criticism. The first great objection that may be made to the higher criti...
Here is wisdom This phrase indicates that what follows constitutes a riddle of sorts requiring great wisdom to comprehend. A similar statement introd...
TN considering this question three points will be taken in succession. I shall endeavour to show:? I. That the writer was intimately acquainted with...
FORGIVENESS for-giv'-nes (kaphar, nasa', calach; apoluein charizesthai, aphesis paresis): 1. Etymology 2. Pagan and Jewish Ideas 3. The Teaching of...
Introduction.Introduction.Salaminius Hermias Sozomen.Part I.-The Life.The name is an unusual and difficult one. It seems desirable to give preference ...
Chapter?22We have here the famous story of Abraham?s offering up his son Isaac, that is, his offering to offer him, which is justly looked upon as one...
ARABIA a-ra'-bi-a (`arabh, Arabia): _I. NAME AND SITUATION_ 1. Name 2. Situation and Configuration _II. PHYSICAL FEATURES_ 1. The Desert 2. Clim...
^BELARD, Peter, his genius, industry, and learning, iii. 339; his self-sufficiency and heretical propensities, ib; his cele- brity in the philosophi...
HITTITES hit'-its (bene cheth, chittim; Chettaioi): One of the seven nations conquered by Israel in Palestine. I. OLD TESTAMENT NOTICES 1. Enumerat...
LANGUAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT lan'-gwaj (Greek). See ARAMAIC LANGUAGE also: I. THE VERNACULAR KOINE THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT 1. The Old Po...
LOGOS log'-os (logos): I. GREEK SPECULATION 1. Heraclitus 2. Anaxagoras 3. Plato 4. Aristotle 5. Stoics II. HEBREW ANTICIPATION OF DOCTRINE 1....
ARCHAEOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY AND CRITICISM ar-ke-ol'-o-ji, krit'-i-siz'-m: Archaeology, the science of antiquities, is in this article limited to the Bib...
An Answer to the Jews. An Answer to the Jews.(1) Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall.-------- Chapter I.-Occasion of Writing. Relative Position of Jews...
S. AUGUSTINE ON THE GOOD OF WIDOWHOOD. This work is not mentioned in the Retractations, probably because it is a letter, and as such it is reckoned...
Chapter?10It is a turn very new and remarkable which the story of this chapter gives to the Acts of the apostles; hitherto, both at Jerusalem and ever...
The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen. The Oration and Panegyric Addressed to Origen.(1) -------- Argument I-For Eight Years Gregory Has Given...
Book XXIIBook XXII------------Argument-This book treats of the end of the city of God, that is to say, of the eternal happiness of the saints; the fai...