Having no more any place in these regions (mhketi topon ecwn en toi klimasin). Surprising frankness that the average preacher would hardly use on suc...
Abide in me (meinate en emoi). Constative aorist active imperative of menw. The only way to continue clean (pruned) and to bear fruit is to maintain ...
I testify (marturomai). Elsewhere in the N.T. only in Paul's Epistles ( Galatians 5:3 ; Ephesians 4:17 ; 1?Thessalonians 2:12 ). It means I call to...
For if I preach (ean gar euaggelizwmai). Third class condition, supposable case. Same construction in verse Luke 16 (ean mh). For necessity is laid...
A time when (kairo ote). One of the akairw (out of season) times. Will not endure (ouk anexontai). Future middle (direct) of anecw. Will not hold the...
POCHERETH-HAZZEBAIM pok'-e-reth, po'-ke-reth, po-ke'-reth, -ha-ze-ba'-im (pokhereth hatstsebhayim (Ezra 2:57), or pokhereth ha-tsebhayim (Nehemiah 7:5...
Overview - Ecclesiastes 1 1?The preacher shews that all human courses are vain; 4?because the creatures are restless in their courses, 9?they bring ...
Mr. Lawrance was a man of great piety, an admired preacher, and incumbent in the county of Suffolk. He discovered great modesty, was unblameable in hi...
Luke, the beloved physician (Louka o iatro o agaphto). Mentioned also in Philemon 1:24 ; 2?Timothy 4:11 . The author of the Gospel and the Acts. Bo...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 26. Here is the eternal result of all the laborious and crafty devices of the Lord's enemies. God will make little of them, though th...
Mark 1:7 And preached, saying, there cometh one mightier than I after me From whence it appears, that John was a preacher of Jesus Christ; of the dign...
Overview - 2?Timothy 1 1?Paul's love to Timothy, and the unfeigned faith which was in Timothy himself, his mother, and grandmother. 6?He is exhorted ...
Imitators of us and of the Lord (mimhtai hmwn kai tou kuriou). Mimhth (-th expresses the agent) is from mimeomai, to imitate and that from mimo (mimi...
Preaching (The act of exhorting, prophesying, reproving, teaching)Solomon called the preacher (Koheleth) Ecclesiastes 1:1 Ecclesiastes 1:12 Noah ca...
Are one (en eisin). The neuter singular again (en, not ei) as with the interrogative ti and the indefinite ti. By this bold metaphor which Paul expan...
Third time I am ready to come (triton touto etoimw ecw). Had he been already twice or only once? He had changed his plans once when he did not go ( H...
But in everything commending ourselves (all en panti sunistanonte eautou). Paul gives a marvellous summary of his argument about the dignity and glor...
Mark 1:5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judea The people of the land, a great number of them: and they of Jerusalem; the inhabitants of ...
For if we have become united with him by the likeness of his death (ei gar sumputoi gegonamen twi omoiwmati tou qanatou autou). Condition of the firs...
And again (kai palin). This would have been the second benefit or joy. But he changed his plans and did not make that trip directly to Corinth, but c...