two hundred million ??????????? ???????? [dismyriades myriad?n] , two myriads of myriads, an essentially countless number. This is a similar phrase to...
Footnotes(1 )Christus Comprobator, p. 99, sq.(1 )O twn Paterwn Pathr; o twn Nussaewn fwsthr, Council. Nic. II. Act. VI. Edition of Labbe, p. 477.-Nice...
These are ????? ????? [autoi eisin] : These, they are, emphasizing the individuals. the two olive trees Israel is referred to by God as a ?Green Olive...
Chapter?7The success of one good design for God and our generation should encourage us to proceed and form some other; Nehemiah did so, having fortifi...
Chapter?2That many returned out of Babylon upon Cyrus?s proclamation we were told in the foregoing chapter; we have here a catalogue of the several fa...
Then the woman fled The connective, ?Then,? indicates a sequence between the catching up of the child and the fleeing of the woman. But are these two ...
BARUCH, BOOK OF One of the Apocryphal or Deutero-canonical books, standing between Jeremiah and Lamentations in the Septuagint, but in the Vulgate (Je...
HEART AND HEAD. Sec. XII. Quid sine capite est homo, cries Ambrose, cum totus in capite sit! According to thorough investigation and evidence of ...
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...
THE FOURTH BOOK. AUGUSTINE'S LIFE FROM NINETEEN TO EIGHT-AND-TWENTY ? HIMSELF A HANICH.SAN, AND SEDUCING OTHERS TO THE SAME heresy ? partial OBEDIENC...
Chapter?23Many of David?s psalms are full of complaints, but this is full of comforts, and the expressions of delight in God?s great goodness and depe...
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...
PSALM 38 OVERVIEW Title. A Psalm of David, to bring remembrance. David felt as if he had been forgotten of his God, and, therefore, he recounted his s...
hail At this juncture, we once again encounter a major fork in the road of interpretation where many interpreters insist on understanding the effects ...
PSALM 71 OVERVIEW There is no title to this Psalm, and hence some conjecture that Psalm 70 is intended to be a prelude to it, and has been broken off...
Introduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansIntroduction to Four Discourses Against the AriansWritten Between 356 And 360.There is no absolutely...
Some have tried to malign premillennialism by suggesting that it is a relatively novel development of recent times?that it is not a view which finds ...
Homily LXV.Homily LXV. John xi. 49, 50.-And one of them, Caiaphas, being the High Priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,nor co...
CHAPTER 6. REDEMPTION FOR MAN LOST TO BE SOUGHT IN CHRIST. The parts of this chapter are, I. The excellence of the doctrine of Christ the Redeemer--a...
THE TENTH BOOK. HAVING IN THE Note books SPOKEN OF HIMSELF BEFORE HIS RECEIVING THE RITE OF BAPTISM, IN THIS AUGUSTINE CONFESSES WHAT HE THEN WAS ? BU...