Disease [N]To understand the biblical records concerning illness it is necessary to think oneself back into a world that knew nothing of germs, bacter...
Wealth [N]The most basic English definitions of wealth are the condition of being happy and prosperous and spiritual well-being (OED). But the most co...
Hell [N] [T] [E] [S]Place of God's final retributive punishment. Scripture progressively develops this destiny of the wicked: the Old Testament outli...
PSALM 119 Psalms 119:1-176 . This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. It is divided into twenty-two parts or stanzas, denoted by the ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 3. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The rapid motion of a viper's tongue gives you the idea of its sharpening it; e...
Treatise XII. Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews.Treatise XII.(1) Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews.Cyprian to his son Quirinus, gr...
SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN || 1. Name 2. Canonicity 3. Contents 4. Author and Date 5. Original Language 6. Text and Versions LITERATURE For ge...
Perseverance [N] [T]In the NIV the term perseverance occurs thirteen times, all in the New Testament. Verbal forms appear a total of eight times. The ...
Create, Creation Who created and sustains the universe? Why was it created? What is the nature of the Creator-creature relationship? These are the sor...
Chapter?24This psalm is concerning the kingdom of Jesus Christ, I. His providential kingdom, by which he rules the world (v.?1, v.?2). II. The kingdom...
CHAPTER 3 Seth and his Descendants - The Race of Cain (GENESIS 4) THE place of Abel could not remain unfilled, if God's purpose of mercy were to be c...
ACROSTIC a-kros'-tik: The acrostic, understood as a short poem in which the first letters of the lines form a word, or name, or sentence, has not ye...
Melito, the Philosopher.Melito, the Philosopher. [a.d. 160-170-177.] Melito(1) may have been the immediate successor of the angel (or apostle) of the...
?EXPOSITION Verse 11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Moses saw men dying all around him: he lived among funerals, and was overwhelmed at the te...
Book XVIIBook XVII------------Argument-This book the history of the city of God is traced during the period of the kings and prophets from Samuel to D...
?EXPOSITION Verse 89. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. The strain is more joyful, for experience has given the sweet singer a comforta...
Chapter?90The foregoing psalm is supposed to have been penned as late as the captivity in Babylon; this, it is plain, was penned as early as the deliv...
?EXPOSITION Verse 15. I will abundantly bless her provision. It must be so. How can we be without a blessing when the Lord is among us? We live upon h...
?EXPOSITION Verse 24. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. He betook himself to prayer. What better remedy is there for hcart-s...
Suffering [N]The experience of physical pain and/or mental distress. The words and phrases in the Bible expressing this concept are too numerous to li...