who had been prepared ?? ???????????? [hoi h?toimasmenoi] , perfect tense passive participle, the ones having been prepared. The preparation was not ...
remember . . . how you have received The church at Sardis is given a command similar to that of the Ephesian church: to remember what they had earlie...
As we have seen, the OT represents Israel as the wife of Jehovah. Although she has been unfaithful and divorced by her Husband, a time is coming when...
Some have understood Paul?s teaching concerning the delivery of believers from the ?wrath to come? (1Th. 1Th. 1:10) as describing their exemption fro...
Acts 8:39 And when they were come up out of the water Which is another circumstance, showing that baptism was then performed by immersion; with this c...
4.14.3.1 - Rapture versus Second Coming Typically, we speak of only two ?comings? of Christ. The First Coming was His virgin birth by Mary and subsequ...
Matthew 17:4 Then answered Peter and said unto Jesus Which was, as Luke informs us, after he, and James, and John, awoke out of sleep; for it being ni...
he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. The TR text designates as many as...
rejoice, O heavens and those who dwell in them The inhabitants of the heavens rejoice because the accuser has been cast down and the faithful overcome...
Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated Which is to be understood, not of a spiritual translation from the power of darkness, into the kingdom of C...
John Darby commentary for Revelation 12Revelation Chapter 12Chapter 12 gives us a brief but all-important summary of the whole course of events, view...
?EXPOSITION Verse 26. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the LORD. The champion had done everything in the name of the Lord: in that name he had...
Scripture knows of two births, two deaths, and two resurrections. Everyone is physically born once. Those who do not undergo the second birth, the sp...
Revisions RevisionDateDescription 2.2February 12, 2009Added a new section defining common Abbreviations to the preface. Moved revision history from t...
I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches The Revelation of Jesus Christ (the contents of which are recorded by thi...
To the end that (ei to). One of Paul's favourite idioms for purpose, ei to and the infinitive. Ye be not quickly shaken (mh tacew saleuqhnai uma). Fi...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 9. King's daughters were among thy honourable women. Our Lord's courts lack not for courtiers, and those the fairest and noblest. Vir...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 2. Therefore. How fond the psalmist is of therefores! his poetry is no poetic rapture without reason, it is as logical as a mathemati...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. But I, hunted and persecuted though I am, am like a green olive tree. I am not plucked up or destroyed, but am like a flourishing ...
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection They are blessed because ?they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign w...