This book is to be regarded as a continuation from Heaven of the teaching which the Lord began when on earth. (Acts i, 1.) A considerable number of y...
It is to be noted that the apostle Paul, in what is generally believed to be one of the earliest of his Epistles, the second to the Thessalonians, spe...
Chapter?137There are divers psalms which are thought to have been penned in the latter days of the Jewish church, when prophecy was near expiring and ...
in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel This refers to the time period during which the seventh angel sounds and the final seven bowl judgmen...
Last Day(s), Latter Days, Last Times There are problems with the terminology of the latter days in that, for example, the King James Version quite oft...
Chapter?23In this chapter the prophet, in God?s name, is dealing his reproofs and threatenings, I. Among the careless princes, or pastors of the peopl...
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER II. The Day of Pentecost. SUMMARY.--The Disciples Gathered Together. The Baptism of the Spirit. The Apostles Speak ...
Chapter?3 The serpent deceives Eve. (1-5) Adam and Eve transgress the Divine command, and fall into sin and misery. (6-8) God calls upon Adam and Eve...
SIMON MAGUS ma'-gus (Simon, Greek form of Hebrew shim`on; Gesenius gives the meaning of the Hebrew word as hearing with acceptance; it is formed from ...
he prophesieth of the times that are far off. Ezekiel xii. 27. UMAN nature was very much the same in the exiles that listened to Ezekiel on the banks...
WHY STAND YE GAZING UP INTO HEAVEN? Why stand ye gazing up into heaven f Acts i. n. Sunday after Ascension Day, 1877. Once again the disciples ...
Chapter?4We left all hands at work for the building of the wall about Jerusalem. But such good work is not wont to be carried on without opposition; n...
Chapter?13Those that desired a king like all the nations fancied that, when they had one, they should look very great and considerable; but in this ch...
Homily XII.Homily XII. ACTS IV. 36, 37.-And Joses, who by the Apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation), a ...
CHAPTER 3 Philippians 3:1-21 . WARNING AGAINST JUDAIZERS: HE HAS GREATER CAUSE THAN THEY TO TRUST IN LEGAL RIGHTEOUSNESS, BUT RENOUNCED IT FO...
CHAPTER 1 2?Peter 1:1-21 . ADDRESS: EXHORTATION TO ALL GRACES, AS GOD HAS GIVEN US, IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST, ALL THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE...
In the preceding chapters (passing over the Preface and Introduction) we have seen what the Scriptures, and especially the Lord and the Apostles, hav...
PETER, THE SECOND EPISTLE OF I. EXTERNAL EVIDENCE IN FAVOR OF ITS APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY 1. Ancient Opinion 2. Modern Opinion 3. Dr. Chase's View II....
Chapter?18 Verse 1 The original here is difficult, and differently understood. 1. Some take it as a rebuke to an affected singularity. When men take a...
Second Coming of Christ In Old Testament times the idea that in due course God would send his Messiah (= Anointed One) made its appearance and this th...