18:1? In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven1?FALSE AMBITION VERSUS CHILDLIKENESS. (Capern...
Oration XLI.Oration XLI.On Pentecost. IT is uncertain to what year the following Oration belongs. It was, however, certainly delivered at Constantinop...
2. Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. [The Jews' feast of Tabernacles.] Tisri. Let us draw down this month from its beginning to this fe...
Daniel 5:31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom This was Cyaxares the son of Astyages, and uncle of Cyrus; he is called the Median, to distinguish ...
Nations, the The Old Testament. The English word nations is used in the New International Version to translate several Hebrew terms. Most often it ref...
NUMBER num'-ber: I. NUMBER AND ARITHMETIC II. NOTATION OF NUMBERS 1. By Words 2. By Signs 3. By Letters III. NUMBERS IN OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY I...
Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week Sixty nine of the seventy weeks being accounted for, and the several events obser...
Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time Not the present vision only, but vision or prophecy in general: it was a doubt that arose i...
?EXPOSITION Verse 156. This verse is exceedingly like verse one hundred and forty nine, and yet it is no vain repetition. There is such a difference i...
Prophet [S](Heb. nabi, from a root meaning to bubble forth, as from a fountain, hence to utter, Compare Psalms 45:1 ). This Hebrew word is the first...
The Book of EzraChapter 2Chapter Overview: The leaders that returned, ver. 1, 2. The people, ver. 3 - 35 The priests, Levites and retainers to the ...
Homily LXI.Homily LXI.Matthew Chapter 18. Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till sev...
Introductory Notice to Novatian, a Roman PresbyterIntroductory Notice to Novatian, a Roman Presbyter [a.d. 210-280.] When we reflect upon the history ...
Samuel Crook, B. D.?This excellent divine was bom at Great Waldingfield in Essex, January 17, 1574; educated in Pembroke-hall, Cambridge; and afterwar...
Isaiah, The Book ofconsists of prophecies delivered (Isa. 1) in the reign of Uzziah (1-5), (2) of Jotham (6), (3) Ahaz ( (7-14:28), ), (4) the first h...
The approach to interpreting the book of Revelation which has gained perhaps the widest exposure of all systems of interpretation in recent times is ...
The Book of RevelationChapter 12Chapter Overview:The great vision of this book goes straight forward, from the fourth to the twenty - second chapter. ...
Chapter?9In this chapter we have, I. Daniel?s prayer for the restoration of the Jews who were in captivity, in which he confesses sin, and acknowledge...
CHAPTER 13 Revelation 13:1-18 . VISION OF THE BEAST THAT CAME OUT OF THE SEA: THE SECOND BEAST, OUT OF THE EARTH, EXERCISING THE POWER OF THE...
Jesus dictates letters to the remaining three of the Seven Churches of Asia. This chapter completes the record of ?the things which are? (Rev. Rev. 1...