Letter CCCXLI.Letter CCCXLI. Libanius ta Basil. You have not yet ceased to be offended with me, and so I tremble as I write. If you have cared, why, ...
WASHPOT wosh'-pot (sir rachats, vessel for washing): Only Psalms 60:8 = 108:9, Moab is my washpot; i.e. Moab is my chattel, to betreated contemptuous...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge2 Kings 1:8??(King James Version)And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about hi...
No man, Lord (Oudei, Kurie). No one, Sir. She makes no excuse for her sin. Does she recognize Jesus as Lord? Neither do I condemn thee (Oude egw se k...
Overview - John 12 1?Jesus excuses Mary anointing his feet. 9?The people flock to see Lazarus. 10?The chief priests consult to kill him. 12?Christ ri...
Overview - Matthew 27 1?Christ is delivered bound to Pilate. 3?Judas hangs himself. 19?Pilate, admonished of his wife, 20?and being urged by the mult...
Overview - 1?Kings 13 1?Jeroboam's hand withers, 6?and at the prayer of the prophet is restored. 7?The prophet departs from Beth-el. 11?An old proph...
Overview - John 4 1?Christ talks with a woman of Samaria, and reveals himself unto her. 27?His disciples marvel. 31?He declares to them his zeal for G...
Overview - John 4 1?Christ talks with a woman of Samaria, and reveals himself unto her. 27?His disciples marvel. 31?He declares to them his zeal for G...
Overview - John 5 1?Jesus on the sabbath day cures him that was diseased eight and thirty years. 10?The Jews therefore cavil, and persecute him for it...
Overview - Ezra 8 1?The companions of Ezra, who returned from Babylon. 15?He sends to Iddo for ministers for the temple. 21?He keeps a fast. 24?He com...
Letter CCCXLIV.Letter CCCXLIV. Basil to Libanius. I AM dissuaded from writing often to you, learned as you are, by my timidity and my ignorance. But y...
Overview - 2?Kings 11 1?Jehoash, being saved by Jehosheba his aunt from Athaliah's massacre of the seed royal, is hid six years in the house of God. ...
Beareth all things (panta stegei). Stegw is old verb from stegh, roof, already in 1?Corinthians 9:12 ; 1 Thessalonians 3:1 1 Thessalonians 3:5 wh...
Overview - Nehemiah 3 1?The names and order of them that built the wall. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeNehemiah 3:7??(King James Version)And next unt...
Letter CCCXLVIII.Letter CCCXLVIII. Basil to Libanius. If gripi/zein is the same thing as to gain, and this is the meaning of the phrase which your sop...
I will not (ou qelw). So many old manuscripts, though the Vatican manuscript (B) has the order of the two sons reversed. Logically the I, sir (egw, k...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 8. They are corrupt. They rot above ground; their heart and life are depraved. And speak wickedly concerning oppression. The reek of...
?EXPOSITION Verse 8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day. Their rage was unrelenting and unceasing, and vented itself in taunts and insults, the Psal...
Are rusted (katiwtai). Perfect passive indicative (singular for cruso and arguro are grouped as one) of katiow, late verb (from io, rust) with perfec...