Leviticus 13:4 If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh The Targum of Jonathan is, white as chalk in the skin of his flesh; but other Jewi...
Lamentations 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow Such who separated themselves by a vow to the Lord, and abstained from drinking wine and strong dr...
Letter CCCL.Letter CCCL. Basil to Libanius. Your annoyance is over. Let this be the beginning of my letter. Go on mocking and abusing me and mine, whe...
Psalms 51:7 Purge me with hyssop Or thou shalt purge me with hyssop {f}; or expiate me; which was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb on ...
?EXPOSITIONVerse 7. Purge me with hyssop. Sprinkle the atoning blood upon me with the appointed means. Give me the reality which legal ceremonies symb...
Matthew 28:3 His countenance was like lightning There was such a lustre and brightness in his face, that it glittered like lightning: such a descripti...
Overview - Isaiah 1 1?Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion. 5?He laments her judgments. 10?He upbraids their whole service. 16?He exhorts to r...
Luke 24:4 And it came to pass as they were much perplexed thereabout, &c.] About the body of Christ, and its being gone, what should become of it, whi...
Overview - Matthew 28 1?Christ's resurrection is declared by an angel to the women. 9?He himself appears unto them. 11?The chief priests give the sol...
Revelation 1:14 His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow In allusion to the white head and hairs of old men, said to be hoary...
Overview - Numbers 12 1?God rebukes the sedition of Miriam and Aaron. 11?Miriam's leprosy is healed at the prayer of Moses. 14?God commands her to be ...
Entering into the tomb (eiselqousai ei to mnhmeion). Told also by Luke 24:3 , though not by Matthew. A young man (neaniskon). An angel in Matthew 2...
Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal Or, darker than blackness; or, dark through blackness F25; by reason of the famine, and because o...
Overview - 2?Kings 5 1?Naaman, by the report of a captive maid, is sent to Samaria to be cured of his leprosy. 8?Elisha, sending him to Jordan cures ...
Sermon XXIX. [LXXIX. Ben.]Sermon XXIX. [LXXIX. Ben.] Again on the words of the gospel, Matt. Xvii., Where Jesus showed Himself on the mount to His thr...
Psalms 147:16 He giveth snow like wool For colour as white as wool; so the Targum and Kimchi: and for the manner of its falling, lightly and gently as...
Exodus 16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof manna For till now they had given it no name; which shows that the words are not to be re...
Numbers 12:10 And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle Not from off the door of the tabernacle, as Aben Ezra, for that is implied in the last cl...
BLOODY SWEAT (swet hosei thromboi haimatos): Described in Luke 22:44 as a physical accompaniment of our Lord's agony at Gethsemane (on the passage, w...
Overview - Daniel 7 1?Daniel's vision of the four beasts, 9?and of God's kingdom. 15?The interpretation thereof. Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeDanie...