Overview - Acts 12 1?King Herod persecutes the Christians, kills James, and imprisons Peter; whom an angel delivers upon the prayers of the church. 20...
CHAPTER 21 Proverbs 21:1-31 . 1. rivers--irrigating channels ( Psalms 1:3 ), whose course was easily turned (compare Deuteronomy 11:10 ). Go...
Suffering [N]The experience of physical pain and/or mental distress. The words and phrases in the Bible expressing this concept are too numerous to li...
Matthew 2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests Here we have an account of Herod's conduct at this juncture; he calls a council, assembles ...
Fatherhood of God Throughout the Bible we find God portrayed as a Father. This portrayal, however, is surprisingly rare in the Old Testament. There Go...
WISDOM wiz'-dum: 1. Linguistic 2. History 3. Religious Basis 4. Ideals 5. Teaching of Christ 6. Remainder of the New Testament (1) James (2) P...
Job 12:13 With him [is] wisdom and strength Not with the ancient and long lived man, but with God, who has made the whole universe, and in whose hand ...
Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered, and said The time referred to is, when the disciples returned to him, and gave him an account of the succes...
Colossians, Theology of Introduction. Although short in length and written to a church Paul did not plant, Colossians stands tall in highlighting the ...
Footnotes(1 )Luke xi. 10.(2 )Prov. xvii. 28, lxx.(3 )Is. ii. 3, lxx.(4 )Phil. iii. 14.(5 )i.e., confessed or denied himself a Christian. The Benedicti...
Fool, Foolishness, Folly TheOld Testament. Several Hebrew words are rendered fool, with nuances ranging all the way from the naive but teachable pers...
Chapter?1In the close of the foregoing book we read how God magnified Solomon and Israel obeyed him; God and Israel concurred to honour him. Now here ...
Footnotes(1 )Christus Comprobator, p. 99, sq.(1 )O twn Paterwn Pathr; o twn Nussaewn fwsthr, Council. Nic. II. Act. VI. Edition of Labbe, p. 477.-Nice...
THE REVELATION OF JOHN. CHAPTER XIII. The Seven-Headed Beast. SUMMARY.--The Beast that Rises Out of the Sea. Power Given to the Beast by the Drago...
CHAPTER 10. THE RESEMBLANCE BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW. This chapter consists of four parts. I. The sum, utility, and necessity of this d...
PART VIII. ESCHATOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF FINAL THINGS. Neither the individual Christian character, nor the Christian church as a whole, attains it...
FAMILY fam'-i-li (mishpachah, bayith; patria): 1. The Foundation 2. Monogamy, the Ideal Relation 3. Equality of the Sexes 4. Polygamy 5. The Comm...
CHAPTER II. DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY. In the nature of the one God there are three eternal distinctions which are represented to us under the figure ...
?EXPOSITION Verse 7. Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth. If long delayed, the deliverance would come too late. The afflicted suppliant faints...
OF THE BEING OF GOD. SOME, because the Being of God is a first principle, not to be disputed; and because that there is one is a self-evident propos...