which being duly explained, was a summary of all the duties, privileges, and comforts of Christians. There were evident fruits of Christ's grace in all they said and did. They were dead to this world. This was a great evidence of the grace of God in them. They did not take away oth...
While they were staying there many days, Festus explained Paul’s case to the king to get his opinion, saying, “There is a man left here as a prisoner
14 Simeon[v] has explained[w] how God first concerned himself[x] to select[y] from among the Gentiles[z] a people for his name. 15 The[aa] words of the prophets agree[ab] with this, as it is written, 16 ‘After this[ac] I[ad] will return,and I will rebuild the fallen tent...
Supererogation (Heyd,1982) has recently began to garner academic interest, with both Tencati et al. (2020) and Mazutis (2014) arguing it to be a suitable lens through which the non-mandated ‘good deeds’ of organizations are better understood and theorized. For instance, Tencati et al. ...
184), the relation between promissory and assertoric responsibility can be explained in terms of the notion of ‘illocutionary entailment’ introduced earlier. The underlying idea is that, if I promise that (2*) (“I will wear a blue dress at the wedding”), I am also thereby claiming ...
while it is a complete answer to Overbeck, who argues that as the patristic literature about Simon presupposes the emanation theories of the Gnostics so the expression in the verse before us must be explained in the same way, and that thus we have a direct proof that the narrative is influ...
“Would you like to go out?”, “I wonder if you can go out”, “Do you mind going out?”, “I’m sure you would like to go out”, “You should probably go out”. This is explained by the way in which the dialogues have been constructed and they reflect the type and role ...
in the preceding chapter (vers. 15-26), but it is quite clear in ver. 15 of this chapter that Peter and the eleven (ver. 14), standing up separate from the body of the disciples, say of them, "These are not drunken, as ye suppose;" which is a demonstration that those of whom ...
Cornelius called in two of his servants and one of his soldiers who worshiped God.8He explained everything to them and sent them off to Joppa. 9The next day about noon these men were coming near Joppa. Peter went up on the roof[b]of the house to pray10and became very hungry. While...
4But Peter explaineditto themin order from the beginning, saying:5“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object descending like a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came to me.6When I observed it intently and considered, I...