good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken- hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn," etc...
and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. ...
This is not the teaching of the Bible itself, but an idea that has grown out of the Latin word which as supplanted the more thoughtful terms used in the Hebrew and in the Greek Scriptures. A "miracle," miraculum, is something wonderful — marvellous. Now no doubt all God's works are ...
the union in Socrates of silly and scabrous titters about Greek pederasty with the highest mystical fervor and the homeliest good sense; in Johnson, of profound gravity and melancholy with that love of fun and nonsense which Boswell never understood though Fanny Burney did; in Jesus of peasant ...
At Alexandria the literary Jew added the study of Plato to the teachings of the Law, and learned to qualify the anthropomorphism of the latter by the transcendental notions of the Deity conveyed in the purest form of Greek philosophy. By a natural progression the anthropopathic descriptions of ...
does the Hebrew form of it (Messias) occur, in Joh 1:41; Joh 4:25; and twice only in the O.T. have our translators retained the same form (Messiah), in Da 9:25-26. In these passages, both in the Greek of the evangelist [Μεσσίας, or (as Griesbach preferred to ...
⇒Definition of vineThe regular Greek word for "vine" is ἄμπελος, of generic signification. Grapes are designated by various names: (1.) Eshkol (אֶשׁכֹּל) is either "a cluster," ripe or unripe, like racemus, or a "single grape" (as in Isa 65:8;...