It notes that the Greek word for bishop is episkopos which means overseer. In Isaiah 60:17, it is written that God will appoint Peace as Israel's ruler and Righteousness as their overseer. Titus 1:7-9 states that a bishop, as the steward of God, must be blameless, must not be ...
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to punish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. ...
Aristobulus, about 150 B.C., seems to have endeavored to unite the ancient doctrines of Wisdom and the Word of God with a form of Greek philosophy. This effort, the leading feature of the Jewish- Alexandrian school, culminated in Philo, a contemporary of Christ, who strives to make ...
This notion is found in the Greek word for "lunatick" [Matt. 4:24], which puts the sick and those "possessed with devils" in the same breath as those "which were lunatick." Matthew 4:24 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that...
It notes that the Greek word for bishop is episkopos which means overseer. In Isaiah 60:17, it is written that God will appoint Peace as Israel's ruler and Righteousness as their overseer. Titus 1:7-9 states that a bishop, as the steward of God, must be blameless, must not be ...
(Lord) was a divine title for Hellenistic Jews of the first century like Paul. Indeed, it was the word used to translate the divine name, YHWH, in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. The word could sometimes be used simply as an honorific for one’s superior (...
He is the Word, or the self-utterance, of God. So when God speaks, it is Christ who is being spoken about. When God breathes, it is Christ who is being imparted. The Spirit of God’s breath (the words ‘Spirit’ and ‘breath’ are the same in both Hebrew and Greek). The ...
If they were, then the word "seek" would clearly be out of place. Again, Paul did not believe the Greek philosophers who taught the immortality of all souls, neither did Yeshua (Jesus):I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live ...
1. “Do not store up treasures for yourself on earth.”(Mat 6:19; Lk 12:21, 33) In the original Greek, the verb and the direct object of this sentence are the same word.Methesaurizetehuminthesaurosepi tes ges. The verbthesaurizomeans “to store-up,” or “save” in the modern...
almosen, from the corresponding Greek word ἐλεημοσύνη; Vulg. eleemosyna (but see Bosworth, Anglo-Saxon Dict.). The word "alms" is not found in our version of the canonical books of the O.T., but it occurs repeatedly in the N.T., and in the Apocryphal books of ...