TheHebrew meaning of Isaacis "to laugh," based on the story in Genesis that Abraham laughed when God told him that he and his wife Sarah, both of whom were aged, would bear a son. Later,God tested Abraham's faithby telling him to sacrifice Isaac as a burnt offering, and Abraham was...
(died 107), in his epistle to the Roman Church, calls her προκαθημένητῆς ἀγάπης, which Mohler (Patrologie, 1:144) and other Catholic scholars explain as "head of the love-union of Christendom," while Protestant writers understand it as only meaning "...
Without entering into a discussion of the meaning of this famous passage, we may here quote from Abbott's Commentary on the New Testament a statement of the Roman Catholic interpretation, and the grounds on which that view is rejected by all Protestants: ...
Pillar is a term frequently occurring in the Scriptures, especially of the O.T., where it is used in different senses, and as the rendering of several Heb. and Gr. words, which need to be distinguished both in their meaning and application. ...
It is a singular fact that almost uniformly the names of the highest mountains in all countries have a like meaning-Mont Blanc, Himalaya (in Sanscrit signifying "snowy"), Ben Naeris, Snowdon, perhaps also Alps (from alb, "white," like the Latin albus, and not, as commonly thought, ...
the city. In the Assyrian inscriptions Nineveh is also supposed to be called "the city of Bel." Fletcher, rather fancifully, taking Nin as meaning "a floating substance or fish," and neveh "a resting-place," supposes the city to have been built nigh to the spot where the ark of ...
Schaff has well said, " was not originally a departure from the faith, but a morbid overstraining of the practical morality of the early Church. It is the first example of an earnest and well-meaning, but gloomy and fanatical hyperchristianity, which, like all hyperspiritualism, ends again...
these are frequently called "porters," a word which has now acquired a different meaning. The chief steward of the household in the palace of the shah of Persia was called chief of the guardians of the gate (Chardin, 7:369). We read that some portions of the law were to be written ...
— The time fixed for the celebration of Pentecost is the fiftieth day reckoning from "the morrow after the Sabbath" (מַמָּחַרִת הִשִּׁבָּת) of the Passover (Le 23:11,15-16.) The precise meaning, however, of the word שׁב...