The frequency and unparalleled nature of his miracles also furnish perhaps the best explanation of Elijah's behest of "a double portion of his own spirit" upon Elisha (2Ki 2:9), The ordinary meaning put upon this phrase (see, for example, J.H. Newman, Subj. of the Day, page 191) ...
This, the probable meaning of our term, suits very well with the idea of divination, though it ill accords with the A.V., which, in all the eight passages in Daniel where it is found, renders it astrologers. Divination by the stars is not implied in the original. The Sept. in every...
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(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 "...
This is the obvious meaning of the passage, which no sophism can evade or fritter away. It would be easy to employ the attention further, on the general statements contained in the Word of God, respecting the character of separation from the world which ought to be sustained by his Church...
1. The Legal or Halachic Exegesis.— The object of this branch of exposition is to ascertain, by analogy, combination, or otherwise, the meaning of the law respecting exceptional cases about which there is no direct enactment in the Mosaic code, as it was the only rule of practice in the...