Once the Body of real believers are raptured off the face of the earth, there will nothing left that will be able to stop the Antichrist from rising to full power. The rest of the world is going to be easily duped into believing in this man – especially with all of the false signs ...
שֶׁלֶם is the sacrifice or retribution restoring peace, and thus the meaning of σωτήριον touches upon the meaning of propitiation. "From this comparison, therefore, of the N.T.. the Sept., and the Hebrew, we gather the following conclusions: Propitiation, giving ...
I think there are a number of factors involved here, not least of all the authoritative nature and sway that the title of this collection of ancient texts, “the Holy Bible,” exerts on the reader when it comes to determining the meaning and message of these texts, now conceived as a te...
Yet even in these extreme cases the exact and philosophical meaning of the word can hardly be pressed. For in truth the nature of destruction will vary according to the nature of the object to be destroyed, and it is not necessarily that utter extinction to which we give the name "...
Interestingly,many of the same Christianswho strongly oppose the cultural acceptance of homosexualityare also opposedto illegal immigration. Why? Well, of course, because America is a nation of “laws” and everyone must obey the laws of the land. ...
I think there are a number of factors involved here, not least of all the authoritative nature and sway that the title of this collection of ancient texts, “the Holy Bible,” exerts on the reader when it comes to determining the meaning and message of these texts, now conceived as a te...
(4) שׁמוּעִ אֵל, "heard of God." This, which is the most obvious, may have the same meaning as the previous derivation, which is supported by the sacred text (1Sa 1:20). II. History.— 1. Private Life.— The circumstances of his birth were ominous of...
it is necessary to observe that the Greek word κῆτος, used by Matthew, is not restricted in its meaning to 'a whale,' or any cetacean; like the Latin cete or cetus, it may denote any sea-monster, either 'a whale,' or 'a shark,' or a 'seal,' or 'a tummy of enormous...
As a mark of the desolation that was to come upon Edom, it is said that "the kadth and the bittern should possess it" (Isa 34:11). The same words are spoken of Nineveh (Zep 2:14). In these two last places the A.V. has "; cormorant" in the text, and "pelican" in the ...
A still more important difference among commentators, as to the meaning of the expression in question, has respect to the point, whether the abomination, which somehow should carry along with it the curse of desolation, ought to be understood of the idolatrous and corrupt practices which should...