No such trace exists in the mention of the "Temple" (5:7), for that word is even in 1Sa 1:9; 1Sa 3:3 applied to the Tabernacle; nor yet in the phrase "bringeth back the captivity" (14:7), which is elsewhere used, idiomatically, with great latitude of meaning (Job 42:10; ...
It will be the wobbliest thing in the world, and this would explain why your family interactions are so full of so much unedifyingdrama. You are trying to build a happy family on a pile of throw pillows. Like the house in the Lord’s illustration, it will not withstand any kind of ...
The Greek word is “hilasterion” which means appeasing or expiating. Another meaning for the word propitiation can also be mercy-seat. Paul when writing to the Romans expounded on why the wrath of God would fall on all of mankind who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.He also makes th...
Tosiphta Yoma, 68 b; and Mishna, Berakoth, 7:1, for the meaning of שמש). The notion that his office resembled that "of the Christian deacon," as well as the assertion that, "like the legatus and the elders, he was appointed by the imposition of hands," has evidently ...
The tradition of Jowett still dominated the study of ancient philosophy when I was reading Greats. One was brought up to believer that the real meaning of Plato had been misunderstood by Aristotle and wildly travestied by the neo-Platonists, only to be recovered by the moderns. When recovered...
I knew I'd feel guilty if I chose McDreamy over McSavior, so my Bible study won by default, and I proceeded to take part in a lesson on the meaning of diligently seeking God. CitingHebrews 11:6andRevelation 4:11, the study concluded that our chief purpose in life is to please ...
Let all things be done unto edifying." - v26 The commandment here is to let all these ways of speaking that he just mentioned be done in order to edify the people in the church meeting, and to let all speaking be done only for the edification of the others present. The ways that ...
The meaning of the word would thus seem to be, in the N.T., the whole company of God's elect, those whom he has called to be his people under the new dispensation, as he did the Israelites under the old. Such is the signification in one of the two instances in which Christ uses...
"an unseasonable tale"), and that in a general sense; while, in one other passage (Bar. 3:23), μυθόλογοι, "authors of fables," has a somewhat doubtful meaning. In the N.T., however, the word occurs five times, and always in a severely disparaging sense, and in ...