seems to have coined a word for this single place. “Great-hearted” would be close to its meaning; but originally thebowelswere thought to be the seat of the affections, and hence such terms of expression: as also inGenesis 43:30;1Kings 3:26;Isaiah 63:15;Lamentations 1:20;Philippians ...
Verse 3.- Butforas for, A.V.; 'laid wasteforhe made havoc of,'A.V. From the dispersion of the disciples will flow the narrative in this present chapter. It is therefore mentioned first. From the persecution of Saul will flow the narrative inActs 9and to the end of the book. Steph...
(4) Mourn.—This is the ordinary word used for noisy funeral lamentations (Jeremiah 4:8; 1Samuel 25:1). Ecclesiastes 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;(5) Gather stones.—As the collecting...
" (Matthew 27:25).Righteous blood. So in the Old Testament we often find such expressions as "innocent blood" (2 Kings 21:16;2 Kings 24:4;Jeremiah 26:15); "blood of the just" (Lamentations 4:13); comp.Revelation 6:10and Revelation 18:24, where it is written that in Babylon "wa...
“provinces” here and inEcclesiastes 5:8, occurs in reference to the provinces of the Persian Empire repeatedly in the Book of Esther;Ezra 2:1;Nehemiah 7:6;Daniel 8:2. (See alsoLamentations 1:1;Ezekiel 19:8.) The word is almost wholly absent from the earlier books, save that it ...