Gen 15:12.And when the sun was going down.8From this reference to the time, we may judge what was the marvellous attention and watchfulness of Abram. The great scene of the revelation began on the previous night; he had stood under the starry heavens as holding a solemnity; the victims...
but remember that Ipreviously statedthat my “reflections” on Romans series was an attempt to describe my impressions of this epistle as a complete unit, that is, a letter intended to be read all at once, rather than slicing and dicing it up into little sound bytes. The context of what ...
(2)failing to do justice to the largeness and freeness of the Divine grant (cf. withGenesis 2:16); - which, however, charity would do well not to press against the woman as symptoms of incipient rebellion.But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath...
And Genesis, chapter 3, proclaims the enmitybetween the offspring of the woman and that of the serpent. Butgrace does do this much: that we are accounted completely justbefore God. God's grace is not divided into bits and pieces, asare the gifts, but grace takes us up completely into ...
Genesis 3 The story of this chapter is perhaps as sad a story (all things considered) as any we have in all the Bible. In the foregoing chapters we have had the pleasant view of the holiness and happiness of our first parents, the grace and favour of God, and the peace and beauty ...
Chapter 21: Dorothy Was Right As part of growing up, our beliefs are challenged by the people and around us and the circumstances we face (This is often an important and fruitful process). Even us Christians move on from the elementary version of Christianity we grew up with (as its no ...
On the sixth day of the week, God made man in his image to rule as God rules. The refrain of God’s judgments in Genesis 1 is, “and God saw that it was good.” The eyes are instruments of judgment, discerning between good and evil. In John 9, we meet a man born blind who ...
Genesis Hab. Habakkuk Hag. Hagga... TJP Society - Jewish Publication Society 被引量: 1发表: 2008年 A Handbook on the Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah (Ubs Handbooks Helps for Translators) [Paperback] PUBLISHER: United Bible Societies (New York). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1989. PUB TYPE...
In another vein, amidst these verses we meet other possible connections to Hannah, mother of the prophet Samuel (see the introduction to chapter 1, section D; the Notes on 1:46–48; the Analysis on 1:5–25). They have to do with the presentation of a child. Only in the story of ...
23 Comm on Acts (V1) John Calvin hath after a certain sort revealed it unto them, (Genesis 8:22.) The same opinion must we have of the prophets; for it was their office to know those things which God did reveal. But we must be ignorant of the secret events of things, as ...