Joseph, when he died - Τελευτων, When he was dying, gave commandment concerning his bones. On this subject I refer the reader to the notes onGenesis 50:25(note). And I have this to add to the account I have given of the sarcophagus now in the British Museum, vulgarly cal...
Verse 1.-And there was a famine in the land(of Canaan),beside the first(i.e. first recorded)famine that was in the days of Abraham- at least a century previous (videGenesis 12:10).And Isaac- who, since his father's death, had been residing at Hagar's well in the wilderness of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Genesis 7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. Llifteth up the meek: as Now, and when we Rapture… He casteth the wicked down to the ground) as the Meek, are (lifteth up (Rapture)...
d. According to its kind: This phrase appears ten times in Genesis chapter 1. It means God allows variation within a kind, but something of one kind will never develop into something of another kind. e. And God saw that it was good: God knows what is good. He is not some vague mor...
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 ...
It’s a battle between God’s Word and man’s word. It began when the devil came to Eve and asked, “Did God actually say?” (Genesis 3:1). As I’ve shown, the basic attack in this battle is on the authority of the Word of God. The nature of the attack has never changed, ...
Let us now return to our original question: ‘how are we made right with God?’ The Bible answers this question six times in the 3rd chapter of Romans: 1) “We are made right with Godby placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who [...