Let us therefore fear, Heb 4 1. II. The punishment of Lot's wife for this sin. She was struck dead in the place; yet her body did not fall down, but stood fixed and erect like a pillar, or monument, not liable to waste nor decay, as human bodies exposed to the air are, but...
3And Abram said, Behold to me thou hast given no seed [bodily heir]: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir4[on the way to become my heir]. And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thi...
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on the earth—contrasted with "an heavenly" (Heb 11:16): "our citizenship is in heaven" (Greek: Heb 10:34; Ps 119:54; Php 3:20). "Whosoever professes that he has a Father in heaven, confesses himself a stranger on earth; hence there is in the heart an ardent longing, like that...
Peter did not receive his revelation from man, literally "flesh and blood" (compare Gal 1:16), a common expression for "mortals" or "humans" (as in 1 Cor 15:50; Eph 6:12; Heb 2:14; 1 Enoch 15:4; Mek. Pisha 1.120). Peter's understanding of Jesus' identity came by divine ...
(Heb 10 7), in the beginning of the Bible, it is written of Christ, that he shoulddo the will of God.By faith in this promise, we have reason to think, our first parents, and the patriarchs before the flood, were justified and saved and to this promise, and the benefit of it,...
(cf. Heb 5.8-9). Somehow and some way that is not presently clear to us, God is working all of our sufferings for our good and, consequently, the good of the rest of creation, which will be saved when we are revealed to be the sons of God through the redemption of our bodies (...
iii. Adam Clarke, writing around 1800, had an interesting comment on the phrase, I will cause My fury to rest upon them:“My displeasure, and the evidences of it, shall not be transient; they shall be permanent upon you, and among you. And is not this dreadfully true to the present...
in some cases so much so that it wouldbring “the reader to despise the words of the author.”16 Gersonides expresses the hopethat he will live long enough to comment on the midrashic interpretations in a sepa-rate work17 – he did not, unfortunately – and clearly implies that the Mid...
ii. “Each high place would have its altar for sacrifice, and perhaps a pillar (Heb.masseba), which may well have been regarded as a phallic symbol, and an image of the Canaanite goddesses, Asherah or Ashtoreth.” (Taylor) iii. “Because hilltops often served as sites on which cultic...