Scripture offers numerous wise Proverbs to guide our lives, many that we hear throughout Christian and secular circles. 'Birds of a feather flock together' has been repeated for centuries, but where did that phrase come from, and is it in the Bible? Understand the meaning, origin, and Bibli...
Song of Songs 4:4The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain. Authorized (King James) Version(AKJV) KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK. New International Version(NIV) ...
There would be little difference in meaning between the two in this context. 1 Peter 5:9 tn Grk“whom,” referring to the devil in v. 8. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. 1 Peter 5:9 tn Grk“knowing,” ...
In Mrs. Eddy’s own words: “‘Now,’ cried the apostle, ‘is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation,’—meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in...
But this view involves an anachronism; the word had not acquired this meaning in St. Peter's time. It is clearly best to understand it of the lots or portions assigned to individual presbyters. The word κλῆρος originally meant a "lot" (Matthew 27:35; Acts 1:26), then ...
Sarah Post Dr. Easley IB English Supervised Essay Setting and landscape can be seen as equally important as the characters within a work. In Chekhov’s play TheSeagull‚ natural landscape is a key component to the work as it had an underlying meaning of foreshadowing or accentuating the trait...
Lamsa BibleI have other sheep also, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear my voice; and all the sheep will become one flock and one shepherd.Aramaic Bible in Plain English“But I have other sheep which were not from this fold; I must also bring ...
Malachi 1:14 Meaning and Commentary Malachi 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver A cunning, crafty, subtle man, who thinks and contrives, speaks and acts, in a very artful and deceiving manner; though some derive the word from (lky) , "to be able"; and so the Septuagint and Arabic ve...
Exodus 3:1 Meaning and Commentary Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian Who was either the same with Reuel or Raguel, spoken of in the preceding chapter; or, as others think, a son of his, the father being now dead; seeing it was ...
street outlets. The situation, he said, was further complicated by the fact that the rapid expansion of the direct online retail sector had sent the cost of advertising spiralling, meaning that, for the first‑time the cost‑to‑market for both channels was almost the same. His ...