Treasury of Scripture How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations! how art thou fallen Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be...
Treasury of Scripture I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? said the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, I have. Malachi 1:2-5 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jac...
Attis’ mother, Nana, was a virgin who conceived by putting a ripe almond or a pomegranate in her bosom. In some stories, Cybele, the “Mother of the Gods” and a great Asiatic goddess of fertility, is his mother. He was reported to have been a shepherd or herdsman beloved by Cybele....
And even as the Ægyptians after their feastings and carousings caused a great image of death to be brought in an shewed to the guests and by-standers, by one that cried aloud, “Drinke and be merry, for such shalt thou be when thou art dead:” So have I learned this custome ...
What does it actually mean that God inhabits the praise of His people, and is this found in Scripture?
“Come, let us build the City of God with its head in the heavens, seated at the right hand of God, and let us make His name great on Earth, so that we may bring all who are dispersed over the face of the whole earth, to Him.”Amen!
Jesus seemed to put the Syro-Phoenician woman away almost with rudeness, but she would not be put away, and Jesus looked upon her shameless importunity with pleasure, and said, "O woman, great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt." (Matt. 15:28) God does not always let...
The Bible says the same thing "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Matthew 22:39). Here, the first scripture is describing how a person in the state of self-transcendence would behave towards others and the second one is commanding us to transcend self in our treatment of others. ...
Failing to first ask that question, and then answer it, will result in a misinterpretation of Scripture resulting in a wrong conclusion. Let me show you a powerful example of what I mean. “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the hea...
37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spir...