John 14:6 Meaning and Commentary John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way Our Lord takes the opportunity of this discourse about the place he was going to, and the way unto it, more fully to instruct his disciples concerning himself, saying, "I am the way"; Christ is not ...
Did we but fully grasp the meaning of what we say, the troubles of our hearts would be hushed to silence; and our religion would be a real power over the whole life, and would be also, in a fulness in which it never has been, a real power over the life of the world. John 14:...
I no other word is satisfactory but 'Advocate,' and the suggestion is that the only meaning here that is adequate is that of one who pleads, convinces, convicts in a great controversy, who strengthens on the one hand, and defends on the other. Christ, as the Advocate, pleads the ...
John 13:16 Meaning and Commentary John 13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you This is a strong way of asseveration, and is used when anything of moment and importance, and worthy of attention and observation is delivered. The servant is not greater than his Lord; ...
It introduces a truth of special solemnity and importance. The single ‘verily’ occurs about 30 times in Matthew 14 in Mark , , 7 in Luke. The word represents the Hebrew ‘Amen,’ which in the LXX. never means ‘verily.’ In the Gospels it has no other meaning. The ‘Amen’ at ...
MYSTERY WOMAN…at left, Lewis Mumford was at a loss regarding the meaning, if any, of Walt Kuhn’s latest circus painting, Sibyl, 1932; at top, Mumford found Grant Wood’s Arbor Day (1932) perfectly suited to the Cedar Raids art scene, while he derived great pleasure in his dislike of...
If others did not understand it either, it was child's play to utter words without meaning to the hearers. But the apostle desired to understand himself that which he said, although he spoke in many tongues; so that it was not jealousy on his part. He spoke more foreign tongues, by ...
Calvin found refuge for the next three years in the German Protestant city ofStrasbourg, where he was pastor of a church for French-speakingrefugees and also lectured on the Bible; there he published hiscommentaryon theLetter of Paul to the Romans. There too, in 1540, he married Idelette ...
The meaning of the dotted orange curve is different in this plot. Now it is part of the orbit. The abrupt change in curvature is at the furthest point of the elliptical orbits is striking, but I believe the graph is correct. I tried to compare the plot above with other sources. None ...
57) may simply reflect a preference for one form over the other on the author’s part, rather than an attempt to express a slightly more graphic meaning. If there is a difference, however, the word used here (τρώγω) is the more graphic and vivid of the two (“gnaw” or “...