You have increased the number of your merchants till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky, but like locusts they strip the land and then
11Then they secretlypersuaded some men to say, “We have heard Stephen speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.” 12So they stirred up the people and the elders and the teachers of the law. They seized Stephen and brought him before the Sanhedrin.13They produced false witnesses...
Had obtained part of this ministry.--Better, the portion, or inheritance. The Greek has the article, and the noun (cleros) is one which afterwards acquired a special half-technical sense in the words, clerus, clericus, "clerk," "clergy." In 1Peter 5:3, as being "lords over the her...
Study Bible Book ◦ Chapter He doesThis phrase emphasizes the active role of God in the universe. The Hebrew root for "does" is "עָשָׂה" (asah), which means to make or to do. It reflects God's continuous involvement in creation and His sovereign power over all things...
About this number, saint Augustin declares: "In the number seventeen as in its multiples we find an admirable sacrament". Seventeen restores the harmony after the fights of the existence. It is the image of the initiate who has succeeded his interior marriage. ...
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They are called ‘minor prophets’ because of the shortness of their books, but make no mistake, when it comes to the end times, they pack a major wallop! “And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with y...
—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament) #251. אָח ach(26b); from an unused word;a brother:— NASB -alike(1), another(16), brethren(17), brother(218), brother with his brothers(1), brother's(21), brotherhood(1), brothers(195), brothers'(1), compan...
I was awakened in the middle of the night with this: First I was shown a vision of the earth with the number 555 at the top. Then I was shown the earth again with the 555 at the top and two arcs of energy I was told this: "The evidence for the placement was quickly covered up...
And I heard the number of them, which were sealed, and there were sealed an hundred and four and forty thousand of all the tribes of the children of