The second command Peter gave was to "be baptized." What does this mean? The term in the original Greek just means to immerse or plunge under water. Peter is clear that baptism is not an outward symbol that we have already been saved. Instead baptism is the point of salvation because it...
Of Elias.--Literally, in Elias--i.e., in the section which contains the history of Elias. So in Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37; "in the bush" and "at the bush," mean, in the paragraph relating to the bush. Parallel Commentaries ... GreekGodΘεὸς (Theos)Noun - Nominative Masculi...
They did not see that they were destroying the temple of his body, and that he would verily paralyze all their power to crush his kingdom by building it up at the predestined hour. The great cry was, "Come down from the cross, and we will accept thy claims, and believe that thou ...
In Roman law language, infans is a child under seven, the period of minority reaching to twenty-five. In Attic Greek, the correlate to one registered amongst "men" was a παῖς. It does not appear that the apostle means to use a technical legal expression. He contrasts νήπι...
It is remarkable that St Paul does not say “which He fitted.” A seemingly rigid logic may say that the lost must be as truly predestined to death as the saved to life; but such logic is faulty in its premisses: we do not know enough of the Eternal Mind and the nature of things...