The patriarch describes him as attacked by envy, revenge, temptation, ingratitude; yet still, by the grace of God, he triumphed over all opposition, so that he ...

... Hebrew of the Hebrews, yet he adhered to pure Christianity. Now in this chapter he tells us what passed between him and the other apostles, and particularly ...

In the Hebrew to make a covenant was to cut up the sacrifice and so ratify the agreement (Gen 15:9-18). Lightfoot argues that the word diathēke means covenant ...

Stands a Book eternal that the saints hold dear; Thro' the restless ages it remains the same— 'Tis the Book of God, and the Bible is its name! Refrain. The ...

These people who have come together are all Jews and therefore know Aramaic and the vernacular Koiné , but there were various local tongues "wherein we were ...

The imperfect is graphic, describing them as throwing book after book on the pile... ... Hebrew phrase, he put way instead of ordinance. ... 43, Act 5:5, Act 5:11 ...

It was the place from which Christ ascended to heaven, Luk 24:50 , a sabbath day' s journey from Jerusalem, Act 1:12 , at some distance from the town called ...

... 43); that which is filled (Eph 1:23); possibly the act ... The end which God had in view, in suffering the Jews ... Jewish book which is irrelevant for Christianity ...

As a thief in the night ( hōs kleptēs en nukti ). As a thief at night, suddenly and unexpectedly. Reminiscence of the word of Jesus (Mat 24:43; Luk 12 ...

Apeleutheros is an old word for a manumitted slave, eleutheros from erchomai , to go and so go free, aṗ from bondage. Christ is now the owner of the Christian ...