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Ask a QuestionThree sections of this work represent three natural divisions of the prophecy--1, 2; 3-5; 6,7--each commencing with rebukes and threatening and closing with a promise. The first section opens with...
like the preceding one of Ezra, is clearly and certainly not all by the same hand. [[905]Ezra, Book Of, BOOK OF] By far the most important portion, indeed is the work of Nehemiah but other portions...
stands at the head of a series of writings in which the deepest thoughts of the Jewish people found expression after their close of the prophetic era. Daniel is composed partly in the vernacular...
The first trance of the existence of this work is found in the Epistle of (
one of the books of the Apocrypha, belongs to the earliest specimens of historical fiction. As to its authorship it belongs to the Maccabean period, B.C. 175-135, which it reflects not only in its...
The book of Zechariah, in its existing form, consists of three principal parts, vis. chs. 1-8; chs. 9-11; chs. 12-14. + The first of these divisions is allowed by the critics to be the genuine work...
was written by the apostle St. Paul during his first captivity at Rome. (
The word is properly used, in Scripture as elsewhere, to express a definite commandment laid down by any recognized authority; but when the word is used with the article, and without any words of...
was written by the apostle St. Paul during his first captivity at Rome, (
was written by the apostle St. Paul not long after his journey through Galatia and Phrygia, (
a city of refuge in the downs on the east of the Jordan. (4:43;
[[1280]Wilderness Of The Wandering OF THE WANDERING]
This exists in a Latin translation, the Greek being lost. Chapters 3-14 consist of a series of angelic revelations and visions in which Ezra is instructed in some of the great mysteries of the...
Cuttings in the flesh, or the laceration of one's body for the "propitiation of their gods," (
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+ The author--There has been a wide difference of opinion respecting the authorship of this epistle. For many years Paul was considered the author; others think it may have been Luke, Barnabas, or...
was St. Paul from Rome in A.D. 62 or 63. St. Paul's connection with Philippi was of a peculiar character, which gave rise to the writing of this epistle. St. Paul entered its walls A.D. 52. (
+ The date of this epistle is fixed at the time of the visit recorded in
a wady mentioned by Isaiah, (
or simply THE DISPERSION, was the general title applied to those Jews who remained settled in foreign countries after the return from the Babylonian exile, and during the period of the second...
was written by the apostle St. Paul toward the close of his nearly three-years stay at Ephesus, (
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may be generally described as the "collection of books which form the original and authoritative written rule of the faith and practice of the Christian Church," i.e. the Old and New Testaments....
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the spot in which Manasseh king of Judah and his son Amon were buried. (
was written a few months subsequent to the first, in the same year--about the autumn of A.D. 57 or 58--at Macedonia. The epistle was occasioned by the information which the apostle had received...
appears to have been written from Corinth not very long after the first, for Silvanus and Timotheus were still with St. Paul. (
was written by the apostle Paul at Corinth, a few months after he had founded the church at Thessalonica, at the close of the year A.D. 62 or the beginning of 53. The Epistles to the Thessalonians,...
is one of the letters which the apostle wrote during his first captivity at Rome A.D. 63 or early in A.D. 64. Nothing is wanted to confirm the genuineness of the epistle: the external testimony is...