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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, (
+ 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
was written by the apostle St. Paul toward the close of his nearly three-years stay at Ephesus, (
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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...
This word, with one exception only, has, at least in the narrative portions of the Bible, almost invariably the force of "passing the night."
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,...
appears to have been written from Corinth not very long after the first, for Silvanus and Timotheus were still with St. Paul. (
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...
There are no specialties in this epistle which require any very elaborate treatment distinct from the other Pastoral Letters of St. Paul. It was written about the same time and under similar...
The Greek translations of Daniel contain several pieces which are not found int he original text. The most important are contained in the Apocrypha of the English Bible under the titles of The Son...
The Hebrew term shecar, in its etymological sense, applies to any beverage that had intoxicating qualities. With regard to the application of the term in later times we have the explicit statement...
a wady mentioned by Isaiah, (
--We learn from Holy Scripture that it was by the agency of the Spirit of God that the prophets received the divine communication; but the means by which the divine Spirit communicated with the...
The Epistles to Timothy and Titus are called the Pastoral Epistles, because they are principally devoted to directions about the work of the pastor of a church. The First Epistle was probably...
from Arka, one of the families of the Canaanites, (
The descendants of Dan and the members of his tribe. (
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(son of Zerah), a title attached to two persons--Ethan, (
The word which the Jewish critics have substituted in the margin of the Bible for the ancient reading, "the Gerizite." (
a Gadite family sprung from Haggi. (
descendants of the preceding. (
a people mentioned in one of the addresses of Jehovah to the repentant Israelites, (
a word occurring once only-- (
the fourth of the four "families of Kirjath-jearim," i.e. colonies proceeding therefrom and founding towns. (
and Per'izzites (belonging to a village), one of the nations inhabiting the land of promise before and at the time of its conquest by Israel. (B.C. 1450.) They are continually mentioned in the...