Waxed Gross
For this people's heart is waxed gross, Matthew 13:15. At two different times our King James Bible describes the heart of the Jewish...
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Exercising in This Life
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that...
Trow
Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not, Luke 17:9. Missionary Danny Foss sent this...
Near won't do!
The admonition (with promise) recorded in James 4:8 uses a supposedly archaic word: nigh. This word is no longer used, being replaced by...
Epimenides and Your Bible
...and the scripture cannot be broken, John 10:35. From Gotquestions.org we get this little gem: Question: "What is the Epimenides...
Discreet
Missionary Danny Foss has supplied us with this Gem. Discreet adj. [3x., Gen. 41:33,39, Titus 2:5], discreetly adv. [1x., Mk. 12:34],...
Rie and Fitches, or a Rye Smile for Accuracy
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat...
What Happened to the New Testament in the New Testament?
Brother Whiting Delk who follows this blog sent me a paper to look over. I cannot commend his work enough. He has researched his...
The Bowels as Sacrifice, a Pauline Perspective
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,...
Bowels as Sacrifice, A Jew's Perspective
And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he...
Bowels as Emotions
And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept...
Bowels in the Word of God
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him, Song of Solomon 5:4. I spent too much time as a...
Branches or Citrons?
And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of...
Ephphatha
And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened, Mark 7:34. As stated in the last post on Talitha...
Talitha Cumi
And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise, Mark...
Bishoprick
For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another...
Both
As we study the word of God, we seek to understand it, not simply to read it for the sake of ‘getting through it.‘ And, although we are...
Cattle and Hands in 1611
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the...
What in the World is the World?
The word "world" is not synonymous with the word "earth". More and more though I am hearing people make them so. The earth refers to...
Trusting the Exact English
One of the puzzles that confront Bible students is what to do with the prohibition against Moabites in the Word of God. An Ammonite or...