In Mark 12:15, the King James Bible reads, ”Bring me a penny…..” but it actually wasn’t a penny like we think of a penny. John Broadus, the American Baptist commentator and…
The Hebrew Acrostic
“Something You Should Know: The Hebrew Acrostic. Knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet opens the door of understanding to the Hebrew acrostic or alphabetical psalms. These are biblical poems in which consecutive units…
Revelation 16:5
One of these is different than the others…see if you can see what I am seeing. “And I herde the aungel ʽof watirs seiynge, Just art thou, Lord, that art, and that…
Yes, Christians Can Vote In This Election!
“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” (Psalms 146:3, KJV) Just about any body could probably do a better job than…
Albert Barnes Notes on Psalm 12:7
7. Thou shalt keep them. That is, the persons referred to in ver. 5—the poor and the needy who were suffering from the wrongs inflicted on them. The idea is, that God…
Matthew Poole on Psalm 12:7
7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve †them from this generation for ever. Thou shalt keep them; either, 1. The poor and needy, ver. 5, from the crafts and malice…
Matthew Henry on Psalm 12:7
That God will secure his chosen remnant to himself, how bad soever the times are (v. 7): Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. This intimates that, as long as…
John Gill on Psalm 12:7
Ver. 7. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, &c.] Not the words before mentioned, as Aben Ezra explains it, for the affix is masculine and not feminine; not but God has wonderfully…
A.T. Robertson on 1 John 5:7
1 John 5:7 For there are three who bear witness (ὁτι τρεις εἰσιν οἱ μαρτυρουντες [hoti treis eisin hoi marturountes]). At this point the Latin Vulgate gives the words in the Textus…
B.H. Carroll on 1 John 5:7
To the integrity of this book, there is only one exception. The integrity of a book is established when it comes to us in the shape it was originally delivered, it has…