“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…
Category: Bible Translations
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…
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…
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…
Albert Barnes Notes on 1 John 5:7
7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, &c. There are three that witness, or that bear witness—the same Greek word which, in ver. 8, is rendered bear witness—μαρτυροῦντες. There…
Adam Clarke on 1 John 5:7
Verse 7. There are three that bear record] The Father, who bears testimony to his Son; the Word or Λογος, Logos, who bears testimony to the Father; and the Holy Ghost, which…
My Journey From King James Onlyism
While the church I grew up in was never an “extreme King James Only Church,” as soon as I entered the ministry in the mid 1990s, I was presented with books by…