Acts 17:3
CHRIST The Christ, that is, that, according to the Scriptures, the Messiah must die and rise again. That Jesus was the Messiah was the second part of his argument.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHRIST The Christ, that is, that, according to the Scriptures, the Messiah must die and rise again. That Jesus was the Messiah was the second part of his argument.... [ Continue Reading ]
DREW dragged. See margin reference, (_ See Scofield) - (Acts 16:19). _... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE Illustrates (John 5:46). Believing the Old Testament they believed the Gospel. HONOURABLE Greek women of honourable estate.... [ Continue Reading ]
STIRRED Provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
EPICUREANS Disciples of Epicurus, B.C. 342-271, who abandoned as hopeless the search by reason for pure truth, compare (John 18:38), seeking instead true pleasure through experience. STOICKS Disciples of Zeno, B.C. 280, and Chrysippus, B.C. 240. This philosophy was founded on human self-sufficien... [ Continue Reading ]
AREOPAGUS Mars' hill.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLOOD "Blood" is not in the best manuscripts. R.V. omits.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE Found in the writings of Aratus and Cleanthes.... [ Continue Reading ]
OFFSPRING OF GOD (Greek, "genos", means "race"). The reference is to the creation-work of God in which He made man (i.e. mankind, the race in Adam) in his own likeness, (Genesis 1:26); (Genesis 1:27); thus rebuking the thought that "the Godhead is like unto gold," etc. The word "Father" is not used... [ Continue Reading ]
REPENT Repentance is the translation of a (Greek, "metanoeō") "metanoia-metanoeo", which means "to have another mind," "to change the mind," and is used in the New Testament to indicate a change of mind in respect of sin, of God, and of self. This change of mind may, especially in the case of Chri... [ Continue Reading ]
WORLD (Greek, "oikoumenē", means "inhabited earth"). (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 2:1). _... [ Continue Reading ]