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Teach (teaching, taught) (1321) didasko

Teach (1321) (didasko from dáo= know or teach; English = didactic; see study of related noun didaskalia and the adjective didaktikos) means to provide instruction or information in a formal or informal setting. In the 97 NT uses of didasko the meaning is virtually always to teach or instruct, althou... Read More
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Turn (1994) epistrepho

Returned (1994) (epistrepho from epí = motion toward + strepho = twist, turn quite around or reverse) means to revert, to turn about, to turn around, to turn toward, to return and figuratively to convert. The idea is a definite turn to God in conduct as well as in one's mind. Study the 39 uses below... Read More
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Understand (4920) suniemi

Understand (4920) (suniemi from sun/syn = with + hiemi = send) (Click study of related noun sunesis) literally means to send together or bring together. The idea is to put together "pieces of the puzzle" (so to speak) and to exhibit quick comprehension. Suniemi is describes the ability to understand... Read More
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Vengeance (justice) (1557) ekdikesis

Vengeance (1557)(ekdikesis from ek = out, from + dike = justice; see also ekdikos) is literally that which proceeds "out of justice". Ekdikesis means to give justice to someone who has been wronged. It means to repay harm with harm on assumption that initial harm was unjustified and that retribution... Read More
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Visit (concerned about) (1980) episkeptomai

Visit (1980) (episkeptomai - see study of episkopeo from epí = upon or intensifying already existing idea in verb + skopeo = regard, give attention to, look at, contemplate) literally means to look upon, to go to see, to examine closely, to inspect, to examine the state of affairs of something, to l... Read More
Horatius Bonar

OPEN INTERCOURSE WITH GOD.

Horatius BonarIt does not seem a strange thing that the creature and the Creator should meet face to face, and that they should hold intercourse without any obstructing medium. We may not understand the mode of communication between the visible and the invisible, but we can see this, at least, that He who made us... Read More
Horatius Bonar

Rev. 6:10. How Long?

Horatius Bonar"And they cried with a loud voice, saying—How long, O Lord, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who sell on the earth?"—Revelation 6:10. The words 'How long?' occur frequently in Scripture, and are spoken in various ways— (1) As from man to man; (2) as from man to God; (3) ... Read More
John Wesley

The Reformation of Manners

John WesleyPreached before the Society for Reformation of Manners On Sunday, January 30, 1763 At the Chapel in West-Street, Seven-Dials "Who will rise up with me against the wicked?" Ps. 94:16. 1. In all ages, men who neither feared God nor regarded man have combined together, and formed confederacies, to carr... Read More
F. W. Grant

The Numerical Structure of the Psalms

The Structure Book I (1 - 41) Christ in the counsel of God the source of all blessing for His people (Israel). Book II (42 - 72) Their ruin, but redemption in the latter days. Book III (73 - 89) The holiness of God in His dealings with them. Book IV (90 - 106) The failed first man replaced by the Se... Read More
Grace Gems

ALL OF "GRACE GEMS" FROM JANUARY 2004

ALL OF "GRACE GEMS" FROM JANUARY 2004 IN ONE FILE Untried, untrodden, and unknown (Octavius Winslow, "The Untrodden Path" 1860) "You have not passed this way before." Joshua 3:4 How solemn is the reflection that with a new cycle of time, commences a new and untrodden path with each traveler to Zion.... Read More

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