From Reformation to Reformation

2. Saint Paul’s description. Paul’s name and epithets. The blessing of Jacob to Benjamin accommodated to him by the Holy Fathers. Paul’s...

1. Transition to the Didactic book. The fourteen Pauline Epistles. We proceed from the historical Books of the New Testament to the...

Transition to the Didactic book. The fourteen Pauline Epistles, 1. Saint Paul’s description. Paul’s name and epithets. The blessing of...

Verse 8:[1] (Zech. 6:3) And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And...

HOLY FATHERS: Augustine,[1] Cassiodorus,[2] Chrysostom,[3] Gregory the Great, Theophylact, Nicetas,[4] Œcumenius. REFORMED: Louis...

Verse 7:[1] And when he had opened the fourth seal, (Rev. 4:7) I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. [Of the fourth...

Verse 6:[1] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure (the word χοῖνιξ/chœnix signifieth a measure containing...

The parts: I. The Preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles among the Jews, within and without Judea: chapters 1-12: in which is: 1. The...

7. The parts of the book are two: I. The common history of the Apostles, preaching the Gospel among the Jews within Judea and without...

Verse 4:[1] (Zech. 6:2) And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from...

Verse 3:[1] And when he had opened the second seal, (Rev. 4:7) I heard the second beast say, Come and see. The second seal; the second of...

6. It was written in Greek. It is uncertain in what year of Luke’s age. It contains a history of twenty-eight years, from the outgoing of...

Verse 2:[1] And I saw, and behold (Zech. 6:3; Rev. 19:11) a white horse: (Psalm 45:4, 5 in the Septuagint[2]) and he that sat on him had...

5. The argument of the same. It is a part of the Gospel. That is, this book relates the beginning of the Church of the New Testament, or...

4. It is uncertain whether he wrote the book at the behest of Paul. The scope of the book. Whether Saint Luke wrote Acts at the behest of...

Verse 1:[1] And (Rev. 5:5-7) I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, (Rev. 4:7) one of...

3. The writer of the book was Luke. That the author of the book is Luke the Evangelist, the same who also wrote the Gospel, is today...

The opening of six of the seals in order, and what followed thereupon. We are now come to the prophetical, and therefore the most...

2. The acts of the Holy Apostles, especially of Peter and Paul, of whom Luke was a follower, are contained in this book. They are called...

1. Inscription. This Book is inscribed πράξεις τῶν ἁγίων Ἀποστόλων, the Acts, or Deeds, of the Holy Apostles. The Syriac and the Arabic...