Our twelve tribes (το δωδεκαφυλον ημων). A word found only here in N.T. and in Christian and Jewish writings, though δωδεκαμηνον (…

Unto which promise. To the fulfillment of this promise, they hope to come; that is, they hope and believe that the promise will be fulfill…

Our twelve tribes.—The noun is strictly a neuter adjective: our twelve-tribed nation. It will be noted that St. Paul, lik…

My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; which knew me from the beginning…

It was not in spite of his Jewish heritage but because of it, Paul insisted, that he believed and proclaimed what he did. So he began the body of h…

Whereunto our twelve tribes. Paul complains before Agrippa that the state of the Church has come to such a point that the priests oppose t…

Unto which promise Of the Me iah, and salvation by him; and of the resurrection of the dead and eternal glory, as followi…

Christianity teaches us to give a reason of the hope that is in us, and also to give honour to whom honour is due, without flattery or fear of man.…