1. דבר dābār — “a word, a thing;” the word being the sign of the thing.
2. אדני 'ǎdonāy — “Adonai, the…

The fourth generation. —Heb. dôr. (See Note on Genesis 6:9.) As the four generations are identical with the four centurie…

True emblems of the Church of God with her smoke and her light, her trying affliction, yet the grace by which she still keeps burning and shining i…

The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. The reason given here is considered absurd, as it seems to imply that Abram's sons could not…

And in the fourth generation they shall come here again ,
&c.] The seed of Abram were in the land of Canaan before t…

A deep sleep fell upon Abram; with this sleep a horror of great darkness fell upon him: a sudden change. The children of light do not always walk i…