Measures (κορους). Another Hebrew word for dry measure. The Hebrew cor was about ten bushels. Data are not clear about the …

Measures of wheat. The measure mentioned here—the kor, or homer—contained, according to Dr. Arbuthnot's tables, about 32 pecks, o…

An hundred measures of wheat.—Here the measure is the Hebrew cor, which is considered equal to ten baths (the la…

The Venerable Bede: After rebuking with three parables those who murmured because He received penitents, our Savior shortly aft…

(5–8a) As already noted, the bills may have been written in terms of commodities rather than cash, perhaps in order to hide the actual amount of in…

Then said he to another, and how much owest thou ?
&c.] To my Lord, as before:

and he said, an hu…

Whatever we have, its property belongs to God; we only have the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honor. This st…