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Verses(5+)
- VerseIsaiah 19:15There is nothing Egypt can do— head or tail, palm or reed.
- VerseJob 8:11Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?
- VerseJob 40:21He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.
- VerseJob 41:20Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
- VerseIsaiah 42:3A bruised reed He will not break and a smoldering wick He will not extinguish; He will faithfully bring forth justice.
Words (Strong's)(5+)
Themes(5)
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemeSalvationSalvation in Scripture is not a single transaction but a single story told from Eden to Revelation: God rescues a people who cannot rescue themselves, and He does it on His own…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
Topics(2)
Apologetics(2)
- ApologeticsThe Moral Argument for God's ExistenceJ. L. Mackie, the twentieth century's most formidable atheist philosopher, agreed that objective moral values would be entities of a very strange sort, utterly different from…
- ApologeticsEarly Church Creedal Formulas1 Corinthians 15:3-7 is not Paul's composition — he says he "received" it, and its Aramaic name-forms, non-Pauline vocabulary and balanced clauses mark it as a fixed formula…
Feature Pages(4)
- FeatureThe Servant SongsFour songs, one figure — Isaiah 42, 49, 50 and 53 read in order, and the portrait sharpens until it can only be one Person.
- FeatureEzekiel's TempleNine chapters of cubits drawn from their own numbers: the measured plan, the glory returning by the east gate, and the river that heals a dead sea.
- FeatureThe New JerusalemScripture's last vision is a city measured with a golden reed — a cube of gold where Eden is restored and God dwells with men.
- FeatureThe Papyri, the Codices and the ScrollsHow the handwritten copies are grouped: reed-paper scraps from Egypt, whole parchment Bibles, the Hebrew line, the cave scrolls, and the first translations.
Authors(5+)
- AuthorEznik of KolbEznik was an Armenian, born around 380, and he belongs to the single most productive generation in the history of his nation's literature. Armenia had adopted Christianity as a…
- AuthorProcopius of GazaProcopius was born about 465 at Gaza, on the coast of Palestine, and died there about 528. He spent his working life as a teacher of rhetoric, and he was the leading figure in…
- AuthorAcacius of CaesareaAcacius was the pupil, librarian and successor of Eusebius, the historian of the church. He took the see of Caesarea in Palestine about 340 and kept it until his death in 366…
- AuthorVigilius of ThapsusVigilius was bishop of Thapsus, a coastal town in the African province of Byzacena, in the second half of the fifth century. He was alive and active in 484, and the date of his…
- AuthorErasmus of RotterdamDesiderius Erasmus was born at Rotterdam, most likely on October 28, 1466 — he was vague about the year, and had reason to be. He was the illegitimate son of a priest and a…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:49Moreover he wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry, concerning their freedom, that no officer, no ruler, no lieutenant, nor treasurer, should forcibly…
- Study resource1 Esdras 4:62And they praised the God of their fathers, because he had given them freedom and liberty
- Study resource1 Esdras 8:94Like as thou hast decreed, and as many as do obey the law of the Lord.
- Study resource2 Esdras 7:11Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
- Study resource2 Esdras 8:5For thou hast agreed to give ear, and art willing to prophesy: for thou hast no longer space than only to live.