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ἐκεῖνος ἦν ὁ λύχνος ὁ καιόμενος καὶ φαίνων, “He was (suggesting that now the Baptist was dead) the lamp that burneth and shineth”.— ὁ λύχνος; for the difference between λύχνος a lamp and λαμπάς a torch, see Trench, Synonyms, p. 154, and cf. λαμπαδηδρομία the ...
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John 5:36-38. But I have greater witness than that of John —...
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Verse 5. - While - or, whensoever - I am in the world, I am...
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Berean Greek New Testament 2016 Ἐκεῖνος ἦν ὁ λύχνος ὁ...
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John 5:2-3. Ἔστι] is all the less opposed to the composition...
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3. lay a great multitude] Better, were lying a multitude....
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The man who had been diseased thirty-eight years healed on...
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Geneva Study Bible. John 5:1. After this there was a feast...
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Bible > Homilies of Chrysostom > John 5 John 5 Homilies of...
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the lamp or torch is obviously the outward life of holiness by which the disciple of Christ lets his light shine before men (Matthew 5:16), and the “oil” is the divine grace, or more definitely, the gift of the Holy Spirit, without which the torch first burns dimly and then expires.
Apr 10, 2005 · The lampas is more of a torch, a larger, brighter “lamp” than that which is normally used inside a house. In John 18:3, the lampas was the torch held by those who came in the night to arrest Jesus near the Garden of Gethsemane.
“It is apparently a torchlight procession, the lamps probably being ‘torches’ (of oil-soaked rags wrapped on a stick) rather than standing lamps, which are described by a different word in Matthew 5:15 and 6:22; the word used here regularly means ‘torch’.” (France)
Genesis 15:17. ESV When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. NIV When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
The Greek word, however, for “lady,” (Kuria, or Kyria) was a proper name; so that those who think that St. John addresses “the elect Kyria” are at liberty to do so.
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