1 Chronicles 9:25; 2 Kings 11:5-7
As soon as the days of his ministration ... - As soon as he had fulfilled the duties of the week. It might have been supposed that the extraordin...
Prediction of the Birth of John the Baptist. Lk. alone gives the story, which perhaps existed independently. and had been preserved in Baptist circ...
days . week. ministration . public service. Greek leitourgia. Hence Eng. "liturgy". to . unto. Greek. eis. App-104.
23. When the days were fulfilled Λειτουργία is employed by Luke to denote a charge or office, which passed, as we have said, to each of the...
And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. As soon as the days of his minist...
And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. And it came to pass, that...
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The days ] i.e. the week of the course of Abijah.
The days of his ministration. — The word used for “ministration” conveys, like the ministering spirits” of Hebrews 1:14 , the idea of liturgical s...
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the Forerunner Luke 1:13-25 As we open this Gospel we feel the wealth of a new age. The country was full of anarchy, misrule and wild passion,...
(5) There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of...
And it came to pass, that as soon as the days of his ministration ,.... In the order of the course, which might be three, four, five, or six days, a...
And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. Ver. 23. As soon as the days,...
As soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished Though he was both deaf and dumb, he was still able to burn incense, and perform the othe...
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23 And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.