25 Contestants in the Grecian games had to take an oath that they had
been ten months in training, and that they would violate none of the
regulations. They lived on a prescribed diet and exercised severe
self-restraint. The wreath or "crown" was made of the leaves of the
pine. Groves of these trees... [ Continue Reading ]
32 It has been customary, in the study of "dispensational" truth, to
divide the human race into "the Jew, the Gentile, and the church of
God", and base the division on this passage. It is well, however, to
note that the classification here is not _ Israel _ and the nations,
but the _ Jew _ and the _... [ Continue Reading ]