Our Daily Devotional

GOSPEL (gr. “good or pleasant news”) Everything worthy of this title has to come from God. He didn’t always have the same character. The pleasant news for Adam and Eve was that the Seed of

EVE Name given by Adam to his wife after the fall, and after God had spoken of her seed and told her that in pain she would give birth to children. In Hebrew, the name

EUTYCHUS “happy”. A young man from Troas who fell asleep during a speech by Paul, falling from the third floor. He was raised dead, but the apostle miraculously brought him to life (Acts 20:9-10).

EUNUCH (gr.: “guardian of the beds”). The proper meaning is that of chamberlain. In the East, the men who performed this function had been castrated, and this is the reason why the term denotes a

EUNICE “good victory.” Mother of Timothy and daughter of Lois. She was Jewish and married to a Greek husband (Acts 16:1; 2 Tim. 1:5); She knew how to transmit to her son her love for

EUPHRATES “copious”. One of the great rivers of Western Asia and the world. It is formed by the union of two tributaries: the Murad, which originates in Armenia, between Lake Van and Mount Ararat, and

SCAPEGOAT Extra-biblical expression to designate the “goat” about which, according to Lev. 16:20 ff., the high priest (on the Day of Atonement) laid his hands on him, thus symbolically bearing upon him the sins of

CYPRUS (Greek, “kupros”, “copper”). Mountainous island located in the northeastern Mediterranean Sea and formerly famous for its copper mines, once leased to Herod the Great (Josephus, Ant., 16:4, 5). Its early inhabitants descended from Chittim,

CHESTER BEATTY Famous collection of papyri of great importance for the study of the Bible. They have received their name from a previous owner, who acquired them in an ancient monastery in Egypt. They are

JACKAL (Heb. “tannim” and “tannoth”). According to Lm. 4:3 it is a mammal. Isaiah 35:7 and 43:20 show the jackal dwelling in the desert. According to Is. 34:13, 14; Jer. 49:33; 51:37, he makes his