Pink, Arthur – Studies in The Scriptures, 1932-1953
Works / September 30, 2025

Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952) wrote and published his monthly 28 page expository digest, Studies in the Scriptures, from 1922 to 1953. Each issue contained continuing serialized articles on six to eight subjects. The 380 issues comprise a treasure of immense proportions. These are currently republished serially by Chapel Library. The Annual Volume 1948 contains the January through December issues of the Studies in the Scriptures from that year.

Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words
Word studies Dictionary / September 16, 2025

Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words is a classic work. Many have recognized it as very valuable in the past, but modern Greek scholars have some problems with it now-a-days. The problem comes in when one presumes that the formation of a word controls its meaning forever. That is just not so. As languages are fluid, people begin using words with a different meaning from what the root parts of the word are. So the actual meaning of a word in real time use today maybe different from what the word’s roots meant when it was first introduced into the language. The English word “prevent” meant originally to go before. That is the meaning in the KJV (being closer to the time when the word was first introduced into the language). Today the word means to stop something from happening. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. So as you can see, the correct understanding of this word “prevent” is to go before something else. But in our modern day meaning, the…