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A key-word search index to the contents of this site, entries that begin with the letter S, section Studies to Syriac. (The other sections under S are Sabaoth to Saints, Salem to Saraphs, Sardis to Seditions, Seed to Shushan, Sick to Sins, Sion to Speaking and Spirit to Structures.)

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Studies, study, studying the Bible, study guide

• Bible study – some notes on how to study the Bible in depth. Also, information on practical helps and tools for study. → es01d.htm
• Keys to understanding the Bible in a better way. How to avoid some common mistakes in bible study. → eg02c.htm
• Bible software – facts and recommendations, tools for studying the Greek and Hebrew texts, and links for download of computer bible suites. → es02c.htm
• On the King James bible and the men who were involved in its production. → es03c.htm
• On the "Textus Receptus" or "Received Text". – Look under the heading "Textus Receptus".
• Check your bible knowledge – a self-test with 15 biblical questions. → es04b.htm
• Whom should one listen to in biblical matters, and whom not? → es05c.htm
• Who really has biblical, spiritual or religious authority? Who can speak for God? What does the Bible say about that matter – what did Jesus teach regarding it? Knowing the answers to those questions is a vital key to understanding the Bible in a better and deeper way. → es06d.htm
• "Amateur bible students" versus "professional theologians". → es07c.htm
• "Bible scholars", "biblical scholarship". → es07c.htm
• What is "doctrine"? Is it biblical to have "doctors of theology" and "doctrines"? → es08c.htm
• Regarding biblical exegesis – Look under the heading "Exegesis".
• An explanation of the short names of the bible-translations quoted at this site. → es09c.htm
• Look also under the headings "Misunderstand, misunderstanding", "Learn", learning", "Know", "Knowledge", "Wise, wisdom", "Study", "Exegesis", "Bible", "Scripture", "Old Testament", "New Testament", "Writings", "Text, texts", "Manuscripts" and "Book, books".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Stumble, stumbling

• The stumbling-block mentioned in 1 Corinthians 8:9. → ef03b.htm
• The stone of stumbling mentioned in 1 Peter 2:8. → (eo03d.htm) (See also the essay ea05c.htm which shows that the in 1 Peter 2:6-8 mentioned stumbling-stone or corner-stone is a foundation-stone, and not a "capstone".)
• How to avoid some stumbling stones (common mistakes) in bible study. → eg02c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Subject, subjecting, subjection

• On the translation "let every soul be subject to the higher powers" (Romans 13:1) – what was the apostle Paul really talking about? → ew02c.htm – ea09b.htm
• Paul to the saints in Galatia: "Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law?" (Galatians 4:21) → ec10c.htm – eo11b.htm – ec06f.htm
• Look also under the headings "Submission, submit, submitting", "Obedience, obeisance, obey, obeyed", Covenant, covenants", "Law, laws, lawful, unlawful", "Sin, sins, sinful" and "Righteousness".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Submission, submit, submitting

• A note: The noun "submission" is not found in the 1769 KJ version. The word "submit" is found there, as well as "subject" and "subjection".
• On Hebrews 13:17 and the misleading translation "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls". → ee04c.htm
• James 4:7, "Submit yourselves therefore to God". → eb10b.htm
• On Galatians 5:1 where the ESV has "do not submit again to a yoke of slavery", and its context. → (ec10c.htm) – (ea02d.htm) – (eo11b.htm) – (ec06f.htm)
• Look also under the headings "Subject, subjecting, subjection", "Obedience, obeisance, obey, obeyed", Covenant, covenants", "Law, laws, lawful, unlawful" and "Sin, sins, sinful".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Subsist, subsisting

• A note: The word "subsist" has to do with means of supporting oneself.
• Some preachers have claimed that the apostle Paul supposedly "upheld his right to subsist on tithes and offerings" – but the Greek text of the New Testament makes it clear that Paul supported himself through his own, manual work. → em05e.htm – em02c.htm – em03c.htm – em01d.htm
• Look also under the heading "Silver and gold".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Succession, successive, successor, successors

• The line of king David
  • Is some present-day king or ruler a "successor" of king David of Israel, being of his lineage? → ey12b.htm
• Are there "successors" to the twelve apostles, here on Earth?
  • On "ordination" and similar concepts. → ee02b.htm – ee01c.htm
  • On the "true church" dogma that claims that some church is a "successor" or "continuation" of the saints' assemblies in the first century and has "apostolic authority". → ea01d.htm – ea02d.htm – ea03d.htm – eg06b.htm
  • On "power" and "might" among Jesus' disciples. → ea09b.htm
  • On what really happened to the saints and their assemblies, in the first century. → eg04b.htm
• "Moses' seat" – how many "successors" did Moses have? Was there, not only Jesus who was the "Second Moses", but also others? → eo08c.htm – eo12c.htm
• "Successive church eras".
  • There is a dogma that claims that the seven assemblies mentioned in Revelation 1-3 "represent seven successive church eras". Apparently, that dogma was invented by the American Freemason and Baptist preacher William Miller (1782-1849). But, is that dogma correct and true? → ea03d.htm – Look also under the heading "Era, eras".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Suez (the Gulf of Suez, a part of the Red Sea)

• The Exodus and the crossing of the Red Sea: Did Israel cross over the Gulf of Suez, or the Gulf of Aqaba? Or, was it some "reed sea" that they crossed? → eo06f.htm – eo06-2.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Suffer, suffering

• Why does God allow evil, wars, sickness, pain and suffering? → ew01b.htm
• The violent rulers of this world, who cause misery and suffering – are they "appointed by God" as some have claimed? → ew02c.htm
• Look also under the heading "Tribulation".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Sulaô (esulêsa) (2 Corinthians 11:8) → em09c.htm

Summary

• For a summary (abstract, outline, overview) of the contents of each of the essays at this site, see the page filename.htm.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Summimêtês → em03c.htm – es06d.htm

Sun, sunset, sunsets, Sunday, Sundays, Sunday-school, sun-god

• What day of the week should one worship on? → ea04c.htm
• "The Lord's day", as a name for Sunday – that concept is not biblical.
  • Some translations have those words in Revelation 1:10, but that does not refer to Sunday. It seems that the vision John saw, refers to what will happen during the Day of the Lord (events of the "end time").
  • See also the essay ea04c.htm, and look under the headings "Constantine" and "Mithra".
• Sunday and other "Christian" high days, and their symbolism. → (ex10d.htm) (Regarding Christmas, see the essay ew05c.htm.)
• Sun-worship. → (ew05c.htm) – (ew04d.htm)
• Sun-god. – Look under the headings "Mithra", "Baal" and "Constantine".
• Sun and the pyramids: The pyramids in Egypt are connected to Egypt's religion which worshipped the "sun-god". → ea05c.htm
• Sun, solar: Were the solar equinoxes a factor in regard to the timing of the Old Covenant's high days? → ex09c.htm
• Did the Hebrew phrase ben ha arbayim, "between the evenings", refer to the time "between sunset and darkness", as some have claimed, or to the middle of the afternoon? (This has to do with the timing of the Old Covenant's Passover ritual.) → ex09c.htm – Look also under the heading "Passover".
• Look also under the headings "Worship", "Sabbath", "Sabbatismos", "High days", "Mithra", "Baal" and "Constantine".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Sunagôgê – Look below, under the heading "Synagogue".

Sunday – Look above, under the heading "Sun, Sunday".

Sunkoinôneô and koinôneô (Philippians 4:14-15) → em10b.htm

Sunset – Look above, under the heading "Sun, sunset, Sunday, sun-god".

Suph

• Did the Hebrew phrase Yam Suph (Exodus 10:19, 13:18, 15:4 and so on) refer to the Red Sea, or to some "reed sea" as some have claimed? Also: What did the word suph actually mean, and, why does the 1769 KJ version never translate the word suph as "reed"? → eo06f.htm – eo06-2.htm
• Exactly where did the Israelites cross over the Yam Suph? → eo06f.htm
• On the route of the Exodus, and the location of the wilderness of Sinai and Mount Sinai. → eo06f.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Supper

• "The Lord's supper" – On the New Covenant's wine and bread ceremony. → ec04g.htm
• "The Marriage Supper of the Lamb". → (eb07d.htm)
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Supplant, supplanted, supplanter

• The origin and meaning of the word "supplanted" in Genesis 27:36 is explained under the heading "Regarding the word 'supplanted'" in the essay ey04c.htm.
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Support, supported, supporting

• On what the apostle Paul meant when he said to the elders from Ephesus, "I have shown you in everything, by working like this, that we must support the infirm". → em02c.htm
• The Greek text of the New Testament makes it clear that the apostle Paul supported himself through his own, manual work. → em05e.htm – em03c.htm – em02c.htm
• Should believers "support" preachers by giving money to them? What is the biblical teachings regarding this? → em01d.htm – em02c.htm – em04c.htm – em05e.htm – Look also under the heading "Silver and gold".
• Regarding supporting the poor and the needy, look under the heading "Good works".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Sweden, Swedes, Swedish

• Are the Swedes "the tribe of Naphtali", as some Anglo-Israelists have claimed? Biblical and historical facts. → ey11b.htm – ey01b.htm
• Look also under the heading "Tribes of Israel".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Swine, swine's flesh – Look under the heading "Pork".

Swiss, Switzerland

• Are the Swiss people "the tribe of Gad", as some Anglo-Israelists have claimed? Biblical and historical facts. → ey11b.htm – ey01b.htm
• Look also under the heading "Tribes of Israel".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Sword, swords

• The chereb of Genesis 3:24 which many translate as "sword" – what was it? → ed01c.htm
• Isaiah 27:1, "In that day the Lord with his severe sword, great and strong, will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent". What was that livyathan, what did it refer to? → ed03b.htm
• Some use the sword and an anvil or stone (in combination) as a religious symbol – what is the meaning? → (ew04d.htm) – (ea14c.htm)
• Luke 21 – Jesus said that during the life-time of those who were listening to him, people in Judea would "fall by the edge of the sword" and be taken away as captives among all nations. → eg04b.htm
• Isaiah 2:4 (and Micah 4:3), "they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more". → et07e.htm – et10b.htm
• Romans 13:4, for He is a Servant of God, for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for He does not bear the sword in vain; for He is a Servant of God, an Avenger, for wrath upon the evildoer." → ew02c.htm
• Revelation 19:15, "And out of His mouth goes forth a sharp sword, that with it He might smite the nations". → ew02c.htm
• Leviticus 26:33, "And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste." → ey05c.htm
• Ezekiel 33:6, "But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand." → ey09c.htm
• 2 Chronicles 36:20-21, "He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword". → ey05c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Symbol, symbolic, symbolical, symbolise, symbolised, symbolism, symbols

• Look also under the heading "Antitype and type".
• An analysis of the symbolism and spiritual meaning of the parable of the vinedresser (John 15). How the apostles were to bear spiritual fruit to God. → ea11c.htm
• Matthew 16:19 – what did the "keys" symbolise? → eb08c.htm
• The symbolism of the Advent period and Christmas. → ew05c.htm
• The actual symbolism of leaven. → ex01c.htm
• Galatians 4:26 – the heavenly Jerusalem seen as the saints' symbolic "mother". → ea02d.htm
• Where the seven assemblies in Asia symbolic of future things, such as "church eras"? → ea03d.htm – Look also under the heading "Era, eras".
• The saints practised certain symbolic rituals, such as baptism and anointing of the sick. → (ea04c.htm)
• The symbolism of the pyramid and its capstone, on the dollar bill. → ea05c.htm
• The earthly Promised Land symbolised a heavenly Promised Land. → eb05b.htm
• In the Bible, "sweet" or "sweetness" sometimes symbolised good things, truth and light, while "bitter "and "bitterness" symbolised evil, deception and darkness. → ea12c.htm
• Anvils and stones, as a religious symbols, are occult, and refer to sinister things. → ea14c.htm
• The rainbow is mentioned in Genesis 9:13, but today, the rainbow is commonly used as a (secret) symbol for the sun-god (Mithra, et cetera). → (ew04d.htm)
• The beehive is commonly used as a symbol for the Queen of Heaven. → (ew04d.htm)
• The phallos was and is a symbol of Dionysus. → ea14c.htm
• Matthew 27:51 – The veil of the temple was rent apart, as a token and symbol of a change of some kind. → eb04c.htm – eb09c.htm
• Ancient Israel's Inheritance (the earthly Promised Land, which was a place of Rest for them) was only a type, symbol and shadow, and pictured things in the heavenly realm. → eb05b.htm
• The saints' baptism was, among other things, in symbol a burial of the "old man" (old, as opposed to the "new creation" of 2 Corinthians 5:17). → eb06b.htm
• It seems that the five wise virgins of the parable in Matthew 25 symbolised the saints who had received the Holy Spirit, and perhaps also the great multitude who will receive the Spirit of God in the "end time". And, the oil must have symbolised the Holy Spirit. → eb07d.htm
• In the Bible, the heart was sometimes used as a symbol for the mind or "inner being". → eb13e.htm
• A note regarding the red heart as a modern-day religious symbol. → See the footnote towards the end of the essay eb13e.htm.
• The Old Covenant, and its promises, were only types (pictures, symbols, shadows), of better things to come. → ec02d.htm – ec01c.htm
• The Passover-lambs were symbolic of Jesus and his sacrifice. → ec04g.htm
• Some preachers have claimed that the bread and the wine the saints shared, supposedly were "the Old Covenant's Passover, but with new symbols". Is that true? → ec04g.htm
• Was leaven "a symbol of sin", in the Old Covenant's ritual? → ex01c.htm
• The symbolism of the Old Covenant's high days
  • The weekly Sabbath. → ex03c.htm – eb05b.htm – et09b.htm
  • The Passover. → ec04g.htm
  • The Days of Unleavened Bread. → ex01c.htm
  • Pentecost. → ex02c.htm
  • The Day of Trumpets. → ex04c.htm
  • The Day of Atonement. → ex05b.htm
  • The Feast of Booths ("Tabernacles"). → ex06c.htm
  • The last day, the Great Day. → ex07c.htm
  • The Feast of the Eighth Day. → ex08c.htm
• The symbolism of the goat for Azazel (Leviticus 16:8, 10 and 26). → ex05b.htm – ec05c.htm
• In 2 Corinthians 3:6 and 8, the phrase "the Spirit" refers to the New Covenant and the Holy Spirit which is the New Covenant's "writing". The phrase "the letter" refers to the Old Covenant and its written rules. → ec13c.htm – ec06f.htm
• The unicorn is an occult symbol which refers to sinister things. → ed03b.htm
• The apostle Peter used symbolical language and called the saints "a royal priesthood". → eo03d.htm
• The symbology of the Exodus and the events connected to it, is an interesting subject for study. → eo06f.htm (See the heading "Spiritual parallels" in that essay.)
• Salt – what was it used as a symbol of, in the Bible? → eo14c.htm
• In the Bible, the word "yoke" is often used as a symbol, in different ways. – Look under the heading "Yoke".
• Freemason symbols. → ew04d.htm
• Occult symbols connected to the scouting movement. → ew10b.htm
• Look also under the heading "Antitype and type".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Synagogue, synagogues

• The word "synagogue" comes from Greek. The LXX, a Greek translation of the Old Testament, often has the noun sunagôgê in verses where English translations have "congregation", "assembly" or similar. Exodus 16:10, 16:22 and 35:4 and Numbers 8:9 and Joshua 22:17 are some few examples of this.
• This is what the "Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon" by Liddell and Scott has on the word sunagôgê:
  • sunagôgê, hê, [from sunagô]
    • I. a bringing together, uniting, Plat.
    • 2. a place of assembly, synagogue, NTest.
    • II. s. polemou a levying of war, Thuc.
    • 2. a gathering in of harvest, Polyb.
    • 3. a drawing together, contracting, s. stratias a forming an army in column, Plat.; s. tou prosôpou a pursing up or wrinkling of the face, Isocr.
    • 4. a collection of writings, Arist.
    • III. a conclusion, inference, id=Arist.
• The noun sunagôgê appears in more than 170 passages in the LXX (Septuagint), being used in different ways. The related verb sunagô ("to bring together", "to gather" and so on), occurs more than 400 times in the LXX.
• The Greek text of the NT contains the noun sunagôgê some 57 times, and the related verb sunagô around 62 times.
• Why synagogues are mentioned in Acts 15:21. → eo04d.htm
• Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 and the "synagogue of Satan". → ea03d.htm – (eo05c.htm)
• The episunagôgê, or gathering up or carrying away, of Hebrews 10:25 and 2 Thessalonians 2:1. → eb10b.htm – ea04c.htm
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Synopsis

• For a synopsis (a concise summary) of the contents of each of the essays at this site, see the page filename.htm.
  • A note: The word "synopsis" comes from the Greek sunopsis, "a seeing all together", "a general view". In English, the word synopsis means "summary", "abstract", "outline".
• For more, see the other parts of this multi-page index, or use the search function.

Syriac – The language called "Syriac". – Look under the heading "Aramaic".

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