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• Sacrifice
  ...stles, particularly Galatians, and ultimately the masterly argument of the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews are witnesses to hesitations and tendencies o ...y voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people." The ingenious writer above referred to, accounts for this passage (p. 153 and 209.) by referring
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• Resurrection
  ...the Parousia, the third sign being the resurrection of the dead. Then the writer adds, ‘but not of all the dead,’ quoting  Zechariah 14:5 in order ...martyrdom ( 2Ma 14:46; 2Ma 7:11; cf. 2Ma 7:9; cf. 2Ma 7:14 ). At times the writer seems to be controverting the denial of a resurrection, as when he stops to
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• Epistle To Theephesians
  ...St. Paul’s thought at an earlier date. </p> <p> The fact that in Eph. the writer seems to pose as the defender of Jewish against Gentile Christians has been ...essly claims to be the production of the Apostle Paul ; and this claim the writer in the latter of these passages follows up by speaking of himself in langua
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• Melchizedek
  ...</p> <p> <b> 3. Significance in Hebrews. </b> -The apparent object of the writer was to mark the adequate and final character of the priesthood of Jesus Chr ...tithe of his spoils (&nbsp; Hebrews 7:1-16 ). In this passage much of the writer’s argument is fanciful, the narrative in Genesis being handled after a Ra
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• Job
  ...[Babylon]] (&nbsp; Job 12:17-25 ), which again, on the assumption that the writer is an Israelite, points to an advanced stage of Israelitish history. Many t ...itten by Job himself. It appears, indeed, highly probable that Job was the writer of his own story, of whose inspiration we have the clearest evidence in the
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• Clementine Literature
  ...bearing on the controversies of our own time; but we do not imagine that a writer doubts [[Julius]] [[Caesar]] to be a historical character, even though in s
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• Epistle Of Clement Of Rome
  ...ervice ( <i> Clem. Rom </i> . vol. i. p. 393ff.). Furthermore, as the same writer observes, ‘it is impossible not to be struck with the resemblances in thi
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• Epistle Ofjames
  ...with the sternness and vigour of the writer. (2) It is not clear what the writer could have hoped to accomplish by it. (3) Moreover, some of the more defini ...style of this epistle is close and sententious. The general manner of the writer, says Jebb, 'combines the plainest and most practical good sense with the m
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• Eusebius Of Caesarea
  ...<i> Ant. </i> xx. 7. 1; <i> B. J. </i> ii. 11. 5). He represents this same writer as stating that Herod [[Antipas]] was banished to [[Vienne]] (i. 11), where ...arks that "such an acknowledgment will naturally excite a suspicion that a writer who has so openly violated one of the fundamental laws of history has not p
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...the hero but not the author of the book. The author is an unknown inspired writer who lived in the time of Antiochus Ephiphanes shortly before 164 B.C. The a ...to their religion, in the assurance that God would intervene. The unknown writer was intensely sure of the truths in which he believed: to him and to his re
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• Book Of Job
  ...the whirlwind is in the Voice it encloses, the thing it says. And here the writer has undertaken the most tremendous task ever attempted by the human imagina
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• Parousia
  ...ction appearances of Christ cannot safely be taken as an indication of the writer’s view of the resurrection state of the believer. When he speaks at all o ...he contradictions that are the despair of the beginner in apocalyptics. No writer seems to have thought it worth while to reconcile his details, for they wer
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• Epistle To Thephilippians
  ...ot what they were. </p> <p> [[Van]] Manen feels it necessary to defend the writer from the charge of fraudulency, declaring that he wrote more from modesty t
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• Fall
  ...he inheritance at birth of the moral characteristics of parents. While the writer is not convinced that Tennant has proved his contention, that the appetites ...sion of the nature of moral evil than had been attained in the time of the writer, to that identification of the serpent with the Evil One which we find in t
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• The Second Epistle Of Peter
  ...s "second epistle" (&nbsp;2 Peter 3:1 ). This testimony on the part of the writer is personal, emphatic and direct. It reads much like Peter's plain way of s
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• Book Of Proverbs
  ...verable. The style is sometimes diffuse and the repetitions wearisome. The writer returns continually on his steps, treating of the same topic again and agai ...sness; and they incline to an artificial structure which suggests that the writer's interest is divided between sincere <i> ''''' tūshı̄yāh ''''' </i> an
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• Book Of Psalms
  ...nes are spoken of. In this book we have but one psalm with David's name as writer. They are mostly 'for, or of ' Asaph and the sons of Korah — Levites. In & ...pret a New Testament application of a psalm according to the New Testament writer’s purpose. As the psalmists were concerned with suffering and victory, so
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• Epistle Of. Jude
  ...re referred to by Paul (&nbsp;2 Timothy 3:8; &nbsp;Galatians 3:19), by the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews (&nbsp;Hebrews 2:2; &nbsp;Hebrews 11:24); by
  26 KB (4,108 words) - 10:54, 15 October 2021
• Adam In The Old Testament
  ...st self-interested impulse come by the way of subtlety. "The serpent," the writer premises, "was more subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had
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• The Johannine Theology
  ...of Christ's redemptive work has been seized upon as proof that, though the writer did not consciously reject the orthodox doctrine, it was really alien to hi
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