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• Christian. Sabbath
  Christian. Sabbath <ref name="term_58896" /> ...ls. 8vo). Articles on special points connected with the institution of the Sabbath may be found (in addition to those referred to in Poole's Index, s.v.) in t
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• Sabbath
  ...eliverance from the bondage of Egypt, &nbsp;Deuteronomy 5:15 . </p> <p> "A Sabbath day's journey" was reckoned to be two thousand cubits, or one mile, &nbsp;A ...Festivals and [[Fasts]] (Hebrew)’ (F. H. Woods), and ‘Festivals and Fasts (Christian)’ (J. G. Carleton), in Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics. </p> <p> J.
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• Jewish. Sabbath
  Jewish. Sabbath <ref name="term_58893" /> ...g and drinking. Such are the principal features of the carnal views of the Sabbath from which the early fathers wished to wean the Jewish converts. A full acc
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• Christian. Sabbath
  Christian. Sabbath <ref name="term_58896" /> ...ls. 8vo). Articles on special points connected with the institution of the Sabbath may be found (in addition to those referred to in Poole's Index, s.v.) in t
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• Worship
  ...i> Word, Water, Wine and [[Bread]] </i> ; J. F. White, <i> Introduction to Christian Worship </i> . </p> ...of inward and divine things with the outward act was present to the lively Christian feelings of the first Christians. </p>
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• Synagogue
  ...nd 47, as shown above. It is from the ancient Hasidaean synagogue that the Christian Church adopted her own disciplinary system. </p> <p> Literature.-E. Schüre ...excluded from the synagogue and assembled at evening in the house of some Christian, which was lighted for the purpose with lamps, &nbsp;Acts 20:7-11 . The Apo
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• Ethics
  ...cing idolatry, the lack of toleration by the State, all tended to keep the Christian distinct from his fellows. Mob and State and cultured class, by their hatre ...rrington, <i> Primitive Christian [[Catechism]] </i> ; C. F. H. Henry, <i> Christian Personal Ethics </i> ; W. Lillie, <i> Studies in New Testament Ethics </i>
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• Feasts
  ...;Judges 1:12, "feasts of charity"; also &nbsp;2 Peter 2:13, mentions the [[Christian]] lovefeasts which often preceded the Lord's supper (1 Corinthians 11 end) ...and Dedication are all specially mentioned in the Gospels, as well as the Sabbath, to which there are very many references, some merely incidental and some m
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• Passover
  ...or Passover’ in CE_ (C. Aherne); in ERE_, artt._ ‘Festivals and [[Fasts]] (Christian)’ (J. G. Carleton), ‘Festivals and Fasts (Hebrew)’ (F. H. Woods); A. ...hinks, implies that "the preparation" was the day preceding not merely the Sabbath but also the first day of the Passover feast. All the characteristics of sa
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• Church
  ...i> Early Church Hist. </i> , do. 1909; L. Duchesne, <i> Early Hist. of the Christian Church </i> , Eng. translation, do. 1909-1912. </p> <p> Alfred Plummer. </p ...the Cross is our Passover (&nbsp; 1 Corinthians 5:7 ). The worship of the Christian congregation is the [[Paschal]] feast (&nbsp; 1 Corinthians 5:8 , cf. &nbsp
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• Law
  ...:2; &nbsp; Romans 8:4 , viz. that the law of God is no yoke compelling the Christian man from without, but a life actuating him from within; the believer ‘ben ...of positive and particular virtues, especially those which constitute the Christian temper. </p> <p> <strong> (4.) </strong> By all overt acts being inseparabl
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• Manna
  ...atthew 13:6). </p> <p> '''(3)''' A double portion must be gathered for the sabbath. </p> <p> '''(4)''' It was ground in the mill, as Christ was "bruised" for ...it putrefied and bred maggots when it was kept any other day, yet on the [[Sabbath]] there was no such alteration. The same substance which was melted by the
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• Pharisee
  ...rd to [[Gabriel]] [[Biel]] the question was warmly discussed among all the Christian casuists, What is to be done with a mouse which has eaten of the consecrate
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• Rest
  ...and the Son, in contrast to the weekly Sabbath under the Law. Because this sabbath "rest" is the "rest" of God Himself, &nbsp;Hebrews 4:10 , its full fruition ...ughout an interesting passage (Ep. Bran. 15) in which the hallowing of the Sabbath is discussed as something which will find its fulfilment in [[Christianity]
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• Baptism
  ...did not observe it in times of fasting. There could be no better symbol of Christian love than this, and it is highly probable that it was used in worship in NT ...n of hands after baptism is spoken of as among the first principles of the Christian teaching in &nbsp;Hebrews 6:1-2. Though the miraculous gifts imparted there
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• Jesus Christ
  ...point of departure for a more critical attack. It is also difficult for a Christian thinker to abandon the dogma without feeling puzzled and distressed by the ...the Sabbath. A seal was set on the tomb and the women were waiting for the Sabbath to end so they could prepare the body properly for permanent burial. </p> <
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• Sanctification
  ...bscure as an image, at least indicates a medium of communion, probably the Christian Church; and St. John speaks of a ‘hope’ which purifies, and of a moment ...p in [[Step]] with the Spirit </i> ; W. T. Purkiser, et al., <i> Exploring Christian Holiness </i> . </p>
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• Pharisees
  ...ch of the Sabbath (!); and though all feasts do not immediately follow the Sabbath yet "as a fence to the law" an egg laid on any feast must not be eaten. </p ...tion, and judgment to come, that with only little modification passed into Christian theology. The best of the Pharisees understood the inwardness of the Law as
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• Abstinence
  ...173ff.; E. Hatch, <i> The [[Influence]] of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church </i> (Hibbert Lecture, 1888), London, 1890, Lecture vi. </p> <p> [[D ...ccording to his conscience in the matter, but not, even in the exercise of Christian liberty, so as to cast a stumbling-block before weaker brethren. This was t
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• Persecution
  ...whom are all things, and we through him’ (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 8:5 f.). The Christian who worshipped the ‘God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ’ could not ...were present; and that a jubilee should be published throughout the whole Christian world, and the cause of it declared to be, to return thanks to God for the
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• Lord'S Day
  ...s Day, page 41, ed. 1671; Hessey, Bampton Lecture for 1860; Gilfillan, The Sabbath, page 8. (See [[Sunday]]). </p>
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• Lords Day
  ...s Day, page 41, ed. 1671; Hessey, Bampton Lecture for 1860; Gilfillan, The Sabbath, page 8. (See [[Sunday]]). </p>
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• Sacrifice
  ...Milligan, Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, do., 1899; T. V. Tymms, Christian Idea of Atonement, London, 1904, lects. v., vii.; C. von Weizsäcker, The A ...bsp;Leviticus 24:9] </p> <p> 3, The special Meat [Meal] Offerings at the [[Sabbath]] , and the great festivals, &nbsp;Numbers 28:1; &nbsp;Numbers 29:1; </p> <
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• Time
  ...yet the fixed name of the day. This it became later as it was taken up by Christian usage, and persists to the present time as the proper name of Friday in mod ...lated ‘the eve of the Sabbath’; so in &nbsp;Mark 15:42 ‘the day before the Sabbath.’ This day is also called the [[Preparation]] (&nbsp; Matthew 27:62 , &nb
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• Week
  ...he [[Passover]] and the tabernacles' feast was for seven days each. (See [[Sabbath]] , on the beginning of this division dating as far back as God's rest on t ...probably be thrown back as far as the creation of man. The week and the [[Sabbath]] are thus as old as man himself. A purely theological ground is thus estab
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• Creation
  ...s six, of whatever length it and they be, is the ground of our seventh-day sabbath. For the "firmament" (&nbsp;Genesis 1:6) translated "the (air) expanse," or ...odification of the original cosmogony, introduced in the interest of the [[Sabbath]] law; and this adaptation may account for some anomalies of arrangement wh
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• Fire
  ...bsp;Hebrews 10:37), those in danger of the wilful sin of apostasy from the Christian faith are reminded of the terrible consequences which await those succumbin ...the tongues are cloven. The Spirit of GOD convicts both the sinner and the Christian and He reveals the will of GOD to both. </p> <p> &nbsp;1 Corinthians 3:13 (
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• Jubilee
  ...ereof; but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard." &nb ...the 50th Jubilee at the end of the seven weeks (49 days) closing with the sabbath. It stood between the two series of sabbatical years in the century. See &n
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• Pentecost
  ...I]] Benzinger, art._ ‘Pentecost’ in EBi_; art._ ‘Festivals and [[Fasts]] [Christian], [Hebrew], [Jewish],’ in [[Ere_; O]] Zöckler, art._ ‘Pfingsten’ in ...ts 2:14-34. </p> <p> I beg to add one observation more on this view of our Christian Pentecost, namely, what a confirmation it gives to all the interesting doct
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• The Christian Calendar
  The Christian Calendar <ref name="term_55325" /> ...t is not even certain if the Jewish Christians kept it in any way as a <i> Christian </i> festival. Yet the phrases τὸ πάσχα ἡμῶν … Χριστό
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• Sunday
  ...e seventh day, both by the sacred and ecclesiastical writers. </p> <p> See SABBATH. </p> ...ord's Day. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' a.) [[Belonging]] to the Christian Sabbath. </p>
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• Day
  ...ark 13:17; &nbsp;Mark 13:24 in true Hebraistic style). </p> <p> Except the Sabbath, the days of the week were <i> numbered </i> by the Israelites, not <i> nam ...is offered for daily bread (&nbsp;Matthew 6:9-13,31-34 ). Like Paul, the [[Christian]] in one sense dies daily (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 15:31 ), but in another sens
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...ters are universally regarded as later additions by a strongly anti-Jewish Christian author, appended respectively to the beginning and end of the Latin Version ...This third book was probably edited in the middle of the 2nd century by a Christian. In general, however, this Sibylline literature, although of great extent,
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• Holy Day
  ...Christ, as expressed in the constraint of Christian brotherhood, that true Christian freedom of conscience will be developed, and that fear, which so often mani ...ted by divines, whether it be proper to appoint or keep any holy days (the Sabbath excepted.) The advocates for holy days suppose that they have a tendency to
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• Creation Create
  ...Theology Of Genesis]]; [[God]]; [[Personhood Person]]; [[Image Of God]]; [[Sabbath]]; [[Woman]] </p> <p> <i> Bibliography </i> . [[B.]] [[W.]] Anderson, <i> C
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• Preaching
  ..., fervency of zeal, consistency of deportment, and great usefulness in the Christian church. May their numbers still be increased, and their exertions in the ca ..., p. 137; R. W. Dale, Christian Doctrine, 1894, p. 302; J. M. E. Ross, The Christian Standpoint, 1911, p. 15; A. M. Fairbairn, Christ in the Centuries, 1893, p.
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• Miracles
  ...a priori </i> deny the possibility of miracles happening in any age of the Christian Church, and it is quite probable that some mighty deeds of later times, not ...onfirm the miracles which attest to its divinity. The improbability of the Christian religion being established WITH miracles is not nearly so great as the impr
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• Marriage
  ...ther hand, the principle as expanded in NT is clear. It is the duty of the Christian to keep it steadily before him as the ideal of his own life. How far that i ...sister "beside the other (namely, the wife) in her lifetime." </p> <p> Our Christian reason for prohibiting such marriage after the wife's death is because man
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• Baptists
  ...h day of the week as their Sabbath, apprehending the original law of the [[Sabbath]] to remain in force, unaltered and unrepealed. These are called Seventh-da ...[Free Communion]] Some of them observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, apprehending the law that enjoined it not to have been repealed by Christ.
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• Meals
  ...ff., &nbsp;Mark 1:29 ff.). Whether, however, this partaking by Jesus of a Sabbath-meal in the house of Simon Peter was secondary to the purpose of healing th
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• God
  ..., in regulating the words to be used in baptism. (The justification of the Christian formula is the general consent of the ages, dating from immediately after t ...the words, whether as a formula to be used, or as expressing the result of Christian baptism would amply account for St. Paul’s benediction in &nbsp; 2 Corint
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• Priest
  ...y]] on [[Apostolical]] Succession2, 1840; C. Gore, The [[Ministry]] of the Christian Church2, 1889, and Orders and Unity, 1909; T. M. Lindsay, The Church and th ...d into 24 courses, which served in rotation for one week commencing on the Sabbath, the outgoing priest taking the morning sacrifice, the incoming priest the
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• Jews
  ...f expecting a Messiah, who so unkindly disappoints his vain hopes; and the Christian ought to have his attention and his regard excited toward men whom God pres ...furnished every age and every nation with the strongest arguments for the Christian faith; not only as these very particulars are foretold of them, but as they
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• Morrow After The. Sabbath
  Morrow After The. Sabbath <ref name="term_58874" /> ...ost]]). But there is strong ground for the Karaitic interpretation. (See [[Sabbath]]) (Supra). </p>
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• Proselyte
  ...re of the rising against [[Hadrian]] (a.d. 132-135), and the growth of the Christian Church, were joint causes which led the Rabbis to make conversion to Judais ...daism had nothing to offer the Gentile that was not better provided by the Christian Church, and so it recoiled from the attack on Christianity like the spent w
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• The Ten Commandments
  .... What we know as the first and second were united; and consequently the [[Sabbath]] law appeared at the close of the first table as the third, not as the fou ...ather than negative, and so simple that a child can understand it. For the Christian, the Decalogue is no longer the highest summary of human duty. He must ever
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• Sabbatarians
  ...hwaite, in 1740. </p> <p> See Evans's Sketch of the Denominations of the [[Christian]] World; and books under next article. </p> ...doctrines of Christianity. See Evans, Sketches of the Denominations of the Christian World. (See [[Seventh-Day Baptists]]). </p>
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• Sadducee
  ...be added that the greatest Jewish authorities since the 9th century of the Christian era have regarded Zadok and Boethus as the heretical leaders who originated
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• Messiah
  ...(Zur Gesch. und Lit. des Urchristentums, ii. 9), as well as Charles, that Christian hands have worked over these texts and have inserted the expression ‘Son. ...empower Him for the work of salvation. Thus in the history of Jesus and in Christian experience this Divine salvation is set forth, not as <em> ab extra </em> ,
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• Slavery Slave
  ...) slave, though often described as a slave of God. In death, at least, the Christian ideal was fully realized. The slave becomes with the master only the slave ...e brotherhood in the faith,’ and declare that this ‘has come to be, in the Christian world, a mere empty phrase’ (article‘slavery,’ in Encyclopaedia Bibli
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• Bread
  ...and one-tenth. These loaves were unleavened. They were presented hot every Sabbath day, the old ones being taken away and eaten by the priests only. This offe ...y the disciples, who had bruised ears of corn, and were eating them on the Sabbath-day. &nbsp;Matthew 12:1 - &nbsp;4 . </p>
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• New Moon
  ...w Moon’ may again be offered, is arrestive and may even seem pathetic to a Christian mind. But all can feel the beauty of the prayer: ‘Renew this month unto u ...a kid as a [[Sin]] Offering. &nbsp;Numbers 28:11-15. </p> <p> As on the [[Sabbath]] , trade and handicraft work were stopped, &nbsp;Amos 8:5, and the Temple
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• Philosopher Justinus Martyr
  ...Henry. Entry for 'Justinus Martyr, Philosopher'. [[A]] Dictionary of Early Christian Biography. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hwd/j/justinus-marty ...martyr,+philosopher Philosopher Justinus Martyr from A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography]</ref>
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• Originality
  ...es went to an extreme. ‘The Son of Man came eating and drinking.’ In their Sabbath observance they outdid the Pharisees. There was no point on which Christ ga
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• Jerusalem
  ...ace within the sacred precincts. The altar was filled with profane things, sabbath keeping was forbidden, the Jewish religion proscribed. The Jews on the king ...1897, pp. 36-93, 549-568; C. von Weizsäcker, <i> The Apostolic Age of the Christian Church </i> 2, Eng. translation, London, 1897-98, bk. i. chs. i.-iv., bk. i
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• Profane
  ...e meet with in the law, that the priests did any thing particularly on the Sabbath-day of defilement; therefore the profaning Christ speaks of cannot mean wha ...A. Hort, Judaistic Christianity, 1894, p. 138; W. Mceller, History of the Christian Church, Eng. tr._, i. [1892] 129-153; J. B. Lightfoot, Colossians and Phile
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• Baptism (Non-Immersionist View)
  ...implies that all who are brought up in the faith of Christ and within the Christian family still lack, when they come to years of discretion, that great change
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  ...edia </i> ii. [1902] 537f.; W. Milligan in <i> DCB </i> [Note: CB Dict. of Christian Biography.]i. [1877] 260ff.; J. Vernon Bartlet in <i> Encyclopaedia Britann == A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography <ref name="term_14475" /> ==
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• Circumcision
  ...father was a Greek." The second was a lingering notion, that, even in the Christian church, the Jews who believed would still retain some degree of eminence, s ...ernational Critical [[Commentary]] </i> , 1902); also E. v. Dobschütz, <i> Christian Life in the Primitive Church </i> , Eng. translation, 1904; K. Lake, <i> Th
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• Feasts And Festivals Of Israel
  ...ular, periodic worship day, it is sometimes mentioned in parallel with the Sabbath (&nbsp;2 Kings 4:23; &nbsp;Amos 8:5 ). </p> <p> Duane [[A.]] Garrett </p> <
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• Preparation
  ...ary for ‘standing’ in ‘the evil day,’ but for the general warfare of the [[Christian]] at all times. </p> <p> Literature.-The principal [[Commentaries]] in loco ...tion," or "the preparation of the Passover," as preceding the [[Passover]] Sabbath, which commend at sunset, &nbsp;Matthew 27:62; &nbsp;John 19:31 . </p>
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• Louis Harms
  ...ith the government officers, especially in regard to the observance of the Sabbath, and was reported by them sixty-five times, but escaped unhurt. With charac
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• Year
  ...served. </p> <p> As a period of seven days was every week completed by the Sabbath, so was a period of seven years completed by the sabbatic year. It seems to ...to the feast of tabernacles from the 15th to 22nd of Tisri. As there is a Sabbath attached to the first day as well as to the seventh, so the first and the s
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• Character
  ...istian Personality </i> ; Kilpatrick, <i> Christian Character </i> and <i> Christian [[Conduct]] </i> , etc.; Herrmann, <i> [[Protestant]] Ethics </i> ; Sermons ...n the Christian system, as the rule of life and standard of appeal for the Christian character. On perfection of character, (See [[Holiness]]); (See [[Sanctific
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• Tracts And Tract Societies
  ...and popular reading, all of which have for their object at least indirect Christian influence, besides many thousands of religious tracts. </p> <p> In addition
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• Inspiration
  ...he inspiration of the sacred writers are also necessary, because even some Christian writers have spoken obscurely and unsatisfactorily on the subject, dividing ...ather determine the nature of the inspiration from the books’ (Bowne’s <i> Christian Revelation </i> , p. 45). </p> <p> (1) <i> The </i> ‘ <i> mechanical </i>
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• Paul
  ...rist’s teachings in a way that provided a firm theological framework for [[Christian]] faith and practice. </p> <p> '''Background and conversion''' </p> <p> Pau ...e into the very heart of the writer, who, though with the indignation of a Christian he could speak as he had done in Thess. of the chosen people, yet was a Jew
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• Mary
  ...ng </em> in the upper room. </p> <p> (2) <em> Place of the Virgin in the [[Christian]] Church </em> . The position she <em> ought </em> to hold is clear from th ...]] or not, is uncertain; and that, having been brought to the knowledge of Christian truth, and having found mercy from the Redeemer, she pressed into Simon's h
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• Christian. Psalmody
  Christian. Psalmody <ref name="term_56755" /> ...y. </p> <p> During the American Civil War (1861-65) many new patriotic and Christian songs resounded through the camps of the contending armies. The religious s
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• Anti-Sabbatarians
  ...hey ought not to hold one day more holy than another. </p> <p> See article SABBATH. </p> <p> those who reject the Sabbath, both Jewish and Christian. (See Sabbath). </p>
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• Covenant
  ...asis draw the contrast between the Mosaic forms of life and those of the [[Christian]] era, viz. St. Paul and the author of Hebrews. Even with St. Paul, however ...;13:15-22; &nbsp;Isaiah 56:2-6; &nbsp;Jeremiah 17:19-29 ). [[Keeping]] the Sabbath was a definite requirement for faithful covenantal life and worship. </p> <
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• Seven
  ...not only the seventh day is honoured among the Jews, by the repose of the Sabbath, but every seventh year is also consecrated to the rest of the earth, by th ...nbsp;Leviticus 23:5-6; &nbsp;Leviticus 23:15; &nbsp;Leviticus 23:34; see [[Sabbath]] ). The details of many of Israel’s rituals were based on a unit of seve
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• Excommunication
  ...ädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche </i> 3; E. v. Dobschütz, <i> Christian Life in the Primitive Church </i> , Eng. translation, London, 1904; H. M. G ...sians 5:5 . &nbsp;1 Corinthians 5:11 . "The exclusion of a person from any Christian church does not affect him temporal estate and civil affairs; it does not s
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• Christ In Jewish Literature
  ...Jacobs, Kohler, and Krauss; and is written with a full knowledge of recent Christian as well as Jewish scholarship. It is admitted that, while the teaching and
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• Work
  ...poor (&nbsp;Ephesians 4:28 ). Similarly, laziness is inadmissible for a [[Christian]] (&nbsp;1 Thessalonians 4:11-12; &nbsp;2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 ). All emplo ...2:3; &nbsp;Exodus 20:8-11; cf. &nbsp;Mark 6:31; &nbsp;Luke 10:38-41; see [[Sabbath]] ). </p> <p> God is not pleased with those who are lazy or who refuse to w
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• Number
  ...the Lord's day, the ''Eighth'' after the ''Seventh'' , ushers in the new [[Christian]] era. The [[Eight]] saved souls left the ark on the ''Eighth'' day, after ...p> <p> A certain mystical value is attached to numbers in later Jewish and Christian philosophy and superstition, perhaps due partly to the ideas suggested by t
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• Education
  ...de for society’s well-being (&nbsp;Romans 13:4). But this does not relieve Christian parents and church leaders of their responsibilities concerning the proper ...founded upon its model. </p> <p> The share which woman had in the work of Christian education apart from her influence and work in the home is not made clear i
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• Old Testament
  ...''''' ), and so on; thus [[Sheshach]] would mean [[Babel]] or Babylon. The Christian interpreters soon rejected these subtleties and maintained the historical r ...te of the rebellious [[Israelites]] is likewise held forth as a warning to Christian believers in &nbsp;Hebrews 3:12 ff.; but the noblest instance of this pract
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• The Essenes
  ...ude. The point of His conflict with the Pharisees was His disregard of the Sabbath as fenced by their traditions. The Essenes shrank from contact with oil, wh
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• Alms
  ...ty]] </i> 2, London, 1908, i. 147; A. F. W. Ingram, <i> [[Banners]] of the Christian Faith </i> , London, 1899; W. C. E. Newbolt, <i> Counsels of Faith and [[Pr ...&nbsp;2 Thessalonians 3:10). A mendicant order is the very opposite of the Christian system. The Jewish tithe was not imposed, but the principle of proportionat
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• Pulpit Eloquence
  ...letilk; Villemain, Tableau de l'Eloquence Chretienne au IVe Siecle; Moule, Christian [[Oratory]] during the First Five Centuries (Lond. 1859); Neale, Medieval P
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• Didache
  ...hours, in addition to the ordinary morning and evening prayers of which no Christian needs to be reminded. These devotions are to include the Lord’s Prayer (
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• Hymn
  ...mber of songs (ᾠδαί) which may, perhaps, be regarded as traditional Jewish-Christian hymns (cf. &nbsp;Revelation 4:11; &nbsp;Revelation 5:9 f, &nbsp;Revelation ...is known as the companion to the Bible because hymns play a large part in Christian life. </p> <p> J. [[William]] Thompson </p>
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• Gospels
  ...anguage, in method of argument, in idea, and it will be seen to be so when Christian scholars take the trouble to set themselves to the work of critically editi ...graphies, but spiritual records, "memoirs" adapted to various wants of the Christian life. A diatessaron, or continuous record compiled chronologically out of t
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• Cross
  ...en their death, that their bodies might not remain upon the cross on the [[Sabbath]] day, &nbsp;John 19:31; &nbsp;John 19:33; and to comply with the law of Mo ...often not terminating in death for days. The approach of the [[Passover]] sabbath, one of peculiar solemnity, led to his permitting the [[Jewish]] law to be
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• Discipline
  ...H. Henson, <i> Apostolic Christianity </i> , do, 1898; article‘Discipline (Christian)’ in <i> Encyclopaedia of [[Religion]] and Ethics </i> . </p> <p> H. Cari ..., <i> The Limits of the [[Religious]] Community </i> ; G. W. H. Lampe, <i> Christian History and Interpretation: Studies [[Presented]] to John Knox, </i> pp. 33
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• Reformation
  ...ore retired out of France to Basil, in Switzerland, where he published his Christian Institutions, and became afterwards so famous. </p> <p> Those among the Fre ...is from an Old Testament point of view that this title is bestowed on the Christian era. Other aspects of that era, from the same point of view, are indicated
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• Ethiopia
  ...und Gebräuche der älteren abessinischen Kirche </i> (1895); M. Fowler, <i> Christian Egypt </i> (1901); Dowling, <i> Abyssinian Church </i> (1909); <i> "Meroe < ...till more in the circumstance that Abyssinia is to this day the only great Christian state in the eastern world.' </p> <p> If we go back about two centuries, to
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• Resurrection Of Christ
  ...ction of Jesus Christ, p. 264), or as due to a ‘Messianic dogmatic,’ a pre-Christian sketch of the Christ-portrait derived from widespread non-Jewish myths (chi ...the Sabbath, and &nbsp; Matthew 28:1 refers to Saturday evening, after the Sabbath: the women return after viewing the sepulchre and finish their preparations
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• Moses
  ...an interesting study, as illustrating points which cover a wide range of [[Christian]] truth: The ‘glory’ on Moses’ face (&nbsp;2 Corinthians 3:7-18 ), th ...d to stand, and they live: so that rather than violate the sanctity of the Sabbath day, the bravest men in arms would lay down their lives as tamely as sheep,
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• Philippi
  ...n Empire, 1893, p. 158 f.; C. von Weizsäcker, The [[Apostolic]] Age of the Christian Church2, Eng. tr._, i. [1897] 279 ff.; A. C. McGiffert, Apostolic Age, 1897 ...Roman town in which St. Paul preached. There was no synagogue, but on the Sabbath, says St. Luke, ‘we went forth without the gate by a river-side where we
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• Punishment
  ...case, &nbsp;1 Kings 21:8-14 ). </p> <p> The fourth command, breaking the [[Sabbath]] (&nbsp;Exodus 20:8 ), was also a capital offense (&nbsp;Exodus 31:14-15; ...of Ethics, New York, 1892, ch. x; G. F. Barbour, A Philosophical Study of Christian Ethics, [[Edinburgh]] and London, 1911, pp. 285-291, 409 f. </p> <p> W. S.
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• Jesus Christ (Part 2 Of 2)
  ...me way, by appealing to their own acts of humanity to their animals on the Sabbath (&nbsp;Luke 13:15 , &nbsp;Luke 13:16; &nbsp;Luke 14:5 ). </p> C) Parable of
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• Septuagint
  ...moral or theological meaning. Many words as used in the NT are exclusively Christian, and their special significance is not derived from any literary source ( < ..., and very numerous synagogues, in which the law was read to them on every Sabbath; and as the bulk of the common people were no longer acquainted with Biblic
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• Homiletics
  ...lose (Francis), Sermons on the [[Liturgy]] (London, 1835, 12mo); Williams, Christian [[Preacher]] (collection of treatises by Wilkins, Jennings, Franck, Claude,
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• Hebrews
  ...church of those persons who had so lapsed as to make defection from the [[Christian]] faith. The passages in &nbsp; Hebrews 6:4-8; &nbsp;Hebrews 10:26-31 , at ...eys and prays for Christian leaders (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:17-19 ). </p> <p> J. Christian love does God's will (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:20-21 ). </p> <p> X. [[Conclusion]]
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• United Brethren In Christ
  ...y systematic annual collections a liberal sum each year to aid [[Mission]] Sabbath-schools in all parts of the denomination and in heathen lands. The Church i
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• The Slothful Servant Who Hid His Lord'S Money
  ...tful little library provided for every poor girl's lodgings, and for every Sabbath-school child's mother's house. Come out and make a beginning with your one
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• Gospels (Apocryphal)
  ...recorded by Clement of Alexandria in treating of the attitude of different Christian communities to marriage. References to the Gospel are also found in Hippoly
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• Elder
  ...on the Role Relationship of Men and Women </i> ; J. B. Lightfoot, <i> The Christian [[Ministry]] </i> ; J. Piper and W. Grudem, <i> [[Recovering]] Biblical Man ...pointed elders too soon after their conversion, because time is needed for Christian character and spiritual gift to develop (&nbsp;1 Timothy 3:6; &nbsp;1 Timot
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• Heaven
  .... E. Oesterley, <i> The Last Things </i> , 1908; S. D. F. Salmond, <i> The Christian [[Doctrine]] of [[Immortality]] </i> 4, 1901; H. B. Swete, <i> The Apocalyp ...future state, which distinguish the [[Pagan]] and Mohammedan systems. The Christian heaven may be described to be a state of eternal communion with God, and co
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