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Law
...John 2:2;   1 John 4:10 virtually sustain the doctrine of St. Paul on law, sin, and sacrifice. G. G. Findlay. ...more exact manifestation of the brightness, perfection, and glory of that law, under which angels and our progenitors in paradise were placed, and which

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God
...t the custom of our Lord to make minute regulations, as did the [[Mosaic]] Law. He rather laid down general principles; and it would be somewhat remarkabl ...wn Law. In the [[Talmud]] He is represented as a great Rabbi, studying the Law, and keeping the [[Sabbath]] (Gilbert, in Hastings’ DCG [

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Justification
...nal. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it the law of His own life, so that it holds in Him as its root. Into this new order o ...n the condition of righteous men, in this respect, that the penalty of the law does not lie against them, and that they are the acknowledged objects of th

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Atonement
...hey are saved from the power as well as the guilt of sin; freedom from the law of sin and death completes the release from its condemnation; the release f ...t secret of atonement. The innocent suffering with and for the guilty is a law from which Jesus did not withdraw Himself. In His consciousness of solidari

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Sacrifice
...Christian teachers, because the animal victims and not the human servant, law and not prophecy, have given it significance; the OT system of ritual sacri ...eaningless. The [[Homily]] of Salvation truly says "reason is satisfied by God's great wisdom in this mystery of our redemption, who hath so tempered His ju

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Covenant
...offerings, this does not eliminate from them the element of expiation. The Law itself speaks of expiation in connexion with the burnt-offerings ( Lev ...ent ; G. Vos, Biblical Theology ; J. Zinkand, Covenants: God's Claims . 

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Jesus Christ
...nd probably chief in importance, was the education in the home. The Jewish Law earnestly impressed upon parents, especially upon fathers, the duty of inst ...s by Jesus to represent deity. In other instances Jesus exercised God's authority in forgiving sins ( Mark 2:1-12;  Luke 7:44-49 ) and ac

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Moses
...the author of the Pentateuch. Besides such expressions as ‘The law of Moses’ (  Luke 2:22 ), ‘Moses enjoined’ (  Matthew 8:4 )

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Sanctification
...’ the ‘law’ of sin and death is done away altogether, and obedience to the law of God is merged in a higher and nobler loyalty to the God and Father of Je ...elievers are to "pursue" sanctification ( Hebrews 12:14 ). Apart from God's sanctifying work in human beings, "no one will see the Lord" ( Hebrews

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Inspiration
...reason, not only that the matter contained in the book of "the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms," (the usual phrase by which the Jews designa ...utterance to this saying He Himself proceeds to repeal commandments of the Law, substituting for them His own better principles, and thus showing that wha

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Providence
...necessity, do not lack the raiment they require. Work you must; it is the law of your lives as God’s rational creatures; but learn from the birds and t ...names for the unknown operations of providence; for it is certain that in God's universe nothing comes to pass causelessly, or in vain. Every event has its

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Prayer
...( e.g.   Genesis 28:20; see art. Vows). (ii.) The Law ( i.e. as codified and expanded in later times). The reticence a ...t not to be neglected. It is true there is no absolute command for this in God's word; yet from hints, allusions, and examples, we may learn that it was the

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Trinity
...zed in the names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but in one name, which is God's; and, therefore, though we be thrice put under water to represent the myste ...m, while Ebonites described Jesus as an ordinary man indwelt with God's power at baptism. [[Arius]] was also an influential theologian who

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Ethics
...t ( Matthew 7:24-27 ), and is due in part to a supposition that every law is for every man. The disciples, having a special task, might be under spec .../p> See also [[Theology Of Deuteronomy]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Law]]; [[Salvation]]; [[Sanctification]]; [[Sermon On The Mount]]; [[Ten Comman

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Grace
...deals with sinful mankind not on the ground of merit or after the mode of Law, as though they were servants or subjects, but solely from His own natural ...asizes the free character of grace. The one reference in James links it to God's gift (4:6). Peter, who also includes it in his greeting, quotes the same Ol

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Love
...James.-The Epistle of James by calling the commandment of love ‘the royal law’ ( James 2:8) places love in the centre of religion. This love is no ...here and now. Christians love because they have been loved. In such love, God's eternal purposes are being experienced and carried out by his people (&nbsp

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Sabbath
...f rest; and it was also strictly enjoined upon the [[Israelites]] in their law, both on the ground of its original institution,  Exodus 20:8-11 , and ...seventh-day Sabbath is the desirable day and according to ‘an unchangeable Law of well-establisht Order both in the [[Revealed]] Word and in [[Created]] N

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Predestination
...ace of God, they were absolutely incapacitated for obedience to the divine law. To get rid of this difficulty, Augustine, in some degree, transferred the ...braham, the Covenant with Israel, the discipline and growing revelation of Law and [[Prophets]] leads up (on predestination here, cf.   Genesis 18:18

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Faith
...und the expression: ‘Before the faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed’ ( Galat ...sues appear under the terms Justification, Atonement, Propitiation, Grace, Law (in NT), etc. But St. Peter in his 1st Ep., St. John in his 1st Ep. and Rev

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Elijah
...ostdiluvial world, as Enoch's to the antediluvial, against their unbelief. God's voice, "This is My beloved Son, hear Him," attests that the servants must b ...rk 9:4-5;  Luke 9:30,33 ). Some have seen the two as representing the Law and the Prophets, which were now both considered to be subservient to Chris

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Mediator
...s righteousness, His disposition to treat men according to a perfect moral law. When sin is passed over, righteousness is not manifested. But it was demon ...ng by this person; that it is he who spake to the patriarchs, who gave the law by Moses, and who is called in the Old Testament, "the angel of the covenan

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Adoption
...ὸν νόμον; the reference is not only to those who were under the [[Mosaic]] Law, but to all subject to any system of positive ordinances (so perhaps in &nb ...ry way great and extensive. 1. It implies great honour. They have God's name put upon them, and are described as "his people, called by his name, "

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Marriage
...he qualified answer of v. 9. This answer really admits the validity of the law of   Deuteronomy 24:1 , with its stricter interpretation (see p. 586 b ...marriage relationship. For marriage to function now according to God's ideal, believers in Christ need to marry only believers. Whenever God direc

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Creation
...he stronger surviving the weaker in the struggle for existence, and by the law of "natural selection" assuming those members which it needed for its devel ...the world. Like many Old Testament passages, this passage in Hebrews links God's creative activity with His redemptive activity. The people of [[Ly

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Righteousness
...ghteousness in the New Testament ; P. Stulmacher, Reconciliation, Law and Righteousness ; J. A. Zeisler, The Meaning of Righteousness in ...m> d ) Since righteousness is conformity to the Divine will, and the Law which reveals that will is righteous in the whole and its parts (  Psa

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Miracles
...t an act is not less Divine because it is fundamentally in accordance with law’ ( Life of Christ in Recent Research , p. 218). It may ...is their being wrought, or not, in support of doctrine in accordance with God's known word and revelation; for God cannot by subsequent revelation contradi

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Law Of Moses
...round. Christ glorified is the One whom God now recognises He only suits God's glory. Hence every one that is not 'in Christ' is a sinner already condemne ...from Mount Sinai, that which may be called the rough outline of the Mosaic law is given by God, solemnly recorded by Moses, and accepted by the people. In

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Scribes
...rs, and in stimulating hope for the future. The ordinances of the [[Oral]] Law were at last written down, and to their careful preservation by the Scribes ...d from the common herd, "people of the earth," "cursed" as not knowing the law ( John 7:15;  John 7:49). Fees were paid them for arbitrations (&

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Forgiveness
...E. Ladd, A [[Theology]] of the New Testament ; E. A. Martens, God's Design: A [[Focus]] on Old Testament Theology ; J. Milgrom, Cult a ...of His people (  Leviticus 11:44 ). Thus the [[Pauline]] saying, ‘The law hath been our tutor to bring us to Christ’ (  Galatians 3:24 ), is p

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Angel
.../i> ; A. C. Gaebelein, The Angels of God ; B. Graham, Angels: God's [[Secret]] Agets ; H. Lockyer, The [[Mystery]] and [[Ministry]] of ...y be asked, are the holy angels made at all subservient to the purposes of God's government? This question is answered by St. Paul in his [[Epistle]] to the

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Revelation
...ssible the operation of the human conscience, is sometimes called ‘natural law’ ( Romans 2:15; see [[Conscience]] ). The revelation throug ...idence, is evident from the ideas it gives us of God's perfections, of the law of nature, of redemption, of the state of man, &c. As to its external evide

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Reconciliation
...ile both unto God." This he did by the same act; abolishing the ceremonial law by becoming the antitype of all its sacrifices, and thus, by the sacrifice ...and love are harmonized. By Christ's sacrifice the sinner is brought into God's favor, which by sin he had justly forfeited. Hence his prayer is," God be p

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Gospel
...i> vii. [1895-96] 297f., xii. [1900-01] 482b, xxi. [1909-10] 497f. For the Law in Hebrews, see A. S. Peake, Hebrews (Century Bible, 1902). p. 30f ...s 3:22,26;  Galatians 2:16,20 ). One must believe the gospel for here God's salvation is mediated. (2) [[Growing]] . The gospel is both a mess

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Deuteronomy
...> ) As He is God of the whole earth, Jahweh’s will is the moral law, and in connexion with its requirements He rewards and punishes (cf. the te ...settle down in an agriculturally fertile country. Moses’ repetition of the law therefore included adjustments to fit in with the people’s new way of lif

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Worship
...ctive, and to this day the church continues to debate the relationship of "law" and "grace" in the life of the Christian. The second concerned the relatio ...arvest in the kingdom of grace; the law of the letter from Mount Sinai—the law of the spirit from the heavenly Jerusalem. This festival originally embrace

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Law In The Old Testament
Law In The Old Testament <ref name="term_5919" /> ...osephus, Ant. , XX, viii, 8; ix, 2). (3) That the Mosaic law as to divorce was to give place to one more stringent appe 

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Person Of Christ
...are the conditions of entrance. He put aside the ancient ordinances of the Law. He called all the weary to Himself for rest; most amazing of all, He claim ...s this Word, eternal in His subsistence, God's eternal fellow, the eternal God's self, that, as "come in the flesh," was Jesus Christ ( 1 John 4:2 ). "

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Logos
...bringing life and light to men. He comes with a gospel that supersedes the Law of Moses, for it is a gospel of grace as well as of truth. Himself the Son ...Gospel Jesus spoke and acted as the incarnate logos , continuing God's creative and redemptive work. Hence, He could change water to wine, create

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Holy Spirit
...p;2 Corinthians 3:17;  Galatians 5:5; see [[Flesh]] ; [[Freedom]] ; [[Law]] ). This change in the behaviour of believers does not happen aut ...e of God's personality and power, living in and divinely empowering all of God's true people in diverse and incomplete ways that foreshadow their complete,

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Word
...desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it" ( Isaiah 55:11 ). God's word as his creative power and revelation is perfect and all-sufficient, es ...ngs is summed up as the prophetic λόγος. In  Galatians 5:14 the whole Law is said to be summed up in one λόγος, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour

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Pharisees
...heir practice ( Matthew 23:2-3). But while pressing the letter of the law they ignored the spirit ( Matthew 5:21-22;  Matthew 5:27;  M ...ncipient neo-Pharisaism with its exclusiveness and ‘desire to be under the law,’ and combated it so successfully. While the statement in the JE_ (ix. 66

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Pentateuch
...am's prayer ( Numbers 23:10). [[Order]] . The development of God's grace to man is the golden thread running through the whole, and binding th ...h profit. At times we must sacrifice our need for security in certainty to God's nature as sovereign mystery. See [[Authority]]; Inspiration; Revelation. </

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Messiah
...s the centre of his thought would have been to replace the legalism of the Law by the legalism of a new authority. St. Paul was evidently acquainted with ...o-fold Messias; one the son of Ephraim, a poor and despised teacher of the law; the other the son of David, to be a conqueror. Nehemiah was content to be

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David
...he Ziphites for betraying David: "Blessed be ye of the Lord (thus claiming God's sanction to treachery, malice, and bloodthirsty persecution of the innocent ...the first time introduced into public worship. [[Zion]] became henceforth "God's holy hill." David's wars. David now entered on a series of conques

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Holiness
...persons and to the nation, holiness acquired a deeper significance. In the Law of [[Holiness]] (Leviticus 17 ff.) the command. ‘Ye shall be holy; for I ...dus 19:5-6) And hence the gospel-charter, corresponding to the same as the law by Moses had typically represented, makes the same proclamation. "Ye are (s

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Leviticus
...onial pollution a pollution which includes more than ethical elements. The law-book probably arose at some sanctuary other than Jerusalem, and expressed a ...truction is a gift from God and helps the people understand how to live as God's covenant people. The book thus provides an important part of the story of G

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Israel
...bout b.c. 300. They were composed under the influence of the [[Levitical]] law. The history was re-told in Chronicles, in order to furnish the faithful wi ...as a politically separate religiously oriented nation; rather, he spoke of God's all-encompassing kingdom. And while it is true Paul spoke of his ethnic peo

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Kingdom Of God
...> The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus ; R. Schnackenburg, God's Rule and Kingdom ; R. H. Stein, The Method and [[Message]] of Jesu ...powerful (in Jesus' day wealth and power were often thought to be signs of God's blessing). Jesus included everyone without distinction. He spoke of God sen

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Fire
...trickery or hidden evidence here. There is no hypocrisy in GOD's presence. GOD's fierce anger is displayed in all its justice, righteousness and purity. </p ...sence in fire. To Moses at the bush,  Exodus 3:2 at the giving of the law on Mount Siani,  Exodus 19:18-19. To Isaiah in the vision,  Isaia

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Adam
...collected into our system, wholly forbids us to suppose that the image of God's moral perfections in man was a blurred and dim representation. To whatever ...is intended to show that the provision made for divorce in the [[Mosaic]] law ( Deuteronomy 24:1) was only a concession to the hardness of men’s h

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Calvinism
...ity with the Lutherans. With them, in words, he taught the universality of God's good will; but it was a universality which he extended only to the off ...hreefold economy: (1) Theeconomy before the law; (2) The economy under the law; (3) The economy of the Gospel. See his Summa Doctrine de Feedere et Testam

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Abraham
...ousness"; but the faith that justified him was evinced, by his offering at God's command his son, to be not a dead but a living "faith that works by love." ...l persons with whom modern Christians are privileged to join in witness to God's power and his plan of salvation through Christ. While Christians can rejoic

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Book Of Exodus
...y established his covenant with Israel as his chosen people, giving them a law-code and a religious order to govern their national life. The instructions ...of God's people prepares for worship ( Exodus 40:1-33 ). E. God's presence fills the worship place continually for His obedient people (&nbsp

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Propitiation
...ness rather than in any definite legal obligation; the Pauline idea of the law of righteousness is absent. If a Pauline philosophy of redemption lies behi ...do not mean by God's anger, any such passion, but the just declaration of God's will to punish, upon our provocation of him by our sins; we do not make the

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Prophet
...parted and lots cast for His vesture," "His ears opened" to "come" and "do God's will" at all costs, when God would not have animal "sacrifice" (Psalm 22; P ...r most essential characteristic is that they were instruments of revealing God's will to man, as in other ways, so specially by predicting future events, an

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Salvation
...sp;Galatians 3:8 ). The objective basis and means of salvation is God's sovereign and gracious choice to be "God with us" in the person of Jesus Ch ...te us from God's love in Christ ( Romans 8:35-39 ). [[Confidence]] in God's ability to keep those who have entrusted their lives to Christ is not, howe

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Satan
...mission, faith, and so his end being blessed, as in Job's case. Man can in God's strength "resist Satan" ( James 4:7); by withholding consent of the wi ...e sinner is translated out of "the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son." ( Colossians 1:13) And there is another and a open

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Regeneration
...4 ). The law of God has its place in producing this conviction of sin; but law alone will not produce spiritual contrition. See Repentance. For this there ...( Ephesians 2:1 ). [[Left]] to themselves, human beings will corrupt God's revelation of Himself and turn to gross forms of disobedience ( Romans

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Circumcision
...hether the members of that church were not seeking to be "justified by the law" upon their observing "days, and months, and times, and years." Had he done ...κατατέμνειν is used in the Septuagintof incisions forbidden by the Mosaic Law: e.g. κατετέμνοντο κατὰ τὸν ἐθισμὸν

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Anthropology
...ndividuals. God's knowledge of people is intimate, personal, and profound. God's love is offered to human beings individually. The relationship between huma ...y must limit itself to a period of time inside of 100,000 years" (Orr, God's Image , etc., 176). Professor Tait of [[Edinburgh]] limited the range

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Will Of God
...decision making. We are left "in the middle, " knowing that we are to seek God's guidance through the Scriptures, prayer, the counsel of Christian leaders,

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Christianity
...precedents, Greek philosophy and intellectual habitudes, Roman polity and law, the superstitious ideas and observances of paganism—must be taken into a ...Jericho; Apollos, distinguished for eloquence; Paul, learned in the Jewish law; [[Sergius]] Paulus, governor of the island of Cyprus; Cornelius, a Roman c

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Life
...protects the believer ( Romans 8:7-39;  Ephesians 6:10-18 ). The Law threatens this life by tempting people to believe that they can attain this ...is drained from the body, so is life. The connection is so strong that the law forbade the consumption of blood or meat with blood in it ( Genesis 9:

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Talmud
...36). It is clear from this that the Written Law of the Bible, and the Oral Law as contained in the Talmud, are of equal authority. The Talmud is again ref ...developed system for settling disputed questions of halakah (oral law). It includes commentary on all six major divisions of the Mishnah, but del

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Priest
...parable in fact with that of the Rabbis, the masters and expounders of the Law. A sacrificial priest becomes an anachronism when his duties are in abeyanc ...receive is the redemption money of the firstborn, the right of taking the law from the chest, and of pronouncing the benediction in the synagogue. From s

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Nehemiah
...arrying the daughter of Sanballat the Horonite. [[Zeal]] for the purity of God's worship, priesthood, and people, makes the act praiseworthy as one of faith ... O. God's day must be respected ( Nehemiah 13:15-22 ). P. God's way demands purity in marriage and in ministers ( Nehemiah 13:23-31 ).

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Christology Christ
...erse (‘and from all the things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses, by him is justified every one that believeth’) St. Paul seems t ...ing into his family. Since Christ is the goal and end of the Old Testament Law, so "faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through

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Glory
... Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) . [[Robert]] Law. ...nd acknowledge it. In a number of passages it is difficult to know whether God's glory refers to his actual glory or to human recognition of it. This is tru

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Aaron
...tainous land of Edom, was encamped at Mosera, he ascended Mount [[Hor]] at God's command. There Moses stripped him of his pontifical robes, and put them upo ...s, require here to be pointed out. Before the promulgation of the law by Moses, the fathers of every family, and the princes of every tribe, were

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Elisha
...the law, foreruns the gentler Elisha, so John the greatest prophet of the law foreruns Jesus the gracious Savior. ...s God (cf.  Daniel 12:2 ), when they are brought into connection with God's true Prophet they will be restored to life as unexpectedly and as powerfull

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Church
...may he called the provincial Church (A. Harnack, [[Constitution]] and Law of the Church , Eng. translation, London, 1910, p. 160). Besi ...y incorporated and Å“cumenical society of the Roman Empire, with its canon law and hierarchical jurisdiction, and from that Kingdom of Christ which Luther

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Genesis
...n, injustice, and conniving ( Genesis 38:1-30 ). 3. God's presence is the only blessing His servant needs ( Genesis 39:1-23 ). < ...s book; and it is supposed that he penned it after the promulgation of the law. Its authenticity is attested by the most indisputable evidence, and it is

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Heaven
...ories of thought. For example, the Rabbinical tradition could think of the Law, the Temple, and other central ideas of Judaism as laid up with God before ...ity of languages shall then cease, inasmuch as it took its first rise from God's judicial hand, when he confounded the speech of those who presumptuously at

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Holy Ghost
...nsciousness of our own good works.' This, he affirms, is ‘the testimony of God's Spirit.' But this is included in the testimony of our own spirit: yea, and ...on of the existence and divinity of the Holy Spirit may be expected in the law and the prophets, and is, in fact, to be traced there with certainty. The S

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Authority In Religion
..., in which our Lord refers to Isaiah not merely as an interpreter of God’s law, but as a teacher of God’s people. But the inference is not to be straine ...Rests on Personal Authority They all rest on the assumption that God's self-revelation came to an end with the apostolic age. The Biblical theory

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Epistle To The Romans
...‘it has learned to break with Judaism, and to regard the standpoint of the law as once for all past and done with.’ This is ‘a remarkable forward step ...goodness of God, their defection would make the way for the resumption of God's ways with Israel, and both Gentiles and Jews would manifestly come in on th

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Paul The Apostle
...f Jerusalem, who thought that he persuaded Jews not to keep the Law, and to undertake the [[Temple]] charges for four men who were under a vow, .... C. van Unnik, Tarsus or Jerusalem ; S. Westerholm, Israel's Law and the Church's Faith ; B. [[Winter]] and A. Clark, The Book of A

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Testimony
...witness to the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus in a human court of law, John reminds them with the Book of Revelation that their ultimate destiny ...Jesus alone could say it, "I delight to do thy will [[O]] my God, yea thy law is within my heart"â€”or as the margin renders it, "in the midst of my

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Hosea
...13:1-16 ). I. [[Repentance]] results in restoration and life for God's people ( Hosea 14:1-9 ). Billy K. Smith ...ng (which they so craved for originally), without a sacrifice (which their law requires as essential to their religion), without an image ... ephod ... te

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Conscience
...and faith unfeigned are ‘the end of the charge’ and the fulfilling of the law ( 1 Timothy 1:5). To be perfectly educated, in short, a conscience mus ...to receive progressively a revelation of the righteousness of God. But is law the last word? May there not be mercy and an atonement? [[Cannot]] the accu

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Children Of God
...God ( Matthew 25:40); He is conscious that He has never broken God’s law. Therefore He can know God as the Father; and He is able to reveal God to m ...f His love, and able to "rise and go to their Father." They are objects of God's love ( John 15:13;  Romans 5:8 ) and of His gracious search and s

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Election
.... It is rather a stronghold in time of trial and a confession of praise to God's grace and to His glory. Timothy [[George]] This word has different meanings. 1. It signifies God's taking a whole nation, community, or body of men, into external covenant wi

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Praise
...is sufficient reason for praise. A psalmist, captivated by the reality of God's choice of Jacob, exhorts, "Sing praise" ( Psalm 135; cf.  Revelat ...12; in  Ephesians 1:14 , of the whole company, the church, viewed as "God's own possession" (RV); in  Ephesians 1:6 , with particular reference to

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Truth
...perfect. The apostles further taught that the truth of God outlined in the Law and embodied in Christ was brought home to the heart and mind of men by man ...not believe the truth, but instead had pleasure in unrighteousness (2:12). God's choosing of the [[Thessalonian]] believers for salvation came about by mean

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Work
...nally to their rightful positions as kings and queens of the new creation, God's resplendent images, who will exercise dominion through service and love (22

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Mercy
...i> . R. Bultmann, TDNT, 2:477-87; 5:159-61; J. D. M. Derrett, Law in the New Testament ; H.-H. Esser, NIDNTT 2:593-601; N. Glue ...pest to society to escape unpunished, or so mitigates the sentence of the law as to put it into his power to do still greater hurt to others, he violates

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Mystery
...unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." The little ones must hear all revelation as much as the intellec ...hey occupy as those who have experienced the fulfillment of the mystery of God's purposes. Although predicted in the Scriptures, the mystery was kept silent

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Isaiah
...God brings life ( Isaiah 60:1-62:12 ). F. [[Prayer]] brings God's help ( Isaiah 63:1-65:25 ). G. [[Judgment]] and deliverance a ...itions such as suit comforting exhortations. The many epithets attached to God's name are designed as so many stays whereon faith may rest and repel despair

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Synagogue
...rford, Pharisaism, London, 1912, pp. 80-83). The reading from the Law introduced by Ezra ( Nehemiah 8:5) became soon afterwards a fixed cust ...stomary greeting, with a doxology. A section was then read from the Mosaic law. Then followed, after the singing of a second doxology, the reading of a po

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Justice
...he custom of employing persons of high rank to execute the sentence of the law, is still retained in the principality of Senaar, where the public executio ...e time. But there were different kinds of imprisonment recognized by Roman law, and it lay within the magistrate’s power to decide which kind the prison

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Apocrypha
...privilege. But the identification of wisdom in Sirach with interest in the Law ( Sirach 39:1) tends to limit this grace itself and confine it to Isra ...will remain four hundred years and then die. The next three visions stress God's coming intervention and salvation of His people through the pre-existent Me

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Adultery
...mind, among the Jews, God's high displeasure against this violation of his law; and though some lax moralists have been found, in modern times, to palliat ...for reviving an obsolete penalty, or else sanctioning an infraction of the law. In  Matthew 5:82 He condemns their usage of divorce except in the cas

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Miracle
...own observation of the regularity of their effects. The existence of this law is made known to us not only by these means, but also by the still clearer ...held sway and where people require "power evangelism" to be converted. But God's sovereignty warns against trying to predict when they may occur and refutes

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Fear
...e revelation of God to people in the New Testament contains the element of God's mysterious otherness calling for reverent obedience. The New Testament chur ...l. The [[Torah]] was thus a tutor to bring them to Christ. The religion of law, in which God was a Sovereign to be obeyed and a Judge to be dreaded, was c

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Resurrection
...this idea alone retains its vitality in Philo’s system, the future of the Law which is destined to attain universal sway’ (Les idées philosophiques et ...e of the basis for hoping and not fearing death. It also affects morality. God's future judgment modifies earthly behavior. Paul's conclusion that "If the d

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Epistle To The Galatians
...was the least danger of the Gentile Christians being made to submit to the Law. There is therefore no reason for surprise that the recent attack on the au ...were in fact utterly opposed, but if led by the Spirit they were not under law. The works of the flesh are set forth in contrast to the fruit of the Spiri

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Repentance
...t would seem to have been his own experience of it: the crushing weight of law; the emergence of desire: the resultant sense of helplessness; and the deli ...raim? My heart is changed within me I will not carry out my fierce anger." God's true love for Israel would triumph, and he would keep covenant with his peo

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Assurance
...ht himself also to walk even as he walked’ ( 1 John 2:5 f.). Law aptly characterizes St. John’s doctrine of personal assurance when he say ...that man is by nature prone to evil, and that in practice he violates that law under which as a creature he is placed, and is thereby exposed to punishmen

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Mystics
...is said to have been the famous Bossuet, bishop of Meaux. Mr. [[William]] Law, author of the "Serious Call," &c, degenerated in the latter part of his li ...t derived to our souls. Law's Life; Law's Spirit of [[Prayer]] and Appeal; Law's Spirit of Love, and on Regeneration. 

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Son Of God
...rred] (1900); F. W. Robertson, Serm. ii. 136, 235; P. Brooks, Law of [[Growth]] , 346. James Stalker. ...bsp;Acts 3:17;  Acts 13:27). Deniers of Jesus' Godhead on the plea of God's unity copy the Jews, who crucified Him because of His claim to be God. The

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