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• Jerusalem
  ...ause thou knewest not the time of thy visitation" (in mercy). </p> <p> The Jews revolted again under Barchochab ("son of a star") who pretended to be the [ ...n of the city in a.d. 70 is generally regarded as crucial not only for the Jews but also for the Christians, not because the latter were present at the tim
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• Messiah
  ...lready acclaimed (&nbsp;Mark 11:7-11), and, with the title of ‘King of the Jews’ placed on the cross by the Roman governor, He was crucified (&nbsp;Mark ...The older hope of the Messiah son of David is that dominant among orthodox Jews, who still await his coming, which is to follow the appearance of Elijah (&
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• Jew
  ...e seed of David according to the flesh;" and he says: "Salvation is of the Jews." &nbsp;John 4:22. </p> ...the spiritual kingdom. [[Jewry]] means [[Judea]] (&nbsp;Daniel 5:13). "The Jews' language" signifies both the Hebrew (&nbsp;2 Kings 18:26) and the [[Aramai
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• Jews
  ...ely a small tribe of ignorant and unsettled Arabs. The care with which the Jews preserve their sacred books, and the conformity of those preserved in the e .... 427, 447; Dr. H. Jackson's works, vol. 1: p. 153; Neale's History of the Jews; Pirie's Posth. Works, vol. 1:; Fuller's Serm. on the Messiah. </p>
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• Paul
  ...n eased (&nbsp;Acts 9:26-28; &nbsp;Galatians 1:19-20). But attempts by the Jews on his life again forced him to flee. He sailed from [[Caesarea]] to northe ...longed to the lower class of the population. But it is said that among the Jews it was the custom at that time for even the sons of the wealthy to acquire
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• Synagogue
  ...bsp;Nehemiah 8:4 Authorized Version, ‘the pulpit of wood’), called in more modern times almemar, the Muhammadan al-minbar (Jewish Encyclopedia, s.v. ‘Almem ...e, &nbsp;Luke 4:16 . Furthermore, the forms of prayer that are used by the Jews at the present time do not appear to have been in existence in the time of
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• Jesus Christ
  ...4:19 ), that the ministry lasted only one year; and in the opinion of some modern scholars it can be maintained that even the Fourth Gospel includes its mate ...&nbsp;28:9,17 ). </p> <p> The Scriptures were understood by Jesus and the Jews of his day to be the Word of God. Jesus claimed that the Scriptures spoke d
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• Septuagint
  ...ecause it did not blindly follow the footsteps of the scribes. Against the Jews He used their own Scriptures with conclusive force; and with His loving but ...nt throughout that work. How extensively this version was in use among the Jews, appears from the solemn sanction given to it by the inspired writers of th
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• Captivity
  ...fulfilled" (&nbsp;Luke 21:20-24; &nbsp;Luke 21:32). In the siege 1,100,000 Jews perished, according to the contemporary witness Josephus; but not one Chris ...nder the woe which unbelief brought upon their fathers and themselves. See Jews. </p>
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• Apocrypha
  ...nt, and that was the version of the OT commonly used by the Greek-speaking Jews in the times of the Apostles, and subsequently by the Christians. Being thu ...strong> 15. Third Maccabees </strong> describes an attempt to massacre the Jews in the reign of Ptolemy Philopator (b.c. 222 205), and a notable deliveranc
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• Circumcision
  ...m, when no sacrifice of principle was understood; for in order to gain the Jews, he became "as a Jew." See [[Abraham]] , and See [[Baptism]] . </p> ...sphere was among the Gentiles, as that of the other apostles was among the Jews. The result of the conference was a compromise: Gentiles were not to be cir
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• Samaritans
  ...ed that the Jews had no high priests of the race of Phinehas; and that the Jews belied them in calling them Cutheans; for that they are descended from the ...l, still retained their peculiar religion, and could not coalesce with the Jews. </p>
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• Pharisees
  ...ther born in sins." The rabbis believed in the pre-existence of souls. The Jews' question merely took for granted that some sin had caused the blindness, w ...id back with interest the persecutions and calumnies she suffered from the Jews. How soon this anti-Judaism began, and to what extent if any it is present
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• Sabbath
  ...r one mile, &nbsp;Acts 1:12 . The sabbatical year was celebrated among the Jews every seventh year when the land was left without culture, &nbsp;Exodus 22: ...Sabbath and Lord’s Day, but to observe the seventh day alone. </p> <p> The Jews have long suffered special disabilities in Christian countries in this resp
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• Passover
  ...communion with … any that did not keep the Pasch at the same time that the Jews did’? (Bingham, op. cit. XX. v. 3). </p> <p> The two festivals still exis ...wholly by fire (&nbsp;Exodus 12:9; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 35:6-13). The modern Jews use dry thin biscuits as unleavened bread; a shoulder of lamb thoroughly ro
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• Alexandria
  ...ed thinkers who sought admission either as Hellenes into the Jewish, or as Jews into the Hellenic, system ( <i> Provinces </i> 2, ii. 167). With perfect si ...ulus, and reached its climax in Philo, a contemporary of Jesus Christ. The Jews found in the Gentile writings many beautiful and excellent thoughts. They c
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• Book Of Esther
  ...ry of Babylonian over Elamite gods which was taken over and adapted by the Jews. In this case the origin of the name <em> Purim </em> would be sought in th .... </p> <p> <i> 2. </i> In chap. 3 a copy of Artaxerxes' decree against the Jews. </p> <p> <i> 3. </i> In chap. 4 a prayer of Mordecai, followed by a prayer
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• Church
  ...civil power and the Church. The Church was no leveller or democrat in the modern sense of those terms. Rulers are to be respected by subjects, masters by sl ...ist’ (&nbsp; Romans 16:16 ). This language has doubtless given rise to the modern conception of ‘the churches’; but it must be observed that the Pauline
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• Dispersed
  ...th. (Lips. 1789); Walch, Hist. patriarcharum Judaeorum (Jen. 1752). (See [[Jews]]). </p>
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• Marriage
  ...go to it for detailed rules. Where its rules are not obviously unsuited to modern conditions, or below the Christian level, a strange uncertainty obscures th ...e's response is submission. On the other side are those whose model is the modern democratic marriage in which the partners are equals in all things. In betw
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• Herod
  ...rs and bore the ceremonial title of king, but he had no authority over the Jews of Judea (&nbsp;Acts 25:13; &nbsp;Acts 26:3; &nbsp;Acts 26:27; &nbsp;Acts 2 ...a time they let the [[Christians]] alone (&nbsp;Acts 9:31). To "please the Jews" he slew James the brother of John, and imprisoned Peter with the intention
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• Magi
  ...ed their inference that a king of the Jews was born may well have been the Jews of the Diaspora, whose tenets would doubtless be known to the wise men of t ...ked, and the light of truth rekindled among them. In this view the ancient Jews evidently considered the Jewish church as appointed not to preserve only bu
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• Peter
  ...hurch as ‘the planting of Peter and Paul’ (Eusebius, HE_ II. xxv. 8). Some modern scholars regard this conclusion as historically correct (e.g. K. Lake, The ...us of Corinth asserts it, A.D. 180. Babylon, a chief seat of the dispersed Jews, was his head quarters when he wrote &nbsp;1 Peter 5:13, not Rome as some h
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• Samaritan
  ...belonged to the sect which derived their appellation from that city. The [[Jews]] had no dealings with the Samaritans. 2. The language of Samaria, a dialec ...rammatum, p. 44. (See [[Literature And Liturgysamaritan Language);]] (See Modern Samaritans). </p>
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• Samaritans Samaria
  ...Grimm, <i> Die Samaritaner </i> , München, 1854; Mills, <i> Nablus and the Modern Samaritans </i> , 1864; Kohn, <i> Samaritanische Studien </i> , Breslau, 18 ...nbsp;Luke 17:11-19; &nbsp;John 8:48 ). The animosity was so great that the Jews bypassed Samaria as they traveled between Galilee and Judea. They went an e
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• Persecution
  ...ons in every nation, and town, and family. Judaism was the religion of the Jews, but Christianity gathered or created its own clientele. John saw ‘a grea ...sacred, or banished, and the children sold for slaves; besides innumerable Jews, who shared the same cruelties, chiefly by means of the infernal courts of
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• Rome
  ...in the wars carried on by Trajan against the Dacians. This people lived in modern [[Transylvania]] and also south of the [[Carpathians]] in Wallachia and par ...l idea; but many of the principal buildings which attract the attention of modern travellers in ancient Rome were not yet built. The streets were generally n
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• Alexander
  ...introduced because, from his invasion of Palestine, the intercourse of the Jews with the [[Greeks]] became intimate, and influenced many events of their su ...). Calvin thought him a convert to [[Christianity]] from Judaism, whom the Jews would have sacrificed as a victim to the fury of the rabble. </p> <p> '''5.
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• Canon Of The Old Testament
  ...criticism is essential. The [[Interpretation]] of the OT must differ among Jews and Christians. The logic of events cannot be Ignored, and the [[Advent]] o ...ght of the gulf that separates the Hebrew canon from the Apocrypha. To the Jews, saith Scripture," were committed the oracles of God" (&nbsp;Romans 3:2). I
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• Christianity
  ...of Christianity </i> , 1905]; A. M. Fairbairn, <i> The Place of Christ in Modern [[Theology]] </i> , 1893, and <i> [[Philosophy]] of the Christian Religion ...prophesies recorded in the New Testament; and from the preservation of the Jews as a distinct people, notwithstanding the various difficulties and persecut
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...mentioned, &nbsp; Acts 14:7; &nbsp; Acts 14:21; &nbsp; Acts 14:25 , or the Jews may have been weak and without a synagogue in those places. ( <em> b </em> ...rdinal point of time specified is in &nbsp;Acts 18:2, the expulsion of the Jews from Rome under Claudius Ceasar, A.D. 52. </p> <p> No book of the New Testa
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• Gospels
  ...of Jesus </i> , Boston, 1910; J. R. Cohu, <i> The Gospels in the Light of Modern Research </i> , Oxford, 1909; E. R. Buckley, <i> An Introductions the Synop ...is His Divine glory breaking forth the brighter amidst the darkness of the Jews' opposition. </p> <p> Each of the four, while recognizing the Lord's other
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• Pilate
  ...the Emperor, and as such could be dismissed and ruined without appeal. The Jews, when they saw that Roman justice might win and Jesus be released, held ove ...n, to which the Romans themselves had allowed a certain authority over all Jews throughout the Empire. Hence, mistaking the nature of the work, they sent a
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• Judaism
  ...irituality; and the whole [[Mosaic]] ritual was of a typical nature. See [[Jews]] . </p> ...e Talmud. </p> <p> See those articles, and books recommended under article JEWS, in this work. </p>
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• Thessalonica
  ...]] City.’ It has now a population of 130,000, of whom 60,000 are Sephardic Jews, speaking a corrupt form of Spanish, called Ladino. </p> <p> Literature.-W. ...alonica. The population of Saloniki is even now 60,000, of whom 10,000 are Jews. </p> <p> Trade in all ages attracted the latter to Thessalonica, and their
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• Egypt
  ...e; but they of Heliopolis that the king was with a vast force pursuing the Jews, because they were carrying away the riches borrowed of the Egyptians. Then ...he dates of composition. It may be remarked that there were settlements of Jews in [[Pathros]] (Upper Egypt) as early as the days of Jeremiah, and papyri i
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• Baptism
  ...[[Messiah]] (Edersheim).]ii. 746, Appendixxii.). It may be added that the Jews in later times would not have borrowed baptism from the Christians, though ..." the latter phrase referring to &nbsp;Daniel 2:44; &nbsp;Daniel 7:14. The Jews, as a nation, brought the "curse" on their land ("earth") by not repenting,
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• Law
  ...cribed in the hearts’ of men ignorant of the Mosaic Code and counting with Jews as ‘lawless.’ This Divine <em> jus </em> (and <em> fas </em> ) <em> gen ...and rules found in the Old Testament were never formally enacted among the Jews; were traditional from an earlier age; and received at different times the
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• Christ In Jewish Literature
  ...n pointing to His assumption of power and authority as the reason ‘of much modern antipathy to Jesus, so far as it exists.’ He did not, at least publicly,
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• Money
  ...00 denarius-drachms or £4 sterling. </p> <p> For the later coinage of the Jews, which was confined to the two periods of revolt against the Roman power, i ...such guidelines, the postexilic Jewish community monetarily enslaved poor Jews by loaning money at interest so that they could pay their taxes, a travesty
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• Persia
  ...ehemiah 2:9-10; &nbsp;Esther 8:9-14). The Persian government even gave the Jews funds to help carry out their program for the reconstruction of their natio ...and Nehemiah (&nbsp;Nehemiah 2:1-9) in their patriotic restoration of the Jews' national polity and walls. (See [[Daniel]] ; [[Cyrus; Medes; Parthia; Ahas
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...part. But this book tells of sufferings and triumphs on the part of loyal Jews comparable to those of the Maccabean period. Perhaps the term Maccabees was
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• Genealogy
  ...ts main impetus in the time of Ezra. It was then that the line between the Jews and other nations became sharply drawn, and stress was laid on purity of de ...up to David. The present impossibility of verifying the genealogies of the Jews' tribes and families is a divine indication that Christ the antitypical Hig
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• Old Testament
  ...ogue, have gotten into Christian hands. The Spanish writing is rounder and modern, the German and [[Polish]] writing is more angular, designated the '''''Tam ...is a revelation of the same grace as is made manifest in Christ. Only the Jews have obscured its true character by the fatal emphasis they have placed on
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• Pentateuch
  ...and non-legislative parts, but the legal enactments of the Pentateuch (the Jews reckoned 613, see above). </p> <p> In Egypt the hieroglyphics are generally ...radition was carried on by Jews and Christians until after A.D. 1600. Some Jews and Christians raised occasional questions about the Mosaic authorship of t
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• Gentiles
  ...ght years after Peter’s vision that some unknown Cypriote and [[Cyrenian]] Jews of the [[Dispersion]] took the momentous step of ‘preaching the Lord Jesu ...(&nbsp;Romans 4:17 ). </p> <p> Paul experienced great resentment among the Jews because of the opportunity he was offering the Gentiles (&nbsp;Romans 2:15-
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• The Essenes
  ...ope. But from neither of these writers could be discovered that any of the Jews cherished this hope. Yet from the New Testament we know that this hope was
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• Epistle To The. Romans
  ...pp. 1), and Aquinas (in Opp. 6). (See [[Commentary]]). </p> <p> '''2.''' ''Modern'' exegetical helps (from the [[Reformation]] to the present time) on the en
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• Time
  ...he day at sunset. Since that custom prevails to the present time among the Jews it is not likely that it was ever superseded among them. Nevertheless, the ...istinguished from the three watches which seem to have prevailed among the Jews (‘if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third,’ &nbsp; Lu
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• Sadducees
  ...fficulties are obvious, a chief one being that we cannot argue safely from modern Persian to an ante-Christian usage. Besides, if we are to admit that the Za ...he fall of [[Jerusalem]] the Sadducees doctrine disappeared, the afflicted Jews instinctively turning for consolation from the sad present to the bright ho
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• Talmud
  ...efer to Christians; others maintain that by these are meant philosophizing Jews, who were regarded as heretics. This is not the place to discuss the questi ...ian Talmud. </p> <p> The importance of the Talmud to Jewish life until the modern period can hardly be overestimated. Talmud and commentary upon it become a
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• Games
  ...8, i. 301). </p> <p> According to the Talmud, the religions leaders of the Jews were only slightly less rigid, although they could not altogether prevent a ...phus]] ( <em> Ant. </em> XV. viii. 1) to have provoked a conspiracy of the Jews by building a theatre and an amphitheatre at Jerusalem for the spectacular
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• Book Of Judith
  ...he events recorded in Judith are incorporated in the hymnal service of the Jews called '''''יוצרות''''' , yet the book itself was, never in the Jewis ...likely) an [[Aramaic]] original once existed is the opinion of almost all modern scholars, and the evidence for this seems conclusive. There are many Hebrai
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• Leprosy
  ...cleansed. </p> <p> Literature.—This is enormous. Here only a selection of modern articles in English is given, which will furnish all necessary information ...fty and one hundred lepers in the United States at present. </p> <p> '''Is modern leprosy contagious?''' - Dr. H.S. Piffard of New York, in the Medical Recor
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  ...this as referring to the material Temple at Jerusalem, which they say the Jews expected Hadrian to rebuild. Hence they place this Epistle <i> c. </i> [Not ...rd meaning of that ancient faith was really Christian; of its exclusion of Jews, as such, from all part in God's covenant; and of its dwelling precisely up
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• Exile
  ...urn to their homeland. Though conditions in the homeland were dismal, many Jews did return. The preaching of Haggai and Zechariah (520-519 B.C.) urged thes ...stioned that many belonging to the kingdom of Israel ultimately joined the Jews under Ezra, Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah, and returned along with them to Jerus
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• Epistle Of James
  ...described in the early chapters of the Acts, when the separation between [[Jews]] and [[Christians]] was not complete; we have already, on other grounds, s ...f the race. It will always be a subject of the deepest interest and study. Modern research has penetrated every contributory realm for any added light upon t
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• Epistle To The Romans
  ...ity to save his life from destruction. The problem of the rejection of the Jews is really raised, not so much by their previous privileges as by God’s pr ...he way for the resumption of God's ways with Israel, and both Gentiles and Jews would manifestly come in on the ground of mercy. Thus God would be everythi
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• Expiation
  ...iah 53:6 . Farther, the goat's "bearing upon him all the iniquities of the Jews into a land not inhabited," &nbsp;Leviticus 16:22 , represents the effect o ...cancelled. It supposes penitence and faith on the sinner's part. Among the Jews, expiation was effected by a divinely appointed and typical system of sacri
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• Cyrus
  ...was, we learn from the preamble of his famous proclamation, permitting the Jews to return from the Babylonian captivity: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, ha ...f heaven" (&nbsp;Ezra 1:2), whom he identifies with the [[Jehovah]] of the Jews, and his pious ascription of his wide dominion to His gift, accord with his
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• Between The Testaments
  ...ting to the world Israel's exalted Messianic hopes. On the other hand, the Jews themselves, embittered by long-continued martyrdoms and suffering, utterly
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• Hellenist
  ...see also [[Dispersion]] ; [[Proselyte]] ). Meanwhile the Aramaic-speaking Jews back in Jerusalem became a source of further trouble to the church (&nbsp;A ...not only the proselytes of Greek, (or foreign), parentage, but also those Jews who, by settling in foreign countries, had adopted the prevalent form of th
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• Angel
  ...irstly, Babylon; during the Captivity, [[Babylonian]] influence upon the [[Jews]] asserted itself in this as well as in other respects; according to Jewish ...ief of these was Raphael, who was supposed to present the prayers of pious Jews to God (1Tobit 2:15). Uriel explained to Enoch many of his visions (1Enoch
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• Targum
  ...iour's time. They also very much serve the [[Christian]] cause against the Jews, by interpreting many of the prophecies of the [[Messiah]] in the Old [[Tes ...., their language being the only one understood by the greater part of the Jews even in Palestine. </p> <p> As an illustration &nbsp;Genesis 22:10-13 is qu
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• Palestine
  ...e.g. </i> , seems to have had singularly little feeling for Nature in the modern sense. There is no landscape and hardly any reference to detail in his writ ...and the nomenclature in the lists and conquests of Thothmes III. Thus the modern fellaheen seem to be the mixed descendants of the old Canaanites. </p>
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• Smyrna
  ...ied, they should begin to worship this one’ (Mart. Polyc. xii. f., xvii.). Modern Smyrna, being predominantly Greek Christian, is called by the Turks [[Giaou ...plained only by the supposition that many of the Christians were converted Jews. Similarly they helped in the martyrdom of [[Polycarp]] (a.d. 155). The cit
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• Nehemiah
  ...he [[Parched]] Country)'' ; they that sow in tears shall reap in joy." The Jews kept the [[Passover]] "with joy" on the dedication of God's house, the foun ...aid to those in need (&nbsp; Nehemiah 5:1 ). Again Sanballat and other non-Jews made several attempts to lure Nehemiah away from the job and shut it down.
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• Burial
  ...mson, <i> Land and Book </i> ; Bender, ‘Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews connected with Death, Burial, and Mourning,’ in <i> JQ </i> R [Note: QR J ...ith waters," &nbsp;Jeremiah 9:17 . </p> <p> The funeral processions of the Jews in Barbary are conducted nearly in the same manner as those in Syria. The c
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• Cyrene
  ...as doubtless one of these Jewish settlers. Other NT references to Cyrenian Jews are: &nbsp;Acts 2:10 (at Pentecost), 6:9 (members of special synagogue at J ...its intellectual activity in philosophy and poetry; and for its commerce. Jews in large number were settled there, and had a synagogue at Jerusalem, some
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• False Messiahs
  .... Life, p. 169, 219, 353; Sadler, Emanuel, p. 97 sq.; Milman, Hist. of the Jews, 2:432 sq.; 3:366; Allen, Mod. Judaism, p. 253 sq.; Young, [[Christology]]
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• Pentecost
  ...stian Church for the most part took over the name of the festival from the Jews. It was Pentecost for both. But just as Easter replaced Pascha in English a ...el, in those dark ages, is not very easy to determine. </p> <p> The modern Jews of the present hour, holding by tradition the festival as chiefly referring
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• God
  ...Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> ii. 209-212; it was familiar to the Jews, and to them meant the personal righteousness of God. Many commentators tak ...e fed first, the Gentiles were also to be fed. He is the Father of all the Jews, as well as of the disciples of Jesus; the words ‘One is your Father’ w
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• Hellenistic And Biblical Greek
  ...what we have been able to establish regarding the Greek of the Palestinian Jews, for the particular change of meaning which certain Greek words underwent i
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• Antichrist
  ...hosannahs as her Messiah (&nbsp;John 5:43), and making a covenant with the Jews, then breaking it (Daniel 9; 11; 12; Zechariah 11; 12; 13; 14). </p> <p> An ...e of Pharisaism. Their hostility was regarded as extending not only to the Jews as a nation, but as heathen, to [[Jehovah]] himself, and particularly to Hi
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• Corinth
  ...r he had circumcised Timothy but did not circumcise Titus, a Jew among the Jews, a Greek among the [[Greeks]] (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 9:20, etc.; &nbsp;Galati ...the examination Gallio permitted the populace to show their hatred to the Jews (&nbsp; Acts 18:17 ). It was in Corinth that St. Paul became acquainted wit
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• Caesarea
  ...udaea ’ ( <i> Hist </i> . ii. 78). Among its inhabitants there were both [[Jews]] and Greeks. The city was elaborately beautified with temples, theatres, p ...the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1873, directed by Conder and Kitchener. Modern farming and highway building produced numerous inscriptions and other artif
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• Cæsarea
  ...udaea ’ ( <i> Hist </i> . ii. 78). Among its inhabitants there were both [[Jews]] and Greeks. The city was elaborately beautified with temples, theatres, p ...the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1873, directed by Conder and Kitchener. Modern farming and highway building produced numerous inscriptions and other artif
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• Antioch
  ...nd thus had a certain natural affinity with the Semitic type, the Phrygian Jews, whose laxity gave deep offence to the rigidly orthodox, no doubt increased ..., ‘The Orontes has flowed into the Tiber.’ In this [[Vanity]] [[Fair]] the Jews were resident in large numbers, yet they exerted little or no influence on
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• Ahasuerus
  ...rshe''''' . Xerxes is explained by [[Herodotus]] as meaning "martial"; the modern title "shah" comes from '''''Ksahya''''' , "a king," which forms the latter ...no other than Artaxerxes Longimanus. The extraordinary favour shown to the Jews by this king, first in sending Ezra, and afterward Nehemiah, to relieve thi
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• Galilee
  ...people of mixed blood and mixed religion who hated, and were hated by, the Jews (&nbsp;Luke 9:51-56; &nbsp;John 4:3-4; &nbsp;John 4:9). </p> <p> Jesus grew ...d. 44) with the tetrarchs, the details of daily life were regulated by the Jews’ own religious laws ( <i> Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] </i> . i. 6
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• Ezekiel
  ...easy to understand because of their frequent use of symbolic imagery. The modern reader is not alone in struggling to understand Ezekiel. There is evidence ...from that of us [[Christians]] of the present elect church gathered out of Jews and [[Gentiles]] indiscriminately. That shall be the period of public litur
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• Parisian Sanhedrim
  ...the Jews, p. 54 sq.; id. The Old Path, p. 366 sq.; Milman, History of the Jews (New York, 1870), 3:414 sq.; Palmer, History of the Jewish Nation (Lend. 18
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• Book
  ...rases is, however, that which refers them to the genealogical lists of the Jews, or to the registers kept of the living, from which the names of all the de ...o their girdles, &nbsp;Ezekiel 9:2 . The making of paper from linen in its modern form was first known in Europe about A. D. 1300. The art of printing was in
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• Samaria
  ...he Samaritan race, whose faith did not essentially differ from that of the Jews by whom they were counted heretical. The time was not yet come for ‘turni ...amaritans with Gentiles (&nbsp;Matthew 10:5-6); He distinguishes them from Jews (&nbsp;Acts 1:8; &nbsp;John 4:22). Samaria lay between Judaea and Galilee.
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• Hebrews
  ...s, and had been in Palestine, during all that period, only a few days. The Jews abroad, whom he every where saw, spoke Greek, not Hebrew. In Greek he preac ...the objects of persecution. In the beginning Christians were persecuted by Jews as can be seen in Acts (for example, &nbsp;Acts 4:17-18; &nbsp;Acts 5:27-42
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• Iconium
  ...rts for a time, St. Luke speaks of the faith of ‘a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks’ (&nbsp;Acts 14:1). </p> <p> Iconium figures largely in the ...missionary journey (&nbsp;Acts 13:51; &nbsp; Acts 14:21 ). The presence of Jews there is confirmed by the evidence of inscriptions. According to the view n
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• Joppa
  ...primitive fancy the fury of the sea was ascribed to serpents and dragons. Modern writers rationalize the phenomenon. ‘More boats are upset, and more lives ...for the gospel (&nbsp;Acts 10:9-16 ). </p> <p> Joppa is now annexed to the modern city of Tel Aviv, forming a part of the southern section of the largest cit
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• Gnosticism
  ...viii.). They made [[Cain]] their first hero; and, regarding the God of the Jews as an evil being, and the [[Scriptures]] as, in consequence, a perversion o ...leaned from later heresiologists is scanty and of doubtful value. </p> <p> Modern works which have made valuable contributions to the knowledge of Gnosticism
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• Publican
  ...complete subservience to him, the tax-gatherer was most unpopular with the Jews; for, apart from the obvious liability of the method to abuse, the mere fac ...icans, &nbsp;Luke 19:2; but St. Matthew was only an inferior publican. The Jews reproached our [[Saviour]] for showing kindness to these persons, &nbsp;Luk
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• Christian
  ...ntre of gravity was shifting </em> . Up to this time Christians as well as Jews looked to [[Jerusalem]] in everything as the mother of them all. But Jerusa ...ble enough in pagan writers. Suetonius says that [[Claudius]] expelled the Jews from Rome because they were always raising tumult under the instigation of
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• Gospel Of John
  ...have been exaggerated. For example, the mode of speaking of ‘ <strong> the Jews </strong> ’ In the Fourth Gospel is prepared for by the expressions found ...ection and the life (11:1-44). This was the event that finally stirred the Jews to plot his death (11:45-57). </p> <p> After an anointing at Bethany (12:1-
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...m the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to the restoration of the Jews whenruled over by the Son of David. The present governments or states of Eu ...of Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and others to give hope to his generation when many Jews were seeking favor with the [[Syrian]] government of Antiochus by adopting
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• Cyprus
  ...e Jews of Cyprus who became Christians had a much broader outlook than the Jews of Jerusalem, and were sympathetic to the expansion of the gospel among the ...e [[Gentile]] population. The revolt was suppressed without mercy, and all Jews were expelled from the island. </p> <p> Under the Byzantine emperors Cyprus
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• Darius
  ...been expected from the Zoroastrian Darius of secular history; he calls the Jews' temple "the house of God," [[Jehovah]] "the God of heaven," and solicits t ...was fulfilled the prophecy of &nbsp; Isaiah 47:7-9 . Some believe that the Jews were either expelled by the Babylonians, as being too much in the interest
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• Moses
  ...than his time. </p> <p> <strong> 4. Moses in the NT </strong> . (i.) All [[Jews]] and [[Christians]] in [[Apostolic]] times (including our Lord Himself) he ...gain, the extraordinary degree of <em> national pride </em> with which the Jews boasted themselves to be God's peculiar people, as if no nation ever was or
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• Philosophy
  ...ns of all ages. The exposition of such a philosophy would be the work of a modern Origen. </p> ...by the honorary title of <em> rabbi, </em> רבי , "great," or "master." The Jews, in imitation of the Greeks, had their seven wise men, who were called <em>
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• Trinity
  ...had partaken of the Spirit. or because seven was a sacred number among the Jews, denoting both variety and perfection, and in this case alluding to the var ...it in the OT. But if the doctrine be true, we might expect that Christian Jews, at any rate, would seek for some anticipation of it in the OT. We believe
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• Shechem
  ...question of the woman referring to existing prejudices which separated the Jews from the Samaritans; the depth of the well; the oriental allusion contained ...ans, 150 Samaritans, and a few Jews. The enmity between the Samaritans and Jews is as inveterate still as it was in the days of [[Christ]] . The Mohammedan
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• Achmetha
  ...s most probably the [[Achmetha]] of scripture. Travellers state that the [[Jews]] exhibit a tomb in their charge in the midst of the city, which is the rep ...nt city await the archeologist's spade. Annual pilgrimages are made to the modern city to pay homage at the traditional burial places of Esther and Mordecai,
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• Dress
  ...most probable that recourse would be had to a covering in the style of the modern <em> keffiyeh </em> , which protects not only the head but also the neck an ...of Oriental dress have preserved a remarkable uniformity in all ages: the modern Arab dresses much as the ancient Hebrew did. The costume of the men and wom
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