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Power
...as from a vase containing the fragrance of what is no longer visible. Its power within the heart is exhibited in Romans 8, and its energy of diffusion in R ...as follows: "all are within my power; but I will not put myself under the power of any one of all things." See Authority , B, No. 1.  Revelation

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Work
...ul, Cross Currents 35 (1985): 43-48; G. Goosen, A Theology of Work ; H.-C. Hahn and F. Thiele, NIDNTT 3:1147-59; G. Mendenhall, ... John 17:4;  John 19:30). Through faith in him and his finished work, people can have forgiveness of sins and eternal life ( John 6:28-29;

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Miracles
...elieved (see above, 3 ) that even evil men and evil spirits could work miracles, they would not have said that a miracle-worker must be a true tea ...t wicked one, the man of sin, shall be after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders." The same three terms occur for Jesus

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Jesus Christ
...aited, prudently as well as bravely, the gradual disclosure of His call to work and danger. 9. Duration of the Ministry (cf. ar ...o enter the kingdom by our own effort is impossible; it takes the renewing power of God to make us new people and establish us in God's kingdom. <i

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Antichrist
...etical spirit, present in the world already but destined to come in fuller power. The ultimate authority for our thoughts on the subject must be found in th ...to God and religion, a claim to God's exclusive prerogatives, lawlessness, power of lying miracles and of beguiling souls under Satan's energizing, having a

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Force
...ons of Cremer and Grimm-Thayer, s.vv. On Christ’s miraculous power see art. ‘Miracles’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible; Mozley, B ..., 1. To compel to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible. Men are forced to submit to conquerors. Masters force their

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English Versions
...s (including Calvin and Beza) who were then engaged at Geneva in a similar work of revision of the French Bible. In the NT their principal guide was Beza, ...hough disfigured by credulity and bitter prejudice." For Tyndale's special work see William Tyndale , a [[Biography]] , by R. Demaus, new

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Power Of The Keys
...e rules pertaining to this subject. On the other hand, Calvin referred the power of the keys altogether to the preaching of the Gospel and the exercise of C ...he authorities of the Church to admit or exclude from church membership, a power the Roman Catholics allege conferred at first on St. Peter and afterwards o

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Holy Spirit
...s ( John 14:26;  John 16:12-15;  1 Peter 1:12). Through the work of the Holy Spirit in those men, the New Testament Scriptures came into bei ...estament [[Theology]] ; G. F. Hawthorne, The [[Presence]] and the Power ; W. E. Mills, The Holy Spirit: A Bibliography ; G. T. Montag

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Satan
...... destroy ( '''''Katargeesee''''' , "render powerless") him that had the power of death." Satan seeks to "get an advantage of" believers ( 2 Corinthi

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God
...a somewhat less explicit form, in the [[Pauline]] Epistles. Christ is ‘the power of God and the wisdom of God … made unto us wisdom from God’ ( 1 C ...the command to tarry in the city until the [[Apostles]] were ‘clothed with power from on high’ ( Luke 24:49 ); this is interpreted in   Acts 1:5

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Providence
...toiling and spinning as a necessity, do not lack the raiment they require. Work you must; it is the law of your lives as God’s rational creatures; but le ...ty? God is present every where. He sees all that happens, and it is in his power, with perfect ease, to order all for the best. Can he then possess goodness

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Christianity
...he Encyc. Brit .9 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] W. T. Davison. ...er of God and of truth? And it has been supported in the world by the same power through a course of many ages, amidst the treachery of its friends, the opp

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Sanctification
...e deepens, the work of the Spirit in sanctification is identified with the work of the Risen Christ. The sense of present fellowship with Him becomes more ...ursue" sanctification ( Hebrews 12:14 ). Apart from God's sanctifying work in human beings, "no one will see the Lord" ( Hebrews 12:14 ). God wil

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Egypt
...ed their deliverance from Egypt, reminding themselves that God’s grace and power alone had saved them ( Leviticus 23:43;  Deuteronomy 16:1-3; &nbs ...n nature), at Thebes. The Labyrinth, and the artificial Lake Moeris, their work. [['''Thirteenth:''' Diospolites]] (contemporary with the Shepher

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Sabbath
...e Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. For in six days th ...e true Sabbath and ought still to be observed by Christians (see a curious work by Francis Bampfield written to show that the seventh-day Sabbath is the de

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Hand
...ess carelessness sloth.  Proverbs 10 The right hand, denotes power strength.  Exodus 15 HAND, To give or transmit with the hand. ...y which the sacred substance is conducted from one body into another … the power passes not primarily through the spoken formula, but through the physical c

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Omnipotence
...ii.; Thomas Aquinas, Summa , iii. Qu. 13; B. B. Warfield, The Power of God unto [[Salvation]] (1903), 91. J. Dick Fleming. ...ew of the supernatural and miraculous. Thus  Exodus 15 celebrates the power of Yahweh in the wonders of the exodus. It is God's exclusive prerogative t

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Atonement
...e practical schism between these two experiences of faith in the objective work of Christ and personal union in His death and resurrection is too real for ...reparation to the violated law of righteousness is not necessary. Christ’s work, while bringing forgiveness, conserves holiness, magnifies law, vindicates

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Messiah
...s Lord over the [[Sabbath]]  Matthew 12:8). He will appear clothed in power at the last day ( Mark 14:62). But the title is also used in immediate ...nality in whom His spirit was particularly resident to empower Him for the work of salvation. Thus in the history of Jesus and in Christian experience this

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Creation
...e reason and articulate speech; general words used by all prove in all the power of abstract reasoning; the absence of the former proves the absence of the ...ence between right and wrong. Having divided his own substance, the mighty Power became half male, half female. He whose powers are incomprehensible, having

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Peter
...ssionary activities had brought him into contact with Gentiles. It was the work of the reactionary Judaizers that made the problem acute, but in the nascen ..., as to Peter ( Matthew 18:18;  John 20:23.) Peter exercised the power of the keys only in preaching, as on Pentecost (Acts 2), He never exercised

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Arminian View Of The. Will
...will; if he cannot govern the world when much of its history is within the power of his creatures, when much that is, is determined and enacted by the free

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Regeneration
...d in many passages of the Epistle and is represented as produced by Divine power. The blood of Christ cleanses the conscience from sin, and makes it possibl ...hrist with full and fast faith (  Ephesians 4:16 ). Last of all, this work of regeneration is completed when the soul is brought to the point of absol

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Miracle
...st and his apostles, and were actual witnesses to their mighty works." The power of working miracles is supposed by some to have been continued no longer th ...r and refutes the "name it and claim it" heresy that tries to force God to work miracles upon demand, if only one exercises adequate faith. [[Crai

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Justification
...al and justify the world, not as something standing beyond itself and by a power external. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it ...vilege of justification is annexed, is such a belief of the Gospel, by the power of the Spirit of God, as leads us to come to Christ, to receive Christ, to

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Elijah
...heir mouth," i.e. at, their word;  1 Kings 17:1;  2 Kings 1:10; "power to shut heaven that it rain not,"  James 5:17;  Luke 4:25; and "t ...led after Moses and Elijah ( Revelation 11:3-6 ). They were given the power to shut up the heavens and to bring the fire of judgment like Elijah in &nb

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Resurrection
...Paul’s teaching. Hence we find two lines of thought of unequal strength at work in St. Paul’s treatment of the subject. (1) On the one hand, he ...en we remember how constantly he is pressing on his readers’ attention the power by which the resurrection to life is brought about (  Romans 8:11 , &n

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Church
...ip. Except in the form of ‘Mysteries,’ the old Greek religion had not much power; its gods and goddesses were openly ridiculed. But Mithraism was full of li ...sp; Luke 17:21 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ) in His own Person and work. It is revealed as a historical institution in the parables of the [[Tares]

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Salvation
...ouraged the exercise of faith as a mere theoretical belief in supernatural power. The performance of a sign from heaven, such as men might have witnessed wi ...ile its present dimension is depicted in terms of the Spirit's sanctifying work. Its future dimension is said to be glorification, the culmination of the s

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Grace
...God and Christ, working in the Pauline scheme as righteousness and wisdom, work here as light, life, love, driving away darkness, death, sin; restoring lif ...these attributes as "gifts" throughout the chapter implies that they are a work of grace as well, but the connection with grace is explicit in the parallel

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Elisha
...l cell, upon a sudden inroad of the Moabite bands; a type of the vivifying power of Christ's dead body ( Isaiah 26:19). Other antitypical resemblances .... The supernatural abounds in his life; in many instances he manifests the power of prediction (  2 Kings 4:16 , 2Ki 5:26 ,   2 Kings 6:8 ff., &nb

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Spirit
...to be so far identified that the former lived and acted ‘in spirit and in power’ (ἐν πνεύματι καὶ δυνάμει,  Luke 1:17), i. ...Satan is called the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is at work in those who are disobedient ( Ephesians 2:2 ). One of the pe

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Faith
...he Apocalypse we have described for us in words and pictures the unity and power of God, the dominion of Christ over the Church and the world, and the trium ...ews, each in his own fashion, combine with St. Paul to focus the redeeming work of Jesus in the cross. According to the whole tenor of the NT, the forgivin

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Papacy
...ied about 886), who, however, is the author of the last biographies of the work only. It was edited by Busaeus (Mentz, 1602); Fabrotti (Paris, 1649); [[Bia

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Merit
... Lehre [[Jesu]] 2 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , 1901 [English translation from 1st ed. 1893]; Anselm’s Cu ...use no man can demand a right to it by his own righteousness, or any other power in himself, but by the free grace of God only, they say no man can merit Pa

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Power Of Keys
...olders of the keys. To that extent, and in that sense, alone, is there the power of "legislating" within the kingdom. This is only interpreting and applying ....com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/keys,+power+of Power Of Keys from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>

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John The Baptist
.... Theologic und Kirche.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , art. ‘Johannes der Taufer’; Haupt, [[Johannes]] der Tä ...11:3 ); but if John learnt from Jesus what was His ideal of the Messiah’s work, it may well be, as Garvie says, ‘that Jesus for a time at least raised J

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Devil
...god of this world’ or age (  2 Corinthians 4:4 ), ‘the prince of the power of the air’ (  Ephesians 2:2 ), ruling over the evil spirits who are ...ctful expressions of him they would punish with death, did not the Turkish power prevent them. Whenever they speak of him, it is with the utmost respect; an

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Ordination
...assignment to them, under the direction of the Holy Ghost, of an extended work among the Gentiles, and all the accompaniments befitted this new departure. ...cy, Imposition Of Hands, Independents]] and [[Ministerial Call]] in this work; James Owen's [[Plea]] for Scripture Ordination; Doddridge's Tracts, 5: 2:

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Mediator
...in His own Person. But it cannot be said with justice that the mediatorial work of Jesus in this Gospel is only of this prophetic nature. St. John records ...the final Judge of the quick and the dead, to whom is given the power of distributing the rewards and penalties of eternity. See ATONEMENT and Se

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Trinity
...ture of the Deity, whose existence is commensurate with eternity, by whose power the universe was created, and by whose wisdom it is governed; whose presenc ..., we see throughout the book the essential Deity of the Holy Spirit in the work attributed to Him of superintending and controlling the life of the [[Apost

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Gift Of. Tongues
...e." He recognized precisely the same sounds in the Irish revivals of 1859 (Work and Counterwork, p. 11). Those who spoke, men of known devotion and acutene

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Hippolytus Romanus
...ne literature Bardenhewer (Freiburg 1877) collects all the notices of this work discusses the different extant fragments and restores the original as far a

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Inspiration
...we might reasonably suppose would have been granted to the Apostles in the work of teaching divine truth, is the very thing which Christ promised them in t ...to the most ordinary actions of life, according to this view, are not the work of man but of Omniscience. The only use which has been made of human agency

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Prayer
...h ’). (ii.) (1) A distinctive Idea in NT prayer is the work of the [[Holy]] Spirit . He aids us in prayer (  Romans 8:14-16 ...iness, ought not to be indulged, unless persons are aged or infirm, or the work of prayer be drawn out so long as to make it troublesome to human nature to

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Ethics
...ging absolutes, inarguable authority, effective motivation, and redemptive power. The Old Testament emphasizes that God's requirements enshrine the secrets ...ect for the civil government, and its tasks, the spiritual significance to work, the stewardship of possessions and wealth, and much else. The eth

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Apostle
...h intention. The apostles wore commissioned to found a living Church, with power to supply itself with ministers and to organize them. Literature.- ...them out two by two, that they might be assistants to each other in their work; and commanded them to restrict their teaching and services to the people o

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Almighty
...tion, we never hear in them, as in the Scriptures, "the [[Thunder]] of his power." ... The name Almighty will appear again when God works out his purposes in power and judgement. It was revealed in connection with promises made in time, as

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Persecution
...ise no jurisdiction. But Roman Emperors would not admit that view, for the power of the State, in the person of the ruler, was absolute, and it covered all ...o make mankind such curses to one another? [[Merciful]] God! by they great power suppress this worst of all evils, and let truth and love, meekness and forb

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David
...ntenance, which thenceforth appertained to Judah (1 Samuel 27). So did his power grow that a band of Benjamites, of Saul's brethren, right-handed and left-h ...Samuel 26:4 ff.).] It is during these wanderings that Saul falls into the power of David, but is magnanimously spared. The episode connected with David’s

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Adam
...l how to give the figure or image of a thought, or of the mind or thinking power?" In spirituality, and, consequently, immateriality, this image ...ems to be based on a reminiscence of Messianic passages which speak of the work of the Divine Spirit, e.g.  Isaiah 11:1-2,  Joel 2:28-32

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Nehemiah
...al prayerfulness, with eyes ever turned toward God, and summing up all his work and all his hope in the humble prayer at the close, "remember me, O my God, ...ple must be a separated people ( Nehemiah 13:1-9 ). N. God's work, including His finance program, must not be neglected ( Nehemiah 13:10

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Liberty
...efly to point out that not only does the term ‘redemption’ (applied to the work of Christ in opening to men this new experience of life) derive from the so ...thority, right," is rendered "liberty" in  1—Corinthians 8:9 (marg., "power"), "this liberty of yours," or "this right which you assert." See Authority

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Government
...about the nature and objectives of civil government they are encouraged to work toward such changes as will benefit society and honor Christ. But civil dis ...ristocracy (Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant. XX. x.). Except for the power of life and death the Sanhedrin held the supreme judicial authority; there

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Holy Ghost
...of the Spirit, but of the Spirit itself." Bishop Pearson, in his elaborate work on the Creed, and Dr. Barrow, in his Sermons, are equally explicit in stati ...th all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." ( Romans 15:13) 

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Logos
...rd’s personality. Being Himself the Logos, one in essence with God, He had power to impart the higher life (see Word). In all these directions, the ...ly the mediator of God’s redeeming purpose. It is therefore as a religious power, not as a metaphysical magnitude, that St. John brings Him before us. The E

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Law
...nbsp; Galatians 5:16-24 ). God’s law ceases to press on him as an external power counteracted by ‘the law of sin in the members’; the latter has been ex ...rly a period, to such a people, and enforced by such sanctions as no human power could undertake to execute, strongly bespeaks a divine original. <

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Prophet
...hronological mainly. But as the twelve lesser prophets are regarded as one work, Jeremiah and Ezekiel are placed at the close of the greater prophets, and

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Bishop
...in other duties than word and teaching; and if so, these were not the sole work of all elders. [[Preaching]] is rather connected with the unlocal ...those ministers lawfully called and sent, who be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the congregation, to ca

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Absolution
...g man in whom he discerns a true repentance, may be able to say with great power, ‘Brother, be assured thy sins are forgiven thee,’ and great blessing o ...eferred to the power he gave them of discerning spirits. By virtue of this power, Peter struck [[Ananias]] and [[Sapphira]] dead, and Paul struck Elimas bli

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Ecclesiastical History
...dies. In the Church of England, [[Parliament]] (a lay body) is the central power in the government of the Church. In the Protestant Episcopal Church lay del

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Solomon
...Note: Josephus.] Ant . VIII. v. 3). Josephus also speaks of his power over demons; Rabbinical legend of his control over beasts and birds, of his ...e Temple erected by Solomon is given elsewhere. After seven years, and the work was completed, and the day came to which all Israelites looked back as the

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Excommunication
...virtue of the special authority of St. Paul himself, while the Church had power to expel only. There is nothing in the text to support such a view. This pu ...ame manner in every church, yet (according to the congregational plan) the power of excision lies in the church itself. The officers take the sense of the m

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Authority
...power,"  Luke 22:25;  1—Corinthians 6:12;  7:4 (twice). See Power. <div> '''B — 2: '''''Εὐωδία''''' ''' (Strong'S #2175 — Nou ...am Hamstra, Jr. Bibliography . B. Holmberg, Paul and Power: The Structure of [[Authority]] in the Primitive Church . 

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Law Of Moses
...not the law of life to a Christian.  2 Corinthians 3:7 . Law gives no power over sin; indeed, no sooner does a law say that a particular thing must not ...ith a spirit from above. But it involved also, the idea of an antagonistic power of evil, from which man was to be redeemed, existing in each individual, an

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Simon Magus
...ey all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is called Great (ἡ δύναμις τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ κα ...al prerogative of the apostles. When therefore Simon offered money for the power of conferring the Holy Ghost it was really to obtain the rank of apostle. W

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The Methodist Episcopal Church
...urch. The General Conference, after full deliberation, held that it had no power to divide the Church, as it was constituted to preserve, not to destroy, it

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Inquisition
..., by his own confession, is with much reluctance, delivered to the secular power, to be punished according to his demerits: and this writing they give to th ...e extirpation of heresy." In the New World the Inquisition established its power, especially in Mexico. It was also terribly severe in Carthagena and Lima.

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Fire
...bsp;Revelation 9:17 f.). In  Revelation 14:18 it is the angel who has power over the fire-in this instance the symbol of Divine wrath-that brings the a ...rvants from being injured. The fire from the mouth describes the withering power of their words as they spoke GOD's messages. (See also  Revelation 11:

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Herod
...t that period, the entire eastern [[Mediterranean]] region was troubled by power struggles and bitter conflicts, one of which resulted in Antipater being mu ...hat it seemed a restoration rather than a new building. He inaugurated the work with a set speech. The building of the temple itself began in 20 B.C., and

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Perseverance
...rt, but hostility, is offered, there follows hurt and loss. It is the same power which, obeyed, blesses; disobeyed, blasts. (3) Let the idea be aba ...wing genuineness, "develops perseverance. [[Perseverance]] must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete." But an important addition by James

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Kingdom Of God
...ive reign, and God shall be all in all. See Authority, Dominion, Parousia, Power. M. S. Terry. ...to appear momentarily. [[Signs]] and powers of the kingdom were already at work, and prefigurements of its glory were already present. As a result Jesus ta

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Reformation
...t and [[Influence]] of the Reformation by Luther, by B. C. Villiers, which work obtained the prize on this question (proposed by the National Institute of ...ise unto salvation. It does not, however, come within the province of this work to give a minute history of the origin and progress of the Reformation, to

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Plagues Of Egypt
...ruction, according to the Septuagint, διετηρηθης , "to manifest the divine power," by the number and variety of their plagues. Still, however, in the midst ...this tremendous judgment, for it would too largely swell the pages of this work, to enter into the relation of it here. But I beg the reader, when he hath

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Acts Of The Apostles
...ting to observe these, as they will lead us to an approximate date for the work. There is no better test than such an inquiry for the detection of a forger ...the best opportunities for ascertaining the facts of the early part of his work from the brethren on the spot. At [[Caesarea]] dwelt Philip the evangelist,

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English Versions Of The Bible.
...he wrote to Cecil in its favor. He was at the time looking forward to the work he afterwards accomplished, of one other special Bible for the churches, to

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Apocalyptic Literature
...f a restoration to righteousness and recognition of God in the forces that work there. He accordingly plants his hopes in the world to come.< ...illustration of the extra-Palestinian-Hellenistic apocalyptic hope. As the work now exists, it is a collection of various writings dealing with the histori

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Predestination
...ntrary." In illustration of this he remarks, "God gave to man the power of election as he did to the angels. They, therefore, who do not obey are j

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Gnosticism
...they could be mastered. Some systems taught a multitude of such ‘words of power’; in other systems one master word was given, e.g. caulacau (Ire ...ver, was an independent authority on Marcionism; by Hippolytus, who in his work against heresies adds, however, large extracts from his independent reading

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Clementine Literature
...ritings of Simon, it can scarcely be doubted that the author used the work ascribed to Simon called the Great Announcement , some of the lang

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Paul
...hough they must have been important years of preparation for Paul’s future work. Paul spent the final year of this preparation period at [[Antioch]] in Syr ...uld be brought in contact with him; and among these there had broken out a work of grace, which had become a theme amongst the praetorian guards and had sp

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Will
...field]] College Essays, London, 1909; H. Weinel, St. Paul, the Man and his Work, Eng. tr. , do., 1906; W. P. DuBose, The Gospel according to St. Paul, do., ...in a manner not inconsistent with whatever is excellent in the exercise of power and wisdom, justice and mercy, goodness and truth. Nor is it a little impor

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Angel
...went before are that they are not active among men, their abode and their work are rather in the realms above; they are not the intermediaries between God ...for the punishment of wicked nations, seems also evident. That they have a power over the human sensory, which they are occasionally permitted to exercise,

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Divination
...magicians, witches, and wizards. They had various methods of bringing the power of the divinities to act on men, all of which may be classed into two group ...of the anti-trinity, the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet, shall "work miracles" to tempt the ten kings under [[Antichrist]] to the last battle fo

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Arm
...Isaiah 33:2;   Isaiah 63:12 ,   Acts 13:17 ), or in breaking the power of His enemies (  Exodus 6:6 ,   Deuteronomy 5:15 ,   Ezekie ...d "power": "Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood." A third nuance is "help": "Assur also is joined with them:

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Assyria
...rbanipal’s death, Assyria’s Empire began to crumble. Babylon was rising to power, and with the establishment of a new [[Babylonian]] dynasty in 626 BC, the ...ect to Assyria; and "we find nothing," says Playfair, "of the greatness or power of this kingdom in the history of the judges and succeeding kings of Israel

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Mormons
...religious system in peace and freedom. In the autumn of 1831 a successful work was inaugurated at Independence, [[Jackson]] County, Missouri; and shortly

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Moses
...econd with his return from Midian to liberate his people from [[Egyptian]] power ( Acts 7:30-36;  Exodus 7:7), and the third with his death just b ...lling factor is not a corpus of specific prescriptions, but the power of custom. An immoral act is condemned because ‘it is not wont so to be d

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Eusebius Of Caesarea
...Christians accept their religion by faith without investigation. The whole work is an answer to this taunt. The object of the Preparation is to ju ...''Ant. Sacr.'' (Par. 1865, 8va), page 258 sq. '''4.''' The small work, ''Against Hierocles,'' '''''Πρὸς''''' '''''Τὰ''''' '''''Ὑπὸ''

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Priests And Levites
...iesthood gained a fresh accession of power, all the greater as the secular power was under [[Persian]] rule. The contemporary prophets, Zech. and Haggai, no ...tes from 30 years old and upward number 38,000, of whom 24,000 oversee the work of the house of the Lord, 6,000 were officers and judges, 4,000 were doorke

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Gospels
...Western scholarship. Such a one may find that the Gospel is certainly the work of a Jew, and may see no reason for denying that its author may have been J ...er ancient writing. Theophilus arranged the Four Gospels so as to form one work (Jerome, Ep. ad Algas., iv. 197). Tartan, who died A.D. 170, formed a [[Dia

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Pentecost
...s been witnessed since again and again. It is the mysterious outburst of a Power which never wholly leaves the world, however lifeless it may at times appea ...uth as it is in Jesus?"Blessed is the man that can testify to the Spirit's work in his own heart in all the offices, characters, and gifts of God the Holy

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Christology Christ
...rk 6:14), but the only inference drawn was that ‘therefore do these powers work in him.’ The Resurrection did not create faith in Jesus as Messi ...ans 10:17 ), as faithful believers in Christ proclaim the Messiah's saving work, participate in messianic glory, and invite others to do the same. 

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Criticism
...sianic consciousness of Jesus, without which he regards not only the whole work of Jesus, but the conduct of His disciples after His death, as unintelligib ...]] came later than Deuteronomy, and was only incorporated with the earlier work of the Deuteronomist after the Exile. Meanwhile Colenso was working at the

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Indulgences
.... Since that time the popes have been more sparing in the exercise of this power; although it is said, they still carry on a great trade with them to the In ...ation whatever in Scripture. It is an arrogant and impious usurpation of a power which belongs to God alone; and it has an obvious tendency to promote licen

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Haggai
...e ( Haggai 2:18-19 ). IV. God's People Must Reconsider God's Power to [[Overcome]] [[Opposition]] ( Haggai 2:20-23 ). A. God wil ...second year, 520 B.C., to rouse them from their selfishness to resume the work which had been suspended for 14 years. The dates of his four distinct proph

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Prophets Prophecy
...imself led the way and the [[Apostles]] followed Him in declaring that His work on earth was to ‘fulfil’ both the Law and the prophets, and that the wh ...e Testaments, the coming of Jesus is seen as an inbreaking of the Spirit's work especially visible in prophecy. For example, in Luke the angel's visitation

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Jerusalem
...year when the Jews said it would be the 46th or 47th year from the temple work being begun. Herod also built three great towers on the old wall in the N.W ...;Acts 3:1), nor yet for the sake of meeting with each other (5:12), but to work upon the mass of the people through the words and wonders of the apostles.

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Conscience
..., in short, a conscience must experience the constraining and transforming power of the love of Christ, in whom men are new creatures, so that old things ar ...tuitously) are known by all to be wrong; immediately they are perceived at work, they are unconditionally condemned. (3) The inward look makes no mistake a

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