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• A Christian Writer Rhodo
  A Christian Writer Rhodo <ref name="term_15102" /> <p> <b> Rhodo (1), </b> a [[Christian]] writer of the end of the 2nd cent., our knowledge, of whom now exclusively depends
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• Hymn-Writer Romanus
  Hymn-Writer Romanus <ref name="term_15106" /> <p> <b> Romanus (9), </b> St., a celebrated hymn writer of the Eastern church, who is said to have written more than 1,000 hymns, o
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• Story Writer
  Story Writer <ref name="term_8551" /> .../encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/story+writer Story Writer from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• Magnes Macarius Magnus A Writer
  Magnes Macarius Magnus A Writer <ref name="term_14865" /> <p> <b> [[Macarius]] (9) Magnus, </b> a writer of the end of the 4th cent. Four centuries after, his name had sunk into al
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• 2Nd Cent. Christian Writer Miltiades
  2Nd Cent. Christian Writer Miltiades <ref name="term_14871" /> .... Valentin. </i> 5) names him with Justin [[Martyr]] and [[Irenaeus]] as a writer against heresy, giving him the appellation, evidently intended in an honour
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• A Gnostic Writer Epiphanes
  A Gnostic Writer Epiphanes <ref name="term_14609" /> <p> <b> [[Epiphanes]] </b> , a [[Gnostic]] writer about the middle of the 2nd cent., or earlier. [[Clement]] of [[Alexandria]
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• Story-Writer
  Story-Writer <ref name="term_179829" /> ...https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/story-writer Story-Writer from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
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• A Writer Of Sermons Eusebius Of Alexandria
  A Writer Of Sermons Eusebius Of Alexandria <ref name="term_14635" /> ...(ὐπηρέτης ). He encourages invocation of saints. </p> <p> Mai calls him a writer delightful from his "ingenuitas," his "Christian ac pastoralis simplicitas,
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• A Writer Marius Mercator
  A Writer Marius Mercator <ref name="term_14912" /> <p> <b> Marius (1) Mercator, </b> a writer, of whom, until the last quarter of the 17th cent., nothing was known excep
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• Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius
  Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius <ref name="term_15193" /> ...early-christian-biography/sophronius,+ecclesiastical+writer Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius from A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography]</ref>
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• Anchoret And Writer Evagrius Ponticus
  Anchoret And Writer Evagrius Ponticus <ref name="term_14653" /> <p> <b> [[Evagrius]] (12) Ponticus </b> , anchoret and writer, born at Ibora in [[Pontus]] Galaticus, according to Tillemont, in 345. He
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• An Ecclesiastical Writer Maximus
  An Ecclesiastical Writer Maximus <ref name="term_14940" /> <p> <b> Maximus (24) </b> , an ecclesiastical writer, placed by [[Eusebius]] ( <i> [[H.]] [[E.]] </i> v. 27) in the reign of [[S
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• Writer
  ...e who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] clerk of a certain rank i ...o writes or has written. 2. An author. 3. [[A]] clerk or amanuensis. <p> [[Writer]] of the tallies, an officer of the exchequer of [[England]] a clerk to the
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• A Western Writer Helvidius
  A Western Writer Helvidius <ref name="term_14742" /> <p> <b> Helvidius, </b> a Western writer who, like [[Novatian]] and Pelagius, [[Jovinian]] and Vigilantius, put forw
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• A Writer Hesychius (27) Illustris
  A Writer Hesychius (27) Illustris <ref name="term_14747" /> ...> [[Hesychius]] (27) Illustris, </b> a copious historical and biographical writer, the son of an advocate and born at Miletus. His distinctive name ( Ἰλλ
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• Latin Chiliast Writer Hilarianus Quintus Julius
  Latin Chiliast Writer Hilarianus Quintus Julius <ref name="term_14751" /> ...anus]] (1) Quintus [[Julius]] </b> ( <i> Hilarion </i> ), a Latin Chiliast writer <i> c. </i> 397, author of two extant treatises. The first, <i> Expositum d
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• A Writer Hierotheus
  A Writer Hierotheus <ref name="term_14752" /> ...legium Romanum </i> (iii. 704–707) will be found other fragments of this writer, translated from some Arabic [[Mss.]] Their theology savours, however, more
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• News-Writer
  News-Writer <ref name="term_148018" /> ...[https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/news-writer News-Writer from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
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• Writer Hypatia
  Writer Hypatia <ref name="term_14768" /> ...nt of Nestorius, which took place 17 years after the death of Hypatia. The writer is struck by the teaching of the [[Christians]] that God died for men; she
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• Ecclesiastical Writer Caius
  Ecclesiastical Writer Caius <ref name="term_14499" /> <p> <b> [[Caius]] (2), </b> an ecclesiastical writer at the beginning of the 3rd cent., according to late authority, a presbyter
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• Gospel Of John
  ...ion between different views of this Gospel is practically furnished by the writer’s own words, ‘These are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the ...of the activity of Jesus. But his name never appears in John’s Gospel. The writer, following a common practice of not mentioning his own name, used instead t
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...ong> . This is most important, as it would be almost impossible for a late writer to avoid pitfalls when covering so large a ground. Instances of remarkable ...8:5. </p> <p> But in the epistles written where we know, from Acts 28, the writer was with Paul we find Luke mentioned. Alford conjectures that as, just befo
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• The Epistles Of John
  ...city. The similar tone, style, and sentiments prove both to be by the same writer. Irenaeus (adv. Haer, i. 16, section 3) quotes &nbsp;2 John 1:10-11, and &n ...nal disciples. To neither of these questions, as it appears to the present writer, is a dogmatically negative answer warranted. If within a period comparativ
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• Epistle To Thehebrews
  ...mption that his acquaintance with Timothy (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:23) places the writer of the Epistle amongst the circle of St. Paul’s friends. The early Church ...an ascribed it to Barnabas, and others to Luke and Clement, while no Latin writer is found during the first three centuries who ascribed it to Paul. In the m
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• Genesis
  ...reation and flood narratives? Has one copied the other? Does God inspire a writer to react to other literature and write the authentic version? What role doe ...al scheme of history laid down in JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.]; but the writer’s unequal treatment of ‘the material at his disposal reveals a prevaili
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• Book Of. Revelation
  ...with the critics of Germany, one of whom goes so far as to state that the writer of the Revelation promised the fulfilment of his visions within the space o
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• Inspiration
  ...was not probably exerted upon each of the sacred writers, or upon the same writer throughout his writings, whatever might be its subject. There is no necessi ...> A Tenable Theory of Insp </i> ., by Professor Wood; cf. also the present writer’s <i> The Bible: its Origin and Nature </i> . Schleiermacher’s interest
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• The Epistle To The Hebrews
  ...]] Rome is not the catholic church. </p> <p> '''Place of writing.''' - The writer was at the time in prison (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:3; &nbsp;Hebrews 13:19), had be ...vance them to all of which they are capable. That this is the theme of the writer, the passages in which the word in question occurs show; and we see no reas
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• First Epistle To. Timothy
  ...h admit of similar replies. </p> <p> '''1.''' In &nbsp;1 Timothy 3:11, the writer enumerates a series of persecutions and afflictions which befell 1lim at An
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• Odes Of Solomon
  ...xi. 11). </p> <p> The Holy Spirit frequently underlies the thoughts of the writer (xi. 2): ‘for the Most High circumcised me by His Holy Spirit and reveale
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...wever, seem to be implied in 1:27; 2:18; 7:33; 14:15. </p> <p> The present writer holds that one man is responsible for 2 Maccabees in its present form and t
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• Hebrews
  ...ave been already discussed. I merely add here, therefore, that in case the writer of the epistle designed it should have a wide circulation among the Jews, t ...” (&nbsp;Hebrews 11:1 TEV). </p> <p> This is not to say, however, that the writer of Hebrews, felt that persons could, on the basis of their own obedience, q
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• Epistle To Hebrews
  ...e, too, we get a glimpse of that quickening Divine humanity upon which the writer lays such constant stress, and which is the source of the effort demanded f
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• Epistle Of James
  ...theology with its teaching about regeneration, faith, and prayer, but the writer’s main interest lies in ethics. The condition of the heathen world around <li> The object of the writer was to enforce the practical duties of the Christian life. "The Jewish vice
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• Book Of Joshua
  ...a prophetical interpretation of an important era of Israel’s history. The writer’s main concern was to show how God was revealing himself and his purposes ...them as may seem to indicate that they are not the production of the same writer. Thus, in the Pentateuch, we have the word [[Jericho]] always spelled '''''
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• Gospel According To Luke
  ...weak and for the suffering, for widows and for the poor, than any other NT writer. </p> <p> St. Luke was no idealist. He had a literal, matter-of-fact mind, ...6 f.) is said to be absolutely unhistorical, and to be an invention of the writer, who had read and misread Josephus (see § <strong> 5 </strong> and art.
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• Clemens Romanus Of Rome
  ...s judgment of God are cited by [[Anastasius]] of Antioch; and a 13th-cent. writer ( <i> Spicilegium Acherianum </i> , viii. 382) reports having seen in a Sar
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• Gospels
  ...> <p> The conception of the Christology of the book as being the work of a writer strongly influenced by Alexandrian philosophy is probably a false one due t ...lier, omits the ascension as involved in the resurrection. Luke, the later writer, supplies the omission. Matthew, writing for Judea, dwells on facts less kn
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• Apocrypha
  ...ers, were not unacquainted with the limits of the Palestinian Canon. No NT writer names any book of the Apocr. [Note: Apocrypha, Apocryphal.] , nor is there ...egular text of the book is occasionally interpolated and amplified by some writer or writers, to give the story a fuller narrative and make the telling of it
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• Pseudo-Chrysostomus
  ...ferred His own baptism on John the Baptist. [[Directly]] or indirectly the writer was much indebted to [[Origen]] and there may be traces of acquaintance wit
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  ...t from memory. Harnack, however, seems more successful in showing that the writer of the <i> Didache </i> used and improved upon our Epistle (cf. <i> Die Leh ...rite (c. ix.). This line of argument, however, is not that upon which the writer mainly depends. His chief trust is in the γνῶσις , that deeper, that
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• Book Of Baruch
  ...soon af ter the fall of Jerusalem in 70 ad have not convinced the present writer. </p> <p> 4. Words of Cheer Baruch 4:5 Through 5:9 </p> <p> The situation i ...German writers favor the idea of a Greek original. They conceive that the writer was some unknown person in the reign of Ptolemy Lagos, who, wishing to conf
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• Book Of Enoch
  ...that can be reasonably inferred from such a fact is, that if the inspired writer cites a particular sentiment with approbation, it must be regarded as just
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• Luke
  ...iters of the same period. They are quite unlike those of modern writers. A writer of the present day seeks to tell his story in his own words and his own way ...ticulars of the journey to Emmaus. It is very satisfactory that so early a writer as [[Irenaeus]] has noticed most of these peculiarities; which proves not o
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• The Wisdom Of Solomon
  ...e restrained spirit with which these matters are referred to show that the writer is describing a state of things which belongs to the past, though to a rece
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• Faith
  ...repentance and is accompanied by love and other Christian graces. Thus the writer of 2 Pet. is at one with all the apostles in saying to Christians that when ...c. But St. Peter in his 1st Ep., St. John in his 1st Ep. and Rev., and the writer of Hebrews, each in his own fashion, combine with St. Paul to focus the red
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• Epistle To The Romans
  ...eak (ch. 14) is marked by a calm conciliatory tone which suggests that the writer is dealing with problems which are probable rather than pressing. In fact, ...tains a close grammatical study with an excellent paraphrase. </p> <p> The writer may be allowed to name his short commentary (1879) in the <i> Cambridge Bib
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• Accommodation
  ...djustment; - followed by to. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred ...nted out that in every book of the Bible the inimitable physiognomy of the writer and the age is preserved; that the Biblical language with reference to Natu
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• Epistle
  ...character and lying closest to their hands; but here-even in the case of a writer like the author of Hebrews, who has obviously been powerfully influenced by ...s it may naturally be inferred that such compositions would partake of the writer's recent and present feelings. The epistles and James, by Peter and Jude, a
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• Bishop Of Antioch Ignatius
  ...facts to be maintained understood. In Ignatius they are hard to reach; the writer is not thinking of readers who have all to learn from him. Lastly, no ancie
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• Hermeneutics Bible
  ...rpreter seeks to determine what kind of rhetoric, or language, the ancient writer was using. It is extremely important to recognize the various literary form
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• Epistles Ofpeter
  ...iterally in daily conduct that their character is severely impugned by the writer, who accuses them of gross immorality. Their sin is classed with that of th .... The former of these views is maintained by Hug and Olshausen. The latter writer founds his view on the fact that Peter does not give the minute statements
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• Second Epistle Of Peter
  ...s promises of mercy and threatenings of judgment are [[Yea]] and Amen. The writer aims to impress on his readers: (1) that saving knowledge of Jesus Christ i ...to be understood." The allusion certainly presupposes a late age, and the writer, as he informs us, was very near his death. The date of Peter's death is no
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• Propitiation
  ...p. 84, criticizing it). The particular contribution, however, made by the writer of Hebrews to the apostolic teaching on propitiation is the discussion of t
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• Commentary
  ..., have seldom ventured to undertake an exposition of the whole Bible. Each writer usually confines himself to the task of commenting on a few books. In this
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• Logos
  ...iceable that in &nbsp; John 20:31 , where, before laying down his pen, the writer reveals the motive of his work, he really sums up the great ideas of the Pr ...ortant idea should have come to the Biblical author from an extra-Biblical writer (compare Schmiedel, <i> Johannine Writings </i> ), remembering only that th
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• Book Of Tobit
  ...y is exaggerated (as it seems) from the special circumstances in which the writer was placed (12, 9; 14:10). Of the special precepts one (4, 15, '''''Ὃ'''' ...the book, male and female, have a Semitic character. (3) The style of the writer is Semitic rather than Aryan, many of the expressions making bad Greek, but
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• Eschatology Of The Old Testament (With Apocryphal And Apocalyptic Writings)
  ...ow briefly be exhibited. In this relation, it need only be stated that the writer does not follow the extraordinary mangling of the prophetic texts by certai
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• Hippolytus Romanus
  ...s labours must have given a great impulse to the study of God's word. As a writer he must be pronounced active rather than able or painstaking. Yet he must b
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• Theology Of First And Second Kings
  ...avid, who kept the statutes of Yahweh (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:33,38 ). Thus, the writer infers that the well-being of the people was tied to the king's behavior. Y
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• Gospel Of (Critical) John
  ...community to the Corinthian, <i> circa (about) </i> 100. Here, again, the writer seems to be influenced by Johannine teaching (cf. Clem. xlix. and &nbsp;Joh
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• Epistles Ofjohn
  ...t is best to suppose that her name is not given. The language in which the writer’s affection is expressed, and the subjects with which the letter deals, p
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• Deuteronomy
  ...of Moses. It is consequently hard to believe, as is alleged, that a later writer is studying to give "an imaginative revivification of the past." </p> <p> ( ...iece altogether apart from what precedes it, or as a supplement by another writer, is a ready solution maintained by the older theologians (comp. e.g. Carpzo
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• Books Of Chronicles
  ...imate sense we would equate God's house with His kingdom. Accordingly, the writer(s) of Chronicles reminds us that the most important of all deeds are those <p> In the Hebrew Bible the two books of Chronicles form one volume. The writer has not recorded his name, though he has mentioned books and documents from
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• Talmud
  ...ngs and duties was based on it.’ And speaking of the present day, the same writer says: ‘For the majority of Jews it is still the supreme authority in reli ...d at Paris in 1242. This was the first attack. </p> <p> When, however, the writer in the Quarterly states that Justinian in A.D. 553 already honored the Talm
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• Epistle To Diognetus
  ...Himself, and content to be hidden in his Saviour's righteousness, the old writer has gradually emerged by virtue of an inborn lustre, at once the obscurest
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• Ecclesiastes
  ...y be seen in the Book of Wisdom, in which (&nbsp; Ecclesiastes 2:1-9 ) the writer collects some of Koheleth’s despairing reflexions; and, placing them in t ...rt messages encourages people to make the most of life’s frustrations. The writer gives advice about religion, money and other matters (5:1-7:14), and sugges
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• Interpretation
  ...le, to prove, since we do not know the exact form of Greek text which a NT writer may have used. A part of the early community ordinarily spoke Aramaic (&nbs ...&nbsp;Psalms 118:1-4). </p> <p> A word’s meaning is decided by the way the writer uses it in the sentence, paragraph or book, not by the way it developed out
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• Paul
  ...r will perceive that such a figure has no value unless we know what is the writer’s habit in this respect. Whatever may be the reason for it, St. Paul empl ...my 17:7, were the first to cast stones at Stephen. "Saul," says the sacred writer significantly, "was consenting unto his death." </p> <p> '''Saul's conversi
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• God
  ...r Saviour’), &nbsp;1 John 4:2, and especially &nbsp;Judges 1:20, where the writer’s disciples are bidden to pray in the Holy Spirit, to keep themselves in ...s God; and yet they are not three Gods, but one God.’ </p> <p> The present writer must profoundly dissent from the view that Jesus’ teaching about God show
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• Sacrifice
  ...stles, particularly Galatians, and ultimately the masterly argument of the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews are witnesses to hesitations and tendencies o ...y voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people." The ingenious writer above referred to, accounts for this passage (p. 153 and 209.) by referring
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• Resurrection
  ...the Parousia, the third sign being the resurrection of the dead. Then the writer adds, ‘but not of all the dead,’ quoting &nbsp;Zechariah 14:5 in order ...martyrdom ( 2Ma 14:46; 2Ma 7:11; cf. 2Ma 7:9; cf. 2Ma 7:14 ). At times the writer seems to be controverting the denial of a resurrection, as when he stops to
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• Epistle To Theephesians
  ...St. Paul’s thought at an earlier date. </p> <p> The fact that in Eph. the writer seems to pose as the defender of Jewish against Gentile Christians has been ...essly claims to be the production of the Apostle Paul ; and this claim the writer in the latter of these passages follows up by speaking of himself in langua
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• Melchizedek
  ...</p> <p> <b> 3. Significance in Hebrews. </b> -The apparent object of the writer was to mark the adequate and final character of the priesthood of Jesus Chr ...tithe of his spoils (&nbsp; Hebrews 7:1-16 ). In this passage much of the writer’s argument is fanciful, the narrative in Genesis being handled after a Ra
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• Job
  ...[Babylon]] (&nbsp; Job 12:17-25 ), which again, on the assumption that the writer is an Israelite, points to an advanced stage of Israelitish history. Many t ...itten by Job himself. It appears, indeed, highly probable that Job was the writer of his own story, of whose inspiration we have the clearest evidence in the
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• Clementine Literature
  ...bearing on the controversies of our own time; but we do not imagine that a writer doubts [[Julius]] [[Caesar]] to be a historical character, even though in s
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• Epistle Of Clement Of Rome
  ...ervice ( <i> Clem. Rom </i> . vol. i. p. 393ff.). Furthermore, as the same writer observes, ‘it is impossible not to be struck with the resemblances in thi
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• Epistle Ofjames
  ...with the sternness and vigour of the writer. (2) It is not clear what the writer could have hoped to accomplish by it. (3) Moreover, some of the more defini ...style of this epistle is close and sententious. The general manner of the writer, says Jebb, 'combines the plainest and most practical good sense with the m
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• Eusebius Of Caesarea
  ...<i> Ant. </i> xx. 7. 1; <i> B. J. </i> ii. 11. 5). He represents this same writer as stating that Herod [[Antipas]] was banished to [[Vienne]] (i. 11), where ...arks that "such an acknowledgment will naturally excite a suspicion that a writer who has so openly violated one of the fundamental laws of history has not p
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...the hero but not the author of the book. The author is an unknown inspired writer who lived in the time of Antiochus Ephiphanes shortly before 164 B.C. The a ...to their religion, in the assurance that God would intervene. The unknown writer was intensely sure of the truths in which he believed: to him and to his re
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• Book Of Job
  ...the whirlwind is in the Voice it encloses, the thing it says. And here the writer has undertaken the most tremendous task ever attempted by the human imagina
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• Parousia
  ...ction appearances of Christ cannot safely be taken as an indication of the writer’s view of the resurrection state of the believer. When he speaks at all o ...he contradictions that are the despair of the beginner in apocalyptics. No writer seems to have thought it worth while to reconcile his details, for they wer
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• Epistle To Thephilippians
  ...ot what they were. </p> <p> [[Van]] Manen feels it necessary to defend the writer from the charge of fraudulency, declaring that he wrote more from modesty t
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• Fall
  ...he inheritance at birth of the moral characteristics of parents. While the writer is not convinced that Tennant has proved his contention, that the appetites ...sion of the nature of moral evil than had been attained in the time of the writer, to that identification of the serpent with the Evil One which we find in t
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• The Second Epistle Of Peter
  ...s "second epistle" (&nbsp;2 Peter 3:1 ). This testimony on the part of the writer is personal, emphatic and direct. It reads much like Peter's plain way of s
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• Book Of Proverbs
  ...verable. The style is sometimes diffuse and the repetitions wearisome. The writer returns continually on his steps, treating of the same topic again and agai ...sness; and they incline to an artificial structure which suggests that the writer's interest is divided between sincere <i> ''''' tūshı̄yāh ''''' </i> an
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• Book Of Psalms
  ...nes are spoken of. In this book we have but one psalm with David's name as writer. They are mostly 'for, or of ' Asaph and the sons of Korah — Levites. In & ...pret a New Testament application of a psalm according to the New Testament writer’s purpose. As the psalmists were concerned with suffering and victory, so
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• Epistle Of. Jude
  ...re referred to by Paul (&nbsp;2 Timothy 3:8; &nbsp;Galatians 3:19), by the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews (&nbsp;Hebrews 2:2; &nbsp;Hebrews 11:24); by
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• Adam In The Old Testament
  ...st self-interested impulse come by the way of subtlety. "The serpent," the writer premises, "was more subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had
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• The Johannine Theology
  ...of Christ's redemptive work has been seized upon as proof that, though the writer did not consciously reject the orthodox doctrine, it was really alien to hi
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• Christ In Jewish Literature
  ...t offer any opinion of his own upon the subject. </p> <p> The first Jewish writer who fairly broke away from the traditional attitude towards Jesus was Grät
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• Heaven
  ...ribed in chs. 14 and 17 does not apparently depend on this at all. For the writer of the Fourth Gospel death is a mere incident that does not break the conti ...d '''''רָקַיע''''' , ''Raki'A,'' from their being associated by the sacred writer in the same sentence (&nbsp;Job 37:18); it tends to corroborate this connec
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• Ruth
  ...uth 1:13) occur only in the speeches of the persons introduced, not in the writer's own narrative. He simply gives the forms and words used in common convers ...s, and Esther." It is more than likely that the [[Prophet]] Samuel was the writer of the book of Ruth. There is a similarity in style and manner, and in a fe
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• Book Of Esther
  ...ethod of presenting the various scenes in the drama is in the style of the writer of fiction, not in that of the historian. </p> <p> <strong> 5. Purim </stro ...her and Mordecai well suits the hypothesis of the latter being himself the writer. It is also in itself probable that as Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, who held
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• Book Of Lamentations
  ...(Löhr, <em> Com </em> .) as conclusive objections to Jeremiah’s being the writer. But the acrostic form would then have the charm of novelty, and would be u ...iarities. </p> <p> It has to be remembered, too, that in thus speaking the writer was doing what many must have looked for from him, and so meeting at once t
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• Book Of Numbers
  ...l passages: ( <i> a </i> ) &nbsp; Numbers 15:32-36 seems to imply that the writer was no longer in the wilderness, which may well have been the case, if alre ...of thought and diction. Even granting that this episode is not by the same writer as the rest of the book of Numbers, there appears no valid reason to doubt
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• Apocryphal Gospels
  ...dying by his own hand. In the [[Narrative]] of Joseph of [[Arimathea]] the writer gives a loose rein to his imagination. </p> <p> The study of the documents
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• Criticism (The Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis)
  ...t facts which would give a conception of history that no one of the sacred writer's generation could understand? Or did He suffer His revelation to find expr
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• Book Of: Judges
  ...nt is not to record Israel's past for its own sake, or to place before the writer's contemporaries a historical narrative of the achievements of their great
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• Hebrews Epistle To The
  ...scribed it to Barnabas, and others to Luke and Clement, while no [[Latin]] writer is found during the first three centuries who ascribed it to Paul. In the m
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• Author Of N.T. Apocryphal Additions Leucius
  ...finding in the Acts which bore the name of Leucius plain evidence that the writer was heretical in his doctrine of two principles, still accepted him as a re
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• Bishop Of Mopsuestia Theodorus
  ...udicious compiler from Chrysostom and Theodore. Theodore is an independent writer, yet influenced more deeply than either Chrysostom or Theodoret by the Anti
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• Virgin Birth
  ...> <p> <b> 2. The sources of the two Nativity narratives. </b> —The present writer’s conclusion, arrived at independently, closely approximates to that of P
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• Book Of Ecclesiastes
  ...k in the Bible. From these and other clues, scholars conclude that a later writer used a literary device, the “didactic autobiography” to present his tea ...nder the rule of the Persians, and that Solomon was only personated by the writer. It is plainly seen in their arguments that they overlook that which runs t
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• Epistles Of John
  ...m> elder and write in such a tone of absolute command, whilst an anonymous writer, wishing to claim the sanction of the Apostle, would have inserted his name
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• Birth Of Christ
  ...e that [[Macrobius]] (a pagan, about a.d. 400) was indebted to a Christian writer for his information, and that therefore the story of the Massacre of the [[
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• Gospels (Apocryphal)
  ...res to he spurious, and not considered authoritative by any ecclesiastical writer. Until fourteen years ago, our knowledge of the contents of the Gospel was
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• Hexateuch
  ...uspected, began to confirm this conclusion. The use of ‘Jahweh’ by the one writer, of ‘Elohim’ by the other, furnished a simple criterion, which was not,
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• Exodus
  ...the Egyptians supposed a sovereign virtue to exist in the Nile waters. The writer spaks of chariots and "chosen chariots" (&nbsp;Exodus 14:7) as constituting ...urely arbitrary. A narrative obviously miraculous (in the intention of the writer) can be explained satisfactorily on no rationalistic principles: this is no
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• Israel
  ...es and 300 concubines (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:3 ) is the exaggeration of a later writer, but, allowing for this, his harem must have been very numerous. His method ...re to make continual intercession for His people (&nbsp;Hebrews 7:25). The writer further emphasizes the superiority of the new covenant relationship of the
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• Pentateuch
  ...incompatible with a variety of authors, and imply that Moses alone is the writer of the Pentateuch as a whole. A future life not ignored, but suggested. Tho ...ands for the Priestly document and was written about 500 B.C. The Priestly writer might have compiled the whole Pentateuch according to this theory. </p> <p>
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• Prophecy
  ...ed. The double sense of many prophecies in the Old Testament, says an able writer, has been made a pretext by ill disposed men for representing them as of un ..."It is, " says Mr. Gray, "remarkable for its magnificence. Each prophetic writer is distinguished for peculiar beauties; but their style in general may be c
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• Altar
  ...-is doubtful. Figurative language must not be unduly pressed, </p> <p> The writer of Rev., whose heaven is a replica of the earthly Temple and its solemn rit ...martyred souls and even speaks (&nbsp;Revelation 16:7 ). The New Testament writer of Hebrews (13:10) implies that the ultimate altar is the cross. Here divin
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• Genealogy
  ...), and in &nbsp; Genesis 10:1-32 the nations of the world, as known to the writer, are traced in a genealogical tree to Noah’s three sons. We find in the l ...ot 42 but 62, and Pharez old enough for sons. And, as suggested above, the writer may have done with Hezron and Hamul as with Ephraim and Manasseh - included
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• Scribe
  <p> '''Scribe.''' There are two Hebrew words which mean "a writer," but one is usually translated in the A. V. by "officer," the other is ren ...e names and reviewed them. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 24 . &nbsp;2 Kings 25 . 6. A writer and a doctor of the law a man of learning one skilled in the law one who re
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• Scripture
  ...a unitary whole’ (Dict. of Christ and the Gospelsii. 586). In the present writer’s judgment the former contention vindicates itself, even in the Fourth [[ ...this is a very laudable and necessary practice. "One circumstance, " as a writer observes, "why this should be attended to in congregations is, that numbers
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• Priests And Levites
  ...rm priestly functions (&nbsp; 2 Kings 23:9 ). It is to be noticed that the writer treats them with respect, calling them priests, and speaking of the priests ...S.I. Curtiss, <i> Levitical Priests </i> , for the conservative view. This writer afterward changed to the critical view. James Orr, <i> [[Pot]] </i> ; A. Va
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• Epistle Ofjude
  ...q.v. [Note: quod vide, which see.] </i> ). In the judgment of the present writer, the identification with a Gnostic tendency seems on the whole to be probab ...says, “Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James.”' The same writer calls it the writing of Jude the Apostle. The moderns are, however, divided
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• Antichrist
  ...2; and the whole description literally applies to the Papal power. A late writer, after collecting the principal prophecies relating to antichrist, infers f ...in his Annalium Boiorunm, libri 8, p. 651, Lips. 1710), himself the Romish writer, speaks of it as a received opinion of the Middle Age that the reign of Ant
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...nd a goat.—Book XIV. is the most obscure of the Sibylline productions. The writer evidently intends to unfold the fortunes of a long succession of emperors a ...entioned, the Messianic kingdom rather than He being central. Further, the writer, evidently in fear of revolutionary tendencies among his people, says disti
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