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• David
  ...ll known. The biblical book of Psalms contains many of the songs and poems he wrote during his long and eventful career. In these writings David gives hi ...at he was to Him alone, kept him from behaving proudly in prosperity. Then he was anointed for the third time king, namely, over Israel (his reign lastin
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• Egypt
  ...[[Deborah]] and Barak. with distinguishing surnames. the quarries. Rameses III records his successes on his great temple of Medeenet Haboo in western Theb ...gdom, for the Egyptians, and more especially for the Greeks at Alexandria. He was worshipped as a form of Osiris, an infernal Zeus, associated with Isis.
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• Jesus Christ
  ...impious, and cast upon the Father the care of making His path plain, while He awaited, prudently as well as bravely, the gradual disclosure of His call t ...laimed that the Scriptures spoke directly about him (&nbsp;John 5:39 ) and he was the fulfillment of its prophecies ( </p>
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• Paul
  ...eriod at [[Antioch]] in Syria. In response to an invitation from Barnabas, he had come from Tarsus to help the newly formed Antioch church (&nbsp;Acts 11 ...his retreat? No exact information is supplied, but the probability is that he betook himself to the scenes of the earlier revelations made to his forefat
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• Moses
  ...ns (&nbsp;Exodus 4:1-9; &nbsp;Exodus 4:30). In response to his excuse that he was not a good speaker, God gave him Aaron as a spokesman (&nbsp;Exodus 4:1 ...d Dispensation, Jesus and the NT writers thought of him as something more. He was an historical personage of such unique prominence in Israel’s history
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• Bishop Of Lyons Irenaeus
  ...to the lists of those men who, since the apostles, had presided over them (iii. 3). </p> <p> The main representatives therefore of genuine apostolical tra
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• Eusebius Of Caesarea
  ...e especially of the Peripatetics, Stoics, and materialists of all schools. He claims to have thus given a complete answer to those who charge Christians ..."Burn Eusebius! As he has cut Christ asunder, so let him be cut asunder." He fled to Rome. The tide was turned by the death of Theodosius, A.D. 450. Leo
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• John The Baptist
  ...<i> Expositor </i> , i. v. [1877] 11ff., 98 ff., viii. [1878] 23 ff., <i> iii </i> . i. [1885] 267 ff., v. i. [1895] 201 ff., vi. [1897] 139 ff., vii. [1 ...pistle thither; it was the accompanying writing to the Gospel, and with it he also sent the Gospel. Who was better qualified to promulgate the Gospel amo
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• Messiah
  ...achings of Jesus respecting Himself as ‘Son of Man,’ whereby we learn that He was ‘made perfect through sufferings,’ and became ‘the leader of our .../em> , but as the result of the in-working of God in human lives, to which He comes through the mediation of faith in Jesus, His supreme revelation. To f
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• Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs
  ...e prayer and weeping ( <i> Test. Sim </i> . ii. 13) and two years fasting (iii. 4; in Judah’s case abstinence from flesh and wine and all enjoyment till
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• Elisha
  ...dness deprived him of complete triumph; for when told to smite the ground, he smote but thrice, instead of five or six times. Spiritually, if we fainted ...sp;2 Kings 3:15 ). The supernatural abounds in his life; in many instances he manifests the power of prediction (&nbsp; 2 Kings 4:16 , 2Ki 5:26 , &nbsp;
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• Assyria And Babylonia
  ...Assyrian assistance in the time of Shalmaneser. Finally, Tiglath-pileser [[Iii.]] became master of Babylonia, and after him it fell into the hands of the
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• Herod
  ...was an expert on Jewish affairs 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; ...o Rome, where he died in the third year of [[Trajan]] (A.D. 100). </p> <p> He was the last of the race of Herod commemorated in history. &nbsp;Acts 25:13
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• Flavius Claudius Julianus Emperor
  ...e city from the "list of the empire and called it by its old name Mazaca." He fined the Christians 300 pounds of gold, confiscated church property, and e
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• Elijah
  ...in person as at the transfiguration, &nbsp;Matthew 17:3, even after which He said (&nbsp;Matthew 17:11), "Elias shall first come and restore all things, ...g that Elijah was a man "just like us." His prayers were effective because he was righteous. </p> <p> Jesus used the story of God sending Elijah to the w
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• Mediator
  ...Ascension, will be the means of attracting [[Gentile]] as well as Jew. So He is the Good Shepherd, whose very vocation it is to lay down His life for th ...for the purpose of reconciling us to God, while the condescension by which he approached to man, in taking part of flesh and blood, fulfilled the graciou
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• God
  ...y also be the meaning of St. Luke in Acts; but it is equally probable that he refers to the OT ‘servant of Jahweh.’ This is clearly the meaning in &n ...eption of God. Our Lord teaches that God is One, and at the same time that He is no mere Monad, but Triune. Cf. art. Trinity. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p
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• Cyprianus Thascius Caecilius
  ...ast. Cyprian sent Jubaian a reply so elaborate that, at the final council, he read it aloud as his own best exposition of his views, with Jubaian's convi
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• Synagogue
  ...II. xvi. 3, 4; xxi. 3, 7; xxviii. 2, 4; xl. 2; xlvi., xlvii. 3; xlviii. 1; III. viii. 2; VI. xliii. and VII. ii. 8; also in the later ecclesiastical rules ...mmunity was free to exercise his gift. When a likely stranger was present, he was invited by the ruler of the synagogue to address the congregation (&nbs
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• Aurelius Augustinus
  ...inis </i> , in refutation of the propositions of Coelestius in 412; in 417 he wrote <i> de Gestis Pelagii </i> , a discussion of the proceedings in [[Pal
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...ion to righteousness and recognition of God in the forces that work there. He accordingly plants his hopes in the world to come.< </p> ...ns of the Jewish people. The most important apocalyptic section is in Book iii. 97 828, written in Maccahæan times. In it the punishment of the enemies
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• Abraham
  ...s of their nationality. As God in his grace declared Abraham righteous, so he declares righteous all who trust in him (&nbsp;Genesis 15:6; &nbsp;Romans 4 ...ul," who left home and all at the call of God, to be a sojourner in tents, he typifies Him who at the Father's call left His own heaven to be a homeless
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• Inspiration
  ...nature of his subject, and the end he had in view. And this, he tells us, he did, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. His </p> <p> language, or manne ...a writer of Scripture is Divinely inspired, we mean that <i> as he writes he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit </i> . All Christians possess thi
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• Solomon
  ...accession 990 B.C. Solomon was prematurely "old" (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:4), for he was only about 60 at death. </p> ...clesiastes gives a good impression of the ‘moral’ of his life; but whether he actually repented and was ‘saved’ was warmly debated by the Fathers. &n
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• Person Of Christ
  ...have such expressions as ‘God sent forth his Son’ (&nbsp;Galatians 4:4 ), ‘He that spared not his own Son’ (&nbsp; Romans 8:32 ), ‘God hath highly ex ...; &nbsp;John 17:8 ). Even this, however, does not express the whole truth; He came forth not only from the Father's side whe </p>
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• Manetho
  ...les of Egyptian Chronology," published in Arnold's Theol. Critic, 1851-52, he will find them fully stated, with many other like facts, which prove that t
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• Victorinus Afer
  ...occurring in a Eucharistic office ("the prayer of the oblation") to which he more than once refers (see adv. Ar. 1 30 1063 [[B]] and ii. 7 1094 [[D).]]
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• Eusebius (Jerome) Saint Hieronymus
  ...(cxxxvii.) to John of Jerusalem (who died soon after, 418) warned him that he would be held accountable for any future violence, and Jerome received a le
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• Bishop Of Antioch Joannes
  ...<i> ib. </i> 511–513). This letter he sent first to John requesting that he and his council would sign it (Liberat. p. 46; Facundus, lib. 8, c. 1, 2),
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• Mary
  ...m> , and <em> that </em> Divine; and therefore it emphasized the fact that He who was born of the Virgin was very God. It thus became customary to give t ...eavens." Well might the Lord Jesus, by the spirit of prophecy, declare, as he doth, (&nbsp;Psalms 139:1-24) (which, I venture to believe, refers principa
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• Justification
  ...he world, not as something standing beyond itself and by a power external. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it the law of H ...tation form David would have been nothing to the Apostle's purpose, unless he had understood the forgiveness of sins, and the imputation of righteousness
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• Bishop Of Nyssa Gregorius Nyssenus
  ...in doubt they are not his whose name they carry" ( <i> ib. </i> bk. v. c. iii. [[§]] 2; cf. Neander, <i> Ch. Hist. </i> vol. iv. p. 115, Clark's trans
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• Galilee
  ...881, London, 1885; V. Guérin, <i> Description … de la Palestine </i> , pt. iii.: ‘Galilée,’ Paris, 1880; F. Buhl, <i> GAP </i> [Note: AP Geographie d ...between [[Israel]] and the Gentiles, still on Israel's territory, to which He was primarily sent (&nbsp;Matthew 15:24). Places and persons despised of me
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• Gospel Of John
  ...e again from the dead and lives now to impart the gift of that Spirit whom He promised will find little difficulty in accepting the statement that John t ...appeared to seven of the disciples at the Sea of Galilee (21:1-14), where he delivered a final challenging message to Peter (21:15-25). </p>
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• Antichrist
  ...y for our thoughts on the subject must be found in the words of Jesus when He teaches us to pray for deliverance from ‘the evil one’ (&nbsp;Matthew 6 ...t of a resurrection empire, a mock Christ; as the true Christ saith, "I am He that liveth, and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore" (&nbsp;Revel
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• Atonement
  ...personal union in His death and resurrection is too real for such, a view; he thinks that the doctrine of an objective righteousness wrought out by Chris ...did not withdraw Himself. In His consciousness of solidarity with mankind, He freely submitted to those evils (shame, ignominy, suffering, temptation, de
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...tion, owing to Caligula's attempt to set up his statue in the temple. Next he was brought to Tarsus, to escape from Grecian conspirators in Jerusalem (&n
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• Bishop Of Mopsuestia Theodorus
  ...alencyklopädie, </i> i. (1896); <i> History of Dogmas </i> (Eng. trans.), iii. 279 ff., iv. 165 ff.; [[J.]] [[H.]] Soarsby, art. "Antiochene Theology" in
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• Polycarp
  ...pagitica, also mentions a letter of Polycarp to the [[Athenians]] in which he speaks of Dionysius (PG iv. 17). Lastly, the seventh of the ten letters of ...o be spurious also. The life of Polycarp, ascribed to Pionius, states that he wrote various Tractatus, Homilie, and Epistolae, and especially a book De O
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• Josephus
  ...[Winter]] and A. Wünsche, <i> Die jüdische Litteratur </i> , Trèves, 1896, iii. 309-314; E. Schürer, <i> GJV </i> [Note: JV Geschichte des jüdischen Vol
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• Predestination
  ...a few days after his return from Lambeth, with the nine articles to which he had procured the patronage of the primate. After his demise, two competitor ...high mystery of predestination,’ says the Westminster [[Confession]] (ch. iii. 8), ‘is to be handled with special prudence and care, that men attending
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• Antiochus
  ...Parthians. Appian, however, says that he killed himself, and AElian, that he threw himself headlong from a precipice. This event took place in the year ...capable of appreciating the power which true religion can call forth. Thus he is the vivid type of the last Antichrist, whose terrible, though short, per
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• Judas
  ...orm of conscience that never dieth, to prey upon him to all eternity, that he it was that betrayed the Lord of life and glory. </p> ...statement in &nbsp;John 7:5 that our Lord’s brothers did not believe that He was the Messiah (cf. <i> Exp </i> T [Note: xpT Expository Times.] xiv. 398;
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• Palestine
  ...lds white already to the harvest (&nbsp;John 4:35). The regions with which He was most familiar were the hills and Sea of Galilee, and the rocky heights ...rded in Joshua and the nomenclature in the lists and conquests of Thothmes III. Thus the modern fellaheen seem to be the mixed descendants of the old Cana
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• Samson
  ...But if Samson stands as an example ‘of impotence of mind in body strong,’ he also stands, in Milton’s magnificent conception, as an example of patriot ...the hand of his wife; but every fault is atoned by suffering, and at last he ascends to heaven. His joviality and buffoonery answer to the last scene in
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• Reformation
  ...of Calvin, a man of great zeal and invincible fortitude. On all occasions he raised the drooping spirits of the reformers, and encouraged them to go on ...ppression; that he looked to [[Heaven]] for support, and that such support he largely received. </p>
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• Resurrection
  ...the resurrection of the believers in the general scheme of eschatology as he had inherited it, and to relate the resurrection of Christ and those who we ...urprised at the scanty notice taken of it, when we remember how constantly he is pressing on his readers’ attention the power by which the resurrection
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• Gospels
  ...idence as to Christ’s teaching and Person to preconceived ideas about Him, he may also see no reason for denying that both Synoptic and Johannine picture ...in harmony with the general law. </p> <p> [[Fourfold Gospel]] - Irenaeus (iii. 11), [[Athanasius]] (Syn. Scr., p. 55), Jerome (Matt., prooem.) regarded t
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• Assyria
  ...the greatest kings to rule over Assyria. Soon after coming to the throne, he asserted his power over the weakened Judah (now ruled by the evil Manasseh) ...right of conquest, they beat him at Carchemish, and took from him whatever he had recently taken from the Assyrians, &nbsp;2 Kings 24:7; &nbsp;Jeremiah 4
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• Gospel Of (Critical) John
  ...ontrasts Valentinus and Marcion as to the way in which they use Scripture. He says that Marcion used the ‘knife,’ while Valentinus ‘accepted the wh
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• Sacrifice
  ...5, pt. i., chs. i., ii., v., vii., [[Theology]] of the NT, do., 1899, pts. iii., v.; G. Milligan, Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, do., 1899; T. V. ...ly without justice or payment of a just ransom; but with His endless mercy He joined His most upright and equal justice." See Hollywood's admirable "Bish
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• John (The Apostle)
  ...who has an immediate perception of truth. He does not reason as does Paul. He <i> saw </i> ‘the King in his beauty,’ or, to use his own words, ‘the
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• Isaac
  ...bsp;Ephesians 5:23, etc.), unlike Abraham and Jacob, of tender affections, he was a man of suffering rather than action; having the divine favor so marke ...sehold, a gracious and kindly but not a strong man. In &nbsp; Genesis 26:5 he is subordinated to Abraham, and blessed for his sake; but the two are more
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• Timothy
  ...hat Paul decided to take him as his assistant (&nbsp;Acts 16:1-3). In this he had the backing of Timothy’s home churches, whose leaders publicly acknow ...esus Christ's; but ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father he hath served with me in the gospel." Among his friends who send greetings to
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• Bishop Of Caesarea In Cappadocia Basilius
  ...On [[Baptism]] </i> , two books. </p> <p> 4. <i> Homilies. </i> </p> <p> [[Iii.]] <i> [[Moral]] </i> and <i> Ascetic. </i> </p> <p> 1. <i> Homilies </i> ,
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• Ignatius
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• Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
  ...ter-opinion that it was formed by the afflatus of God (cf. de Anima cc. i. iii. xi.; adv. Marc. ii. c. ix.). The attributes of the soul (animae naturalia)
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• Satan
  ...scope (&nbsp;Ephesians 4:27). "The wicked one toucheth not" the saint, as he could not touch Christ (&nbsp;1 John 5:18; &nbsp;John 14:30). Self restrain ...nbsp; Luke 11:13 ‘if Satan cast out Satan, how shall his kingdom stand?’); he led astray angels (&nbsp; Revelation 12:4 ) and men (&nbsp; 2 Corinthians 1
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• Baptism
  ...( <i> Test. of our Lord </i> , ii. 8). In Justin ( <i> Apol </i> . i. 61) ‘he who leads the person that is to be washed to the laver’ seems to be the b ...n of God overcometh the world"; "whosoever is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him n
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• Bishop Of Antioch Ignatius
  ...rication, are recognized by [[M.]] Renan as established facts, even though he does not believe that the epistles we possess are those to which the story
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• The Gospel According To Mark
  ...ey were afraid" would be a strangely abrupt close of the Gospel. Irenaeus (iii. 10, sec. 6) quotes from them. Justin [[Martyr]] quotes &nbsp;Mark 9:44; &n ...ection teachings were cast. Luke tells us of many attempts to record them. He himself in his brief re </p>
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• Magi
  ...daea factus est, et manifestus eis qui non quaerebant eum’ ( <i> Hœr. </i> iii. 9. 2, cf. Max. Taur. <i> Hom. </i> 21; Leo, <i> Serm. </i> 34. 3; Origen, ...the people, however, "prepared of the Lord" to admit his reformations, and he carried them. This cannot but be looked upon as one instance of several mer
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• Calvinism
  ...but, as he conceived, to avoid blasphemy,—that of ascribing to human, what he deemed alone imputable to divine, agency." </p> ...''''—''''' '' The literature of the Calvinistic controversy is enormous. I he principal books only can be named here: Calvin, ''Instiluiones;'' Zwinglius
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• Captivity
  ...&nbsp;2 Peter 2:4). &nbsp;Revelation 20:10; &nbsp;Revelation 20:14, thus: "he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity" (&nbsp;Revelation 13:1 ...eight years after, Ezra led a small company of 7000 from Babylon to Judæa. He was succeeded as governor by Nehemiah, who labored faithfully and successfu
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• Known As Origen Origenes
  ...e]] ( <i> Comm. Ser. in Matt. </i> [[§]] 49), but it is uncertain whether he carried out his design. </p> <p> [[B.]] [[Dogmatic]] WRITINGS.—Orige
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• Bishop Of Sasima And Of Constantinople Gregorius Nazianzenus
  ...Gregory as a writer, he left his chief mark upon history as a theologian. He alone beyond the apostolic circle has been thought worthy to bear the name
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• Bishop Of Ephesus Joannes
  ...se prophets of [[Montanism]] (Extr. <i> ap. </i> Dionys.). [[Herein]] also he shared the temper of his contemporaries. The spirit of persecution is not t
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• Pharaoh
  ...h dynasty, Ahmes I, founder of the eighteenth dynasty, Thothmes I, II, and III, and Rameses I. It was first thought that Rameses II, of the nineteenth dyn ...Tyre; and "so firmly did he think himself established in his kingdom that he believed not even a god could east hint down" (Herodotus ii. 161-169). So E
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• Providence
  ...God and His righteousness’ (&nbsp;Matthew 6:33) is the counsel with which He concludes His special teaching on the relation of His disciples to the prov ...nder its adversities. If we are persuaded that God governs the world, that he has the superintendence and direction of all events, and that we are the ob
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• The Great Leo I
  ...idden to the laity as to the clergy ( <i> Ep. </i> iv. 2, 4). "Penitence," he says, "is to be measured not by length of time, but by sorrow of heart" ( <
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• Jeroboam
  ...ecution; &nbsp;Acts 17:6-7; &nbsp;Acts 24:5, Paul. After reigning 41 years he was buried in state and entombed with the kings of Israel. Amaziah's expres ...JEROBOAM, the second of that name, was the son of Jehoash, king of Israel. He succeeded to his father's royal dignity, A.M. 3179, and reigned forty-one y
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• Gospel According To Luke
  ...orks—one for [[Theophilus]] and another for use by the Church. In this way he accounts for the Western readings, which, however, are found in other books ...rthiness in giving dates when he can do so; and when he has no information he does not pretend to guide us. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p>
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• Epistle Of James
  ...</em> ii. 23), and classes it among the ‘disputed’ books of the [[Canon]] (iii. 25). It is not mentioned in the Muratorian Fragment, but is included in th ...n sin and death. What is from God is good, for He is the Father of lights. He has begotten us by the word of truth as a kind of first-fruits of His creat
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• Ezekiel
  ...> <p> 2. In the death of Ezekiel's wife (&nbsp;Ezekiel 24:15-27 ) </p> <p> III. The Glory Brings Divine Judgment to the Nations. (&nbsp;Ezekiel 25:1-32:32 ...to Babylon ... yet shall he not see it though he shall die there"; because he was blinded by Nebuchadnezzar before arriving there (&nbsp;Jeremiah 52:11).
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• Universalism
  ...> , 55; Alcott, ‘Universalism a Progressive Faith’ in <i> New World </i> , iii. (1894), 38. </p> <p> [[Robert]] Mackintosh. </p> ...fants, he took in his arms; if older children, they stood by his side, and he, placing his hand on the child's head and pronouncing its name, declared it
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• Miracles
  ...esus’); J. H. Bernard, <i> Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> iii., article‘Miracle’; T. H. Wright, <i> Dict. of Christ and the Gospels < ...nder from His redeeming work. </p> <p> To John the Baptist on the contrary He sent a report of His miracles, because John was not likely to dissever His
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• Persecution
  ...re was only one religion-and that was Christianity. When Jesus stated that He was ‘the way, the truth, and the life’ (&nbsp;John 14:6), it became imp ...hand of bigotry and persecution; nor was toleration enjoyed until William III. came to the throne, who showed himself a warm friend to the rights of cons
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• Rufinus Of Aquileia
  ...ied in two volumes to him who decried his works, shewing convincingly that he had exercised his powers through the insight given him by God and for the g
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• Ecclesiastical History Of Poland
  ...ry rank and occupy the crown-lands. </p> <p> "During the reign of Augustus III, which lasted from 1733 to 1764, the condition of the Polish Protestants wa
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• Hittites
  ...ii. ( <em> ib. </em> p. 139) fought with Hittites, as did Tiglath-pileser iii. ( <em> ib. </em> ii. 29), in the next century, while [[Sargon]] ii. in 717 ...en out of Egypt. Rameses II. sought vengeance against the "vile Kheta," as he called them, and encountered and defeated them in the great battle of Kades
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• Benhadad
  ...m him all that his father Hazael had taken from Jehoahaz, his predecessor. He defeated him in three several engagements, and compelled him to surrender a ...also told Hazael that he would be king of Syria. Hazael told the king that he would certainly recover; but the next day smothered him with a wet cloth, a
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• Prophet
  ...), enumerating in their actual order the stages of contumely through which He was to pass. The betrayal, the judicial condemnation, the delivery to the R ...ined the [[Saviour]] as about to be the woman's seed. Noah's prophecy that He should be of the Semitic branch of the human race, (&nbsp;Genesis 9:26; &nb
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• Apocrypha
  ...of Solomon 8:17). Still it was God’s design that man should enjoy it, for He ‘created man for incorruption’ (&nbsp;Wisdom of Solomon 2:23). ‘The s ...ms as one would imagine Solomon would have done if he had been the author. He is thought to have lived anywhere between b.c. 150 and b.c. 50, and to have
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• The Exodus
  ...sounds rising in the still air from the plain, but not see the plain until he emerged from the wady right under the steep rock of Sufsafeh. The brook is ...their slavery, and it is often referred to as the workof the mighty God. "He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble
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• Lutherans
  ...te and necessary; but at the same time I added, that we must behold God as he is revealed to us, as we sing in the Psalm, ‘Jesus Christ is the Lord of ...uld be justly punished by the magistrate for his erroneous opinions, while he conducted himself like a virtuous and obedient subject, and made no attempt
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• Adam
  ...ough him, "death passed upon all men, because all have sinned" in him. But he thus prefigured that one man, by whose righteousness the "free gift comes u ...declines to see any reference to it in &nbsp;Ephesians 5:14. But in Ep. 46 he says, ‘The place where our Lord was crucified is called Calvary, because
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• Jerusalem
  ...ivet, he gave the Jews time for offering terms of peace, but in vain. Next he attacked the temple at Antonia and the city near the monument of John Hyrca ...</i> 2, Eng. translation, London, 1897-98, bk. i. chs. i.-iv., bk. ii. ch. iii., bk. iv. ch. i., bk. v. ch. ii.; A. Harnack, <i> The Mission and Expansion
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• Covenant
  ...ight it would seem as if only one answer were possible, viz. those to whom He gives the cup in which the wine, the symbol of the expiating blood, is cont ...t's Son (&nbsp;Ezekiel 34:24 ). The life-love bond established by God when he created the cosmos and placed Adam and Eve as his mediators in Eden, attack
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• Simon Magus
  ...ibe to Luke any more recondite motive for relating the incident, than that he believed that it had occurred’ (op. cit., p. 688). This answers the charg ...ribe to Luke any more recondite motive for relating the incident than that he believed it had occurred. There is no evidence that this Samaritan magician
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• Archbishop Of Alexandria Athanasius
  ...trong sense of church unity made such a step both regular and natural, and he wrote to assure Athanasius that the offender would be regarded by the faith
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• The Epistles Of John
  ...re &nbsp;2 John 1:12; &nbsp;3 John 1:9-10; &nbsp;3 John 1:14). On one tour he rebuked Diotrephes. If this be so, both epistles were written after Revelat ...he lived on to a green old age in Ephesus, is there any obvious reason why he may not have been the chief instrument of that development. </p> <p> <b> V.
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• Sanhedrin
  ...least, irregularities for which only the high priests (cf. Jos. Ant. VIII. iii. 3, ‘the foremost men’) were responsible. </p> <p> As regards the death ...ressed in mourning. When any one had spoken once in favour of the accused, he could not afterwards speak against him. In case of acquittal the decision m
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• Martin Luther
  ...cramental complex, the body of Christ, involves to faith no contradiction. He defended his views in the [[Sermon]] of the [[Sacrament]] of the Body and [ ...of a great soul, between these two all great things had room.... Luther," he adds, "was a true great man, great in intellect, in courage, in affection,
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• Mahometanism
  ...and the same is expressly commanded in the Koran. </p> <p> See PILGRIMAGE. III. Mahometanism, causes of the success of. The rapid success which attended t ...of this pretended prophet, aspired both to succeed him in the empire which he had erected. Upon this arose a cruel and tedious contest, whose flames prod
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• Gnostic Sect Founder Basilides
  ...rian" (c. 55, in Routh, <i> Rell. Sac. </i> v. 196 ff.). "There was also," he says, "a preacher among the Persians, a certain Basilides of great [or 'gre
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• Shepherd Ofhermas
  ...von Gebhardt and [[A.]] Harnack, <i> Patrum Apost. [[Opera]] </i> , Fasc. iii., Leipzig, 1877; [[F.]] [[X.]] Funk, <i> [[Patres]] [[Apostolici]] </i> , T
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• Nehemiah
  ...th the Persian autocrat, rallying about him and organizing his countrymen, he governed without fear or partiality, correcting abuses in high places, and ...h was an unusual person. Nehemiah was a man of action; he got things done. He knew how to use persuasion but also force. One may properly call him the fa
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• Authority In Religion
  ...om the Gospels. It is different, however, in the case of <i> Christ </i> . He applies to Himself (&nbsp;Luke 4:17 ff.) th </p> ...uld refer in deciding controversies of faith, and according to which alone he should give sentence" (Quenstedt, quoted in <i> Hutterus Redivivus </i> , 1
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• Aristion (Aristo)
  ...Aristo’ is most probably explained by his finding in Moses of Chorene what he took to be the statement that Aristo (of Pella) was secretary of Mark, the
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• The Epistle To Philippians
  ...im are many more. Paul cannot write anything without writing about Christ. He ends: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." The spirit
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  .... [1877] 260ff.; J. Vernon Bartlet in <i> Encyclopaedia Britannica </i> 11 iii. [1910] 408f.; J. G. Müller, <i> Erklärung des Barnabasbriefes </i> , Lei ...ere running the serious risk of being shattered against the Jewish law (c. iii.). With this the errors of a coarsely Judaistic life naturally connected th
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• Epistle To The Galatians
  ...ssage. [[Narrative]] of his life from his conversion onwards, showing that he did not receive his Apostleship and his gospel through the medium of other ...d in the maintenance of the truth which they were so lightly turning from: he bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus. There are none of the customa
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• Prayer
  ...tinctive Idea in NT prayer is <em> the work of the [[Holy]] Spirit </em> . He aids us in prayer (&nbsp; Romans 8:14-16 , &nbsp; Ephesians 6:18 , &nbsp; J ...nded us to engage in this important duty, &nbsp;1 Thessalonians 5:17; that he has promised his Spirit to assist us in it, &nbsp;Romans 8:26; that the Bib
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• Saul
  ...Kish (&nbsp;2 Samuel 21:12-14). &nbsp;2 Samuel 21:5. Paul's original name. He was proud of his tribe Benjamin and the name Saul (&nbsp;Acts 13:21). </p> ...An Amalekite, who brought the story of Saul’s death to David, claimed that he himself slew him, and was promptly executed by David (&nbsp;2 Samuel 1:1-16
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• Aaron
  ...dy Arabah, to double the mountainous land of Edom, was encamped at Mosera, he ascended Mount [[Hor]] at God's command. There Moses stripped him of his po ...wore only upon extraordinary occasions, viz. on the day of expiation, when he went into the holy of holies, which was once a year. These were: linen draw
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• Babylonia
  ...to be acknowledged. Under Nidinta-Bel, who assumed the name Nebuchadrezzar III, the Babylonians regained their independence, but it was of short duration, ...to the conqueror, receiving in return pardon and a residence in Carmania. 'He probably died before the end of Cyrus's reign; at all events, when Babylon
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• Priest
  ...Place, and only the high priest could enter the Most Holy Place. Even then he could do so only once a year, on the Day of [[Atonement]] (&nbsp;Leviticus ...of them, separated from them by no personal quality or privilege whatever. He has no offering to make in anybody’s behalf except his own, and no immuni
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• James
  ...n of Alphaeus, since James the son of Zebedee was dead; and, further, that he was our Lord’s first cousin. (Jerome does not identify Alphaeus with Clop ...by [[Ananus]] was very probably in this year; but according to Hegesippus he was not martyred until just before the destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 69, t
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• Games
  ...Paul </i> , 1910, p. 260ff.; S. Krauss, <i> Talmudische Archäologie </i> , iii. [1912] 102-121; E. Schürer, <i> GJV </i> [Note: JV Geschichte des jüdisc ...ight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold of eternal life; and to this he is more powerfully stimulated by considering that the ancient <em> athletae
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• Christ In The Middle Ages
  ...sue of blood), moved with compassion for Jesus, as, bleeding and sweating, He was going to the cross, gave Him her head-cloth to wipe His face with, and
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• Law
  ...ating him from within; the believer ‘bends over it’ in contemplation, till he grows one with it (&nbsp; James 1:24; cf. &nbsp; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ). ‘T ...nd cares, it is necessarily included in that "law" which our Lord declares he came not to destroy, or abrogate; in that "law" which St. Paul declares to
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• Christianity
  ...n lies in its conception of the spiritual needs of man, the ends for which he exists, his sin and failure to realize those ends; in its proclamation of C ...in the most noted countries and cities of the world, in the very age when he is said to have lived. On the fiftieth day after our Lord's crucifixion, th
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• Proselyte
  ...n, 1892, p. 342; W. R. Smith and W. H. Bennett, art._ ‘Proselyte,’ in EBi_ iii. 3902, 3904; The [[Parting]] of the Roads, ed. F. J. Foakes Jackson, London ...that St. Paul addressed himself on his missionary journeys, and from them he formed the beginnings of many of his churches and received so much kindness
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• Isaiah
  ...nbsp;Isaiah 7:3; &nbsp;Isaiah 37:2; &nbsp;Isaiah 38:1; &nbsp;Isaiah 39:3). He was married and had at least two sons (&nbsp;Isaiah 7:3; &nbsp;Isaiah 8:3; ...p> <p> B. God's judgment is impartial (&nbsp;Isaiah 22:1-23:18 ). </p> <p> III. God's [[Triumph]] Over Evil [[Means]] [[Deliverance]] for His People (&nbs
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• Bishop Of Cyrrhus Theodoretus
  ...ty of so well-read, so intellectual an author " ( <i> Hist. Sketches, </i> iii. 314). The whole subject presents a very curious intellectual problem. </p>
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• Book Of Job
  ...le of endurance, and as showing what the <i> end </i> of the Lord is, that He is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. &nbsp;James 5:11 . </p> ...not formally introduced in the Prologue; and naturally enough, as soon as he has received notice to quit, the language which in one view fits him so dra
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• Book Of Proverbs
  ...ents us with two choices, life or death (&nbsp;Proverbs 9:1-18 ). </p> <p> III. One's [[Response]] to Wisdom Brings About [[Earthly]] Consequences (&nbsp; ...y themselves, and were supplemented by IV.; that the two groups, II. and [[Iii. Iv]] were then joined together, becoming known as the proverbs ‘of Solo
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• Onias
  ...centre of unity for the [[Hellenistic]] [[Jews]] ( <em> Ant </em> . XIII. iii. 1, 3, <em> BJ </em> I. i. 1, VII. x. 2). </p> <p> J. Taylor. </p> ...c Jews which seemed impossible for the Jews in Palestine. With this object he founded the temple at Leontopolis, which occupies a position in the history
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• Adoption
  ...by His lovingkindness and the favour ( <i> dignitate </i> ) of His mercy; He is Son by nature who is one with the Father ( <i> qui hoc est quod Pater </ ...n him. He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk even as he walked." &nbsp;1 John 2:1-29; &nbsp;1 John 4:5 . </p> <p> 5. [[Patient]] ye
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• Titus
  ...of God that bringeth salvation" in Christ, who "gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity." Paul tells Titus to hospitably help for ...rst bishop of Crete (Eus. <i> Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius, etc.) </i> III. iv. 6). </p> <p> Literature.-See under Timothy and Titus, [[Epistles]] to;
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• New Testament
  ...s. </p> <p> '''II.''' Those common to Matthew, Mark, and Luke. </p> <p> '''III.''' Those common to Matthew, Luke, and John. </p> <p> '''IV.''' Matthew, Ma ...n he received an application from Froben, a Printer of [[Basle]] with whom he was acquainted, to prepare a Greek text for the press. The request was made
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• Anicus Manlius Severinus Boethius
  ...ray an acquaintance with the Christian idea of heaven ( <i> ib. </i> i. 5, iii. 12, iv. 1, v. 1), but his <i> patria </i> is the peace of the philosophic
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• Ethics
  ...ual communion with the Saviour, whose image is to be repeated in every man He saves (&nbsp; Romans 8:37-39 , 1Co 15:49-58 , &nbsp; 2 Corinthians 5:8 , &n ...end. Human beings may choose whether to live under God's reign or not, but he remains King. In parables (&nbsp;Matthew 21:33-43; &nbsp;25:14-46; &nbsp;Lu
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• Papacy
  ...cessary to accredit an ambassador at the court of the Italian king, though he is under papal excommunication for having overthrown the temporal power of
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• Logos
  ...he has arrived at the conviction that this is the Christ, the Son of God. He avails himself of the doctrine of the Logos, the highest that the thought o .... And so, while the Logos is undoubtedly the agent of God’s creative will, He is still more distinctively the mediator of God’s redeeming purpose. It i
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• Luke
  ...pecially needed; a superficial examination suggests that it will show that he was inclined to remove eschatological sayings or explain them in some other ...meon]] and Anna; Christ's conversation with the doctors in the temple when he was twelve years old; the parables of the good Samaritan, of the prodigal s
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• Mayence
  ...essen, was appointed bishop of Mayence by pope Pius IX, Feb. 22, 1849, but he was not confirmed (see L. Schmid, Ueb. d. jungste Mainzer Bischofswahl, Gie
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• Clement Of Alexandria
  ...study of Clement: Le Nourry, <i> Appar. ad Bibliothecam Patrum </i> , lib. iii. (reprinted in Dindorf's edition); Moehler, <i> Patrologie </i> , 1840; Man
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• John Chrysostom Bishop Of Constantinople
  ...e night. In the morning Chrysostom begged for a brief respite in vain; but he had gone scarcely four miles when a violent attack of fever compelle </p>
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• Pelagianism And Pelagius
  ...h he no longer enjoys. In the beginning his body was not subject to death, he had extraordinary knowledge of external nature and apprehension of the mora
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• Damascus
  ...e ... because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, neither east He them from His presence us yet" (&nbsp;2 Kings 13:23). [[Jeroboam]] II, Joas ...r the wall (&nbsp; Acts 9:25 , &nbsp; 2 Corinthians 11:32-33 ), and hither he returned after his [[Arabian]] retirement (&nbsp; Galatians 1:17 ). </p> <p
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• Innocent Iii
  Innocent Iii <ref name="term_45065" /> ...lish Cyclopedia, s.v.; Chambers, Cyclopedia, s.v.; Hurter, Geschichte Inn. III u. seiner Zeitgenossen (Hamburg, 1834-42,4 vols.; 3rd ed. 1845 sq.). </p>
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• Bishop Of Antioch Theophilus
  ...arguments have been carefully examined by Tillemont ( <i> Mém. eccl. </i> iii. 612 notes), [[Cave]] ( <i> Hist. Lit. </i> i. 70), Donaldson ( <i> u.s. </
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• Missions
  ...logy of the NT’ in Hastings’ <i> DB. </i> [Note: Dictionary of the Bible.] He says that ‘the picture in Acts is cut up, as it were, into six panels, ea ...which emigrants came from Ireland as late as the close of the 7th century. He also affirms that Germany was almost wholly heathen when that missionary en
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• Clementine Literature
  ...prove that he had a different text before him: one is the laity with which he cites the [[O.T.;]] the other, the fact that the story demands that Peter s
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• Pharisees
  ...;Matthew 14:2; &nbsp;John 9:2, "who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" compare &nbsp;John 9:34, "thou wast altogether born in sin ...itorious not more as the [[Apostle]] of the Gentiles than by the fact that he, a former Pharisee, saw so clearly the danger of this incipient neo-Pharisa
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• Book Of Numbers
  ...Numbers 21:32 has been lost; but &nbsp; Judges 1:15 makes it probable that he consented to accompany them. ( <em> d </em> ) Into the story of the quails ...ew of possessing the land of promise, and Joshua succeeds Moses as leader. He is, what Moses was not, the type of a risen Christ. </p> <p> In spiritual e
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• Pilate
  .... Another account has it that he was beheaded by Tiberius’ order, but that he repented before his death. His wife is commonly reported to have become a C ...ver time, but he must have felt that in face of a sudden national movement he would be powerless; and it is no small testimony to Roman powers of adminis
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• Roads And Travel
  ...t.)-the reasons he gives are the periodic winds and the heat respectively. He could under ordinary circumstances have done the whole of the rest of his j
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• Trinity
  ...elieved to be three, constitute one God." And in another part of his works he says, "There is a Trinity of one Divinity, the Father, and the Son, and the ...d prior to His temporal relationships to the universe of His own creation. He must have relationships eternally adequate, and worthy, and when once we re
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• Matthew
  ...hip, he was an eye-witness and an ear- witness of most of the things which he relates; and though I do not think it was the scope of any of these histori ...ed his <i> logia </i> in the [[Hebrew]] tongue, and everyone translated as he was able.’ We also find in Eusebius’ review of the canon of [[Scripture
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• Lazarus
  ...own master. His mission over-whelmed him, and he yielded to the torrent.… He was no more able than St. [[Bernard]] or St. Francis to moderate the avidit ...[Narrow]] Way)'' , would only aggravate his anguish by reproaches, because he had countenanced their unbelief. The dialogue is not between Lazarus and th
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• Arian Sect Founder And Head Aetius
  ...A.D.]] 365–366 ( <i> ib. </i> ix. 6). Aetius returned to Constantinople. He was the author of several letters to [[Constantius]] and others, filled wit
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• Power Of The Keys
  ...or himself certain and complete absolution with perfect assurance whenever he will lay hold upon the mercy of Christ in accordance with the spirit of the
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• Archbishop Of Alexandria Cyrillus
  ...aks quite in the tone of Hippolytus's "Little Labyrinth" (Eus. v. 28) when he deprecates an undue reliance on Aristotelian dialectics and <i> a priori </
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• Ebionism; Ebionites
  ...clopedia </i> ; Holtzman u. Zöpffel; Lightfoot, <i> Galatians </i> , Disc. III; Colin Campbell, <i> Studies in St. Luke </i> . </p>
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• First Epistle To The Corinthians
  ...n our view of the rival schemes given in art. [[Chronology]] of the NT, § iii. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p> ...hich was interpreted as meaning, "I am passing through Macedonia." In 16:8 he declares his intention of remaining some time longer in Ephesus. After that
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• English Versions
  ...nstant use of the original Greek and of translations in other tongues, and he added a full marginal commentary. If the matter had ended there, as the wor ...rs specially the text on which the successive English versions were based. He writes judiciously also on the Wycliffe period and on the Revised Version (
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• Plagues Of Egypt
  ...by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, to go by day and night. He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by nig ...is work, to enter into the relation of it here. But I beg the reader, when he hath read the [[Holy]] Scriptures on this subject, as contained in the elev
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• An Eminent Ascetic Isidorus Pelusiota
  ...are, in effect, repetitions. See Bouuy, <i> De [[S.]] Isid. Pel. </i> lib. iii. (Nîmes, 1885); also [[C.]] [[H.]] Turner and [[E.]] [[K.]] Lake in <i>
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• Flavius Josephus
  ...sible that he mentions Jesus, the entire passage ( <em> Ant </em> . XVIII. iii. 3) can hardly have come from Josephus in its present form. At the same tim ...sephus' <i> Life </i> focuses primarily upon the six-month period in which he was commander of Jewish forces in the Galilee and refutes the charge made b
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• Holy Ghost
  ...l and the [[Virgin]] Mary, but by an inward and secret suggestion, whereby he raiseth our hearts to this persuasion, that God is our Father, and we are h ...minds of the Lord's people, that it must with truth be said, that he, and he only, is the almighty minister in the church of Christ, and to him alone th
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• Gospels (Apocryphal)
  ...true teaching, there were additions of a questionable character, to which he proceeded to call attention. Until recently this was all that was known of
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• Codex Alexandrinus
  | cat = III (in Gospels), I (in rest of NT) ...gin as in codices [[Codex Ephraemi|Ephraemi]] and [[Codex Basilensis A. N. III. 12|Basilensis]].<ref>{{Cite book
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• Grosseteste, Groceteste, Grostest, Grost-Head, Groshead
  ...ecdota, edit. Brewer; [[Royal]] and [[Historical]] [[Letters]] regn. Henry III. The last four works are published by the British Treasury, in continuation
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• Saint Sidonius Apollinaris
  ...an, both before and after he became bishop, it is as a man of letters that he will always be best known, for, as it has been observed, his writings are t
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• Odes Of Solomon
  ...h like theirs, and they sought for my death and did not find it’; vii. 6: ‘He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on’; xix. 8: ‘Sh
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• Chronology Of The Old Testament
  ...at the writer had in this calculation was probably due to the theory which he had formed or which had come down to him by tradition, that the length of t ...f Ramses II, indicates that Israel was in Palestine in his time, therefore he could not have been the Pharaoh of the Exodus, nor his father the oppressor
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• Excommunication
  ...lvation ultimately to his soul (ἴνα τὸ πνεῦμα σωθῇ): by physical suffering he is to atone for his sin.… The whole thought stands in the closest relatio ...ucting, and, if possible, restoring him to the enjoyment of the privileges he has forfeited by his conduct. </p> <p> See [[Church]] </p>
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• Paul The Apostle
  ...led at Troas and left some things there (&nbsp; 2 Timothy 4:13 ); and that he went to Macedonia (&nbsp; 1 Timothy 1:3 ). But these events need not have h ...a once again echoing many a dominical declarationspeaks with the authority he claims. Endorsing wholeheartedly the Pauline vision with its cosmic implica
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• Philistines
  ...ken cities. &nbsp;1 Samuel 31:1-7. On the appointment of David to be king, he twice attacked them, and on each occasion, with singular success, in the fi ...Their chief god, [[Dagon]] (&nbsp;1 Samuel 5:2 ff.), was a Semitic deity. He appears in the el-Amarna letters and also in [[Babylonia]] (cf. Barton, <em
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• A 2Nd Century Heretic Marcion
  ...). It becomes apparent that Marcion struck out from the [[Epistles]] which he acknowledged some passages which conflicted with his theory and also made s
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• Ministry
  .... Galilee. Olivet. </p> </td> <td> <p> … </p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> <b> iii. Results of our Lord’s Ministry. </b> —When we attempt to sum up the re ...magistrate the body of ministers of state. 5. [[Business]] employment. <p> He abhorred the wicked ministry of arms. </p>
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• Peraea
  ...s incurred the enmity of Herod, and retired or was driven to Peraea, where he died, not improbably by poison ( <i> BJ </i> , i. xxix. 4). At his death (b ...e of Jerusalem is that of Mary, a native of the Peræa ( <em> BJ </em> VI. iii. 4). In the Peræa to-day the Jew is represented only by the travelling t
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• Originality
  ...im the Messianic age has come. He longs for the baptism of suffering which He has to und </p>
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• Marriage
  ...und in Hosea. Led, as it seems, by the experience of his own married life, he emphasizes the following points. (1) Israel’s idolatry is whoredom, adult ...iderateness (&nbsp;1 Peter 3:7 ). The husband bestows honor upon his wife. He always shows respect for her privately and in public. </p> <p> The husband
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• Divinity Of Christ
  ...swer to two inquiries of rationalism. On the one hand, it is asked, Why is He never called God? and on the other, Why such <i> diversity of view among th
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• Andrew
  ...f the Apostle in his more official aspect, it is sufficient to recall that he was not only the first home-missionary (&nbsp;John 1:41), but also the firs ...s and two small fish, but what are they among so many?" </p> <p> Even here he suggests a supply, but with defective faith. Andrew was one of the four who
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• Theodore Parker
  ...p. 433; Brit. and For. Ev. Rev. Oct. 1857,- art. viii; Lond. Qu. Rev. vol. iii, art. i. </p>
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• Infallibility
  ...infallibility seems to imitate the pride and presumption of Lucifer, when he said, </p> <p> I will ascend, and will be like the Most High. A claim to it ...that a doctrine of faith or morals is to be held by the universal Church, he possesses, through the divine assistance promised to him in the blessed Pet
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• Apocryphal Acts
  ...); Harnack, "Patristische Miscellen" ( <i> TU </i> , V, 3, 1900). </p> <p> III. Acts of John </p> 1. Contents
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• Ordination
  ...een at Lystra, where Timothy was converted. A novice in the faith, such as he was when St. Paul took him into his company, would not have been ordained t ...&nbsp;Mark 3:14 . that is, he chose them to the office of apostleship, as he himself explains it, &nbsp;John 6:70 . </p> <p> Paul and Barnabas are said
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• Lateran Councils
  ...establishing in 1201 the order of "Poor Catholics." Unsuccessful in this, he confiscated their lands to the feudal lords, and established an inquisition
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• Known As The Shepherd Hermas
  ...haffy says ( <i> Rambles in Greece, </i> p. 330, 2nd ed.) that the scenery he describes suits that in Arcadia, and does not suit the neighbourhood of Rom
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• Philippi
  ...city. </p> <p> Literature.-W. M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece, 1835, iii. 215-223; J. B. Lightfoot, Philippians4, 1878, p. 47 f.; Conybeare and Hows ...s 1:28-30). They alone supplied his wants twice in Thessalonica soon after he left them (&nbsp;Philippians 4:15-16); a third time, through Epaphroditus,
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• Patron Saint Of England Georgius (43)
  ...rast.; <i> Magdeburg. Centur. </i> cent. iv. cap. iii.; Ceillier, xi. 404, iii. 58, 89, 297; Alban-Butler, <i> Lives of [[Saints]] </i> ; Malan, <i> Hist.
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• Birth Of Christ
  ...marks of [[Bruce]] in the Expositor’s Greek Testament, i. p. 78.] </p> <p> iii. Apocryphal accounts.—It is of the greatest significance that just in tha
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• Christology Christ
  ...e subject of it. It had been reported concerning John the [[Baptist]] that he was risen from the dead (&nbsp;Mark 6:14), but the only inference drawn was ...). This mission-evangelism theme is undoubtedly what Paul has in mind when he speaks of filling up "what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictio
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• Surnamed Mongus Petrus
  ...council of Chalcedon, indignantly broke off all relations with him (Evagr. iii. 23). [[A]] new strife between Constantinople and Alexandria was imminent,
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• Philosopher Justinus Martyr
  ...lieve less, but more, than Empedocles and Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato," he says: "we approve what they rightly said; but our doctrine is higher than t
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• Authority Of Christ
  ...s]] </i> , 492 ff.; [[J.]] Denney, <i> Studies in [[Theology]] </i> , ii., iii.; [[A.]] Sabatier, <i> Religions of Authority and [[Religion]] of the Spiri
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• Incarnation
  ...d or spirit in Christ, as at a later period the [[Monothelites]] held that He had no human will; [[Nestorius]] practically denied an Incarnation, by hold ...—fully divine and fully human. See Christ. </p> <p> [[Walter]] D. Draughon III </p>
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• Israel
  <p> God promised [[Abraham]] that he would make from him a nation, that he would give that nation the land of [[Canaan]] as a homeland, and that throu ...at Jeroboam was aided in this war by Shishak of Egypt, for we are told how he invaded Judah (&nbsp; 1 Kings 14:25 ) and compelled Rehoboam to pay a tribu
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• Character Of Christ
  ...is sufficient evidence that during the period prior to His public ministry He fulfilled the ordinary obligations of family life. </p>
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• Day Of Atonement
  ...position: when the lot "for Azazel" was in the right, it was a good omen. He then tied a tongue shaped piece of scarlet cloth on the scape-goat. The [[G ...brews 9:12 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ), even ‘into heaven itself,’ where He remains, our great High [[Priest]] and [[Intercessor]] (&nbsp; Hebrews 7:25
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• Bishop Of Nola Paulinus
  ...about him, and written with great care, moderation, and critical judgment. He avoids most of the legends, and shews that the use of bells in churches, an
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• Paul Iii
  Paul Iii <ref name="term_54783" /> ...; Gieseler, Eccles. Hist. iv, ] 65; Burnet, Hist. of the Reformation, vol. iii; Fisher, Hist. of the Reformation, p. 3, 49, 165, 395, 401; Lea, Hist. of S
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• Tatianus
  ...97; Donaldson, <i> History of Christian Literature and [[Doctrine]] </i> , iii. pp. 60–62). For other works besides those freely used and specified
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• Heaven
  ...ion of the NT writers principally as the place where Christ was and whence He would come. St. Paul and others, such as the author of Hebrews, were intere ...he himself spake while here on earth; and since his ascension into heaven, he spake to Paul in the [[Hebrew]] tongue, &nbsp;Acts 26:14 . And when the inh
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• John The Apostle
  ...e to ‘tarry’ rather than to speak, or toil, or suffer, so that at the last he might write that which should move a world and live in the hearts of untold ...Jesus' deeper and especially spiritual discourses, which he alone records. He lives in the unseen, spiritual, rather than in the active world, His, desig
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• The Henoticon
  ...p. 123 ff.; Milman, <i> Hist. of Lat. Christ. </i> vol. i. bk. iii. cc. i. iii. </p> <p> [[[E.V.]]] </p>
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• A Confessor Under Maximian Hosius
  ...nt, <i> Mém. </i> t. vii. p. 300, 4to ed.; Dom Ceillier, <i> s.v. </i> t. iii. 392, new ed.; Zahn, <i> Const. der Gr. u. die Kirche, </i> 1876; Florez, <
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• Fire
  ...he under-world’ [W. Boyd Carpenter, ‘Rev.’ in Ellicott’s <i> NT Com </i> . iii. [1884] 622). Swete ( <i> Apoc. of St. John </i> 2, 1907, p. 258) remarks t ...he terrible judgment of GOD, and His fierce wrath against sin and sinners. He sends His angels to execute His decrees upon men. The mountains in verse &n
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• Bishop Of Smyrna Polycarpus
  ...ithfully preserved by a scribe who did not understand its meaning, because he interpreted according to the usage of his own day. </p> <p> When we have ab
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• Jonah
  ...he city, possibly expecting some judgment still to fall. To teach him what he knew not, the largeness of God's mercy and its reasonableness, God made a " ...in <i> Evang. Matth. </i> 2:12, 83; Augustine, <i> de Consensu Evang. </i> iii. 24, 66; ‘The Book of Jonah, How far is it Historical?’ by M. P. in <i>
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• Hugo Grotius
  ...otius, with his Annot. in V. T.; vol. ii contains the Annot. in N.T.; vol. iii includes his miscellaneous theological writings. There have been many lives ...ous work on international law, "De Jure Belli et Pacis"; from 1634 to 1645 he acted as Swedish ambassador at Paris; his acute scholarship is manifested i
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• Tarsus
  ...s a branch or flower in his right hand, a battleaxe in his left. Sometimes he is represented within a portable shrine. </p> <p> A. Souter. </p> ...f.; A. Hausrath, <i> A History of the NT Times </i> , 4 vols., do., 1895, iii. 4 ff.; W. M. Ramsay, <i> The Cities of St. Paul </i> , do., 1907; C. Wilso
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• Hippolytus Romanus
  ...[['I]] believe, [[O]] my Lord Hippolytus—I believe; pray be quiet.' And he built an altar of marble there to appease the disquieted saint." </p> <p> <
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• Epistles Ofpeter
  ...e in larger units than do men, and by temporarily holding off the Judgment He is giving men opportunity to repent (&nbsp;2 Peter 3:8 f.); but (iv.) of th ...y critics will see occasion for doubt, yet, relying on subjective grounds, he is persuaded of the authenticity of the epistle, and that the arguments whi
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• Punishment
  ...n more than punishment. The hope is that after being handed over to Satan, he will repent and return to the fold, or at the very least, that his spirit w ...1-6). But God’s holiness and righteousness are not separate from his love. He has therefore provided a way of salvation so that when people repent of the
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• Vulgate
  ...an edition of the Greek OT (1587), but in 1590 issued a Latin Bible which he declared was to be accepted as the authentic edition demanded by the Counci ...ose in his very clever book, entitled <em> "Bellum Papale," </em> in which he has pointed out numerous additions, omissions, contradictions, and glaring
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• Ascension
  ...from us, but is with us until the end of the world (&nbsp;Matthew 28:20). He raises our ideals from earthly things to heavenly; and, giving us through t ...urney to Jerusalem with the words ‘when the days were being fulfilled that he should be received up’ (&nbsp;Luke 9:51 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin
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• Thomas
  ...llible proof of the identity between the crucified and the risen Lord that he who any longer disbelieves and is consequently condemned is left without ex ...y twice again, once on the Sea of Galilee, with the seven disciples, where he is ranked next after Peter, &nbsp;John 21:2, and again in the assemblage of
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• Resurrection Of Christ
  ...he special value attached to the testimony of St. James from the fact that he was the eldest brother of the Lord and head of the Jerusalem Mother Church, ...me of this testimony: not years after, but three days after, they declared he was risen; yea, before their rage was quelled, while [[Calvary]] was yet dy
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• Faith
  ...ory that hath overcome the world, even our faith’ (&nbsp;1 John 5:4). Thus he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God passes by the way of forgiveness ...Thessalonians 4:14 ) that in dying He atoned for human sin, and in rising He abolished death. St. Paul was the chief exponent and defender of this ‘wo
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• Grace
  ...an in God, were so met in Jesus that He Himself was the revelation because He was the thing revealed.’‡[Note: P. DuBose, The [[Gospel]] according to ...se 7 "to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it." As he then describes this grace that has been given, it comes in the form of apos
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• Gregorius (51) I, (The Great), Bishop Of Rome
  ...e says, were preserved and venerated on the saint's anniversary, and which he refers to as shewing the monastic simplicity of Gregory's attire ( <i> ib.
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• William Penn
  ...hen Englands (Leips. 1868), p. 405-421; Janney, Hist. of the Friends, vol. iii; Skeats, Hist. ofthe Free Churches of England, p. 81, 82, 153,315; Neal, Hi ...ch useful legislation; on his return his agent practically ruined him, and he was a prisoner in the [[Fleet]] in 1708; the closing years of his life were
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• Money
  ....; and Hastings’ <em> DB </em> <em> [Note: Dictionary of the Bible.] </em> iii. 429 431. </p> <p> A. R. S. Kennedy. </p> ...less than the price of a slave (twenty shekels, &nbsp;Genesis 37:28 ), but he became the savior of Egypt who ironically purchased its entire population i
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• Liber Pontificalis
  ...after that they become more complete, resting on Boso's own experience, as he then lived at Rome. For subsequent biographies the sources are much more nu
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• Church
  ...lue. As regards the things of this life, all men are brethren, and in this he went far beyond Stoicism; even now, perhaps, we have not yet grasped the fu ...normally realizes his redemption. Christ’s love for the Church, for which He gave Himself (&nbsp; Ephesians 5:25 ), constituting a royal priesthood, a h
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• Crucifixion
  ...icably interwoven with the [[Gospel]] history. The cross was His goal, and He knew it all along. </p> <p> Literature.—In addition to the works quoted i ...the legs of the robbers first, but when they came to Jesus they found that He was already dead. One of them, either in sheer brutality or to make sure of
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• Habakkuk
  ...ll for universal worship of the holy God (&nbsp;Habakkuk 2:20 ) </p> <p> [[Iii. A]] Prophet [[Praying]] and Praising: A Psalm of [[Confidence]] Is the [[ ...ge, that the enemy in v. 14, rejoicing to devour the poor secretly, cannot he a great all-conquering army, that the disasters to flocks and herds (&nbsp;
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• Second Epistle To The Corinthians
  ...rried there for three months. In his letter to Rome, written at this time, he sent salutations from some of the principal members of the church to the Ro ...t consciousness on the apostle's part of his high calling in Christ Jesus. He has been called with a Divine calling to the most glorious work in which a
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• Tiberius
  ...er in Pauly-Wissowa[Note: auly-Wissowa Pauly-Wissowa’s Realencyklopädie.], iii. 2777 f., and for Seianus, P. von Rohden, <i> ib. </i> i. 529 ff. </p> <p> ...escribes vividly his dissimulation and vindictiveness. In speaking of Nero he says: "in order to remove the rumour of his having set fire to Rome, Nero s
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• The Essenes
  ...was an Essene. If at the beginning of His career He belonged to this sect He must have broken with it long before the end of His ministry. </p> Why Our
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• Galatia
  ...Eusebius]] ( <i> HE </i> [Note: E Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius, etc.).]iii. 4), [[Epiphanius]] ( <i> Haer </i> . li. 11), and [[Theodoret]] ( <i> in l ...rrower and earlier sense as one of its parts.) It follows, therefore, that he uses ‘Galatians’ (&nbsp; Galatians 3:1 ) also in the wider sense of all
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• Nazirite
  ...y. (For a better suggestion, see Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols)iii. 500.) No view is free from difficulty, but on the whole the suggestion of ...t flesh. A razor passed not over his head.’ But the further statement that he alone was permitted to enter the Holy of Holies is so improbable as to less
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• Leprosy
  ...been to the priest; unless, indeed, it is because he was a Samaritan that he is spoken of as healed rather than cleansed. </p> <p> Literature.—This is ...rs-by to keep away from him, by calling out, 'Unclean! unclean!' nor could he speak to any one, or receive or return a salutation, since in the East this
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• Repentance
  ...might have expected for sins which hitherto he had not thought of as sins, he now regarded them with the more loathing and contempt. </p> <p> Literature. ...s of the kingdom of heaven. While Luke does not include this initial call, he notes several strong calls for repentance in Jesus' teachings (see esp. 10:
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• Bishop Of Rome Julius
  ...ues, "in coemeterio Calepodii ad Callistum" on the [[Aurelian]] Way, where he had built a basilica. </p> <p> [J.B—Y.] </p>
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• Perfection (Of Jesus)
  ...f Faith </i> , with Martineau’s reviews thereof, in <i> Essays </i> , vol. iii.; Martineau, <i> [[Seat]] of [[Authority]] in [[Religion]] </i> , bk. v.; W
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• Mark
  ...s and the later ministry to the Apostles. It was also widely believed that he died at Alexandria, receiving (according to some versions) the crown of mar ...Peter, at the request of the brethren at Rome, which, when St. Peter knew, he approved, and published it in the church, commanding the reading of it by h
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• Papias
  ...he used any apocryphal Gospel is quite doubtful. Eusebius’ statement that ‘he has set forth another story also about a woman informed against to the Lord ...s Sayings," fragments of which have been preserved by Eusebius and others; he was, it is said, the companion of Polycarp. </p>
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• The Gospel Of Matthew
  ...(&nbsp;Matthew 26:1-56 ). </p> <p> A. Authorities plotted Jesus' death, as He had foretold (&nbsp;Matthew 26:1-5 ). </p> <p> B. Jesus' anointing symboliz ...lestine]] and went to preach to others ( <i> Historia Ecclesiastica </i> , III, 24). Clement of [[Alexandria]] is responsible for the statement that the p
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• Book Of Tobit
  ...he first who separated the deutero-canonical from the canonical books, yet he entertained the highest opinion of the book of Tobit. "If it is history," s ...ler ( <i> Speaker's Apocrypha </i> , I, 164 ff). Marshall ( <i> Hdb </i> , III, 788) gives his reasons for concluding that the original language was Arama
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• Johannes Oecolampadius
  ...ria, Switzerland, the [[Pioneer]] of the Ref. ii, .427; Soames, Hist. Ref. iii 153 sq.; Ruchat, Swiss Ref. Ch. ch. i, iv, and p. 117-136; Gieseler, Eccles
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• Nero
  ...rift für die neutest. Wissenschaft.]ii. [1901] 81-96=Gesammelte Schriften, iii. [Berlin, 1907] 431-446; on Nero as persecutor of Christians, cf. C. F. Arn ...e. Not long after his death there arose a curious rumour in the East, that he had come to life again, or had not really died. The East had seen nothing b
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• Consciousness
  ...of higher quality than <i> a priori </i> arguments of any description. Yet he has not forgotten the views of modern critics, and has been careful to show
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• Darius
  ...05 B.C., would be meant if Nehemiah were the writer; but it is more likely he was not, and that the continuation of the register down to Alexander's cont ...they stabbed him in several places, and left him expiring in his chariot. He was dead when Alexander arrived, who could not forbear weeping at so sad a
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• Abram
  ...Babylon, and saw the whole people prostrate in adoration. ‘Wondrous orb,' he exclaimed, ‘thou surely art the [[Creator]] and Ruler of all nature! but ...thou shalt shew unto me; At every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother." (&nbsp;Genesis 20:13.) What a sweet and interesting tale th
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• Capernaum
  ...Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] ii. 403–408, iii. 344–360; Sepp, <i> Neue Entdeckungen </i> (Munchen. 1896); G. A. Smith, ...haps received Jesus' call at the adjoining sea beach (&nbsp;Mark 1:16-17). He healed the centurion's servant there, and Simon's wife's mother (&nbsp;Matt
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• Hazael
  ...srael in a kind of subjection (&nbsp;2 Kings 13:3-7; &nbsp;2 Kings 13:22). He took [[Gath]] and even "set his face to go up to Jerusalem" (&nbsp;2 Kings ...t the price of all the money he could raise, to evacuate Judea, with which he for the moment complied; yet, in the following year, the army of Hazael ret
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• Election
  ...[[Doctrine]] </i> , 1889, p. 37ff.; C. Gore, in <i> Studia Biblica </i> , iii. [1891] 37ff.; Sanday-Headlam, <i> Romans 5 </i> ( <i> International Critic ...all the comforting and assuring promises which Christ gives to those whom He describes as ‘given’ Him by the Father (&nbsp; John 6:37; &nbsp; John 6
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• Book Of Judith
  ...of Adar, A.D. 117-118, to commemorate this day ( '''''יוםטוריינוס''''' ). He makes Nebuchadnezzar stand for Trajan, Nineveh for Antioch, Assyria for Syr ...v 4 </i> , III, 230-37, with full bibliography; compare <i> Hjp </i> , II, iii, 32-37; Pentin, <i> The Apocrypha in English Lit </i> ., Judith, 1908; and
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• Life
  ...pressed. Jesus Christ is not only the Life-giver, but is Himself the Life. He imparts His gift to those who know Him by an inward fellowship, and become ...ardinal topic of eternal life. His [[Epistles]] throb with this theme, and he conspicuously presents Christ as the source of this life in its fullest con
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• Reginald Pole
  ...the time of his decease for the clergy, and in the devotional books which he was putting together for his people, it is hard to find anything but good- ...ith abetting the Marian persecution, but it is highly questionable how far he was answerable for it (1506-1558). </p>
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• Ben-Hadad
  ...the Syrians as he might have done, he only was to smite them thrice, which he did in [[Aphek]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 13:14-19) in the [[Esdraelon]] plain, where ...sha caused him to think [[Hittites]] and [[Egyptians]] were attacking him. He lifted the siege and retreated home (&nbsp;2 Kings 6:24-7:16 ). As Elisha p
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• Phnicians Phoenicia
  ...lized Greeks (cf. <em> EBi </em> <em> [Note: Encyclopædia Biblica.] </em> iii. col. 3189, 3190). </p> <p> The best account that we have of the nature and
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• Judaea
  ...> PE </i> F [Note: EF Palestine Exploration Fund.] <i> Memoirs </i> , vol. iii.; C. W. Wilson in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. ii. p. 791; Smith .... In fixing this boundary, Josephus regards Idumaea as part of Judaea, for he immediately after reckons that as one of the eleven districts into which Ju
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• Judæa
  ...> PE </i> F [Note: EF Palestine Exploration Fund.] <i> Memoirs </i> , vol. iii.; C. W. Wilson in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. ii. p. 791; Smith .... In fixing this boundary, Josephus regards Idumaea as part of Judaea, for he immediately after reckons that as one of the eleven districts into which Ju
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• Francis Of Assisi
  ...ot only the brutes, but even inanimate creaturess as brothers and sisters. He had a compassion for brute animals, especially such as are employed in the
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• Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius Bishop Of Ruspe
  ...[[Paris]] (1684) by [[L.]] Mangeant. The whole, with many letters to which he replied, is in Migne, <i> Patr. Lat. </i> t. lxv.; Schroeckh, <i> Kirchenge
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• Macedonia
  ...40; &nbsp;Acts 17:1-14; see [[Berea]] ; [[Thessalonica]] ; [[Philippi]] ). He revisited the area during his third missionary journey (&nbsp;Acts 19:21; & ...First Letter to the Thessalonians which Paul wrote from [[Corinth]] after he had preached in Beroea and in Athens (&nbsp;Acts 17:13-15 ). </p> <p> Apart
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• Soberness Sobriety
  ...naticism, do., 1833; Hugh Blair, Sermons, do., 1815, vol. i. no. xi., vol. iii. no. xii.; [[Augustine]] Birrell, Selected Essays, do., 1909, p. 258f.; see
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• Rome
  ...ho was able firstly to control and then to correct the disorders. In 27 BC he took the name Caesar [[Augustus]] and became the first ruler of what became ...s at Thapsus in 46 b.c. Augustus completed it. On its destruction by fire, he built a much larger building, which retained the original name. It consiste
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• Holiness
  ...m in this world. Into the world Christ sent the men for whose consecration He prayed, and His promise, ‘Ye shall know that ye are in me’ (&nbsp;John ...th all its holiness and blessedness from him. John tells the church, that "he saw no temple there, for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the templ
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• Passover
  ...pe]] [[Anicetus]] that the quartodeciman use was the only one permissible. He did not succeed. Neither could Anicetus succeed in persuading the old maste ...the son (&nbsp;Exodus 12:26) asked the father the meaning of the Passover; he in reply recounted the deliverance, and explained &nbsp;Deuteronomy 26:5, w
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• Melchizedek
  ...ven and earth," who would make Abram heir of the world which is His; next "he blessed the most high God" on the part of Abram for His having delivered hi ...arnate comes upon the stage and takes to Himself a [[Priesthood]] in which He admits no peer, and of which eternal and superabundant adequacy is the note
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• Nineveh
  ...national records, were at once the gods' temple and the king's abode, for he was the religious head of the nation and the favorite of the gods. </p> <p> ...Nineveh, more especially those by [[George]] Smith, of the British Museum. He has discovered not only the buildings, but the remains of a fine ancient li
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