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Atonement
...; he thinks that the doctrine of an objective righteousness wrought out by Christ was first elaborated, that this ‘met the spiritual need of the conversion ...t once for all’ (  Hebrews 10:10 ). See Propitiation, Reconciliation, Redemption. James Orr. 

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Redemption
...the liveliest gratitude. [[Whence]] ‘the church of God’ was thus acquired ‘by means of his own blood,’ we learn from the new songs of the Apocalypse. I ...[[Sin]] no longer has power over them, and they must show this to be true by the way they live ( Romans 8:2;  Galatians 3:13-14;  Galatia

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Jesus Christ
...nt of view, can be assigned its proper place in the scheme. Further, it is by no means clear that we are right in supposing that there was a JudÃ¦an mi ...;  21:15-16;  28:9,17 ). The Scriptures were understood by Jesus and the Jews of his day to be the Word of God. Jesus claimed that the

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Christianity
...iedel in the Encyc. Bibl . i. 752 ff., and that on ‘Christianity’ by T. M. [[Lindsay]] in the Encyc. Brit .9 [Note: designates the part ...h must have destroyed it, if it had not been founded in truth, and guarded by the protection of an almighty Providence. 

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Justification
...e. It is with reason that Schleiermacher speaks of the communication which Christ makes of Himself to believers as moulding t ...us," that is, being placed by an act of free forgiveness, through faith in Christ, in the condition of righteous men, in this respect, that the penalty of th

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Church
...be a general resurrection, after which the wicked world would be destroyed by fire and the good would receive immortality. Some Church teachers regarded ...chal]] feast (  1 Corinthians 5:8 , cf.   Hebrews 13:10-16 ). In Christ those who are now fellow-citizens have a common access to the Father (&nbsp

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Baptism
...ing forth of Barnabas and Saul. (γ) The tasting of milk and honey by the newly-baptized after baptism (and communion) seems originally to have b ...with water and the Holy Spirit). As the ranks of the faithful are thinned by death (natural or violent), others step forward to be baptized to take thei

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Faith
...akes a believer a sharer in Christ’s salvation, makes him also a sharer in Christ’s mind and character. Literature.-H. Bushnell, The New Life ...t, and calls forth a full and satisfied faith, when beheld ‘in the face of Christ’ ( Rom 5:8 ,   2 Corinthians 4:6;   2 Corinthians 5:18-21 ). </

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Mediator
...ted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself’; the Cross, followed by the Ascension, will be the means of attracting [[Gentile]] as well as Jew. ...ffectual 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 th

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Resurrection
...ne and the Johannine doctrine of the resurrection failed to be apprehended by the Church as a whole, although individuals such as Ignatius show clear tra ...Millennium.]] For the Resurrection of Christ, see, further, Jesus Christ, p. 456 ff. J. R. Willis. 

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Sanctification
...forces that prevent the influx of the new life are broken and overcome one by one ( Romans 8:13,  1 Thessalonians 3:10;  1 Thessalonians 4 ...llen See also [[Ethics]]; [[Spirituality]]; [[Union With Christ]] Bibliography . D. L. Alexander, ed., Christian Spir

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Messiah
...es the most representative type of Messianic expectation, if we understand by that term an anointed Jewish king who was to be the national deliverer. Thi ...d illustration of this is to be seen in the Johannine literature. Here the Christ is identified with the Logos, and His entire career is viewed as an illustr

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Offices Of Christ
...Introduction; Dorner, The Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ . ...ation, in which the three offices are not found constantly connected. Thus Christ remains in all respects, inseparably, the Revealer of the Father to man, th

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Death Of Christ
...ng to sin become alive unto God. Literature.—Denney, Death of Christ, Studies in Theol . chs. v., vi., Expositor , VI. iv. [1901] ...tt, The Cross of Christ ; R. S. Wallace, The Atoning Death of Christ . 

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Trinity
...f metaphysical abstraction. "God is a God that hideth himself." "We cannot by searching find out God." "Behold, God is great, and we know him not," ...ulation, we are confronted with this fact. It was regarded as a revelation by the men who shaped its intellectual expression; and it was only in the proc

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Sacrifice
...Apostolic Age2, do., 1897; W. H. Ward, ‘The NT Doctrine of the Relation of Christ’s Death ...of the devil and his prison of hell, remediless forever without mercy, nor by His mercy deliver us clearly without justice or payment of a just ransom; b

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Christology Christ
...versos in Psalms 16, he was guided in the interpretation he gave of v. 10 by any tradition concerning the Messiah. Nor was there in the fact of resurrec ...ed]] Messiah ; TAB, pp. 69-134; V. Taylor, The Person of Christ in New Testament Teaching ; J. Wenham, Redating Matthew, Mark and

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Christology
...rtment of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ. [[Christology]] . See Person of Christ. 

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Redemption Redeem
...ns]] in Theology, 1:15-80; B. B. Warfield, The Person and Work of Christ . ...demption from," the genitive case being used of the object from which the "redemption" is effected, not from the consequence of the transgressions, but from the

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Christ In The Middle Ages
Christ In The Middle Ages <ref name="term_55373" /> ...[Christi]] , 1853 (also English translation); works on Church History by [[K.]] Müller, Moller, Gieseler, Neander, Schaff, and Hase; art. on ‘Chr

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Worship
...ook of Hebrews, by means of typological interpretation, demonstrated Jesus Christ as the greater high priest (chaps. 5,7), the more perfect temple (chap. 9), ...ature of the Christian worship. The connection of the moments, represented by these signs, with the whole Christian life, the connection of inward and di

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Person Of Christ
...elp for the intelligence in the view that while a certain subordination of Christ indubitably forms part of NT teaching, we may still think of Him as being o [[Christology Christ]][[Jesus Christ]]

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Salvation
...hua is found also in  Sirach 46:1, and in Philo, who explains it by σωτηρία κυρίου ( de Mut. Nom . 21). The meaning of &n ...Biblical [[Doctrine]] of Salvation ; J. R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ . 

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Adoption
...assim (the general subject or this magnificent work is the Sonship of Christ); J. Pearson, On the Creed (ed. Burton, Oxford, 1864), articlei. p ...grace through Jesus Christ.  Ephesians 1:5 . [[Applied]] to believers by the Holy Spirit,  Galatians 4:6 .  Romans 8:15-16 . A blessing of

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Antichrist
...through the flames once more, Antichrist was the Roman Empire represented by a ruler who was hostile to Christianity because it refused to worship him a ...n is the premature counterfeit of the true unity, only to be realized when Christ, God's true [[Vicar]] on earth, shall appear, and all the earth shall "in a

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Miracles
...s see Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) and Dict. of Christ and the Gospels as above. A. J. Maclean. ...octrine in accordance with God's known word and revelation; for God cannot by subsequent revelation contradict Himself ( Deuteronomy 13:1-5;  G

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Incarnation
...at Christ was a truly human Person, and they were all decisively negatived by the Church in language which no doubt shows a distinct advance in theologic ...incarnate, was one Person in two natures—fully divine and fully human. See Christ. [[Walter]] D. Draughon III 

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Priest
...coat and a white cap ( Exodus 28:40-43). The high priest’s clothing, by contrast, was both distinctive and colourful. ...omans 10:5,  1 Corinthians 9:16; cf.  John 17:18), and selection by church leaders or ‘men of repute,’ with the consent of the church (&nbs

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Grace
...the mental part, but all the parts of a man’s self.]and of such a soul in Christ, like that of the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father.||[Note: | &n ...ng us to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and [[Savior]] Jesus Christ." The Book of Revelation also begins with a salutation and closes with a be

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Christ In Reformation Theology
Christ In Reformation Theology <ref name="term_55370" /> ...gious experience proved that alike in prayer, in worship, and in teaching, Christ filled the whole sphere of God. Jesus was God appearing in history and addr

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Sabbath
...the possession. Beside, he intended to inculcate humanity upon his people, by commanding that they should resign to the slaves, the poor, and the strange ...e Sabbath and ought still to be observed by Christians (see a curious work by Francis Bampfield written to show that the seventh-day Sabbath is the desir

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Reconciliation
...i> (v.); art. ‘Reconciliation’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible; works by Stevens and Denney cited above. See also F. W. Robertson, Serm . i ...s, then, for us to be reconciled to God is to avail ourselves of the means by which the anger of God toward us is to be appeased, which the New [[Testame

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God
...ne of thought that produced the Fourth Gospel; and not to have been spoken by our Lord. (3) In support of this it is urged that as a matter of fact, the ...here suffice. It is perhaps enough to show that the revelation which Jesus Christ made caused an immeasurable enlargement of the world’s conception of God.

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Imputation
...may be defined thus: it is God's gracious donation of the righteousness of Christ to believers, and his acceptance of their persons as righteous on the accou ...of another; as, the imputation of the sin of Adam, or the righteousness of Christ.''' '''(3):''' ''' The act of imputing or charging; attribution; a

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Christ
...usand worlds. Surely, the reader will never think of the subject, in which Christ appears thus lovely and endeared, without crying out with the apostle, "Tha Some types of CHRIST: Aaron,  Exodus 28:2 (c) Adam,  Genesis 5:2 (c)

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Covenant
...iatory interpretation of the Saviour’s death (cf. Denney, The Death of Christ , pp. 65–85, where the preceding points are luminously discussed). < .../i> ; J. Murray, The Covenant of Grace ; O. P. Robertson, The Christ of the Covenants ; G. Van Groningen, MessianicRevelation in the Ol

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Ascension
...rist,’ ib. ii.; A. S. Martin, article‘Ascension,’ in Dict. of Christ and the Gospels i.; J. G. Simpson, article‘Ascension,’ in Hast ...:39 ). An eternal character is thus given to the sacrifice of the death of Christ, which becomes efficacious through the exaltation of His crucified and rise

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Apostle
...le,’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) , Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] , Encyclopaedia Biblica , and Encyclo ...by men to maintain the law of Moses, but now an Apostle and envoy of Jesus Christ. &c. St. Jerom, though he does not believe that St. Paul had been

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Inspiration
...they say, asserts that the doctrines of Christianity were revealed to him by the almighty agency of God himself; and, finally, that the inspiration of t ...and the Bible , by R. F. Horton; A Tenable Theory of Insp ., by Professor Wood; cf. also the present writer’s The Bible: its Origin a

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Gnosticism
...ficult to determine to what extent Christianity was permanently influenced by Gnosticism. Theological prejudice will always affect the answer, and some w ...however, large extracts from his independent reading of Gnostic works; and by Epiphanius, who also gives a few valuable additions from other sources. The

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Preaching Christ
Preaching Christ <ref name="term_56927" /> ...ouls: they live in Him, and all the functions of their life are determined by Him. St. Paul has confidence in the Lord toward the Thessalonians

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Parousia
...erations will be manifested at the visitation (ἐπισκοπῇ) of the Kingdom of Christ; the combination of  Isaiah 26:20 and  Ezekiel 37:12, possibly fr ...ich it will occur; but among those who still await a literal appearance of Christ in the air it is usual to regard the Parousia as likely to occur immediatel

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Gospel
...’ (cf. the Scots [[Paraphrase]] [56], ‘Thus faith approves itself sincere, by active virtue crowned’). But white all real opposition between the apostl ...> See also [[Death Of Christ]]; [[Faith]]; [[Grace]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Kerygma]] ; [[Salvation]] Bibliography . W.

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Love
...reserved for the description of the attitude of the world towards God and Christ and believers. The hatred of the world explains the righteous wrath of God ...d [[Testament]] the special love that God had for [[Israel]] was signified by the Hebrew word chesed. It is difficult to find an exact equivalent of this

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Book Of Ephesians
...k in wisdom ( Ephesians 5:15-21 ). [[C.]] The application of redemption in domestic life ( Ephesians 5:22-6:9 ) 1. [[Mutual]] duties

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Mary
...trong> (  Acts 12:12 ). 6. Mary , saluted by St. Paul (  Romans 16:6 ). [[Charles]] T. P. Grierson. ...ole united persons of the GODHEAD for those wonders of redemption by Jesus Christ. "Thanks be unto God, I would say, (will not the reader join my spirit in i

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Propitiation
...ayer of [[Manasseh]] 1:2, London, 1906, p. 31 ff.; J. Denney, The Death of Christ, do., 1902; G. Smeaton, The Apostles’ Doctrine of Atonement, Edinburgh, 1 ...but to be the vindication of the honour and rights of the offended person by such a way as he himself shall judge satisfactory to the ends of his govern

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Christ In Art
Christ In Art <ref name="term_55346" /> ...hn , Appendix iii., cites the Patristic authorities. The dictionaries by Smith-Cheetham ( [[Dc]] [[A]] [Note: [[Ca]] Dictionary of Christia

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Resurrection Of Christ
...in the NT, corroboration of the fact may be derived from the light thrown by it on what we are told of the Lord’s brethren after the Resurrection. Tha ...t especially a small but admirable [[Essay]] on the Resurrection of Christ by Mr. Dore. Bish. Horsely. 

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Regeneration
...in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols)by J. V. Bartlet, in Dict. of Christ and the Gospelsby J. Denney, and literature there cited; works on NT Theolo ...nto the life the experience of the newborn child of God. ‘If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold, they are bec

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Ethics
...quire knowledge of its own powers and mission. The new ideal was protected by its very unpopularity. Meanwhile there was the attempt to live a life of lo .... O. White See also [[Theology Of Deuteronomy]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Law]]; [[Salvation]]; [[Sanctification]]; [[Sermon On The Mount]]; [[T

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Predestination
...re drawn up by Professor Whitaker; and though they were afterward approved by Archbishop Whitgift, and six or eight of the inferior clergy, in a meeting ...to Him when unknown to man-in every community and every congregation where Christ is preached, is an encouragement to faithful ministry, as it was to St. Pau

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Passover
...al connection of Christianity and Judaism is indubitably signified as year by year at the same time the Christian keeps Easter and the Jew Passover-thoug ...sp;Mark 14:8;  Mark 14:10-11). Christ's blood must be sprinkled on us by the hyssop of faith, else guilt and wrath remain ( Isaiah 53:7;  

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Christ In Modern Thought
Christ In Modern Thought <ref name="term_55375" /> ...on the meaning of the expression ‘Son of Man,’ he strives to reconstruct, by means of the historical data which the Gospels furnish us, the consciousnes

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Forgiveness
...also [[Atonement]]; [[Blasphemy Against The Holy Spirit]]; [[Death Of Christ]]; [[Faith]]; [[Repentance]] Bibliography . A. Bü hler, ...John 19:30 ), is for this writer the guarantee not only that ‘the Death of Christ is the objective ground on which the sins of men are remitted’ (Dale, <em

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Body
...he bread which we break,’ he writes, ‘is it not a communion of the body of Christ?’ ( 1 Corinthians 10:16). In like manner he says that whosoever shal ...cal union of the individual with the Lord. The Bible knows of a union with Christ only as faith embodied in the realm of the church community and with the ch

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Head
...interesting light on the earlier ideas of the relation of the believer to Christ, even though they belong to the 2nd century. H. Wheeler Robinson. ...ership of ten mighty men, and that by these the world will be brought into complete subjection with the exception of GOD's people who refuse to thus bow. 

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Hope
...n ‘from heaven’ (  1 Thessalonians 1:9 f.), was half their religion. ‘By this hope’ were they ‘saved,’ being enabled in its strength to bear j ...eritance, so that we may finally come into full possession of the prize of redemption” ( Ephesians 1:14 Williams). “Hope never disappoints us; for throu

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Character Of Christ
Character Of Christ <ref name="term_55512" /> ...to His baptism, was spent within the family circle, and was characterized by two features. First, a loyal and affectionate discharge of the duties of a

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Law
...aw is new and glorified in his eyes; like Paul, he knows it as ‘the law of Christ.’ All the disciples of Jesus were one in the place they gave to that whic ...rnal punishment. It follows from this, that we have in the Gospel the most complete and perfect revelation of moral law ever given to men; and a more exact man

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Prayer
...beginning and close of Epistles. The NT closes with a threefold prayer for Christ’s coming (  Revelation 22:17;   Revelation 22:20 ). H. ...oes not know, nor add any thing to his essential and glorious perfections, by any services of ours; yet we should remember that he has appointed this as

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Mystery
...that is unquestionably historical, namely the claim for His teaching to be by revelation , a wisdom of God accessible to His ‘little ones’ t ...,   Luke 10:21 ). The communication of the gospel mystery is limited by the receptivity of the hearer, not the reserve of the speaker; addressed to

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Providence
...p. 147; Dykes, Manifesto of the King , p. 483; Dale, Laws of Christ , p. 157. J. C. Lambert. ...and wholly distinct from that general and incessant exertion of his power, by which he sustains the universe in existence. The doctrine of provi

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Calvinism
...marked how much like Calvin all those fathers speak whose words are quoted by Toplady in his "Historic Defence." Nor can the two Milners, in their "Histo ...ade Gottes (Elberf. 1631, 8vo). Writers on special topics, e. a. Election, Redemption, Predestination, etc., will be named under those heads respectively. (See A

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The Johannine Theology
...sed, indeed, in technical [[Levitical]] terms. The mode of action by which Christ accomplished and still accomplishes His mission as the Saviour of the world

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Moses
...nd the [[Gulf]] of Aqabah into the western part of the [[Arabian]] Desert. By such a decisive act, Moses demonstrated his total rejection of his Egyptian ...a certain plausibility, is that Jâ€³ [Note: Jahweh.] was a God recognized by Moses’ own tribe of Levi. From   Exodus 4:24;   Exodus 4:27 it

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Satan
...by God to fill up the lapsed places in the heavenly hierarchy, occasioned by the fall of Satan and his demons. ...n. It is also literally true that the light of the gospel and the power of Christ operate still in such cases to ‘destroy the works of darkness’ and expe

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Vicarious Sacrifice
...g to develop a righteous people, a holy race, and the process or method is by vicarious sacrifice. (2) In the [[Scriptures]] the doctrine is lar

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Blood
...o their Divine destination as children of God. The efficacy of the life of Christ thus given is continuous from the unseen world and in the purpose of God. T ...n earth. Even the balance of nature will reflect God's hand of judgment as Christ takes up His reign. Nature off balance reflects the disharmony between huma

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John The Baptist
...Himself. Literature.—Relative sections in works on Life of Christ by Neander, Keim, Renan, Weiss, Beyschlag, and Edersheim; Ewald, H I ...following criteria: The most general of them is the danger of being misled by false teachers,  3 John 1:3-4 . That which leads us nearer to the poin

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Parable
...rrowfully known to the owner; social relationship to the Kingdom indicated by the fact that the sheep was one of a hundred, the coin one of ten, and the

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Holiness
...His assurance that ‘in the world’ they should attain to holiness. Life in Christ is holiness. Literature.—In addition to the books mentioned in t ...is no otherwise holy, than as it derives that purity from Christ's person; Christ is all, and in all. Yea, heaven itself, into which Jesus is gone as the for

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Jerusalem
... 2 Chronicles 33:6). Jeremiah foretold God’s judgment on these people by announcing that in the place where they killed their children, they themsel ...hochab ("son of a star") who pretended to be the [[Messiah]] prophesied of by [[Balaam]] ( Numbers 24:17), "there shall come a star out of Jacob," w

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Cross
...e martyrdom, if called to it. The cross is also often put for the whole of Christ's sufferings,  Ephesians 2:16;  Hebrews 12:2; and the doctrine of ...rary. It was the wood; the wood they were to adore! Imbert replied, it was Christ, not the wood; for which he was cited before the archbishop of Bourdeaux, s

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Irenaeus
...Church, was coincident and conterminous with our own." But more then this, by the language which Irenaeus uses, we find the Church of his day harmonizing

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Irenæus
...Church, was coincident and conterminous with our own." But more then this, by the language which Irenaeus uses, we find the Church of his day harmonizing

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Transubstantiation
...Sacrament]] of the Lord's Supper;" and it has more recently been supported by Dr. Bell, in a treatise denominated "An Attempt to ascertain the Authority, ...4-25 . But we need not waste time in attempting to refute a doctrine which by its impious consequences refutes itself. See Smith's Errors of the

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Intercession
...ing, and the feeling, and the grieving, with endurance: it amplifies grace by virtue, that faith may know what she obtains from the Lord, understanding w ...the complete deliverance that comes through salvation accomplished through Christ and notes that He is ever present in heaven to intercede for those who come

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Epistle To The Galatians
...e authenticity of the Epistle has been decisively rejected in this country by all the best critics. A. J. Maclean. ...style, and ofthe spiritual power of his argument. We see him deeply moved by the baneful influence of the Judaisers in Galatia and at their success. Ala

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Image
...52f., 60f.; H. R. Mackintosh, The [[Doctrine]] of the Person of Jesus Christ , 1912, pp. 65, 83; for man as the image of God, H. Wheeler Robinson, ...who will bear God’s image fully are those who by faith become united with Christ. Only Christians will be human as God intended. 

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Epistle To The Colossians
...ard Eng. work. Of recent Eng. [[Commentaries]] the most valuable are those by A. S. Peake ( Expositor’s Greek Testament , 1903), T. K. Abbott ...h not, taste not, handle not’ is a life to which the Christian has died in Christ. He has risen to a new life whose centre and secret are in heaven. He must

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Names And Titles Of Christ
Names And Titles Of Christ <ref name="term_56688" /> ...abolic names of Christ do not call for any special remark, as their use by Christ in the passages where they occur sufficiently explains their meaning. Such

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Assurance
... Hastings’ Single-vol. Dictionary of the Bible , and Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] ; article‘Certitude,’ in [[Catholic]] Ency ...ind. Some have concluded that we obtain it by inference, others by the direct testimony of the Holy Spirit to the mind. See [[Holy

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Pauline Theology
...in an unworthy manner ( 1 Corinthians 11:29-32 ): i.e. the union with Christ that is the center of Paul's theology he teaches to be established normally

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Adam
...shall much more abound in Christ's true followers unto eternal life. See [[Redemption]] . ...e article, the following may be consulted on the relation between Adam and Christ: Sanday-Headlam, Com. on [[Epistle]] to Romans (pp. 130–153); Be

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Apocrypha
...T. Phrases from some of them indicate, however, that these books were used by the writers in whom they occur, although there is no evidence that they reg ...and the doctrines promulgated in the early centuries of the Christian era, by means of such works. [[Ira]] [[Maurice]] Price. 

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Sacrament
...the thing thereby signified, but also words of institution, and a promise by which the two are connected together: and hence we reject five of the seven ...hat is believed to be an inward and spiritual grace, both were ordained by Christ himself, and in the reception of each does the [[Christian]] solemnly devot

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Epistle To The Romans
...ol. ii. col. 1620f.) is a final refutation of the Dutch school represented by van Manen. They have advanced as yet no solid reason for doubting the genui ...re is no evidence that Peter did so. It may have been carried to that city by some who were converted at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. 

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Fact And Theory
...p. 160–185, 230–276; Pfleiderer, Glaubens- u. Sittenlehre , §§ on Christ: Biedermann, Chr. Dogmatik , ii. § 815; [[A.]] Sabatier, Esqu

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Prophet
... ). See, further, art. Announcements of Death. It is assumed by some that Jesus commenced His ministry with ...the restoration, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. Each adds some fresh trait to complete the delineation of Messiah.  Isaiah 52:13-15; Isaiah 53, is the most p

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Revelation
...all these, but is far more than them all. It is the religion of redemption, including salvation from sin, equipment for holiness, and provision for li ...earlier, as God works towards the completion of his purposes through Jesus Christ ( Ephesians 1:9-12;  Ephesians 3:3-11;  1 Peter 1:10-12; see

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First Epistle Of Peter
...ce, being deducible from Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Papias; and it is held by [[Dionysius]] of Corinth, IrenÃ¦us, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria ...ch judgement as the issue of God's moral government is imminent, is marked by the reference to the time of Noah, whose testimony in preparing the ark was

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Savior
...just as in the parallel in  2—Peter 1:11 , "our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (AV and RV); these passages are therefore a testimony to His deity;   Is a term applied preeminently to our Lord Jesus Christ, because, as the angel expressed it, he came to "save his people from their

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Angel
...he worshipping of demons in   1 Corinthians 10:21; in accordance with Christ’s teaching St. Paul speaks of the presence of angels at the Second Coming ...function has led to the concept of "guardian angels, " perhaps prompted by Christ's words in  Matthew 18:10 . It is not entirely clear whether each indi

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Epistle To Theephesians
...n  Ephesians 1:7 (cf.  Ephesians 2:13). The annulling of the Law by the Cross ( Ephesians 2:15) is the very point of St. Paul’s argument ...ayer followed by a reference to Tychicus as the bearer of the Epistle, and by the usual apostolic benediction . This Epistle was written during the earli

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Epistle To Thehebrews
...p. ad Heb. , 1825); [[Aquila]] (suggestion mentioned but not approved by Bleek, Der Brief an die Hebräer , i. 42); St. Peter (A. Welch, <i ...ion to a life of faith and obedience, and shows that it has ever been only by a spiritual recognition and worship of God that good men have participated

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Lutherans
...other passages I have used similar expressions. But these people will pass by all such passages, and will only seize upon those concerning a hidden Deity ...their religious opinions; and that no individual could be justly punished by the magistrate for his erroneous opinions, while he conducted himself like

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Anthropology
...ult, the church is called to minister and to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ to the total person. See [[Salvation]]; [[Sin]]; [[Ethics]]; [[Death]]; [[E ...ions of the human body. '''(3):''' (n.) That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God. 

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Preaching
...ll these treatises. It is essential to the ministration of the divine word by public preaching, that preachers be allowed to form principles of their own ...02; J. M. E. Ross, The Christian Standpoint, 1911, p. 15; A. M. Fairbairn, Christ in the Centuries, 1893, p. 23. M. Scott Fletcher. 

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Salvation Save Saviour
...of the [[Nt]] antithesis, the writer says also: ‘We, having been called in Christ Jesus through His will, are justified not through ourselves nor through our

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Universalism
...rmish or sham fight for which we are enlisted. As right differs from wrong by the whole diameter of being, so the issues of the life that has been won fo ...l Stacey; Memoirs of Rev. Hosea Ballou, by Maturin M. Ballou (1 vol.), and by Whittemore (4 vols.); Sawye 

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Kingdom Of God
...t of Christ. And when all things are ultimately put in subjection unto the Christ, then also shall the Son of God Himself have perfected His redemptive reign .... McDonald, Jesus and the Ethics of the Kingdom ; O. Cullman, Christ and Time ; R. H. Hiers, The Kingdom of God in the Synoptic Traditi

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Federal Theology
...dgley's Body of Divinity, p. 11; Dr. E. A. Park's Discourses and Treatises by Edwards, Smalley, Maxey, Emmons, Griffin, Burge. and Weeks, on the Atonemen

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Arminianism
...account of his life and times, have been recently translated into English, by Mr. James Nichols; and have not only served to dissipate many misconception ...vols. 8vo); Neander, Hist. rf Christ. Dogmas, ii, 678 sq.; Art. Arminius, by W. F. Warren, Meth. Q. Rev. July, 1857; Schweitzer, Die Protest. Ctetraldog

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German Reformed Church In America
...hila., S.R. [[Fisher]] & Co., 1867, page 388). See also Creed and Customs, by Reverend George B. Russell, A.M. (Phila., S.R. Fisher & Co., page 420). (E.

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Sin
...ge in Man , etc.; The Child and Religion (a volume of essays by various authors; Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible, artt. ‘Sin,’ ‘Fal ...[[Testament]] abounds in statements of judicial vengeance being exercised by God ( Romans 12:19;  Hebrews 10:30;  1 Thessalonians 4:6; &n

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The Exaltation Of Christ
...nt of a wisdom and justice and love that will be the complete glory of the Christ. See also [[Ascension]]; [[Judgment]]; [[Parousia]]; [[Resurrection]] . 

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Fall
...race does affect the development of each member of it whether by social or by physical heredity; but when, where, or how sin first entered we do not know ...Both groan for redemption ( Romans 8:19-23 ). When comparing Adam and Christ, Paul declared that sin and death gained entrance into the world through Ad

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Theology Of Colossians
...es available is a delusion. Blessing comes from God through the Lord Jesus Christ alone, and a life that pleases God draws on what the mediator and enabler p

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Excommunication
...paedia of [[Religion]] and Ethics , ‘Excommunication’ in Dict. of Christ and the Gospels , Smith’s Dict. of the Bible 2, Jewish ...ossible, restoring him to the enjoyment of the privileges he has forfeited by his conduct. See [[Church]] 

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Immortal; Immortality
...3:13 f). Literature Ingersoll Lectures on Immortality , by Professor William James, Professor Osler, etc.; Salmond, Christian Doct

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Righteousness
...mes 2:23 ). Thus for James a person is placed in a right relation with God by a faith expressed in works. It is possible to reconcile Paul's approach and ...red by God, but the righteousness bestowed by God and accepted by faith in Christ (  Romans 1:17 etc.). For fuller treatment cf. art. Justifica

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Acts Of The Apostles
...n thus. ( h ) The details of the last voyage, thoroughly tested by Mr. Smith of Jordanhill, who sailed over the whole course. Against all this ...hurches publicly that there was less opportunity to expunge interpolations by comparing different copies. The principal interpolations alleged are  

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Vow
...ment of an equal amount in silver, a person, a field, or a house dedicated by “vow” to the Lord could be redeemed (Lev. 27:1-25). This pract ...ed as binding; the absurdity and impiety of which practice is well exposed by our Lord in  Matthew 23:16-22 . 

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Second Coming Of Christ
Second Coming Of Christ <ref name="term_18221" /> ...ond Coming of Christ ; [[G.]] [[C.]] Berkouwer, The [[Return]] of Christ ; [[E.]] Brunner, [[Eternal]] Hope ; [[C.]] [[H.]] Dodd, 

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Pre-Existence Of Christ
Pre-Existence Of Christ <ref name="term_56921" /> ...g. tr._, 1891, i. 123-159; [[D.]] Somerville, St. Paul’s [[Conception]] of Christ, 1897; [[F.]] Weber, Jüdische Theologie, 1897. [[R.]] Law. 

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Imlah
...the Church, and that it is a part of the revelation of God, given through Christ and the apostles, and handed down b constant succession and general consent

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Truth
...he golden cycle of [[Christian]] experience as leading from purity of soul by obedience to the truth onwards inevitably to the love of the brethren (&nbs ...n 4 ). Further references in 3John indicate that the Elder refers to Jesus Christ as "the truth" ( 3 John 3,4 ,  8,12 ). Interestingly, the term "t

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Prophecy
...plan were displayed to those who witnessed its perfection in the advent of Christ. ...on, should be ascertained. An acquaintance with the method of salvation by Christ will greatly assist us in this work. The mind must be unprejudiced, and we

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Genesis
...the wicked nations ( Genesis 18:1-19:38 ). 7. Even deception by God's servant can result in blessing to God-fearing nations ( Genesis ...ions is hardly possible in the present state of our knowledge. The process by which the two elements came to be blended can, however, partly be explained

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Judgment
...which began with Creation, was continued under a purpose and revelation of Redemption, and demands a Judgment as its proper culmination. [[Nathan]] E. W ...bsp;1 John 4:17). They do not fear condemnation, because once they are ‘in Christ’ there can be no condemnation ( John 3:18;  John 5:24;  Ro

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The Epistles Of John
..."John the apostle in his epistle said, If any come to you," as recognized by the N. African church. The Peshito old Syriac version wants these ...her notable difference in the choice and use of particles is accounted for by the fact that dialogue and narrative, of which the Gospel is largely compos

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Creation
...needs for the few wants of his crude life. Man brought death upon himself by sin ( Romans 5:12;  1 Corinthians 15:21;  Genesis 2:17; &nbs ...t be a more modern perversion. [[Plato]] supposed the world to be produced by the Deity, uniting eternal, immutable ideas, or forms, to variable matter.

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Lust
...sting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) and ‘Desire’ in Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] . [[Donald]] Mackenzie. ..."strong desire" of any kind, the various kinds being frequently specified by some adjective (see below). The word is used of a good desire only in &nbsp

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Nestorius
...story of the Greek Church; Liddon, Bampton Lectures on the [[Divinity]] of Christ, pages 121, 257, 463; comp. also W. Moller, art. Nestorius, in Herzog's Rea ...f God"; the orthodoxy of the Church as against the doctrine was championed by Cyril of Alexandria. 

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St.Thomas Aquinas
...the editio Veneti altera, containing his life by Echard, and commentaries by Rubeis (28 vols. 4to, Venet. 1775). Of his most important work, the Summa T

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Eschatology
...the strengths of different millennial perspectives without being overcome by the weaknesses of any. See Christology; [[Kingdom Of God]]; [[Millennium]]; ...of NT thought and the great reality of eternal life taught and exemplified by Jesus. (2) The doctrine of a ‘Kingdom of God.’ This expectation, since

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Man
...on the other, the reality of that spiritual world which men enter through Christ. We are made most effectually to feel the far-reaching power of those truth ...uring which he is eligible for the draft—i.e., age 20- 50?) is represented by the two nouns, bechurim and bechurot , both of which

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Indulgences
...by the preachers of indulgences was equally efficacious with the cross of Christ itself." "Lo, " said they, "the heavens are open: if you enter not now, whe ...ne, a Franciscan friar, in 1673; and the original pamphlet was republished by Baron Maseres, in 1809, in his last volume of "Occasional Essays." 

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Melchizedek
...and Hamite alike, the forerunner of gospel universality which joins under Christ all of every race ( Galatians 3:28;  Colossians 3:11;  Roman ...stitution for its application to John Hyrcanus, which had been discredited by the collapse of his influence before the end of his reign. [[Shem]] was ide

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Crucifixion Cross
...tonement]]; Christology; [[Justification]]; [[Passion]]; [[Propitiation]]; Redemption. [[Grant]] Osborne ...ew H. Trotter, Jr. See also [[Death Of Christ]]; [[Jesus Christ]] Bibliography . E. Brandenburger, NIDNTT, 1:389

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Apocryphal Acts
...of the Acts of Peter is the emphasis laid on the boundless mercy of God in Christ toward the backsliding (especially 7). This note frequently recurring is a

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Book Of Psalms
...98:1 ,  Psalm 99:1 . 8. Songs of Zion praise God indirectly by describing the [[Holy]] City where He has chosen to live among His people a ...er. It is the introduction of the First-begotten into the earth, announced by the cry of the remnant. BOOK 5 contains  Psalm 107 to the end

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Pentecost
...emple: its [[Ministry]] and [[Services]] as they were at the Time of Jesus Christ, London, n.d.; E. von Dobschütz, Ostern und Pfingsten, Leipzig, 1903; M. F ...own impressions on the soul, whereby believers are "sealed unto the day of redemption!" ( Ephesians 4:30) 

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Independents
...of the Independents reject the use of all creeds and confessions draws up by fallible men, though they require of their teachers a declaration of their ...sin; but thought it still wanted some things essential to a true church of Christ; in particular, a power of choosing its own ministers, and a stricter disci

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Union With God
...> , London, 1895; articles on ‘Union,’ ‘Oneness,’ ‘Unity,’ in Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] ; The [[Apostolic]] [[Fathers]] , transla

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Eucharist
...with the [[Incarnation]] , Loudon, 1895, p. 308, also The Body of Christ , do. 1901; A, Schweitzer, Das Abendmahl im Zusammenhang mit dem L ...h and blood’ is equivalent to ‘personality,’ and that therefore ‘the whole Christ’ is sacramentally present in the Eucharistic elements. But it

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Angels
...24:7;  Psalms 24:9 [Septuagint] as addressed to the rulers appointed by God in the heavens ( [[Dial]] . 36). To angels was committed the c ...d. They "desire to look into" the mysteries of redemption, and they learn "by the church the manifold wisdom of God" ( Ephesians 3:10;  1 Peter

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Epistle Of James
...as being addressed to the Eastern (?) Dispersion, though its apparent use by Clem. Rom. and [[Hermas]] suggests that it may have been written in Rome. T ...multitude of sins are covered. The epistle was doubtless written by James the son of Alphaeus; from whence it is not known, and its date is onl

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Magi
...Book , Jan. 6; and the various Comm. on Matthew. An English monograph by F. W. Upham, The Wise Men , is of little value. The discussions of ...s, who were nearly extirpated by Mohammedan fanaticism, were charged by their oppressors with the idolatry of fire, and this was probably true of t

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Family
...both deal almost exclusively with the OT); by C. T. Dimont in Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] (especially for the teaching of our Lord in the Go ...ve of God and bring people to a saving relationship with God through Jesus Christ, thus creating the larger family of God. See [[Father]]; [[Mother]]; [[Marr

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The Church
...7; etc.). Third, it is through the diversity of the gifts that the body of Christ matures and is unified ( Romans 12:4;  1 Corinthians 12:12-31; &n

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Bishop Of Mopsuestia Theodorus
...Greek fragments, was issued by the Camb. Univ. Press in 1880â€“1882. [[A]] complete critical edition of all the literary remains of Theodore is still a desider

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Restoration
...1878), Mercy and [[Judgment]] (1881); Cox, Salvator Mundi: Is Christ the [[Saviour]] of all Men ? (1877); Jukes, The Second Death and t ...wful judgment. St. Paul speaks of all things being summed up in Christ, of Christ subduing all things to Himself, etc. ( Eph 1:10 ,   1 Corinthians 15:2

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Isaiah
 By the time of Isaiah, the [[Israelite]] nation had long been divided into two ...gment has passed ( Isaiah 40:1-31 ). B. God holds His people by the hand ( Isaiah 41:1-29 ). C. [[Send]] the light of truth t

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Epistles Ofpeter
...ne so literally in daily conduct that their character is severely impugned by the writer, who accuses them of gross immorality. Their sin is classed with ...itten not long before the same period, which agrees with the time assigned by Dr. Lardner, between 64 and 66 [JUDE]. But if Jude certainly quoted the boo

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Mission
...the mission and message is critically decisive. It will mean either final redemption or judgment ( 2 Corinthians 2:14-17 ). [[William]] J. Larkin, ...qualities of character which are rarely found together. The credentials of Christ’s mission are in Himself. The grandeur and simplicity of His life, the me

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Theology Of Romans
...ounds and gender who are exemplary and well-known to the Romans (16:1-16). By contrast, his readers are to avoid contentious and unorthodox persons and t

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World
...rmal and sinfully wrong, yet is salvable by the sacrificial love of God in Christ; that the world is God’s world, and that, therefore, its existing conditi ...ed, but fought and overcome by the ‘greater one’ who is in the disciple of Christ (  John 4:4 ,   John 5:4-5 ). Faith ‘overcometh the world,’ b

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Redemption Redeemer
Redemption Redeemer <ref name="term_53696" /> ...Romans 6:23 ,   Ephesians 1:3 etc.). It is a redemption in every way complete. See, further, artt. Atonement, Propitiation, Reconciliation, Salvation. </

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A 2Nd Century Heretic Marcion
...es two or three of its readings. The most careful attempt to restore it is by Hilgenfeld ( Zeitschrift f. histor. Theol. 1855). It becomes appar

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Hades
...Cooper, Body, Soul, and Life [[Everlasting]] ; W. J. Dalton, Christ's [[Proclamation]] to the Spirits: A Study of  1 Peter 3:18-4:6 ; ...s 2:27 is a quotation from  Psalms 16:10 which in v. 31 is applied to Christ, of whom, as risen from the tomb, it is said that He was not ‘left in Had

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Scripture
...for thrice a thousand years spell-bound," says F. W. Robertson, "held them by an abiding power, even the universality of its truth." "Blessed are" they.. ...1901, pp. 112 ff., 249 f.; B. B. Warfield, article‘Scripture,’ in Dict. of Christ and the Gospelsii. 584 ff., with literature. On the formation of the Canon

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Isaac
...Rebekah's tortuous policy eventuated in their being left in their old age by both children, Esau disappointed and disinherited, Jacob banished to a long ...Genesis 31:53 , where ‘the Fear of Isaac’ means the God tremblingly adored by him). The submission of Isaac plays a part, although a less important one t

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Mystics
...inely appointed ordinances. In many, however, it has been happily tempered by good principles; and too frequently has all Scriptural Christianity, in its ...othing can be our righteousness or recovery but the divine nature of Jesus Christ derived to our souls. Law's Life; Law's Spirit of [[Prayer]] and Appeal; La

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Herod
...and rule them directly. From that time on, Judea and Samaria were governed by Roman governors (or procurators) until the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 7 ...D. 48). Then (A.D. 52) he was transferred to the tetrarchies formerly held by Philip and [[Lysanias]] with the title "king." [[Accurately]] he is called

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Feasts
...ward separated from the Lord's supper, and in the fourth century forbidden by the [[Council]] of [[Laodicea]] A.D. 320, and that of [[Carthage]] A.D. 391 ...t he sought from the general sequence of events, so far as it is indicated by the following notes of time: (1) Passover, i.e. March or

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The Council Of (Concilium Tridentinunm) Trent
...were of divine right. However, powerful as was his speech, he was answered by the bishop of [[Paris]] so effectually that the legates, to their great dis

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Lord'S Supper. (I.)
... [[Trypho]] , 116, 117). This Supper, originated and presided over by the Lord (τὸ κυριακὸν δεῖπνον), did not owe its validit

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Missions
...the view of progress which is presented in Acts, it is not to be taken as complete. It exhibits for the most part the movement as connected with the great mis ...sionary entered it. But before the year 720 the Gospel had been proclaimed by himself and his countrymen from the mountains of [[Switzerland]] down to th

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Typology Type
...ntext and in effect say that Matthew was wrong to take it as a prophecy of Christ's birth (  Matthew 1:23 ). In typological exegesis, however, the dilem ...rty to choose any Old Testament character or event and make it a ‘type’ of Christ and his work. They must not treat Old Testament passages as allegories; tha

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Epistle To Hebrews
...ght. [[Obedience]] , however, is the word and thought preferred by him when he speaks of the present grounds of salvation (  Hebrews 5:8 ...Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. '''Bibliography Informatio

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Lutheranism Lutheran Church Lutherans.
...rious questions of profound interest in scientific theology were discussed by the great divines in the Lutheran Church. Among the most important of these

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Elijah
...ter to which the law as represented by Moses, and the prophets represented by Elijah, converge. Elijah's translation was God's witness for His faithful s ...understands that there was still a sacred remnant of Jews who were elected by grace. Mark W. Chavalas See also Israel; First a

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Trust
...and Der Lebendige Gott ; J. G. Tasker, ‘Trust in God and Faith in Christ’ in ExpT [Note: xpT Expository Times.] xi. [1900] 490. ...e object. '''(19):''' ''' (''' n.) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. '''(20):''' ''' (''' n.) To commi

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Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved
...he world through those who know it in ‘knowing the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.’ [[G.]] [[G.]] Findlay. 

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The Epistle To The Hebrews
...ing, its kingly character and eternal accomplishment of its end, confirmed by Psalm 40 and Psalm 110 and Jeremiah 31 (Delitzsch.) The first main portion, ...undoubtedly prevail, and the variation here is sufficiently accounted for by the different character 

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Unitarianism
...e especially to the New Test., and supremely to the word and life of Jesus Christ. (R.R.S.) 

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Biblical Theology
...rms furnishes. Biblical literacy in the church, to say nothing of biblical redemption in the world, is at stake. Both church and world could gain transforming co ... The [[Kingdom]] of God , 1890; J. Moorhouse, The Teaching of Christ , 1891; O. Pfleiderer, Der Paulinismus , 2nd edition, 1890; 2

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Unity
...Christ’s; that in some sense, at some time, by some means beyond our ken, Christ will be universally victorious, because God is God, and God is Love. < ...various aspects: the shared experience of Christ as Lord and confession of Christ in baptism ( Ephesians 4:5 ,Ephesians 4:5, 4:13 ); the shared sen

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Spirituality
...nnis L. Okholm See also [[Sanctification]]; [[Union With Christ]] Bibliography . D. Alexander, Christian Spirituality SPIRITUALITY. —See Character of Christ in vol. i. p. 286 f., and art. Spirit. 

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Epistle To The Hebrews
...had passed away were to be remembered and their faith followed. But Jesus Christ is the same in the past, present, and future. The Hebrews are warned agains ...ht Statement''' These files are public domain and were generously provided by the folks at WordSearch Software. '''Bibliography Information''' Orr 

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Comforter
...tellectual bearing, He will continue and complete the instruction begun by Christ ( John 14:26), and guide the disciples ‘into all the truth’ (&nbsp ...ccompanied by signal triumphs of grace, and made amends for the absence of Christ. He is therefore not only a Comforter, but is also a Teacher, Witness, Repr

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The Fall
...gh the mediatorial work of the seed of the woman, his incarnate Son, Jesus Christ, who would serve as the second Adam. Gerard [[Van]] Groningen ...ion of the fullness of times, He will gather together in one all things in Christ ( Ephesians 1:10 ). (J. Orr, Sin as a Problem of Today , Lond

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Resurrection Of The Dead
...i> ; Church, Cath. and Univ. Sermons , p. 131; R. C. Moberly, Christ our Life , p. 98. H. J. Wotherspoon. ...th the earthly body consists; but it will be incorruptible, fashioned like Christ's glorious body,  Philippians 3.21 , and a meet companion of the soul

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Purgatory
...the idea of farther meritorious suffering detracts from the perfection of Christ's work, and places merit still in the creature; a doctrine exactly opposite ...rong> It is derogatory from the doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ. If Christ died for us, and redeemed us from sin and hell, as the Scripture speaks, th

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New Testament
...n A.D. 496 Paul's epistles were divided into chapters with titles, perhaps by [[Theodore]] of Mopsuestia. [[Euthalius]] divided them and Acts into lectio ...itings, by the fullest use of every appliance of scholarship, and the most complete confidence, in the necessary and absolute connection of words and thoughts.

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Heir
...multiplication of population, and so to repairing the waste of life caused by wars. It attaches large numbers to their country, as proprietors, eager to ... Ephesians 3:6; and of all believers as prospective participants with Christ in His glory, as recompense for their participation in His sufferings, &nbs

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Spirit
...dhood was marked by a gradual development and strengthening in spirit side by side with his bodily growth ( Luke 1:80). See, further, artt. Flesh, H ...there were such while the former denied that such existed. When the risen Christ appeared to the disciples, they were startled and frightened, thinking they

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Sacrifices
...it .9 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] (by W. R. Smith). T. Gregory. ...ipal considerations which seem suitable to this place, on a subject to the complete investigation of which many large volumes have been devoted. 

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Synagogue
.... 17a). (5) Lûṭ, execration-a milder form of shammatâ resorted to by the Talmudic leader in Babylonia (see articleלוט in Levy, Wörterbuch; M ...f prayer. Whatever was stated in a foreign tongue was immediately rendered by an interpreter into the speech in common use. This was so necessary, that P

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Richard Baxter
...fe and Times, which was published in a folio volume after his death (1696) by Sylvester, under the title Reliquiae Baxterianae. It is here that we find t ...the [[Restoration]] one of the king's chaplains; driven out of the Church by the Act of Uniformity, was thrown into prison at 70, let out, spent the res

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Name
...</div> primarily denotes "to address, greet, salute;" hence, "to call by name,"  Hebrews 5:10 , RV, "named (of God a High Priest)" (AV, "called ...t the genius either of some Roman emperor, or of Antinous, who was deified by Hadrian, with an inscription on the inside of the right thigh, written perp

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Number
...d will bring them back to a bondage as bad as that in Egypt, but shortened by the ''40'' years' sojourn in the desert for discipline. Also  Ezekiel ...any name in some form or other, in Hebrew, Greek, or Latin, could be made by Gematria to yield 666. The two favourite explanations are L

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Theology Of Bible
...tice]] that this sketch of biblical theology centers on the theme of God's redemption and interprets everything in the light of that theme. [[J.]] Terry

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Prophets Prophecy
...ords of the prophets who prepared the way for His coming. For a still more complete fulfilment of their highest hopes and fairest visions the world still waits ...d be known by their fruit ( Matthew 7:15-20 ). Paul demanded orderly, Christ-honoring, upbuilding prophecy which submits to apostolic authority ( 1

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Montanists
...hecies were declared heretical, and the [[Montanists]] were excommunicated by local bishops. The news of the so-called "new outpouring of the Spirit" tra ...an or delivering a more perfect form of discipline than what was delivered by his apostles. They refused communion for ever to those who were guilty of n

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Day Of Atonement
...ur holy sin offering,  Hebrews 9:14), could not in this case be eaten by the priest properly, as it had been offered for the priests as well as for ...the Jewish high priest on this day with the great propitiation of Him who, by virtue of His own atoning blood, ‘entered in once for all into the holy p

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Offerings And Sacrifices
...] Averbeck See also [[Altar]]; [[Atonement]]; [[Death Of Christ]]; [[Lamb Of God Lamb]]; [[Theology Of Leviticus]]; [[The Lord'S Supper]];

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Sabbatical Year
...d Jew. Thus  Isaiah 61:1-3 is steeped in the jubilee phraseology, and Christ adopted this passage to explain His own mission (  Luke 4:18 ff.). </p ...e end of every seven years, Israelites were to forgive any debts owed them by fellow Israelites. They were to consider themselves one big family, where t

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Ecclesiastical History
...ugh dispersed over the face of the earth, and oppressed at different times by Pagans, Christians, and Mahometans. 3. It shows us that the increa ...renicum (Philad. 1842, 8vo); Watson, Institutes, part 4; Litton, Church of Christ (Lond. 1851, 8vo); Barrett, Ministry and Polity of the Christian Church (Lo

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Heresy
...t the "thrones and dominions" of heaven are submissive created servants of Christ; and that the evil spirits, the rulers of "the darkness of this world," are ...dergo the same penalties and incapacities which were inflicted on apostasy by the same statute. Enc. Brit. Dr. [[Foster]] and Stebbing on Heresy; Hallett

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Acts Of The Apostles (Apocryphal)
...] begins. The [[Gnosticism]] of the document is chiefly supported by the reference in the great hymn to an Ogdoad and a Dodecad, but it is not c

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Evidence
...s and enables the mind to see truth proof arising from our own perceptions by the senses, or from the testimony of others, or from inductions of reason. ...hose who teach it, its success in the world, &c. See Evidences of Christ, art. [[Christianity]] [[Moral]] evidence is that which, though it does not

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Golgotha
...ve free ground to act upon in case of an emergency, without being hampered by crowded streets, and where only one gate would be between them and their st ...that the Crucifixion was near the Jewish ‘place of stoning’ (which is said by an unreliable local Jewish tradition to be situated here). All these hypoth

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Perfect
...''' Tâmam ( '''''תָּמַם''''' , Strong'S #8552), “to be complete, be finished, be consumed, be without blame.” This verb, which appears 64 ...rfection be achieved? The New Testament locates the means of perfection in Christ. Through His suffering and exaltation, God made Jesus perfect ( Hebrew

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Inheritance
...r religion, and all other spiritual blessings. This they strove to express by boldly declaring that Jehovah was Himself the inheritance of His people. ( ...h can an individual acquire than to become an heir of God through faith in Christ. [[William]] E. [[Brown]] See also Eternality [[Everlasti

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Simon Peter
...oductions to the commentaries on his Epistles, and in works on the life of Christ. But particular reference is made to the following: E. W. Farrar, Early

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Cyrenius
...rrence brought about the birth of the Messiah, at the very place appointed by prophecy long before, though the usual residence of [[Joseph]] and Mary was ...obtained the insignia of a triumph. A breviarium of the empire was ordered by Augustus (Tacitus, Annals 1:11), giving a return of its population and reso

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Anathema
..., vii. 26, where any thought of enforcing a penalty is rendered impossible by the jubilant tone of the section. In course of time ‘anathema’ ...were set apart; their possessions were properly the Lord's, but were given by Him to [[Israel]] as a gift henceforth to be used to His glory. Th

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Roman Catholic Church
...e in the Asiatic possessions. Most of these vicariates are at present held by archbishops and bishops who take their title from their see in partibus ''I

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Hugo Grotius
...from its full and real import to the idea of mere rendering of something; Christ has made satsifaction so far as he has fulfilled a condition, of what- ver ...d in a book chest (a device of his wife), fled to Paris, and was pensioned by Louis XIII.; in 1625 he published his famous work on international law, "De

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Freedom
...( Romans 8:18-23 ). Moisé Silva See also [[Redemption Redeem]]; [[Salvation]] Bibliography . E. M. B. Green, <i ...it is our responsibility to direct our actions to fulfill the purposes of Christ ( Romans 6:1-2 ,Romans 6:1-2, 6:15 ,Romans 6:15, 6:18 ,Roman

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Dudley A. Tyng
...s.); and other works cited by Darling, Cyclop. Bibliog. col. 1803 sq., and by Maicom, Theol. Index, s.v. (See [[Messiah]]). 

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Unbelief
...e with Christianity, in order to uphold Heathenism, which was fast sinking by its own weakness. Although the Romans had from the oldest times been noted ...ow-Christians, especially when they remembered that to believers was given by God the judgment of the world, and even of the angels in heaven ( 1 Co

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Power
...hall we think of Christianity? (1899), 106; Forrest, Authority of Christ . G. M. Mackie. ...ans 8:38;  1—Peter 3:22 ); (c) of that which manifests God's "power:" Christ,  1—Corinthians 1:24; the Gospel,  Romans 1:16; (d) of mighty w

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Ascension Of Jesus Christ
Ascension Of Jesus Christ <ref name="term_17639" /> ...parture of Jesus in Luke-Acts ; [[H.]] [[B.]] Swete, The Ascended Christ ; [[K.]] [[C.]] Thompson, [[Received]] Up into Glory ; [[P.]]

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Ezekiel
...the people who felt they had perished ( Ezekiel 37:1-28 ) E. By defeating the ungodly forces of the nations under Gog of Magog ( Ezeki ...yet shall he not see it though he shall die there"; because he was blinded by Nebuchadnezzar before arriving there ( Jeremiah 52:11). Also  Eze

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Plagues Of Egypt
...t. He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people,"  Exodus 13:22;  Numbers 9:15-23 . ...nnot better close the subject on the history of the plagues of Egypt, than by referring the reader to the apostle's divine conclusions on the same, and v

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Monasticism
...nce among the members, by eliciting a spirit of pride and ostentation, and by provoking, sometimes to fanatical excesses of austerity, sometimes to hypoc

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Soul
.... R. Alger, Destiny of the Soul (contains exhaustive bibliography by Ezra Abbot); R. H. Charles, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Fut ...2:18 ). The adjectival form "soulish" indicates a person governed by the sensuous nature with subjection to appetite and passion. Such a person

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New Creation
...ge]]; [[New [[Heavens]] And A New Earth]]; [[Renew Restore]]; [[Union With Christ]] Bibliography . J. Baumgarten, EDNT, 2:230; H. ...second stage of the mighty work of the incarnation will be attained in the complete fulfillment of the words, "Behold, I make all things new." 

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Eternality Eternal Life Everlasting Life
...ion begins with praise to God "for ever and ever" (1:6). The exalted Jesus Christ declares that he is "alive for ever and ever" (1:18). The Lord's power, rei

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Second Epistle Of Peter
...s, like the speeches in Acts, are [[Hebrew]] in spirit, and are influenced by prophetic motives. Perhaps the solution that will best suit the fa ...ut to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and [[Saviour]] Jesus Christ. 

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Dependence
...e Life and Times of Jesus the [[Messiah]] , B. Weiss, The Life of Christ , O. Holtzmann, The Life of Jesus ). J. R. Willis. < '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause). '''(2):''' '

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History
...ge the Bible's openness to God's miraculous intervention. An experience of Christ's saving power in the present provides a point of comparison for an underst ...n. L. historia Gr. knowing, learned, and to inquire, to explore, to learn by inspection or inquiry. 1. An account of facts, particularly of facts r

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Brother
...r tremblings, and fears, and misgivings, in having nailed him to the cross by our sins: "Come near to me I pray you, I am Jesus your brother, whom ye sol ...d a "neighbor" a proselyte, and allowed neither title to the Gentiles. But Christ applied "brother" to all Christians, and "neighbor" to all the world (&nbsp

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Evolution
...p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' n.) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological ...n, ''The Evolution Of Life'' (1873); Semper, ''Animal Life As [[Affected]] By The Natural Conditions Of Existence; Die Verwandt Schaftsbezie Hungen Der G

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Israel
...l records before us, we should suppose that Jeroboam was aided in this war by Shishak of Egypt, for we are told how he invaded Judah (  1 Kings 14:2 ...ievers, [[Gentiles]] as well as ethnic Jewish people who believed in Jesus Christ, as Israel ( Galatians 6:16 ). It is therefore believed that Paul, whe

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Virgin Birth
...f the Virgin Birth’; a series of Lectures on ‘The Virgin Birth of Christ,’ by Dr. J. Orr (1907). G. H. Box. ...hen, The Virgin Birth of Christ ; J. Orr, The Virgin Birth of Christ ; O. Piper, Int 18 (1964): 131-48; B. B. Warfield, The Am

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Leviticus
.... This affinity does not consist in common phrases, nor can it be measured by identity of language; it shows itself in the common point of view which jus ...hip ( Leviticus 19:1-8 ). 4. [[Show]] love for your neighbor by righteous living ( Leviticus 19:9-18 ). 5. [[Observe]] proper

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Hell
...rles’s separate editions of the various apocalypses, the great work edited by him, The [[Apocrypha]] and [[Pseudepigrapha]] of the OT , Oxford, ...Questions]] will remain. But believers personally know God's love in Jesus Christ. And their response to a lost world will parallel that of their Lord, who h

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Book Of Numbers
...the age which followed it, when universal approach to God was thrown open by ‘another priest, who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal comman ...a succeeds Moses as leader. He is, what Moses was not, the type of a risen Christ. In spiritual experiences the second part of the book runs concurr

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The First Epistle Of Peter
...irth ( 1 Peter 1:3 ,  1 Peter 1:13 ); redemption by the blood of Christ ( 1 Peter 1:18 ,  1 Peter 1:19 ), faith, hope, patient endurance ...adversaries as evil-doers; was written to exhort them to rebut the charge by a life of simple well-doing, and to comfort them under it with the promise

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Malachi
...st striking feature of the style is the discussion of an important subject by means of question and answer, a dialectic method which became common afterw ...smite the earth with a curse. '''CANONICITY''' . [[Established]] by New Testament quotations ( Matthew 11:10;  Matthew 17:12;  M

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Athanasius
...nd sanction; and the views of Athanasius have been received, in substance, by all orthodox churches to the present time. ...reieinigkeit, vol. 1; Dorner, History of the [[Doctrine]] of the Person of Christ, vol. 1, div. 2 (Edinb. ed.); Neander, Ch. Hist. 2, 380; Murdoch's Mosheim,

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Self-Control
...y, or yielded to temptation, or allowed the Kingdom within to be disturbed by a breach of will between Himself and the Father. His self-control, in its c

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Election Elect
...hey were able to acquire ( Luke 12:47 f.). It is true that apart from Christ (χωρὶς ἐμοῦ,  John 15:5) we are powerless for good; but as ...tive purposes be accomplished. When human beings acknowledge God's choices by participating in them, they find life and blessing at its fullest. If they

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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
...(Worms, 1868); P. Leo (Jena, 1868); Hossbach (Berl. 1868); also article in Christ. Exam. vol. 53; Westm. Rev. July, 1861; Meth. Quar. Rev. April, 1869; Brit.

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Friedrich August Gottgetreu Tholuck
...chapters in the Church history of the 19th century. A sketch was published by Dr. Schaff, in his Germany: its Universities, Theology, and [[Religion]] (P

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Psychology
...preceding terms, be used for the whole man. St. Paul, influenced probably by Greek philosophy, uses nous for mind as man’s intellectual act ...ge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul. 

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Foundation
...hind, but we can have other emotions and more joyful experiences new-born, by going forward to explore more deeply the great things of God. Therefore the ...orinthians 3:10 the metaphor is slightly different, the preaching of Jesus Christ being the one foundation (cf.   Isaiah 19:10 RVm [Note: Revised Versio

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Redeem
... .—It occurs about 5 times and means “ransom or redemption”: “He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever …” (Ps. 111:9) ...ther evidence of debt, given by the state, by a company or corporation, or by an individual. The credit of a state, a banking company or individuals, is

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Self- Denial

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Hebrews
...in all probability directed to some part of Palestine, yet it was written by St. Paul in Greek, and not in Hebrew. But, whatever may be the estimation p ... Hebrews 13:7 ). E. Christian love centers on the unchanging Christ ( Hebrews 13:8 ). F. Christian love does not follow strange t

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Ebionism; Ebionites
...early church or the Ebionites would have denounced Paul in the Clementines by name. Schwegler would argue that Justin Martyr was an Ebionite because he n

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Will
...on truth or fact. Mathematical formulae and scientific ‘laws’ are accepted by us because they ‘work’; God’s love and man’s immortality are accept ...on to estimate the beauty and the mercy and the wisdom of the dispensation by which it has been effected. 

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Slavery Slave
...But in   Philippians 1:16 the slave is transfigured into a brother in Christ. For further discussion of this point see art. Philemon. Though th ...e time of [[Constantine]] still more is heard of the manumission of slaves by Christian masters. It came to be regarded as a meritorious, and even expiat

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Victorinus Afer
.... These do not seem to be merely his own renderings. ("Ad Deum" is noticed by Sabatier.) In Php_2:30 (p. 1216) "exponens in incertum animam suam" is a be

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Time
....[Note: literally, literature.]‘indivisible’ [fraction of time], explained by the ‘twinkling of an eye’ which immediately follows). Jesus too is repo ...uke 3:1 f., we have a careful combination of names of various offices held by various persons at the time of the commencement of the preaching of John th

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Pelagianism And Pelagius
...its of this Dictionary. Pelagianism never developed into a schism by setting up any organization external to the Catholic church. It practised n

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Entire. Sanctification
...e Church and of the individual Christian. '''4.''' The mission of Christ is to ''Save His People From Their Sins,'' and to save them ''To The Utterm

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Crown
...uent and of the most general significance. It is applied to the crown worn by kings, whether [[Jewish]] (  2 Samuel 12:30 etc.) or foreign (  1 ...owned with many crowns, Jesus (19:12). His superior authority is indicated by the multiplicity of crowns he wears. The honor and consecration he has, as

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Children (Sons) Of God
...t from the reference to Hosea, though found in the corresponding reference by St. Paul (cf.   1 Peter 2:10 with   Romans 9:25-26 ). Fi ...e and goal of their lives and have refused to enter into a relationship of complete trust and love with God ( Romans 3:23 ). People who continue to live i

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Sanctify Sanctification
...18 f.,   1 John 5:3 f.,   1 John 5:20 , setting forth union with Christ through the indwelling Spirit as the spring of a new, eternal life for the ...sp;Colossians 3:12;  Hebrews 3:1 ." * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, pp. 113,114.] 

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Ark
...hilistines sent it back to [[Israel]] (1 Samuel 5;  1 Samuel 6:1-16). By striking dead some Israelites who looked into the ark, God impressed upon h ...k was esteemed an emblem of the system of the heavens. The principal terms by which the ancients distinguished the ark were Theba, Baris, Arguz, Aren, Ar

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Homiletics
...on, 1835, 12mo); Williams, Christian [[Preacher]] (collection of treatises by Wilkins, Jennings, Franck, Claude, etc., London 1843, 12mo); Beveridge (Bp.

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John Calvin
...livres, appeared in Paris, 1859 (2 vols. 8vo). It contains an introduction by the editors, with a history of previous editions. See Meth. Quart. Review, ...sel]] in 1535-36. It was written in Latin, and four years after translated by himself into French. "In the translated form," says Prof. Saintsbury, "it i

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Mediation Mediator
...Brunner, The [[Mediator]] ; T. F. Torrance, The Mediation of Christ . ...to the Hebrews seeks to show, is in a perfect and abiding way realized in Christ, who is thus the one true Mediator, our ‘great high priest, who hath pass

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Book
...terious: they had respect to times remote, and to future events; so that a complete knowledge of their meaning could not be obtained till after what was foreto ...ed or wrapped about with a cord, on which the wax was dropped, and stamped by a signet,  Isaiah 29:11   Revelation 5:1-3 . The writing

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