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Law
...John 2:2;   1 John 4:10 virtually sustain the doctrine of St. Paul on law, sin, and sacrifice. G. G. Findlay. ...more exact manifestation of the brightness, perfection, and glory of that law, under which angels and our progenitors in paradise were placed, and which

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God
...t the custom of our Lord to make minute regulations, as did the [[Mosaic]] Law. He rather laid down general principles; and it would be somewhat remarkabl ...wn Law. In the [[Talmud]] He is represented as a great Rabbi, studying the Law, and keeping the [[Sabbath]] (Gilbert, in Hastings’ DCG [

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Justification
...nal. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it the law of His own life, so that it holds in Him as its root. Into this new order o ...n the condition of righteous men, in this respect, that the penalty of the law does not lie against them, and that they are the acknowledged objects of th

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Atonement
...hey are saved from the power as well as the guilt of sin; freedom from the law of sin and death completes the release from its condemnation; the release f ...t secret of atonement. The innocent suffering with and for the guilty is a law from which Jesus did not withdraw Himself. In His consciousness of solidari

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Sacrifice
...Christian teachers, because the animal victims and not the human servant, law and not prophecy, have given it significance; the OT system of ritual sacri ...eaningless. The [[Homily]] of Salvation truly says "reason is satisfied by God's great wisdom in this mystery of our redemption, who hath so tempered His ju

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Covenant
...offerings, this does not eliminate from them the element of expiation. The Law itself speaks of expiation in connexion with the burnt-offerings ( Lev ...ent ; G. Vos, Biblical Theology ; J. Zinkand, Covenants: God's Claims . 

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Jesus Christ
...nd probably chief in importance, was the education in the home. The Jewish Law earnestly impressed upon parents, especially upon fathers, the duty of inst ...s by Jesus to represent deity. In other instances Jesus exercised God's authority in forgiving sins ( Mark 2:1-12;  Luke 7:44-49 ) and ac

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Moses
...the author of the Pentateuch. Besides such expressions as ‘The law of Moses’ (  Luke 2:22 ), ‘Moses enjoined’ (  Matthew 8:4 )

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Sanctification
...’ the ‘law’ of sin and death is done away altogether, and obedience to the law of God is merged in a higher and nobler loyalty to the God and Father of Je ...elievers are to "pursue" sanctification ( Hebrews 12:14 ). Apart from God's sanctifying work in human beings, "no one will see the Lord" ( Hebrews

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Inspiration
...reason, not only that the matter contained in the book of "the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms," (the usual phrase by which the Jews designa ...utterance to this saying He Himself proceeds to repeal commandments of the Law, substituting for them His own better principles, and thus showing that wha

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Providence
...necessity, do not lack the raiment they require. Work you must; it is the law of your lives as God’s rational creatures; but learn from the birds and t ...names for the unknown operations of providence; for it is certain that in God's universe nothing comes to pass causelessly, or in vain. Every event has its

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Prayer
...( e.g.   Genesis 28:20; see art. Vows). (ii.) The Law ( i.e. as codified and expanded in later times). The reticence a ...t not to be neglected. It is true there is no absolute command for this in God's word; yet from hints, allusions, and examples, we may learn that it was the

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Trinity
...zed in the names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but in one name, which is God's; and, therefore, though we be thrice put under water to represent the myste ...m, while Ebonites described Jesus as an ordinary man indwelt with God's power at baptism. [[Arius]] was also an influential theologian who

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Ethics
...t ( Matthew 7:24-27 ), and is due in part to a supposition that every law is for every man. The disciples, having a special task, might be under spec .../p> See also [[Theology Of Deuteronomy]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Law]]; [[Salvation]]; [[Sanctification]]; [[Sermon On The Mount]]; [[Ten Comman

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Grace
...deals with sinful mankind not on the ground of merit or after the mode of Law, as though they were servants or subjects, but solely from His own natural ...asizes the free character of grace. The one reference in James links it to God's gift (4:6). Peter, who also includes it in his greeting, quotes the same Ol

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Love
...James.-The Epistle of James by calling the commandment of love ‘the royal law’ ( James 2:8) places love in the centre of religion. This love is no ...here and now. Christians love because they have been loved. In such love, God's eternal purposes are being experienced and carried out by his people (&nbsp

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Sabbath
...f rest; and it was also strictly enjoined upon the [[Israelites]] in their law, both on the ground of its original institution,  Exodus 20:8-11 , and ...seventh-day Sabbath is the desirable day and according to ‘an unchangeable Law of well-establisht Order both in the [[Revealed]] Word and in [[Created]] N

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Predestination
...ace of God, they were absolutely incapacitated for obedience to the divine law. To get rid of this difficulty, Augustine, in some degree, transferred the ...braham, the Covenant with Israel, the discipline and growing revelation of Law and [[Prophets]] leads up (on predestination here, cf.   Genesis 18:18

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Faith
...und the expression: ‘Before the faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed’ ( Galat ...sues appear under the terms Justification, Atonement, Propitiation, Grace, Law (in NT), etc. But St. Peter in his 1st Ep., St. John in his 1st Ep. and Rev

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Elijah
...ostdiluvial world, as Enoch's to the antediluvial, against their unbelief. God's voice, "This is My beloved Son, hear Him," attests that the servants must b ...rk 9:4-5;  Luke 9:30,33 ). Some have seen the two as representing the Law and the Prophets, which were now both considered to be subservient to Chris

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Mediator
...s righteousness, His disposition to treat men according to a perfect moral law. When sin is passed over, righteousness is not manifested. But it was demon ...ng by this person; that it is he who spake to the patriarchs, who gave the law by Moses, and who is called in the Old Testament, "the angel of the covenan

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Adoption
...ὸν νόμον; the reference is not only to those who were under the [[Mosaic]] Law, but to all subject to any system of positive ordinances (so perhaps in &nb ...ry way great and extensive. 1. It implies great honour. They have God's name put upon them, and are described as "his people, called by his name, "

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Marriage
...he qualified answer of v. 9. This answer really admits the validity of the law of   Deuteronomy 24:1 , with its stricter interpretation (see p. 586 b ...marriage relationship. For marriage to function now according to God's ideal, believers in Christ need to marry only believers. Whenever God direc

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Creation
...he stronger surviving the weaker in the struggle for existence, and by the law of "natural selection" assuming those members which it needed for its devel ...the world. Like many Old Testament passages, this passage in Hebrews links God's creative activity with His redemptive activity. The people of [[Ly

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Righteousness
...ghteousness in the New Testament ; P. Stulmacher, Reconciliation, Law and Righteousness ; J. A. Zeisler, The Meaning of Righteousness in ...m> d ) Since righteousness is conformity to the Divine will, and the Law which reveals that will is righteous in the whole and its parts (  Psa

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Miracles
...t an act is not less Divine because it is fundamentally in accordance with law’ ( Life of Christ in Recent Research , p. 218). It may ...is their being wrought, or not, in support of doctrine in accordance with God's known word and revelation; for God cannot by subsequent revelation contradi

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Law Of Moses
...round. Christ glorified is the One whom God now recognises He only suits God's glory. Hence every one that is not 'in Christ' is a sinner already condemne ...from Mount Sinai, that which may be called the rough outline of the Mosaic law is given by God, solemnly recorded by Moses, and accepted by the people. In

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Scribes
...rs, and in stimulating hope for the future. The ordinances of the [[Oral]] Law were at last written down, and to their careful preservation by the Scribes ...d from the common herd, "people of the earth," "cursed" as not knowing the law ( John 7:15;  John 7:49). Fees were paid them for arbitrations (&

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Forgiveness
...E. Ladd, A [[Theology]] of the New Testament ; E. A. Martens, God's Design: A [[Focus]] on Old Testament Theology ; J. Milgrom, Cult a ...of His people (  Leviticus 11:44 ). Thus the [[Pauline]] saying, ‘The law hath been our tutor to bring us to Christ’ (  Galatians 3:24 ), is p

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Angel
.../i> ; A. C. Gaebelein, The Angels of God ; B. Graham, Angels: God's [[Secret]] Agets ; H. Lockyer, The [[Mystery]] and [[Ministry]] of ...y be asked, are the holy angels made at all subservient to the purposes of God's government? This question is answered by St. Paul in his [[Epistle]] to the

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Revelation
...ssible the operation of the human conscience, is sometimes called ‘natural law’ ( Romans 2:15; see [[Conscience]] ). The revelation throug ...idence, is evident from the ideas it gives us of God's perfections, of the law of nature, of redemption, of the state of man, &c. As to its external evide

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Reconciliation
...ile both unto God." This he did by the same act; abolishing the ceremonial law by becoming the antitype of all its sacrifices, and thus, by the sacrifice ...and love are harmonized. By Christ's sacrifice the sinner is brought into God's favor, which by sin he had justly forfeited. Hence his prayer is," God be p

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Gospel
...i> vii. [1895-96] 297f., xii. [1900-01] 482b, xxi. [1909-10] 497f. For the Law in Hebrews, see A. S. Peake, Hebrews (Century Bible, 1902). p. 30f ...s 3:22,26;  Galatians 2:16,20 ). One must believe the gospel for here God's salvation is mediated. (2) [[Growing]] . The gospel is both a mess

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Deuteronomy
...> ) As He is God of the whole earth, Jahweh’s will is the moral law, and in connexion with its requirements He rewards and punishes (cf. the te ...settle down in an agriculturally fertile country. Moses’ repetition of the law therefore included adjustments to fit in with the people’s new way of lif

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Worship
...ctive, and to this day the church continues to debate the relationship of "law" and "grace" in the life of the Christian. The second concerned the relatio ...arvest in the kingdom of grace; the law of the letter from Mount Sinai—the law of the spirit from the heavenly Jerusalem. This festival originally embrace

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Law In The Old Testament
Law In The Old Testament <ref name="term_5919" /> ...osephus, Ant. , XX, viii, 8; ix, 2). (3) That the Mosaic law as to divorce was to give place to one more stringent appe 

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Person Of Christ
...are the conditions of entrance. He put aside the ancient ordinances of the Law. He called all the weary to Himself for rest; most amazing of all, He claim ...s this Word, eternal in His subsistence, God's eternal fellow, the eternal God's self, that, as "come in the flesh," was Jesus Christ ( 1 John 4:2 ). "

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Logos
...bringing life and light to men. He comes with a gospel that supersedes the Law of Moses, for it is a gospel of grace as well as of truth. Himself the Son ...Gospel Jesus spoke and acted as the incarnate logos , continuing God's creative and redemptive work. Hence, He could change water to wine, create

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Holy Spirit
...p;2 Corinthians 3:17;  Galatians 5:5; see [[Flesh]] ; [[Freedom]] ; [[Law]] ). This change in the behaviour of believers does not happen aut ...e of God's personality and power, living in and divinely empowering all of God's true people in diverse and incomplete ways that foreshadow their complete,

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Word
...desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it" ( Isaiah 55:11 ). God's word as his creative power and revelation is perfect and all-sufficient, es ...ngs is summed up as the prophetic λόγος. In  Galatians 5:14 the whole Law is said to be summed up in one λόγος, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour

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Pharisees
...heir practice ( Matthew 23:2-3). But while pressing the letter of the law they ignored the spirit ( Matthew 5:21-22;  Matthew 5:27;  M ...ncipient neo-Pharisaism with its exclusiveness and ‘desire to be under the law,’ and combated it so successfully. While the statement in the JE_ (ix. 66

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Pentateuch
...am's prayer ( Numbers 23:10). [[Order]] . The development of God's grace to man is the golden thread running through the whole, and binding th ...h profit. At times we must sacrifice our need for security in certainty to God's nature as sovereign mystery. See [[Authority]]; Inspiration; Revelation. </

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Messiah
...s the centre of his thought would have been to replace the legalism of the Law by the legalism of a new authority. St. Paul was evidently acquainted with ...o-fold Messias; one the son of Ephraim, a poor and despised teacher of the law; the other the son of David, to be a conqueror. Nehemiah was content to be

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David
...he Ziphites for betraying David: "Blessed be ye of the Lord (thus claiming God's sanction to treachery, malice, and bloodthirsty persecution of the innocent ...the first time introduced into public worship. [[Zion]] became henceforth "God's holy hill." David's wars. David now entered on a series of conques

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Holiness
...persons and to the nation, holiness acquired a deeper significance. In the Law of [[Holiness]] (Leviticus 17 ff.) the command. ‘Ye shall be holy; for I ...dus 19:5-6) And hence the gospel-charter, corresponding to the same as the law by Moses had typically represented, makes the same proclamation. "Ye are (s

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Leviticus
...onial pollution a pollution which includes more than ethical elements. The law-book probably arose at some sanctuary other than Jerusalem, and expressed a ...truction is a gift from God and helps the people understand how to live as God's covenant people. The book thus provides an important part of the story of G

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Israel
...bout b.c. 300. They were composed under the influence of the [[Levitical]] law. The history was re-told in Chronicles, in order to furnish the faithful wi ...as a politically separate religiously oriented nation; rather, he spoke of God's all-encompassing kingdom. And while it is true Paul spoke of his ethnic peo

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Kingdom Of God
...> The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus ; R. Schnackenburg, God's Rule and Kingdom ; R. H. Stein, The Method and [[Message]] of Jesu ...powerful (in Jesus' day wealth and power were often thought to be signs of God's blessing). Jesus included everyone without distinction. He spoke of God sen

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Fire
...trickery or hidden evidence here. There is no hypocrisy in GOD's presence. GOD's fierce anger is displayed in all its justice, righteousness and purity. </p ...sence in fire. To Moses at the bush,  Exodus 3:2 at the giving of the law on Mount Siani,  Exodus 19:18-19. To Isaiah in the vision,  Isaia

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Adam
...collected into our system, wholly forbids us to suppose that the image of God's moral perfections in man was a blurred and dim representation. To whatever ...is intended to show that the provision made for divorce in the [[Mosaic]] law ( Deuteronomy 24:1) was only a concession to the hardness of men’s h

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Calvinism
...ity with the Lutherans. With them, in words, he taught the universality of God's good will; but it was a universality which he extended only to the off ...hreefold economy: (1) Theeconomy before the law; (2) The economy under the law; (3) The economy of the Gospel. See his Summa Doctrine de Feedere et Testam

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Abraham
...ousness"; but the faith that justified him was evinced, by his offering at God's command his son, to be not a dead but a living "faith that works by love." ...l persons with whom modern Christians are privileged to join in witness to God's power and his plan of salvation through Christ. While Christians can rejoic

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Book Of Exodus
...y established his covenant with Israel as his chosen people, giving them a law-code and a religious order to govern their national life. The instructions ...of God's people prepares for worship ( Exodus 40:1-33 ). E. God's presence fills the worship place continually for His obedient people (&nbsp

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Propitiation
...ness rather than in any definite legal obligation; the Pauline idea of the law of righteousness is absent. If a Pauline philosophy of redemption lies behi ...do not mean by God's anger, any such passion, but the just declaration of God's will to punish, upon our provocation of him by our sins; we do not make the

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Prophet
...parted and lots cast for His vesture," "His ears opened" to "come" and "do God's will" at all costs, when God would not have animal "sacrifice" (Psalm 22; P ...r most essential characteristic is that they were instruments of revealing God's will to man, as in other ways, so specially by predicting future events, an

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Salvation
...sp;Galatians 3:8 ). The objective basis and means of salvation is God's sovereign and gracious choice to be "God with us" in the person of Jesus Ch ...te us from God's love in Christ ( Romans 8:35-39 ). [[Confidence]] in God's ability to keep those who have entrusted their lives to Christ is not, howe

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Satan
...mission, faith, and so his end being blessed, as in Job's case. Man can in God's strength "resist Satan" ( James 4:7); by withholding consent of the wi ...e sinner is translated out of "the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son." ( Colossians 1:13) And there is another and a open

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Regeneration
...4 ). The law of God has its place in producing this conviction of sin; but law alone will not produce spiritual contrition. See Repentance. For this there ...( Ephesians 2:1 ). [[Left]] to themselves, human beings will corrupt God's revelation of Himself and turn to gross forms of disobedience ( Romans

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Circumcision
...hether the members of that church were not seeking to be "justified by the law" upon their observing "days, and months, and times, and years." Had he done ...κατατέμνειν is used in the Septuagintof incisions forbidden by the Mosaic Law: e.g. κατετέμνοντο κατὰ τὸν ἐθισμὸν

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Anthropology
...ndividuals. God's knowledge of people is intimate, personal, and profound. God's love is offered to human beings individually. The relationship between huma ...y must limit itself to a period of time inside of 100,000 years" (Orr, God's Image , etc., 176). Professor Tait of [[Edinburgh]] limited the range

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Will Of God
...decision making. We are left "in the middle, " knowing that we are to seek God's guidance through the Scriptures, prayer, the counsel of Christian leaders,

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Christianity
...precedents, Greek philosophy and intellectual habitudes, Roman polity and law, the superstitious ideas and observances of paganism—must be taken into a ...Jericho; Apollos, distinguished for eloquence; Paul, learned in the Jewish law; [[Sergius]] Paulus, governor of the island of Cyprus; Cornelius, a Roman c

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Life
...protects the believer ( Romans 8:7-39;  Ephesians 6:10-18 ). The Law threatens this life by tempting people to believe that they can attain this ...is drained from the body, so is life. The connection is so strong that the law forbade the consumption of blood or meat with blood in it ( Genesis 9:

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Talmud
...36). It is clear from this that the Written Law of the Bible, and the Oral Law as contained in the Talmud, are of equal authority. The Talmud is again ref ...developed system for settling disputed questions of halakah (oral law). It includes commentary on all six major divisions of the Mishnah, but del

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Priest
...parable in fact with that of the Rabbis, the masters and expounders of the Law. A sacrificial priest becomes an anachronism when his duties are in abeyanc ...receive is the redemption money of the firstborn, the right of taking the law from the chest, and of pronouncing the benediction in the synagogue. From s

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Nehemiah
...arrying the daughter of Sanballat the Horonite. [[Zeal]] for the purity of God's worship, priesthood, and people, makes the act praiseworthy as one of faith ... O. God's day must be respected ( Nehemiah 13:15-22 ). P. God's way demands purity in marriage and in ministers ( Nehemiah 13:23-31 ).

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Christology Christ
...erse (‘and from all the things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses, by him is justified every one that believeth’) St. Paul seems t ...ing into his family. Since Christ is the goal and end of the Old Testament Law, so "faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through

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Glory
... Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) . [[Robert]] Law. ...nd acknowledge it. In a number of passages it is difficult to know whether God's glory refers to his actual glory or to human recognition of it. This is tru

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Aaron
...tainous land of Edom, was encamped at Mosera, he ascended Mount [[Hor]] at God's command. There Moses stripped him of his pontifical robes, and put them upo ...s, require here to be pointed out. Before the promulgation of the law by Moses, the fathers of every family, and the princes of every tribe, were

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Elisha
...the law, foreruns the gentler Elisha, so John the greatest prophet of the law foreruns Jesus the gracious Savior. ...s God (cf.  Daniel 12:2 ), when they are brought into connection with God's true Prophet they will be restored to life as unexpectedly and as powerfull

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Church
...may he called the provincial Church (A. Harnack, [[Constitution]] and Law of the Church , Eng. translation, London, 1910, p. 160). Besi ...y incorporated and Å“cumenical society of the Roman Empire, with its canon law and hierarchical jurisdiction, and from that Kingdom of Christ which Luther

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Genesis
...n, injustice, and conniving ( Genesis 38:1-30 ). 3. God's presence is the only blessing His servant needs ( Genesis 39:1-23 ). < ...s book; and it is supposed that he penned it after the promulgation of the law. Its authenticity is attested by the most indisputable evidence, and it is

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Heaven
...ories of thought. For example, the Rabbinical tradition could think of the Law, the Temple, and other central ideas of Judaism as laid up with God before ...ity of languages shall then cease, inasmuch as it took its first rise from God's judicial hand, when he confounded the speech of those who presumptuously at

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Holy Ghost
...nsciousness of our own good works.' This, he affirms, is ‘the testimony of God's Spirit.' But this is included in the testimony of our own spirit: yea, and ...on of the existence and divinity of the Holy Spirit may be expected in the law and the prophets, and is, in fact, to be traced there with certainty. The S

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Authority In Religion
..., in which our Lord refers to Isaiah not merely as an interpreter of God’s law, but as a teacher of God’s people. But the inference is not to be straine ...Rests on Personal Authority They all rest on the assumption that God's self-revelation came to an end with the apostolic age. The Biblical theory

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Epistle To The Romans
...‘it has learned to break with Judaism, and to regard the standpoint of the law as once for all past and done with.’ This is ‘a remarkable forward step ...goodness of God, their defection would make the way for the resumption of God's ways with Israel, and both Gentiles and Jews would manifestly come in on th

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Paul The Apostle
...f Jerusalem, who thought that he persuaded Jews not to keep the Law, and to undertake the [[Temple]] charges for four men who were under a vow, .... C. van Unnik, Tarsus or Jerusalem ; S. Westerholm, Israel's Law and the Church's Faith ; B. [[Winter]] and A. Clark, The Book of A

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Testimony
...witness to the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus in a human court of law, John reminds them with the Book of Revelation that their ultimate destiny ...Jesus alone could say it, "I delight to do thy will [[O]] my God, yea thy law is within my heart"â€”or as the margin renders it, "in the midst of my

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Hosea
...13:1-16 ). I. [[Repentance]] results in restoration and life for God's people ( Hosea 14:1-9 ). Billy K. Smith ...ng (which they so craved for originally), without a sacrifice (which their law requires as essential to their religion), without an image ... ephod ... te

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Conscience
...and faith unfeigned are ‘the end of the charge’ and the fulfilling of the law ( 1 Timothy 1:5). To be perfectly educated, in short, a conscience mus ...to receive progressively a revelation of the righteousness of God. But is law the last word? May there not be mercy and an atonement? [[Cannot]] the accu

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Children Of God
...God ( Matthew 25:40); He is conscious that He has never broken God’s law. Therefore He can know God as the Father; and He is able to reveal God to m ...f His love, and able to "rise and go to their Father." They are objects of God's love ( John 15:13;  Romans 5:8 ) and of His gracious search and s

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Election
.... It is rather a stronghold in time of trial and a confession of praise to God's grace and to His glory. Timothy [[George]] This word has different meanings. 1. It signifies God's taking a whole nation, community, or body of men, into external covenant wi

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Praise
...is sufficient reason for praise. A psalmist, captivated by the reality of God's choice of Jacob, exhorts, "Sing praise" ( Psalm 135; cf.  Revelat ...12; in  Ephesians 1:14 , of the whole company, the church, viewed as "God's own possession" (RV); in  Ephesians 1:6 , with particular reference to

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Truth
...perfect. The apostles further taught that the truth of God outlined in the Law and embodied in Christ was brought home to the heart and mind of men by man ...not believe the truth, but instead had pleasure in unrighteousness (2:12). God's choosing of the [[Thessalonian]] believers for salvation came about by mean

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Work
...nally to their rightful positions as kings and queens of the new creation, God's resplendent images, who will exercise dominion through service and love (22

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Mercy
...i> . R. Bultmann, TDNT, 2:477-87; 5:159-61; J. D. M. Derrett, Law in the New Testament ; H.-H. Esser, NIDNTT 2:593-601; N. Glue ...pest to society to escape unpunished, or so mitigates the sentence of the law as to put it into his power to do still greater hurt to others, he violates

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Mystery
...unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." The little ones must hear all revelation as much as the intellec ...hey occupy as those who have experienced the fulfillment of the mystery of God's purposes. Although predicted in the Scriptures, the mystery was kept silent

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Isaiah
...God brings life ( Isaiah 60:1-62:12 ). F. [[Prayer]] brings God's help ( Isaiah 63:1-65:25 ). G. [[Judgment]] and deliverance a ...itions such as suit comforting exhortations. The many epithets attached to God's name are designed as so many stays whereon faith may rest and repel despair

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Synagogue
...rford, Pharisaism, London, 1912, pp. 80-83). The reading from the Law introduced by Ezra ( Nehemiah 8:5) became soon afterwards a fixed cust ...stomary greeting, with a doxology. A section was then read from the Mosaic law. Then followed, after the singing of a second doxology, the reading of a po

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Justice
...he custom of employing persons of high rank to execute the sentence of the law, is still retained in the principality of Senaar, where the public executio ...e time. But there were different kinds of imprisonment recognized by Roman law, and it lay within the magistrate’s power to decide which kind the prison

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Apocrypha
...privilege. But the identification of wisdom in Sirach with interest in the Law ( Sirach 39:1) tends to limit this grace itself and confine it to Isra ...will remain four hundred years and then die. The next three visions stress God's coming intervention and salvation of His people through the pre-existent Me

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Adultery
...mind, among the Jews, God's high displeasure against this violation of his law; and though some lax moralists have been found, in modern times, to palliat ...for reviving an obsolete penalty, or else sanctioning an infraction of the law. In  Matthew 5:82 He condemns their usage of divorce except in the cas

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Miracle
...own observation of the regularity of their effects. The existence of this law is made known to us not only by these means, but also by the still clearer ...held sway and where people require "power evangelism" to be converted. But God's sovereignty warns against trying to predict when they may occur and refutes

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Fear
...e revelation of God to people in the New Testament contains the element of God's mysterious otherness calling for reverent obedience. The New Testament chur ...l. The [[Torah]] was thus a tutor to bring them to Christ. The religion of law, in which God was a Sovereign to be obeyed and a Judge to be dreaded, was c

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Resurrection
...this idea alone retains its vitality in Philo’s system, the future of the Law which is destined to attain universal sway’ (Les idées philosophiques et ...e of the basis for hoping and not fearing death. It also affects morality. God's future judgment modifies earthly behavior. Paul's conclusion that "If the d

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Epistle To The Galatians
...was the least danger of the Gentile Christians being made to submit to the Law. There is therefore no reason for surprise that the recent attack on the au ...were in fact utterly opposed, but if led by the Spirit they were not under law. The works of the flesh are set forth in contrast to the fruit of the Spiri

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Repentance
...t would seem to have been his own experience of it: the crushing weight of law; the emergence of desire: the resultant sense of helplessness; and the deli ...raim? My heart is changed within me I will not carry out my fierce anger." God's true love for Israel would triumph, and he would keep covenant with his peo

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Assurance
...ht himself also to walk even as he walked’ ( 1 John 2:5 f.). Law aptly characterizes St. John’s doctrine of personal assurance when he say ...that man is by nature prone to evil, and that in practice he violates that law under which as a creature he is placed, and is thereby exposed to punishmen

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Mystics
...is said to have been the famous Bossuet, bishop of Meaux. Mr. [[William]] Law, author of the "Serious Call," &c, degenerated in the latter part of his li ...t derived to our souls. Law's Life; Law's Spirit of [[Prayer]] and Appeal; Law's Spirit of Love, and on Regeneration. 

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Son Of God
...rred] (1900); F. W. Robertson, Serm. ii. 136, 235; P. Brooks, Law of [[Growth]] , 346. James Stalker. ...bsp;Acts 3:17;  Acts 13:27). Deniers of Jesus' Godhead on the plea of God's unity copy the Jews, who crucified Him because of His claim to be God. The

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Canon Of The Old Testament
...ved by vision or prophecy; in His own name He supplied what was wanting in Law and Prophets. He did not pronounce any book in Itself adequate to determine ...Epiphanes (168 B.C.) in persecuting the Jews sought out "the books of the law" and burnt them ( 1 Maccabees 1:56). To possess a book of the covenant

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Biblical Theology
...tical theories. This is not to denigrate scholarship but to recognize that God's word, if living and true, calls for substantially (not totally) different a ...[[Return]] and the Maccabees, in which are seen at work the [[Levitical]] law, and various anti-legal tendencies. It must be obvious that attempts to int

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Isaac
...common title (See [[Abimelech]] , i.e. my father a king. Isaac had obeyed God's vision in not going down to Egypt, a place of spiritual danger though abund ...er should serve the younger, but Rebekah, instead of leaving the matter in God's hands, contrived by a deceitful stratagem to get the blessing for Jacob ins

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Heart
...remiah 17:1 ). In short, the heart needs to be educated by filling it with God's word ( Proverbs 22:17-18 ). In that way a person will grow in favor an ...e where God does His work in the individual. For instance, the work of the law is “written in their hearts,” and conscience is the proof of this (&nbs

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The Johannine Theology
...al of the absoluteness of moral obligation, the repudiation of the eternal law upon which all moral life is based. In other words, to sin is to assert one

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Blasphemy
...against any of the false gods whom his [[Egyptian]] father worshipped,—the law in the words now quoted is sufficiently explicit; and the circumstances of ...and God (εἰς Μωσῆν καὶ τὸν θεόν). According to the [[Levitical]] law the punishment for blaspheming the name of [[Jahweh]] was death by stoning

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Paul
...nst the Christians. He considered that [[Stephen]] was a rebel against the law and that therefore he deserved execution ( Acts 6:13;  Acts 7:58; ...of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee’ ( Philippians 3:5); and these terms betoken an intensel

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Ezra
...f the Jewish people. Ezra is the true founder of Judaism. By investing the Law with a sanctity and influence that it had never before possessed, and makin ...of Jerusalem was rebuilt ( Nehemiah 6:15), after which Ezra read the law to the people and explained its meaning ( Nehemiah 8:1-2;  Nehemi

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Vicarious Sacrifice
...e sins of many ( Hebrews 9:28). ‘Not the satisfaction of the law, the removal of the curse, the endurance of the penalty of sin, but a Divin

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Wisdom
...omen who should decry love.… It is the forgetfulness of this psychological law which stultifies the so-called liberal Christianity. It is the realisation ...iestly ritual, ‘wisdom’ came to be defined as observance of the [[Mosaic]] Law ( Sir 19:20-24; Sir 24:23 ). On its Divine side, ‘wisdom’ was

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Election Elect
...disciples’ preaching than the Jews, since to the latter had been given the Law and the Prophets. The justness of the objection may be granted. But against ...timate ends, but they suffer the consequences that attend the rejection of God's will. [[Walter]] A. Elwell See also Israel; Mess

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Book Of Job
...s Job had. They must take a sacrifice, and Job must pray for them: Job was God's servant, and him God would accept. God blessed his latter end more than the ...ighteous?" and so the book is resolved into a theodicy, a justification of God's ways with man. Well the friends of Job do their best to make their interpre

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Josiah
...se in Jerusalem the three from Babylon were guests, from whom Zechariah by God's command took silver and gold to make crowns for the high priest Joshua's he ...ah gathered Jerusalem’s leading citizens together at the temple, where the law was read to them. He gained their support in renewing the nation’s covena

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Evil
...osition) sent by God that eventually destroyed Saul. The spirit, then, was God's instrument of judgment on Saul because of his rebellious attitude. Morally, ...for the perfection and order of the whole creation; only they, contrary to God's intention and command, have abused what was necessary for the perfection of

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Image
...o those which follow, is found in  Hebrews 10:1, where the [[Mosaic]] Law is spoken of as being a mere ‘shadow’ of the coming bliss, instead of r ...references to graven and molten images connected with idolatry, which the law strictly forbade the [[Israelites]] to make, the word is used in several im

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Book Of Numbers
...God was thrown open by ‘another priest, who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an indissoluble life’ (&n ... they are taken into consideration, and hence their perversities and God's chastisements are prominent. These lead, in their spiritual significance, t

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Spirit
... The Spirit distributes gifts in the church which are designed to equip God's people for serving and building up the body of Christ ( 1 Corinthians ...rs must worship in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:24 ). While God's Spirit is holy, reference is made to unclean, evil, and demonic spirits tha

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Jewish. Scribes
...the Syrians, and check [[Hellenistic]] luxuries, these two doctors of the law enacted that contact with the soil of any foreign country, and the use of g

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Light
...equence, infallible as the foundations of the universe and Nature’s oldest law, the light returns on you, this time, with lightning ’ ...bsp;Psalm 27:1;  Isaiah 9:2;  2 Corinthians 4:6 ) in contrast to God's judgment ( Amos 5:18 ). Throughout the Old Testament light is regularl

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Blood
...oth in the heavens and upon earth. Even the balance of nature will reflect God's hand of judgment as Christ takes up His reign. Nature off balance reflects ...d the flesh of animals to be a source of food for human beings, but in the law he set out for Israel, those who took an animal’s life had to acknowledge

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Incarnation
...aw a law recognized as Divine to be Lord of the Sabbath, and to give a new law to His disciples. In all His teaching there is an implicit claim to infalli ...ust be two natures if there be two persons in Christ, led Eutyches, by the law of contrarieties, to an exact counterpart, that there is but one person in

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Man
...men have actually sinned, though, prior to the giving of explicit law, their sin was different in kind from Adam’s wilful disobedience ( R ...live a life of dependence on the promises; of regularity and obedience to God's word; of holy joy and peace; and have a hope full of immortality. 

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Baptism
...ing of Easter, contrasts the practice of Jesus with that of the [[Mosaic]] Law in the matter of the making of rules. It is quite possible that no ..., his higher nature doth not sin, his normal direction is against sin; the law of God after the inward man is the ruling principle of his true self (&nbsp

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Persecution
...o nation, but embraced all peoples. As such Christianity stood outside the law of the Empire. It created divisions in every nation, and town, and family. ...e a Christian, openly declared for the Christians, and published the first law in favour of them. The death of Maximin, emperor of the east, soon after pu

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Egypt
...dynasty, answering to the end of the period of the Judges. Thus, God's providence secured Israel from being crushed by tire overwhelming rival emp ...1 . Egypt too, it must be remembered, was the place of sojourn of God's favoured people Israel. It was a king of Egypt who caused to be translated

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Noah
...world by God's making human life inviolable on the ground of man's bearing God's image. These three precepts, abstinence from blood, murder punishable by de ...long with Daniel and Job, though able to secure only their own safety when God's sore judgements were on the land.  Ezekiel 14:14,16,20 . See ARK and F

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Books Of Chronicles
...bsp;2 Chronicles 36:9-21 ) VI. Providential [[Decree]] to Rebuild God's House ( 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 ) A. Date and origin of decree

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Angels
...by a series of powers or angels, who were ignorant of God; the [[Mosaic]] Law was given by them (cf. above, 5 ( b )). Cerinthus is the ...ts and visible agents, the invisible angels work in a marvelous way, under God's providence, guiding events at the crisis so as to carry out the foreordaine

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Omnipresence
...s of space, and to prove that everywhere there are indications of the same law and order as in the world around us, and that the indications of the presen ...Effects are produced by power, not by laws. A law cannot execute itself. A law refers us to an agent. The usual argument a priori, on

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Antichrist
...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 pure l ...l powers. The last battle will be won by God and the beneficiaries will be God's people. L. Ann Jervis Bibliography . M. D. Hooke

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Woman
...ssiping or noisy or uneducated women), but Paul bases his rationale in the law (v. 34) and says nothing of these cultural phenomena. Others take verses 33 ...esians 5:22-33). Not only is the spirit of that relationship to be the new law of love, but the relationship itself is made sacramental by its comparison

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Revelation Of God
...women into God's presence. For believers today, the Bible is the source of God's revelation. In the written word we can identify God, know and understand so

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Altar
...the [[Urim]] and [[Thummim]] whereby the high priest miraculously learned God's will; and the ark of the covenant, whence God gave His answers in a clear v ...eby given to God. The acceptance of the offerings by the priest symbolized God's acceptance, manifest in blessings ( Exodus 20:24 ) and covenant renewa

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Tradition
...lical materials as well as come to a deeper understanding of the nature of God's inspiration. The common characteristics of material preserved at specific w ...R. T. Herford, Pharisaism , 1912; J. Z. Lauterbach, article‘Oral Law,’ in Jewish Encyclopedia ix. 423 ff.; A. C. Zenos, article‘Tra

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Sin
...must encounter ‘of enforcing his inherited organic nature to obey a moral law’ (Tennant, Hulsean Lectures , p. 81). But, apart from the fact t ...ere of good. '''4.''' That eternal vengeance is inconsistent with God's gospel revelation of Himself as love. But the New [[Testament]] abounds in

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Anthropomorphism
...k to some and foolishness to others ( 1 Corinthians 1:23 ), but it is God's wisdom revealing His way of salvation. Christ Jesus took the form (morphe) ...ligion , 1889; J. Fiske, The Idea of God , 1901; J. Orr, God's Image in Man , 1905; D. B. Purinton, [[Christian]] Theism , 1

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Christ
...be added, that He is the One great and glorious object of which the whole law, types, prophecies, and revelations point; and in whom they all, like rays ...om the beginning, who is described by the prophets, under the character of God's Anointed, the Messiah, or the Christ. As to the use of the term in the New

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Perseverance
...rs of holiness. This ideal is laid upon men by God, not to impose a harder law, but from His consuming passion to bring them to the fullest life. ...rowth]] into maturity is of the nature of salvation ( 1 Peter 2:2 b). God's grace continues to uphold and enable. Faith must be nurtured and strengthen

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Expiation
...and without shedding of blood there is no remission." Thus, by their very law, and by constant usage, were the Jews familiarized to the notion of expiato ...covered or shut out the claims and demands of the law against the sins of God's people, whereby he became "propitious" to them. The idea of vicari

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Ten Commandments Law Torah
Ten Commandments Law Torah <ref name="term_42048" /> ...h fulfills the Law ( Galatians 5:16;  Romans 8:1 ). Paul saw the Law as no longer to be viewed legalistically. Nevertheless, it is still the rev

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Death Of Christ
...what is the law of the Spirit of life and righteousness in Christ but the law of that moral order, through which Christ Jesus, by means of His mediation, ...ve faith in Jesus. Human sins are not just swept aside as inconsequential; God's justice is shown in that they are borne by the sinless Son of God, and beca

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Malachi
...righteous, on the day of Jahweh, with a concluding exhortation to obey the Law of Moses, and a promise of the coming of [[Elijah]] to lead the people to r ...God's name; ushered in by the forerunner Elijah, preaching a return to the law of Moses, and to the piety of Israel's forefathers, lest Jehovah come and s

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Epistle Of James
...est is against a ceremonialism which neglects the weightier matters of the Law; cf. esp.   James 1:27 , where ‘religion’ means religion on its ou ...arned against speaking evil one of another, in doing which they judged the law, which inculcates loving one's neighbour as oneself. None should exercise s

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Hell
...nfinite. [[Questions]] will remain. But believers personally know God's love in Jesus Christ. And their response to a lost world will parallel that ...). To the bad '''''Ηades''''' was depicted as a place of punishment, where God's wrath reached to the depths ( Deuteronomy 32:22;  Amos 9:2; &nbsp

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Prophetess Prophet Prophecy
...assical Old Testament prophecy and apostolic prophecy that delivered to us God's authoritative [[Scriptures]] have ceased. Others feel, however, that a seco

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Job
...ld not have used the [[Tetragrammaton]] so freely. Of familiarity with the Law there are, indeed, very few traces, but that is doubtless owing to the poet ...Add to this, that its prophetic parts reflect much light on the economy of God's moral government; and every admirer of sacred antiquity, every inquirer aft

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Promise
...3 ,Acts 2:33, 2:38-39 ). There are other subjects related to God's promise: rest ( Hebrews 4:1 ); the new covenant with its prospect of a ...l prevailed when, over the centuries, the Israelites became disobedient to God's covenant and ultimately were punished by exile. So desperate was the nation

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Lord
...obey Him totally. He is the Lord who reveals Himself in His covenant, His law, and His faithfulness. About 300 B.C. adonai became more

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Ezekiel
...ord ( Ezekiel 21:1-32 ) 4. Because Israel refused to live by God's covenant demands ( Ezekiel 22:1-31 ) 5. Because of the two si ...ill heaven and earth pass one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law until all be fulfilled" ( Matthew 5:18). The antitypical perfection of

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Obedience
...Jesus. The Spirit's abiding presence enables all God's people to carry out God's will and to live obediently before him. Harvey E. Finley ...that will not trust God. Obedience comes from a heart that trusts God. If God's people obey Him, they find the blessings He yearns to give. If they disobey

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Imputation
...ification before God is of the latter kind, and may be defined thus: it is God's gracious donation of the righteousness of Christ to believers, and his acce ...he prophets, which is received by faith in Christ by whose expiatory death God's retributive righteousness has been made manifest ( Romans 3:21 , &nbsp

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Fall
...se St. Paul goes on to show that till the time of Moses, in the absence of law, the descendants of Adam could not be held as blameworthy as Adam himself w ...may mean simply “when” (NIV; compare REB). One should also be reminded of God's grace to allow life to continue and the Hebrew understanding that death inv

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Book Of Ezra
...tical solutions for difficult problems. ( Ezra 10:12-17 ) P. God's way expects “fruit in keeping with repentance” ( Matthew 3:8 ) fro ...y years is broken in the year b.c. 458, when Ezra, the teacher of the Law , at the head of a fresh band of exiles, leaves [[Babylonia]] bearing

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Jews
...ceremonies essential to their religion can no more be observed: the ritual law, which cast a splendour on the national worship, and struck the [[Pagans]] ...ceremonies essential to their religion can no more be observed: the ritual law, which cast a splendour on the national worship, and struck the Pagans so m

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Samuel
...to which belonged "the sons of the prophets," whose education, beside the law, was in sacred, vocal, and instrumental music and processions ( 1 Samu ...;1 Samuel 25:1;  1 Samuel 28:3 ). It also left Saul without access to God's word. In desperation he acknowledged Samuel's power and influence by seekin

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Book Of Romans
...rgency of the times ( Romans 13:8-14 ). 1. Love fulfills the law ( Romans 13:8-10 ). 2. The critical nature of the times calls

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Hope
...never disappoints us; for through the Holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts” (  Romans 5:5 Williams). Hence, Paul's ...sting in our works is disallowed, we may boast or exult in hope of sharing God's glory ( Romans 5:2; cf.  Hebrews 3:6 ). Hope has a sanct

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Education
...men could, if they wished, receive a more thorough education in the Jewish law by becoming students of learned Jewish teachers ( John 3:10;  Act ...increase this use, in so far as it was now necessary to study not only the Law but also the Prophets and the Kethubim, seeing that these afforded propheti

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Proselyte
...Paul’s words, ‘by receiving circumcision, became a debtor to do the whole law’ ( Galatians 5:3)-was always admitted with fervour. ‘That proselyt ...s tenderer and whose ethical standards were higher, that made love and not law the interpreter of duty and the inspiration of service, that lived not in a

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Confession
...desire the coming of Christ, to satisfy for their sins, and accomplish the law by himself. (6.) That Christ was born in the ti ...ch in [[Alexandria]] at the end of the 1st cent. interpreted the [[Moral]] Law. The writer teaches definitely: ‘Thou shalt confess thy sins’ (ch. 19),

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John The Baptist
...e he had rebuked Herod for making her his wife in flagrant defiance of the law of Israel ( Leviticus 18:16;  Leviticus 20:21). Josephus, on the ...ed the overthrow of Herod's army, which he had sent against his father-in- law, Aretas, to the just judgment of God for putting John the Baptist to death.

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Idolatry
...temptation to a simple, restrained, agricultural people, whose worship and law demands the greatest purity of heart and of life. - Editor). ...livered from it ( Joshua 24:14;  Ezekiel 20:7 ). Many a token of God's displeasure fell upon them because of this sin. The idolatry learn

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Neonomians
...considered the formal obligation to do so as arising merely from the moral law, which, requiring supreme love to God, requires acquiscence in any revelati ...rlessly set forth the extent, spirituality, and unflinching demands of the law; they think it necessary also to urge upon sinners the legal dispensation,

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Christian. Marriage
...generally celebrated in private houses. In England, by the ancient common law, a like custom prevailed as in [[Scotland]] until 1757, when, by lord Hardw

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Prophecy
...that the existence of the things must needs be necessary; therefore, from God's judging infallibly concerning things which depend not on necessary but free ...r most essential characteristic is that they were instruments of revealing God's will to man, as in other ways, so specially by predicting future events, an

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Religion Of Israel
...s its expression in this, that public and private life, civil and criminal law, military and political matters were all controlled by religious principles

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Book Of Daniel
...is a revelation extending from the days of Daniel to the final blessing of God's people. The city and sanctuary are in view in  Daniel 9 , here the peo ...Daniel, the inspired book continues to give hope, strength, and courage to God's people, especially in times of persecution, and to call for ultimate faithf

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Jubilee
...4:13-23 ); but 3, are ultimately rescued and blessed according to God's purposes, and on the ground of the day of atonement. Israel have sold thems ...erhaps devoted to school and instruction of the people, the reading of the law and such services (Ewald). 

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Hand
...my right hand, I shall not be moved,"  Psalms 16:8 . To turn from the law of God, neither to the right hand nor to the left, is a frequent Scripture ...pleasure, or lack of respect. When used in reference to God, it symbolized God's warning and punishment. Hebrew “to fill the hand” expressed th

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Philosophy
...ablish the sovereignty of Virtue. He affirmed the existence of a universal law of right and wrong. He connected philosophy with action, both in detail and ...an reason, especially in light of the moral degeneracy in humans, requires God's help in resolving philosophical questions. The sacrificial structu

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Preaching
...ly quoted them, and referred their auditors to the Holy [[Scriptures]] for law. [[Pope]] Leo X. did not know this when he told Prierio, who complained of ...s truth, and filled "with faith and the Holy Ghost," depending wholly upon God's blessing for success, and going forth in his name, with ardent longing to "

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Scripture
...even the universality of its truth." "Blessed are" they.. "who walk in the law of the Lord."  Psalms 119:1. Rice, ''Our 66 Sacred Books.'' ...ded to our OT. There is frequent reference to the canonical groups of the ‘Law’ and the ‘Prophets.’ Of the Hagiographa, the Books of Psalms, Proverb

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Sadducee
...separated themselves from the congregation, and left the observance of the law, when one sect followed the one, and another sect followed the other, whom

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Mohammedanism
...nto the causes of these successes of the Crescent, we find that Mohammed's law was artfully and marvellously adapted to the corrupt nature of man; and, in

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Flesh
...ict are most vivid in contexts where Paul is describing the demands of the law on the one hand ( Romans 7:4,7-11;  Galatians 5:2-5 ), and its im .../i> , as opposed to the ‘mind,’ or higher nature of man, which accepts the Law of God ( Romans 7:25), and the ‘spirit,’ which is the principle of

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Mary
...to redeem, and to be born under the law, to redeem them that are under the law, he must still come nearer to our nature, and be born as the children are b ...and because she was a Jewish woman he was circumcised and submitted to the Law. Paul's words here or elsewhere tell us nothing about the nature of his con

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Mission
...r and dishonor. He is a chosen representative of Jesus Christ according to God's will and decree ( 1 Corinthians 1:1;  2 Corinthians 1:1;  Ga ...and it is necessary that the saved should participate in this fundamental law of Christ’s being ( John 6:53-57). It was the Son’s gracious will

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Pauline Theology
...ing not a primary part of God's plan. Indeed, this could be shown from the Law itself, which proved that faith was the primary method of salvation (Rom 4;

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History
...cate a divine concession but God's full intention ( Matthew 19:4-9 ). God's greatest revelation, Jesus, is the guide to interpretation. M Rand ...tical history history of war and conquests, or military history history of law history of commerce history of the crusades, &c. In these and similar examp

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Will
...ecause we love the brethren.’ Life, however, means death to sin and to the Law which enslaved to sin ( Romans 7:6,  Colossians 2:20;  Colos ...> [   Luke 7:30 , "rejected God's purpose"  1 Corinthians 4:5 ). God's will or desire is perfect, but it is large enough to incorporate and circum

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Divorce
...onfirms and elaborates the Old Testament concepts of marriage and divorce. God's ideal for marriage is a monogamous, permanent, and exclusive union. Because ...), they must also, like Jesus, give help to those who, having broken God’s law, are later repentant ( Luke 7:36-50;  John 8:1-11; cf.  Hose

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Sadducees
...rected against the Pharisees. In His protest against their making void the Law by their traditions He was at one with the Sadducees. Yet it was from the S ...isees say that some things are the work of fate ''(He Should Have [[Said]] God'S Providence; He Uses The Roman Mode Of Expression)'' , but others in our own

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Suffering
...nd human comprehension. Job is to accept his suffering without questioning god's wisdom or justice. The Book of Ecclesiastes also questions the cau ...sp;Psalm 66:10 ). Ultimately, the writers consigned themselves to trust in God's sometimes hidden wisdom ( Job 42:2-3;  Psalm 135:6 ). Th

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Offices Of Christ
...rifice may be found much more widely than merely in death, is shown by the law of service illustrated in the washing of the disciples' feet ( John 13 ...is advent, revealed to man, in his state of error, ignorance, and sin, the law of God to man, and the mercy of God to the sinner. He who in his own person

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Philo
...s variety is not, however, thereby reduced to a system. By this method the Law is spiritualized, on the presupposition that nothing could be contained in ...s souls, and, on the other hand, who held the Messiah to be the highest of God's messengers, to suppose a particular connection between him and the Logos. B

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The Book Of Deuteronomy
...edience. His notices of the children of [[Esau]] supplanting the Horims by God's help, and [[Moab]] supplanting the giant [[Emim]] ( Deuteronomy 2:9-13 ... III. Second Sermon: God's Law Guides and Gives Unique Identity to God's People ( Deuteronomy 4:44-28:68 ) A. Covenant faith demands t

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Jerusalem
...he Ammonite. Ezra cooperated with him (Nehemiah 8) by reading publicly the law at a national assembly on the first of the seventh month, the anniversary o ...nslation, do. 1908, i. 44-64, 182-184, ii. 97-99, The Constitution and Law of the Church in the First Two Centuries , Eng. translation, do. 1910,

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Father
...ave begotten you through the gospel." The father's great duty was to teach God's laws continually to his children; "speaking of them when thou sittest in th ...:12;  Ephesians 6:2, and disrespect towards them was condemned by the law as one of the worst crimes.  Exodus 21:15;  Exodus 21:17;  1

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Intercession
...ht exaltation to power in heaven and on earth. Now He intercedes for us at God's throne of grace.   Hebrews 7:25 proclaims the complete deliverance tha ...od, crying as it cloth for mercy and salvation! Surely it speaks to God of God's faithfulness to his promises, and Christ's claim to his merits; and it spea

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Book Of Psalms
...1, 95. 11. Liturgical psalms describe activities and responses of God's worshiping congregation. These appear in  Psalm 67:1 ,  Psalm 68: ...heir whole condition, and the principles on which they stand with God, His law being written in their hearts; ending with full and continued praise </

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Presence Of God
...until he comes again ( Matthew 28:20 ). In the age to come, God's presence will be the ultimate blessing, for believers will see him face to ...od with His people. The church is called to be a manifestation of God's presence. That community is fed by the presence of God found in communion b

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Universalism
...] , 1884, with full and interesting references; Plumptre’s brother-in-law, F. D. [[Maurice]] ( Theological Essays , 1853), had stated philos ...child's head and pronouncing its name, declared it gratefully received as God's gift, and solemnly dedicated to his loving service, pronouncing on it the b

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Dispensation
...aw ( Exodus 19:8 ) This is the period of acceptance of the [[Jewish]] law. 6. Grace ( John 1:17 ) This dispensation begins with the dea ...were until John.  Luke 16:16 . During this 'Dispensation of Law' the Times of the [[Gentiles]] commenced in the political supremacy of Nebu

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Conversion
...> The [[Conditions]] of Conversion If conversion is the result of grace on God's part, it is the result of repentance and faith on a person's part. Repentan ...ciple to turn; conversion is our actual turning. In the covenant, God's putting his Spirit into us is distinguished from our walking in his statute

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Plagues Of Egypt
...re forced to dig wells, for pure water to drink,—was a significant sign of God's displeasure for their senseless idolatry in worshipping the river and its f ...e different dispensations of the law and the gospel? Every thing under the law, like the full flowing streams of the Nile turned into blood, is made a sou

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Hagar
...the land of idols and worldliness; untaught by the piety of Abraham and by God's mercy to herself. ...irit, is persecuted by the older Israel, which is under the bondage of the Law. Hagar, the mother of bondmen, answers to the present [[Jerusalem]] (τῇ

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Paul Of Samosata
.... For Paul's meaning is that ''Christ,'' while obeying the commands of the law, and suffering its penalties, acted and suffered ''Alone;'' nor did ''God,'

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Exodus
...institutions, whether civil or ceremonial, are based. Civil and ceremonial law have equal authority and equal value. As yet, however, the principles which ...about the middle of it, having been two months on their journey. Here the law was given, and here they abode during all the transactions recorded in &nbs

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Sign
...in Jonah. The New Testament often rebukes the demand for a sign to confirm God's work ( Matthew 16:1;  John 2:18;  John 4:48;  1 Corinth ...ide. So in these eight signs in John we are told that [[Christ Jesus]] is GOD's answer to every need of the human heart.  Romans 4:11 (a) The

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Peter
...St. Paul strongly insisted upon the Gentiles’ freedom from the ceremonial Law, but still he had much in common with his Jewish predecessors, particularly ...and in calling him '"our beloved brother," and confirming the doctrine of "God's longsuffering being for salvation," from Paul's epistles:  Romans 2:4

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Anger
...modifies the conception of the Divine sternness ( Romans 9:22). The ‘Law,’ in making transgression possible, ‘worketh wrath’ ( Romans 4:1 ...er than it is to deny it. Jesus warns that angry people will face God's judgment ( Matthew 5:22; cf.  Galatians 5:20;  Colossians 3:

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Theology Of John
...his neighbour hath fulfilled the law â€¦ for love is the fulfilment of the law.’ No more comprehensive phrase, however, to describe in brief th ...J. Painter, [[Reading]] John's Gospel Today ; S. Pancaro, The Law in the Fourth Gospel: The [[Torah]] and the Gospel, Moses and Jesus, Judais

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Antinomians
...llowing sentiments, however, among others, are taught in his sermons: "The law is cruel and tyrannical, requiring what is naturally impossible." "The sins ...htly of good works, or asserted that believers have nothing to do with the law of God, without fully explaining what they mean: when they assert that God

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Knowledge
...ruth]] ). If people profess to be God’s people but do not know or obey his law, they only bring God’s judgment upon themselves ( Isaiah 5:13; &nbsp ...leads to obedience to His word of love. So the Christian is caught up into God's mission of love to the world in order that the world may come to know and b

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Immortality
...timately the body of him who possesses the life of God must pass under the law of eternal life, although the author of the Fourth Gospel never states the ...wledge, beyond what in this life is attainable; '''2.''' From the law of contraries, according to which, as rest prepares for labor, and labor fo

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Daniel
...crushed by the world power. The pair Daniel 4 and Daniel 5 shows God's power to humble the world power in the height of its impious arrogance; fir ...uring this period for his piety and his stict observance of the [[Mosaic]] law (1:8-16), and gained the confidence and esteem of those who were over him.

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Abortion
...Attempts to thwart this divine process would clearly be attempts to usurp God's role by destroying the human life God has begun to create and hence morally ...not been formed in the womb: this is based on Exodus 21. By the Visigothic law, the person who administered a draught for the purpose was punished with de

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Punishment
...ruck them dead, it was while Peter was presiding and executing judgment as God's representative ( Acts 5:1-11 ). [[Eternal]] Punishment </ ...in the absence of such sanction. would fail to command the respect of the law-breaker. Punishment may also be imposed with a view to reform the offender

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Freedom
...( Galatians 5:18 ) produces in the believer the very conduct that the law calls for ( Galatians 5:22-23 ). Finally, we should note that ...church, some people have always thought that we are no longer bound by the law but are “free” in Christ to act however we like. The [[Scriptures]] con

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Lust
...he origin of evil desire-not the body as such, but the sinful personality (Law [ Tests of Life 3, 1914, p. 149] explains ‘flesh’ otherwise he ...sp;1 John 2:16-17 ). Here we see that our lusts are in direct violation of God's perfect will, because they usually are misdirected, moving and leading us a

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Pl. Haphtaroth Haphtarah
...he portion from the prophets which is read instead of the portion from the law that could not be read, and which liberates from the injunction of reading

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Legalism
...ul's View of the Law in Romans and Galatians ; idem, Paul and the Law, A Contextual [[Approach]] ; J. A. Fitzmyer, According to Paul (n.) Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law. 

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Murder
...nt Research ; R. Westbrook, Studies in Biblical and [[Cuneiform]] Law . ...daggers ( sicae ; cf. Latin sicarius , ‘a murderer.’ The law passed under Sulla against murderers was Lex [[Cornelia]] de Sicariis <

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Inheritance
...rt of the property belonging to the inheritance. According to the levirate law, however, when a man died leaving no son, his brother or other next-of-kin ...the Jewish People ; A. N. Sherwin-White, Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament . 

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The Epistles Of John
...nnean. James, whose molding was in Judaism, presents as a rule of life the law, under the gospel, established in its spirit, the letter only being superse ...ence toward God ( 1 John 4:17 ,  1 John 4:18 ); the motives: (1) God's love to us ( 1 John 4:19 ); (2) that the only possible response to thi

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Jephthah
...28-29 is not in point, for it refers to a forced devoting of the wicked to God's glory in their destruction; God alone could so devote any. Nor was Jephthah ...a superstitious and ill-instructed man, and, like Samson, an instrument of God's power, rather than an example of his grace. 

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Theology Of Jeremiah
...d Book of Comfort (30:11; 33:15). God will do right by his people (30:11). God's intention is unchanged: he will "rejoice in doing them [Israel] good, and w

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Christian Law Of. Divorce
Christian Law Of. Divorce <ref name="term_37588" /> ...act would not have been committed with the present disposition, and state law tempted to its performance. We think that in such a case as this, at least

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Melchizedek
...hes from him (the giver's token of acknowledgment that all his property is God's), and so was superior to [[Levi]] and the Aaronic priesthood which were in ...tribe of Levi, as was the case after the promulgation of the Deuteronomic law (probably in the 7th cent.). At an earlier date persons belonging to other

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Peace
...> The Old [[Testament]] anticipated, and the New Testament confirmed, that God's peace would be mediated through a messiah (see  Isaiah 9:6-7;  Mi ...of that peace of God and peace with God, in the blood and righteousness of God's dear Son, "which passeth all understanding, keeping the heart and mind, in

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Theology Of James
...aizers]]; [[Justification]]; [[Law]]; [[Paul The Apostle]]; [[Works Of The Law]] Bibliography . [[P.]] [[H.]] Davids, [[Commentary]]

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Theology Of Hosea
...hat their salvation was only in God (13:4), anticipating the full scope of God's redemption through Christ. [[Robert]] [[D.]] Spender 

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Nazarite
...pe of [[Messiah]] ( Song of [[Solomon]] 5:10). But Israel so despised God's favors to tempt the Nazarite to break the vow; "ye gave the Nazarite wine t ... Numbers 6:2. As the Nazarite was a witness for the straitness of the law, as distinguished from the freedom of the gospel, his sacrifice of himself

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Redemption
...us, ‘born of a woman, born under the law, that he might buy out them under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons’ ( Galatians 4:4 f.); </ ...ies. When people are redeemed from the bondage of sin and the curse of the law, they come into a new life of liberty as the sons of God. [[Sin]] no longer

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Omniscience
...pressive. With them it is connected with man's state of trial; with a holy law, all the violations of which, in thought, word, and deed, are both infallib ...itself is thereby virtually denied. Nothing remains but to recognize that God's eternal knowledge of the outcome of the freewill choices of man implies tha

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Ark
...i> it is rendered die [[Lade]] mit dem Gesetz , ‘the ark with the law.’ When the Decalogue came to be known as ‘the testimony,’ the new nam .... The two tables of stone which constituted the "testimony" or evidence of God's covenant with the people ( Deuteronomy 31:26 ), the "pot of manna" (&n

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Death
...ple, [[Simeon]] asked God to let him “depart in peace” because he had seen God's salvation ( Luke 2:29 ). [[Similar]] to the Old Testament accounts of ...rld from each other. On one side of the point of separation you behold the law, with its priests, its sacrifices, and its rites, retiring from sight. On t

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Family
...tthew 10:35 f.,  Luke 12:52 f. that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are of one family or household (οἰκιακοί Mt., ‘in one house’ L ...he primary purpose of the family of God. [[Obedience]] to Christ and doing God's will was the calling for everyone. This faith commitment, then, shaped the

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Samson
...y over "Samson the destroyer of their country" to their god Dagon provoked God's jealousy for His honour. A Philistine multitude, including all their lords, ...;Judges 15:1-5). In retaliation for their murder of his wife and father-in-law, Samson killed more Philistines ( Judges 15:6-8). When the Philistines

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Book Of Zechariah
...stores His [[Faithful]] [[Remnant]] ( Zechariah 8:1-23 ). A. God's jealousy leads to hope for His people ( Zechariah 8:1-5 ). B. ...12:8;  Zechariah 14:11 ,  Zechariah 14:16-19 ). (vi) The idea of God's providence as extending to the whole earth ( Zechariah 1:14-17;  

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Gnosticism
...overcome; it lay in wickedness; the flesh was to be mortified; there was a law in the members warring against the spirit. [[Divorced]] from the general te ...ring [[Messiah]] and of the fulfilment in Jesus of the types of the Mosaic law they felt that the veil had been removed for them and that they enjoyed a k

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Philosopher Justinus Martyr
...at [[I]] am." By these two cases, specimens of a hundred others drawn from Law and Psalm and Prophets, it will be seen how clearly the problem was present

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Religion
...[Scriptures]] of the Old and New Testaments that arose in conjunction with God's saving Acts in Israel's history and culminated in Jesus Christ. Se ...ves, that the [[Gentiles]] have the law written on their hearts, and are a law unto themselves; yet the greatest moralists among them were so blinded as t

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Parable
...succession of Rabbinical precedents and their artificial mediation of the Law of God, and discovered a new source of illumination and authority in the ph ...n Treasure;]] the [[Pearl Of Great Price;]] and the NET. 3. God's way of bringing into blessing. The [[Lost Sheep;]] the [[Lost Piece O

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Epistle Of Barnabas
...tells us of him. And it is difficult to think that any Jew, born under the Law, and nurtured in the stirring traditions of its maintenance in the face of ...was really Christian; of its exclusion of Jews, as such, from all part in God's covenant; and of its dwelling precisely upon those doctrines of the Christi

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Merit
...ut either from a relative justice or equity, such as that implied in Roman law by the relation of father and son, or lord and slave (Aquinas, Summa Th

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Baptists
...ve the seventh day of the week as their Sabbath, apprehending the original law of the [[Sabbath]] to remain in force, unaltered and unrepealed. These are ...them observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, apprehending the law that enjoined it not to have been repealed by Christ. Some of the General B

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Holiness Purity
...l requirements connected with hand-washing that Jesus enunciates the great law, repealing all the Levitical rules as to unclean meats ( Mark 7:6-23,

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The Arrest And Trial Of Jesus Christ
...sequent proceedings were contrary to both the letter and the spirit of the law. Although Pilate took his place upon the judgment seat, his acts, properly

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

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The Fall
...clopedia of Christianity, 4:170-74; A. A. Hoekema, [[Created]] in God's Image ; P. E. Hughes, The True Image ; J. Murray, ZPEB, < ...t the tree was so named, because man, by eating of it and so transgressing God's commandment, arrogated to himself " die Fähigkeit zur selbständigen W

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Government
...Bible in Its World ; A. N. Sherwin-White, Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament ; W. Temple, [[Citizen]] and Churchman . ...earth. At the same time there is no constitutional check on misrule; the ‘law of the kingdom’ in   Deuteronomy 17:14 deals rather with moral and r

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Evolution
...sis. '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneou ...ion to [[Religion]] (1873); Leconte, Religion and Science; Simcox, Natural Law (1877); Wright, Philosophical Discussions, especially pages 97-266; Weisman

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Pentecost
...a close parallel to the circumstances which had heralded the giving of the Law from Sinai, which, as we have seen, was commemorated at Pentecost. In the c ...olding by tradition the festival as chiefly referring to the giving of the law on mount Sinai, of which they are very tenacious, and not knowing that it i

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Tithes
...between tithes and Christian giving may be apprehended as that between the law and the gospel as incentives and forces in life. It is the relation between ...( Amos 4:4) upbraids [[Israel]] with zeal for the letter of the tithe law while disregarding its spirit. Malachi ( Malachi 3:10) seconded Nehemi

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Ruth
...> D. The “emptiness” of Naomi's return to Judah provided the transition to God's grace by means of Ruth ( Ruth 1:19-22 ). II. In the [[Ordinar ...t heretofore," compare  Genesis 12:1;  Acts 7:3;  Acts 7:5. God's providence "under whose wings she was come to trust" ( Ruth 2:12; &nbs

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Prophets Prophecy
...will not find it difficult to believe that our Lord’s words concerning the Law (  Matthew 5:18 ) may be adapted, and that in the highest spiritual se ...e Spirit ( Acts 2:17 ) as a fulfillment of Joel's prediction that all God's people, young and old, male and female, would prophesy. These gifts may int

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Oath
...ry, and the great argument for the wholesale exclusion of testimony by the law is done away with. No intelligent judge or juryman ever relied upon the sec

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Kenosis
...ful ( 2 Corinthians 5:21)]; ‘Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us’ [Christ as the sacrificial victim ‘becam ...ose problem of life was, not the disclosure of the full power and glory of God's natural attributes, but the manifestation of the love of God, and of the ex

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Crimes And Punishments
...ews]] seem to have had relative autonomy in the matters of their religious law and customs. Even [[Jewish]] communities outside [[Palestine]] were under t ...strong> , which is reserved for aggravated cases of prostitution (H [Note: Law of Holiness.] 21:9) and incest (20:19). Here the probability seems in favou

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