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• Jerusalem
  ...ause thou knewest not the time of thy visitation" (in mercy). </p> <p> The Jews revolted again under Barchochab ("son of a star") who pretended to be the [ ...n of the city in a.d. 70 is generally regarded as crucial not only for the Jews but also for the Christians, not because the latter were present at the tim
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• Messiah
  ...lready acclaimed (&nbsp;Mark 11:7-11), and, with the title of ‘King of the Jews’ placed on the cross by the Roman governor, He was crucified (&nbsp;Mark ...The older hope of the Messiah son of David is that dominant among orthodox Jews, who still await his coming, which is to follow the appearance of Elijah (&
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• Jew
  ...e seed of David according to the flesh;" and he says: "Salvation is of the Jews." &nbsp;John 4:22. </p> ...the spiritual kingdom. [[Jewry]] means [[Judea]] (&nbsp;Daniel 5:13). "The Jews' language" signifies both the Hebrew (&nbsp;2 Kings 18:26) and the [[Aramai
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• Jews
  ...ely a small tribe of ignorant and unsettled Arabs. The care with which the Jews preserve their sacred books, and the conformity of those preserved in the e .... 427, 447; Dr. H. Jackson's works, vol. 1: p. 153; Neale's History of the Jews; Pirie's Posth. Works, vol. 1:; Fuller's Serm. on the Messiah. </p>
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• Paul
  ...n eased (&nbsp;Acts 9:26-28; &nbsp;Galatians 1:19-20). But attempts by the Jews on his life again forced him to flee. He sailed from [[Caesarea]] to northe ...longed to the lower class of the population. But it is said that among the Jews it was the custom at that time for even the sons of the wealthy to acquire
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• Synagogue
  ...bsp;Nehemiah 8:4 Authorized Version, ‘the pulpit of wood’), called in more modern times almemar, the Muhammadan al-minbar (Jewish Encyclopedia, s.v. ‘Almem ...e, &nbsp;Luke 4:16 . Furthermore, the forms of prayer that are used by the Jews at the present time do not appear to have been in existence in the time of
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• Jesus Christ
  ...4:19 ), that the ministry lasted only one year; and in the opinion of some modern scholars it can be maintained that even the Fourth Gospel includes its mate ...&nbsp;28:9,17 ). </p> <p> The Scriptures were understood by Jesus and the Jews of his day to be the Word of God. Jesus claimed that the Scriptures spoke d
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• Septuagint
  ...ecause it did not blindly follow the footsteps of the scribes. Against the Jews He used their own Scriptures with conclusive force; and with His loving but ...nt throughout that work. How extensively this version was in use among the Jews, appears from the solemn sanction given to it by the inspired writers of th
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• Captivity
  ...fulfilled" (&nbsp;Luke 21:20-24; &nbsp;Luke 21:32). In the siege 1,100,000 Jews perished, according to the contemporary witness Josephus; but not one Chris ...nder the woe which unbelief brought upon their fathers and themselves. See Jews. </p>
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• Apocrypha
  ...nt, and that was the version of the OT commonly used by the Greek-speaking Jews in the times of the Apostles, and subsequently by the Christians. Being thu ...strong> 15. Third Maccabees </strong> describes an attempt to massacre the Jews in the reign of Ptolemy Philopator (b.c. 222 205), and a notable deliveranc
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• Circumcision
  ...m, when no sacrifice of principle was understood; for in order to gain the Jews, he became "as a Jew." See [[Abraham]] , and See [[Baptism]] . </p> ...sphere was among the Gentiles, as that of the other apostles was among the Jews. The result of the conference was a compromise: Gentiles were not to be cir
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• Samaritans
  ...ed that the Jews had no high priests of the race of Phinehas; and that the Jews belied them in calling them Cutheans; for that they are descended from the ...l, still retained their peculiar religion, and could not coalesce with the Jews. </p>
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• Pharisees
  ...ther born in sins." The rabbis believed in the pre-existence of souls. The Jews' question merely took for granted that some sin had caused the blindness, w ...id back with interest the persecutions and calumnies she suffered from the Jews. How soon this anti-Judaism began, and to what extent if any it is present
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• Sabbath
  ...r one mile, &nbsp;Acts 1:12 . The sabbatical year was celebrated among the Jews every seventh year when the land was left without culture, &nbsp;Exodus 22: ...Sabbath and Lord’s Day, but to observe the seventh day alone. </p> <p> The Jews have long suffered special disabilities in Christian countries in this resp
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• Passover
  ...communion with … any that did not keep the Pasch at the same time that the Jews did’? (Bingham, op. cit. XX. v. 3). </p> <p> The two festivals still exis ...wholly by fire (&nbsp;Exodus 12:9; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 35:6-13). The modern Jews use dry thin biscuits as unleavened bread; a shoulder of lamb thoroughly ro
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• Alexandria
  ...ed thinkers who sought admission either as Hellenes into the Jewish, or as Jews into the Hellenic, system ( <i> Provinces </i> 2, ii. 167). With perfect si ...ulus, and reached its climax in Philo, a contemporary of Jesus Christ. The Jews found in the Gentile writings many beautiful and excellent thoughts. They c
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• Book Of Esther
  ...ry of Babylonian over Elamite gods which was taken over and adapted by the Jews. In this case the origin of the name <em> Purim </em> would be sought in th .... </p> <p> <i> 2. </i> In chap. 3 a copy of Artaxerxes' decree against the Jews. </p> <p> <i> 3. </i> In chap. 4 a prayer of Mordecai, followed by a prayer
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• Church
  ...civil power and the Church. The Church was no leveller or democrat in the modern sense of those terms. Rulers are to be respected by subjects, masters by sl ...ist’ (&nbsp; Romans 16:16 ). This language has doubtless given rise to the modern conception of ‘the churches’; but it must be observed that the Pauline
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• Dispersed
  ...th. (Lips. 1789); Walch, Hist. patriarcharum Judaeorum (Jen. 1752). (See [[Jews]]). </p>
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• Marriage
  ...go to it for detailed rules. Where its rules are not obviously unsuited to modern conditions, or below the Christian level, a strange uncertainty obscures th ...e's response is submission. On the other side are those whose model is the modern democratic marriage in which the partners are equals in all things. In betw
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• Herod
  ...rs and bore the ceremonial title of king, but he had no authority over the Jews of Judea (&nbsp;Acts 25:13; &nbsp;Acts 26:3; &nbsp;Acts 26:27; &nbsp;Acts 2 ...a time they let the [[Christians]] alone (&nbsp;Acts 9:31). To "please the Jews" he slew James the brother of John, and imprisoned Peter with the intention
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• Magi
  ...ed their inference that a king of the Jews was born may well have been the Jews of the Diaspora, whose tenets would doubtless be known to the wise men of t ...ked, and the light of truth rekindled among them. In this view the ancient Jews evidently considered the Jewish church as appointed not to preserve only bu
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• Peter
  ...hurch as ‘the planting of Peter and Paul’ (Eusebius, HE_ II. xxv. 8). Some modern scholars regard this conclusion as historically correct (e.g. K. Lake, The ...us of Corinth asserts it, A.D. 180. Babylon, a chief seat of the dispersed Jews, was his head quarters when he wrote &nbsp;1 Peter 5:13, not Rome as some h
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• Samaritan
  ...belonged to the sect which derived their appellation from that city. The [[Jews]] had no dealings with the Samaritans. 2. The language of Samaria, a dialec ...rammatum, p. 44. (See [[Literature And Liturgysamaritan Language);]] (See Modern Samaritans). </p>
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• Samaritans Samaria
  ...Grimm, <i> Die Samaritaner </i> , München, 1854; Mills, <i> Nablus and the Modern Samaritans </i> , 1864; Kohn, <i> Samaritanische Studien </i> , Breslau, 18 ...nbsp;Luke 17:11-19; &nbsp;John 8:48 ). The animosity was so great that the Jews bypassed Samaria as they traveled between Galilee and Judea. They went an e
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• Persecution
  ...ons in every nation, and town, and family. Judaism was the religion of the Jews, but Christianity gathered or created its own clientele. John saw ‘a grea ...sacred, or banished, and the children sold for slaves; besides innumerable Jews, who shared the same cruelties, chiefly by means of the infernal courts of
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• Rome
  ...in the wars carried on by Trajan against the Dacians. This people lived in modern [[Transylvania]] and also south of the [[Carpathians]] in Wallachia and par ...l idea; but many of the principal buildings which attract the attention of modern travellers in ancient Rome were not yet built. The streets were generally n
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• Alexander
  ...introduced because, from his invasion of Palestine, the intercourse of the Jews with the [[Greeks]] became intimate, and influenced many events of their su ...). Calvin thought him a convert to [[Christianity]] from Judaism, whom the Jews would have sacrificed as a victim to the fury of the rabble. </p> <p> '''5.
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• Canon Of The Old Testament
  ...criticism is essential. The [[Interpretation]] of the OT must differ among Jews and Christians. The logic of events cannot be Ignored, and the [[Advent]] o ...ght of the gulf that separates the Hebrew canon from the Apocrypha. To the Jews, saith Scripture," were committed the oracles of God" (&nbsp;Romans 3:2). I
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• Christianity
  ...of Christianity </i> , 1905]; A. M. Fairbairn, <i> The Place of Christ in Modern [[Theology]] </i> , 1893, and <i> [[Philosophy]] of the Christian Religion ...prophesies recorded in the New Testament; and from the preservation of the Jews as a distinct people, notwithstanding the various difficulties and persecut
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...mentioned, &nbsp; Acts 14:7; &nbsp; Acts 14:21; &nbsp; Acts 14:25 , or the Jews may have been weak and without a synagogue in those places. ( <em> b </em> ...rdinal point of time specified is in &nbsp;Acts 18:2, the expulsion of the Jews from Rome under Claudius Ceasar, A.D. 52. </p> <p> No book of the New Testa
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• Gospels
  ...of Jesus </i> , Boston, 1910; J. R. Cohu, <i> The Gospels in the Light of Modern Research </i> , Oxford, 1909; E. R. Buckley, <i> An Introductions the Synop ...is His Divine glory breaking forth the brighter amidst the darkness of the Jews' opposition. </p> <p> Each of the four, while recognizing the Lord's other
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• Pilate
  ...the Emperor, and as such could be dismissed and ruined without appeal. The Jews, when they saw that Roman justice might win and Jesus be released, held ove ...n, to which the Romans themselves had allowed a certain authority over all Jews throughout the Empire. Hence, mistaking the nature of the work, they sent a
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• Judaism
  ...irituality; and the whole [[Mosaic]] ritual was of a typical nature. See [[Jews]] . </p> ...e Talmud. </p> <p> See those articles, and books recommended under article JEWS, in this work. </p>
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• Thessalonica
  ...]] City.’ It has now a population of 130,000, of whom 60,000 are Sephardic Jews, speaking a corrupt form of Spanish, called Ladino. </p> <p> Literature.-W. ...alonica. The population of Saloniki is even now 60,000, of whom 10,000 are Jews. </p> <p> Trade in all ages attracted the latter to Thessalonica, and their
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• Egypt
  ...e; but they of Heliopolis that the king was with a vast force pursuing the Jews, because they were carrying away the riches borrowed of the Egyptians. Then ...he dates of composition. It may be remarked that there were settlements of Jews in [[Pathros]] (Upper Egypt) as early as the days of Jeremiah, and papyri i
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• Baptism
  ...[[Messiah]] (Edersheim).]ii. 746, Appendixxii.). It may be added that the Jews in later times would not have borrowed baptism from the Christians, though ..." the latter phrase referring to &nbsp;Daniel 2:44; &nbsp;Daniel 7:14. The Jews, as a nation, brought the "curse" on their land ("earth") by not repenting,
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• Law
  ...cribed in the hearts’ of men ignorant of the Mosaic Code and counting with Jews as ‘lawless.’ This Divine <em> jus </em> (and <em> fas </em> ) <em> gen ...and rules found in the Old Testament were never formally enacted among the Jews; were traditional from an earlier age; and received at different times the
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• Christ In Jewish Literature
  ...n pointing to His assumption of power and authority as the reason ‘of much modern antipathy to Jesus, so far as it exists.’ He did not, at least publicly,
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• Money
  ...00 denarius-drachms or £4 sterling. </p> <p> For the later coinage of the Jews, which was confined to the two periods of revolt against the Roman power, i ...such guidelines, the postexilic Jewish community monetarily enslaved poor Jews by loaning money at interest so that they could pay their taxes, a travesty
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• Persia
  ...ehemiah 2:9-10; &nbsp;Esther 8:9-14). The Persian government even gave the Jews funds to help carry out their program for the reconstruction of their natio ...and Nehemiah (&nbsp;Nehemiah 2:1-9) in their patriotic restoration of the Jews' national polity and walls. (See [[Daniel]] ; [[Cyrus; Medes; Parthia; Ahas
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...part. But this book tells of sufferings and triumphs on the part of loyal Jews comparable to those of the Maccabean period. Perhaps the term Maccabees was
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• Genealogy
  ...ts main impetus in the time of Ezra. It was then that the line between the Jews and other nations became sharply drawn, and stress was laid on purity of de ...up to David. The present impossibility of verifying the genealogies of the Jews' tribes and families is a divine indication that Christ the antitypical Hig
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• Old Testament
  ...ogue, have gotten into Christian hands. The Spanish writing is rounder and modern, the German and [[Polish]] writing is more angular, designated the '''''Tam ...is a revelation of the same grace as is made manifest in Christ. Only the Jews have obscured its true character by the fatal emphasis they have placed on
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• Pentateuch
  ...and non-legislative parts, but the legal enactments of the Pentateuch (the Jews reckoned 613, see above). </p> <p> In Egypt the hieroglyphics are generally ...radition was carried on by Jews and Christians until after A.D. 1600. Some Jews and Christians raised occasional questions about the Mosaic authorship of t
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• Gentiles
  ...ght years after Peter’s vision that some unknown Cypriote and [[Cyrenian]] Jews of the [[Dispersion]] took the momentous step of ‘preaching the Lord Jesu ...(&nbsp;Romans 4:17 ). </p> <p> Paul experienced great resentment among the Jews because of the opportunity he was offering the Gentiles (&nbsp;Romans 2:15-
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• The Essenes
  ...ope. But from neither of these writers could be discovered that any of the Jews cherished this hope. Yet from the New Testament we know that this hope was
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• Epistle To The. Romans
  ...pp. 1), and Aquinas (in Opp. 6). (See [[Commentary]]). </p> <p> '''2.''' ''Modern'' exegetical helps (from the [[Reformation]] to the present time) on the en
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• Time
  ...he day at sunset. Since that custom prevails to the present time among the Jews it is not likely that it was ever superseded among them. Nevertheless, the ...istinguished from the three watches which seem to have prevailed among the Jews (‘if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third,’ &nbsp; Lu
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• Sadducees
  ...fficulties are obvious, a chief one being that we cannot argue safely from modern Persian to an ante-Christian usage. Besides, if we are to admit that the Za ...he fall of [[Jerusalem]] the Sadducees doctrine disappeared, the afflicted Jews instinctively turning for consolation from the sad present to the bright ho
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• Talmud
  ...efer to Christians; others maintain that by these are meant philosophizing Jews, who were regarded as heretics. This is not the place to discuss the questi ...ian Talmud. </p> <p> The importance of the Talmud to Jewish life until the modern period can hardly be overestimated. Talmud and commentary upon it become a
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• Games
  ...8, i. 301). </p> <p> According to the Talmud, the religions leaders of the Jews were only slightly less rigid, although they could not altogether prevent a ...phus]] ( <em> Ant. </em> XV. viii. 1) to have provoked a conspiracy of the Jews by building a theatre and an amphitheatre at Jerusalem for the spectacular
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• Book Of Judith
  ...he events recorded in Judith are incorporated in the hymnal service of the Jews called '''''יוצרות''''' , yet the book itself was, never in the Jewis ...likely) an [[Aramaic]] original once existed is the opinion of almost all modern scholars, and the evidence for this seems conclusive. There are many Hebrai
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• Leprosy
  ...cleansed. </p> <p> Literature.—This is enormous. Here only a selection of modern articles in English is given, which will furnish all necessary information ...fty and one hundred lepers in the United States at present. </p> <p> '''Is modern leprosy contagious?''' - Dr. H.S. Piffard of New York, in the Medical Recor
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  ...this as referring to the material Temple at Jerusalem, which they say the Jews expected Hadrian to rebuild. Hence they place this Epistle <i> c. </i> [Not ...rd meaning of that ancient faith was really Christian; of its exclusion of Jews, as such, from all part in God's covenant; and of its dwelling precisely up
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• Exile
  ...urn to their homeland. Though conditions in the homeland were dismal, many Jews did return. The preaching of Haggai and Zechariah (520-519 B.C.) urged thes ...stioned that many belonging to the kingdom of Israel ultimately joined the Jews under Ezra, Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah, and returned along with them to Jerus
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• Epistle Of James
  ...described in the early chapters of the Acts, when the separation between [[Jews]] and [[Christians]] was not complete; we have already, on other grounds, s ...f the race. It will always be a subject of the deepest interest and study. Modern research has penetrated every contributory realm for any added light upon t
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• Epistle To The Romans
  ...ity to save his life from destruction. The problem of the rejection of the Jews is really raised, not so much by their previous privileges as by God’s pr ...he way for the resumption of God's ways with Israel, and both Gentiles and Jews would manifestly come in on the ground of mercy. Thus God would be everythi
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• Expiation
  ...iah 53:6 . Farther, the goat's "bearing upon him all the iniquities of the Jews into a land not inhabited," &nbsp;Leviticus 16:22 , represents the effect o ...cancelled. It supposes penitence and faith on the sinner's part. Among the Jews, expiation was effected by a divinely appointed and typical system of sacri
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• Cyrus
  ...was, we learn from the preamble of his famous proclamation, permitting the Jews to return from the Babylonian captivity: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, ha ...f heaven" (&nbsp;Ezra 1:2), whom he identifies with the [[Jehovah]] of the Jews, and his pious ascription of his wide dominion to His gift, accord with his
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• Between The Testaments
  ...ting to the world Israel's exalted Messianic hopes. On the other hand, the Jews themselves, embittered by long-continued martyrdoms and suffering, utterly
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• Hellenist
  ...see also [[Dispersion]] ; [[Proselyte]] ). Meanwhile the Aramaic-speaking Jews back in Jerusalem became a source of further trouble to the church (&nbsp;A ...not only the proselytes of Greek, (or foreign), parentage, but also those Jews who, by settling in foreign countries, had adopted the prevalent form of th
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• Angel
  ...irstly, Babylon; during the Captivity, [[Babylonian]] influence upon the [[Jews]] asserted itself in this as well as in other respects; according to Jewish ...ief of these was Raphael, who was supposed to present the prayers of pious Jews to God (1Tobit 2:15). Uriel explained to Enoch many of his visions (1Enoch
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• Targum
  ...iour's time. They also very much serve the [[Christian]] cause against the Jews, by interpreting many of the prophecies of the [[Messiah]] in the Old [[Tes ...., their language being the only one understood by the greater part of the Jews even in Palestine. </p> <p> As an illustration &nbsp;Genesis 22:10-13 is qu
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• Palestine
  ...e.g. </i> , seems to have had singularly little feeling for Nature in the modern sense. There is no landscape and hardly any reference to detail in his writ ...and the nomenclature in the lists and conquests of Thothmes III. Thus the modern fellaheen seem to be the mixed descendants of the old Canaanites. </p>
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• Smyrna
  ...ied, they should begin to worship this one’ (Mart. Polyc. xii. f., xvii.). Modern Smyrna, being predominantly Greek Christian, is called by the Turks [[Giaou ...plained only by the supposition that many of the Christians were converted Jews. Similarly they helped in the martyrdom of [[Polycarp]] (a.d. 155). The cit
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• Nehemiah
  ...he [[Parched]] Country)'' ; they that sow in tears shall reap in joy." The Jews kept the [[Passover]] "with joy" on the dedication of God's house, the foun ...aid to those in need (&nbsp; Nehemiah 5:1 ). Again Sanballat and other non-Jews made several attempts to lure Nehemiah away from the job and shut it down.
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• Burial
  ...mson, <i> Land and Book </i> ; Bender, ‘Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews connected with Death, Burial, and Mourning,’ in <i> JQ </i> R [Note: QR J ...ith waters," &nbsp;Jeremiah 9:17 . </p> <p> The funeral processions of the Jews in Barbary are conducted nearly in the same manner as those in Syria. The c
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• Cyrene
  ...as doubtless one of these Jewish settlers. Other NT references to Cyrenian Jews are: &nbsp;Acts 2:10 (at Pentecost), 6:9 (members of special synagogue at J ...its intellectual activity in philosophy and poetry; and for its commerce. Jews in large number were settled there, and had a synagogue at Jerusalem, some
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• False Messiahs
  .... Life, p. 169, 219, 353; Sadler, Emanuel, p. 97 sq.; Milman, Hist. of the Jews, 2:432 sq.; 3:366; Allen, Mod. Judaism, p. 253 sq.; Young, [[Christology]]
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• Pentecost
  ...stian Church for the most part took over the name of the festival from the Jews. It was Pentecost for both. But just as Easter replaced Pascha in English a ...el, in those dark ages, is not very easy to determine. </p> <p> The modern Jews of the present hour, holding by tradition the festival as chiefly referring
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• God
  ...Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> ii. 209-212; it was familiar to the Jews, and to them meant the personal righteousness of God. Many commentators tak ...e fed first, the Gentiles were also to be fed. He is the Father of all the Jews, as well as of the disciples of Jesus; the words ‘One is your Father’ w
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• Hellenistic And Biblical Greek
  ...what we have been able to establish regarding the Greek of the Palestinian Jews, for the particular change of meaning which certain Greek words underwent i
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• Antichrist
  ...hosannahs as her Messiah (&nbsp;John 5:43), and making a covenant with the Jews, then breaking it (Daniel 9; 11; 12; Zechariah 11; 12; 13; 14). </p> <p> An ...e of Pharisaism. Their hostility was regarded as extending not only to the Jews as a nation, but as heathen, to [[Jehovah]] himself, and particularly to Hi
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• Corinth
  ...r he had circumcised Timothy but did not circumcise Titus, a Jew among the Jews, a Greek among the [[Greeks]] (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 9:20, etc.; &nbsp;Galati ...the examination Gallio permitted the populace to show their hatred to the Jews (&nbsp; Acts 18:17 ). It was in Corinth that St. Paul became acquainted wit
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• Caesarea
  ...udaea ’ ( <i> Hist </i> . ii. 78). Among its inhabitants there were both [[Jews]] and Greeks. The city was elaborately beautified with temples, theatres, p ...the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1873, directed by Conder and Kitchener. Modern farming and highway building produced numerous inscriptions and other artif
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• Cæsarea
  ...udaea ’ ( <i> Hist </i> . ii. 78). Among its inhabitants there were both [[Jews]] and Greeks. The city was elaborately beautified with temples, theatres, p ...the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1873, directed by Conder and Kitchener. Modern farming and highway building produced numerous inscriptions and other artif
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• Antioch
  ...nd thus had a certain natural affinity with the Semitic type, the Phrygian Jews, whose laxity gave deep offence to the rigidly orthodox, no doubt increased ..., ‘The Orontes has flowed into the Tiber.’ In this [[Vanity]] [[Fair]] the Jews were resident in large numbers, yet they exerted little or no influence on
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• Ahasuerus
  ...rshe''''' . Xerxes is explained by [[Herodotus]] as meaning "martial"; the modern title "shah" comes from '''''Ksahya''''' , "a king," which forms the latter ...no other than Artaxerxes Longimanus. The extraordinary favour shown to the Jews by this king, first in sending Ezra, and afterward Nehemiah, to relieve thi
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• Galilee
  ...people of mixed blood and mixed religion who hated, and were hated by, the Jews (&nbsp;Luke 9:51-56; &nbsp;John 4:3-4; &nbsp;John 4:9). </p> <p> Jesus grew ...d. 44) with the tetrarchs, the details of daily life were regulated by the Jews’ own religious laws ( <i> Dict. of Christ and the [[Gospels]] </i> . i. 6
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• Ezekiel
  ...easy to understand because of their frequent use of symbolic imagery. The modern reader is not alone in struggling to understand Ezekiel. There is evidence ...from that of us [[Christians]] of the present elect church gathered out of Jews and [[Gentiles]] indiscriminately. That shall be the period of public litur
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• Parisian Sanhedrim
  ...the Jews, p. 54 sq.; id. The Old Path, p. 366 sq.; Milman, History of the Jews (New York, 1870), 3:414 sq.; Palmer, History of the Jewish Nation (Lend. 18
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• Book
  ...rases is, however, that which refers them to the genealogical lists of the Jews, or to the registers kept of the living, from which the names of all the de ...o their girdles, &nbsp;Ezekiel 9:2 . The making of paper from linen in its modern form was first known in Europe about A. D. 1300. The art of printing was in
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• Samaria
  ...he Samaritan race, whose faith did not essentially differ from that of the Jews by whom they were counted heretical. The time was not yet come for ‘turni ...amaritans with Gentiles (&nbsp;Matthew 10:5-6); He distinguishes them from Jews (&nbsp;Acts 1:8; &nbsp;John 4:22). Samaria lay between Judaea and Galilee.
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• Hebrews
  ...s, and had been in Palestine, during all that period, only a few days. The Jews abroad, whom he every where saw, spoke Greek, not Hebrew. In Greek he preac ...the objects of persecution. In the beginning Christians were persecuted by Jews as can be seen in Acts (for example, &nbsp;Acts 4:17-18; &nbsp;Acts 5:27-42
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• Iconium
  ...rts for a time, St. Luke speaks of the faith of ‘a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks’ (&nbsp;Acts 14:1). </p> <p> Iconium figures largely in the ...missionary journey (&nbsp;Acts 13:51; &nbsp; Acts 14:21 ). The presence of Jews there is confirmed by the evidence of inscriptions. According to the view n
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• Joppa
  ...primitive fancy the fury of the sea was ascribed to serpents and dragons. Modern writers rationalize the phenomenon. ‘More boats are upset, and more lives ...for the gospel (&nbsp;Acts 10:9-16 ). </p> <p> Joppa is now annexed to the modern city of Tel Aviv, forming a part of the southern section of the largest cit
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• Gnosticism
  ...viii.). They made [[Cain]] their first hero; and, regarding the God of the Jews as an evil being, and the [[Scriptures]] as, in consequence, a perversion o ...leaned from later heresiologists is scanty and of doubtful value. </p> <p> Modern works which have made valuable contributions to the knowledge of Gnosticism
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• Publican
  ...complete subservience to him, the tax-gatherer was most unpopular with the Jews; for, apart from the obvious liability of the method to abuse, the mere fac ...icans, &nbsp;Luke 19:2; but St. Matthew was only an inferior publican. The Jews reproached our [[Saviour]] for showing kindness to these persons, &nbsp;Luk
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• Christian
  ...ntre of gravity was shifting </em> . Up to this time Christians as well as Jews looked to [[Jerusalem]] in everything as the mother of them all. But Jerusa ...ble enough in pagan writers. Suetonius says that [[Claudius]] expelled the Jews from Rome because they were always raising tumult under the instigation of
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• Gospel Of John
  ...have been exaggerated. For example, the mode of speaking of ‘ <strong> the Jews </strong> ’ In the Fourth Gospel is prepared for by the expressions found ...ection and the life (11:1-44). This was the event that finally stirred the Jews to plot his death (11:45-57). </p> <p> After an anointing at Bethany (12:1-
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...m the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to the restoration of the Jews whenruled over by the Son of David. The present governments or states of Eu ...of Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and others to give hope to his generation when many Jews were seeking favor with the [[Syrian]] government of Antiochus by adopting
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• Cyprus
  ...e Jews of Cyprus who became Christians had a much broader outlook than the Jews of Jerusalem, and were sympathetic to the expansion of the gospel among the ...e [[Gentile]] population. The revolt was suppressed without mercy, and all Jews were expelled from the island. </p> <p> Under the Byzantine emperors Cyprus
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• Darius
  ...been expected from the Zoroastrian Darius of secular history; he calls the Jews' temple "the house of God," [[Jehovah]] "the God of heaven," and solicits t ...was fulfilled the prophecy of &nbsp; Isaiah 47:7-9 . Some believe that the Jews were either expelled by the Babylonians, as being too much in the interest
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• Moses
  ...than his time. </p> <p> <strong> 4. Moses in the NT </strong> . (i.) All [[Jews]] and [[Christians]] in [[Apostolic]] times (including our Lord Himself) he ...gain, the extraordinary degree of <em> national pride </em> with which the Jews boasted themselves to be God's peculiar people, as if no nation ever was or
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• Philosophy
  ...ns of all ages. The exposition of such a philosophy would be the work of a modern Origen. </p> ...by the honorary title of <em> rabbi, </em> רבי , "great," or "master." The Jews, in imitation of the Greeks, had their seven wise men, who were called <em>
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• Trinity
  ...had partaken of the Spirit. or because seven was a sacred number among the Jews, denoting both variety and perfection, and in this case alluding to the var ...it in the OT. But if the doctrine be true, we might expect that Christian Jews, at any rate, would seek for some anticipation of it in the OT. We believe
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• Shechem
  ...question of the woman referring to existing prejudices which separated the Jews from the Samaritans; the depth of the well; the oriental allusion contained ...ans, 150 Samaritans, and a few Jews. The enmity between the Samaritans and Jews is as inveterate still as it was in the days of [[Christ]] . The Mohammedan
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• Achmetha
  ...s most probably the [[Achmetha]] of scripture. Travellers state that the [[Jews]] exhibit a tomb in their charge in the midst of the city, which is the rep ...nt city await the archeologist's spade. Annual pilgrimages are made to the modern city to pay homage at the traditional burial places of Esther and Mordecai,
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• Dress
  ...most probable that recourse would be had to a covering in the style of the modern <em> keffiyeh </em> , which protects not only the head but also the neck an ...of Oriental dress have preserved a remarkable uniformity in all ages: the modern Arab dresses much as the ancient Hebrew did. The costume of the men and wom
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• Purim
  ...f <em> [[Purim]] </em> or Lots. This commemorated the deliverance of the [[Jews]] from Haman, who in b.c. 473 had plotted their extermination throughout th ...e same manner. The 14th of Adar, as the very day of the deliverance of the Jews, is more solemnly kept than the 13th; but when the service in the synagogue
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• Tradition
  ...eir testimony; if we were, we should be as bound to reject Jesus, with the Jews, as to reject primitive Scripture [[Christianity]] with the apostate church .... The traditions of the Romish church, with less apology than the ancient Jews had before the New Testament was written, are still more in conflict with t
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• Son Of God
  ...this life being a reminiscence of a life preceding, or in what some of the modern poets have hinted about human beings trailing clouds of glory from an antec ...lory and those of His exceeding sufferings. The gospel at once opposes the Jews' false monotheism by declaring Christ to be the coequal Son of God, and the
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• Pharisee
  ...haracter of the Pharisee I refer to &nbsp;Matthew 23:1-39, throughout. The modern Pharisee of the present hour is he that prides himself upon the rectitude o ...themselves as a sect, considering themselves as more righteous than other Jews. </p>
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• Abraham
  ...his father, not of his mother (&nbsp;Genesis 20:12). Ur, his home, is the modern Mugheir, the primeval capital of Chaldaea; its inscriptions are probably of ...emphasis the measureless distance between Himself and the greatest of the Jews, and <i> a fortiori </i> , as it would appear to the company around, of the
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• Abstinence
  ...postolic view. St. Paul did not, it is true, expatiate after the manner of modern moralists on the dignity of labour,†[Note: See Harnack’s What is Christ ...w of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank" (&nbsp;Genesis 32:32); modern Jews, therefore, abstain from the whole hind quarter. </p> <p> The law defined w
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• Maccabee
  ...Mount Gerizim, which for 200 years had been an object of abhorrence to the Jews. He then turned his arms towards Ilumsea, where he captured the towns of Do
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• Blasphemy
  ...a direct sin against the Holy Ghost as against Christ, whom the apostate [[Jews]] blasphemed in the synagogues. It implied, however, a high offence against ...blasphemies of his countrymen against that Name became his daily fare. The Jews of Pisidian [[Antioch]] ‘contradicted the things which were spoken by Pau
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• Hellenism
  ...rained at Alexandria (&nbsp;Acts 18:24). [[Aquila]] and [[Priscilla]] were Jews from Rome, born in [[Pontus]] (&nbsp;Acts 18:2). In none of these cases (ex ...bees 12:1; &nbsp;1 Maccabees 14:16 ). The high social standing of Egyptian Jews in relation to native [[Egyptians]] hinged in large part on the Jewish adop
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• Isaiah
  ...hing, particularly the transcendent nature of Yahweh, which may serve as a modern translation of Hebraic “holiness.” God warned him that his ministry wou ...agan conquerors, is viewed as "the servant of Jehovah"; but as the mass of Jews were suffering for their sins the idea of "servant of Jehovah" limited itse
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• Moses Mendelssohn
  ...a, [[Israel]] and the Gentiles, p. 544 sq.; Schmucker, Hist. of the Modern Jews (Philadelphia, 1867), p. 239 sq.; Kalkar, Israel u. d. Kirche (Hamburg, 186 ...ul," and did a great deal in his day to do away with the prejudices of the Jews and the prejudices against them; he was the friend of Lessing, and is the p
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• Paul The Apostle
  ...expected a bribe from Paul (24:26). Festus, his successor, is asked by the Jews to send Paul to Jerusalem, there being a secret plot to kill him on the roa ...ors), and "in Christ" assure that careful readers will not facilely impose modern or postmodern theories of selfhood and politics on Paul's radically Christo
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• Mary
  ...miles from Capernaum, at the southern end of the Plain of Gennesaret. The modern Mejdel is a miserable village, but the ancient Magdala was a wealthy place, ...er as an infamous character;—and that, from the blasphemous calumny of the Jews, a stigma of infamy has been affixed to the name of Mary Magdalene, and cau
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• Education
  ...tian </b> .-The sentiment which caused education to be so prized among the Jews must in course of time have caused it to be greatly desired among the follo ...ld he finally reach the dignity of papyrus. </p> <p> For the mass of young Jews of the male sex, for whom alone public provision was made, the girls being
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• Babylonia
  ...by many to have written his first epistle there, &nbsp;1 Peter 5:13 . The Jews had thriving synagogues in Babylonia, and one of their Talmuds was there co ...n interesting commentary on &nbsp;Ezra 1:7 , in which we are told that the Jews were allowed to take with them their sacred vessels. The spirit manifested
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• Arabia
  ...and afterward of the Ishmaelites; as it is still of their descendants, the modern Bedouins, who maintain the same predatory and wandering habits. It consists ...h an African language, as appears from the inscriptions; the Ekhili is its modern phase. [[Monuments]] with Himyeritic inscriptions are found in Hadramaut an
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• Sacrifice
  ...Christ in sacrificial obedience, have failed in emphasis (cf. G. A. Smith, Modern [[Criticism]] and the [[Preaching]] of the OT, London, 1901, p. 170 ff.). < ...30:15; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 35:11. </p> <p> '''(5)''' The Mishna and Karaite Jews, who reject all tradition not founded on Scripture, say the fat and entrail
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• Israel
  ...ons in Greek and Roman historians, and the [[Mishna]] and Talmud. </p> <p> Modern criticism has demonstrated that many of these sources were composed by weav ...of many Gentiles coming to faith, includes all believers, whether they be Jews or Gentiles, to constitute the "all Israel, " that is, the unified body, th
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• Lazarus
  ...is this saying converted into a history: a man rose from the dead, and the Jews did not believe. Lazarus full of corruption corresponds to the beggar full ...ppropriately then he told the rich man, "son ''(By Privileges On Which The Jews Prided Themselves, '' &nbsp;Luke 3:8 '')'' , remember that thou in thy life
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• Ethics
  ...ment has an abstract, comprehensive term or definition which parallels the modern term “ethics,” both the Old Testament and the New Testament are concern ...t brings to its natural conclusion the course of ethical thought among the Jews. If, however, the root of sin is in the will, it follows that it is not in
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• Hebrew Language
  ...s. The characters engraven on all of them are manifestly the same with the modern Samaritan, though with some trifling variations in their forms, occasioned ...ings which date from this period. It was never spoken in its purity by the Jews after their return from Babylon. They now spoke Hebrew with a large admixtu
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• Essenes
  ...their peculiarities by uniting heathen elements with Judaism; and wherever Jews came in touch with like influences, similar results might be produced. [[Le ...f this kind did happen, they purified themselves after it. Like many other Jews, they attributed great value, in general, to lustration by bathing in cold
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• Cross
  ...y breaking their bones upon the cross with a mallet, as upon an anvil. The Jews, in the times of which we are speaking, namely, while they were under the j ...of pain must needs in proportion be more quick and tender. </p> <p> The [[Jews]] confess, indeed, that they crucified people in their nation, but deny tha
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• Number
  ...'24'' courses of priests anticipate the final combination of the [[Two]] , Jews and Gentiles, made ''One'' new man in Christ (&nbsp;Revelation 4:4). [[Seve ...there is no positive evidence of such a usage. </p> <p> In later times the Jews used consonants as numerical signs; the units from one to nine were denoted
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• Sepharad
  ...the fact that the Spanish Jews are called '''''Sephardim''''' , the German Jews '''''Αshkenazim''''' . </p> ...dered the word signified 'boundary,' and referred to the dispersion of the Jews in any region. </p>
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• Immortality
  ...e Fourth Gospel </i> , 1906; W. Sanday, <i> Christologies, [[Ancient]] and Modern </i> , 1910; C. Bigg, <i> The Christian [[Platonists]] of [[Alexandria]] </ ...); Pye Smith, First [[Lines]] of Christ. Theol. p. 144, 352, 357; Saisset, Modern [[Pantheism]] (Edinburgh, 1863, 2 vols. 12mo), 1, 140 sq., 263; 2, 36 sq.;
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• Roads And Travel
  ...of all kinds. There were recognized routes for particular journeys, as in modern times. Sailings were as regular, relatively, as in our own day. The sea was
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• Month
  ...n intercalary month every third year, not noticed in the Bible. The modern Jews have seven intercalary months in every 19 years, according to the metonic c ...erhaps is it important to know. </p> <p> It is probable, however, that the Jews learnt in Babylon, the custom of the Chaldeans, to mark their months as the
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• War
  ...accabees, till the time of Simon Maccabaeus, prince and high priest of the Jews, who had mercenary troops, that is, soldiers who received pay, 1Ma_14:32 . ...s, and quickly retreating into the city, &nbsp;2 Chronicles 26:14,15 . The modern inventions of gunpowder, rifles, bombs, and heavy artillery have changed al
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• Nazareth
  ...]] origin, and came to be their standing designation among the unbelieving Jews, the latter was a [[Gentile]] coinage. ‘The Nazarene’ and ‘the Nazare ...levated spot. Dr. E. D. Clarke, however, remarks that the situation of the modern town answers exactly to the description of St. Luke. "Induced, by the words
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• Apologists
  ...[[Collatio]] cum erudto Judaeo (1687, 4to); Leslie, Short Method with the Jews; Kidder, Demonstrations of the [[Messiah]] (1726, fol.); McCaul, The Old Pa
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• Alexander The Great
  ...y agree. The empire of Greece had thus to do with God's ancient people the Jews, and formed a link in the chain of kingdoms until the [[Messiah]] Himself a ...is real importance to the Biblical student consists in this he brought the Jews into contact with Greek literature and life. </p> <p> J. Taylor. </p>
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• Prophecy
  ...continued to confirm the faith, and to keep alive the expectations, of the Jews. Hence was it the character of the prophetic spirit to be rapid in its desc ...ely to continue so 'until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled, ' as the Jews are by a constant miracle preserved a distinct people for the completion of
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• Year
  ...n the fiftieth year, &nbsp;Leviticus 25:8-11 . To this statement agree the Jews generally, their rabbins, and the Caraites; and say farther, that the argum ...6:43). </p> <p> Alexander the Great and [[Julius]] [[Caesar]] exempted the Jews from tribute on the sabbatical year (Josephus Ant. 11:8, section 6, 14:10,
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• John The Baptist
  ...the Gospels. </p> <p> ( <i> a </i> ) <i> The theocratic washings of the [[Jews]] </i> (Leviticus 11-15, Numbers 19). That a religious intention underlay t ...of the Christians in the time of that emperor, and his edicts against the Jews did not extend to the provinces. Sir Isaac Newton was of opinion that John
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• Haman
  ...oused his anger that he plotted to destroy not only Mordecai but all the [[Jews]] that were in the king's dominions. His offer of the immense sum of 10,000 ...confirmed and illustrated by the descriptions of eastern life furnished by modern travellers in the same region. The death of Haman took place about 485 B. C
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• Nero
  ...] Excessu Diui Augusti, bks. xiii.-xvi.; Suetonius, Life of Nero. The best modern book is B. W. Henderson, The Life and Principate of the Emperor Nero, Londo ...inated in the destruction of [[Jerusalem]] and the massacre of countless [[Jews]] in a.d. 70. Two years before that, however, the revolt of [[Gaul]] under
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• Book Of Tobit
  ...n distinctly states that neither Tobit nor Judith was ever received h, the Jews as [[Sacred]] Scripture- '''''῾Εβραῖοι''''' '''''Τῷ''''' ''''' ...Aethiopica </i> , V, 1894. </p> 9. Original Language: <p> The majority of modern scholars, who have a better knowledge of Sere than the older scholars, hold
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• Worship
  ...heory, and Practice </i> ; A. J. Heschel, <i> The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man </i> ; A. E. Hill, <i> [[Enter]] His Courts with Praise! </i> ; C. Jone ...as far from their notions to think of observing a yearly passover with the Jews. The following was the view which they took of the matter: "Every typical f
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• Scripture
  ...s plan of salvation. The Old Testament was given specially at first to the Jews, and the New Testament to the disciples of Christ. The Old Testament is ful ...pouring of the Spirit, the persecution of the Church, the rejection of the Jews and mission to the Gentiles, the resurrection of the body, and the final sa
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• Philadelphia
  ...eited their great and good name, they merely lie when they call themselves Jews. The spiritual succession, and with it the historical title, consecrated an ...same.’ The date of its final capture is uncertain probably a.d. 1391. Its modern name is <em> Ala-Sheher </em> , and a considerable portion of the populatio
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• Mystery
  ...Paul writes after 30 years of disappointing experience in preaching to the Jews: ‘ <i> It is written </i> , God gave them a spirit of stupor, <i> eyes th .../em> in Christian Latin became <em> mysterium </em> , and thus passed into modern languages. The kindred <em> mystic </em> and <em> mystagogue </em> , import
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• Writing
  ...full length, the word <em> Joudahamalek, </em> that is, the kingdom of the Jews, or the kingdom of Judah. </p> <p> This is a commentary on the fourteenth c ...e has got into the text of &nbsp; Psalms 40:7 b. [[Ancient]] readers, like modern ones, at times inserted their judgment of the propositions of the text in m
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• Ethiopia
  ...the (Assyrian) rivers (i.e. armies, &nbsp;Isaiah 8:7-8) have spoiled"; the Jews, not the Ethiopians. Ethiopia had sent her ambassadors to [[Jerusalem]] whe ...In pre-New Testament times, Ethiopia was one of the many countries where [[Jews]] settled and established communities. Some Ethiopians attended the [[Jewis
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• Judaism Jews
  Judaism Jews <ref name="term_17970" /> ...[[M.]] [[R.]] Wilson, and [[A.]] [[J.]] Rudin, eds., <i> Evangelicals and Jews in [[Conversation]] </i> ; [[R.]] de Vaux, <i> Translating and [[Understand
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• Theology Of Zechariah
  ...rebuild the temple (3:8; 4:9; 6:12-13). As mentioned above, the postexilic Jews were following the restoration plan of Ezekiel. He had described paradise-l
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• Daniel
  ...istant part of the empire where the summons had not time to reach him. The Jews' enemies found it more political to attack first the three nearer at hand b ...ing righteousness (9:20-27). Before that climax would arrive, however, the Jews would have intense suffering This would be so particularly during the Greek
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• New Testament
  ...lexandrian forms of the Septuagint were smoothed down among Greek speaking Jews of other places than Egypt. The New Testament Greek in oldest manuscripts r ...[[Miracles]] in the land of the Gadarenes. &nbsp;Mark 5:1-20 </p> <p> The Jews offended at Jesus at Nazareth. &nbsp;Mark 6:1-5 </p> <p> Jesus again visits
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• Jewish. Calendar
  ...on, the second month of Adar, or Ve-Adar. (See Year). </p> <p> '''II.''' ''Modern Julian [[Calendar]] Of The Temperature And Agricultural Products Of Palesti
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• Mohammed Or Mahomet
  ...self regularly, he did it now and then. At first he wore his hair like the Jews and Christians; for he said, "In all instance in which God has not given me
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• Book Of Wisdom (The) Of Solomon
  ...there can be but little doubt that it was held in great respect among the Jews, and that the apostle Paul was familiar with its language, as may be seen f
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• Language Of The New Testament
  ...uagint does not, of course, give a true picture of the Greek spoken by the Jews in [[Alexandria]] or in Palestine. But the constant reading of the Septuagi
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• Inspiration
  ...of "the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms," (the usual phrase by which the Jews designated the whole Old Testament,) was true; but that the books were <em> ...acceptable form, and as held by Erasmus, Grotius, Baxter, Paley, and many modern writers, suggests that the Biblical writers were so inspired as to secure a
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• Miracles
  ...terpretation of tongues, and prophecy. We have it at first hand that the [[Jews]] expected such signs of Christian preachers (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 1:22). Th ...of the Jewish nation to Christianity confirms the gospel miracles. Had the Jews been generally converted by them, the septic might argue with plausibility
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• Kingdom Of God
  ...ere mention only three. </p> <p> ( <em> a </em> ) A considerable number of modern critics adopt the hypothesis that these various sayings of Jesus were misun ...extent like a first-century Jew. Since the kingdom of God was seen by most Jews in Jesus' day as a future, supernatural kingdom that would bring history to
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• Christ In Modern Thought
  Christ In Modern Thought <ref name="term_55375" /> ...p of men who, while believing in Jesus as the Messiah, did not cease to be Jews. The Pauline was a reformed and [[Gentile]] Christianity, which aimed at un
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• Justification
  ...insists that each is himself, not another.]may be regarded under one more modern-‘development.’ Then, man’s self is appreciated from the Divine standp ...ubingen, 1906,40-42) that there are two principles thoroughly congenial to modern thought which favor this doctrine, namely, that of the sanctity and importa
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• Idolatry
  ...o soon followed his insane proposal to erect his statue in the Temple, the Jews would assuredly have offered the most determined resistance; a century late ...sp;Jeremiah 19:3; &nbsp;Jeremiah 32:29; &nbsp;Zephaniah 1:5. </p> <p> (The modern objects of idolatry are less gross than the ancient, but are none the less
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• The Arrest And Trial Of Jesus Christ
  ...e cross the superscription that was so galling to them, "THE [[King Of The Jews]] ." </p> <p> <b> 11. Pilate Washes His Hands: </b> </p> <p> Then occurred
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• Festival
  ...Judith, the consequent defeat- of the Assyrians, and the liberation of the Jews, were commemorated by the institution of a festival (Judith 14, 15). (See [
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• Gospel
  ...he [[Atonement]] made once for all. but inasmuch as the question between [[Jews]] and [[Gentiles]] had in the days of Hebrews passed beyond the stage of ke ...Christ" (&nbsp; Galatians 1:7 ), the message ordained for the salvation of Jews and Gentiles alike (&nbsp;Romans 1:16 ). The "different gospel" of Galatian
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• City
  ...all mark stages in the development of the higher culture of the race. The modern city, indeed, still lacks its <i> raison d’être </i> . It is as yet a hu ...; cf. &nbsp; Psalms 127:1 ). A feature of an Eastern city in ancient as in modern times was the aggregation in a particular street or streets of representati
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• Palestine (Recent Exploration, I.E. As Of 1915)
  ...ense altar, carved out of gray stone, is so beautiful as to be worthy of a modern Greek cathedral. The upper dish rests on a support of carved ornamental lea
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• Biblical Relations Of The Greek Language
  .../p> <p> '''1.''' Here we notice distinctly, also, the tendency towards the modern language, as, for instance, in the use [[Of]] '''''Χορτάζω''''' , to
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• Christ As King
  ...elation. As the church grew beyond [[Palestine]] and the synagogues of the Jews, the [[Gentiles]] preferred other metaphors to refer to their relationship ...Pilate recognized more than he knew when he created the sign, King of the Jews, for the charge against Jesus. Jesus' kingship finds its highest exercise a
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• Habakkuk
  ...ssed in Job and in the later prophets. </p> <p> <strong> 2. </strong> Many modern scholars are unable to accept this explanation of these three chapters. It ...nd theme. Paul quotes &nbsp;Habakkuk 1:5 in his warning to the unbelieving Jews at [[Antioch]] in Pisidia. [[Thrice]] Paul quotes &nbsp;Habakkuk 2:4, "the
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• Cornelius
  ...arly church, because it showed that God accepted Gentiles as he accepted [[Jews]] and gave his blessings to both without distinction (&nbsp;Acts 11:16-18). ...eception of the gospel shows how God broke down the partition-wall between Jews and Gentiles. When first mentioned, &nbsp;Acts 10:1 , he had evidently been
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• Swine
  ...he image of a hog, in bas-relief, upon the gates of the city, to drive the Jews away from it, and to express the greater contempt for that miserable people ...is a common but very opprobrious appellation. Swine’s flesh is loathed by Jews and Moslems; the latter, who otherwise eat the same food as Christians, are
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• Koran
  ...etry very obviously influenced the taste and imitation of his country. The modern nations of Europe all possess some original author, who, rising from the da ...an against the Christians on this account, and that even those against the Jews are of " hiding, concealing" the whole, and not of corrupting. </p> <p> [[D
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• Korân
  ...etry very obviously influenced the taste and imitation of his country. The modern nations of Europe all possess some original author, who, rising from the da ...an against the Christians on this account, and that even those against the Jews are of " hiding, concealing" the whole, and not of corrupting. </p> <p> [[D
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• Day
  ...or watches (&nbsp;Matthew 14:25; &nbsp;Luke 12:38). In former times, the [[Jews]] divided the night into three watches (&nbsp;Exodus 14:24; &nbsp;Judges 7: ...ound in &nbsp;Daniel 3:6; &nbsp;Daniel 3:15; &nbsp;Daniel 5:5. Perhaps the Jews, like the Greeks, learned from the Babylonians, the division of the day int
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• The Feast Of Tabernacles
  ...y, given in the former part of this, section. On the following morning the Jews resort to the synagogue, recite the morning prayer ( '''''שחרית''''' )
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• Jubilee
  ...cles were fully believed; moreover this law, in the Pentateuch which the [[Jews]] always have received as written by Moses, is coeval with the witnesses of ...eptable year of the Lord." </p> <p> The word <em> jubilee, </em> in a more modern sense, denotes a grand church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, in
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• Astronomy
  ..." of the zodiac. Astronomical observations were also necessary among the [[Jews]] in order to the fixing of the proper time for sacred ceremonies, the "new ...s according to their brightness into six classes or magnitudes, to use the modern technical term, the average star in any particular magnitude giving about t
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• Babylon
  ...</p> <p> <strong> 1. </strong> That Babylon was the great oppressor of the Jews. </p> <p> <strong> 2. </strong> That it was the type of all the powerful pe ...sp;1 Peter 5:13 . There is evidence in [[Josephus]] that there were many [[Jews]] in the district forty years after Christ. On the occasion of the gatherin
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• Hospitality
  ...khân </em> , where, in the animal’s quarters, Jesus was born. </p> <p> In modern [[Palestine]] hotels are found only at important places on the most popular ...l oriental nations as one of the highest virtues. The following notices by modern travellers serve to illustrate very striking many passages of Scripture. Th
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• Inn
  ...Times </i> , ii. 85); but Jesus, while recognizing that His mission was to Jews primarily, never allowed His action to be limited by ceremonial considerati ...avanserai provided for the horses of travellers that our Lord was born. In modern Syria, in villages where there is no khan, there is a house for the enterta
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• Medicine
  ...special visitation of God. As the plague is not endemic in Palestine, the Jews probably incurred it by mixing with their neighbours. The <strong> emerods ...and important branch of trade was set up in these wares, in which, as at a modern druggist's, articles of luxury, etc., are combined with the remedies of sic
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• Pontus
  ...αὶ τῶν τοῦ Πόντου μυχῶν. Pontus stands in the list of countries from which Jews and proselytes came to [[Jerusalem]] to attend the Feast of [[Pentecost]] ( ...ncipal towns, Trapezus, still flourishes under the name of Trebizond. Many Jews resided there, and from time to time "went up to Jerusalem unto the feast,"
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• Rhodes
  .... cit.). </p> <p> Such a commercial centre naturally attracted a colony of Jews, and about 139 b.c. Rhodes was one of the many free States to which Rome is
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• Food
  ...ve prescribed. For another curious taboo, see &nbsp; Genesis 32:32 . The [[Jews]] of the present day eat only such meat as has been certified by their own ...The killing of a calf or sheep for a guest is as simple and expeditions in Modern Syria as it was in Abraham's days. </p> <p> Bread, dibs (thickened grape ju
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• Bread
  ...ke bread which was not leavened, &nbsp;Exodus 12:8 . The practice of the [[Jews]] at this day, with relation to the use of unleavened bread, is as follows: ...and often) seems, from its name, to have been pierced with holes like the modern Passover-cakes. The precise nature of the <strong> cracknels </strong> of &
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• Christology Christ
  ...[[Sabbath]] days or ‘weeks’ (Revised Version margin) he reasoned with the Jews ‘from the scriptures,’ to the effect that the Christ ‘was bound to su ...aul's great christological declarations the apostle affirms that believing Jews like himself "have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified b
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• History Of Israel
  ...beset by internal dissension. In addition, intermarriage of Jews with non-Jews in surrounding countries precipitated conflict. This unrest came to a clima
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• Preaching
  ...modelled public preaching, and exemplified his plan in his own person. The Jews had almost lost in the seventy years' captivity their original language: th ...of the crucifixion and death of Jesus. That was a ‘stumbling-block’ to the Jews and ‘foolishness’ to the Greeks. But St. Paul found in the death of Chr
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• Gerizim
  ...erusalem, is bound up with the growth of the jealousy and hatred between [[Jews]] and Samaritans, which had attained such magnitude in the days of our Lord ...us, Ant. 11:8, sections 2-4.) </p> <p> [[Henceforward]] the Samaritans and Jews assumed mutual antagonism; but whereas the Jerusalem temple and worship wer
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• Hell
  ...argums]] (cf. Wetstein on &nbsp;Revelation 2:11). It seems likely that the Jews, in turn, derived it from the ideas of [[Egyptian]] religion, since we find ...az]] introduced the worship of the fire gods, the sun, Baal, Moloch, the [[Jews]] under [[Manasseh]] made their children to pass through the fire (&nbsp;2
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• Heaven
  ...hey pretend to enquire what this language shall be, or determine, as the [[Jews]] do, and with them some of the fathers, that it shall be Hebrew, since the ...y some transcendent, visible glory, is an opinion that has prevailed among Jews and Christians, [[Greeks]] and Romans, yea, in every nation, civilized or s
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• Obadiah
  ...a contemporary of Jeremiah, and that he refers to Edom's cruelty to the [[Jews]] at Jerusalem's capture by the [[Chaldees]] in &nbsp;2 Chronicles 21:11-16 ..., as the punishment of their pride, violence, and cruel insulting over the Jews after the destruction of their city. The prophecy, according to usher, was
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• Melchizedek
  ...edek, and in the subsequent reference to him. [[Bearing]] a title, which [[Jews]] in after ages would recognize as designating their own sovereign, bearing ...alm was applied literally to David, it was extravagant, but in later times Jews applied it to the expected Messiah. Jesus agreed that this was a correct ap
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• Government
  ...procedures he enjoyed the protection of the state at times when fanatical Jews would have killed him (&nbsp;Acts 23:12-13 ), and was actually treated reas ...s moral authority extended to Jews outside Palestine. In the Diaspora, the Jews, tenacious of their national peculiarities, were in many cases allowed a la
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• Philippi
  ...d with idolatry. Philo (in Flaccum, 14) mentions the instinctive desire of Jews residing in a foreign city to pray ἐν καθαρωτάτῳ, in the pure ...ians 4:10; &nbsp;Philippians 4:18; &nbsp;2 Corinthians 11:9). </p> <p> Few Jews were in Philippi to sow distrust between him and them. No synagogue, but me
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• Tarsus
  ...in the university, which was more closely connected with the city than in modern times. A new lecturer had to be recognized by some competent body. There wa ...far-reaching change which this Antiochus, who was at first no enemy of the Jews, made in Tarsus was commemorated by the new name given to the city-‘Antio
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• Hebrew Commentaries
  ...1892-95, 3 volumes (the best existing anthology of Jewish literature in a modern language; it contains very valuable introductions); Wogue, <i> Histoire de
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• Music
  ...her instruments. This cymbal and the mode of using it may be often seen in modern armies. The second kind of cymbals, consisted of four small plates attached ...a comparison, however, of the instruments probably held in common by the [[Jews]] with the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, a degree of probability as to mos
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• Frontlets
  ...he [[Sadducees]] wore them on the palm, the Pharisees above the elbow. The Jews probably learned the use of such amulets from the [[Babylonians]] during th ...Jews Tephila. It is said, that even in modern times the most devout of the Jews wear them in their devotions. What a blessedness is it, in the holy faith t
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• Corban
  ...devoted to the subject. We there find that the customary formula among the Jews for devoting anything to God was, ‘Let it be <i> corban </i> ’; though, ...<p> See Offering. </p> <p> The manner in which our Lord hath condemned the Jews, for the use of the word Corban, plainly shews what a pretext, or covering,
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• Jewish. Sabbath
  ...ts. A full account of the sabbatical ceremonies observed at present by the Jews may be found in Buxtorf's ''Synagoga Judaica'' , and in Picard's ''Religiou
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• Scribes
  ...ure.—The literature on the subject is very extensive. Every History of the Jews, every Life of Christ, every [[Commentary]] on the Gospels, deals to some e ...ed the '''''Τalmud''''' ("instruction"), the standard of orthodoxy for the modern Jew. The Old Testament too was "searched" ( '''''Midrashim''''' ) for "reco
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• Heathen
  ...known, they may be accepted by God; and so much the rather, as the ancient Jews, and even the apostles, during the time of our Saviour's abode on earth, se ...people of the earth generally; and in &nbsp;Matthew 6:7 , an idolater. In modern usage the word denotes all nations that are strangers to revealed religion.
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• Philo
  ...did, who praised Philo as the oldest authority for Christian monasticism; modern critics do the same even when they deny Philo’s authorship of the treatis ...ges 138-143, and Tholuck's St. John [Clarke], pages 62-67. The interest of Jews in the writings of their philosophic countryman is curiously exhibited in t
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• Holy Scriptures
  ...ooks of the New Test. were written in the Greek language, the writers were Jews, hence, as might be expected, their compositions evidence Jewish thought, w
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• Cilicia
  ...are mentioned by [[Philo]] in his <i> Leg. ad Gaium </i> (§ 36). Among the Jews of [[Jerusalem]] who rose against [[Stephen]] there was a synagogue of Cili ...e [[Greeks]] and seat of learning under the Graeco-Macedonian empire. Many Jews were settled there and had their synagogue (&nbsp;Acts 6:9). Paul belonged
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• Galatia
  ...eg. ad Gaium </i> , xxxvi.) does not include Galatia proper, and among the Jews who made the journey to [[Jerusalem]] at [[Pentecost]] there were Asians an ...t was also the seat of colonies from various nations, among whom were many Jews; and from all of these Paul appears to have made many converts to Christian
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• Banquet
  ...arch, or governor of the feast. The existence of such an officer among the Jews is placed beyond a doubt, by a passage in the apocryphal book of Ecclesiast ...t the ancient [[Israelites]] sat around low tables, cross-legged, like the modern Orientals. Guests were specially honoured when extra portions were set befo
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• Missions
  ...e. A little consideration of the difficulties which affect the progress of modern missions in different countries might lead to a better understanding of the ...claimed, in the light of Scripture and experience, both among ancient and modern heathen, that the grand desideratum for those times, as for all others, was
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• Mediator
  ...oses uplifted in the wilderness. Again, after He has been lifted up by the Jews, they will know that He is the Messiah. Lastly, He says, ‘I, if I be lift ...h the Father, and in office the God-man, Glory-man, Christ Jesus! Oh! that modern infidels, calling themselves Christians, but in name only so, and not in re
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• Fable
  ...wer is still valid. Against the charge of following sophistical fables the modern apologetic turns to ‘the fact of Christ,’ and the heart stands up and a ...Cerinthus. Ramsay points out that [[Phrygia]] was a favourable soil, the [[Jews]] there being particularly lax. ( <em> d </em> ) The fables may be speciall
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• Bible
  ...ntially, as regards the former, with the Masoretic, and therefore with the modern division, but differing materially, as to the New Testament, from that whic
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• Woman
  ...highest office in a given ecclesial context (perhaps roughly analogous to modern-day senior pastors in congregationally governed churches). Again, egalitari ...hurches. Paul was concerned that the Christians should “give no offense to Jews or to [[Greeks]] or to the church of God” (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 10:32 NRSV
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• Ecclesiastical History
  ...ent, and its [[Divisions]] and Variations, both in ancient, mediaeval, and modern Times (Boston, 1854, 12mo; Congregational). </p>
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• Agriculture
  ...y wells, or cisterns, or caves hewn out of the rock, such as are common in modern times. The grain stored in these magazines will remain good for years. </p> ...not the author of confusion, there is no transmutation of species, such as modern skeptical naturalists imagine. Oxen unmuzzled (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 25:4) five
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• Lystra
  ...It is stated (&nbsp;Acts 14:19) that, during St. Paul’s sojourn in Lystra, Jews came thither from [[Antioch]] (130 miles) and [[Iconium]] (18 miles), but w ...pears as already a Christian. Paul then circumcised him, to conciliate the Jews there (&nbsp;Acts 16:3). [[Hamilton]] (Res. in Asia Min., 2:313) identifies
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• Salamis
  ...few inhabitants who had been able to act on the defensive. He defeated the Jews, expelled them from the island, to whose beautiful coasts no Jew was ever a ...is is in harmony with what we read elsewhere. Salamis was not far from the modern ''Famagousta'' , it was situated near a river called the Pediaeus, on low g
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• Ephesus
  ...foundation of the [[Temple]] of Artemis was discovered by J. T. Wood. The modern village lying beside the temple bears the name of <i> Ayasoluk </i> , which ...o Ephesus before the mission of Jesus began. When St. Paul turned from the Jews to the population in general, he appeared, as earlier in Athens, as a lectu
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• Jehovah
  ...Abraham]] began, to be (Greek) I am" (&nbsp;Matthew 28:20). </p> <p> The [[Jews]] by a misunderstanding of &nbsp;Leviticus 24:16 ("utters distinctly" inste ...ith the Chaldee letters and language, should discover and misapply it. The Jews call this name of God the Tetragrammaton, or the name with four letters. It
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• Hair
  .... Light ornaments of metal were worn on the hair (&nbsp; Isaiah 3:18 ): In modern times coins of silver and gold are commonly worn; often a tiny bell is hung ...;Matthew 10:30; &nbsp;Luke 12:7; &nbsp;21:18; &nbsp;Acts 27:34; (b) as the Jews swore by the "hair," the Lord used the natural inability to make one "hair"
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• Fire
  ...most of Israel were slain and only a few survived. Titus slaughtered the [[Jews]] on that terrible occasion. Those living in the country districts escaped. ...the Bible is that of fire, a phenomenon common to all cultures ancient and modern and one that lends itself to a variety of imagery. The most prevalent term
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• Scourge
  ...t and Rome. The number of stripes was limited by Moses to forty; which the Jews, in later times, were so careful not to exceed, that they inflicted only th ...24 , that at five different times he received thirty-nine stripes from the Jews; and in the next verse, shoes that correction with rods was different from
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• Ir-Ha-Heres
  ...ity of righteousness’ (LXX [Note: Septuagint.] ), and then further, by the Jews of Palestine, as a counter-blow, into ‘city of destruction’ (Heb. text) ...translation of the Old Testament) of many [[Ethiopians]] to the God of the Jews (&nbsp;Acts 2:6; &nbsp;Acts 2:10-11), e.g. [[Queen]] Candace's chamberlain
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• Crete
  ...ve them the testimony which Paul found to be so true, &nbsp;Titus 1:12 . [[Jews]] also had established themselves among them, who according to all appearan ...small. (On its connection with the (See [[Cherethim]] .) It abounded with Jews in the apostolic age; hence, "Cretans" were among the witnesses of the effu
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• Devil
  ...on very secret. They therefore call themselves Mohammedans, Christians, or Jews, according to the party of him who inquires what their religion is. Some ac ...nation marks the two-fold objects of his malice - the [[Gentiles]] and the Jews. There is one one Devil, many "demons" as KJV ought to translate the plural
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• Divination
  ...ion in the Apostolic Age. Reference to its various phases will be found in modern [[Commentaries]] and in works on Comparative Religion, and Anthropology, as ...&nbsp;Acts 13:8); the pythoness (&nbsp;Acts 16:16's margin); the vagabond Jews, exorcists (&nbsp;Acts 19:13; &nbsp;Acts 19:19), the [[Ephesian]] books tre
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• Greece
  ...During the Maccabaean conflict the term ‘Greek’ came to be used by strict Jews as synonymous with anti-Jewish or heathen (&nbsp;2 Maccabees 4:10; &nbsp;2 ...vivacious, acute, and polished, but superficial people, compared with the Jews. They excelled in all the arts of war and peace; but were worshippers of be
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• Festivals
  ...n interruption of three years, a celebration of eight days took place. The modern celebration does not greatly affect the routine duties of everyday life. Th ...rated in . </p> <p> The defeat by Judas Maccabaeus of the Greeks, when the Jews 'smote off Nicanor's head and his right hand which he stretched out so prou
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• Day Of Atonement
  ...rom the earlier stages of the common Semitic religion should not blind the modern student to the profound conviction of sin to which the institution bears wi ...al work, and especially difficult was the manipulation of the incense. The modern estimate put on the Day of Atonement appears from the following citation of
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• Sychar
  ...e hardness of that from the spring, would form attractions in early, as in modern times. With no other ancient settlement near the Well, we may with some con
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• Creation
  ...that is, to imply the universe to be God; which, however, might be a more modern perversion. [[Plato]] supposed the world to be produced by the Deity, uniti ...he Biblical record of creation into accord with the facts disclosed by the modern sciences of Geology and Astronomy. [[Naturally]] such constructions confine
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• New Christians
  ...re the Jewish sacred prayer, the Shemang Israel. See Lindo, History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, ch. 22 sq.; Da Costa, [[Israel]] and the Gentiles, p
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• Army
  ...Isaiah 2:7), but it was much brought down in Hezekiah's reign, so that the Jews, in violation of God's prohibition (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 17:16), looked to Egy ...y derived their names, such as ‘Cohors Sebastenorum,’ or ‘Tyriorum.’ The [[Jews]] were expressly exempted from military service under the Roman banners and
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• Priest
  ...generally, and to the ministry of the Church. </p> <p> 1. Use in regard to Jews.-The actual high priest of the day figures in Acts alone (&nbsp;Acts 4:6; & ...ians; though it would have been the natural word for the sacred writers as Jews to have used; but the Holy Spirit restrained them from using it. </p> <p> T
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• Resurrection
  ...riginal Apocalypse would not have contained a pre-millennial resurrection. Modern critical opinion, however, has expressed itself strongly in favour of unity ...n of Jesus, by revealing its harmony with the Divine plan set forth to the Jews in the OT, and showing that it was attested by numerous witnesses of His po
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• The Second Book Of Maccabees
  ...arded by the [[Christians]] as not unuseful, yet expressly states that the Jews did not receive it into the canon (Contra ep. Gaudent. 1:31), and draws a d
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• Architecture
  ...g materials, influenced by limited knowledge of exotic features, which the Jews had neither the time nor the knowledge properly to apply. See City; [[Build ...ained. The architecture of Palestine, and, as such, eventually that of the Jews, had doubtless its own characteristics, by which it was suited to the clima
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• First Epistle To The Corinthians
  ...Epistles. Moreover, the Corinthians had begun the collection for the poor Jews ‘a year ago’ when St. Paul wrote 2 Cor. (&nbsp; 2 Corinthians 8:10; &nb ...2 f); then he opened his campaign in the synagogue where he persuaded both Jews and Greeks, and ultimately, when opposition became violent, carried it on i
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• Meals
  ...s are employed by the [[Evangelists]] to denote the bodily attitude of the Jews at their meals, all of which, however, imply that the custom was to recline ...may be affirmed that the [[Hebrew]] housewives were in no way behind their modern kinsfolk of the desert, of whom [[Doughty]] testifies that ‘the [[Arab]]
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• Ass
  ...and idolaters, in social, matrimonial, and religious life. To teach the [[Jews]] the propriety of this, a variety of precepts relative to improper and het ...ference in meaning of the various words for “ass” is not always evident to modern Bible students, though the differences were surely clear to the original wr
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• Book Of Lamentations
  ...on for the destruction, and a call for repentance and hope. The book warns modern readers that an immoral nation stands in danger of God's awesome judgment a ...f the five <em> [[Megilloth]] </em> , between Ruth and Ecclesiastes. The [[Jews]] recite the book on the Black Fast (9th of Ab) the anniversary of the dest
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• Weights And Measures
  ...ssive waves of conquest and invasion. The situation was not unlike that of modern Syria, with its bewildering confusion of coinage and other standards of val ...ght of the shekel such as seems to have taken place here; and although the Jews had no coinage of their own before the time of the Maccabees, they would na
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• Temple
  ...a new perspective, which revealed Him to Himself not merely as King of the Jews, but also as the Divine [[Saviour]] of the world (cf. &nbsp;Matthew 24:14).
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• Elijah
  ...g in the greatest, John (though he performed no miracles as Elijah). The [[Jews]] always understood a literal Elijah, and said, "Messiah must be anointed b ...isted in Israel, Paul understands that there was still a sacred remnant of Jews who were elected by grace. </p> <p> Mark W. Chavalas </p> <p> <i> See also
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• Adultery
  ...is violation of his law; and though some lax moralists have been found, in modern times, to palliate it, yet the [[Christian]] will always remember the solem ...ekiel 23:4; &nbsp;Ezekiel 23:7; &nbsp;Ezekiel 23:37). So Jesus calls the [[Jews]] "an adulterous generation" (&nbsp;Matthew 12:39). </p> <p> The woman in R
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• Jonah
  ...e-preaching Jesus of [[Nazareth]] was a sign, though a greater one, to the Jews. (4) Add that (3) harmonizes well with &nbsp;Luke 11:30, which was perhaps ...epent if only they were taught; could obtain pardon as readily as penitent Jews. Nay, Jahweb sought their repentance. Nowhere in pre-Christian literature c
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• Prophet
  ...st of the long line of God’s martyr messengers to His people; and told the Jews that, notwithstanding the fact that they had ‘shamefully handled’ His p ...ly Spirit to foretell the event. What is overwhelmingly convincing is, the Jews are our sacred librarians, who attest the prophets as written ages before,
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• Tahpanhes
  ...the children of Noph (Memphis, the capital) and Tahapanes" (with which the Jews came most in contact) represent the [[Egyptians]] generally, who under Phar ...ter the murder of [[Gedaliah]] (b.c. 586), Johanan took the remnant of the Jews from Jerusalem, including Jeremiah, to Tahpanhes. </p> <p> F. Ll. Griffith.
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• Altar
  ...ol. Age </i> , 65) even suggests that they were ‘more devout and earnest [[Jews]] than they had ever been’-continuing to worship God at the altar in the ...and upon it were placed the loaves of shew bread. After the return of the Jews from their captivity, and the building of the second temple, the form and s
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• Bishop
  ...t should neither be unmarried nor childless, test he be unmerciful. Yet as Jews and [[Gentiles]] regarded second marriages with prejudice (compare Anna, &n ...functions. It may well be true that the only reason why no bishops (in the modern sense) were then wanting was because the apostles were living; but it canno
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• Genesis
  ...must have been of the facts it records must have been well known among the Jews; the account given by Adam himself may have been verbally transmitted throu <p> The first book of the Pentateuch (q.v.) is called by the [[Jews]] Bereshith, i.e., "in the beginning", because this is the first word of th
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• Eschatology
  ...” present, even though it has “not yet” been fully consummated. Indeed, if modern scholars are correct, eschatology cannot be adequately understood unless th ...onditions of such a life must be left undefined. In a word, therefore, the modern equivalent of Jewish eschatology for practical purposes is that of personal
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• Universalism
  ...al and very curious suggestion is found in A. M. Fairbairn’s <i> Christ in Modern Theology </i> , 1893, p. 467. [[Deity]] ‘cannot annihilate, but the sente ...lism From The Time Of The [[Apostles]] To The Reformation;'' Whittemore, ''Modern History Of Universalism From The Tine Of The Reformation;'' Thomas, ''A Cen
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