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• Power
  ...as from a vase containing the fragrance of what is no longer visible. Its power within the heart is exhibited in Romans 8, and its energy of diffusion in R ...as follows: "all are within my power; but I will not put myself under the power of any one of all things." See Authority , B, No. 1. </p> &nbsp;Revelation
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• Work
  ...ul, <i> Cross Currents </i> 35 (1985): 43-48; G. Goosen, <i> A Theology of Work </i> ; H.-C. Hahn and F. Thiele, <i> NIDNTT </i> 3:1147-59; G. Mendenhall, ...&nbsp;John 17:4; &nbsp;John 19:30). Through faith in him and his finished work, people can have forgiveness of sins and eternal life (&nbsp;John 6:28-29;
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• Miracles
  ...elieved (see above, <b> 3 </b> ) that even evil men and evil spirits could work miracles, they would not have said that a miracle-worker must be a true tea ...t wicked one, the man of sin, shall be after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders." </p> <p> The same three terms occur for Jesus
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• Jesus Christ
  ...aited, prudently as well as bravely, the gradual disclosure of His call to work and danger. </p> <p> <strong> 9. Duration of the Ministry </strong> (cf. ar ...o enter the kingdom by our own effort is impossible; it takes the renewing power of God to make us new people and establish us in God's kingdom. </p> <p> <i
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• Antichrist
  ...etical spirit, present in the world already but destined to come in fuller power. The ultimate authority for our thoughts on the subject must be found in th ...to God and religion, a claim to God's exclusive prerogatives, lawlessness, power of lying miracles and of beguiling souls under Satan's energizing, having a
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• Force
  ...ons </i> of Cremer and Grimm-Thayer, <i> s.vv. </i> On Christ’s miraculous power see art. ‘Miracles’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible; Mozley, <i> B ..., </p> 1. To compel to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible. Men are forced to submit to conquerors. Masters force their
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• English Versions
  ...s (including Calvin and Beza) who were then engaged at Geneva in a similar work of revision of the French Bible. In the NT their principal guide was Beza, ...hough disfigured by credulity and bitter prejudice." For Tyndale's special work see <i> William Tyndale </i> , <i> a [[Biography]] </i> , by R. Demaus, new
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• Power Of The Keys
  ...e rules pertaining to this subject. On the other hand, Calvin referred the power of the keys altogether to the preaching of the Gospel and the exercise of C ...he authorities of the Church to admit or exclude from church membership, a power the Roman Catholics allege conferred at first on St. Peter and afterwards o
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• Holy Spirit
  ...s (&nbsp;John 14:26; &nbsp;John 16:12-15; &nbsp;1 Peter 1:12). Through the work of the Holy Spirit in those men, the New Testament Scriptures came into bei ...estament [[Theology]] </i> ; G. F. Hawthorne, <i> The [[Presence]] and the Power </i> ; W. E. Mills, <i> The Holy Spirit: A Bibliography </i> ; G. T. Montag
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• Satan
  ...... destroy ( '''''Katargeesee''''' , "render powerless") him that had the power of death." Satan seeks to "get an advantage of" believers (&nbsp;2 Corinthi
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• God
  ...a somewhat less explicit form, in the [[Pauline]] Epistles. Christ is ‘the power of God and the wisdom of God … made unto us wisdom from God’ (&nbsp;1 C ...the command to tarry in the city until the [[Apostles]] were ‘clothed with power from on high’ (&nbsp;Luke 24:49 ); this is interpreted in &nbsp; Acts 1:5
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• Providence
  ...toiling and spinning as a necessity, do not lack the raiment they require. Work you must; it is the law of your lives as God’s rational creatures; but le ...ty? God is present every where. He sees all that happens, and it is in his power, with perfect ease, to order all for the best. Can he then possess goodness
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• Christianity
  ...he <i> Encyc. Brit </i> .9 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] </p> <p> W. T. Davison. </p> ...er of God and of truth? And it has been supported in the world by the same power through a course of many ages, amidst the treachery of its friends, the opp
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• Sanctification
  ...e deepens, the work of the Spirit in sanctification is identified with the work of the Risen Christ. The sense of present fellowship with Him becomes more ...ursue" sanctification (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:14 ). Apart from God's sanctifying work in human beings, "no one will see the Lord" (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:14 ). God wil
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• Egypt
  ...ed their deliverance from Egypt, reminding themselves that God’s grace and power alone had saved them (&nbsp;Leviticus 23:43; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 16:1-3; &nbs ...n nature), at Thebes. The Labyrinth, and the artificial Lake Moeris, their work. </p> <p> [['''Thirteenth:''' Diospolites]] (contemporary with the Shepher
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• Sabbath
  ...e Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. For in six days th ...e true Sabbath and ought still to be observed by Christians (see a curious work by Francis Bampfield written to show that the seventh-day Sabbath is the de
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• Hand
  ...ess carelessness sloth. &nbsp;Proverbs 10 </p> <p> The right hand, denotes power strength. &nbsp;Exodus 15 </p> <p> HAND, To give or transmit with the hand. ...y which the sacred substance is conducted from one body into another … the power passes not primarily through the spoken formula, but through the physical c
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• Omnipotence
  ...ii.; Thomas Aquinas, <i> Summa </i> , iii. Qu. 13; B. B. Warfield, <i> The Power of God unto [[Salvation]] </i> (1903), 91. </p> <p> J. Dick Fleming. </p> ...ew of the supernatural and miraculous. Thus &nbsp;Exodus 15 celebrates the power of Yahweh in the wonders of the exodus. It is God's exclusive prerogative t
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• Atonement
  ...e practical schism between these two experiences of faith in the objective work of Christ and personal union in His death and resurrection is too real for ...reparation to the violated law of righteousness is not necessary. Christ’s work, while bringing forgiveness, conserves holiness, magnifies law, vindicates
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• Messiah
  ...s Lord over the [[Sabbath]] &nbsp;Matthew 12:8). He will appear clothed in power at the last day (&nbsp;Mark 14:62). But the title is also used in immediate ...nality in whom His spirit was particularly resident to empower Him for the work of salvation. Thus in the history of Jesus and in Christian experience this
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• Creation
  ...e reason and articulate speech; general words used by all prove in all the power of abstract reasoning; the absence of the former proves the absence of the ...ence between right and wrong. Having divided his own substance, the mighty Power became half male, half female. He whose powers are incomprehensible, having
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• Peter
  ...ssionary activities had brought him into contact with Gentiles. It was the work of the reactionary Judaizers that made the problem acute, but in the nascen ..., as to Peter (&nbsp;Matthew 18:18; &nbsp;John 20:23.) Peter exercised the power of the keys only in preaching, as on Pentecost (Acts 2), He never exercised
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• Arminian View Of The. Will
  ...will; if he cannot govern the world when much of its history is within the power of his creatures, when much that is, is determined and enacted by the free
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• Regeneration
  ...d in many passages of the Epistle and is represented as produced by Divine power. The blood of Christ cleanses the conscience from sin, and makes it possibl ...hrist with full and fast faith (&nbsp; Ephesians 4:16 ). Last of all, this work of regeneration is completed when the soul is brought to the point of absol
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• Miracle
  ...st and his apostles, and were actual witnesses to their mighty works." The power of working miracles is supposed by some to have been continued no longer th ...r and refutes the "name it and claim it" heresy that tries to force God to work miracles upon demand, if only one exercises adequate faith. </p> <p> [[Crai
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• Justification
  ...al and justify the world, not as something standing beyond itself and by a power external. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it ...vilege of justification is annexed, is such a belief of the Gospel, by the power of the Spirit of God, as leads us to come to Christ, to receive Christ, to
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• Elijah
  ...heir mouth," i.e. at, their word; &nbsp;1 Kings 17:1; &nbsp;2 Kings 1:10; "power to shut heaven that it rain not," &nbsp;James 5:17; &nbsp;Luke 4:25; and "t ...led after Moses and Elijah (&nbsp;Revelation 11:3-6 ). They were given the power to shut up the heavens and to bring the fire of judgment like Elijah in &nb
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• Resurrection
  ...Paul’s teaching. Hence we find two lines of thought of unequal strength at work in St. Paul’s treatment of the subject. </p> <p> (1) On the one hand, he ...en we remember how constantly he is pressing on his readers’ attention the power by which the resurrection to life is brought about (&nbsp; Romans 8:11 , &n
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• Church
  ...ip. Except in the form of ‘Mysteries,’ the old Greek religion had not much power; its gods and goddesses were openly ridiculed. But Mithraism was full of li ...sp; Luke 17:21 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ) in His own Person and work. It is revealed as a historical institution in the parables of the [[Tares]
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• Salvation
  ...ouraged the exercise of faith as a mere theoretical belief in supernatural power. The performance of a sign from heaven, such as men might have witnessed wi ...ile its present dimension is depicted in terms of the Spirit's sanctifying work. Its future dimension is said to be glorification, the culmination of the s
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• Grace
  ...God and Christ, working in the Pauline scheme as righteousness and wisdom, work here as light, life, love, driving away darkness, death, sin; restoring lif ...these attributes as "gifts" throughout the chapter implies that they are a work of grace as well, but the connection with grace is explicit in the parallel
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• Elisha
  ...l cell, upon a sudden inroad of the Moabite bands; a type of the vivifying power of Christ's dead body (&nbsp;Isaiah 26:19). Other antitypical resemblances .... The supernatural abounds in his life; in many instances he manifests the power of prediction (&nbsp; 2 Kings 4:16 , 2Ki 5:26 , &nbsp; 2 Kings 6:8 ff., &nb
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• Spirit
  ...to be so far identified that the former lived and acted ‘in spirit and in power’ (ἐν πνεύματι καὶ δυνάμει, &nbsp;Luke 1:17), <i> i. ...Satan is called the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is at work in those who are disobedient (&nbsp;Ephesians 2:2 ). </p> <p> One of the pe
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• Faith
  ...he Apocalypse we have described for us in words and pictures the unity and power of God, the dominion of Christ over the Church and the world, and the trium ...ews, each in his own fashion, combine with St. Paul to focus the redeeming work of Jesus in the cross. According to the whole tenor of the NT, the forgivin
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• Papacy
  ...ied about 886), who, however, is the author of the last biographies of the work only. It was edited by Busaeus (Mentz, 1602); Fabrotti (Paris, 1649); [[Bia
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• Merit
  ...<i> Lehre [[Jesu]] </i> 2 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , 1901 [English translation from 1st ed. 1893]; Anselm’s <i> Cu ...use no man can demand a right to it by his own righteousness, or any other power in himself, but by the free grace of God only, they say no man can merit Pa
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• Power Of Keys
  ...olders of the keys. To that extent, and in that sense, alone, is there the power of "legislating" within the kingdom. This is only interpreting and applying ....com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/keys,+power+of Power Of Keys from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• John The Baptist
  .... Theologic und Kirche.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , art. ‘Johannes der Taufer’; Haupt, <i> [[Johannes]] der Tä ...11:3 ); but if John learnt from Jesus what was His ideal of the Messiah’s work, it may well be, as Garvie says, ‘that Jesus for a time at least raised J
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• Devil
  ...god of this world’ or age (&nbsp; 2 Corinthians 4:4 ), ‘the prince of the power of the air’ (&nbsp; Ephesians 2:2 ), ruling over the evil spirits who are ...ctful expressions of him they would punish with death, did not the Turkish power prevent them. Whenever they speak of him, it is with the utmost respect; an
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• Ordination
  ...assignment to them, under the direction of the Holy Ghost, of an extended work among the Gentiles, and all the accompaniments befitted this new departure. ...cy, Imposition Of Hands, Independents]] and [[Ministerial Call]] in this work; James Owen's [[Plea]] for Scripture Ordination; Doddridge's Tracts, 5: 2:
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• Mediator
  ...in His own Person. But it cannot be said with justice that the mediatorial work of Jesus in this Gospel is only of this prophetic nature. St. John records ...the final <em> Judge </em> of the quick and the dead, to whom is given the power of distributing the rewards and penalties of eternity. See ATONEMENT and Se
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• Trinity
  ...ture of the Deity, whose existence is commensurate with eternity, by whose power the universe was created, and by whose wisdom it is governed; whose presenc ..., we see throughout the book the essential Deity of the Holy Spirit in the work attributed to Him of superintending and controlling the life of the [[Apost
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• Gift Of. Tongues
  ...e." He recognized precisely the same sounds in the Irish revivals of 1859 (Work and Counterwork, p. 11). Those who spoke, men of known devotion and acutene
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• Hippolytus Romanus
  ...ne literature Bardenhewer (Freiburg 1877) collects all the notices of this work discusses the different extant fragments and restores the original as far a
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• Inspiration
  ...we might reasonably suppose would have been granted to the Apostles in the work of teaching divine truth, is the very thing which Christ promised them in t ...to the most ordinary actions of life, according to this view, are not the work of man but of Omniscience. The only use which has been made of human agency
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• Prayer
  ...h </em> ’). </p> <p> (ii.) (1) A distinctive Idea in NT prayer is <em> the work of the [[Holy]] Spirit </em> . He aids us in prayer (&nbsp; Romans 8:14-16 ...iness, ought not to be indulged, unless persons are aged or infirm, or the work of prayer be drawn out so long as to make it troublesome to human nature to
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• Ethics
  ...ging absolutes, inarguable authority, effective motivation, and redemptive power. The Old Testament emphasizes that God's requirements enshrine the secrets ...ect for the civil government, and its tasks, the spiritual significance to work, the stewardship of possessions and wealth, and much else. </p> <p> The eth
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• Apostle
  ...h intention. The apostles wore commissioned to found a living Church, with power to supply itself with ministers and to organize them. </p> <p> Literature.- ...them out two by two, that they might be assistants to each other in their work; and commanded them to restrict their teaching and services to the people o
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• Almighty
  ...tion, we never hear in them, as in the Scriptures, "the [[Thunder]] of his power." </p> ...<p> The name Almighty will appear again when God works out his purposes in power and judgement. It was revealed in connection with promises made in time, as
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• Persecution
  ...ise no jurisdiction. But Roman Emperors would not admit that view, for the power of the State, in the person of the ruler, was absolute, and it covered all ...o make mankind such curses to one another? [[Merciful]] God! by they great power suppress this worst of all evils, and let truth and love, meekness and forb
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• David
  ...ntenance, which thenceforth appertained to Judah (1 Samuel 27). So did his power grow that a band of Benjamites, of Saul's brethren, right-handed and left-h ...Samuel 26:4 ff.).] It is during these wanderings that Saul falls into the power of David, but is magnanimously spared. The episode connected with David’s
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• Adam
  ...l how to give the figure or image of a thought, or of the mind or thinking power?" In <em> spirituality, </em> and, consequently, immateriality, this image ...ems to be based on a reminiscence of Messianic passages which speak of the work of the Divine Spirit, <i> e.g. </i> &nbsp;Isaiah 11:1-2, &nbsp;Joel 2:28-32
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• Nehemiah
  ...al prayerfulness, with eyes ever turned toward God, and summing up all his work and all his hope in the humble prayer at the close, "remember me, O my God, ...ple must be a separated people (&nbsp;Nehemiah 13:1-9 ). </p> <p> N. God's work, including His finance program, must not be neglected (&nbsp;Nehemiah 13:10
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• Liberty
  ...efly to point out that not only does the term ‘redemption’ (applied to the work of Christ in opening to men this new experience of life) derive from the so ...thority, right," is rendered "liberty" in &nbsp;1—Corinthians 8:9 (marg., "power"), "this liberty of yours," or "this right which you assert." See Authority
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• Government
  ...about the nature and objectives of civil government they are encouraged to work toward such changes as will benefit society and honor Christ. But civil dis ...ristocracy (Jos. [Note: Josephus.] <em> Ant. </em> XX. x.). Except for the power of life and death the Sanhedrin held the supreme judicial authority; there
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• Holy Ghost
  ...of the Spirit, but of the Spirit itself." Bishop Pearson, in his elaborate work on the Creed, and Dr. Barrow, in his Sermons, are equally explicit in stati ...th all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." (&nbsp;Romans 15:13) </p>
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• Logos
  ...rd’s personality. Being Himself the Logos, one in essence with God, He had power to impart the higher life (see Word). </p> <p> In all these directions, the ...ly the mediator of God’s redeeming purpose. It is therefore as a religious power, not as a metaphysical magnitude, that St. John brings Him before us. The E
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• Law
  ...nbsp; Galatians 5:16-24 ). God’s law ceases to press on him as an external power counteracted by ‘the law of sin in the members’; the latter has been ex ...rly a period, to such a people, and enforced by such sanctions as no human power could undertake to execute, strongly bespeaks a divine original. </p> <p> <
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• Prophet
  ...hronological mainly. But as the twelve lesser prophets are regarded as one work, Jeremiah and Ezekiel are placed at the close of the greater prophets, and
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• Bishop
  ...in other duties than word and teaching; and if so, these were not the sole work of all elders. </p> <p> [[Preaching]] is rather connected with the unlocal ...those ministers lawfully called and sent, who be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the congregation, to ca
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• Absolution
  ...g man in whom he discerns a true repentance, may be able to say with great power, ‘Brother, be assured thy sins are forgiven thee,’ and great blessing o ...eferred to the power he gave them of discerning spirits. By virtue of this power, Peter struck [[Ananias]] and [[Sapphira]] dead, and Paul struck Elimas bli
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• Ecclesiastical History
  ...dies. In the Church of England, [[Parliament]] (a lay body) is the central power in the government of the Church. In the Protestant Episcopal Church lay del
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• Solomon
  ...Note: Josephus.] <em> Ant </em> . VIII. v. 3). Josephus also speaks of his power over demons; Rabbinical legend of his control over beasts and birds, of his ...e Temple erected by Solomon is given elsewhere. After seven years, and the work was completed, and the day came to which all Israelites looked back as the
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• Excommunication
  ...virtue of the special authority of St. Paul himself, while the Church had power to expel only. There is nothing in the text to support such a view. This pu ...ame manner in every church, yet (according to the congregational plan) the power of excision lies in the church itself. The officers take the sense of the m
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• Authority
  ...power," &nbsp;Luke 22:25; &nbsp;1—Corinthians 6:12; &nbsp;7:4 (twice). See Power. </p> <div> '''B — 2: '''''Εὐωδία''''' ''' (Strong'S #2175 — Nou ...am Hamstra, Jr. </p> <p> <i> Bibliography </i> . B. Holmberg, <i> Paul and Power: The Structure of [[Authority]] in the Primitive Church </i> . </p>
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• Law Of Moses
  ...not the law of life to a Christian. &nbsp;2 Corinthians 3:7 . Law gives no power over sin; indeed, no sooner does a law say that a particular thing must not ...ith a spirit from above. But it involved also, the idea of an antagonistic power of evil, from which man was to be redeemed, existing in each individual, an
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• Simon Magus
  ...ey all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is called Great (ἡ δύναμις τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ κα ...al prerogative of the apostles. When therefore Simon offered money for the power of conferring the Holy Ghost it was really to obtain the rank of apostle. W
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• The Methodist Episcopal Church
  ...urch. The General Conference, after full deliberation, held that it had no power to divide the Church, as it was constituted to preserve, not to destroy, it
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• Inquisition
  ..., by his own confession, is with much reluctance, delivered to the secular power, to be punished according to his demerits: and this writing they give to th ...e extirpation of heresy." In the New World the Inquisition established its power, especially in Mexico. It was also terribly severe in Carthagena and Lima.
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• Fire
  ...bsp;Revelation 9:17 f.). In &nbsp;Revelation 14:18 it is the angel who has power over the fire-in this instance the symbol of Divine wrath-that brings the a ...rvants from being injured. The fire from the mouth describes the withering power of their words as they spoke GOD's messages. (See also &nbsp;Revelation 11:
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• Herod
  ...t that period, the entire eastern [[Mediterranean]] region was troubled by power struggles and bitter conflicts, one of which resulted in Antipater being mu ...hat it seemed a restoration rather than a new building. He inaugurated the work with a set speech. The building of the temple itself began in 20 B.C., and
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• Perseverance
  ...rt, but hostility, is offered, there follows hurt and loss. It is the same power which, obeyed, blesses; disobeyed, blasts. </p> <p> (3) Let the idea be aba ...wing genuineness, "develops perseverance. [[Perseverance]] must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete." But an important addition by James
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• Kingdom Of God
  ...ive reign, and God shall be all in all. See Authority, Dominion, Parousia, Power. </p> <p> M. S. Terry. </p> ...to appear momentarily. [[Signs]] and powers of the kingdom were already at work, and prefigurements of its glory were already present. As a result Jesus ta
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• Reformation
  ...t and [[Influence]] of the Reformation by Luther, by B. C. Villiers, which work obtained the prize on this question (proposed by the National Institute of ...ise unto salvation. It does not, however, come within the province of this work to give a minute history of the origin and progress of the Reformation, to
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• Plagues Of Egypt
  ...ruction, according to the Septuagint, διετηρηθης , "to manifest the divine power," by the number and variety of their plagues. Still, however, in the midst ...this tremendous judgment, for it would too largely swell the pages of this work, to enter into the relation of it here. But I beg the reader, when he hath
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...ting to observe these, as they will lead us to an approximate date for the work. There is no better test than such an inquiry for the detection of a forger ...the best opportunities for ascertaining the facts of the early part of his work from the brethren on the spot. At [[Caesarea]] dwelt Philip the evangelist,
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• English Versions Of The Bible.
  ...he wrote to Cecil in its favor. He was at the time looking forward to the work he afterwards accomplished, of one other special Bible for the churches, to
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...f a restoration to righteousness and recognition of God in the forces that work there. He accordingly plants his hopes in the world to come.< </p> ...illustration of the extra-Palestinian-Hellenistic apocalyptic hope. As the work now exists, it is a collection of various writings dealing with the histori
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• Predestination
  ...ntrary." </p> <p> In illustration of this he remarks, "God gave to man the power of election as he did to the angels. They, therefore, who do not obey are j
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• Gnosticism
  ...they could be mastered. Some systems taught a multitude of such ‘words of power’; in other systems one master word was given, <i> e.g. caulacau </i> (Ire ...ver, was an independent authority on Marcionism; by Hippolytus, who in his work against heresies adds, however, large extracts from his independent reading
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• Clementine Literature
  ...ritings </i> of Simon, it can scarcely be doubted that the author used the work ascribed to Simon called the <i> Great Announcement </i> , some of the lang
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• Paul
  ...hough they must have been important years of preparation for Paul’s future work. Paul spent the final year of this preparation period at [[Antioch]] in Syr ...uld be brought in contact with him; and among these there had broken out a work of grace, which had become a theme amongst the praetorian guards and had sp
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• Will
  ...field]] College Essays, London, 1909; H. Weinel, St. Paul, the Man and his Work, Eng. tr. , do., 1906; W. P. DuBose, The Gospel according to St. Paul, do., ...in a manner not inconsistent with whatever is excellent in the exercise of power and wisdom, justice and mercy, goodness and truth. Nor is it a little impor
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• Angel
  ...went before are that they are not active among men, their abode and their work are rather in the realms above; they are not the intermediaries between God ...for the punishment of wicked nations, seems also evident. That they have a power over the human sensory, which they are occasionally permitted to exercise,
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• Divination
  ...magicians, witches, and wizards. They had various methods of bringing the power of the divinities to act on men, all of which may be classed into two group ...of the anti-trinity, the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet, shall "work miracles" to tempt the ten kings under [[Antichrist]] to the last battle fo
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• Arm
  ...Isaiah 33:2; &nbsp; Isaiah 63:12 , &nbsp; Acts 13:17 ), or in breaking the power of His enemies (&nbsp; Exodus 6:6 , &nbsp; Deuteronomy 5:15 , &nbsp; Ezekie ...d "power": "Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood." A third nuance is "help": "Assur also is joined with them:
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• Assyria
  ...rbanipal’s death, Assyria’s Empire began to crumble. Babylon was rising to power, and with the establishment of a new [[Babylonian]] dynasty in 626 BC, the ...ect to Assyria; and "we find nothing," says Playfair, "of the greatness or power of this kingdom in the history of the judges and succeeding kings of Israel
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• Mormons
  ...religious system in peace and freedom. In the autumn of 1831 a successful work was inaugurated at Independence, [[Jackson]] County, Missouri; and shortly
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• Moses
  ...econd with his return from Midian to liberate his people from [[Egyptian]] power (&nbsp;Acts 7:30-36; &nbsp;Exodus 7:7), and the third with his death just b ...lling factor is not a <em> corpus </em> of specific prescriptions, but the power of custom. An immoral act is condemned because ‘it is not wont so to be d
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• Eusebius Of Caesarea
  ...Christians accept their religion by faith without investigation. The whole work is an answer to this taunt. The object of the <i> Preparation </i> is to ju ...''Ant. Sacr.'' (Par. 1865, 8va), page 258 sq. </p> <p> '''4.''' The small work, ''Against Hierocles,'' '''''Πρὸς''''' '''''Τὰ''''' '''''Ὑπὸ''
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• Priests And Levites
  ...iesthood gained a fresh accession of power, all the greater as the secular power was under [[Persian]] rule. The contemporary prophets, Zech. and Haggai, no ...tes from 30 years old and upward number 38,000, of whom 24,000 oversee the work of the house of the Lord, 6,000 were officers and judges, 4,000 were doorke
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• Gospels
  ...Western scholarship. Such a one may find that the Gospel is certainly the work of a Jew, and may see no reason for denying that its author may have been J ...er ancient writing. Theophilus arranged the Four Gospels so as to form one work (Jerome, Ep. ad Algas., iv. 197). Tartan, who died A.D. 170, formed a [[Dia
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• Pentecost
  ...s been witnessed since again and again. It is the mysterious outburst of a Power which never wholly leaves the world, however lifeless it may at times appea ...uth as it is in Jesus?"Blessed is the man that can testify to the Spirit's work in his own heart in all the offices, characters, and gifts of God the Holy
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• Christology Christ
  ...rk 6:14), but the only inference drawn was that ‘therefore do these powers work in him.’ </p> <p> The Resurrection did not create faith in Jesus as Messi ...ans 10:17 ), as faithful believers in Christ proclaim the Messiah's saving work, participate in messianic glory, and invite others to do the same. </p> <p>
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• Criticism
  ...sianic consciousness of Jesus, without which he regards not only the whole work of Jesus, but the conduct of His disciples after His death, as unintelligib ...]] came later than Deuteronomy, and was only incorporated with the earlier work of the Deuteronomist after the Exile. Meanwhile Colenso was working at the
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• Indulgences
  .... Since that time the popes have been more sparing in the exercise of this power; although it is said, they still carry on a great trade with them to the In ...ation whatever in Scripture. It is an arrogant and impious usurpation of a power which belongs to God alone; and it has an obvious tendency to promote licen
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• Haggai
  ...e (&nbsp;Haggai 2:18-19 ). </p> <p> IV. God's People Must Reconsider God's Power to [[Overcome]] [[Opposition]] (&nbsp;Haggai 2:20-23 ). </p> <p> A. God wil ...second year, 520 B.C., to rouse them from their selfishness to resume the work which had been suspended for 14 years. The dates of his four distinct proph
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• Prophets Prophecy
  ...imself led the way and the [[Apostles]] followed Him in declaring that His work on earth was to ‘fulfil’ both the Law and the prophets, and that the wh ...e Testaments, the coming of Jesus is seen as an inbreaking of the Spirit's work especially visible in prophecy. For example, in Luke the angel's visitation
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• Jerusalem
  ...year when the Jews said it would be the 46th or 47th year from the temple work being begun. Herod also built three great towers on the old wall in the N.W ...;Acts 3:1), nor yet for the sake of meeting with each other (5:12), but to work upon the mass of the people through the words and wonders of the apostles.
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• Conscience
  ..., in short, a conscience must experience the constraining and transforming power of the love of Christ, in whom men are new creatures, so that old things ar ...tuitously) are known by all to be wrong; immediately they are perceived at work, they are unconditionally condemned. (3) The inward look makes no mistake a
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• Captivity
  ...uption of the building of the temple through [[Samaritan]] opposition, the work was completed in the second year of Darius, through Haggai and Zechariah (5 ...gh positions at court, and the book of Esther celebrates their numbers and power in the [[Persian]] empire. There were priests among them, &nbsp;Jeremiah 29
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• Mary
  ...m> people of Bethany as a whole </em> honoured our Lord, who had shown His power notably by raising their fellow-townsman, with a public feast. At such a fe ...r's gift, (&nbsp;Hebrews 10:5) and if the Holy Ghost, in his overshadowing power, was the almighty: worker in the dark place of the virgin's womb, here call
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• Pharisees
  ...ther, the party of the [[Zealots]] who agitated for the overthrow of Roman power were an off-shoot from the Pharisees. Though Josephus is desirous of repres ...tion they pleased to public affairs; and hence the great men dreaded their power and authority. It is unquestionable, as [[Mosheim]] has well remarked, that
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• Gospel
  ...the forgiveness of sins, that in peace he might will his will and work his work. In this respect he is like his spiritual kinsmen, Luther and Bunyan. In so ...for a threefold response. (1) <i> [[Believing]] </i> . The gospel is "the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes" (&nbsp;Romans 1:16 ). Fa
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• Offices Of Christ
  ...Kingship and His offering. The offices spring from both His person and His work, and are united in the final issue of the salvation of the world. See also ...ngly power, not the fact. We distinguish also the inherent regal glory and power of Christ from his exercise of them '''''—''''' the ''Dignitas Regia'' fr
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• Christ In Modern Thought
  ...he point on which the constructive historian must stand if he would do his work. The memorials of the struggle and of the compromises by which it was ended
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• Apocrypha
  ...lifting up His hand <i> against </i> them, so that they may see His mighty power. Still some gracious end even in this stern treatment of the heathen may be ...Merely the titles of some of them can be mentioned. As a piece of lyrical work the <strong> Psalms of Solomon </strong> is the best example in this group.
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• Person Of Christ
  ...gain Christ is somehow given a place inferior to God, His entire redeeming Work and position being traced back directly to the Father. We have such express ...he distribution of its emphasis. Mark lays particular stress on the divine power of the man Jesus, as evidence of His supernatural being; and on the irresis
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• Head
  ...</i> Satan [&nbsp;Revelation 12:3]) apparently denote the abundance of his power; the seven heads of his agent, the Beast 13:1; 17:9), are explicitly referr ...7:9 (a) We are told quite plainly here the meaning of this type. The Roman power is situated on seven hills, and is already ruling with despotism and cruelt
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• Babylon
  ...ht be collected; and we may conclude in the words of Mr. Keith, from whose work on the prophecies several of the above particulars have been extracted:— ...f the Almighty. </p> <p> * The times of the [[Gentiles]] will end when the power returns to Judah, the house of David, in the person of the Lord Jesus. </p>
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• Ministry
  ...arly chapters of Acts; ( <i> c </i> ) the training of the Twelve for their work after His departure; and ( <i> d </i> ) the establishing of the institution ...y defined, but the description of whose qualifications suggests that their work lay largely in visitation from house to house and ministration to the poor
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• Isaiah
  ...il (&nbsp;Isaiah 28:1-29:4 ). </p> <p> B. The power of God overshadows the power of nations (&nbsp;Isaiah 30:1-35:10 ). </p> <p> C. A triumphant faith is a ...ll as the eye and the understanding, the deeply moving finale. His elegiac power appears in Isaiah 15-16, concerning Moab. </p>
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• Redemption
  ...(&nbsp;Mark 10:45, &nbsp;Matthew 20:28) for interpreting the nature of His work and the meaning of His death. F. J. A. Hort is certainly right in saying, w ...come into a new life of liberty as the sons of God. [[Sin]] no longer has power over them, and they must show this to be true by the way they live (&nbsp;R
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• Justin
  ..., the Word, is himself God, yet from God; the Word the First-begotten, the Power, the primitive Revelation of God. He is the only-begotten of God, yet witho
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• Tracts And Tract Societies
  ...f tracts and books on a similar plan, although few are, as thorough in the work of dissemination. </p> <p> The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, f
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• Inability
  ...That man once had a power to do whatsoever God would command him, he had a power to cleave to God. </p> <p> 2. That God did not deprive man of his ability. ...The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity. </p>
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...t the coming of the Messiah, and the action of a prince (head of the Roman power) in the last of the seventy weeks. See [[Seventy Weeks]] </p> <p> &nbsp;Da ...:1-12:13 )—plus loan words from [[Persian]] and Greek to write the complex work of prophecy, wisdom, and apocalyptic writing. This is apparently a combinat
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• Possession
  ...m ‘manifests itself in the idea of demoniacal possession. The foreign evil power by which the patient imagines he is governed, assumes different demoniacal ...l sufferings amongst men. [[Metaphysics]] postulates transcendent personal power as the original cause of material phenomena, and is sustained in so doing b
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• Divinity Of Christ
  ...is they furnish to their readers a vision which does not fade but grows, a power that is new and permanent, a command from which the conscience cannot disse
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• Cures
  .... Theologic und Kirche.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] . For detailed accounts of individual cures wrought by Jesus, see
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• Evangelist
  ...the Church at [[Ephesus]] in place of St. Paul; but he is not to omit the work of endeavouring to convert unbelievers. </p> <p> ‘Evangelist,’ rare in ...them on to make it known; for only the gospel can save people from Satan’s power and give them eternal life (&nbsp;Romans 10:14; &nbsp;2 Corinthians 4:1-6;
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• Temporal Power Of The Pope
  Temporal Power Of The Pope <ref name="term_63155" /> ...enforcing their claims to temporal authority, and with the fact that such power continued to be claimed and exercised until very recent times. See Barnum,
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• Zerubbabel
  ...ith joy, for the Lord had made them joyful (&nbsp;Ezra 6:22). The priestly power after the time of Zerubbabel overshadowed the royal line of David, notwiths ...ment, Zerubbabel roused from his apathy, threw his whole strength into the work. </p> <p> After much opposition, ''See '' '''Nehemiah, The Book of''' '',''
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• Israel
  ...its parts often warring with one another, could not easily become again a power of importance. </p> <p> <strong> 16. From Jeroboam to [[Ahab]] </strong> (9 ...and Benjamin constituted the ongoing environment in which God continued to work out his purposes. The low point came after Israel was deported into exile i
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• Exorcism
  ...well as to the other orders of clergy, exemption from civil offices. Their work was the care of the possessed, the εὐεργούμενοι, the catechist ...was not recited as a spell, but appealed to as the source of all spiritual power, as not only the badge of discipleship but the name of the ever-present Lor
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• Glory
  ...(&nbsp;Revelation 16:9); ( <i> b </i> ) by the results of God’s own saving work, the [[Exaltation]] of Christ (&nbsp;Philippians 2:11), the faithful fulfil ...OT especially, the majesty and splendour that attend the revelation of the power or character of God. The principal Heb. word ( <em> kâbôd </em> ) for
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• Biblical Theology
  ...s. He devotes special attention to a group of twelve who will carry on his work once he departs, but he also issues a call and instruction to the (predomin ...n elements or factors as to exclude the presence of supernatural energy or power of revelation. It had God within it - had, in Dorner's phrase, "teleology a
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• Heart
  .... Theologic und Kirche.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] ; Wendt, <i> Teaching of Jesus </i> , i. 265 ff.; Martensen, <i> ...bsp; 1 Corinthians 7:37 , where ‘steadfast in heart’ is equivalent to will-power). In all these and similar cases, however, it will be noticed that it is ma
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• Forgiveness
  ...or of the [[Epistle]] to the Hebrews emphasizes this aspect of the atoning work of Jesus by showing its harmony with all with which previous revelation had ...lker, <i> The Gospel of Reconciliation </i> , 1909; P. T. Forsyth, <i> The Work of Christ </i> , 1910; R. Mackintosh, <i> [[Christianity]] and Sin </i> , 1
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• Revelation
  ...ion of the Bible based on the authority of its authors and on their unique power to reveal God’s will. This special inspiration is (1) testified to by the ...of wonder and beauty, refuse to accept it as evidence of the presence and power of God (&nbsp;Romans 1:21). When people humbly submit to God in faith, they
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• Might, Mighty, Mightily, Mightier
  ...to stetch"), is translated "mightily" in &nbsp;Acts 18:28 , [[Av,]] of the power of [[Apollos]] in "confuting" the [[Jews]] [[(Rv,]] "powerfully"); in &nbsp
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• Palestine
  ...ession: </p> <p> ‘This is not scenery; it is tinted sculpture, it is jewel-work on a gigantic scale. The rosy flush of sunset was on it when we caught the ...enclosure round Abraham's tomb at Hebron we know not the date of Solomon's work still remains in some places. Wilson's arch is probably Solomonic, and the
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• Jesuits
  ...n affirmed to be above the recall or reversion of any judge, with whatever power he may be clothed; but to every enlightened mind it cannot fail to appear a ...principles of their government may be delineated, and the sources of their power investigated, with a degree of certainty and precision which, previous to t
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• Heresy
  ...[powers] as vanquished, and that henceforth their dominion and exercise of power have ceased, &nbsp;Colossians 2:15 . But what he says respecting the seared ...port of the national religion, that the officers of the church should have power to censure heretics; yet not to harass them with temporal penalties, much l
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• Polytheism
  ...set, as gone to take his repose; and those exertions and intermissions of power being analogues to what they experienced in themselves, they would look upo ...moon, was thought to come down from the skies. The same general notion of power over objects of nature appears in the rude fetich-worship of Africa. A clea
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• Eusebius (Jerome) Saint Hieronymus
  ..., had a great respect (which did not prevent criticism) for Jerome and his work. Augustine's friend [[Alypius]] stayed with Jerome in 393, and Jerome heard
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• Book Of Romans
  ...the Christian's life (&nbsp;Romans 8:1-39 ). </p> <p> 1. The Spirit is the power for freedom from sin (&nbsp;Romans 8:1-4 ). </p> <p> 2. Life in the Spirit
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• Genesis
  ..., enters into covenant with, and promises to bless individual people. Such work with individuals is part of His plan to bless nations. </p> <p> Outline </p ...t have been composed before the middle of the 8th cent. b.c. The composite work JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.] is the basis of the Genesis narrative; to i
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• Palestine (Recent Exploration, I.E. As Of 1915)
  ...by some Hebrew noble at a prosperous period when some [[Jeroboam]] was in power, and so everything is in favor of this being a relic from the court of one
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• Septuagint
  ...they are quoted as being predictions of facts connected with the life and work of Christ; and of these, 6 (&nbsp;Matthew 21:42; &nbsp;Matthew 22:44; &nbsp ...ands of the next dynasty of theologists, the schoolmen, who carried on the work of theological disquisition by the aid of this luminary, and none other. So
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• Word
  ...ose for which I sent it" (&nbsp;Isaiah 55:11 ). God's word as his creative power and revelation is perfect and all-sufficient, especially as it is personifi ...on 3:10), ‘testimony’ (&nbsp;Revelation 12:11). ‘Word’ is contrasted with ‘power’ or ‘reality’ in &nbsp;1 Corinthians 4:20, &nbsp;2 Corinthians 10:11,
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• Rome
  ...idespread, and ambitious army commanders were constantly plotting for more power. </p> <p> Out of this instability and tension there arose a leader who was ...der Stadt Romans 2 (in Iwan von Müller’s Handbuch), Munich, 1901. The best work on the Forum is C. Huelsen, The Roman Forum, Eng. translation, Rome, 1906,
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• Prophecy
  ...distant from, and, to human foresight, unconnected with, each other? What power less than divine could so frame them as to make the accomplishment of them ...ance with the method of salvation by Christ will greatly assist us in this work. The mind must be unprejudiced, and we should be well acquainted with the S
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• Vicarious Sacrifice
  ...heart of the believer in order to assist and complete the freeing, saving work. It is because of this that St. Paul lays such emphasis on the [[Resurrecti
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• Ecclesiastical. Miracles
  ...for their reformation during the great schism, or who began that difficult work at Constance, would have been handed over to Satan in the day when the ''''
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• Death
  ...d His ministry in the face of John the Baptist's question by revealing His power against the realm of death: the dead are raised, the demons are cast out, t ...into the signals of absolute dominion, and the instruments of irresistible power! The reed which they put into his hands became a rod of iron, with which he
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• Death Of Christ
  ...a life of holiness </i> . These writers relate the death of Christ to the power as well as to the guilt of sin; they conceive of it not only on the side of ...d the praise of heaven is of "the Lamb who was slain" as "worthyto receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and praise" (&nbsp;
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• Back To Christ
  ...ality. The spiritual might of God becomes real to us as we contemplate the power of the Good in Jesus’ life. Forgiveness becomes real and guilt becomes re
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• Epistle To The Romans
  ...In a sense, however, the importance of Romans lies rather in its religious power than in its theological ideas. The letter is bound together by St. Paul’s ...ce is in the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (&nbsp;Romans 8 ). This is the power within the believer, and the consequences of it are momentous. It involves,
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• Magi
  .... Theologic und Kirche.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , vol. viii. art. ‘Magier’; <i> Encyc. Bibl. </i> art. ‘Nat ...ship was refused to the idol by a few Hebrew captives, and the idol had no power to punish the public affront:— the servants of Jehovah were cast into a f
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• Congregationalists
  ...inister of the Gospel and a pastor of a church. The former has no official power in any church or over any Christian. He is only a man set apart to preach t
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• Missions
  ...any) in carrying it out. </p> <p> <b> 7. </b> <i> The progress of mission work within the NT record </i> .—The order is admirably given by Turner in his ...natives of Ireland '''''—''''' a native ministry '''''—''''' continued his work inn the same spirit. The monasteries became at length so numerous and famou
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• Timothy
  ...ded Paul's monition that "God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (&nbsp;2 Timothy 1:7). His timidity is g ...o have escaped imprisonment; in Berœa he stays on with Silas to finish the work, and later joins Paul in Corinth. He seems to have soon won his way into th
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• Caesarea Philippi
  .... Theologic und Kirche.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] ; Holtzmann, <i> Handkommentar </i> , i., <i> Neutest. Theologie
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• Pulpit Eloquence
  ...he King, or Bourdaloue in the Court of Louis XIV (Bost. 1855); Spring, The Power of the Pulpit (N.Y. 1854); Fish, History and Repository of Pulpit [[Eloquen
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• Samson
  ...of promise, he is in a peculiar sense a gift of God, born to do a special work; an overruling providence governs his acts (&nbsp; Judges 14:4; &nbsp; Judg ...; then he smote them with great slaughter at Etam. Then under the Spirit's power with an donkey bone (for the Philistines let Israel have no iron weapons: &
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• Idolatry
  ...s 15:12-14; cf. Jehoshaphat’s attitude, &nbsp; 1 Kings 22:43 ). It was the work of the 8th cent. prophets that prepared the way for the remarkable reformat ...s had been, in some way or other, animated or informed with a supernatural power by supernatural means; though Dr. Prideaux imagines, that, being at a loss
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• Adoption
  ...iones contra Arianos, passim </i> (the general subject or this magnificent work is the Sonship of Christ); J. Pearson, <i> On the Creed </i> (ed. Burton, O ...&nbsp;1 Peter 1:23; adoption makes us relatively his sons, by conveying a power, &nbsp;John 1:12 . By the one we are instated in the divine affection; by t
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• Vulgate
  ...; it is to be hoped that nothing will prevent the completion of the entire work, which will establish the criticism of at least the Vulg. [Note: Vulgate.] ...> in qua Petri vivit potestas, et excellit auctoritas, </em> [in which the power of Peter lived, and his authority excelled.] The other edition was publishe
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• Sadducees
  ...ned to be a danger to their power or to the Temple cultus with which their power was bound up they strove to destroy. That any Sadducees became [[Christian] ...Essenes, that fate rules all things. The Sadducees make all things in the power of ourselves as the causes of our good things, and meeting with evils throu
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• Independents
  ...on of the Presbyterians, who aimed at a very high degree of ecclesiastical power, and who had succeeded, soon after the elevation of Cromwell, in obtaining ...wanted some things essential to a true church of Christ; in particular, a power of choosing its own ministers, and a stricter discipline among its members.
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• Covenant
  ...essary to believe that our Lord considered His own Messianic character and work of supreme importance, not merely for the preaching, but also for the actua ...Israel after they had taken possession of Canaan. He reviewed Yahweh God's work on their behalf (&nbsp;Joshua 24:1-13 ). He called on them to fear and serv
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• Worship
  ...eyond, and apparently under the jurisdiction of Jerusalem as the religious power center of Judaism (&nbsp;Acts 9:1-2 ). The synagogue was also the site for ...from early times Christ had been honoured as a God, were appealed to. The power of church singing over the heart was soon recognized; and hence those who w
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• German Reformed Church In America
  ...the observance of the church year gain favor. Acquiring greater practical power from month to month, it is gradually receiving more general confidence, and
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• Gospel Of John
  ...separates those, on the one hand, who hold that the view of the Person and work of Christ taken in the Fourth Gospel can claim the authority of an eye-witn ...tion for his sake (15:18-27). Jesus spoke further of the [[Holy]] Spirit’s work (16:1-15), but in their confusion of mind the disciples scarcely understood
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• Imagination
  .... The same dramatic way of dealing with the critical facts of His life and work may be seen in such incidents as are detailed in &nbsp;Matthew 9:36-38; &nb ...I apprehend this to be the proper sense of the word, if imagination be the power which gives birth to the productions of the poet and the painter. </p> <p>
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• Homiletics
  ...vo); Roder (Max), Homilet. Handbuch z. Gebr. b. Predigten (a very superior work, to be in 5 volumes when completed, N '''''Ü''''' rnburg, 1863 sq. 8vo); T
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• Macedonia
  ...was the northern part of the land known today as Greece, and the centre of power during the time of the Greek Empire. It later became an important province ...When he was assassinated in 336 B.C., Macedonia was the strongest military power in Greece. Its military strength and the wealth established by Philip II en
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• Catholic Apostolic Church
  ...and the same operation. Accordingly we find that, as fast as the reigning power of heathenism is broken, those charisms which exhibited most of the miracul
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• Desire
  ...in Encye. <i> Brit. </i> 9 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] ; James, <i> [[Principles]] of Psychology </i> ; Bowne, <i> Intro ...taste. In the New Testament it represents desires that strive against the work of God and his Spirit. The word is found five times in the New Testament, a
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• Book Of Ezra
  ...rrants division of responsibility. (&nbsp;Ezra 8:24-30 ) </p> <p> I. God's work necessitates good stewardship and generous sacrifice. (&nbsp;Ezra 8:31-36 ) ...] of Ezra from Chronicles </strong> . It would appear that after the great work of the Chronicler had been completed (1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah), t
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• Resurrection Of Christ
  ...to the Hebrews preserved by [[Jerome]] (de Vir. [[Ill]] 2), a Palestinian work of the end of the 1st or beginning of the 2nd century. The Lord … went to ...vine power; prophecy accomplished; the character of Jesus established; his work finished; and a future state proved. It is a ground of faith, the basis of
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• Omnipresence
  ..., there ‘the Comforter, who is the Holy Ghost,’ is present with His benign power over human hearts. He will ‘teach’ the disciples ‘all things, and cal ...t he is present in some parts of space, the evident effects of his wisdom, power, and benevolence continually produced, demonstrate beyond all rational doub
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• Dependence
  ...ruth is especially dwelt on by St. Paul in his reasoning on the variety of work but unity of purpose which characterizes the lives of professing [[Christia
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• Ascension Of Jesus Christ
  ...n with Jesus' atoning work, implying that, far from being a self-oriented, power-seeking act, the ascension is to be viewed as flowing from the same self-sa
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• Magic
  ...was severely criticized by Peter (&nbsp;Acts 8:9-24 ), the efficacy of his power was not denied, and he was considered dangerous. The story of [[Bar-Jesus]] ...They believe in the power of the living Christ, but they do not treat that power as if it is magical (&nbsp;Acts 19:13-16). </p>
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• Priest
  ...never claimed either to be or to appoint priestly officers. Their specific work was to bear the witness of their senses to the historical Christ (&nbsp;Act ...on that begins after His exaltation. No doubt it is true that His priestly work is not consummated until He enters into God’s presence in the heavenly pl
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• Book Of Zechariah
  ...mpire]] (down to 332) or the Greek Empire. Others think they are the later work of Zechariah. </p> <p> Whether written by Jeremiah, Zechariah, or an anonym ...nations are assembled against Jerusalem, there to be consumed through the power of Jehovah. Hope centres in the house of David, and yet this house, it woul
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• Hebrew Philosophy
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• Roman Catholic Church
  ...y, and may exercise it in any part of the Church. The bishop has governing power only over one diocese, and, according to the present Church law, can practi
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• Deacon
  ...stery of the faith in a pure conscience’ (&nbsp; 1 Timothy 3:9 ). That the work of the deacon and his fellow-servant the deaconess (wh. see) was of a house ...In this verse, Phebe's role as “helper” and Paul's obvious regard for her work seem to support the conclusion that she functioned as a deacon in her churc
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• Baptists
  ...2-47; and therefore they endeavour to follow it out to the utmost of their power. They require a plurality of elders in every church, administer the Lord's ...he Missionary Union, and operates chiefly by establishing schools, medical work, and Bible women. </p> <p> '''(8.)''' Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary So
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• Woman
  ...t in battle. Although [[Athaliah]] was a wicked queen, Esther, who came to power in [[Persia]] under most unusual circumstances, used her position to save h ...place in the ancient Roman home, though she passed into the absolute legal power of her husband by the older type of religions marriage. Under the early Rom
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• Lunatic
  ...Mental [[Disease]] </i> 6 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , 1904; Macpherson, <i> Mental Affections </i> , 1899; <i> Traite ...mercies in Christ had much signification, teaching us that Jesus alone had power for the accomplishment of so much good. And one feature in respect to the d
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• Wisdom
  ...ndorse the words, ‘I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God’ (&nbsp;Romans 1:16) If Humanism and Christianity be placed on the ...ind was to work from the individual up, whereas law and prophecy tended to work from the corporate nation down to the individual. </p> <p> Second, the view
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• Election Elect
  ...d chooses to regenerate through the word of truth (&nbsp;James 1:18 ), the work of the [[Holy]] Spirit (&nbsp;1 Peter 1:1-2 ) and personal faith (&nbsp;2 T
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• Book Of Enoch
  ...ntly not unknown to the authors. Zoroastrian doctrines are embodied in the work because [[Persian]] influences had been felt by the Israelites since the [[
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• Universalism
  ...In Memoriam </i> (1849) has perhaps done more than any formal theological work to move opinion in this direction; and there has been a great break-up of t ...the denomination. </p> <p> '''3.''' ''Missions. '''''—''''' '' Missionary work is performed in the bounds of the several state conventions; in some direct
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• Attributes Of Christ
  ...as seen to go into heaven (&nbsp;Acts 1:11). </p> <p> <b> 1. Limitation of Power </b> seems to be implied in the Incarnation; it is noted especially by St M
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• Irenaeus
  ...e A. D. Schwelle D. Iren. Zeitalters'' (Lpz. 1860), a very valuable little work of 168 pages, in which "the position of Irenaeus is sketched with a bold an ...202; had been a disciple of Polycarp; wrote against the [[Gnostics]] in a work in Greek, which all to a few fragments in Latin is lost. </p>
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• Irenæus
  ...e A. D. Schwelle D. Iren. Zeitalters'' (Lpz. 1860), a very valuable little work of 168 pages, in which "the position of Irenaeus is sketched with a bold an ...202; had been a disciple of Polycarp; wrote against the [[Gnostics]] in a work in Greek, which all to a few fragments in Latin is lost. </p>
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• Church Of England
  ...ed to meet, talk, vote addresses to the crown, etc., but they have no real power. (See Convocation). </p> <p> '''(5.)''' ''Canons.'' '''''—''''' In the Co
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• Abraham
  ...erfected took place (&nbsp;James 2:21-23). Still it was his faith, not his work, which was "imputed to him for righteousness"; but the faith that justified ...ons with whom modern Christians are privileged to join in witness to God's power and his plan of salvation through Christ. While Christians can rejoice in t
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• Education
  ...ah 8:1-4; &nbsp;Nehemiah 8:8; &nbsp;Matthew 23:2-3; see [[Scribes]] ). The power of the scribes had developed along with the establishment of places known a ...woman had in the work of Christian education apart from her influence and work in the home is not made clear in the records of Church history. In the [[Sy
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• Doctrine Of Necessity
  ...ult in sound argument as if there was an immediate co-action of omnipotent power compelling one kind of volitions only; which is utterly irreconcilable to a
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• Calvinistic Doctrine Of The Will
  ...e statement of the points in which all agree (a) the free self-determining power of the soul itself in every free choice, (b) that in the free acts for whic
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• Marriage
  ...e of Bathsheba in &nbsp; 1 Kings 1:16 and in &nbsp; 1 Kings 2:19 , and the power of the queen-mother (&nbsp; 1 Kings 15:13 , &nbsp; 2 Kings 11:1-21 ). There ...Corinthians 7:7 ). The single person is normally less encumbered in God's work. So, although marriage appears to be God's norm, singleness is neither more
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• Babylonia
  ...ave way to the Chaldean, and Babylon reached its highest point in fame and power. Upon the return of the [[Jews]] from captivity, many still remained in Bab ...is as great as the Cassite. It was during this period that Assyria rose to power and influence, and was soon to become the master of the Mesopotamian region
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• Ransom
  ...garded the "ransom" price as being paid to Satan; others, to an impersonal power such as death, or evil, or "that ultimate necessity which has made the whol ...]] at [[Calvary]] where the [[Saviour]] paid the debt for the sinner. The work of CHRIST does not avail after death. </p> <p> &nbsp;Psalm 49:7 (b) The red
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• Ascension
  ...indirectly pointed out above (§ <b> 3 </b> ). The Ascension shows that the work of Christ for man has never ceased, but is permanent, although He has never ...to death; and in His ascension He led captivity captive, having broken the power of death in which men were held, &nbsp;Ephesians 4:8 , for He had in the cr
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• Synagogue
  ...synagogue as was the propagation of religious knowledge among the people-a work begun by the Levites (&nbsp;Nehemiah 8:7; &nbsp;Nehemiah 9:5, &nbsp;2 Chron ...Christianity, as every student of the Book of Acts is aware. </p> <p> The work which the synagogue did for Judaism itself is best seen in the ease with wh
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• Wonders
  ...her term was added to show that the marvel was an exhibition of [[Divine]] power and a sign of a Divine presence among men. The wonder caught the attention ...in his hands, when the saint was fasting; as a spirit calling himself the power of God, and, lastly, avowing himself to be Satan. </p> <p> '''(c)''' ''Depa
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• Mission
  ...y are not presented as being sent directly by the Father or the Son, their work is beyond the bound of our definition of mission. </p> <p> The tasks of the ...thew 25:31-32). ‘The Saviour of the world’ (&nbsp;John 4:42) has grace and power wherewith to meet the needs which belong to every man in every age and coun
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• Protestant Episcopal Church
  ...duty, but still to act in concurrence with bishop Provoost. The principal work of the convention was the final settlement of the question as to articles o
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• Son Of God
  ...hristology of Jesus </i> 2 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] (1900); F. W. Robertson, <i> Serm. </i> ii. 136, 235; P. Brooks, ...ians 15:28). </p> <p> '''Acknowledging the Son''' </p> <p> One sign of the work of God in people’s lives is their acknowledgment that Jesus Christ is the
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• Jansen(Ius) Cornelius
  ...ane principles. </p> <p> Other Works of Jansenius. '''''—''''' Besides the work which gave rise to the schismatical movement in the Roman Catholic Church,
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• Commission
  ...of the Word. When each is assigned its true place as a means of grace, the work of evangelizing and edifying, committed to His Church by Christ, will most
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• Pentateuch
  ...the Pentateuch. The Pentateuch and [[Mosaic]] ordinances underlie Samuel's work; but, while generally observing them, he so far deviates as no forger would ...All accept the possibility of later minor alterations and additions to the work of Moses in the Pentateuch. Many discuss some development of the material i
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• Talmud
  ...the immense amount of floating material could not be incorporated into one work, and when great teachers arose they sometimes found it necessary to compile ...s testimony of the Jews, about the close of the second century. It was the work of rabbi Jehuda (or Juda) Hakkadosh, who was the ornament of the school of
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• Gospel According To Luke
  ...al doctrine. St. Luke (&nbsp;Luke 12:5) has altered this into ‘him who has power to cast into hell.’ It would seem that he, or his informant, did this to ...is confirmed by Clement of Alexandria. Sir Wm. Ramsay, in his fascinating work ( <em> Was Christ born at Bethlehem? </em> 1st ed. 1898), argues with much
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• Strength
  ...this word appears in a military context. Here it is the physical strength, power, and ability to perform in battle that is in view. This idea is used of men ...rtress as an inaccessible strength. Not in use. 20. Support maintenance of power. <p> What they boded would be a mischief to us, you are providing shall be
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• Lateran Councils
  ...s year, 1516, between Leo X and Francis I. 'Through hope of increasing his power in Italy, Francis largely sacrificed the liberties of the Church. Several o
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• Porphyry
  .../p> <p> '''53.''' '''''Φιλόσοφος''''' '''''Ἱστορία''''' , in four books, a work on thle lives and doctrines of philosophers (Socrates, 11. E. 3, 23; Eunap. ...disciple of Plotinus ( <i> q. v </i> .), whose works he edited; he wrote a work against Christianity, known only from the replies (233-305). </p>
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• Apostles
  ...al credentials; they were rather a part and element of His message and His work. Did they see clearly that the evidential value of the miracles did not con ...y an office which they could hand on to others or which the church had the power to fill. Interesting to note is that Paul apparently argued with representa
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• Martin Luther
  ...ents ("true bread and wine remains") he first brought clearly forth in his work on the adoration of the holy sacrament (1523), addressed to the [[Bohemian] ...e behind him 25 quarto volumes; it is known the German Bible in use is his work, executed by him in the Castle of Wartburg; it was begun by him with his ba
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• Deuteronomy
  ...n effort made to bring religious principles home to a nation in its entire work and life. </p> <p> A. C. Welch. </p> ...d on the West. The impression given throughout is that the aged lawgiver's work is done, and that a new era in the people's history is about to begin. </p>
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• Maimonides
  ...references in this Cyclopaedia are made. Translations of portions of this work in Latin have been published, and also two in English; one by H. H. Bernard
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• Charles Forbes Rene Montalembert Comte De
  ...le the progress made is deep, sound, and likely to be lasting: in the same work he expresses himself strongly on the political changes that had taken place
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• Lutherans
  ...ith Erasmus, to the publication of his [[Commentary]] on Genesis,—his last work of any importance. But in this, after a long argument to prove that, as we ..., all episcopal authority is retained; whilst through Germany the superior power is vested in a consistory, over which there is a president, with a distinct
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• Conversion
  ...alvation. Faith is receiving the grace God revealed through the Person and work of His Son. The numerous admonitions of [[Scripture]] are to believe on the .... In renewing us, God gives us a power; in converting us, he excites that power. Men are naturally dead, and have a stone upon them: regeneration is a roll
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• Incarnation
  ..., St. Paul says, is His body, living by His life and the instrument of His work. Thus the [[Kingdom]] of God which Christ brought to the earth, and which H ...sus Christ, the [[Eternal]] Word, was made man, in order to accomplish the work of our salvation. </p> <p> See [[Nativity]] and Meldrum on the Incarnation.
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• Book Of Job
  .... There God can take him up. In 1Cor. 1Christ is seen to be the wisdom and power of God when man is brought to nothing by the cross. Job had seen God, and a ...th and darkness tells its own story and teaches its own lesson, beyond the power of didactic propositions or deductions to compass. The book is not a sermon
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• Crucifixion Cross
  ...d and only in the foolish “preaching of the cross” and “weakness” can the “power of God” be seen (1Corinthians 1:21,&nbsp;1 Corinthians 1:25 ). Jesus as t ...ng them from death, and pays the ransom needed to free the slaves from the power of sins and allow them to live. </p> <p> Lastly, the cross of Christ speaks
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• The Revelation
  ...lterable. Christ is coming with His rewards, to render to every one as his work shall be. He is the [[Alpha]] and the Omega, the first and the last, the be
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• Sign
  ...ah. The New Testament often rebukes the demand for a sign to confirm God's work (&nbsp;Matthew 16:1; &nbsp;John 2:18; &nbsp;John 4:48; &nbsp;1 Corinthians ...nguage from the one they knew. The Spirit of GOD gave them immediately the power to preach the Gospel in foreign tongues which had never been learned. This
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• Preaching
  ...nd published the holy canon in its present form. To this he added a second work as necessary as the former: he revived and new-modelled public preaching, a ...rit has come to dwell, who exhibits the love of Christ in its transforming power, can kindle that flame of divine life in others; and the fire is spread, no
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• New Testament
  ...C. Lachmann" ''(Tregelles, "Printed Text Of Greek Testament," An Admirable Work)'' . Tischendorf followed, adding however many manuscripts and versions of ...text for the press. The request was made on April 17, 1515, and the whole work was finished in February, 1516. </p> <p> ''The Edition Of Stephens.'' - The
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• Temperance Reform
  ...ssing. In Australia, Madagascar, India, and China the reform has begun its work, which, we trust, will never cease, in all its broad field, till the enormo
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• Aurelius Augustinus
  ...pere coepi). To Simplicianus he says [[I.]] ii. 13: "If it is in man's own power not to obey the call it would be equally correct to say 'Therefore it is no
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• Sunday-School
  ...aries, while, it made sure of responsible and resident agents wherever the work was undertaken. By similar agencies it was sought everywhere to promote a h
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• Known As Origen Origenes
  ...st remarkable passage in bk. xxviii. (Joh_11:39-57) is perhaps that on the power of self-sacrifice among the Gentiles illustrating the vicarious sufferings
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• Four
  ...As in the old days Israel camped four-square to reveal GOD's authority and power over them, so in the new world the city four-square reveals to us that GOD ...;Revelation 19:4 ); John saw "four angels" of destruction loosed for their work (&nbsp;Revelation 9:14 f). </p> <p> (3) "Four" occurs frequently in the mea
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• Energy
  ...with God. The last words attributed to Christ are these: ‘Ye shall receive power after that the [[Holy]] Ghost is come upon you’ (&nbsp;Acts 1:8). </p> <p ...tyle full of energy. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or
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• Wages
  ...8-65; P. Davies, <i> IDB, </i> 4:71-77; G. Goosen, <i> The [[Theology]] of Work </i> ; D. E. Gowan, <i> Int </i> 41 (1987): 341-53; N. K. Gottwald, <i> The ...1 / 2 shekels as yearly wages. He will find his own clothes. He will begin work on the 4th of the month Dur-Ramman, and will finish and leave in the month
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• Books Of Chronicles
  ...th David (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 10:1-14 ) </p> <p> B. God's bringing David to power (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 11:1-12:40 ) </p> <p> C. David's seeking to build aroun ...er deals at length with the reign of David, beginning with David’s rise to power (11:1-12:40). Having been made king, David brought the ark to Jerusalem and
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• Influence
  ...Gram. of [[Assent]] </i> 5 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] , 463 ff. </p> <p> G. H. S. Walpole. </p> ...to astrologers,of the stars over affairs. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intel
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• Roman Empire
  ...to emulate Pompey’s achievements in the East and eventually obtain supreme power. By the arrangement of the coalition in 60 he obtained the provinces of Cis ...ramount military authority over the state. The real basis of the emperor's power thus was the support of the army. "Caesar" was the family name, "Augustus"
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• Man Of Sin
  ...t endowed with Satanic and superhuman qualities, who would deceive men by ‘power and signs and lying wonders’ (v. 9ff.; cf. &nbsp;Mark 13:21-23), and whos ...h people or their expected Messiah, and ‘he that restraineth’ to the Roman power. This interpretation is supported by the fact that in his letters to the Th
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• Sacrifice
  ...iteral application as a means of legitimately interpreting the sacrificial work of Christ, or whether the whole Levitical system should be broadly expounde ...e atonement is unfavourable to virtue, and leads men to trust in another's work, instead of amending their lives. But God's wrath against sin, so awfully s
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• Paraclete
  ...lf-interested ends and lays upon the apostles the obligation of making the power of God manifest to the world. </p> <p> (b) Its relation to the Johannine th ...above under these various forms of the Spirit's activity. As Comforter His work would come under (1), (2), (3) and (6); as Advocate and [[Intercessor]] und
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• Demon
  ...They are angelic entities who oppose God's sovereign control. They seek to work out their unholy rebellion through influencing people to live in a way cont ...amous passage &nbsp;Romans 7:14-25, in which the [[Apostle]] speaks of the power of sin in the Christian-for we can hardly think that he is speaking of hims
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• Teaching Of The Twelve Apostles
  ...i> Didaché </i> in the <i> Church Ordinances </i> is that when the latter work was put together, the former was almost unknown in Egypt. There is nothing ...The Twelve Apostles]] (Lond. 1884, 8vo), the most complete and exhaustive work, giving, besides the original text, an English translation and literary mat
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• Syriac Versions
  ...stands in this Syriac gospel as we have it, or probably also in the Hebrew work of the apostle himself. </p> <p> From these and other particulars, Dr. Cure ...Moses of Mindin, a noted Syrian ecclesiastic, who sought a patron for the work of printing it in vain in Rome and Venice, but found one in the Imperial [[
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• Justice
  ...ntred in the person of the Emperor; and with him alone, therefore, lay the power of hearing appeals. The form of such an appeal was the simple pronunciation ...ld [[Testament]] demand for justice (&nbsp;Matthew 23:23 ). Justice is the work of the New Testament people of God (&nbsp;James 1:27 ). </p> <p> God's just
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• Foresight
  ...place they take as foreseen, according to that narrative, in the life and work of our Lord. In the following list the passages in which He adverts to His ...rudence; wise forethought. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge. </p>
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• Old Testament (I. Christ As Fulfilment Of)
  ...ry type of suffering by which one must enter into power. He needed greater power than others, hence He must suffer much more than they. </p> <p> It is to be
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• Baptism
  ...ction before and after it; then, laying aside their garments, they went to work till the evening. But there was apparently no symbolism about this clothing ...Philippi, so that even the young were fit recipients of baptism. Christ's power and willingness to bless infants is proved by &nbsp;Matthew 19:13-15. So th
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• Religion
  ...and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength [power and resources] [and] love your neighbor as yourself" (&nbsp; Mark 12:29-31; ...atural means that God exists; that he is a being of goodness, justice, and power; and that he inspired with divine wisdom the penmen of these sacred volumes
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• Evil
  ...of Jeremiah </i> ; W. Wink, <i> [[Naming]] the Powers: The [[Language]] of Power in the New Testament </i> ; idem, <i> Unmasking the Powers </i> ; A. D. Ver ...r 5:8, &nbsp;1 John 5:19, &nbsp;Revelation 12:9), and accordingly Christ’s work, especially His death (&nbsp;Colossians 2:15), was regarded as a victory ov
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• Architecture
  ...&nbsp; 2 Samuel 5:11 ). The palace and temple of Solomon were likewise the work of Phœnician architects, and the former doubtless supplied the model fo ...ith several stories, quadrangular, and with flat roofs. In Mr. Fergusson's work (The Palaces of Ninevah and [[Persepolis]] Restored, Lond. 1851) may be fou
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