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• A Christian Writer Rhodo
  A Christian Writer Rhodo <ref name="term_15102" /> <p> <b> Rhodo (1), </b> a [[Christian]] writer of the end of the 2nd cent., our knowledge, of whom now exclusively depends
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• Hymn-Writer Romanus
  Hymn-Writer Romanus <ref name="term_15106" /> <p> <b> Romanus (9), </b> St., a celebrated hymn writer of the Eastern church, who is said to have written more than 1,000 hymns, o
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• Story Writer
  Story Writer <ref name="term_8551" /> .../encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/story+writer Story Writer from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• Magnes Macarius Magnus A Writer
  Magnes Macarius Magnus A Writer <ref name="term_14865" /> <p> <b> [[Macarius]] (9) Magnus, </b> a writer of the end of the 4th cent. Four centuries after, his name had sunk into al
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• 2Nd Cent. Christian Writer Miltiades
  2Nd Cent. Christian Writer Miltiades <ref name="term_14871" /> .... Valentin. </i> 5) names him with Justin [[Martyr]] and [[Irenaeus]] as a writer against heresy, giving him the appellation, evidently intended in an honour
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• A Gnostic Writer Epiphanes
  A Gnostic Writer Epiphanes <ref name="term_14609" /> <p> <b> [[Epiphanes]] </b> , a [[Gnostic]] writer about the middle of the 2nd cent., or earlier. [[Clement]] of [[Alexandria]
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• Story-Writer
  Story-Writer <ref name="term_179829" /> ...https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/story-writer Story-Writer from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
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• A Writer Of Sermons Eusebius Of Alexandria
  A Writer Of Sermons Eusebius Of Alexandria <ref name="term_14635" /> ...(ὐπηρέτης ). He encourages invocation of saints. </p> <p> Mai calls him a writer delightful from his "ingenuitas," his "Christian ac pastoralis simplicitas,
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• A Writer Marius Mercator
  A Writer Marius Mercator <ref name="term_14912" /> <p> <b> Marius (1) Mercator, </b> a writer, of whom, until the last quarter of the 17th cent., nothing was known excep
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• Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius
  Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius <ref name="term_15193" /> ...early-christian-biography/sophronius,+ecclesiastical+writer Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius from A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography]</ref>
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• Anchoret And Writer Evagrius Ponticus
  Anchoret And Writer Evagrius Ponticus <ref name="term_14653" /> <p> <b> [[Evagrius]] (12) Ponticus </b> , anchoret and writer, born at Ibora in [[Pontus]] Galaticus, according to Tillemont, in 345. He
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• An Ecclesiastical Writer Maximus
  An Ecclesiastical Writer Maximus <ref name="term_14940" /> <p> <b> Maximus (24) </b> , an ecclesiastical writer, placed by [[Eusebius]] ( <i> [[H.]] [[E.]] </i> v. 27) in the reign of [[S
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• Writer
  ...e who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] clerk of a certain rank i ...o writes or has written. 2. An author. 3. [[A]] clerk or amanuensis. <p> [[Writer]] of the tallies, an officer of the exchequer of [[England]] a clerk to the
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• A Western Writer Helvidius
  A Western Writer Helvidius <ref name="term_14742" /> <p> <b> Helvidius, </b> a Western writer who, like [[Novatian]] and Pelagius, [[Jovinian]] and Vigilantius, put forw
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• A Writer Hesychius (27) Illustris
  A Writer Hesychius (27) Illustris <ref name="term_14747" /> ...> [[Hesychius]] (27) Illustris, </b> a copious historical and biographical writer, the son of an advocate and born at Miletus. His distinctive name ( Ἰλλ
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• Latin Chiliast Writer Hilarianus Quintus Julius
  Latin Chiliast Writer Hilarianus Quintus Julius <ref name="term_14751" /> ...anus]] (1) Quintus [[Julius]] </b> ( <i> Hilarion </i> ), a Latin Chiliast writer <i> c. </i> 397, author of two extant treatises. The first, <i> Expositum d
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• A Writer Hierotheus
  A Writer Hierotheus <ref name="term_14752" /> ...legium Romanum </i> (iii. 704–707) will be found other fragments of this writer, translated from some Arabic [[Mss.]] Their theology savours, however, more
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• News-Writer
  News-Writer <ref name="term_148018" /> ...[https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/news-writer News-Writer from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
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• Writer Hypatia
  Writer Hypatia <ref name="term_14768" /> ...nt of Nestorius, which took place 17 years after the death of Hypatia. The writer is struck by the teaching of the [[Christians]] that God died for men; she
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• Ecclesiastical Writer Caius
  Ecclesiastical Writer Caius <ref name="term_14499" /> <p> <b> [[Caius]] (2), </b> an ecclesiastical writer at the beginning of the 3rd cent., according to late authority, a presbyter
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• Gospel Of John
  ...ion between different views of this Gospel is practically furnished by the writer’s own words, ‘These are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the ...of the activity of Jesus. But his name never appears in John’s Gospel. The writer, following a common practice of not mentioning his own name, used instead t
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...ong> . This is most important, as it would be almost impossible for a late writer to avoid pitfalls when covering so large a ground. Instances of remarkable ...8:5. </p> <p> But in the epistles written where we know, from Acts 28, the writer was with Paul we find Luke mentioned. Alford conjectures that as, just befo
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• The Epistles Of John
  ...city. The similar tone, style, and sentiments prove both to be by the same writer. Irenaeus (adv. Haer, i. 16, section 3) quotes &nbsp;2 John 1:10-11, and &n ...nal disciples. To neither of these questions, as it appears to the present writer, is a dogmatically negative answer warranted. If within a period comparativ
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• Epistle To Thehebrews
  ...mption that his acquaintance with Timothy (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:23) places the writer of the Epistle amongst the circle of St. Paul’s friends. The early Church ...an ascribed it to Barnabas, and others to Luke and Clement, while no Latin writer is found during the first three centuries who ascribed it to Paul. In the m
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• Genesis
  ...reation and flood narratives? Has one copied the other? Does God inspire a writer to react to other literature and write the authentic version? What role doe ...al scheme of history laid down in JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.]; but the writer’s unequal treatment of ‘the material at his disposal reveals a prevaili
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• Book Of. Revelation
  ...with the critics of Germany, one of whom goes so far as to state that the writer of the Revelation promised the fulfilment of his visions within the space o
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• Inspiration
  ...was not probably exerted upon each of the sacred writers, or upon the same writer throughout his writings, whatever might be its subject. There is no necessi ...> A Tenable Theory of Insp </i> ., by Professor Wood; cf. also the present writer’s <i> The Bible: its Origin and Nature </i> . Schleiermacher’s interest
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• The Epistle To The Hebrews
  ...]] Rome is not the catholic church. </p> <p> '''Place of writing.''' - The writer was at the time in prison (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:3; &nbsp;Hebrews 13:19), had be ...vance them to all of which they are capable. That this is the theme of the writer, the passages in which the word in question occurs show; and we see no reas
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• First Epistle To. Timothy
  ...h admit of similar replies. </p> <p> '''1.''' In &nbsp;1 Timothy 3:11, the writer enumerates a series of persecutions and afflictions which befell 1lim at An
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• Odes Of Solomon
  ...xi. 11). </p> <p> The Holy Spirit frequently underlies the thoughts of the writer (xi. 2): ‘for the Most High circumcised me by His Holy Spirit and reveale
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...wever, seem to be implied in 1:27; 2:18; 7:33; 14:15. </p> <p> The present writer holds that one man is responsible for 2 Maccabees in its present form and t
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• Hebrews
  ...ave been already discussed. I merely add here, therefore, that in case the writer of the epistle designed it should have a wide circulation among the Jews, t ...” (&nbsp;Hebrews 11:1 TEV). </p> <p> This is not to say, however, that the writer of Hebrews, felt that persons could, on the basis of their own obedience, q
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• Epistle To Hebrews
  ...e, too, we get a glimpse of that quickening Divine humanity upon which the writer lays such constant stress, and which is the source of the effort demanded f
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• Epistle Of James
  ...theology with its teaching about regeneration, faith, and prayer, but the writer’s main interest lies in ethics. The condition of the heathen world around <li> The object of the writer was to enforce the practical duties of the Christian life. "The Jewish vice
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• Book Of Joshua
  ...a prophetical interpretation of an important era of Israel’s history. The writer’s main concern was to show how God was revealing himself and his purposes ...them as may seem to indicate that they are not the production of the same writer. Thus, in the Pentateuch, we have the word [[Jericho]] always spelled '''''
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• Gospel According To Luke
  ...weak and for the suffering, for widows and for the poor, than any other NT writer. </p> <p> St. Luke was no idealist. He had a literal, matter-of-fact mind, ...6 f.) is said to be absolutely unhistorical, and to be an invention of the writer, who had read and misread Josephus (see § <strong> 5 </strong> and art.
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• Clemens Romanus Of Rome
  ...s judgment of God are cited by [[Anastasius]] of Antioch; and a 13th-cent. writer ( <i> Spicilegium Acherianum </i> , viii. 382) reports having seen in a Sar
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• Gospels
  ...> <p> The conception of the Christology of the book as being the work of a writer strongly influenced by Alexandrian philosophy is probably a false one due t ...lier, omits the ascension as involved in the resurrection. Luke, the later writer, supplies the omission. Matthew, writing for Judea, dwells on facts less kn
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• Apocrypha
  ...ers, were not unacquainted with the limits of the Palestinian Canon. No NT writer names any book of the Apocr. [Note: Apocrypha, Apocryphal.] , nor is there ...egular text of the book is occasionally interpolated and amplified by some writer or writers, to give the story a fuller narrative and make the telling of it
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• Pseudo-Chrysostomus
  ...ferred His own baptism on John the Baptist. [[Directly]] or indirectly the writer was much indebted to [[Origen]] and there may be traces of acquaintance wit
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  ...t from memory. Harnack, however, seems more successful in showing that the writer of the <i> Didache </i> used and improved upon our Epistle (cf. <i> Die Leh ...rite (c. ix.). This line of argument, however, is not that upon which the writer mainly depends. His chief trust is in the γνῶσις , that deeper, that
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• Book Of Baruch
  ...soon af ter the fall of Jerusalem in 70 ad have not convinced the present writer. </p> <p> 4. Words of Cheer Baruch 4:5 Through 5:9 </p> <p> The situation i ...German writers favor the idea of a Greek original. They conceive that the writer was some unknown person in the reign of Ptolemy Lagos, who, wishing to conf
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• Book Of Enoch
  ...that can be reasonably inferred from such a fact is, that if the inspired writer cites a particular sentiment with approbation, it must be regarded as just
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• Luke
  ...iters of the same period. They are quite unlike those of modern writers. A writer of the present day seeks to tell his story in his own words and his own way ...ticulars of the journey to Emmaus. It is very satisfactory that so early a writer as [[Irenaeus]] has noticed most of these peculiarities; which proves not o
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• The Wisdom Of Solomon
  ...e restrained spirit with which these matters are referred to show that the writer is describing a state of things which belongs to the past, though to a rece
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• Faith
  ...repentance and is accompanied by love and other Christian graces. Thus the writer of 2 Pet. is at one with all the apostles in saying to Christians that when ...c. But St. Peter in his 1st Ep., St. John in his 1st Ep. and Rev., and the writer of Hebrews, each in his own fashion, combine with St. Paul to focus the red
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• Epistle To The Romans
  ...eak (ch. 14) is marked by a calm conciliatory tone which suggests that the writer is dealing with problems which are probable rather than pressing. In fact, ...tains a close grammatical study with an excellent paraphrase. </p> <p> The writer may be allowed to name his short commentary (1879) in the <i> Cambridge Bib
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• Accommodation
  ...djustment; - followed by to. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred ...nted out that in every book of the Bible the inimitable physiognomy of the writer and the age is preserved; that the Biblical language with reference to Natu
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• Epistle
  ...character and lying closest to their hands; but here-even in the case of a writer like the author of Hebrews, who has obviously been powerfully influenced by ...s it may naturally be inferred that such compositions would partake of the writer's recent and present feelings. The epistles and James, by Peter and Jude, a
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• Bishop Of Antioch Ignatius
  ...facts to be maintained understood. In Ignatius they are hard to reach; the writer is not thinking of readers who have all to learn from him. Lastly, no ancie
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• Hermeneutics Bible
  ...rpreter seeks to determine what kind of rhetoric, or language, the ancient writer was using. It is extremely important to recognize the various literary form
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• Epistles Ofpeter
  ...iterally in daily conduct that their character is severely impugned by the writer, who accuses them of gross immorality. Their sin is classed with that of th .... The former of these views is maintained by Hug and Olshausen. The latter writer founds his view on the fact that Peter does not give the minute statements
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• Second Epistle Of Peter
  ...s promises of mercy and threatenings of judgment are [[Yea]] and Amen. The writer aims to impress on his readers: (1) that saving knowledge of Jesus Christ i ...to be understood." The allusion certainly presupposes a late age, and the writer, as he informs us, was very near his death. The date of Peter's death is no
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• Propitiation
  ...p. 84, criticizing it). The particular contribution, however, made by the writer of Hebrews to the apostolic teaching on propitiation is the discussion of t
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• Commentary
  ..., have seldom ventured to undertake an exposition of the whole Bible. Each writer usually confines himself to the task of commenting on a few books. In this
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• Logos
  ...iceable that in &nbsp; John 20:31 , where, before laying down his pen, the writer reveals the motive of his work, he really sums up the great ideas of the Pr ...ortant idea should have come to the Biblical author from an extra-Biblical writer (compare Schmiedel, <i> Johannine Writings </i> ), remembering only that th
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• Book Of Tobit
  ...y is exaggerated (as it seems) from the special circumstances in which the writer was placed (12, 9; 14:10). Of the special precepts one (4, 15, '''''Ὃ'''' ...the book, male and female, have a Semitic character. (3) The style of the writer is Semitic rather than Aryan, many of the expressions making bad Greek, but
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• Eschatology Of The Old Testament (With Apocryphal And Apocalyptic Writings)
  ...ow briefly be exhibited. In this relation, it need only be stated that the writer does not follow the extraordinary mangling of the prophetic texts by certai
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• Hippolytus Romanus
  ...s labours must have given a great impulse to the study of God's word. As a writer he must be pronounced active rather than able or painstaking. Yet he must b
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• Theology Of First And Second Kings
  ...avid, who kept the statutes of Yahweh (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:33,38 ). Thus, the writer infers that the well-being of the people was tied to the king's behavior. Y
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• Gospel Of (Critical) John
  ...community to the Corinthian, <i> circa (about) </i> 100. Here, again, the writer seems to be influenced by Johannine teaching (cf. Clem. xlix. and &nbsp;Joh
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• Epistles Ofjohn
  ...t is best to suppose that her name is not given. The language in which the writer’s affection is expressed, and the subjects with which the letter deals, p
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• Deuteronomy
  ...of Moses. It is consequently hard to believe, as is alleged, that a later writer is studying to give "an imaginative revivification of the past." </p> <p> ( ...iece altogether apart from what precedes it, or as a supplement by another writer, is a ready solution maintained by the older theologians (comp. e.g. Carpzo
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• Books Of Chronicles
  ...imate sense we would equate God's house with His kingdom. Accordingly, the writer(s) of Chronicles reminds us that the most important of all deeds are those <p> In the Hebrew Bible the two books of Chronicles form one volume. The writer has not recorded his name, though he has mentioned books and documents from
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• Talmud
  ...ngs and duties was based on it.’ And speaking of the present day, the same writer says: ‘For the majority of Jews it is still the supreme authority in reli ...d at Paris in 1242. This was the first attack. </p> <p> When, however, the writer in the Quarterly states that Justinian in A.D. 553 already honored the Talm
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• Epistle To Diognetus
  ...Himself, and content to be hidden in his Saviour's righteousness, the old writer has gradually emerged by virtue of an inborn lustre, at once the obscurest
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• Ecclesiastes
  ...y be seen in the Book of Wisdom, in which (&nbsp; Ecclesiastes 2:1-9 ) the writer collects some of Koheleth’s despairing reflexions; and, placing them in t ...rt messages encourages people to make the most of life’s frustrations. The writer gives advice about religion, money and other matters (5:1-7:14), and sugges
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• Interpretation
  ...le, to prove, since we do not know the exact form of Greek text which a NT writer may have used. A part of the early community ordinarily spoke Aramaic (&nbs ...&nbsp;Psalms 118:1-4). </p> <p> A word’s meaning is decided by the way the writer uses it in the sentence, paragraph or book, not by the way it developed out
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• Paul
  ...r will perceive that such a figure has no value unless we know what is the writer’s habit in this respect. Whatever may be the reason for it, St. Paul empl ...my 17:7, were the first to cast stones at Stephen. "Saul," says the sacred writer significantly, "was consenting unto his death." </p> <p> '''Saul's conversi
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• God
  ...r Saviour’), &nbsp;1 John 4:2, and especially &nbsp;Judges 1:20, where the writer’s disciples are bidden to pray in the Holy Spirit, to keep themselves in ...s God; and yet they are not three Gods, but one God.’ </p> <p> The present writer must profoundly dissent from the view that Jesus’ teaching about God show
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• Sacrifice
  ...stles, particularly Galatians, and ultimately the masterly argument of the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews are witnesses to hesitations and tendencies o ...y voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people." The ingenious writer above referred to, accounts for this passage (p. 153 and 209.) by referring
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• Resurrection
  ...the Parousia, the third sign being the resurrection of the dead. Then the writer adds, ‘but not of all the dead,’ quoting &nbsp;Zechariah 14:5 in order ...martyrdom ( 2Ma 14:46; 2Ma 7:11; cf. 2Ma 7:9; cf. 2Ma 7:14 ). At times the writer seems to be controverting the denial of a resurrection, as when he stops to
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• Epistle To Theephesians
  ...St. Paul’s thought at an earlier date. </p> <p> The fact that in Eph. the writer seems to pose as the defender of Jewish against Gentile Christians has been ...essly claims to be the production of the Apostle Paul ; and this claim the writer in the latter of these passages follows up by speaking of himself in langua
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• Melchizedek
  ...</p> <p> <b> 3. Significance in Hebrews. </b> -The apparent object of the writer was to mark the adequate and final character of the priesthood of Jesus Chr ...tithe of his spoils (&nbsp; Hebrews 7:1-16 ). In this passage much of the writer’s argument is fanciful, the narrative in Genesis being handled after a Ra
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• Job
  ...[Babylon]] (&nbsp; Job 12:17-25 ), which again, on the assumption that the writer is an Israelite, points to an advanced stage of Israelitish history. Many t ...itten by Job himself. It appears, indeed, highly probable that Job was the writer of his own story, of whose inspiration we have the clearest evidence in the
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• Clementine Literature
  ...bearing on the controversies of our own time; but we do not imagine that a writer doubts [[Julius]] [[Caesar]] to be a historical character, even though in s
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• Epistle Of Clement Of Rome
  ...ervice ( <i> Clem. Rom </i> . vol. i. p. 393ff.). Furthermore, as the same writer observes, ‘it is impossible not to be struck with the resemblances in thi
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• Epistle Ofjames
  ...with the sternness and vigour of the writer. (2) It is not clear what the writer could have hoped to accomplish by it. (3) Moreover, some of the more defini ...style of this epistle is close and sententious. The general manner of the writer, says Jebb, 'combines the plainest and most practical good sense with the m
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• Eusebius Of Caesarea
  ...<i> Ant. </i> xx. 7. 1; <i> B. J. </i> ii. 11. 5). He represents this same writer as stating that Herod [[Antipas]] was banished to [[Vienne]] (i. 11), where ...arks that "such an acknowledgment will naturally excite a suspicion that a writer who has so openly violated one of the fundamental laws of history has not p
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...the hero but not the author of the book. The author is an unknown inspired writer who lived in the time of Antiochus Ephiphanes shortly before 164 B.C. The a ...to their religion, in the assurance that God would intervene. The unknown writer was intensely sure of the truths in which he believed: to him and to his re
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• Book Of Job
  ...the whirlwind is in the Voice it encloses, the thing it says. And here the writer has undertaken the most tremendous task ever attempted by the human imagina
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• Parousia
  ...ction appearances of Christ cannot safely be taken as an indication of the writer’s view of the resurrection state of the believer. When he speaks at all o ...he contradictions that are the despair of the beginner in apocalyptics. No writer seems to have thought it worth while to reconcile his details, for they wer
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• Epistle To Thephilippians
  ...ot what they were. </p> <p> [[Van]] Manen feels it necessary to defend the writer from the charge of fraudulency, declaring that he wrote more from modesty t
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• Fall
  ...he inheritance at birth of the moral characteristics of parents. While the writer is not convinced that Tennant has proved his contention, that the appetites ...sion of the nature of moral evil than had been attained in the time of the writer, to that identification of the serpent with the Evil One which we find in t
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• The Second Epistle Of Peter
  ...s "second epistle" (&nbsp;2 Peter 3:1 ). This testimony on the part of the writer is personal, emphatic and direct. It reads much like Peter's plain way of s
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• Book Of Proverbs
  ...verable. The style is sometimes diffuse and the repetitions wearisome. The writer returns continually on his steps, treating of the same topic again and agai ...sness; and they incline to an artificial structure which suggests that the writer's interest is divided between sincere <i> ''''' tūshı̄yāh ''''' </i> an
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• Book Of Psalms
  ...nes are spoken of. In this book we have but one psalm with David's name as writer. They are mostly 'for, or of ' Asaph and the sons of Korah — Levites. In & ...pret a New Testament application of a psalm according to the New Testament writer’s purpose. As the psalmists were concerned with suffering and victory, so
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• Epistle Of. Jude
  ...re referred to by Paul (&nbsp;2 Timothy 3:8; &nbsp;Galatians 3:19), by the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews (&nbsp;Hebrews 2:2; &nbsp;Hebrews 11:24); by
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• Adam In The Old Testament
  ...st self-interested impulse come by the way of subtlety. "The serpent," the writer premises, "was more subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had
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• The Johannine Theology
  ...of Christ's redemptive work has been seized upon as proof that, though the writer did not consciously reject the orthodox doctrine, it was really alien to hi
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• Christ In Jewish Literature
  ...t offer any opinion of his own upon the subject. </p> <p> The first Jewish writer who fairly broke away from the traditional attitude towards Jesus was Grät
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• Heaven
  ...ribed in chs. 14 and 17 does not apparently depend on this at all. For the writer of the Fourth Gospel death is a mere incident that does not break the conti ...d '''''רָקַיע''''' , ''Raki'A,'' from their being associated by the sacred writer in the same sentence (&nbsp;Job 37:18); it tends to corroborate this connec
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• Ruth
  ...uth 1:13) occur only in the speeches of the persons introduced, not in the writer's own narrative. He simply gives the forms and words used in common convers ...s, and Esther." It is more than likely that the [[Prophet]] Samuel was the writer of the book of Ruth. There is a similarity in style and manner, and in a fe
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• Book Of Esther
  ...ethod of presenting the various scenes in the drama is in the style of the writer of fiction, not in that of the historian. </p> <p> <strong> 5. Purim </stro ...her and Mordecai well suits the hypothesis of the latter being himself the writer. It is also in itself probable that as Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, who held
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• Book Of Lamentations
  ...(Löhr, <em> Com </em> .) as conclusive objections to Jeremiah’s being the writer. But the acrostic form would then have the charm of novelty, and would be u ...iarities. </p> <p> It has to be remembered, too, that in thus speaking the writer was doing what many must have looked for from him, and so meeting at once t
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• Book Of Numbers
  ...l passages: ( <i> a </i> ) &nbsp; Numbers 15:32-36 seems to imply that the writer was no longer in the wilderness, which may well have been the case, if alre ...of thought and diction. Even granting that this episode is not by the same writer as the rest of the book of Numbers, there appears no valid reason to doubt
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• Apocryphal Gospels
  ...dying by his own hand. In the [[Narrative]] of Joseph of [[Arimathea]] the writer gives a loose rein to his imagination. </p> <p> The study of the documents
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• Criticism (The Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis)
  ...t facts which would give a conception of history that no one of the sacred writer's generation could understand? Or did He suffer His revelation to find expr
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• Book Of: Judges
  ...nt is not to record Israel's past for its own sake, or to place before the writer's contemporaries a historical narrative of the achievements of their great
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• Hebrews Epistle To The
  ...scribed it to Barnabas, and others to Luke and Clement, while no [[Latin]] writer is found during the first three centuries who ascribed it to Paul. In the m
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• Author Of N.T. Apocryphal Additions Leucius
  ...finding in the Acts which bore the name of Leucius plain evidence that the writer was heretical in his doctrine of two principles, still accepted him as a re
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• Bishop Of Mopsuestia Theodorus
  ...udicious compiler from Chrysostom and Theodore. Theodore is an independent writer, yet influenced more deeply than either Chrysostom or Theodoret by the Anti
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• Virgin Birth
  ...> <p> <b> 2. The sources of the two Nativity narratives. </b> —The present writer’s conclusion, arrived at independently, closely approximates to that of P
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• Book Of Ecclesiastes
  ...k in the Bible. From these and other clues, scholars conclude that a later writer used a literary device, the “didactic autobiography” to present his tea ...nder the rule of the Persians, and that Solomon was only personated by the writer. It is plainly seen in their arguments that they overlook that which runs t
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• Epistles Of John
  ...m> elder and write in such a tone of absolute command, whilst an anonymous writer, wishing to claim the sanction of the Apostle, would have inserted his name
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• Birth Of Christ
  ...e that [[Macrobius]] (a pagan, about a.d. 400) was indebted to a Christian writer for his information, and that therefore the story of the Massacre of the [[
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• Gospels (Apocryphal)
  ...res to he spurious, and not considered authoritative by any ecclesiastical writer. Until fourteen years ago, our knowledge of the contents of the Gospel was
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• Hexateuch
  ...uspected, began to confirm this conclusion. The use of ‘Jahweh’ by the one writer, of ‘Elohim’ by the other, furnished a simple criterion, which was not,
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• Exodus
  ...the Egyptians supposed a sovereign virtue to exist in the Nile waters. The writer spaks of chariots and "chosen chariots" (&nbsp;Exodus 14:7) as constituting ...urely arbitrary. A narrative obviously miraculous (in the intention of the writer) can be explained satisfactorily on no rationalistic principles: this is no
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• Israel
  ...es and 300 concubines (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:3 ) is the exaggeration of a later writer, but, allowing for this, his harem must have been very numerous. His method ...re to make continual intercession for His people (&nbsp;Hebrews 7:25). The writer further emphasizes the superiority of the new covenant relationship of the
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• Pentateuch
  ...incompatible with a variety of authors, and imply that Moses alone is the writer of the Pentateuch as a whole. A future life not ignored, but suggested. Tho ...ands for the Priestly document and was written about 500 B.C. The Priestly writer might have compiled the whole Pentateuch according to this theory. </p> <p>
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• Prophecy
  ...ed. The double sense of many prophecies in the Old Testament, says an able writer, has been made a pretext by ill disposed men for representing them as of un ..."It is, " says Mr. Gray, "remarkable for its magnificence. Each prophetic writer is distinguished for peculiar beauties; but their style in general may be c
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• Altar
  ...-is doubtful. Figurative language must not be unduly pressed, </p> <p> The writer of Rev., whose heaven is a replica of the earthly Temple and its solemn rit ...martyred souls and even speaks (&nbsp;Revelation 16:7 ). The New Testament writer of Hebrews (13:10) implies that the ultimate altar is the cross. Here divin
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• Genealogy
  ...), and in &nbsp; Genesis 10:1-32 the nations of the world, as known to the writer, are traced in a genealogical tree to Noah’s three sons. We find in the l ...ot 42 but 62, and Pharez old enough for sons. And, as suggested above, the writer may have done with Hezron and Hamul as with Ephraim and Manasseh - included
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• Scribe
  <p> '''Scribe.''' There are two Hebrew words which mean "a writer," but one is usually translated in the A. V. by "officer," the other is ren ...e names and reviewed them. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 24 . &nbsp;2 Kings 25 . 6. A writer and a doctor of the law a man of learning one skilled in the law one who re
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• Scripture
  ...a unitary whole’ (Dict. of Christ and the Gospelsii. 586). In the present writer’s judgment the former contention vindicates itself, even in the Fourth [[ ...this is a very laudable and necessary practice. "One circumstance, " as a writer observes, "why this should be attended to in congregations is, that numbers
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• Priests And Levites
  ...rm priestly functions (&nbsp; 2 Kings 23:9 ). It is to be noticed that the writer treats them with respect, calling them priests, and speaking of the priests ...S.I. Curtiss, <i> Levitical Priests </i> , for the conservative view. This writer afterward changed to the critical view. James Orr, <i> [[Pot]] </i> ; A. Va
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• Epistle Ofjude
  ...q.v. [Note: quod vide, which see.] </i> ). In the judgment of the present writer, the identification with a Gnostic tendency seems on the whole to be probab ...says, “Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James.”' The same writer calls it the writing of Jude the Apostle. The moderns are, however, divided
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• Antichrist
  ...2; and the whole description literally applies to the Papal power. A late writer, after collecting the principal prophecies relating to antichrist, infers f ...in his Annalium Boiorunm, libri 8, p. 651, Lips. 1710), himself the Romish writer, speaks of it as a received opinion of the Middle Age that the reign of Ant
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...nd a goat.—Book XIV. is the most obscure of the Sibylline productions. The writer evidently intends to unfold the fortunes of a long succession of emperors a ...entioned, the Messianic kingdom rather than He being central. Further, the writer, evidently in fear of revolutionary tendencies among his people, says disti
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• An Author Praedestinatus
  ...tion, and it can only be from want of acquaintance with his character as a writer that he is ever cited as an historical authority. </p> <p> [[[G.S.]]] </p>
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• The Books Of Chronicles
  ...nbsp;2 Chronicles 36:9-23 and Ezra 1 with 2 Kings 24; 25. </p> <p> For the writer of Chronicles and Ezra gives no details of [[Jehoiachin]] or Zedekiah, or w
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• History Of Interpretation Bible
  ...her biblical writers, how and why each idea was developed, the meaning the writer was trying to convey. </p> <p> Another approach to biblical interpretation
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• Psalms Of Solomon
  ...10, 14:6, 15:11). With this hope the righteous pray that they may, and the writer claims that they already do, accept with patience the present passing chast
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• Criticism
  ...passage above is cited from the Jewish Encyc. vii. p. 166; and the present writer would venture to refer for further literature to the Witness of the Epistle ...icism of the NT Canon (1804), and was opposed by Hug, a Roman [[Catholic]] writer, in a very scholarly work. A little later came de Wette (1826), who pursued
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• Aristion (Aristo)
  ...</i> Eusebius has these peculiarities. That he should have identified the writer of the Markan appendix with ‘the Elder Aristo’ is most probably explain
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• Acts Of The Apostles (Apocryphal)
  ...p> Perhaps later than Clement, but probably early in the 3rd cent., is the writer of the Monarchian Prologues, in which the statement as to John, ‘qui virg
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• Epistles To Thethessalonians
  ...ounteract the eschatological views encouraged by the Pauline Epistles. The writer took 1 Thess. as his model because it contains the most notable outline of
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• Quotations
  ...d as Scripture. Other sources are, however, clearly before the mind of the writer. Thus &nbsp;Acts 7:21 suggests Wis 11:14; 18:5; 17:29, Wis 13:10; and 17:30 ...onnexion than this between the OT thought and the NT fact or teaching. The writer may be conscious of this influence of the OT language or not, and the inter
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• Galatia
  ...omenclature in &nbsp;1 Peter 1:1 is rarely questioned. It is evidently the writer’s purpose to enumerate all the provinces of Asia Minor, with the exceptio ...h in these departments was similar, with some differences; on this see the writer's <i> [[Historical]] Commentary on Galatians </i> . </p>
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• Palestine
  ...Tiberias, the traveller catches his first sight of the Sea of Galilee. The writer may be permitted to quote a former description of his impression: </p> <p> ...rehended in Coelo-Syria, or the Lower Syria. Herodotus is the most ancient writer we know that speaks of Syria Palestine. He places it between [[Phenicia]] a
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• Book Of Judith
  ...m of the tale in his manuscript is older than the longer version. But if a writer were to expand a short story, he would hardly be likely to invent several p
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• The Epistle Of Jude
  ...e destruction of Jerusalem, makes no allusion to it. The tone is that of a writer in Palestine; the title "brother of James" best suits a region where James ...ue, but this particular prediction he receives as from God. [[Whence]] the writer of Enoch derived it is unknown. It may have been cherished and transmitted
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• The Pastoral Epistles
  ...dence shows that all three are from the hand of one and the same writer, a writer who makes many personal allusions of a nature which it would be impossible
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• Person Of Christ
  ...1 Timothy 3:10 ?), the clue to which has been lost; but at all events the writer means it as an illustration of the victorious and unparalleled powers of li ...lies outside the statement; it was matter of common knowledge between the writer and the reader. The language employed intimates merely that it was a defini
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• Septuagint
  ...complete Greek version of the OT or of any particular book.’ </p> <p> The writer of the Fourth Gospel quotes from the LXX Septuagint, with varying degrees o ...alian]] of the 15th century has formed the Latin scholion in question. The writer has been speaking of the collecting of ancient Greek poems carried on at Al
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• Irenaeus
  ...dinate with that of Scripture. But though, as was natural in such an early writer, Irenaeus often refers to the apostolic traditions preserved in the churche
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• First Epistle Of John
  ...in spirit, and in thought, the two are identical. "It is evident that the writer of each had a similar class of opponents in his mind '''''—''''' those wh
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• Gospel Of. John
  ...book itself, is irreconcilable with the simplicity and earnestness of the writer, is foreign to the habits and notions of the class to which the evangelist
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• First And Second Books Of Kings
  ...to the use by the writer of Kings of earlier documents, to which also the writer of Samuel had access. </p> <p> '''(4.)''' There are good reasons for regard
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• The Second Book Of Maccabees
  ...rtyrs and their mother, and other pieces. It is evident, however, that the writer was no great master, but produced a patchwork of various books; he has like
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• Book Of Nehemiah
  ...by individual characteristics which help us to form a distinct idea of the writer’s personality. [[Enthusiasm]] for a great idea, and unstinting and unself ...resting account of the state of Jerusalem and the returned captives in the writer's times, and, incidentally, of the nature of the Persian government and the
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• Book Of. Zechariah
  ...owed. It must be confessed, however, that it is more [[Probable]] that one writer should have allusions to many others than that many others should borrow fr
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• Ecclesiasticus
  ...6:1, etc.), one trait only of a Messianic faith is preserved, in which the writer contemplates the future work of [[Elias]] (48:10). The ethical precepts are
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• Irenæus
  ...dinate with that of Scripture. But though, as was natural in such an early writer, Irenaeus often refers to the apostolic traditions preserved in the churche
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• Gospel According To Mark
  ...rst few years of the 2nd cent., and [[Aristion]] has been suggested as the writer, on the strength of a late Armenian MS. But it is quite possible that they
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• Moses
  ...attributed to the teaching of Moses. It is to be noticed that the earliest writer (J [Note: Jahwist.] ) uses the name ‘Jahweh’ from his very first senten ...It is plain, however, from the above and other passages that Moses was the writer of the Pentateuch, which is often called "the law of Moses." </p>
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• Creation
  ...the Jehovah, who from the days of paradise down to the days of Moses, the writer of the pentateuch, has been in personal and unchangeable covenant relation ...tion recorded in &nbsp;Ephesians 3:9 is that God “created all things.” The writer of Hebrews notes that Jesus was the agent God used to create the world (&nb
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• Ezra-Nehemiah
  ...ext as a whole is of more value than that represented by the versions. The writer of this article has noted a wonderful accuracy in the transmission of the A
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• Known As The Shepherd Hermas
  ...t. Mosheim, <i> de Rebus Christ. ante Const. </i> 163, 166, holds that the writer must either have been "mente captus et fanaticus," or else "scientem volent
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• Theology Of John
  ...his usage of it is more plastic and versatile than that of St. Paul or the writer of Hebrews. Again, if the word ‘love’ occurs much more frequently in St
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• Letter To The Hebrews
  ...e writer also hoped to visit them soon (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:19). </p> <p> The writer wanted to show these discouraged Jewish Christians that Christ was the true
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• Didache
  ...he Agape, and the [[Agape]] alone. But there is no other case in which any writer uses the word εὐχαριστία in the sense of the Agape alone. All th
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• 1 And 2 Kings
  ...p;2 Kings 25:27-30 with the release of Jehoiachin from prison. Perhaps the writer was encouraging the exiles with the possibility that God would bless them a
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• I Chronicles
  ...<em> midrash </em> , and this earlier <em> midrash </em> may have been the writer’s model. He frequently refers to writings quoted under the name of prophe
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• Book Ofenoch
  ...odhead. The doctrine of the [[Trinity]] seems to have been received by the writer and his contemporaries. In accordance with this view Christ is represented
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• Books Of Samuel
  ...from the records kept by such people as Samuel, Nathan, Gad, David and the writer of the book of [[Jasher]] (&nbsp;1 Samuel 10:25; &nbsp;2 Samuel 1:18; &nbsp ...ing from about b.c. 630; another and larger portion is from a Deuteronomic writer; and a small remainder consists of pre-exillc duplicates of some narratives
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• Apostolic Fathers
  .../p> <p> [L.] </p> <p> The standard work on the Apostolic Fathers is by the writer of the above article, the late bp. Lightfoot. His work on the principal sub
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• Chronicles
  ...and of the succeeding kings of Judah down to the return from Babylon. The writer goes over much the same ground as the author of the books of Kings, with wh ...s own age, and therefore exactly copied from the ancient records. Surely a writer guilty of falsification would have been careful to alter these into exact c
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• Epistle To The Colossians
  ...refutation. Further, 11 Pauline words occur which are used by no other NT writer. It should be noted that St. Paul was now at Rome, in the midst of new asso
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• Golgotha
  ...tten tombs were allowed by the [[Jews]] to exist within Jerusalem, and any writer will admit that, in the time of [[Agrippa]] at least, this particular tomb ...place out of the city, and yet nigh to the city; and the statement of the writer to the Hebrews is confirmed by the incidental remark , that the soldiers se
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• Jesus Christ
  ...r, and deserving as they are of respect for their scholarly grounding, the writer doubts if we can pretend to such exact knowledge of the course of events. E ...an example of the most perfect and delightful kind. "Here, " as an elegant writer observes "every grace that can recommend religion, and every virtue that ca
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• Peter
  ...ision is constantly in evidence. It certainly was not the intention of the writer of Acts to dwell upon differences of opinion among early Christians; and, f ...y his own request: they also state that his wife died with him. He was the writer of the two epistles bearing his name. </p>
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• Epistle To The Galatians
  ...d by 2nd cent. heretics, alluded to by adversaries like [[Celsus]] and the writer of the <em> Clementine Homilies </em> , and quoted by name and distinctly ( ...e seen to form a continuous web, the product of the same experience in the writer's mind and the same situation in the church. This presumption, based on int
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• Books Of Kings
  ...ally held that the substance of the book was compiled about b.c. 600, by a writer who was anxious to enforce the lesson of the Deuteronomic reform while ther ...books of Isaiah and Jeremiah are found also in Kings. </p> <p> Because the writer of Kings is showing the purpose and meaning of Israel’s history, he does
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• Book Of Sirach
  ..., but the balance weighs in favor of Simon I in the opinion of the present writer. </p> (2) Euergetes of the Prologue: <p> That the Euergetes of the Prologue
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• Song Of Songs
  ...d as a peculiarity of the northern dialect. And there is no proof that the writer was specially connected with the North; if he mentions Lebanon, Amana, Shen ...please?' </p> <p> That this refrain is in keeping with the purpose of the writer is clear from the striking words toward the close of the book: </p> <p> "Se
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• Book Ofrevelation
  ...kingdoms of the world. To compose a civil history did not comport with the writer's object. The genius of Christ's kingdom is totally different from that of
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• Epistle Of. Barnabas
  ...this: throughout the epistle we find a distinction maintained between the writer and his friends on the one hand, and the Jews on the other. Thus, in chap.
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• Epistle To Ephesians
  ...sp; Ephesians 3:5 , &nbsp; Ephesians 4:11 , which seem to suggest that the writer is looking back on the [[Apostolic]] age from the standpoint of the next ge ...tional frankness and vivacity, that the reader associates the image of the writer with every paragraph, and the ear seems to catch and recognize the very ton
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• Eucharist
  ...nt warning against the danger of drawing conclusions from the silence of a writer. </p> <p> In the absence of more definite evidence, no theory can he more t ...belongs not to Luke but to his source, is perhaps due to the fact that the writer, dwelling on the Lord’s intention that the [[Passover]] should be fulfill
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• Book Of Ezra
  ...uotation form it in the New Testament. [[Augustine]] styles Ezra "rather a writer of transactions than a prophet" (De Cix. Dei, 18:36). </p> <p> '''IX.''' Ap
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• Thomas A Kempis
  ...ion. We shall mention only five, but these are sufficient to show that the writer was thoroughly conversant with German idioms: ''Cadere Super,'' in the sens
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• The First Book Of Maccabees
  ...e whole spirit which pervades the book, by the lively sympathies which the writer manifests for the heroes whom he describes, and by his intimate acquaintanc
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• Mystics
  ...'s, and they met with similar reception at first; as Gerhard said, "If any writer upholds pious practical Christianity, and aims at something higher than mer
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• First Epistle Of Peter
  ...d this is supported by very strong tradition. [[Polycarp]] is the earliest writer who indubitably quotes the Epistle, though it was probably familiar to Barn ...rds, according to ancient usage, applying rather to the bearer than to the writer or.amanuensis. Still it is highly probable that Silvanus, considering his r
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• Syriac Literature.
  ...ites]]). </p> <p> '''3.''' ''Monothelitic Writers. '''''—''''' '' The only writer who certainly belonged to this sect was homas of Haran, bishop of Kapharlab
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• Thecla And Paul
  ...Acts Of Thecla'' are, in the main, a document of the 2nd century, that the writer should represent Paul not only as saying "Blessed are the merciful, for the
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• Thomas À Kempis
  ...ion. We shall mention only five, but these are sufficient to show that the writer was thoroughly conversant with German idioms: ''Cadere Super,'' in the sens
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• Gospel According To Matthew
  ...and that a later writer incorporated it unchanged. But would not the later writer have betrayed some consciousness of the fulfilment of the prophecy? For the
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• Allegory
  ...m the two former species in a variety of respects. In these allegories the writer may adopt any imagery that is most suitable to his fancy or inclination; bu ...ve been primary in the intention of the writer, or of God who inspired the writer. Jewish interpreters, particularly in the Diaspora, employed this means of
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• Divide
  ...to the references above and the full bibliography prefixed to the present writer's book named above ( <i> Magic </i> , etc.), note the following: Bouché-Le
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• Massacre Of The Innocents
  ...ing coincidence of their visit and the birth of Jesus. The interest of the writer was not in the wonder-element, else, infallibly, he would have sharpened it
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• The Queen Of Sheba
  ...not be anything hid from the King that He will not tell us. Oh no, sacred writer! you do not really mean us to understand that the Queen of Sheba told to an
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• 2Nd Cent. Christian Writer Miltiades
  2Nd Cent. Christian Writer Miltiades <ref name="term_14871" /> .... Valentin. </i> 5) names him with Justin [[Martyr]] and [[Irenaeus]] as a writer against heresy, giving him the appellation, evidently intended in an honour
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• Joannes Presbyter
  ...e there were in our Lord's circle another John, is it conceivable that the writer should not have distinguished between them? </p> <p> Thus the Eusebian inte
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• Melito
  ...imputes to him. </p> <p> The list given shews Melito's great activity as a writer, and the wide range of his writings. </p> <p> Of spurious writings ascribed
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• Offerings And Sacrifices
  ...o God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit" (&nbsp;Romans 15:16 b). Finally, the writer of Hebrews exhorts us to "continually offer to God a sacrifice of praisethe
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• Second Coming Of Christ
  ...ist will be King in that day, as Revelation makes so abundantly clear. The writer to the Hebrews adds an interesting point when he says of the Old Testament
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• Tribes
  ...vision (&nbsp;Revelation 7:9-17) points to their glory in heaven. For our writer as for James (&nbsp;James 1:1) and Paul (&nbsp;Galatians 6:16) the true Isr
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• The Revelation Of John
  ...sp;John 21:24; &nbsp;1 John 1:1-2). </p> <p> Moreover, it accords with the writer's being an inspired apostle that he addresses the angels or presidents of t
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• Book Of Isaiah
  ...es out of their despondency, and to fire them with enthusiasm for what the writer regards as their future destiny, the instruction of the world in Jahweh’s
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• Dependence
  ...ource of the fruit-bearing life of its branch. It is significant that this writer uses the same verb and preposition (μένειν ἐν) to express the natu
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• Gospel Of (Ii. Contents) John
  ...rld. But since the philosophical problem is not present to the mind of the writer, he is not careful to draw the line between the ethical dualism which was p
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• Preaching Christ
  ...f course both these Evangelic passages have been disputed, but the present writer sees no reason to doubt that in substance both are rightly assigned to Jesu
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• Text Of The Gospels
  ...Syriac commentary of Ephraem Syrus, and from the quotations of the Syrian writer Aphraates. The <i> Diatessaron </i> was a harmony of the four Gospels, whic
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• Writer
  ...e who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] clerk of a certain rank i ...o writes or has written. 2. An author. 3. [[A]] clerk or amanuensis. <p> [[Writer]] of the tallies, an officer of the exchequer of [[England]] a clerk to the
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• Servant Of The Lord
  ...is perfectly clear in &nbsp; Isaiah 42:1-4; here the Divine speech and the writer’s mind are alike filled with two subjects the Servant and the [[Nations]]
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• Bethsaida
  ...Galilee’ is a similar expression in the same Gospel, and the fact that the writer mentions the province at all, in this connexion, is a strong presumptive pr ...epithet or note of distinction, and neither Josephus nor any other ancient writer speaks of such a difference or duplication. In fact, all the circumstances
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• Barnabas
  ...oes not tell us why Barnabas knew Saul better than the rest. But the pagan writer Cicero (Epist. Familiar., 1:7) informs us that Cyprus (Barnabas' country) w ...urd interpretations of scripture, and contains many silly allusions to the writer's superior knowledge. It was by [[Eusebius]] ranked among the spurious writ
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• Jochebed
  ...s (&nbsp; Exodus 6:20 ) and [[Miriam]] (&nbsp; Numbers 26:59 ). An earlier writer, E [Note: Elohist.] , in narrating the birth of Moses, speaks of his mother ...in any case have been unusual, although not forbidden; and this, with the writer's knowledge that they were subsequently interdicted, sufficiently accounts
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• Ark
  ...dus 16:33; ἐνώπιον τῶν μαρτυρίων, &nbsp;Numbers 17:10) are supposed by the writer of Hebrews to have been <i> within </i> the ark. </p> <p> The ultimate fate ..., p. 135). Nor do these numbers form the only difficulty; for, as the same writer observes: "All land animals have their geographical regions, to which their
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• Image
  ...ess’). The usage in Genesis is indeed peculiar to the so-called ‘Priestly’ writer; but the <em> idea </em> underlies the view of man in the Jahwistic section ...ns, because they did not use them; and we find almost every ecclesiastical writer of the first four centuries arguing against the [[Gentile]] practice of ima
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• Mark
  ...the evangelist, and Mark the nephew of Barnabas; since all agree that the writer of this Gospel was the familiar companion of St. Peter, and that he was qua ...of the living God in their foreheads, so the man clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side, was told to mark upon their foreheads those whom God
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• Mediator
  ...ether the Apocalypse be the work of John the Presbyter, or, as the present writer believes, the work of John the Apostle, its doctrine of the mediatorial wor
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• Only Begotten
  ...ilo]] than that he was acquainted with the Orphic system. Thus the present writer believes that it was persons like [[Clement]] of [[Alexandria]] who were fi ...r an only child (&nbsp; Luke 7:12; &nbsp;Luke 8:42; &nbsp;Luke 9:38 ). The writer of Hebrews used <i> monogenes </i> of Isaac with full knowledge that Isaac
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• Pen
  ...rument for scratching or graving. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' n.) Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. </p> ...e sharp end was used for writing letters, the other end expunged them. The writer could put out or correct what he disliked, and yet no erasure appear, and h
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• Proselyte
  ...the notion of two sorts of Jewish proselytes can be found in any Christian writer before the fourteenth century or later." Dr. Jennings also observes that "t ...the notion of two sorts of proselytes is not to be found in any Christian writer before the fourteenth century ( Works, 6. 522-533, 8vo. and 11:313-324; see
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• Writing
  ...matical,— as "a serpent, to signify the oblique course of the stars." This writer could not so accurately have expressed the truth of the case, unless he had ...es 5:14 [[Zebulun]] is described as having "marchers with the staff of the writer" ( '''''Copeer''''' ) or musterer of the troops; such as are frequently pou
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• First Epistle To The Corinthians
  ...ill he convinced by a criticism which practically assumes that a Christian writer of the 1st cent. could only know the facts of our Lord’s earthly life fro ...very orderly in its arrangement, so that it is not difficult to follow the writer as he advances from point to point. Weizsäcker ( <i> Apos Age </i> , I, 32
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• The Book Of Exodus
  ...nd. This all is what we might expect if Moses was the author; but no later writer would be so silent as to the sublime greatness of his character. Contrast t ...rces have been united in a way that characterizes the work of a systematic writer, and declares against any view that would maintain that these sources have
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• Epistle To The Hebrews
  ...od. Their guides were to be obeyed, for they watched over their souls. The writer commends the saints to the God of peace, who brought again from the dead th
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• Holy Spirit
  ...bsp;Romans 8:15-16; &nbsp;Galatians 4:6 ). </p> <p> No other New Testament writer gives the Spirit nearly so prominent a role. He is the author of Scripture ...of His human nature, the Spirit of God. </p> <p> In &nbsp;Hebrews 10:5 the writer makes reference to the sinless body of Christ as affording a perfect offeri
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• Revelation Of John:
  ...dicted lay, in their beginnings at least, immediately in the future of the writer. (3) The historical view connects the various symbols with definite occurre
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• Sanctification
  ...Lord (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:14). These words indicate the direct passage of the writer’s thought from the religious to the ethical, which will be dealt with lat ...eing sanctified" (&nbsp;Hebrews 10:14 , marginal reading ). The [[Hebrew]] writer contrasts the earthly sanctuary of Israel with the heavenly sanctuary. It w
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• Virgin-Birth (Of Jesus Christ)
  ...Paul and John do not refer to the virgin-birth. This statement the present writer takes to be more than doubtful, but if it is true, all the more striking is
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• World (Cosmological)
  ...presentations (see [[Anthropology]]; [[Creation]]; [[Evolution]]; also the writer's works, <i> God's Image in Man and [[Sin]] as a Problem of Today </i> ). W
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• Zoology
  ...' </i> - <i> ''''' waḥsh ''''' </i> , means "wild-ox." Under Chamois , the writer suggests that <i> ''''' zemer ''''' </i> may be the pasang or Persian wild
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• Angels
  ...ete identity of teaching between Jesus and the Evangelists. To the present writer the latter view seems to be the right one. It is true that in our Lord’s ...his ''Peter'S'' angel," receives no countenance from Peter or the inspired writer of Acts, Luke; but is the uninspired guess of those in Mary's house.) </p>
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• Augustine
  ...of this eminent father has been much misrepresented both as a man and as a writer. Whoever looks into his writings for accurate and enlarged views of Christi ...lly admitted and expressed, it may be safely affirmed that no systematic a writer of theology seems so completely to have entered into the best views of the
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• Book Of Jubilees
  ...does not have it here. There are also other renderings which show that the writer had the Hebrew [[Scriptures]] before him and not the Sept., a fact which is
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• The Third Book Of Maccabees
  ...fluent style, as well as from the copious command of expression which the writer possessed. Though this book resembles 2 Maccabees in the use of certain exp
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• Maximus Of Jerusalem
  ...successor Antoninus do not appear. It is uncertain, therefore, whether the writer and the bishop are the same, though it is extremely probable they were. The
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• New Testament
  ...to the rest. Also those which accord with New Testament Greek and with the writer's particular style. It retains the Alexandrian forms of Greek words, though ...ctuation, and there are no accents or breathings, by the hand of the first writer, though these have been added, subsequently. ''Uncial'' writing continued i
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• Papacy
  ...us (Adv. Haereses, 3:3,3) and in Eusebius are of importance. Of the latter writer we have a double list, one in the Chronicles (only in the Armenian translat
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• Spurious. Revelations
  ...aruch in the ordinary Apocrypha of the Old Test., chosen as the fictitious writer of his revelations the friend and amanuensis of Jeremiah. The scene is laid
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• Origin Of Species
  ...ove historical identity. (See [[Geology]]). </p> <p> Accordingly, a recent writer, Mr. A. De Quatrefages, professor of anthropology in the Museum of Natural
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• First Epistle To The Thessalonians
  ...d surely have avoided), and the agreement with Philipp. and 2 Cor., in the writer’s attitude of affectionate confidence towards these [[Macedonian]] Christ ...bath]] days (three weeks) Paul taught in the synagogue. The silence of the writer does not exclude subsequent labor among the Gentile population; and, indeed
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• Universalism
  ...d availed for me.’ </p> <p> Again, God is our Father. Men have said in the writer’s hearing,—some lightly, some with the profoundest gravity and tenderne ...as. He was not an organizer, but simply a preacher, and quite a voluminous writer, though only a few of his productions were published. For several years he
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• Adam
  ...ilosophical and theological reflexion of a late date, which had taught the writer that man is the climax of creation because his personality partakes of the ...h human effort to distort the divine intention. </p> <p> New Testament The writer of Hebrews referred &nbsp;Psalm 8:1 to Jesus, seeing in Jesus alone the rea
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• Poetry
  ...lines of every poem; but the possibility of exceptions at the will of the writer is a part of the theory. Moreover, the percentage of exceptions is very lik ...lity to remember specifically what the text said. For instance, the wisdom writer's message demanded that the proverb would be precisely recalled. The prophe
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• Chronology Of The New Testament
  ...re in the main also those of Wieseler, Lewin, and Schürer. To the present writer the intermediate dates seem to be the only ones which fulfil all the necess
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• Epistle To The Ephesians
  ...will serve his purpose. "Simultaneous authorship by one writer," and that writer Paul, is the only explanation that will satisfy all the facts in the case a
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• The Gospel Of Luke
  ...itical ordeal in a wonderful manner, so that Luke's credit as a historical writer is now very high among those qualified to know the facts. He has been teste
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• Writer Hypatia
  Writer Hypatia <ref name="term_14768" /> ...nt of Nestorius, which took place 17 years after the death of Hypatia. The writer is struck by the teaching of the [[Christians]] that God died for men; she
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• Archbishop Of Alexandria Cyrillus
  ...ion with the deepest exigencies of spiritual life. Cyril, as a theological writer, has greater merits than are sometimes allowed by writers defective in a sp
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• A Writer Of Sermons Eusebius Of Alexandria
  A Writer Of Sermons Eusebius Of Alexandria <ref name="term_14635" /> ...(ὐπηρέτης ). He encourages invocation of saints. </p> <p> Mai calls him a writer delightful from his "ingenuitas," his "Christian ac pastoralis simplicitas,
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• Bishop Of Sasima And Of Constantinople Gregorius Nazianzenus
  ...v. 2; Benoît, p. 723). </p> <p> Great as was the position of Gregory as a writer, he left his chief mark upon history as a theologian. He alone beyond the a
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• A Writer Hierotheus
  A Writer Hierotheus <ref name="term_14752" /> ...legium Romanum </i> (iii. 704–707) will be found other fragments of this writer, translated from some Arabic [[Mss.]] Their theology savours, however, more
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• A Confessor Under Maximian Hosius
  ...story of the apostate [[Marcellinus]] is not confirmed by any contemporary writer. Had it been true, it must have been known to Athanasius, who says distinct
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• Theology Of Esther
  ...was drawn into the orbit of Israel's religious heritage. Furthermore, the writer of Esther has stated the strongest case for the religious significance and
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• Book Of Zechariah
  ...ge and style. (For the technical discussion of this point, see the present writer's <i> The [[Prophecies]] of Zechariah </i> , 54-59.) </p> 5. The Unity of t
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• The Book Of Deuteronomy
  ...t, when desiring his work to appear as if by the same author. The original writer, Moses, could alone treat his own work in such a free spirit. The different ...s as the author, but third person references to Moses, the location of the writer in [[Palestine]] (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 1:1 ), and comparison of the laws in De
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• The Book Of Ecclesiastes
  ...yriac, Chaldee, and Arabic were offshoots. So Solomon himself would be the writer. Its canonicity rests on the testimony of the [[Jewish]] church, "to whom w
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• The Epistles Of Peter
  ...adocia we get the earliest testimony. Internally it professes Peter is its writer; Christians of the very country to whose custody it was committed confirm t
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• Colors
  ...rt of the Bible student. Only by careful study can the student discern the writer's intent and so interpret correctly the biblical text. </p> <p> Color Desig
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• The Christian Calendar
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• Lord'S Prayer (I)
  ..., ῥύσασθαι αὐτὴν ἁπὸ παντὸς πονηροῦ. Nevertheless, it seems to the present writer, on the whole, more probable that it should be taken as masculine. For the
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• Virgin Virginity
  ...; for a spirited vindication of the Helvidian view, with which the present writer agrees, see [[F.]] [[W.]] Farrar, <i> Early Days of [[Christianity]] </i> ,
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• Ituraea
  ...ut to assume a certain overlapping of the two, giving a fairly painstaking writer good ground for connecting them together in the attempt to present the situ ...ay contends ( <em> Expositor </em> , Jan., Feb., Apr., 1894) that no Greek writer prior to Eusebius in the 4th cent. a.d. ever uses it as the name of a count
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• Psalms
  ...:1, "prophesy with harps"), much more the psalmists themselves. Asaph, the writer of some psalms, was a "seer" (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 29:30). </p> <p> David spo ...stionable authority; and in many cases they are not intended to denote the writer but refer only to the person who was appointed to set them to music. David
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• Precious Stones
  ...cure for fevers and other diseases,’ and so on. From this superstition the writer of Rev. is far removed. It does not appear that his precious stones have an
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• Athenagoras
  ...Justin, angels as well as the Word are described by the persons whom that writer is condemning as temporary appearances; as if it were the Sadducees, or som
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• Clement Of Alexandria
  ...iven from memory (e.g. Mat_5:45; Mat_6:26 etc.). But as the earliest Greek writer who largely and expressly quotes the N.T. (for the Greek fragments of [[Ire
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• Gnosticism
  ...egun by apostles. Meantime it may be said that, in the view of the present writer, such a theory is an entire misconception, and historically untenable. Gnos ...philosophy of their own time than with the plain common sense of a church writer such as Irenaeus, which led him to proceed by the positive historical metho
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• Zephyrinus
  ...raescript. </i> ). [[Eusebius]] ( <i> l.c. </i> ), quoting from an unnamed writer of the time, tells a story of Natalius, a confessor for the faith, having b
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• Diotrephes
  ...olic]] officer of influence, but of lower standing than the writer. If the writer, on the other hand, was a Catholic teacher, Diotrephes was probably a man o ...s introduced in 3 John (&nbsp; 3 John 1:9-10 ) as ambitious, resisting the writer’s authority, and standing in the way of the hospitable reception of breth
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• Egypt
  ...s of words. * [Note: Egyptian names in this and other articles by the same writer, if not in their Grecized or Hebraized forms, are given, where possible, as ...Ethiopia (from the north to the south) 'forty years.' Abdallatif, an Arab writer, says that Nebuchadnezzar ravaged Egypt and ruined all the country for givi
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• Expiation
  ...self was released. With this view, one can scarcely conceive why so able a writer as Archbishop Magee should prefer to use the term, "vicarious <em> import," ...self was released. With this view, one can scarcely conceive why so able a writer as archbishop. Magee should prefer to use the term 'vicarious import' rathe
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• Gold
  ...ient jar, unearthed in the vicinity of the Hauran, was once brought to the writer's laboratory. On examination it was found to contain iron pyrites and metal ...y proper attention to it, notwithstanding the hints given by more than one writer upon the subject." However, for every practical purpose, it may be said tha
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• Immortality
  ...se <i> him </i> up.’ The incident of the grave clothes also shows that the writer’s conception of the Resurrection was purely spiritual: the Lard had becom ...ns believe in the transmigration [q.v.] of the soul, and a refutation by a writer who is most competent to speak. Professor Roth, another great [[Sanskrit]]
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• Isaiah
  ...able segment of the upper classes had been forcibly exiled to Babylon. The writer hailed Cyrus as the shepherd of Yahweh who would build Jerusalem and set th ...him to an elevation to which no prophet, either before or after, could as writer attain. Among the other prophets each of the more important ones is disting
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• Jonah
  ...ce to them, even indirectly, is improbable. Nor is it likely that the Heb. writer had in mind a dragon myth of Babylonia. A really striking parallel to part
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• James
  ...een identified with (4) and (5); but the probabilities seem to the present writer to be against the former identification, while the latter is almost certain ...(&nbsp;Matthew 10:3; &nbsp;Mark 3:18; &nbsp;Luke 6:15; &nbsp;Acts 1:13). [[Writer]] of the epistle; president of the church at Jerusalem (&nbsp;James 1:1; &n
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• Malachi
  ...s not the name of a person.) The usual understanding, however, is that the writer, in calling himself Malachi, is introducing himself by his name, as do the ...Vulg. ''Malachias'' ) '','' the last of the minor prophets, and the latest writer in the canon of the O.T. (comp. &nbsp;Malachi 4:4-6). What is known of him
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• Marriage
  ...he priestly functions, for at the conclusion the contract states that "the writer of this act is ... the priest of [[Ammon]] Horpneter, son of Smin" (?). The ...' If polygamy had been for the first time introduced by Lamech, the sacred writer would have as distinctly mentioned it as he mentions the things which were
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• Moriah
  ...ong> The proverb recorded in &nbsp; Genesis 22:14 clearly implies that the writer thought that Isaac was offered on the [[Temple]] mount at Jerusalem. And he ...n, and not Moriah. Great stress has been laid by bishop Colenso and by the writer in Smith's Dictionary, 2:423, on the absence of other reference besides tha
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• Mary
  ...ve been obtained from the Virgin herself. St. Luke has been proved to be a writer of great historical accuracy, and we may be certain that he admitted nothin ...desire to magnify her who had brought forth him who was God. Accordingly a writer, whose date Baronius fixes at about this time (Ann. Eccl. 1:347, Lucca, 173
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• Nimrod
  ...may see how naturally the origination of a common phrase would rise in the writer's mind; and that a motive of usefulness would be suggested with it. But bot
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• Providence
  ...to the particular law of gravitation. "The philosopher," says an excellent writer, "who overlooks the laws of an all-governing Deity in nature, contenting hi ...rcumstance. This last, however, is denied by some. </p> <p> But, as a good writer observes, "The opinion entertained by some that the providence of God exten
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