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• David
  ...ll known. The biblical book of Psalms contains many of the songs and poems he wrote during his long and eventful career. In these writings David gives hi ...at he was to Him alone, kept him from behaving proudly in prosperity. Then he was anointed for the third time king, namely, over Israel (his reign lastin
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• Egypt
  ...[[Deborah]] and Barak. with distinguishing surnames. the quarries. Rameses III records his successes on his great temple of Medeenet Haboo in western Theb ...gdom, for the Egyptians, and more especially for the Greeks at Alexandria. He was worshipped as a form of Osiris, an infernal Zeus, associated with Isis.
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• Jesus Christ
  ...impious, and cast upon the Father the care of making His path plain, while He awaited, prudently as well as bravely, the gradual disclosure of His call t ...laimed that the Scriptures spoke directly about him (&nbsp;John 5:39 ) and he was the fulfillment of its prophecies ( </p>
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• Paul
  ...eriod at [[Antioch]] in Syria. In response to an invitation from Barnabas, he had come from Tarsus to help the newly formed Antioch church (&nbsp;Acts 11 ...his retreat? No exact information is supplied, but the probability is that he betook himself to the scenes of the earlier revelations made to his forefat
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• Moses
  ...ns (&nbsp;Exodus 4:1-9; &nbsp;Exodus 4:30). In response to his excuse that he was not a good speaker, God gave him Aaron as a spokesman (&nbsp;Exodus 4:1 ...d Dispensation, Jesus and the NT writers thought of him as something more. He was an historical personage of such unique prominence in Israel’s history
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• Bishop Of Lyons Irenaeus
  ...to the lists of those men who, since the apostles, had presided over them (iii. 3). </p> <p> The main representatives therefore of genuine apostolical tra
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• Eusebius Of Caesarea
  ...e especially of the Peripatetics, Stoics, and materialists of all schools. He claims to have thus given a complete answer to those who charge Christians ..."Burn Eusebius! As he has cut Christ asunder, so let him be cut asunder." He fled to Rome. The tide was turned by the death of Theodosius, A.D. 450. Leo
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• John The Baptist
  ...<i> Expositor </i> , i. v. [1877] 11ff., 98 ff., viii. [1878] 23 ff., <i> iii </i> . i. [1885] 267 ff., v. i. [1895] 201 ff., vi. [1897] 139 ff., vii. [1 ...pistle thither; it was the accompanying writing to the Gospel, and with it he also sent the Gospel. Who was better qualified to promulgate the Gospel amo
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• Messiah
  ...achings of Jesus respecting Himself as ‘Son of Man,’ whereby we learn that He was ‘made perfect through sufferings,’ and became ‘the leader of our .../em> , but as the result of the in-working of God in human lives, to which He comes through the mediation of faith in Jesus, His supreme revelation. To f
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• Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs
  ...e prayer and weeping ( <i> Test. Sim </i> . ii. 13) and two years fasting (iii. 4; in Judah’s case abstinence from flesh and wine and all enjoyment till
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• Elisha
  ...dness deprived him of complete triumph; for when told to smite the ground, he smote but thrice, instead of five or six times. Spiritually, if we fainted ...sp;2 Kings 3:15 ). The supernatural abounds in his life; in many instances he manifests the power of prediction (&nbsp; 2 Kings 4:16 , 2Ki 5:26 , &nbsp;
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• Assyria And Babylonia
  ...Assyrian assistance in the time of Shalmaneser. Finally, Tiglath-pileser [[Iii.]] became master of Babylonia, and after him it fell into the hands of the
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• Herod
  ...was an expert on Jewish affairs and bore the ceremonial title of king, but he had no authority over the Jews of Judea (&nbsp;Acts 25:13; &nbsp;Acts 26:3; ...o Rome, where he died in the third year of [[Trajan]] (A.D. 100). </p> <p> He was the last of the race of Herod commemorated in history. &nbsp;Acts 25:13
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• Flavius Claudius Julianus Emperor
  ...e city from the "list of the empire and called it by its old name Mazaca." He fined the Christians 300 pounds of gold, confiscated church property, and e
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• Elijah
  ...in person as at the transfiguration, &nbsp;Matthew 17:3, even after which He said (&nbsp;Matthew 17:11), "Elias shall first come and restore all things, ...g that Elijah was a man "just like us." His prayers were effective because he was righteous. </p> <p> Jesus used the story of God sending Elijah to the w
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• Mediator
  ...Ascension, will be the means of attracting [[Gentile]] as well as Jew. So He is the Good Shepherd, whose very vocation it is to lay down His life for th ...for the purpose of reconciling us to God, while the condescension by which he approached to man, in taking part of flesh and blood, fulfilled the graciou
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• God
  ...y also be the meaning of St. Luke in Acts; but it is equally probable that he refers to the OT ‘servant of Jahweh.’ This is clearly the meaning in &n ...eption of God. Our Lord teaches that God is One, and at the same time that He is no mere Monad, but Triune. Cf. art. Trinity. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p
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• Cyprianus Thascius Caecilius
  ...ast. Cyprian sent Jubaian a reply so elaborate that, at the final council, he read it aloud as his own best exposition of his views, with Jubaian's convi
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• Synagogue
  ...II. xvi. 3, 4; xxi. 3, 7; xxviii. 2, 4; xl. 2; xlvi., xlvii. 3; xlviii. 1; III. viii. 2; VI. xliii. and VII. ii. 8; also in the later ecclesiastical rules ...mmunity was free to exercise his gift. When a likely stranger was present, he was invited by the ruler of the synagogue to address the congregation (&nbs
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• Aurelius Augustinus
  ...inis </i> , in refutation of the propositions of Coelestius in 412; in 417 he wrote <i> de Gestis Pelagii </i> , a discussion of the proceedings in [[Pal
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...ion to righteousness and recognition of God in the forces that work there. He accordingly plants his hopes in the world to come.< </p> ...ns of the Jewish people. The most important apocalyptic section is in Book iii. 97 828, written in Maccahæan times. In it the punishment of the enemies
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• Abraham
  ...s of their nationality. As God in his grace declared Abraham righteous, so he declares righteous all who trust in him (&nbsp;Genesis 15:6; &nbsp;Romans 4 ...ul," who left home and all at the call of God, to be a sojourner in tents, he typifies Him who at the Father's call left His own heaven to be a homeless
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• Inspiration
  ...nature of his subject, and the end he had in view. And this, he tells us, he did, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. His </p> <p> language, or manne ...a writer of Scripture is Divinely inspired, we mean that <i> as he writes he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit </i> . All Christians possess thi
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• Solomon
  ...accession 990 B.C. Solomon was prematurely "old" (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:4), for he was only about 60 at death. </p> ...clesiastes gives a good impression of the ‘moral’ of his life; but whether he actually repented and was ‘saved’ was warmly debated by the Fathers. &n
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• Person Of Christ
  ...have such expressions as ‘God sent forth his Son’ (&nbsp;Galatians 4:4 ), ‘He that spared not his own Son’ (&nbsp; Romans 8:32 ), ‘God hath highly ex ...; &nbsp;John 17:8 ). Even this, however, does not express the whole truth; He came forth not only from the Father's side whe </p>
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• Manetho
  ...les of Egyptian Chronology," published in Arnold's Theol. Critic, 1851-52, he will find them fully stated, with many other like facts, which prove that t
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• Victorinus Afer
  ...occurring in a Eucharistic office ("the prayer of the oblation") to which he more than once refers (see adv. Ar. 1 30 1063 [[B]] and ii. 7 1094 [[D).]]
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• Eusebius (Jerome) Saint Hieronymus
  ...(cxxxvii.) to John of Jerusalem (who died soon after, 418) warned him that he would be held accountable for any future violence, and Jerome received a le
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• Bishop Of Antioch Joannes
  ...<i> ib. </i> 511–513). This letter he sent first to John requesting that he and his council would sign it (Liberat. p. 46; Facundus, lib. 8, c. 1, 2),
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• Mary
  ...m> , and <em> that </em> Divine; and therefore it emphasized the fact that He who was born of the Virgin was very God. It thus became customary to give t ...eavens." Well might the Lord Jesus, by the spirit of prophecy, declare, as he doth, (&nbsp;Psalms 139:1-24) (which, I venture to believe, refers principa
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• Justification
  ...he world, not as something standing beyond itself and by a power external. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it the law of H ...tation form David would have been nothing to the Apostle's purpose, unless he had understood the forgiveness of sins, and the imputation of righteousness
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• Bishop Of Nyssa Gregorius Nyssenus
  ...in doubt they are not his whose name they carry" ( <i> ib. </i> bk. v. c. iii. [[§]] 2; cf. Neander, <i> Ch. Hist. </i> vol. iv. p. 115, Clark's trans
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• Galilee
  ...881, London, 1885; V. Guérin, <i> Description … de la Palestine </i> , pt. iii.: ‘Galilée,’ Paris, 1880; F. Buhl, <i> GAP </i> [Note: AP Geographie d ...between [[Israel]] and the Gentiles, still on Israel's territory, to which He was primarily sent (&nbsp;Matthew 15:24). Places and persons despised of me
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• Gospel Of John
  ...e again from the dead and lives now to impart the gift of that Spirit whom He promised will find little difficulty in accepting the statement that John t ...appeared to seven of the disciples at the Sea of Galilee (21:1-14), where he delivered a final challenging message to Peter (21:15-25). </p>
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• Antichrist
  ...y for our thoughts on the subject must be found in the words of Jesus when He teaches us to pray for deliverance from ‘the evil one’ (&nbsp;Matthew 6 ...t of a resurrection empire, a mock Christ; as the true Christ saith, "I am He that liveth, and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore" (&nbsp;Revel
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• Atonement
  ...personal union in His death and resurrection is too real for such, a view; he thinks that the doctrine of an objective righteousness wrought out by Chris ...did not withdraw Himself. In His consciousness of solidarity with mankind, He freely submitted to those evils (shame, ignominy, suffering, temptation, de
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...tion, owing to Caligula's attempt to set up his statue in the temple. Next he was brought to Tarsus, to escape from Grecian conspirators in Jerusalem (&n
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• Bishop Of Mopsuestia Theodorus
  ...alencyklopädie, </i> i. (1896); <i> History of Dogmas </i> (Eng. trans.), iii. 279 ff., iv. 165 ff.; [[J.]] [[H.]] Soarsby, art. "Antiochene Theology" in
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• Polycarp
  ...pagitica, also mentions a letter of Polycarp to the [[Athenians]] in which he speaks of Dionysius (PG iv. 17). Lastly, the seventh of the ten letters of ...o be spurious also. The life of Polycarp, ascribed to Pionius, states that he wrote various Tractatus, Homilie, and Epistolae, and especially a book De O
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• Josephus
  ...[Winter]] and A. Wünsche, <i> Die jüdische Litteratur </i> , Trèves, 1896, iii. 309-314; E. Schürer, <i> GJV </i> [Note: JV Geschichte des jüdischen Vol
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• Predestination
  ...a few days after his return from Lambeth, with the nine articles to which he had procured the patronage of the primate. After his demise, two competitor ...high mystery of predestination,’ says the Westminster [[Confession]] (ch. iii. 8), ‘is to be handled with special prudence and care, that men attending
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• Antiochus
  ...Parthians. Appian, however, says that he killed himself, and AElian, that he threw himself headlong from a precipice. This event took place in the year ...capable of appreciating the power which true religion can call forth. Thus he is the vivid type of the last Antichrist, whose terrible, though short, per
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• Judas
  ...orm of conscience that never dieth, to prey upon him to all eternity, that he it was that betrayed the Lord of life and glory. </p> ...statement in &nbsp;John 7:5 that our Lord’s brothers did not believe that He was the Messiah (cf. <i> Exp </i> T [Note: xpT Expository Times.] xiv. 398;
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• Palestine
  ...lds white already to the harvest (&nbsp;John 4:35). The regions with which He was most familiar were the hills and Sea of Galilee, and the rocky heights ...rded in Joshua and the nomenclature in the lists and conquests of Thothmes III. Thus the modern fellaheen seem to be the mixed descendants of the old Cana
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• Samson
  ...But if Samson stands as an example ‘of impotence of mind in body strong,’ he also stands, in Milton’s magnificent conception, as an example of patriot ...the hand of his wife; but every fault is atoned by suffering, and at last he ascends to heaven. His joviality and buffoonery answer to the last scene in
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• Reformation
  ...of Calvin, a man of great zeal and invincible fortitude. On all occasions he raised the drooping spirits of the reformers, and encouraged them to go on ...ppression; that he looked to [[Heaven]] for support, and that such support he largely received. </p>
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• Resurrection
  ...the resurrection of the believers in the general scheme of eschatology as he had inherited it, and to relate the resurrection of Christ and those who we ...urprised at the scanty notice taken of it, when we remember how constantly he is pressing on his readers’ attention the power by which the resurrection
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• Gospels
  ...idence as to Christ’s teaching and Person to preconceived ideas about Him, he may also see no reason for denying that both Synoptic and Johannine picture ...in harmony with the general law. </p> <p> [[Fourfold Gospel]] - Irenaeus (iii. 11), [[Athanasius]] (Syn. Scr., p. 55), Jerome (Matt., prooem.) regarded t
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• Assyria
  ...the greatest kings to rule over Assyria. Soon after coming to the throne, he asserted his power over the weakened Judah (now ruled by the evil Manasseh) ...right of conquest, they beat him at Carchemish, and took from him whatever he had recently taken from the Assyrians, &nbsp;2 Kings 24:7; &nbsp;Jeremiah 4
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• Gospel Of (Critical) John
  ...ontrasts Valentinus and Marcion as to the way in which they use Scripture. He says that Marcion used the ‘knife,’ while Valentinus ‘accepted the wh
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