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• Law
  ...John 2:2; &nbsp; 1 John 4:10 virtually sustain the doctrine of St. Paul on law, sin, and sacrifice. </p> <p> G. G. Findlay. </p> ...more exact manifestation of the brightness, perfection, and glory of that law, under which angels and our progenitors in paradise were placed, and which
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• God
  ...t the custom of our Lord to make minute regulations, as did the [[Mosaic]] Law. He rather laid down general principles; and it would be somewhat remarkabl ...wn Law. In the [[Talmud]] He is represented as a great Rabbi, studying the Law, and keeping the [[Sabbath]] (Gilbert, in Hastings’ <em> DCG </em> <em> [
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• Justification
  ...nal. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it the law of His own life, so that it holds in Him as its root. Into this new order o ...n the condition of righteous men, in this respect, that the penalty of the law does not lie against them, and that they are the acknowledged objects of th
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• Atonement
  ...hey are saved from the power as well as the guilt of sin; freedom from the law of sin and death completes the release from its condemnation; the release f ...t secret of atonement. The innocent suffering with and for the guilty is a law from which Jesus did not withdraw Himself. In His consciousness of solidari
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• Sacrifice
  ...Christian teachers, because the animal victims and not the human servant, law and not prophecy, have given it significance; the OT system of ritual sacri ...eaningless. The [[Homily]] of Salvation truly says "reason is satisfied by God's great wisdom in this mystery of our redemption, who hath so tempered His ju
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• Covenant
  ...offerings, this does not eliminate from them the element of expiation. The Law itself speaks of expiation in connexion with the burnt-offerings (&nbsp;Lev ...ent </i> ; G. Vos, <i> Biblical Theology </i> ; J. Zinkand, <i> Covenants: God's Claims </i> . </p>
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• Jesus Christ
  ...nd probably chief in importance, was the education in the home. The Jewish Law earnestly impressed upon parents, especially upon fathers, the duty of inst ...s by Jesus to represent deity. </p> <p> In other instances Jesus exercised God's authority in forgiving sins (&nbsp;Mark 2:1-12; &nbsp;Luke 7:44-49 ) and ac
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• Moses
  ...the <em> author </em> of the Pentateuch. Besides such expressions as ‘The law of Moses’ (&nbsp; Luke 2:22 ), ‘Moses enjoined’ (&nbsp; Matthew 8:4 )
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• Sanctification
  ...’ the ‘law’ of sin and death is done away altogether, and obedience to the law of God is merged in a higher and nobler loyalty to the God and Father of Je ...elievers are to "pursue" sanctification (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:14 ). Apart from God's sanctifying work in human beings, "no one will see the Lord" (&nbsp;Hebrews
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• Inspiration
  ...reason, not only that the <em> matter </em> contained in the book of "the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms," (the usual phrase by which the Jews designa ...utterance to this saying He Himself proceeds to repeal commandments of the Law, substituting for them His own better principles, and thus showing that wha
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• Providence
  ...necessity, do not lack the raiment they require. Work you must; it is the law of your lives as God’s rational creatures; but learn from the birds and t ...names for the unknown operations of providence; for it is certain that in God's universe nothing comes to pass causelessly, or in vain. Every event has its
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• Prayer
  ...( <em> e.g. </em> &nbsp; Genesis 28:20; see art. Vows). </p> <p> (ii.) The Law ( <em> i.e. </em> as codified and expanded in later times). The reticence a ...t not to be neglected. It is true there is no absolute command for this in God's word; yet from hints, allusions, and examples, we may learn that it was the
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• Trinity
  ...zed in the names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but in one name, which is God's; and, therefore, though we be thrice put under water to represent the myste ...m, while <i> Ebonites </i> described Jesus as an ordinary man indwelt with God's power at baptism. <i> [[Arius]] </i> was also an influential theologian who
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• Ethics
  ...t (&nbsp;Matthew 7:24-27 ), and is due in part to a supposition that every law is for every man. The disciples, having a special task, might be under spec .../p> <p> <i> See also </i> [[Theology Of Deuteronomy]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Law]]; [[Salvation]]; [[Sanctification]]; [[Sermon On The Mount]]; [[Ten Comman
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• Grace
  ...deals with sinful mankind not on the ground of merit or after the mode of Law, as though they were servants or subjects, but solely from His own natural ...asizes the free character of grace. The one reference in James links it to God's gift (4:6). Peter, who also includes it in his greeting, quotes the same Ol
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• Love
  ...James.-The Epistle of James by calling the commandment of love ‘the royal law’ (&nbsp;James 2:8) places love in the centre of religion. This love is no ...here and now. Christians love because they have been loved. In such love, God's eternal purposes are being experienced and carried out by his people (&nbsp
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• Sabbath
  ...f rest; and it was also strictly enjoined upon the [[Israelites]] in their law, both on the ground of its original institution, &nbsp;Exodus 20:8-11 , and ...seventh-day Sabbath is the desirable day and according to ‘an unchangeable Law of well-establisht Order both in the [[Revealed]] Word and in [[Created]] N
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• Predestination
  ...ace of God, they were absolutely incapacitated for obedience to the divine law. To get rid of this difficulty, Augustine, in some degree, transferred the ...braham, the Covenant with Israel, the discipline and growing revelation of Law and [[Prophets]] leads up (on predestination here, cf. &nbsp; Genesis 18:18
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• Faith
  ...und the expression: ‘Before the faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed’ (&nbsp;Galat ...sues appear under the terms Justification, Atonement, Propitiation, Grace, Law (in NT), etc. But St. Peter in his 1st Ep., St. John in his 1st Ep. and Rev
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• Elijah
  ...ostdiluvial world, as Enoch's to the antediluvial, against their unbelief. God's voice, "This is My beloved Son, hear Him," attests that the servants must b ...rk 9:4-5; &nbsp;Luke 9:30,33 ). Some have seen the two as representing the Law and the Prophets, which were now both considered to be subservient to Chris
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• Mediator
  ...s righteousness, His disposition to treat men according to a perfect moral law. When sin is passed over, righteousness is not manifested. But it was demon ...ng by this person; that it is he who spake to the patriarchs, who gave the law by Moses, and who is called in the Old Testament, "the angel of the covenan
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• Adoption
  ...ὸν νόμον; the reference is not only to those who were under the [[Mosaic]] Law, but to all subject to any system of positive ordinances (so perhaps in &nb ...ry way great and extensive. </p> <p> 1. It implies great honour. They have God's name put upon them, and are described as "his people, called by his name, "
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• Marriage
  ...he qualified answer of v. 9. This answer really admits the validity of the law of &nbsp; Deuteronomy 24:1 , with its stricter interpretation (see p. 586 b ...marriage relationship. </p> <p> For marriage to function now according to God's ideal, believers in Christ need to marry only believers. Whenever God direc
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• Creation
  ...he stronger surviving the weaker in the struggle for existence, and by the law of "natural selection" assuming those members which it needed for its devel ...the world. Like many Old Testament passages, this passage in Hebrews links God's creative activity with His redemptive activity. </p> <p> The people of [[Ly
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• Righteousness
  ...ghteousness in the New Testament </i> ; P. Stulmacher, <i> Reconciliation, Law and Righteousness </i> ; J. A. Zeisler, <i> The Meaning of Righteousness in ...m> d </em> ) Since righteousness is conformity to the Divine will, and the Law which reveals that will is righteous in the whole and its parts (&nbsp; Psa
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• Miracles
  ...t an act is not less Divine because it is fundamentally in accordance with law’ ( <i> Life of Christ in Recent Research </i> , p. 218). </p> <p> It may ...is their being wrought, or not, in support of doctrine in accordance with God's known word and revelation; for God cannot by subsequent revelation contradi
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• Law Of Moses
  ...round. Christ glorified is the One whom God now recognises — He only suits God's glory. Hence every one that is not 'in Christ' is a sinner already condemne ...from Mount Sinai, that which may be called the rough outline of the Mosaic law is given by God, solemnly recorded by Moses, and accepted by the people. In
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• Scribes
  ...rs, and in stimulating hope for the future. The ordinances of the [[Oral]] Law were at last written down, and to their careful preservation by the Scribes ...d from the common herd, "people of the earth," "cursed" as not knowing the law (&nbsp;John 7:15; &nbsp;John 7:49). Fees were paid them for arbitrations (&
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• Forgiveness
  ...E. Ladd, <i> A [[Theology]] of the New Testament </i> ; E. A. Martens, <i> God's Design: A [[Focus]] on Old Testament Theology </i> ; J. Milgrom, <i> Cult a ...of His people (&nbsp; Leviticus 11:44 ). Thus the [[Pauline]] saying, ‘The law hath been our tutor to bring us to Christ’ (&nbsp; Galatians 3:24 ), is p
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• Angel
  .../i> ; A. C. Gaebelein, <i> The Angels of God </i> ; B. Graham, <i> Angels: God's [[Secret]] Agets </i> ; H. Lockyer, <i> The [[Mystery]] and [[Ministry]] of ...y be asked, are the holy angels made at all subservient to the purposes of God's government? This question is answered by St. Paul in his [[Epistle]] to the
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• Revelation
  ...ssible the operation of the human conscience, is sometimes called ‘natural law’ (&nbsp;Romans 2:15; see [[Conscience]] ). </p> <p> The revelation throug ...idence, is evident from the ideas it gives us of God's perfections, of the law of nature, of redemption, of the state of man, &c. As to its external evide
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• Reconciliation
  ...ile both unto God." This he did by the same act; abolishing the ceremonial law by becoming the antitype of all its sacrifices, and thus, by the sacrifice ...and love are harmonized. By Christ's sacrifice the sinner is brought into God's favor, which by sin he had justly forfeited. Hence his prayer is," God be p
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• Gospel
  ...i> vii. [1895-96] 297f., xii. [1900-01] 482b, xxi. [1909-10] 497f. For the Law in Hebrews, see A. S. Peake, <i> Hebrews </i> (Century Bible, 1902). p. 30f ...s 3:22,26; &nbsp;Galatians 2:16,20 ). One must believe the gospel for here God's salvation is mediated. (2) <i> [[Growing]] </i> . The gospel is both a mess
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• Deuteronomy
  ...> ) As He is God of the whole earth, Jahweh’s <em> will </em> is the moral law, and in connexion with its requirements He rewards and punishes (cf. the te ...settle down in an agriculturally fertile country. Moses’ repetition of the law therefore included adjustments to fit in with the people’s new way of lif
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• Worship
  ...ctive, and to this day the church continues to debate the relationship of "law" and "grace" in the life of the Christian. The second concerned the relatio ...arvest in the kingdom of grace; the law of the letter from Mount Sinai—the law of the spirit from the heavenly Jerusalem. This festival originally embrace
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• Law In The Old Testament
  Law In The Old Testament <ref name="term_5919" /> ...osephus, <i> Ant. </i> , XX, viii, 8; ix, 2). </p> <p> (3) That the Mosaic law as to divorce was to give place to one more stringent appe </p>
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• Person Of Christ
  ...are the conditions of entrance. He put aside the ancient ordinances of the Law. He called all the weary to Himself for rest; most amazing of all, He claim ...s this Word, eternal in His subsistence, God's eternal fellow, the eternal God's self, that, as "come in the flesh," was Jesus Christ (&nbsp;1 John 4:2 ). "
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• Logos
  ...bringing life and light to men. He comes with a gospel that supersedes the Law of Moses, for it is a gospel of grace as well as of truth. Himself the Son ...Gospel Jesus spoke and acted as the incarnate <i> logos </i> , continuing God's creative and redemptive work. Hence, He could change water to wine, create
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• Holy Spirit
  ...p;2 Corinthians 3:17; &nbsp;Galatians 5:5; see [[Flesh]] ; [[Freedom]] ; [[Law]] ). </p> <p> This change in the behaviour of believers does not happen aut ...e of God's personality and power, living in and divinely empowering all of God's true people in diverse and incomplete ways that foreshadow their complete,
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• Word
  ...desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it" (&nbsp;Isaiah 55:11 ). God's word as his creative power and revelation is perfect and all-sufficient, es ...ngs is summed up as the prophetic λόγος. In &nbsp;Galatians 5:14 the whole Law is said to be summed up in one λόγος, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour
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• Pharisees
  ...heir practice (&nbsp;Matthew 23:2-3). But while pressing the letter of the law they ignored the spirit (&nbsp;Matthew 5:21-22; &nbsp;Matthew 5:27; &nbsp;M ...ncipient neo-Pharisaism with its exclusiveness and ‘desire to be under the law,’ and combated it so successfully. While the statement in the JE_ (ix. 66
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• Pentateuch
  ...am's prayer (&nbsp;Numbers 23:10). </p> <p> [[Order]] . The development of God's grace to man is the golden thread running through the whole, and binding th ...h profit. At times we must sacrifice our need for security in certainty to God's nature as sovereign mystery. See [[Authority]]; Inspiration; Revelation. </
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• Messiah
  ...s the centre of his thought would have been to replace the legalism of the Law by the legalism of a new authority. St. Paul was evidently acquainted with ...o-fold Messias; one the son of Ephraim, a poor and despised teacher of the law; the other the son of David, to be a conqueror. Nehemiah was content to be
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• David
  ...he Ziphites for betraying David: "Blessed be ye of the Lord (thus claiming God's sanction to treachery, malice, and bloodthirsty persecution of the innocent ...the first time introduced into public worship. [[Zion]] became henceforth "God's holy hill." </p> <p> David's wars. David now entered on a series of conques
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• Holiness
  ...persons and to the nation, holiness acquired a deeper significance. In the Law of [[Holiness]] (Leviticus 17 ff.) the command. ‘Ye shall be holy; for I ...dus 19:5-6) And hence the gospel-charter, corresponding to the same as the law by Moses had typically represented, makes the same proclamation. "Ye are (s
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• Leviticus
  ...onial pollution a pollution which includes more than ethical elements. The law-book probably arose at some sanctuary other than Jerusalem, and expressed a ...truction is a gift from God and helps the people understand how to live as God's covenant people. The book thus provides an important part of the story of G
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• Israel
  ...bout b.c. 300. They were composed under the influence of the [[Levitical]] law. The history was re-told in Chronicles, in order to furnish the faithful wi ...as a politically separate religiously oriented nation; rather, he spoke of God's all-encompassing kingdom. And while it is true Paul spoke of his ethnic peo
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• Kingdom Of God
  ...> The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus </i> ; R. Schnackenburg, <i> God's Rule and Kingdom </i> ; R. H. Stein, <i> The Method and [[Message]] of Jesu ...powerful (in Jesus' day wealth and power were often thought to be signs of God's blessing). Jesus included everyone without distinction. He spoke of God sen
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• Fire
  ...trickery or hidden evidence here. There is no hypocrisy in GOD's presence. GOD's fierce anger is displayed in all its justice, righteousness and purity. </p ...sence in fire. To Moses at the bush, &nbsp;Exodus 3:2 at the giving of the law on Mount Siani, &nbsp;Exodus 19:18-19. To Isaiah in the vision, &nbsp;Isaia
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• Adam
  ...collected into our system, wholly forbids us to suppose that the image of God's moral perfections in man was a blurred and dim representation. To whatever ...is intended to show that the provision made for divorce in the [[Mosaic]] law (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 24:1) was only a concession to the hardness of men’s h
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