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• Jerusalem
  ...ause thou knewest not the time of thy visitation" (in mercy). </p> <p> The Jews revolted again under Barchochab ("son of a star") who pretended to be the [ ...n of the city in a.d. 70 is generally regarded as crucial not only for the Jews but also for the Christians, not because the latter were present at the tim
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• Messiah
  ...lready acclaimed (&nbsp;Mark 11:7-11), and, with the title of ‘King of the Jews’ placed on the cross by the Roman governor, He was crucified (&nbsp;Mark ...The older hope of the Messiah son of David is that dominant among orthodox Jews, who still await his coming, which is to follow the appearance of Elijah (&
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• Jew
  ...e seed of David according to the flesh;" and he says: "Salvation is of the Jews." &nbsp;John 4:22. </p> ...the spiritual kingdom. [[Jewry]] means [[Judea]] (&nbsp;Daniel 5:13). "The Jews' language" signifies both the Hebrew (&nbsp;2 Kings 18:26) and the [[Aramai
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• Jews
  ...ely a small tribe of ignorant and unsettled Arabs. The care with which the Jews preserve their sacred books, and the conformity of those preserved in the e .... 427, 447; Dr. H. Jackson's works, vol. 1: p. 153; Neale's History of the Jews; Pirie's Posth. Works, vol. 1:; Fuller's Serm. on the Messiah. </p>
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• Paul
  ...n eased (&nbsp;Acts 9:26-28; &nbsp;Galatians 1:19-20). But attempts by the Jews on his life again forced him to flee. He sailed from [[Caesarea]] to northe ...longed to the lower class of the population. But it is said that among the Jews it was the custom at that time for even the sons of the wealthy to acquire
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• Synagogue
  ...bsp;Nehemiah 8:4 Authorized Version, ‘the pulpit of wood’), called in more modern times almemar, the Muhammadan al-minbar (Jewish Encyclopedia, s.v. ‘Almem ...e, &nbsp;Luke 4:16 . Furthermore, the forms of prayer that are used by the Jews at the present time do not appear to have been in existence in the time of
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• Jesus Christ
  ...4:19 ), that the ministry lasted only one year; and in the opinion of some modern scholars it can be maintained that even the Fourth Gospel includes its mate ...&nbsp;28:9,17 ). </p> <p> The Scriptures were understood by Jesus and the Jews of his day to be the Word of God. Jesus claimed that the Scriptures spoke d
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• Septuagint
  ...ecause it did not blindly follow the footsteps of the scribes. Against the Jews He used their own Scriptures with conclusive force; and with His loving but ...nt throughout that work. How extensively this version was in use among the Jews, appears from the solemn sanction given to it by the inspired writers of th
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• Captivity
  ...fulfilled" (&nbsp;Luke 21:20-24; &nbsp;Luke 21:32). In the siege 1,100,000 Jews perished, according to the contemporary witness Josephus; but not one Chris ...nder the woe which unbelief brought upon their fathers and themselves. See Jews. </p>
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• Apocrypha
  ...nt, and that was the version of the OT commonly used by the Greek-speaking Jews in the times of the Apostles, and subsequently by the Christians. Being thu ...strong> 15. Third Maccabees </strong> describes an attempt to massacre the Jews in the reign of Ptolemy Philopator (b.c. 222 205), and a notable deliveranc
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• Circumcision
  ...m, when no sacrifice of principle was understood; for in order to gain the Jews, he became "as a Jew." See [[Abraham]] , and See [[Baptism]] . </p> ...sphere was among the Gentiles, as that of the other apostles was among the Jews. The result of the conference was a compromise: Gentiles were not to be cir
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• Samaritans
  ...ed that the Jews had no high priests of the race of Phinehas; and that the Jews belied them in calling them Cutheans; for that they are descended from the ...l, still retained their peculiar religion, and could not coalesce with the Jews. </p>
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• Pharisees
  ...ther born in sins." The rabbis believed in the pre-existence of souls. The Jews' question merely took for granted that some sin had caused the blindness, w ...id back with interest the persecutions and calumnies she suffered from the Jews. How soon this anti-Judaism began, and to what extent if any it is present
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• Sabbath
  ...r one mile, &nbsp;Acts 1:12 . The sabbatical year was celebrated among the Jews every seventh year when the land was left without culture, &nbsp;Exodus 22: ...Sabbath and Lord’s Day, but to observe the seventh day alone. </p> <p> The Jews have long suffered special disabilities in Christian countries in this resp
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• Passover
  ...communion with … any that did not keep the Pasch at the same time that the Jews did’? (Bingham, op. cit. XX. v. 3). </p> <p> The two festivals still exis ...wholly by fire (&nbsp;Exodus 12:9; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 35:6-13). The modern Jews use dry thin biscuits as unleavened bread; a shoulder of lamb thoroughly ro
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• Alexandria
  ...ed thinkers who sought admission either as Hellenes into the Jewish, or as Jews into the Hellenic, system ( <i> Provinces </i> 2, ii. 167). With perfect si ...ulus, and reached its climax in Philo, a contemporary of Jesus Christ. The Jews found in the Gentile writings many beautiful and excellent thoughts. They c
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• Book Of Esther
  ...ry of Babylonian over Elamite gods which was taken over and adapted by the Jews. In this case the origin of the name <em> Purim </em> would be sought in th .... </p> <p> <i> 2. </i> In chap. 3 a copy of Artaxerxes' decree against the Jews. </p> <p> <i> 3. </i> In chap. 4 a prayer of Mordecai, followed by a prayer
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• Church
  ...civil power and the Church. The Church was no leveller or democrat in the modern sense of those terms. Rulers are to be respected by subjects, masters by sl ...ist’ (&nbsp; Romans 16:16 ). This language has doubtless given rise to the modern conception of ‘the churches’; but it must be observed that the Pauline
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• Dispersed
  ...th. (Lips. 1789); Walch, Hist. patriarcharum Judaeorum (Jen. 1752). (See [[Jews]]). </p>
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• Marriage
  ...go to it for detailed rules. Where its rules are not obviously unsuited to modern conditions, or below the Christian level, a strange uncertainty obscures th ...e's response is submission. On the other side are those whose model is the modern democratic marriage in which the partners are equals in all things. In betw
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• Herod
  ...rs and bore the ceremonial title of king, but he had no authority over the Jews of Judea (&nbsp;Acts 25:13; &nbsp;Acts 26:3; &nbsp;Acts 26:27; &nbsp;Acts 2 ...a time they let the [[Christians]] alone (&nbsp;Acts 9:31). To "please the Jews" he slew James the brother of John, and imprisoned Peter with the intention
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• Magi
  ...ed their inference that a king of the Jews was born may well have been the Jews of the Diaspora, whose tenets would doubtless be known to the wise men of t ...ked, and the light of truth rekindled among them. In this view the ancient Jews evidently considered the Jewish church as appointed not to preserve only bu
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• Peter
  ...hurch as ‘the planting of Peter and Paul’ (Eusebius, HE_ II. xxv. 8). Some modern scholars regard this conclusion as historically correct (e.g. K. Lake, The ...us of Corinth asserts it, A.D. 180. Babylon, a chief seat of the dispersed Jews, was his head quarters when he wrote &nbsp;1 Peter 5:13, not Rome as some h
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• Samaritan
  ...belonged to the sect which derived their appellation from that city. The [[Jews]] had no dealings with the Samaritans. 2. The language of Samaria, a dialec ...rammatum, p. 44. (See [[Literature And Liturgysamaritan Language);]] (See Modern Samaritans). </p>
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• Samaritans Samaria
  ...Grimm, <i> Die Samaritaner </i> , München, 1854; Mills, <i> Nablus and the Modern Samaritans </i> , 1864; Kohn, <i> Samaritanische Studien </i> , Breslau, 18 ...nbsp;Luke 17:11-19; &nbsp;John 8:48 ). The animosity was so great that the Jews bypassed Samaria as they traveled between Galilee and Judea. They went an e
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• Persecution
  ...ons in every nation, and town, and family. Judaism was the religion of the Jews, but Christianity gathered or created its own clientele. John saw ‘a grea ...sacred, or banished, and the children sold for slaves; besides innumerable Jews, who shared the same cruelties, chiefly by means of the infernal courts of
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• Rome
  ...in the wars carried on by Trajan against the Dacians. This people lived in modern [[Transylvania]] and also south of the [[Carpathians]] in Wallachia and par ...l idea; but many of the principal buildings which attract the attention of modern travellers in ancient Rome were not yet built. The streets were generally n
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• Alexander
  ...introduced because, from his invasion of Palestine, the intercourse of the Jews with the [[Greeks]] became intimate, and influenced many events of their su ...). Calvin thought him a convert to [[Christianity]] from Judaism, whom the Jews would have sacrificed as a victim to the fury of the rabble. </p> <p> '''5.
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• Canon Of The Old Testament
  ...criticism is essential. The [[Interpretation]] of the OT must differ among Jews and Christians. The logic of events cannot be Ignored, and the [[Advent]] o ...ght of the gulf that separates the Hebrew canon from the Apocrypha. To the Jews, saith Scripture," were committed the oracles of God" (&nbsp;Romans 3:2). I
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• Christianity
  ...of Christianity </i> , 1905]; A. M. Fairbairn, <i> The Place of Christ in Modern [[Theology]] </i> , 1893, and <i> [[Philosophy]] of the Christian Religion ...prophesies recorded in the New Testament; and from the preservation of the Jews as a distinct people, notwithstanding the various difficulties and persecut
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...mentioned, &nbsp; Acts 14:7; &nbsp; Acts 14:21; &nbsp; Acts 14:25 , or the Jews may have been weak and without a synagogue in those places. ( <em> b </em> ...rdinal point of time specified is in &nbsp;Acts 18:2, the expulsion of the Jews from Rome under Claudius Ceasar, A.D. 52. </p> <p> No book of the New Testa
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• Gospels
  ...of Jesus </i> , Boston, 1910; J. R. Cohu, <i> The Gospels in the Light of Modern Research </i> , Oxford, 1909; E. R. Buckley, <i> An Introductions the Synop ...is His Divine glory breaking forth the brighter amidst the darkness of the Jews' opposition. </p> <p> Each of the four, while recognizing the Lord's other
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• Pilate
  ...the Emperor, and as such could be dismissed and ruined without appeal. The Jews, when they saw that Roman justice might win and Jesus be released, held ove ...n, to which the Romans themselves had allowed a certain authority over all Jews throughout the Empire. Hence, mistaking the nature of the work, they sent a
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• Judaism
  ...irituality; and the whole [[Mosaic]] ritual was of a typical nature. See [[Jews]] . </p> ...e Talmud. </p> <p> See those articles, and books recommended under article JEWS, in this work. </p>
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• Thessalonica
  ...]] City.’ It has now a population of 130,000, of whom 60,000 are Sephardic Jews, speaking a corrupt form of Spanish, called Ladino. </p> <p> Literature.-W. ...alonica. The population of Saloniki is even now 60,000, of whom 10,000 are Jews. </p> <p> Trade in all ages attracted the latter to Thessalonica, and their
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• Egypt
  ...e; but they of Heliopolis that the king was with a vast force pursuing the Jews, because they were carrying away the riches borrowed of the Egyptians. Then ...he dates of composition. It may be remarked that there were settlements of Jews in [[Pathros]] (Upper Egypt) as early as the days of Jeremiah, and papyri i
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• Baptism
  ...[[Messiah]] (Edersheim).]ii. 746, Appendixxii.). It may be added that the Jews in later times would not have borrowed baptism from the Christians, though ..." the latter phrase referring to &nbsp;Daniel 2:44; &nbsp;Daniel 7:14. The Jews, as a nation, brought the "curse" on their land ("earth") by not repenting,
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• Law
  ...cribed in the hearts’ of men ignorant of the Mosaic Code and counting with Jews as ‘lawless.’ This Divine <em> jus </em> (and <em> fas </em> ) <em> gen ...and rules found in the Old Testament were never formally enacted among the Jews; were traditional from an earlier age; and received at different times the
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• Christ In Jewish Literature
  ...n pointing to His assumption of power and authority as the reason ‘of much modern antipathy to Jesus, so far as it exists.’ He did not, at least publicly,
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• Money
  ...00 denarius-drachms or £4 sterling. </p> <p> For the later coinage of the Jews, which was confined to the two periods of revolt against the Roman power, i ...such guidelines, the postexilic Jewish community monetarily enslaved poor Jews by loaning money at interest so that they could pay their taxes, a travesty
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• Persia
  ...ehemiah 2:9-10; &nbsp;Esther 8:9-14). The Persian government even gave the Jews funds to help carry out their program for the reconstruction of their natio ...and Nehemiah (&nbsp;Nehemiah 2:1-9) in their patriotic restoration of the Jews' national polity and walls. (See [[Daniel]] ; [[Cyrus; Medes; Parthia; Ahas
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...part. But this book tells of sufferings and triumphs on the part of loyal Jews comparable to those of the Maccabean period. Perhaps the term Maccabees was
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• Genealogy
  ...ts main impetus in the time of Ezra. It was then that the line between the Jews and other nations became sharply drawn, and stress was laid on purity of de ...up to David. The present impossibility of verifying the genealogies of the Jews' tribes and families is a divine indication that Christ the antitypical Hig
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• Old Testament
  ...ogue, have gotten into Christian hands. The Spanish writing is rounder and modern, the German and [[Polish]] writing is more angular, designated the '''''Tam ...is a revelation of the same grace as is made manifest in Christ. Only the Jews have obscured its true character by the fatal emphasis they have placed on
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• Pentateuch
  ...and non-legislative parts, but the legal enactments of the Pentateuch (the Jews reckoned 613, see above). </p> <p> In Egypt the hieroglyphics are generally ...radition was carried on by Jews and Christians until after A.D. 1600. Some Jews and Christians raised occasional questions about the Mosaic authorship of t
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• Gentiles
  ...ght years after Peter’s vision that some unknown Cypriote and [[Cyrenian]] Jews of the [[Dispersion]] took the momentous step of ‘preaching the Lord Jesu ...(&nbsp;Romans 4:17 ). </p> <p> Paul experienced great resentment among the Jews because of the opportunity he was offering the Gentiles (&nbsp;Romans 2:15-
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• The Essenes
  ...ope. But from neither of these writers could be discovered that any of the Jews cherished this hope. Yet from the New Testament we know that this hope was
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• Epistle To The. Romans
  ...pp. 1), and Aquinas (in Opp. 6). (See [[Commentary]]). </p> <p> '''2.''' ''Modern'' exegetical helps (from the [[Reformation]] to the present time) on the en
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• Time
  ...he day at sunset. Since that custom prevails to the present time among the Jews it is not likely that it was ever superseded among them. Nevertheless, the ...istinguished from the three watches which seem to have prevailed among the Jews (‘if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third,’ &nbsp; Lu
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• Sadducees
  ...fficulties are obvious, a chief one being that we cannot argue safely from modern Persian to an ante-Christian usage. Besides, if we are to admit that the Za ...he fall of [[Jerusalem]] the Sadducees doctrine disappeared, the afflicted Jews instinctively turning for consolation from the sad present to the bright ho
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