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• Messiah
  ...tic, as it is the most traditional and historic, designation of the Jewish Messiah. It expresses the most representative type of Messianic expectation, if we ...dy engaged in the work of their salvation. The elemental conception of the Messiah thus passed over into Christian thought. It carried with it, it is true, th
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• Jesus Christ
  ...His prophetic task; while his proclamation of the impending advent of the Messiah must have had the character for Jesus of a call to the work for which, as t ...the cosmos. Personal and cosmic eschatology intersect at the point of the messiah's second coming when the resurrection of the just and the last judgment occ
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• Christology Christ
  ...ded in the interpretation he gave of v. 10 by any tradition concerning the Messiah. Nor was there in the fact of resurrection itself any demonstration that su ...Moule, <i> The Origin of Christology </i> ; J. Smith, <i> The [[Promised]] Messiah </i> ; <i> TAB, </i> pp. 69-134; V. Taylor, <i> The Person of Christ in New
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• Isaiah
  ...establish peace (&nbsp;Isaiah 2:1-4; &nbsp;Isaiah 4:2-6 ). He promised the Messiah, the son of David, who would assume the chief role in the fulfillment of th ...t, whereas in the former part, addressed to the whole people, he dwells on Messiah's glory, the antidote to the fears of the people and the pledge to assure t
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• Christ
  ...peace, and of life, &nbsp;Isaiah 9:6; &nbsp;Acts 5:31; Act 3:15. </p> <p> Redeemer, &nbsp;Isaiah 59:20; Isa 60:16. </p> <p> Resurrection, &nbsp;John 11:25. </ ...erefore be, "Paul testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ," or the Messiah, &c. Many other similar instances occur. Should it be asked, Is the word Ch
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• Baptism
  ...by the water (Edersheim, <i> LT </i> [Note: T Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (Edersheim).]ii. 745f.; the candidate also made a profession of faith befor ...is atoning blood once for all shed and of perpetual efficacy; therefore He Messiah. It is His shed blood which gives water baptism its spiritual significancy.
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• Person Of Christ
  ...iates the idea to his own mind through the present certainty of Christ the Redeemer. In a word, the Creatorship of Christ is never dwelt upon for its own sake, ...and died as a man dies (&nbsp;John 19:5 ), was, nevertheless, not only the Messiah, the Sent of God, the fulfiller of all the divine promises of redemption, b
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• Virgin Birth
  ...e Scripture promise of the fulness of the Spirit that should rest upon the Messiah (&nbsp;Isaiah 11:2), may have been led to transfer these ideas to the physi .... Boslooper, <i> The Virgin Birth </i> ; R. E. Brown, <i> The Birth of the Messiah </i> ; idem, <i> The Virginal [[Conception]] and [[Bodily]] [[Resurrection]
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• Kingdom Of God
  ...a proclamation could have meant to the hearers only that the reign of the Messiah, of whom the prophets had spoken, was about to begin. The real nature of th ...ut they did not, as others, reject Jesus. They knew that he was indeed the Messiah of God who brought them the kingdom of God and eternal life (&nbsp;Matthew
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• Mediator
  ...in, after He has been lifted up by the Jews, they will know that He is the Messiah. Lastly, He says, ‘I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men ...ent for sin, to be observed through all succeeding generations, till the [[Redeemer]] himself should come, who was to make the true and only proper satisfactio
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• Worship
  ...d himself as the fulfillment of the old covenant promises concerning the [[Messiah]] made to God's people Israel. Hence, the Old Testament was the source book ...us, baptism was to be the sign of a first entrance into communion with the Redeemer, and with the church, the first appropriation of those advantages which Chr
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• Names And Titles Of Christ
  ...ry Word of God, the last, the perfect revelation of the Most High, and the Redeemer of the world. </p> <p> The Prologue of the Gospel is St. John’s appeal to
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• Apocrypha
  ...pation of Christian Doctrines.—Anticipations of the Christ idea, either as Messiah or as Wisdom, have been dealt with in the previous sections. It remains to ...s coming intervention and salvation of His people through the pre-existent Messiah. The final section states that the end will be soon and reports that Ezra w
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• Gospel
  ...pentant of forgiveness (3:3) and membership in Messiah's community (3:17). Messiah's own birth is announced as "good news of great joy" (2:10-11). According t ...d with all the human race. Luke mentions shepherds as the witnesses of the Messiah's birth, because the filth associated with their occupation made them prime
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• Offices Of Christ
  ...es, as Pye Smith, <i> First [[Lines]] </i> , and <i> Scrip. Teatim. to the Messiah </i> ; Hodge, Shedd, Weiss, <i> Biblical Theol. of the New Testament </i> , ...as recognized and proclaimed as the promised "Son of David," the expected "Messiah-king," he accepted the title (&nbsp;Matthew 9:27; &nbsp;Matthew 18:30; &nbs
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• Elijah
  ...ing, preceded by a fuller manifestation of Elijah than that of John before Messiah's first coming. Moses and Elijah's appearance at the transfiguration in glo ...fluence of the late Jewish tradition of Elijah being the forerunner of the Messiah. The expectation of Elijah's return occurs frequently in the [[Gospels]] (&
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• Gospels
  ...4) its conception of the [[Kingdom]] as to be inaugurated shortly when the Messiah returned on the clouds of heaven. See on these points <i> St. Matthew 3 </i ...rue nature of the kingdom, for the Jews for whom Matthew writes looked for Messiah's kingdom. His claim of exemption from tribute, recorded in Matthew alone (
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• Psalms
  ...cipating triumph over the foe, Psalm 109 the foe's condemnation, Psalm 110 Messiah's divine kingly and priestly glory. In the fifth book Εlohim occurs only s ...to us, who are now "the Israel of God," &nbsp;Galatians 6:16 , and to our Redeemer, who is the King of this Israel. It would be an arduous and adventurous und
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• Mary
  ...he Scriptures of eternal tRuth We now discover the suitability of our dear Redeemer for the great purposes of his mission, and plainly perceive how needful suc ...ought to the knowledge of Christian truth, and having found mercy from the Redeemer, she pressed into Simon's house, and gave the strongest proofs of her grati
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• Divinity Of Christ
  ...is taken up with determining the sense in which Jesus regarded Himself as Messiah; the second part is devoted to other aspects arising out of His self-design
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• Holy Spirit
  ...it would rest in a special way was the Messiah (&nbsp;Isaiah 11:1-5; see [[Messiah]] ). </p> <p> In spite of all this, it is probably still true to say that w ...ell as fully human. John the Baptist, the prophet who will herald Jesus as Messiah, "will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth" (&nbsp;Luke 1:15 ).
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• God
  ...above a conception of God as Father of Israel, and in a special sense of [[Messiah]] (&nbsp; Psalms 2:7 ); they had thought of God only as <em> ruling </em> t ...had expressed so clearly (43:1-7,14-16; 45:1-7), that the Creator and the Redeemer are one (1:10-13; see also &nbsp; 1 Corinthians 8:6; &nbsp;Colossians 1:16
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• Resurrection
  ...two factors of the belief in the historical resurrection of Christ as the Messiah, and the connexion of this resurrection with His own moral character and Go ...y is answered by the radiant expectation of preservation: "For I know my [[Redeemer]] lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my sk
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• Atonement
  ...in so far as they issue in His death, still these ethical qualities of the Redeemer become the ethical demand in the redeemed as their union of life with Him i ...we not need the solution which the other passages suggest of a sin-bearing Redeemer? Finally, there is the crowning attestation to His Messiahship, and seal up
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• Gnosticism
  ...onging the world of aeons sympathizes, and the most perfect aeon becomes a Redeemer. The [[Saviour]] descends, and after innumerable sufferings is able to lead ...g of Christ as a turning-point in human affairs, but almost all reduce the Redeemer's work to the impartation of knowledge and the disclosure of mysteries. Wit
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• Miracles
  ...ved to have done, is counter to the fact that the Jews expected a reigning Messiah, who should not die but deliver them from their Roman masters. </p> <p> The ...d their design, by not acknowledging the person who wrought them to be the Messiah, had recourse to the most impious and most absurd suppositions, in order to
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• Prophecy
  ...brazen serpent and the paschal lamb were signs of our healing and spotless Redeemer, &nbsp;Exodus 12:46; &nbsp;John 3:14; &nbsp;John 19:36 . And so, lastly, ce ...gdom is erected with a view, directly or indirectly, to the kingdom of the Messiah. Is an empire, or kingdom, subverted or overthrown? that empire, or kingdom
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• Entry Into Jerusalem
  ...es </i> ; Hitchcock, <i> [[Mystery]] of the Cross </i> ; artt. ‘Hosanna,’ ‘Messiah,’ ‘Prophets’ in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible. </p> <p> F. R. Mon
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• Hosanna
  ...as become the glad doxology, "Hosanna, " which equals: "Praise God and his Messiah, we are saved." </p> <p> Most likely the authors of the Gospels translitera
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• Magi
  ...star appeared, and the Magi were sent with great pomp to do homage to the Messiah. The colophon at the end states: ‘And in the year 430 (= a.d. 119), in th ..., and that of offering the first homage of the Gentile world to the infant Redeemer may be seen best by giving in a few words a description of the faith in gen
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• Jews
  ...erved by a particular providence. The Jew ought to be weary of expecting a Messiah, who so unkindly disappoints his vain hopes; and the Christian ought to hav ...History of the Jews; Pirie's Posth. Works, vol. 1:; Fuller's Serm. on the Messiah. </p>
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• Covenant
  ...ntended to prove that, notwithstanding His death, Jesus could still be the Messiah. Probably even upon the disciples themselves, at that early date, the full ...lieve that their covenantal Lord had called Moses to be the "Old Testament redeemer" (4:1-7). </p> <p> After Yahweh had humbled and broken powerful Egypt, he i
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• Name And Titles Of Jesus Christ
  ...p> [[J.]] Julius Scott, Jr. </p> <p> See also [[God]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Messiah]] </p> <p> <i> Bibliography </i> . [[O.]] Cullmann, <i> The [[Christology]]
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• Bethlehem
  ...ention is specially directed to Bethlehem as the birthplace of the world’s Redeemer. In addition to the reference, already mentioned, to the cave, we find Just ...place" (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 1:27-28). The low state of David's line when [[Messiah]] was born is also implied in Micah (&nbsp;Isaiah 53:2). </p>
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• Trinity
  ...nderstood the Father's gracious acceptance of the atonement offered by the Messiah; the peculiar protection of the Son, our great High [[Priest]] and Interces ...Trinity is regarded as arising out of Christ’s claim to Godhead as Divine Redeemer, reason soon finds its warrant for the doctrine. The doctrine of the Trinit
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• Logos
  ...ted in the Logos doctrine. Jesus was identified not merely with the Jewish Messiah, but with the eternal Word who had been with God from the beginning. His re ...was merely intended to introduce to Greek readers the story of the Jewish Messiah with a view to making it more attractive and intelligible. We may remind ou
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• Ransom
  <p> <strong> [[Ransom]] </strong> . See Redeemer, Redemption. </p> ...darkness (&nbsp;Colossians 1:13 , &nbsp;Colossians 1:14 ). See further, [[Redeemer]] , [[Redemption]] . </p> Literature. <p> See works on New Testament Theolo
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• Incarnation
  ...in the Epistles of 1Peter , James, and Jude, regards Him primarily as the Messiah, the glory of whose Person and mission has been proved by the Resurrection, ...nianism]] of the age, revived and embodied the sentiments concerning the [[Messiah]] current among the Jews during his life. The views of the Nazarenes, who a
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• Christology
  ...g no material body, he did not actually suffer. With him Soter, the proper redeemer, united himself at the baptism in Jordan, to announce his divine gnosis on
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• Daniel
  ...:23; &nbsp;Daniel 10:11), and received the exact disclosure of the date of Messiah's advent, the 70 weeks of years, and the successive events down to the Lord ...g the four great successive monarchies, and the everlasting kingdom of the Messiah, which dream God enabled Daniel to interpret. In the last six chapters we h
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• Pre-Existence Of Christ
  ...rse,’ becomes one of the Apostle’s central themes. The Church’s Lord and [[Redeemer]] must be Lord and Reconciler of all things (&nbsp;Colossians 1:15-20; &nbs
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• Friends Society Of.
  ...ffered, and for this purpose the Spirit of Christ is still manifested as a Redeemer from the bondage of corruption. Hence the apostle says, "God was in Christ
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• Moses
  ...Moses had to explain to them the character of this one who would be their redeemer. He, the [[Eternal]] One, would prove himself able to meet every need of hi ...ngs of Moses, which bespeak their truth; as, several respecting the future Messiah, and the very sublime and literal one respecting the final fall of Jerusale
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• Temptation Of Christ
  ...was Satan suffered thus to insult the Son of God? [[Wherefore]] did the [[Redeemer]] suffer his state of retirement to be thus disturbed with the malicious su ...and easy road to that universal dominion which right-fully belongs to the Messiah. Satan offers it, as the prince of this world. The lure here is the desire
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• Pre-Eminence
  ...etched reappear here in most striking fashion. He is the Lamb slain, the [[Redeemer]] who in His blood loosed from their sins (&nbsp;Revelation 1:5) and purcha
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• Redemption Redeem
  ...to the concept of the coming Messiah-Redeemer that Jesus is never called "redeemer" ( <i> lytrotes </i> [Λυτρωτής]) in the New Testament. </p> <p> Fun
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• Temptation Of Christ.
  ...hy was Satan suffered thus to insult the Son of God? [[Wherefore]] did the Redeemer suffer his state of retirement to be thus disturbed with the malicious sugg
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• Faith
  ...d, To him ‘faith’ is far from being an enthusiastic acceptance of a Divine Redeemer. </p> <p> If the Epistle was written in very early times, the argument must ...t (&nbsp; Acts 4:10-12 ), revealing the shameful crucifixion of Israel’s [[Messiah]] as a glorious expiation for the guilt of mankind (&nbsp; Hebrews 2:9 , &n
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• Book Of Isaiah
  ...] will yet be <i> received. </i> Judgement followed the rejection of their Messiah, but the great tribulation is yet to come. </p> <p> [[Quotations]] from Isa
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• Star In The East
  ...the [[Savior]] appeared, not only were the [[Jews]] eagerly expecting the Messiah, but many in various heathen lands were cherishing similar hopes: in part t ...e up a deliverer, and the Magi may have heard of the O.T. prophecies as to Messiah; but whether this be so or not, God, who provided the star, sent the Magi t
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