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• Book
  ...were, taken off. In old times, letters, and other writings that were to be sealed, were first wrapped round with thread or flax, and then wax and the seal we ...h are thus entered the names of those who are chosen to salvation, is "the book of life," &nbsp;Philippians 4:3 . </p>
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• Seal
  ...used of the "book" seen in the vision in &nbsp;Revelation 5:1 , RV, "close sealed (with seven seals)," the successive opening of which discloses the events d ...er from the world and from his or her unholy past. It is incongruous for a sealed believer to ignore God's present sanctifying work through the Spirit result
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• Book Of Esther
  ...ater justification, a Babylonian. The names of the chief characters in the book seem certainly to be corrupted forms of [[Babylonian]] and [[Elamite]] deit ...e kings see PERSIA. </p> <p> There are several apocryphal additions to the book of Esther in the LXX and the Vulgate. The principal of these are: </p> <p>
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• Common Prayer
  ...(Lond. 1866, imp. 8vo). On the American book, see Brownell, Family Prayer-book (N. Y. 1855, royal 8vo); Butler, Common Prayer interpreted by its History (
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• Revelation Of John:
  ...etc.). The perverted conception of the school of Baur that we have in the book an anti-Pauline manifesto (thus also Pfieiderer; compare <i> Hibbert Lectur
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• Book Of Life
  ...lly distinct work), 1902-03.]Berlin, 1903, p. 401ff.; A, Jeremias, article‘Book of Life’ in <i> Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics </i> ; W. Bousset, < ...th for the wicked (Jub xxx 20 22). To have one’s name blotted out from the Book of Life was equivalent to complete condemnation (Eth. Enoch 108:3). </p> <p
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• Covenant
  ...rom the part which the covenant conception plays in the second part of the Book of Isaiah in connexion with the figure of the Servant of Jehovah, who is ca ...3:14 ) and "this is my blood of the covenant" (&nbsp;Matthew 20:28 ). The Book of Hebrews expands on how Jesus and his blood are essential elements of the
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• Book Of. Revelation
  Book Of. Revelation <ref name="term_57970" /> ...in periodicals. The following are the exegetical helps solely on the whole book; to the most important we prefix an asterisk: St. Anthony, ''Expositio'' (
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• Book Of Nehemiah
  ...e coming of [[Jehovah]] in judgement. </p> <p> The spiritual value of this book, and of Ezra, is the setting forth of the principle that, in a day of ruin, ...[[Alexander]] the Great. </p> <p> <strong> 3. [[Historical]] value of the Book </strong> . On the whole, recent criticism has been favourable to the older
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• Malachi
  ...trong> 5. Style </strong> As might be expected, the style and diction of a book belonging to the last half of the 5th cent. are inferior to those of the pr ...uted with God (&nbsp;Jeremiah 12:1-6 ). Job disputed with his friends. The Book of Malachi is made up of six disputation passages and two appendices. The d
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• Writing
  ...udah. </p> <p> This is a commentary on the fourteenth chapter of the First Book of Kings, which relates the arrival of [[Shishak]] at Jerusalem, and his su ...ntly. A few books could contain the writings of many scrolls. This kind of book has become known as a codex. (See also [[Manuscripts]] .) </p>
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• Libraries
  ...e excavations at Pergamus, [[Athens]] and Rome, reveal the same type - the book-rooms, the colonnade where masters walked or sat and talked with their pupi
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• Daniel
  ...ng Belshazzar, since it was to the national dishonor. </p> <p> If Daniel's book had been a late one, he would have copied Berosus; if it had been at varian ...ple triumph (see [[Apocalyptic Literature]] ). </p> <p> '''Contents of the book''' </p> <p> After Daniel and his friends proved their faithfulness to God d
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• Bel And The Dragon
  ...for the Roman church made as much a part of the Bible canon as the Hebrew Book of Daniel. Protestant churches have as a rule excluded the whole of the Apo
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• The Revelation
  ...city: the defiled and idolaters are outside. </p> <p> The Lord closes the book, saying simply [["I]] Jesus," speaking personally rather than officially. T
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• Articles (The Thirty-Nine)
  ...her faith. The articles are far more thoroughly Protestant than the Prayer-book, taken as a whole. Although the articles expressly assert that the Church o
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• Nehemiah
  ...Ezra to read from the book of the law of Moses (&nbsp;Nehemiah 8:1 ). The book was probably the [[Pentateuch]] (Torah) or some part of it. Ezra read, and ...ppointed, and for the first-fruits’ (&nbsp; Nehemiah 13:30 ). </p> <p> The Book of Nehemiah (see next article) is composite in character, and the narrative
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• Spurious. Revelations
  ...' is not without its apocalyptic elements. These, however, are confined to book 1:3, 4; but they are destitute of signification or originality. (See [[Herm
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• Obadiah
  ...in the five years which intervened between B.C. 588 and 583. </p> <p> The book of Obadiah is a sustained denunciation of the Edomites, melting into a visi ...iel: he returned from exile. &nbsp; Ezra 8:9 . </p> <p> 11. [[Priest]] who sealed the covenant. &nbsp; Nehemiah 10:5 . </p> <p> 12. Levite who acted as doork
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• Book With The Seven Seals
  Book With The Seven Seals <ref name="term_55224" /> ...ing of the seals implies that the leaves of the book or parchment-roll are sealed down in successive portions, and the idea of completeness in the seven is t
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• Mormons
  ...l influential members, among them David Whitmer, the second witness to the Book of Mormon, and Oliver Cowdery, the first convert by baptism. Smith's presen
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• Moses
  ...s of &nbsp; Exodus 20:1-17 , E [Note: Elohist.] relates the ceremony which sealed the covenant (&nbsp; Exodus 24:3-8 ); the usual practice of Moses with rega ...es the sacred historian, who annexed the circumstances of his death to the book of Deuteronomy, &nbsp;Deuteronomy 34:6 . From an obscure passage in the New
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• Scripture
  ...1:1-14; &nbsp;Colossians 1:12-20; &nbsp;Hebrews 1:1-3. From the [[Mosaic]] book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament Jesus quoted texts to withstand the awf ...h as the Wisdom of Ben Sira, the Wisdom of Solomon, 1 and 2 Maccabees, the Book of Enoch, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the Assumption of Mo
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• David
  ...that another writer records in the books of 1 and 2 Samuel (see [[Psalms, Book Of]] ) </p> <p> ''' Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text [ ...last by night in disguise was a suppliant before the witch of Endor, which sealed his destruction (1 Samuel 28; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 10:13). As David was "watc
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• Tracts And Tract Societies
  ...from small beginnings less than a century ago, a vast system of tract and book publication in the interest of Christianity has sprung up and spread abroad
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• Theology Of Job
  ...]] [[Commentary]] on the Book of Job </i> ; [[J.]] [[E.]] Hartley, <i> The Book of Job </i> ; [[G.]] [[W.]] Parsons, <i> BibSac </i> 138 (1981): 139-57; [[
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• Palestine
  ...every nation of the world. </p> <p> All this was in the mind of Jesus. The Book of Jonah was a favourite with Him, and it is the OT manifesto of the imperi ...es brought together. This was divinely ordered that the Bible might be the book of mankind, not of Israel alone. The bear of Lebanon ( '''''Ursus Syriacus'
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• Baruch
  ...say he also died in the twelfth year of the captivity, Jeremiah 36-43. The book of Baruch is justly placed among the apocryphal writings. [[Grotius]] think ...with Jeremiah by Johanan into Egypt (&nbsp;Jeremiah 43:6). The apocryphal book of Baruch is evidently one of later composition. </p> <p> '''2.''' Son of [
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• Law
  ...Saviour, in laying down for us the correct lines of its interpretation has sealed it with the stamp of Divine approval, but also because the conscience and r ...that continueth not in all things that are written," or required, "in the book of the law, to do them," &nbsp;Galatians 3:10 . To deliver man from this pe
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• Adonijah
  ...</strong> . Perhaps = <strong> [[Adonikam]] </strong> , one of those that sealed the covenant (&nbsp; Nehemiah 9:38; &nbsp; Nehemiah 10:16 ). </p> <p> <stro ...phat's reign (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 17:8), sent with the princes to teach the book of the law throughout Judah. </p> <p> '''3.''' &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:16, called
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• Numbers
  ...ced. </p> <p> iv. The Epistle to the Hebrews.-The oratorical style of this book, where the clauses and phrases are more carefully balanced than in St. Paul ...appear when those things were done which are recorded in the middle of the book. See [[Pentateuch]] . </p>
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• Books
  ...s 20:34). Letters. were written by [[Jezebel]] in the name of [[Ahab]] and sealed with his seal (&nbsp;1 Kings 21:8-9; &nbsp;1 Kings 21:11); by Jehu (&nbsp;2
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• Hoshea
  ...ite]] (&nbsp; 1 Chronicles 27:20 ). <strong> 3. </strong> One of those who sealed the covenant (&nbsp; Nehemiah 10:23 ). <strong> 4. </strong> The last king ...of King David. (B.C. 1019). </p> <p> 4. One of the heads of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:23. (B.C. 410). </p>
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• Rehob
  ...adadezer king of Zobah. &nbsp;2 Samuel 8:3,12 . </p> <p> 2. [[Levite]] who sealed the covenant. &nbsp; Nehemiah 10:11 . </p> <p> 3. The northern limit of the ...l 8:12. (B.C. before 1043). </p> <p> 2. A Levite or family of Levites, who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:11. (B.C. 410). </p> <p> 3. T
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• Or Southcotters Southcottians
  ...y do not mean that Christ will come in person, but in spirit, and that the sealed who are dead before that time will be raised from their graves to partake o
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• Burial
  ...i> Sketches of Jewish Social Life </i> , p. 161 ff.; Thomson, <i> Land and Book </i> ; Bender, ‘Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews connected with De ...eph of Arimathea, in which the body of Jesus was laid, should be carefully sealed and made as secure as the officials could make it. "So they went, and made
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• Justification
  ...nbsp;Hebrews 9:14 ff.). These aspects are set forth in detail and give the book its character. In both Christ and the believer the inner experience is iden ...d as the most important point; which our venerable martyrs gloried in, and sealed with their blood; and which, as the church of [[England]] observes, is a "v
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• Abijah
  ...5. One ormore of the priests who returned from the captivity, one of whom sealed the covenant. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:7; &nbsp;Nehemiah 12:4 &nbsp; 17 </p> ...s who ‘went up with Zerubbabel’ (&nbsp; Nehemiah 12:4 ), and of those who ‘sealed unto the covenant’ in the time of Nehemiah (&nbsp; Nehemiah 10:7 ). <stro
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• Letter
  ...the vast majority of surviving [[Hellenistic]] letters. </p> <p> Even the Book of Revelation has some characteristics of a letter. John sent it to the chu ...nd. </p> <p> LET'TER, To impress or form letters on as, to letter a book a book gilt and lettered. </p>
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• Theology Of Amos
  ...cal [[Commentary]] on the Book of Amos </i> ; [[E.]] Hammershaimb, <i> The Book of Amos: [[A]] Commentary </i> ; [[J.]] [[H.]] Hayes, <i> Amos, the Eighth-
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• Canon Of The New Testament
  ...ot be said that these four tests would give an indefeasible right to every book to claim a place in the Canon if it were not already there <em> e.g. </em> ...ritten it. The New Testament is a complete organic whole, so that even one book could not be omitted without loss to the completeness of the Christian cycl
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• Sealed Books
  Sealed Books <ref name="term_59589" /> ...rtain cathedral and collegiate churches. A folio reprint of the [[Sealed]] Book was issued by Piekering (1844), and again by Masters ](1848, 8vo). See Leei
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• The Revelation Of John
  ...ve is the number of the heavenly elders, 12 times 12,000 the number of the sealed elect. The tree of life yields twelve manner of fruits (&nbsp;Revelation 22
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• Jesus Christ
  ...sed perfect knowledge within the sphere in which His vocation lay. The one book which He studied was the OT, and He used it continually in temptation, conf ...uth of the Gospels as guaranteed by God. They were to be read as any other book; the supernatural elements were to be discounted entirely or taken as myths
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• Book Of The Covenant
  Book Of The Covenant <ref name="term_50295" /> ...us 23:28-31 ). </p> <p> <strong> 2. Date </strong> . As to the date of the Book of the Covenant, there is no evidence save what the document itself affords
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• Mordecai
  ...ought proper to give the church so large an account of his history, in the book of Esther, which is principally, if not wholly, recorded for this purpose, ...at probability that Mordecai was very young when taken into captivity. The book of Esther gives the whole history of Mordecai's elevation, the punishment o
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• Southcotters
  ...y do not mean that Christ will come in person, but in spirit, and that the sealed who are dead before this time, will be raised from their graves to partake
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• Circumcision
  ..." i.e., by this blood of my child I have recovered thee as my husband, and sealed our union again (&nbsp;Exodus 4:25). </p> <p> The name was given at circumc ...aham believed God’s promises and acted upon his commands. His circumcision sealed his faith and demonstrated his obedience (&nbsp;Romans 4:11). The covenant
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• Abraham
  <p> Abraham ("father of a multitude".) Up to &nbsp;Genesis 17:4-5, his being sealed with circumcision, the sign of the covenant, ABRAM (father of elevation). S ...this the introductory title of St. Matthew’s Gospel testifies; it is ‘the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, <i> the son of Abraham
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• Expiation
  ...h speaks of the vicarious sacrifices offered by the patriarchs; and in the book of Job, in which that patriarch is said to have offered sacrifices for the ...h speaks of the vicarious sacrifices offered by the patriarchs; and in the book of Job, in which that patriarch is said to have offered sacrifices for the
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