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• Worship
  ...cal prayers before the 4th century. [[Irenaeus]] has the “heavenly altar” (iv. 18, 6) and Origen dwells on the High Priesthood of Christ (de Oratione, 10
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• Idolatry
  ...worship was a crime of equal enormity. &nbsp;Deuteronomy 13:6-10. </p> <p> IV. '''Attractions of idolatry.''' - Many have wondered why the Israelites wer ...a like honour to [[Augustus]] during his lifetime (Tacitus, <i> Ann </i> . iv. 37). Such men as [[Gaius]] and [[Domitian]] were ready enough to encourage
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• Synagogue
  .... Lcew, Der synagogale Ritus (= Gesammelte Schriften, Szegedin, 1889-1900, iv. 1-71, v. 21-33); K. Kohler, ‘Ueber die Ursprünge und Grundformen der sy ...cts the later usage of the 2nd century. According to <em> Megillah </em> , iv. 3, the service consisted of four parts, and with this the scattered hints
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• Religion In Ancient Greece
  ...k worship was for the most part social, even human, in its character. </p> IV. The Future Life <p> 1. Funeral Rites </p> <p> Greek thought of the life af
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• Egypt
  ...at Thebes, where the vocal [[Memnon]] and its fellow now stand. Amenhotep IV, Khun-Aten, completes the religious revolution. A period Chushan Rishathaim ...mnon by the Greeks. The empire had then reached its zenith. Under Amenhotp IV. ( <em> c </em> <em> [Note: circa, about.] </em> <em> . </em> 1370), in som
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• Church
  ...nabas]] goes still further: the Jews have never been in covenant with God (iv. 6-9, xiv. 1); the Jews are the sinners (xii. 10). Judaism is obsolete: the ...receive in the church the glory that is His (&nbsp;Ephesians 3:21 ). </p> IV. The Notes of the Church <p> 1. Faith </p> <p> Although a systematic doctri
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• Sacrifice
  ...trine of Sacrifice, pp. 131-173; Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols)iv. 348; Stevens, Christian Doctrine of Salvation, p. 2 ff.; A. S. Peake, The ...to every occasion of human life. (See Sacrificial Offerings). </p> <p> '''IV.''' ''Significance Of The Levitical Sacrifices'' . '''''—''''' In examini
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• Golden Calf
  ...afterward, threatened completely to overwhelm the worship of Yahweh. </p> IV. Attitude of Amos and Hosea to the Bull Symbols <p> It is easy to see why H
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• Sabbath
  ...ry, pt. ii. ch. xviii. (= Works, ed. W. Orme, 23 vols., London, 1830, vol. iv. p. 240), The [[Divine]] [[Appointment]] of the Lord’s Day (ib. vol. xiii ...d as a Sabbath during the first two or three centuries (see <i> Hdb </i> , IV, 322 b). </p> <p> In the oft-repeated letter of Pliny, the Roman governor o
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• Adoration
  ...Jewish high priests as <i> ''''' proskunoúmenoi ''''' </i> ( <i> BJ </i> , IV, v, 2). On the other hand, it certainly implies a consciousness, on the par
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• Altar
  ...1:51 ), and victims could be tied to them (&nbsp;Psalm 118:27 ). </p> <p> IV. Altars of Incense </p> <p> &nbsp;Exodus 30:1-10 contains the commands for
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• God
  ...n. Sanday points out ( <i> Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> iv. 574, 578) that παῖς is taken in the sense of ‘Son’ in the early F ...sight as surprising, in the Synoptics as in Jn. (Liddon, <em> BL </em> v. iv.). Similarly, in the Pauline Epistles the Apostle clearly teaches that Jesu
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• Deuteronomy
  ...ronomy'' (in [[Opera]] ); Bede, ''In Deuteronomy Explanatio'' (in ''Opp.'' iv); id. ''Quaestiones Super. Deuteronomy'' (ib. viii); [[Victor]] Hugo, ''Ann
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• Prayer
  ..., necessity, place, time, and attendance on public worship, see [[Worship. Iv]] Of the matter of prayer. "It is necessary, " says Dr. Watts, "to furnish
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• Mariolatry
  ...p. 911-1270; Farrar, Eccles. Dict.; Elliott, Delineation of Romanism, bk. iv, p. 754 sq.; Hook, Church Dict.; Cramp, Text-Book of Popery, p. 400 sq.; Sc
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• Images
  ...to have had a special significance in time of war (Pinches, <i> HDB </i> , IV, 629; see also [[Chariots Of The Sun]] ). </p> 6. Obscure Bible References
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• Elijah
  ...d disregard of self that must needs mark the true prophet in any age. </p> IV. Miracles in the Elijah Narratives <p> The miraculous element must be admit
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• Persecution
  ...V in brevi Ad Assiduas, anni 1755; comp. Damnatio Synodi Pistoiensis, art. iv, v, in the Appendix to Canones Conc. Trident. Tauchnitz ed. p. 298). By thi
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• Law
  ...tic evidence points to ‘a long development of the art of public oratory.’ (iv.) The religious standpoint is that of, <em> e.g </em> ., Jeremiah rather th
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• Christian Music
  ...ews to an enthusiastic young man, and soon after, under the papacy of Paul IV, [[Palestrina]] presented to the world his Missa Marcelli (1555). This was
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• Magi
  ...the coming of Soshyos ( <i> SBE </i> [Note: BE Sacred Books of the East.] iv. p. xxxvii); nor is it probable that an independent tradition of Balaam’s .... 2:29; comp &nbsp;Isaiah 47:9; &nbsp;Isaiah 47:13; Daniel 2). </p> <p> '''IV.''' ''Position Occupied By The Magi In Theperiod Covered By The History Of
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• Ancient. Psalmody
  ...hurch histories; Milman, Hist. of Christianity, vol. iii, bk. ii, ch. iii, iv. See also Deyling, Hymni a Christianis decantandi, Obss. Sac. iii, 430; Wal
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• Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs
  .... In Reuben’s case it includes lifelong penitence ( <i> Test. Reub </i> . iv. 3) and seven years’ penance in the way of strict abstinence from flesh a
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• Sanhedrin
  ...us.’ The Mishnaic rules of procedure in cases of capital punishment (Sanh. iv. 2, 5) may accordingly be regarded as of academic rather than historical va ...d some one ‘from the congregation’ to fill the place ( <em> Sanhed </em> . iv. 4), and he was admitted by the ceremony of the laying on of hands. </p> <p
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• Christianity
  ...lling men to inquire, What, then, is the essence of Christianity? </p> <p> iv. Essential character of Christianity.—The interpretation of the facts thu ...of their Creator's presence, and others to everlasting shame and misery." IV. Christianity, morality and superiority of. It has been well observed, "tha
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• Iconoclastes
  ...new laws were enacted to set bounds to the violence of monastic rage. Leo IV. who was declared emperor in 775, pursued the same measures, and had recour
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• Sacraments
  ...sacrament (see also &nbsp;John 6:53-58, and Ignatius, Rom. vii. 3, Philad. iv. 1, Smyrn. vi.). How the sacraments become thus effectual; what relation ex
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• Leviticus
  ...[[Deal]] with the sin problem yearly (&nbsp;Leviticus 16:29-34 ). </p> <p> IV. [[Present]] Yourself in Holiness Before God (&nbsp;Leviticus 17:1-26:46 ). ...o be done by him who burns the sin-offering without the camp. </p> <p> '''(IV.)''' ''Laws [[Chiefly]] [[Intended]] To Mark The [[Separation]] Between Isr
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• Cyprianus Thascius Caecilius
  ...some authority, which recognizes even Marcion's baptism ( <i> Ep. </i> 73, iv.). It may have been issued by one of those native bishops who dissented ( <
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• Jesus Christ
  ...ministry, he may have contributed to the support of his mother. </p> <p> (IV. '''Public Ministry.''' - All the leading events recorded of '''Jesus'''' l
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• Jezebel
  ...e the words of Carlyle about Knox in <i> On Heroes and Hero-Worship </i> , IV, especially the section, "We blame Knox for his intolerance," etc. </p> <p>
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• Hinduism Or Hindu Religion
  ...ingham, Sikhs. For the distinctions of caste, (See [[India]]). </p> <p> '''IV.''' ''Doctrines Acid Worship. '''''—''''' '' As already intimated, a broa
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• Emperor-Worship
  ...oman Society from [[Nero]] to [[Marcus]] Aurelius </i> , London, 1904, bk. iv, ch. 3). Indeed, the very Augustus who was the first, and remained the idea
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• Antichrist
  ...come back to the world from the realms of the dead (cf. <i> Sib. Or. </i> iv. 119ff.; Suetonius, <i> Nero </i> , 47; Augustine, <i> de Civ. Dei </i> , x ...to be taken out of the way on the eve of Antichrist's coming. </p> <p> '''(IV.)''' Daniel's "little horn" (&nbsp;Daniel 7:7-27) of the fourth kingdom is
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• Proselyte
  ...art._ ‘Baptism,’ in HDB_ i. 239, 240; F. C. Porter, art._ ‘Proselyte,’ ib. iv. 132 f.; W. M. Ramsay, St. Paul the [[Traveller]] and the Roman Citizen, Lo
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• Ethics
  ...t. "No reason can be given," says Mill ( <i> Utilitarianism </i> , chapter iv), "why the general happiness is desirable except that each person ... desir ..., nay, the constitutional necessity for moral ideas is innate. </p> <p> '''IV.''' ''The Ethical Standard'' is, of course, according to Christianity, to b
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• Archbishop Of Alexandria Cyrillus
  ...deposition on the patriarch of Antioch after the first summons (see Mansi iv. 1311). Cyril repudiated and anathematized the heresies imputed to him and
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• Huguenots
  ...stances of aggravated cruelty. </p> <p> See [[Persecution]] In 1598, Henry IV. passed the famous edict of Nantz, which secured to the [[Protestants]] the ...was finally obliged to make peace with the king. On April 15, 1598, Henry IV granted to the Protestants, for whom he ever cherished great affection, the
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• Epistle To The Colossians
  ...Cocceius, In Ep. ad Colossians (in Opp. 12:213); Alting, Analysis (in Opp. iv); *Davenant, Expositio (Cantab. 1627, fol.; also 1630, 1639, fol.; Genev. 1 ...letter which will reach them from Laodicea (&nbsp;Colossians 4:16 ). </p> IV. Relation to Other New Testament Writings <p> Beyond the connection with Ep
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• Angel
  ...not think it below their dignity to minister to them. (See [[Satan]]). '''IV.''' ''Literature. '''''—''''' '' For the Jewish speculations on Angelolog ...s war between Michael with his angels and the dragon with his angels. </p> IV. Development of the Doctrine <p> In the childhood of the race it was easy t
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• Mystery
  ...n secret assemblies of men and women (Chambers, Cyclop. s.v.). </p> <p> '''IV.''' ''Biblical Use Of The Term "Mystery'' ." '''''—''''' A most unscriptu ...of similar forces" ( <i> Religious [[Experience]] of Paul </i> , chapters iv, v). Kirsopp Lake writes, "Christianity has not borrowed from the mystery-r
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• Apocrypha
  ...4:19). But there is no definite statement of eternal punishment. </p> <p> iv. Use of the Apocrypha in the [[Gospels]] and the Church.—Our Apocr. [Note ...his book deals with the history of the Jews from the reign of [[Seleucus]] IV. (b.c. 175) to the death of [[Nicanor]] (b.c. 161). The multiplication of t
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• Antiochus
  ...er nor in battle," but poisoned by Heliodorus. </p> <p> '''3.''' Antiochus IV. succeeded, surnamed Epiphanes, "the Illustrious," for establishing the roy ...tor. He was a minor, under his mother and tutors. </p> <p> 175 [[Antiochus Iv]] Epiphanes. He was not the rightful heir. He 'obtained the kingdom </p> <
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• Assyria And Babylonia
  ...ylon, as Pulu. </p> <p> ( <em> l </em> ) <em> Sargon </em> . Shalmaneser [[Iv.]] seems to have been son of Tiglath-pileser. He was king of Babylonia as U
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• Bethel
  ...espasian]] in his march on Jerusalem (Jos. [Note: Josephus.] <em> BJ </em> IV. ix. 9). </p> <p> <strong> 2 </strong> . A town in Judah, not identified, c ...Ephraim, was taken by Vespasian as he approached Jerusalem ( <i> BJ </i> , IV, ix, 9). </p> <p> (2) A city in Judah which in &nbsp;1 Samuel 30:27 is call
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• Preaching
  ...ns 11:8 f., Did. xiii. 1-3), and was to be treated with great honour (Did. iv. 1). ‘The picture of these wandering preachers, men burdened by no cares ...er and whenever their fellow men can be gathered to hear them. </p> <p> '''IV.''' ''Literature. '''''—''''' '' The literature of preaching may be divid
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• Covenant
  ...ssings will be always new, &nbsp;Hebrews 8:6; &nbsp;Hebrews 8:8 . </p> <p> IV. These two covenants above-mentioned agree in some things, in others they d
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• Serpent
  ...pt and [[Babylonia]] </i> , pp. 208–214; Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible iv. 459. </p> <p> G. Gordon Stott. </p>
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• Flavius Claudius Julianus Emperor
  ...(Liban. <i> ad Jul. cos. </i> Jan. [[I.]] 363, p. 399; Greg. <i> Or. </i> iv. 64, 65, p. 106; St. Chrys. <i> de Babyla contra Julianum, </i> [[§]] 23
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  ...le of St. Barnabas </i> , do. 1877; C. J. Hefele, <i> Pat. Apost. Op. </i> iv. 8 [Tübingen, 1855]; S. Sharpe, <i> Epistle of Barnabas </i> , London, 188 ...life to the importance of which it had most need to be awakened. </p> <p> IV. <i> [[Authorities]] for the Text </i> .—These consist of MSS. of th
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