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• A Christian Writer Rhodo
  A Christian Writer Rhodo <ref name="term_15102" /> <p> <b> Rhodo (1), </b> a [[Christian]] writer of the end of the 2nd cent., our knowledge, of whom now exclusively depends
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• Hymn-Writer Romanus
  Hymn-Writer Romanus <ref name="term_15106" /> <p> <b> Romanus (9), </b> St., a celebrated hymn writer of the Eastern church, who is said to have written more than 1,000 hymns, o
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• Story Writer
  Story Writer <ref name="term_8551" /> .../encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/story+writer Story Writer from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>
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• Magnes Macarius Magnus A Writer
  Magnes Macarius Magnus A Writer <ref name="term_14865" /> <p> <b> [[Macarius]] (9) Magnus, </b> a writer of the end of the 4th cent. Four centuries after, his name had sunk into al
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• 2Nd Cent. Christian Writer Miltiades
  2Nd Cent. Christian Writer Miltiades <ref name="term_14871" /> .... Valentin. </i> 5) names him with Justin [[Martyr]] and [[Irenaeus]] as a writer against heresy, giving him the appellation, evidently intended in an honour
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• A Gnostic Writer Epiphanes
  A Gnostic Writer Epiphanes <ref name="term_14609" /> <p> <b> [[Epiphanes]] </b> , a [[Gnostic]] writer about the middle of the 2nd cent., or earlier. [[Clement]] of [[Alexandria]
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• Story-Writer
  Story-Writer <ref name="term_179829" /> ...https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/story-writer Story-Writer from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
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• A Writer Of Sermons Eusebius Of Alexandria
  A Writer Of Sermons Eusebius Of Alexandria <ref name="term_14635" /> ...(ὐπηρέτης ). He encourages invocation of saints. </p> <p> Mai calls him a writer delightful from his "ingenuitas," his "Christian ac pastoralis simplicitas,
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• A Writer Marius Mercator
  A Writer Marius Mercator <ref name="term_14912" /> <p> <b> Marius (1) Mercator, </b> a writer, of whom, until the last quarter of the 17th cent., nothing was known excep
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• Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius
  Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius <ref name="term_15193" /> ...early-christian-biography/sophronius,+ecclesiastical+writer Ecclesiastical Writer Sophronius from A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography]</ref>
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• Anchoret And Writer Evagrius Ponticus
  Anchoret And Writer Evagrius Ponticus <ref name="term_14653" /> <p> <b> [[Evagrius]] (12) Ponticus </b> , anchoret and writer, born at Ibora in [[Pontus]] Galaticus, according to Tillemont, in 345. He
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• An Ecclesiastical Writer Maximus
  An Ecclesiastical Writer Maximus <ref name="term_14940" /> <p> <b> Maximus (24) </b> , an ecclesiastical writer, placed by [[Eusebius]] ( <i> [[H.]] [[E.]] </i> v. 27) in the reign of [[S
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• Writer
  ...e who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) [[A]] clerk of a certain rank i ...o writes or has written. 2. An author. 3. [[A]] clerk or amanuensis. <p> [[Writer]] of the tallies, an officer of the exchequer of [[England]] a clerk to the
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• A Western Writer Helvidius
  A Western Writer Helvidius <ref name="term_14742" /> <p> <b> Helvidius, </b> a Western writer who, like [[Novatian]] and Pelagius, [[Jovinian]] and Vigilantius, put forw
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• A Writer Hesychius (27) Illustris
  A Writer Hesychius (27) Illustris <ref name="term_14747" /> ...> [[Hesychius]] (27) Illustris, </b> a copious historical and biographical writer, the son of an advocate and born at Miletus. His distinctive name ( Ἰλλ
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• Latin Chiliast Writer Hilarianus Quintus Julius
  Latin Chiliast Writer Hilarianus Quintus Julius <ref name="term_14751" /> ...anus]] (1) Quintus [[Julius]] </b> ( <i> Hilarion </i> ), a Latin Chiliast writer <i> c. </i> 397, author of two extant treatises. The first, <i> Expositum d
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• A Writer Hierotheus
  A Writer Hierotheus <ref name="term_14752" /> ...legium Romanum </i> (iii. 704–707) will be found other fragments of this writer, translated from some Arabic [[Mss.]] Their theology savours, however, more
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• News-Writer
  News-Writer <ref name="term_148018" /> ...[https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/news-writer News-Writer from Webster's Dictionary]</ref>
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• Writer Hypatia
  Writer Hypatia <ref name="term_14768" /> ...nt of Nestorius, which took place 17 years after the death of Hypatia. The writer is struck by the teaching of the [[Christians]] that God died for men; she
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• Ecclesiastical Writer Caius
  Ecclesiastical Writer Caius <ref name="term_14499" /> <p> <b> [[Caius]] (2), </b> an ecclesiastical writer at the beginning of the 3rd cent., according to late authority, a presbyter
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• Gospel Of John
  ...ion between different views of this Gospel is practically furnished by the writer’s own words, ‘These are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the ...of the activity of Jesus. But his name never appears in John’s Gospel. The writer, following a common practice of not mentioning his own name, used instead t
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...ong> . This is most important, as it would be almost impossible for a late writer to avoid pitfalls when covering so large a ground. Instances of remarkable ...8:5. </p> <p> But in the epistles written where we know, from Acts 28, the writer was with Paul we find Luke mentioned. Alford conjectures that as, just befo
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• The Epistles Of John
  ...city. The similar tone, style, and sentiments prove both to be by the same writer. Irenaeus (adv. Haer, i. 16, section 3) quotes &nbsp;2 John 1:10-11, and &n ...nal disciples. To neither of these questions, as it appears to the present writer, is a dogmatically negative answer warranted. If within a period comparativ
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• Epistle To Thehebrews
  ...mption that his acquaintance with Timothy (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:23) places the writer of the Epistle amongst the circle of St. Paul’s friends. The early Church ...an ascribed it to Barnabas, and others to Luke and Clement, while no Latin writer is found during the first three centuries who ascribed it to Paul. In the m
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• Genesis
  ...reation and flood narratives? Has one copied the other? Does God inspire a writer to react to other literature and write the authentic version? What role doe ...al scheme of history laid down in JE [Note: Jewish Encyclopedia.]; but the writer’s unequal treatment of ‘the material at his disposal reveals a prevaili
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• Book Of. Revelation
  ...with the critics of Germany, one of whom goes so far as to state that the writer of the Revelation promised the fulfilment of his visions within the space o
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• Inspiration
  ...was not probably exerted upon each of the sacred writers, or upon the same writer throughout his writings, whatever might be its subject. There is no necessi ...> A Tenable Theory of Insp </i> ., by Professor Wood; cf. also the present writer’s <i> The Bible: its Origin and Nature </i> . Schleiermacher’s interest
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• The Epistle To The Hebrews
  ...]] Rome is not the catholic church. </p> <p> '''Place of writing.''' - The writer was at the time in prison (&nbsp;Hebrews 13:3; &nbsp;Hebrews 13:19), had be ...vance them to all of which they are capable. That this is the theme of the writer, the passages in which the word in question occurs show; and we see no reas
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• First Epistle To. Timothy
  ...h admit of similar replies. </p> <p> '''1.''' In &nbsp;1 Timothy 3:11, the writer enumerates a series of persecutions and afflictions which befell 1lim at An
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• Odes Of Solomon
  ...xi. 11). </p> <p> The Holy Spirit frequently underlies the thoughts of the writer (xi. 2): ‘for the Most High circumcised me by His Holy Spirit and reveale
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...wever, seem to be implied in 1:27; 2:18; 7:33; 14:15. </p> <p> The present writer holds that one man is responsible for 2 Maccabees in its present form and t
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• Hebrews
  ...ave been already discussed. I merely add here, therefore, that in case the writer of the epistle designed it should have a wide circulation among the Jews, t ...” (&nbsp;Hebrews 11:1 TEV). </p> <p> This is not to say, however, that the writer of Hebrews, felt that persons could, on the basis of their own obedience, q
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• Epistle To Hebrews
  ...e, too, we get a glimpse of that quickening Divine humanity upon which the writer lays such constant stress, and which is the source of the effort demanded f
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• Epistle Of James
  ...theology with its teaching about regeneration, faith, and prayer, but the writer’s main interest lies in ethics. The condition of the heathen world around <li> The object of the writer was to enforce the practical duties of the Christian life. "The Jewish vice
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• Book Of Joshua
  ...a prophetical interpretation of an important era of Israel’s history. The writer’s main concern was to show how God was revealing himself and his purposes ...them as may seem to indicate that they are not the production of the same writer. Thus, in the Pentateuch, we have the word [[Jericho]] always spelled '''''
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• Gospel According To Luke
  ...weak and for the suffering, for widows and for the poor, than any other NT writer. </p> <p> St. Luke was no idealist. He had a literal, matter-of-fact mind, ...6 f.) is said to be absolutely unhistorical, and to be an invention of the writer, who had read and misread Josephus (see § <strong> 5 </strong> and art.
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• Clemens Romanus Of Rome
  ...s judgment of God are cited by [[Anastasius]] of Antioch; and a 13th-cent. writer ( <i> Spicilegium Acherianum </i> , viii. 382) reports having seen in a Sar
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• Gospels
  ...> <p> The conception of the Christology of the book as being the work of a writer strongly influenced by Alexandrian philosophy is probably a false one due t ...lier, omits the ascension as involved in the resurrection. Luke, the later writer, supplies the omission. Matthew, writing for Judea, dwells on facts less kn
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• Apocrypha
  ...ers, were not unacquainted with the limits of the Palestinian Canon. No NT writer names any book of the Apocr. [Note: Apocrypha, Apocryphal.] , nor is there ...egular text of the book is occasionally interpolated and amplified by some writer or writers, to give the story a fuller narrative and make the telling of it
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• Pseudo-Chrysostomus
  ...ferred His own baptism on John the Baptist. [[Directly]] or indirectly the writer was much indebted to [[Origen]] and there may be traces of acquaintance wit
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  ...t from memory. Harnack, however, seems more successful in showing that the writer of the <i> Didache </i> used and improved upon our Epistle (cf. <i> Die Leh ...rite (c. ix.). This line of argument, however, is not that upon which the writer mainly depends. His chief trust is in the γνῶσις , that deeper, that
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• Book Of Baruch
  ...soon af ter the fall of Jerusalem in 70 ad have not convinced the present writer. </p> <p> 4. Words of Cheer Baruch 4:5 Through 5:9 </p> <p> The situation i ...German writers favor the idea of a Greek original. They conceive that the writer was some unknown person in the reign of Ptolemy Lagos, who, wishing to conf
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• Book Of Enoch
  ...that can be reasonably inferred from such a fact is, that if the inspired writer cites a particular sentiment with approbation, it must be regarded as just
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• Luke
  ...iters of the same period. They are quite unlike those of modern writers. A writer of the present day seeks to tell his story in his own words and his own way ...ticulars of the journey to Emmaus. It is very satisfactory that so early a writer as [[Irenaeus]] has noticed most of these peculiarities; which proves not o
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• The Wisdom Of Solomon
  ...e restrained spirit with which these matters are referred to show that the writer is describing a state of things which belongs to the past, though to a rece
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• Faith
  ...repentance and is accompanied by love and other Christian graces. Thus the writer of 2 Pet. is at one with all the apostles in saying to Christians that when ...c. But St. Peter in his 1st Ep., St. John in his 1st Ep. and Rev., and the writer of Hebrews, each in his own fashion, combine with St. Paul to focus the red
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• Epistle To The Romans
  ...eak (ch. 14) is marked by a calm conciliatory tone which suggests that the writer is dealing with problems which are probable rather than pressing. In fact, ...tains a close grammatical study with an excellent paraphrase. </p> <p> The writer may be allowed to name his short commentary (1879) in the <i> Cambridge Bib
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• Accommodation
  ...djustment; - followed by to. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred ...nted out that in every book of the Bible the inimitable physiognomy of the writer and the age is preserved; that the Biblical language with reference to Natu
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• Epistle
  ...character and lying closest to their hands; but here-even in the case of a writer like the author of Hebrews, who has obviously been powerfully influenced by ...s it may naturally be inferred that such compositions would partake of the writer's recent and present feelings. The epistles and James, by Peter and Jude, a
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• Bishop Of Antioch Ignatius
  ...facts to be maintained understood. In Ignatius they are hard to reach; the writer is not thinking of readers who have all to learn from him. Lastly, no ancie
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• Hermeneutics Bible
  ...rpreter seeks to determine what kind of rhetoric, or language, the ancient writer was using. It is extremely important to recognize the various literary form
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• Epistles Ofpeter
  ...iterally in daily conduct that their character is severely impugned by the writer, who accuses them of gross immorality. Their sin is classed with that of th .... The former of these views is maintained by Hug and Olshausen. The latter writer founds his view on the fact that Peter does not give the minute statements
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• Second Epistle Of Peter
  ...s promises of mercy and threatenings of judgment are [[Yea]] and Amen. The writer aims to impress on his readers: (1) that saving knowledge of Jesus Christ i ...to be understood." The allusion certainly presupposes a late age, and the writer, as he informs us, was very near his death. The date of Peter's death is no
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• Propitiation
  ...p. 84, criticizing it). The particular contribution, however, made by the writer of Hebrews to the apostolic teaching on propitiation is the discussion of t
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• Commentary
  ..., have seldom ventured to undertake an exposition of the whole Bible. Each writer usually confines himself to the task of commenting on a few books. In this
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• Logos
  ...iceable that in &nbsp; John 20:31 , where, before laying down his pen, the writer reveals the motive of his work, he really sums up the great ideas of the Pr ...ortant idea should have come to the Biblical author from an extra-Biblical writer (compare Schmiedel, <i> Johannine Writings </i> ), remembering only that th
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• Book Of Tobit
  ...y is exaggerated (as it seems) from the special circumstances in which the writer was placed (12, 9; 14:10). Of the special precepts one (4, 15, '''''Ὃ'''' ...the book, male and female, have a Semitic character. (3) The style of the writer is Semitic rather than Aryan, many of the expressions making bad Greek, but
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• Eschatology Of The Old Testament (With Apocryphal And Apocalyptic Writings)
  ...ow briefly be exhibited. In this relation, it need only be stated that the writer does not follow the extraordinary mangling of the prophetic texts by certai
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• Hippolytus Romanus
  ...s labours must have given a great impulse to the study of God's word. As a writer he must be pronounced active rather than able or painstaking. Yet he must b
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• Theology Of First And Second Kings
  ...avid, who kept the statutes of Yahweh (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:33,38 ). Thus, the writer infers that the well-being of the people was tied to the king's behavior. Y
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• Gospel Of (Critical) John
  ...community to the Corinthian, <i> circa (about) </i> 100. Here, again, the writer seems to be influenced by Johannine teaching (cf. Clem. xlix. and &nbsp;Joh
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• Epistles Ofjohn
  ...t is best to suppose that her name is not given. The language in which the writer’s affection is expressed, and the subjects with which the letter deals, p
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• Deuteronomy
  ...of Moses. It is consequently hard to believe, as is alleged, that a later writer is studying to give "an imaginative revivification of the past." </p> <p> ( ...iece altogether apart from what precedes it, or as a supplement by another writer, is a ready solution maintained by the older theologians (comp. e.g. Carpzo
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• Books Of Chronicles
  ...imate sense we would equate God's house with His kingdom. Accordingly, the writer(s) of Chronicles reminds us that the most important of all deeds are those <p> In the Hebrew Bible the two books of Chronicles form one volume. The writer has not recorded his name, though he has mentioned books and documents from
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• Talmud
  ...ngs and duties was based on it.’ And speaking of the present day, the same writer says: ‘For the majority of Jews it is still the supreme authority in reli ...d at Paris in 1242. This was the first attack. </p> <p> When, however, the writer in the Quarterly states that Justinian in A.D. 553 already honored the Talm
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• Epistle To Diognetus
  ...Himself, and content to be hidden in his Saviour's righteousness, the old writer has gradually emerged by virtue of an inborn lustre, at once the obscurest
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• Ecclesiastes
  ...y be seen in the Book of Wisdom, in which (&nbsp; Ecclesiastes 2:1-9 ) the writer collects some of Koheleth’s despairing reflexions; and, placing them in t ...rt messages encourages people to make the most of life’s frustrations. The writer gives advice about religion, money and other matters (5:1-7:14), and sugges
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• Interpretation
  ...le, to prove, since we do not know the exact form of Greek text which a NT writer may have used. A part of the early community ordinarily spoke Aramaic (&nbs ...&nbsp;Psalms 118:1-4). </p> <p> A word’s meaning is decided by the way the writer uses it in the sentence, paragraph or book, not by the way it developed out
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• Paul
  ...r will perceive that such a figure has no value unless we know what is the writer’s habit in this respect. Whatever may be the reason for it, St. Paul empl ...my 17:7, were the first to cast stones at Stephen. "Saul," says the sacred writer significantly, "was consenting unto his death." </p> <p> '''Saul's conversi
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• God
  ...r Saviour’), &nbsp;1 John 4:2, and especially &nbsp;Judges 1:20, where the writer’s disciples are bidden to pray in the Holy Spirit, to keep themselves in ...s God; and yet they are not three Gods, but one God.’ </p> <p> The present writer must profoundly dissent from the view that Jesus’ teaching about God show
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