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• David
  ...ll known. The biblical book of Psalms contains many of the songs and poems he wrote during his long and eventful career. In these writings David gives hi ...at he was to Him alone, kept him from behaving proudly in prosperity. Then he was anointed for the third time king, namely, over Israel (his reign lastin
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• Egypt
  ...[[Deborah]] and Barak. with distinguishing surnames. the quarries. Rameses III records his successes on his great temple of Medeenet Haboo in western Theb ...gdom, for the Egyptians, and more especially for the Greeks at Alexandria. He was worshipped as a form of Osiris, an infernal Zeus, associated with Isis.
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• Jesus Christ
  ...impious, and cast upon the Father the care of making His path plain, while He awaited, prudently as well as bravely, the gradual disclosure of His call t ...laimed that the Scriptures spoke directly about him (&nbsp;John 5:39 ) and he was the fulfillment of its prophecies ( </p>
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• Paul
  ...eriod at [[Antioch]] in Syria. In response to an invitation from Barnabas, he had come from Tarsus to help the newly formed Antioch church (&nbsp;Acts 11 ...his retreat? No exact information is supplied, but the probability is that he betook himself to the scenes of the earlier revelations made to his forefat
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• Moses
  ...ns (&nbsp;Exodus 4:1-9; &nbsp;Exodus 4:30). In response to his excuse that he was not a good speaker, God gave him Aaron as a spokesman (&nbsp;Exodus 4:1 ...d Dispensation, Jesus and the NT writers thought of him as something more. He was an historical personage of such unique prominence in Israel’s history
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• Bishop Of Lyons Irenaeus
  ...to the lists of those men who, since the apostles, had presided over them (iii. 3). </p> <p> The main representatives therefore of genuine apostolical tra
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• Eusebius Of Caesarea
  ...e especially of the Peripatetics, Stoics, and materialists of all schools. He claims to have thus given a complete answer to those who charge Christians ..."Burn Eusebius! As he has cut Christ asunder, so let him be cut asunder." He fled to Rome. The tide was turned by the death of Theodosius, A.D. 450. Leo
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• John The Baptist
  ...<i> Expositor </i> , i. v. [1877] 11ff., 98 ff., viii. [1878] 23 ff., <i> iii </i> . i. [1885] 267 ff., v. i. [1895] 201 ff., vi. [1897] 139 ff., vii. [1 ...pistle thither; it was the accompanying writing to the Gospel, and with it he also sent the Gospel. Who was better qualified to promulgate the Gospel amo
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• Messiah
  ...achings of Jesus respecting Himself as ‘Son of Man,’ whereby we learn that He was ‘made perfect through sufferings,’ and became ‘the leader of our .../em> , but as the result of the in-working of God in human lives, to which He comes through the mediation of faith in Jesus, His supreme revelation. To f
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• Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs
  ...e prayer and weeping ( <i> Test. Sim </i> . ii. 13) and two years fasting (iii. 4; in Judah’s case abstinence from flesh and wine and all enjoyment till
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• Elisha
  ...dness deprived him of complete triumph; for when told to smite the ground, he smote but thrice, instead of five or six times. Spiritually, if we fainted ...sp;2 Kings 3:15 ). The supernatural abounds in his life; in many instances he manifests the power of prediction (&nbsp; 2 Kings 4:16 , 2Ki 5:26 , &nbsp;
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• Assyria And Babylonia
  ...Assyrian assistance in the time of Shalmaneser. Finally, Tiglath-pileser [[Iii.]] became master of Babylonia, and after him it fell into the hands of the
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• Herod
  ...was an expert on Jewish affairs 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; ...o Rome, where he died in the third year of [[Trajan]] (A.D. 100). </p> <p> He was the last of the race of Herod commemorated in history. &nbsp;Acts 25:13
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• Flavius Claudius Julianus Emperor
  ...e city from the "list of the empire and called it by its old name Mazaca." He fined the Christians 300 pounds of gold, confiscated church property, and e
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• Elijah
  ...in person as at the transfiguration, &nbsp;Matthew 17:3, even after which He said (&nbsp;Matthew 17:11), "Elias shall first come and restore all things, ...g that Elijah was a man "just like us." His prayers were effective because he was righteous. </p> <p> Jesus used the story of God sending Elijah to the w
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• Mediator
  ...Ascension, will be the means of attracting [[Gentile]] as well as Jew. So He is the Good Shepherd, whose very vocation it is to lay down His life for th ...for the purpose of reconciling us to God, while the condescension by which he approached to man, in taking part of flesh and blood, fulfilled the graciou
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• God
  ...y also be the meaning of St. Luke in Acts; but it is equally probable that he refers to the OT ‘servant of Jahweh.’ This is clearly the meaning in &n ...eption of God. Our Lord teaches that God is One, and at the same time that He is no mere Monad, but Triune. Cf. art. Trinity. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p
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• Cyprianus Thascius Caecilius
  ...ast. Cyprian sent Jubaian a reply so elaborate that, at the final council, he read it aloud as his own best exposition of his views, with Jubaian's convi
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• Synagogue
  ...II. xvi. 3, 4; xxi. 3, 7; xxviii. 2, 4; xl. 2; xlvi., xlvii. 3; xlviii. 1; III. viii. 2; VI. xliii. and VII. ii. 8; also in the later ecclesiastical rules ...mmunity was free to exercise his gift. When a likely stranger was present, he was invited by the ruler of the synagogue to address the congregation (&nbs
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• Aurelius Augustinus
  ...inis </i> , in refutation of the propositions of Coelestius in 412; in 417 he wrote <i> de Gestis Pelagii </i> , a discussion of the proceedings in [[Pal
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• Apocalyptic Literature
  ...ion to righteousness and recognition of God in the forces that work there. He accordingly plants his hopes in the world to come.< </p> ...ns of the Jewish people. The most important apocalyptic section is in Book iii. 97 828, written in Maccahæan times. In it the punishment of the enemies
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• Abraham
  ...s of their nationality. As God in his grace declared Abraham righteous, so he declares righteous all who trust in him (&nbsp;Genesis 15:6; &nbsp;Romans 4 ...ul," who left home and all at the call of God, to be a sojourner in tents, he typifies Him who at the Father's call left His own heaven to be a homeless
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• Inspiration
  ...nature of his subject, and the end he had in view. And this, he tells us, he did, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. His </p> <p> language, or manne ...a writer of Scripture is Divinely inspired, we mean that <i> as he writes he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit </i> . All Christians possess thi
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• Solomon
  ...accession 990 B.C. Solomon was prematurely "old" (&nbsp;1 Kings 11:4), for he was only about 60 at death. </p> ...clesiastes gives a good impression of the ‘moral’ of his life; but whether he actually repented and was ‘saved’ was warmly debated by the Fathers. &n
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• Person Of Christ
  ...have such expressions as ‘God sent forth his Son’ (&nbsp;Galatians 4:4 ), ‘He that spared not his own Son’ (&nbsp; Romans 8:32 ), ‘God hath highly ex ...; &nbsp;John 17:8 ). Even this, however, does not express the whole truth; He came forth not only from the Father's side whe </p>
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• Manetho
  ...les of Egyptian Chronology," published in Arnold's Theol. Critic, 1851-52, he will find them fully stated, with many other like facts, which prove that t
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• Victorinus Afer
  ...occurring in a Eucharistic office ("the prayer of the oblation") to which he more than once refers (see adv. Ar. 1 30 1063 [[B]] and ii. 7 1094 [[D).]]
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• Eusebius (Jerome) Saint Hieronymus
  ...(cxxxvii.) to John of Jerusalem (who died soon after, 418) warned him that he would be held accountable for any future violence, and Jerome received a le
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• Bishop Of Antioch Joannes
  ...<i> ib. </i> 511–513). This letter he sent first to John requesting that he and his council would sign it (Liberat. p. 46; Facundus, lib. 8, c. 1, 2),
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• Mary
  ...m> , and <em> that </em> Divine; and therefore it emphasized the fact that He who was born of the Virgin was very God. It thus became customary to give t ...eavens." Well might the Lord Jesus, by the spirit of prophecy, declare, as he doth, (&nbsp;Psalms 139:1-24) (which, I venture to believe, refers principa
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• Justification
  ...he world, not as something standing beyond itself and by a power external. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it the law of H ...tation form David would have been nothing to the Apostle's purpose, unless he had understood the forgiveness of sins, and the imputation of righteousness
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• Bishop Of Nyssa Gregorius Nyssenus
  ...in doubt they are not his whose name they carry" ( <i> ib. </i> bk. v. c. iii. [[§]] 2; cf. Neander, <i> Ch. Hist. </i> vol. iv. p. 115, Clark's trans
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• Galilee
  ...881, London, 1885; V. Guérin, <i> Description … de la Palestine </i> , pt. iii.: ‘Galilée,’ Paris, 1880; F. Buhl, <i> GAP </i> [Note: AP Geographie d ...between [[Israel]] and the Gentiles, still on Israel's territory, to which He was primarily sent (&nbsp;Matthew 15:24). Places and persons despised of me
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• Gospel Of John
  ...e again from the dead and lives now to impart the gift of that Spirit whom He promised will find little difficulty in accepting the statement that John t ...appeared to seven of the disciples at the Sea of Galilee (21:1-14), where he delivered a final challenging message to Peter (21:15-25). </p>
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• Antichrist
  ...y for our thoughts on the subject must be found in the words of Jesus when He teaches us to pray for deliverance from ‘the evil one’ (&nbsp;Matthew 6 ...t of a resurrection empire, a mock Christ; as the true Christ saith, "I am He that liveth, and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore" (&nbsp;Revel
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• Atonement
  ...personal union in His death and resurrection is too real for such, a view; he thinks that the doctrine of an objective righteousness wrought out by Chris ...did not withdraw Himself. In His consciousness of solidarity with mankind, He freely submitted to those evils (shame, ignominy, suffering, temptation, de
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• Acts Of The Apostles
  ...tion, owing to Caligula's attempt to set up his statue in the temple. Next he was brought to Tarsus, to escape from Grecian conspirators in Jerusalem (&n
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• Bishop Of Mopsuestia Theodorus
  ...alencyklopädie, </i> i. (1896); <i> History of Dogmas </i> (Eng. trans.), iii. 279 ff., iv. 165 ff.; [[J.]] [[H.]] Soarsby, art. "Antiochene Theology" in
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• Polycarp
  ...pagitica, also mentions a letter of Polycarp to the [[Athenians]] in which he speaks of Dionysius (PG iv. 17). Lastly, the seventh of the ten letters of ...o be spurious also. The life of Polycarp, ascribed to Pionius, states that he wrote various Tractatus, Homilie, and Epistolae, and especially a book De O
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• Josephus
  ...[Winter]] and A. Wünsche, <i> Die jüdische Litteratur </i> , Trèves, 1896, iii. 309-314; E. Schürer, <i> GJV </i> [Note: JV Geschichte des jüdischen Vol
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• Predestination
  ...a few days after his return from Lambeth, with the nine articles to which he had procured the patronage of the primate. After his demise, two competitor ...high mystery of predestination,’ says the Westminster [[Confession]] (ch. iii. 8), ‘is to be handled with special prudence and care, that men attending
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• Antiochus
  ...Parthians. Appian, however, says that he killed himself, and AElian, that he threw himself headlong from a precipice. This event took place in the year ...capable of appreciating the power which true religion can call forth. Thus he is the vivid type of the last Antichrist, whose terrible, though short, per
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• Judas
  ...orm of conscience that never dieth, to prey upon him to all eternity, that he it was that betrayed the Lord of life and glory. </p> ...statement in &nbsp;John 7:5 that our Lord’s brothers did not believe that He was the Messiah (cf. <i> Exp </i> T [Note: xpT Expository Times.] xiv. 398;
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• Palestine
  ...lds white already to the harvest (&nbsp;John 4:35). The regions with which He was most familiar were the hills and Sea of Galilee, and the rocky heights ...rded in Joshua and the nomenclature in the lists and conquests of Thothmes III. Thus the modern fellaheen seem to be the mixed descendants of the old Cana
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• Samson
  ...But if Samson stands as an example ‘of impotence of mind in body strong,’ he also stands, in Milton’s magnificent conception, as an example of patriot ...the hand of his wife; but every fault is atoned by suffering, and at last he ascends to heaven. His joviality and buffoonery answer to the last scene in
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• Reformation
  ...of Calvin, a man of great zeal and invincible fortitude. On all occasions he raised the drooping spirits of the reformers, and encouraged them to go on ...ppression; that he looked to [[Heaven]] for support, and that such support he largely received. </p>
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• Resurrection
  ...the resurrection of the believers in the general scheme of eschatology as he had inherited it, and to relate the resurrection of Christ and those who we ...urprised at the scanty notice taken of it, when we remember how constantly he is pressing on his readers’ attention the power by which the resurrection
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• Gospels
  ...idence as to Christ’s teaching and Person to preconceived ideas about Him, he may also see no reason for denying that both Synoptic and Johannine picture ...in harmony with the general law. </p> <p> [[Fourfold Gospel]] - Irenaeus (iii. 11), [[Athanasius]] (Syn. Scr., p. 55), Jerome (Matt., prooem.) regarded t
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• Assyria
  ...the greatest kings to rule over Assyria. Soon after coming to the throne, he asserted his power over the weakened Judah (now ruled by the evil Manasseh) ...right of conquest, they beat him at Carchemish, and took from him whatever he had recently taken from the Assyrians, &nbsp;2 Kings 24:7; &nbsp;Jeremiah 4
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• Gospel Of (Critical) John
  ...ontrasts Valentinus and Marcion as to the way in which they use Scripture. He says that Marcion used the ‘knife,’ while Valentinus ‘accepted the wh
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• Sacrifice
  ...5, pt. i., chs. i., ii., v., vii., [[Theology]] of the NT, do., 1899, pts. iii., v.; G. Milligan, Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews, do., 1899; T. V. ...ly without justice or payment of a just ransom; but with His endless mercy He joined His most upright and equal justice." See Hollywood's admirable "Bish
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• John (The Apostle)
  ...who has an immediate perception of truth. He does not reason as does Paul. He <i> saw </i> ‘the King in his beauty,’ or, to use his own words, ‘the
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• Isaac
  ...bsp;Ephesians 5:23, etc.), unlike Abraham and Jacob, of tender affections, he was a man of suffering rather than action; having the divine favor so marke ...sehold, a gracious and kindly but not a strong man. In &nbsp; Genesis 26:5 he is subordinated to Abraham, and blessed for his sake; but the two are more
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• Timothy
  ...hat Paul decided to take him as his assistant (&nbsp;Acts 16:1-3). In this he had the backing of Timothy’s home churches, whose leaders publicly acknow ...esus Christ's; but ye know the proof of him, that as a son with the father he hath served with me in the gospel." Among his friends who send greetings to
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• Bishop Of Caesarea In Cappadocia Basilius
  ...On [[Baptism]] </i> , two books. </p> <p> 4. <i> Homilies. </i> </p> <p> [[Iii.]] <i> [[Moral]] </i> and <i> Ascetic. </i> </p> <p> 1. <i> Homilies </i> ,
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• Ignatius
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• Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
  ...ter-opinion that it was formed by the afflatus of God (cf. de Anima cc. i. iii. xi.; adv. Marc. ii. c. ix.). The attributes of the soul (animae naturalia)
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• Satan
  ...scope (&nbsp;Ephesians 4:27). "The wicked one toucheth not" the saint, as he could not touch Christ (&nbsp;1 John 5:18; &nbsp;John 14:30). Self restrain ...nbsp; Luke 11:13 ‘if Satan cast out Satan, how shall his kingdom stand?’); he led astray angels (&nbsp; Revelation 12:4 ) and men (&nbsp; 2 Corinthians 1
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• Baptism
  ...( <i> Test. of our Lord </i> , ii. 8). In Justin ( <i> Apol </i> . i. 61) ‘he who leads the person that is to be washed to the laver’ seems to be the b ...n of God overcometh the world"; "whosoever is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him n
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• Bishop Of Antioch Ignatius
  ...rication, are recognized by [[M.]] Renan as established facts, even though he does not believe that the epistles we possess are those to which the story
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• The Gospel According To Mark
  ...ey were afraid" would be a strangely abrupt close of the Gospel. Irenaeus (iii. 10, sec. 6) quotes from them. Justin [[Martyr]] quotes &nbsp;Mark 9:44; &n ...ection teachings were cast. Luke tells us of many attempts to record them. He himself in his brief re </p>
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• Magi
  ...daea factus est, et manifestus eis qui non quaerebant eum’ ( <i> Hœr. </i> iii. 9. 2, cf. Max. Taur. <i> Hom. </i> 21; Leo, <i> Serm. </i> 34. 3; Origen, ...the people, however, "prepared of the Lord" to admit his reformations, and he carried them. This cannot but be looked upon as one instance of several mer
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• Calvinism
  ...but, as he conceived, to avoid blasphemy,—that of ascribing to human, what he deemed alone imputable to divine, agency." </p> ...''''—''''' '' The literature of the Calvinistic controversy is enormous. I he principal books only can be named here: Calvin, ''Instiluiones;'' Zwinglius
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• Captivity
  ...&nbsp;2 Peter 2:4). &nbsp;Revelation 20:10; &nbsp;Revelation 20:14, thus: "he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity" (&nbsp;Revelation 13:1 ...eight years after, Ezra led a small company of 7000 from Babylon to Judæa. He was succeeded as governor by Nehemiah, who labored faithfully and successfu
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• Known As Origen Origenes
  ...e]] ( <i> Comm. Ser. in Matt. </i> [[§]] 49), but it is uncertain whether he carried out his design. </p> <p> [[B.]] [[Dogmatic]] WRITINGS.—Orige
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• Bishop Of Sasima And Of Constantinople Gregorius Nazianzenus
  ...Gregory as a writer, he left his chief mark upon history as a theologian. He alone beyond the apostolic circle has been thought worthy to bear the name
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• Bishop Of Ephesus Joannes
  ...se prophets of [[Montanism]] (Extr. <i> ap. </i> Dionys.). [[Herein]] also he shared the temper of his contemporaries. The spirit of persecution is not t
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• Pharaoh
  ...h dynasty, Ahmes I, founder of the eighteenth dynasty, Thothmes I, II, and III, and Rameses I. It was first thought that Rameses II, of the nineteenth dyn ...Tyre; and "so firmly did he think himself established in his kingdom that he believed not even a god could east hint down" (Herodotus ii. 161-169). So E
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• Providence
  ...God and His righteousness’ (&nbsp;Matthew 6:33) is the counsel with which He concludes His special teaching on the relation of His disciples to the prov ...nder its adversities. If we are persuaded that God governs the world, that he has the superintendence and direction of all events, and that we are the ob
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• The Great Leo I
  ...idden to the laity as to the clergy ( <i> Ep. </i> iv. 2, 4). "Penitence," he says, "is to be measured not by length of time, but by sorrow of heart" ( <
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• Jeroboam
  ...ecution; &nbsp;Acts 17:6-7; &nbsp;Acts 24:5, Paul. After reigning 41 years he was buried in state and entombed with the kings of Israel. Amaziah's expres ...JEROBOAM, the second of that name, was the son of Jehoash, king of Israel. He succeeded to his father's royal dignity, A.M. 3179, and reigned forty-one y
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• Gospel According To Luke
  ...orks—one for [[Theophilus]] and another for use by the Church. In this way he accounts for the Western readings, which, however, are found in other books ...rthiness in giving dates when he can do so; and when he has no information he does not pretend to guide us. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p>
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• Epistle Of James
  ...</em> ii. 23), and classes it among the ‘disputed’ books of the [[Canon]] (iii. 25). It is not mentioned in the Muratorian Fragment, but is included in th ...n sin and death. What is from God is good, for He is the Father of lights. He has begotten us by the word of truth as a kind of first-fruits of His creat
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• Ezekiel
  ...> <p> 2. In the death of Ezekiel's wife (&nbsp;Ezekiel 24:15-27 ) </p> <p> III. The Glory Brings Divine Judgment to the Nations. (&nbsp;Ezekiel 25:1-32:32 ...to Babylon ... yet shall he not see it though he shall die there"; because he was blinded by Nebuchadnezzar before arriving there (&nbsp;Jeremiah 52:11).
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• Universalism
  ...> , 55; Alcott, ‘Universalism a Progressive Faith’ in <i> New World </i> , iii. (1894), 38. </p> <p> [[Robert]] Mackintosh. </p> ...fants, he took in his arms; if older children, they stood by his side, and he, placing his hand on the child's head and pronouncing its name, declared it
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• Miracles
  ...esus’); J. H. Bernard, <i> Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> iii., article‘Miracle’; T. H. Wright, <i> Dict. of Christ and the Gospels < ...nder from His redeeming work. </p> <p> To John the Baptist on the contrary He sent a report of His miracles, because John was not likely to dissever His
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• Persecution
  ...re was only one religion-and that was Christianity. When Jesus stated that He was ‘the way, the truth, and the life’ (&nbsp;John 14:6), it became imp ...hand of bigotry and persecution; nor was toleration enjoyed until William III. came to the throne, who showed himself a warm friend to the rights of cons
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• Rufinus Of Aquileia
  ...ied in two volumes to him who decried his works, shewing convincingly that he had exercised his powers through the insight given him by God and for the g
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• Ecclesiastical History Of Poland
  ...ry rank and occupy the crown-lands. </p> <p> "During the reign of Augustus III, which lasted from 1733 to 1764, the condition of the Polish Protestants wa
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• Hittites
  ...ii. ( <em> ib. </em> p. 139) fought with Hittites, as did Tiglath-pileser iii. ( <em> ib. </em> ii. 29), in the next century, while [[Sargon]] ii. in 717 ...en out of Egypt. Rameses II. sought vengeance against the "vile Kheta," as he called them, and encountered and defeated them in the great battle of Kades
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• Benhadad
  ...m him all that his father Hazael had taken from Jehoahaz, his predecessor. He defeated him in three several engagements, and compelled him to surrender a ...also told Hazael that he would be king of Syria. Hazael told the king that he would certainly recover; but the next day smothered him with a wet cloth, a
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• Prophet
  ...), enumerating in their actual order the stages of contumely through which He was to pass. The betrayal, the judicial condemnation, the delivery to the R ...ined the [[Saviour]] as about to be the woman's seed. Noah's prophecy that He should be of the Semitic branch of the human race, (&nbsp;Genesis 9:26; &nb
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• Apocrypha
  ...of Solomon 8:17). Still it was God’s design that man should enjoy it, for He ‘created man for incorruption’ (&nbsp;Wisdom of Solomon 2:23). ‘The s ...ms as one would imagine Solomon would have done if he had been the author. He is thought to have lived anywhere between b.c. 150 and b.c. 50, and to have
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• The Exodus
  ...sounds rising in the still air from the plain, but not see the plain until he emerged from the wady right under the steep rock of Sufsafeh. The brook is ...their slavery, and it is often referred to as the workof the mighty God. "He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble
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• Lutherans
  ...te and necessary; but at the same time I added, that we must behold God as he is revealed to us, as we sing in the Psalm, ‘Jesus Christ is the Lord of ...uld be justly punished by the magistrate for his erroneous opinions, while he conducted himself like a virtuous and obedient subject, and made no attempt
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• Adam
  ...ough him, "death passed upon all men, because all have sinned" in him. But he thus prefigured that one man, by whose righteousness the "free gift comes u ...declines to see any reference to it in &nbsp;Ephesians 5:14. But in Ep. 46 he says, ‘The place where our Lord was crucified is called Calvary, because
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• Jerusalem
  ...ivet, he gave the Jews time for offering terms of peace, but in vain. Next he attacked the temple at Antonia and the city near the monument of John Hyrca ...</i> 2, Eng. translation, London, 1897-98, bk. i. chs. i.-iv., bk. ii. ch. iii., bk. iv. ch. i., bk. v. ch. ii.; A. Harnack, <i> The Mission and Expansion
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• Covenant
  ...ight it would seem as if only one answer were possible, viz. those to whom He gives the cup in which the wine, the symbol of the expiating blood, is cont ...t's Son (&nbsp;Ezekiel 34:24 ). The life-love bond established by God when he created the cosmos and placed Adam and Eve as his mediators in Eden, attack
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• Simon Magus
  ...ibe to Luke any more recondite motive for relating the incident, than that he believed that it had occurred’ (op. cit., p. 688). This answers the charg ...ribe to Luke any more recondite motive for relating the incident than that he believed it had occurred. There is no evidence that this Samaritan magician
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• Archbishop Of Alexandria Athanasius
  ...trong sense of church unity made such a step both regular and natural, and he wrote to assure Athanasius that the offender would be regarded by the faith
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• The Epistles Of John
  ...re &nbsp;2 John 1:12; &nbsp;3 John 1:9-10; &nbsp;3 John 1:14). On one tour he rebuked Diotrephes. If this be so, both epistles were written after Revelat ...he lived on to a green old age in Ephesus, is there any obvious reason why he may not have been the chief instrument of that development. </p> <p> <b> V.
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• Sanhedrin
  ...least, irregularities for which only the high priests (cf. Jos. Ant. VIII. iii. 3, ‘the foremost men’) were responsible. </p> <p> As regards the death ...ressed in mourning. When any one had spoken once in favour of the accused, he could not afterwards speak against him. In case of acquittal the decision m
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• Martin Luther
  ...cramental complex, the body of Christ, involves to faith no contradiction. He defended his views in the [[Sermon]] of the [[Sacrament]] of the Body and [ ...of a great soul, between these two all great things had room.... Luther," he adds, "was a true great man, great in intellect, in courage, in affection,
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• Mahometanism
  ...and the same is expressly commanded in the Koran. </p> <p> See PILGRIMAGE. III. Mahometanism, causes of the success of. The rapid success which attended t ...of this pretended prophet, aspired both to succeed him in the empire which he had erected. Upon this arose a cruel and tedious contest, whose flames prod
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• Gnostic Sect Founder Basilides
  ...rian" (c. 55, in Routh, <i> Rell. Sac. </i> v. 196 ff.). "There was also," he says, "a preacher among the Persians, a certain Basilides of great [or 'gre
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• Shepherd Ofhermas
  ...von Gebhardt and [[A.]] Harnack, <i> Patrum Apost. [[Opera]] </i> , Fasc. iii., Leipzig, 1877; [[F.]] [[X.]] Funk, <i> [[Patres]] [[Apostolici]] </i> , T
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• Nehemiah
  ...th the Persian autocrat, rallying about him and organizing his countrymen, he governed without fear or partiality, correcting abuses in high places, and ...h was an unusual person. Nehemiah was a man of action; he got things done. He knew how to use persuasion but also force. One may properly call him the fa
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• Authority In Religion
  ...om the Gospels. It is different, however, in the case of <i> Christ </i> . He applies to Himself (&nbsp;Luke 4:17 ff.) th </p> ...uld refer in deciding controversies of faith, and according to which alone he should give sentence" (Quenstedt, quoted in <i> Hutterus Redivivus </i> , 1
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• Aristion (Aristo)
  ...Aristo’ is most probably explained by his finding in Moses of Chorene what he took to be the statement that Aristo (of Pella) was secretary of Mark, the
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• The Epistle To Philippians
  ...im are many more. Paul cannot write anything without writing about Christ. He ends: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." The spirit
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• Epistle Of Barnabas
  .... [1877] 260ff.; J. Vernon Bartlet in <i> Encyclopaedia Britannica </i> 11 iii. [1910] 408f.; J. G. Müller, <i> Erklärung des Barnabasbriefes </i> , Lei ...ere running the serious risk of being shattered against the Jewish law (c. iii.). With this the errors of a coarsely Judaistic life naturally connected th
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• Epistle To The Galatians
  ...ssage. [[Narrative]] of his life from his conversion onwards, showing that he did not receive his Apostleship and his gospel through the medium of other ...d in the maintenance of the truth which they were so lightly turning from: he bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus. There are none of the customa
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• Prayer
  ...tinctive Idea in NT prayer is <em> the work of the [[Holy]] Spirit </em> . He aids us in prayer (&nbsp; Romans 8:14-16 , &nbsp; Ephesians 6:18 , &nbsp; J ...nded us to engage in this important duty, &nbsp;1 Thessalonians 5:17; that he has promised his Spirit to assist us in it, &nbsp;Romans 8:26; that the Bib
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• Saul
  ...Kish (&nbsp;2 Samuel 21:12-14). &nbsp;2 Samuel 21:5. Paul's original name. He was proud of his tribe Benjamin and the name Saul (&nbsp;Acts 13:21). </p> ...An Amalekite, who brought the story of Saul’s death to David, claimed that he himself slew him, and was promptly executed by David (&nbsp;2 Samuel 1:1-16
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• Aaron
  ...dy Arabah, to double the mountainous land of Edom, was encamped at Mosera, he ascended Mount [[Hor]] at God's command. There Moses stripped him of his po ...wore only upon extraordinary occasions, viz. on the day of expiation, when he went into the holy of holies, which was once a year. These were: linen draw
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• Babylonia
  ...to be acknowledged. Under Nidinta-Bel, who assumed the name Nebuchadrezzar III, the Babylonians regained their independence, but it was of short duration, ...to the conqueror, receiving in return pardon and a residence in Carmania. 'He probably died before the end of Cyrus's reign; at all events, when Babylon
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• Priest
  ...Place, and only the high priest could enter the Most Holy Place. Even then he could do so only once a year, on the Day of [[Atonement]] (&nbsp;Leviticus ...of them, separated from them by no personal quality or privilege whatever. He has no offering to make in anybody’s behalf except his own, and no immuni
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• James
  ...n of Alphaeus, since James the son of Zebedee was dead; and, further, that he was our Lord’s first cousin. (Jerome does not identify Alphaeus with Clop ...by [[Ananus]] was very probably in this year; but according to Hegesippus he was not martyred until just before the destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. 69, t
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• Games
  ...Paul </i> , 1910, p. 260ff.; S. Krauss, <i> Talmudische Archäologie </i> , iii. [1912] 102-121; E. Schürer, <i> GJV </i> [Note: JV Geschichte des jüdisc ...ight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold of eternal life; and to this he is more powerfully stimulated by considering that the ancient <em> athletae
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• Christ In The Middle Ages
  ...sue of blood), moved with compassion for Jesus, as, bleeding and sweating, He was going to the cross, gave Him her head-cloth to wipe His face with, and
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• Law
  ...ating him from within; the believer ‘bends over it’ in contemplation, till he grows one with it (&nbsp; James 1:24; cf. &nbsp; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ). ‘T ...nd cares, it is necessarily included in that "law" which our Lord declares he came not to destroy, or abrogate; in that "law" which St. Paul declares to
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• Christianity
  ...n lies in its conception of the spiritual needs of man, the ends for which he exists, his sin and failure to realize those ends; in its proclamation of C ...in the most noted countries and cities of the world, in the very age when he is said to have lived. On the fiftieth day after our Lord's crucifixion, th
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• Proselyte
  ...n, 1892, p. 342; W. R. Smith and W. H. Bennett, art._ ‘Proselyte,’ in EBi_ iii. 3902, 3904; The [[Parting]] of the Roads, ed. F. J. Foakes Jackson, London ...that St. Paul addressed himself on his missionary journeys, and from them he formed the beginnings of many of his churches and received so much kindness
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• Isaiah
  ...nbsp;Isaiah 7:3; &nbsp;Isaiah 37:2; &nbsp;Isaiah 38:1; &nbsp;Isaiah 39:3). He was married and had at least two sons (&nbsp;Isaiah 7:3; &nbsp;Isaiah 8:3; ...p> <p> B. God's judgment is impartial (&nbsp;Isaiah 22:1-23:18 ). </p> <p> III. God's [[Triumph]] Over Evil [[Means]] [[Deliverance]] for His People (&nbs
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• Bishop Of Cyrrhus Theodoretus
  ...ty of so well-read, so intellectual an author " ( <i> Hist. Sketches, </i> iii. 314). The whole subject presents a very curious intellectual problem. </p>
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• Book Of Job
  ...le of endurance, and as showing what the <i> end </i> of the Lord is, that He is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. &nbsp;James 5:11 . </p> ...not formally introduced in the Prologue; and naturally enough, as soon as he has received notice to quit, the language which in one view fits him so dra
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• Book Of Proverbs
  ...ents us with two choices, life or death (&nbsp;Proverbs 9:1-18 ). </p> <p> III. One's [[Response]] to Wisdom Brings About [[Earthly]] Consequences (&nbsp; ...y themselves, and were supplemented by IV.; that the two groups, II. and [[Iii. Iv]] were then joined together, becoming known as the proverbs ‘of Solo
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• Onias
  ...centre of unity for the [[Hellenistic]] [[Jews]] ( <em> Ant </em> . XIII. iii. 1, 3, <em> BJ </em> I. i. 1, VII. x. 2). </p> <p> J. Taylor. </p> ...c Jews which seemed impossible for the Jews in Palestine. With this object he founded the temple at Leontopolis, which occupies a position in the history
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• Adoption
  ...by His lovingkindness and the favour ( <i> dignitate </i> ) of His mercy; He is Son by nature who is one with the Father ( <i> qui hoc est quod Pater </ ...n him. He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk even as he walked." &nbsp;1 John 2:1-29; &nbsp;1 John 4:5 . </p> <p> 5. [[Patient]] ye
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• Titus
  ...of God that bringeth salvation" in Christ, who "gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity." Paul tells Titus to hospitably help for ...rst bishop of Crete (Eus. <i> Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius, etc.) </i> III. iv. 6). </p> <p> Literature.-See under Timothy and Titus, [[Epistles]] to;
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• New Testament
  ...s. </p> <p> '''II.''' Those common to Matthew, Mark, and Luke. </p> <p> '''III.''' Those common to Matthew, Luke, and John. </p> <p> '''IV.''' Matthew, Ma ...n he received an application from Froben, a Printer of [[Basle]] with whom he was acquainted, to prepare a Greek text for the press. The request was made
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• Anicus Manlius Severinus Boethius
  ...ray an acquaintance with the Christian idea of heaven ( <i> ib. </i> i. 5, iii. 12, iv. 1, v. 1), but his <i> patria </i> is the peace of the philosophic
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• Ethics
  ...ual communion with the Saviour, whose image is to be repeated in every man He saves (&nbsp; Romans 8:37-39 , 1Co 15:49-58 , &nbsp; 2 Corinthians 5:8 , &n ...end. Human beings may choose whether to live under God's reign or not, but he remains King. In parables (&nbsp;Matthew 21:33-43; &nbsp;25:14-46; &nbsp;Lu
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• Papacy
  ...cessary to accredit an ambassador at the court of the Italian king, though he is under papal excommunication for having overthrown the temporal power of
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• Logos
  ...he has arrived at the conviction that this is the Christ, the Son of God. He avails himself of the doctrine of the Logos, the highest that the thought o .... And so, while the Logos is undoubtedly the agent of God’s creative will, He is still more distinctively the mediator of God’s redeeming purpose. It i
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• Luke
  ...pecially needed; a superficial examination suggests that it will show that he was inclined to remove eschatological sayings or explain them in some other ...meon]] and Anna; Christ's conversation with the doctors in the temple when he was twelve years old; the parables of the good Samaritan, of the prodigal s
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• Mayence
  ...essen, was appointed bishop of Mayence by pope Pius IX, Feb. 22, 1849, but he was not confirmed (see L. Schmid, Ueb. d. jungste Mainzer Bischofswahl, Gie
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• Clement Of Alexandria
  ...study of Clement: Le Nourry, <i> Appar. ad Bibliothecam Patrum </i> , lib. iii. (reprinted in Dindorf's edition); Moehler, <i> Patrologie </i> , 1840; Man
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• John Chrysostom Bishop Of Constantinople
  ...e night. In the morning Chrysostom begged for a brief respite in vain; but he had gone scarcely four miles when a violent attack of fever compelle </p>
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• Pelagianism And Pelagius
  ...h he no longer enjoys. In the beginning his body was not subject to death, he had extraordinary knowledge of external nature and apprehension of the mora
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• Damascus
  ...e ... because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, neither east He them from His presence us yet" (&nbsp;2 Kings 13:23). [[Jeroboam]] II, Joas ...r the wall (&nbsp; Acts 9:25 , &nbsp; 2 Corinthians 11:32-33 ), and hither he returned after his [[Arabian]] retirement (&nbsp; Galatians 1:17 ). </p> <p
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• Innocent Iii
  Innocent Iii <ref name="term_45065" /> ...lish Cyclopedia, s.v.; Chambers, Cyclopedia, s.v.; Hurter, Geschichte Inn. III u. seiner Zeitgenossen (Hamburg, 1834-42,4 vols.; 3rd ed. 1845 sq.). </p>
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• Bishop Of Antioch Theophilus
  ...arguments have been carefully examined by Tillemont ( <i> Mém. eccl. </i> iii. 612 notes), [[Cave]] ( <i> Hist. Lit. </i> i. 70), Donaldson ( <i> u.s. </
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• Missions
  ...logy of the NT’ in Hastings’ <i> DB. </i> [Note: Dictionary of the Bible.] He says that ‘the picture in Acts is cut up, as it were, into six panels, ea ...which emigrants came from Ireland as late as the close of the 7th century. He also affirms that Germany was almost wholly heathen when that missionary en
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• Clementine Literature
  ...prove that he had a different text before him: one is the laity with which he cites the [[O.T.;]] the other, the fact that the story demands that Peter s
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• Pharisees
  ...;Matthew 14:2; &nbsp;John 9:2, "who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" compare &nbsp;John 9:34, "thou wast altogether born in sin ...itorious not more as the [[Apostle]] of the Gentiles than by the fact that he, a former Pharisee, saw so clearly the danger of this incipient neo-Pharisa
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• Book Of Numbers
  ...Numbers 21:32 has been lost; but &nbsp; Judges 1:15 makes it probable that he consented to accompany them. ( <em> d </em> ) Into the story of the quails ...ew of possessing the land of promise, and Joshua succeeds Moses as leader. He is, what Moses was not, the type of a risen Christ. </p> <p> In spiritual e
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• Pilate
  .... Another account has it that he was beheaded by Tiberius’ order, but that he repented before his death. His wife is commonly reported to have become a C ...ver time, but he must have felt that in face of a sudden national movement he would be powerless; and it is no small testimony to Roman powers of adminis
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• Roads And Travel
  ...t.)-the reasons he gives are the periodic winds and the heat respectively. He could under ordinary circumstances have done the whole of the rest of his j
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• Trinity
  ...elieved to be three, constitute one God." And in another part of his works he says, "There is a Trinity of one Divinity, the Father, and the Son, and the ...d prior to His temporal relationships to the universe of His own creation. He must have relationships eternally adequate, and worthy, and when once we re
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• Matthew
  ...hip, he was an eye-witness and an ear- witness of most of the things which he relates; and though I do not think it was the scope of any of these histori ...ed his <i> logia </i> in the [[Hebrew]] tongue, and everyone translated as he was able.’ We also find in Eusebius’ review of the canon of [[Scripture
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• Lazarus
  ...own master. His mission over-whelmed him, and he yielded to the torrent.… He was no more able than St. [[Bernard]] or St. Francis to moderate the avidit ...[Narrow]] Way)'' , would only aggravate his anguish by reproaches, because he had countenanced their unbelief. The dialogue is not between Lazarus and th
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• Arian Sect Founder And Head Aetius
  ...A.D.]] 365–366 ( <i> ib. </i> ix. 6). Aetius returned to Constantinople. He was the author of several letters to [[Constantius]] and others, filled wit
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• Power Of The Keys
  ...or himself certain and complete absolution with perfect assurance whenever he will lay hold upon the mercy of Christ in accordance with the spirit of the
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• Archbishop Of Alexandria Cyrillus
  ...aks quite in the tone of Hippolytus's "Little Labyrinth" (Eus. v. 28) when he deprecates an undue reliance on Aristotelian dialectics and <i> a priori </
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• Ebionism; Ebionites
  ...clopedia </i> ; Holtzman u. Zöpffel; Lightfoot, <i> Galatians </i> , Disc. III; Colin Campbell, <i> Studies in St. Luke </i> . </p>
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• First Epistle To The Corinthians
  ...n our view of the rival schemes given in art. [[Chronology]] of the NT, § iii. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p> ...hich was interpreted as meaning, "I am passing through Macedonia." In 16:8 he declares his intention of remaining some time longer in Ephesus. After that
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• English Versions
  ...nstant use of the original Greek and of translations in other tongues, and he added a full marginal commentary. If the matter had ended there, as the wor ...rs specially the text on which the successive English versions were based. He writes judiciously also on the Wycliffe period and on the Revised Version (
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• Plagues Of Egypt
  ...by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, to go by day and night. He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by nig ...is work, to enter into the relation of it here. But I beg the reader, when he hath read the [[Holy]] Scriptures on this subject, as contained in the elev
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• An Eminent Ascetic Isidorus Pelusiota
  ...are, in effect, repetitions. See Bouuy, <i> De [[S.]] Isid. Pel. </i> lib. iii. (Nîmes, 1885); also [[C.]] [[H.]] Turner and [[E.]] [[K.]] Lake in <i>
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• Flavius Josephus
  ...sible that he mentions Jesus, the entire passage ( <em> Ant </em> . XVIII. iii. 3) can hardly have come from Josephus in its present form. At the same tim ...sephus' <i> Life </i> focuses primarily upon the six-month period in which he was commander of Jewish forces in the Galilee and refutes the charge made b
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• Holy Ghost
  ...l and the [[Virgin]] Mary, but by an inward and secret suggestion, whereby he raiseth our hearts to this persuasion, that God is our Father, and we are h ...minds of the Lord's people, that it must with truth be said, that he, and he only, is the almighty minister in the church of Christ, and to him alone th
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• Gospels (Apocryphal)
  ...true teaching, there were additions of a questionable character, to which he proceeded to call attention. Until recently this was all that was known of
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• Codex Alexandrinus
  | cat = III (in Gospels), I (in rest of NT) ...gin as in codices [[Codex Ephraemi|Ephraemi]] and [[Codex Basilensis A. N. III. 12|Basilensis]].<ref>{{Cite book
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• Grosseteste, Groceteste, Grostest, Grost-Head, Groshead
  ...ecdota, edit. Brewer; [[Royal]] and [[Historical]] [[Letters]] regn. Henry III. The last four works are published by the British Treasury, in continuation
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• Saint Sidonius Apollinaris
  ...an, both before and after he became bishop, it is as a man of letters that he will always be best known, for, as it has been observed, his writings are t
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• Odes Of Solomon
  ...h like theirs, and they sought for my death and did not find it’; vii. 6: ‘He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on’; xix. 8: ‘Sh
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• Chronology Of The Old Testament
  ...at the writer had in this calculation was probably due to the theory which he had formed or which had come down to him by tradition, that the length of t ...f Ramses II, indicates that Israel was in Palestine in his time, therefore he could not have been the Pharaoh of the Exodus, nor his father the oppressor
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• Excommunication
  ...lvation ultimately to his soul (ἴνα τὸ πνεῦμα σωθῇ): by physical suffering he is to atone for his sin.… The whole thought stands in the closest relatio ...ucting, and, if possible, restoring him to the enjoyment of the privileges he has forfeited by his conduct. </p> <p> See [[Church]] </p>
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• Paul The Apostle
  ...led at Troas and left some things there (&nbsp; 2 Timothy 4:13 ); and that he went to Macedonia (&nbsp; 1 Timothy 1:3 ). But these events need not have h ...a once again echoing many a dominical declarationspeaks with the authority he claims. Endorsing wholeheartedly the Pauline vision with its cosmic implica
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• Philistines
  ...ken cities. &nbsp;1 Samuel 31:1-7. On the appointment of David to be king, he twice attacked them, and on each occasion, with singular success, in the fi ...Their chief god, [[Dagon]] (&nbsp;1 Samuel 5:2 ff.), was a Semitic deity. He appears in the el-Amarna letters and also in [[Babylonia]] (cf. Barton, <em
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• A 2Nd Century Heretic Marcion
  ...). It becomes apparent that Marcion struck out from the [[Epistles]] which he acknowledged some passages which conflicted with his theory and also made s
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• Ministry
  .... Galilee. Olivet. </p> </td> <td> <p> … </p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> <b> iii. Results of our Lord’s Ministry. </b> —When we attempt to sum up the re ...magistrate the body of ministers of state. 5. [[Business]] employment. <p> He abhorred the wicked ministry of arms. </p>
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• Peraea
  ...s incurred the enmity of Herod, and retired or was driven to Peraea, where he died, not improbably by poison ( <i> BJ </i> , i. xxix. 4). At his death (b ...e of Jerusalem is that of Mary, a native of the Peræa ( <em> BJ </em> VI. iii. 4). In the Peræa to-day the Jew is represented only by the travelling t
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• Originality
  ...im the Messianic age has come. He longs for the baptism of suffering which He has to und </p>
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• Marriage
  ...und in Hosea. Led, as it seems, by the experience of his own married life, he emphasizes the following points. (1) Israel’s idolatry is whoredom, adult ...iderateness (&nbsp;1 Peter 3:7 ). The husband bestows honor upon his wife. He always shows respect for her privately and in public. </p> <p> The husband
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• Divinity Of Christ
  ...swer to two inquiries of rationalism. On the one hand, it is asked, Why is He never called God? and on the other, Why such <i> diversity of view among th
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• Andrew
  ...f the Apostle in his more official aspect, it is sufficient to recall that he was not only the first home-missionary (&nbsp;John 1:41), but also the firs ...s and two small fish, but what are they among so many?" </p> <p> Even here he suggests a supply, but with defective faith. Andrew was one of the four who
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• Theodore Parker
  ...p. 433; Brit. and For. Ev. Rev. Oct. 1857,- art. viii; Lond. Qu. Rev. vol. iii, art. i. </p>
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• Infallibility
  ...infallibility seems to imitate the pride and presumption of Lucifer, when he said, </p> <p> I will ascend, and will be like the Most High. A claim to it ...that a doctrine of faith or morals is to be held by the universal Church, he possesses, through the divine assistance promised to him in the blessed Pet
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• Apocryphal Acts
  ...); Harnack, "Patristische Miscellen" ( <i> TU </i> , V, 3, 1900). </p> <p> III. Acts of John </p> 1. Contents
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• Ordination
  ...een at Lystra, where Timothy was converted. A novice in the faith, such as he was when St. Paul took him into his company, would not have been ordained t ...&nbsp;Mark 3:14 . that is, he chose them to the office of apostleship, as he himself explains it, &nbsp;John 6:70 . </p> <p> Paul and Barnabas are said
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• Lateran Councils
  ...establishing in 1201 the order of "Poor Catholics." Unsuccessful in this, he confiscated their lands to the feudal lords, and established an inquisition
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• Known As The Shepherd Hermas
  ...haffy says ( <i> Rambles in Greece, </i> p. 330, 2nd ed.) that the scenery he describes suits that in Arcadia, and does not suit the neighbourhood of Rom
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• Philippi
  ...city. </p> <p> Literature.-W. M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece, 1835, iii. 215-223; J. B. Lightfoot, Philippians4, 1878, p. 47 f.; Conybeare and Hows ...s 1:28-30). They alone supplied his wants twice in Thessalonica soon after he left them (&nbsp;Philippians 4:15-16); a third time, through Epaphroditus,
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• Patron Saint Of England Georgius (43)
  ...rast.; <i> Magdeburg. Centur. </i> cent. iv. cap. iii.; Ceillier, xi. 404, iii. 58, 89, 297; Alban-Butler, <i> Lives of [[Saints]] </i> ; Malan, <i> Hist.
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• Birth Of Christ
  ...marks of [[Bruce]] in the Expositor’s Greek Testament, i. p. 78.] </p> <p> iii. Apocryphal accounts.—It is of the greatest significance that just in tha
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• Christology Christ
  ...e subject of it. It had been reported concerning John the [[Baptist]] that he was risen from the dead (&nbsp;Mark 6:14), but the only inference drawn was ...). This mission-evangelism theme is undoubtedly what Paul has in mind when he speaks of filling up "what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictio
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• Surnamed Mongus Petrus
  ...council of Chalcedon, indignantly broke off all relations with him (Evagr. iii. 23). [[A]] new strife between Constantinople and Alexandria was imminent,
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• Philosopher Justinus Martyr
  ...lieve less, but more, than Empedocles and Pythagoras, Socrates and Plato," he says: "we approve what they rightly said; but our doctrine is higher than t
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• Authority Of Christ
  ...s]] </i> , 492 ff.; [[J.]] Denney, <i> Studies in [[Theology]] </i> , ii., iii.; [[A.]] Sabatier, <i> Religions of Authority and [[Religion]] of the Spiri
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• Incarnation
  ...d or spirit in Christ, as at a later period the [[Monothelites]] held that He had no human will; [[Nestorius]] practically denied an Incarnation, by hold ...—fully divine and fully human. See Christ. </p> <p> [[Walter]] D. Draughon III </p>
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• Israel
  <p> God promised [[Abraham]] that he would make from him a nation, that he would give that nation the land of [[Canaan]] as a homeland, and that throu ...at Jeroboam was aided in this war by Shishak of Egypt, for we are told how he invaded Judah (&nbsp; 1 Kings 14:25 ) and compelled Rehoboam to pay a tribu
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• Character Of Christ
  ...is sufficient evidence that during the period prior to His public ministry He fulfilled the ordinary obligations of family life. </p>
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• Day Of Atonement
  ...position: when the lot "for Azazel" was in the right, it was a good omen. He then tied a tongue shaped piece of scarlet cloth on the scape-goat. The [[G ...brews 9:12 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ), even ‘into heaven itself,’ where He remains, our great High [[Priest]] and [[Intercessor]] (&nbsp; Hebrews 7:25
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• Bishop Of Nola Paulinus
  ...about him, and written with great care, moderation, and critical judgment. He avoids most of the legends, and shews that the use of bells in churches, an
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• Paul Iii
  Paul Iii <ref name="term_54783" /> ...; Gieseler, Eccles. Hist. iv, ] 65; Burnet, Hist. of the Reformation, vol. iii; Fisher, Hist. of the Reformation, p. 3, 49, 165, 395, 401; Lea, Hist. of S
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• Tatianus
  ...97; Donaldson, <i> History of Christian Literature and [[Doctrine]] </i> , iii. pp. 60–62). For other works besides those freely used and specified
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• Heaven
  ...ion of the NT writers principally as the place where Christ was and whence He would come. St. Paul and others, such as the author of Hebrews, were intere ...he himself spake while here on earth; and since his ascension into heaven, he spake to Paul in the [[Hebrew]] tongue, &nbsp;Acts 26:14 . And when the inh
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• John The Apostle
  ...e to ‘tarry’ rather than to speak, or toil, or suffer, so that at the last he might write that which should move a world and live in the hearts of untold ...Jesus' deeper and especially spiritual discourses, which he alone records. He lives in the unseen, spiritual, rather than in the active world, His, desig
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• The Henoticon
  ...p. 123 ff.; Milman, <i> Hist. of Lat. Christ. </i> vol. i. bk. iii. cc. i. iii. </p> <p> [[[E.V.]]] </p>
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• A Confessor Under Maximian Hosius
  ...nt, <i> Mém. </i> t. vii. p. 300, 4to ed.; Dom Ceillier, <i> s.v. </i> t. iii. 392, new ed.; Zahn, <i> Const. der Gr. u. die Kirche, </i> 1876; Florez, <
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• Fire
  ...he under-world’ [W. Boyd Carpenter, ‘Rev.’ in Ellicott’s <i> NT Com </i> . iii. [1884] 622). Swete ( <i> Apoc. of St. John </i> 2, 1907, p. 258) remarks t ...he terrible judgment of GOD, and His fierce wrath against sin and sinners. He sends His angels to execute His decrees upon men. The mountains in verse &n
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• Bishop Of Smyrna Polycarpus
  ...ithfully preserved by a scribe who did not understand its meaning, because he interpreted according to the usage of his own day. </p> <p> When we have ab
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• Jonah
  ...he city, possibly expecting some judgment still to fall. To teach him what he knew not, the largeness of God's mercy and its reasonableness, God made a " ...in <i> Evang. Matth. </i> 2:12, 83; Augustine, <i> de Consensu Evang. </i> iii. 24, 66; ‘The Book of Jonah, How far is it Historical?’ by M. P. in <i>
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• Hugo Grotius
  ...otius, with his Annot. in V. T.; vol. ii contains the Annot. in N.T.; vol. iii includes his miscellaneous theological writings. There have been many lives ...ous work on international law, "De Jure Belli et Pacis"; from 1634 to 1645 he acted as Swedish ambassador at Paris; his acute scholarship is manifested i
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• Tarsus
  ...s a branch or flower in his right hand, a battleaxe in his left. Sometimes he is represented within a portable shrine. </p> <p> A. Souter. </p> ...f.; A. Hausrath, <i> A History of the NT Times </i> , 4 vols., do., 1895, iii. 4 ff.; W. M. Ramsay, <i> The Cities of St. Paul </i> , do., 1907; C. Wilso
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• Hippolytus Romanus
  ...[['I]] believe, [[O]] my Lord Hippolytus—I believe; pray be quiet.' And he built an altar of marble there to appease the disquieted saint." </p> <p> <
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• Epistles Ofpeter
  ...e in larger units than do men, and by temporarily holding off the Judgment He is giving men opportunity to repent (&nbsp;2 Peter 3:8 f.); but (iv.) of th ...y critics will see occasion for doubt, yet, relying on subjective grounds, he is persuaded of the authenticity of the epistle, and that the arguments whi
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• Punishment
  ...n more than punishment. The hope is that after being handed over to Satan, he will repent and return to the fold, or at the very least, that his spirit w ...1-6). But God’s holiness and righteousness are not separate from his love. He has therefore provided a way of salvation so that when people repent of the
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• Vulgate
  ...an edition of the Greek OT (1587), but in 1590 issued a Latin Bible which he declared was to be accepted as the authentic edition demanded by the Counci ...ose in his very clever book, entitled <em> "Bellum Papale," </em> in which he has pointed out numerous additions, omissions, contradictions, and glaring
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• Ascension
  ...from us, but is with us until the end of the world (&nbsp;Matthew 28:20). He raises our ideals from earthly things to heavenly; and, giving us through t ...urney to Jerusalem with the words ‘when the days were being fulfilled that he should be received up’ (&nbsp;Luke 9:51 RVm [Note: Revised Version margin
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• Thomas
  ...llible proof of the identity between the crucified and the risen Lord that he who any longer disbelieves and is consequently condemned is left without ex ...y twice again, once on the Sea of Galilee, with the seven disciples, where he is ranked next after Peter, &nbsp;John 21:2, and again in the assemblage of
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• Resurrection Of Christ
  ...he special value attached to the testimony of St. James from the fact that he was the eldest brother of the Lord and head of the Jerusalem Mother Church, ...me of this testimony: not years after, but three days after, they declared he was risen; yea, before their rage was quelled, while [[Calvary]] was yet dy
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• Faith
  ...ory that hath overcome the world, even our faith’ (&nbsp;1 John 5:4). Thus he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God passes by the way of forgiveness ...Thessalonians 4:14 ) that in dying He atoned for human sin, and in rising He abolished death. St. Paul was the chief exponent and defender of this ‘wo
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• Grace
  ...an in God, were so met in Jesus that He Himself was the revelation because He was the thing revealed.’‡[Note: P. DuBose, The [[Gospel]] according to ...se 7 "to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it." As he then describes this grace that has been given, it comes in the form of apos
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• Gregorius (51) I, (The Great), Bishop Of Rome
  ...e says, were preserved and venerated on the saint's anniversary, and which he refers to as shewing the monastic simplicity of Gregory's attire ( <i> ib.
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• William Penn
  ...hen Englands (Leips. 1868), p. 405-421; Janney, Hist. of the Friends, vol. iii; Skeats, Hist. ofthe Free Churches of England, p. 81, 82, 153,315; Neal, Hi ...ch useful legislation; on his return his agent practically ruined him, and he was a prisoner in the [[Fleet]] in 1708; the closing years of his life were
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• Money
  ....; and Hastings’ <em> DB </em> <em> [Note: Dictionary of the Bible.] </em> iii. 429 431. </p> <p> A. R. S. Kennedy. </p> ...less than the price of a slave (twenty shekels, &nbsp;Genesis 37:28 ), but he became the savior of Egypt who ironically purchased its entire population i
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• Liber Pontificalis
  ...after that they become more complete, resting on Boso's own experience, as he then lived at Rome. For subsequent biographies the sources are much more nu
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• Church
  ...lue. As regards the things of this life, all men are brethren, and in this he went far beyond Stoicism; even now, perhaps, we have not yet grasped the fu ...normally realizes his redemption. Christ’s love for the Church, for which He gave Himself (&nbsp; Ephesians 5:25 ), constituting a royal priesthood, a h
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• Crucifixion
  ...icably interwoven with the [[Gospel]] history. The cross was His goal, and He knew it all along. </p> <p> Literature.—In addition to the works quoted i ...the legs of the robbers first, but when they came to Jesus they found that He was already dead. One of them, either in sheer brutality or to make sure of
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• Habakkuk
  ...ll for universal worship of the holy God (&nbsp;Habakkuk 2:20 ) </p> <p> [[Iii. A]] Prophet [[Praying]] and Praising: A Psalm of [[Confidence]] Is the [[ ...ge, that the enemy in v. 14, rejoicing to devour the poor secretly, cannot he a great all-conquering army, that the disasters to flocks and herds (&nbsp;
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• Second Epistle To The Corinthians
  ...rried there for three months. In his letter to Rome, written at this time, he sent salutations from some of the principal members of the church to the Ro ...t consciousness on the apostle's part of his high calling in Christ Jesus. He has been called with a Divine calling to the most glorious work in which a
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• Tiberius
  ...er in Pauly-Wissowa[Note: auly-Wissowa Pauly-Wissowa’s Realencyklopädie.], iii. 2777 f., and for Seianus, P. von Rohden, <i> ib. </i> i. 529 ff. </p> <p> ...escribes vividly his dissimulation and vindictiveness. In speaking of Nero he says: "in order to remove the rumour of his having set fire to Rome, Nero s
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• The Essenes
  ...was an Essene. If at the beginning of His career He belonged to this sect He must have broken with it long before the end of His ministry. </p> Why Our
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• Galatia
  ...Eusebius]] ( <i> HE </i> [Note: E Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius, etc.).]iii. 4), [[Epiphanius]] ( <i> Haer </i> . li. 11), and [[Theodoret]] ( <i> in l ...rrower and earlier sense as one of its parts.) It follows, therefore, that he uses ‘Galatians’ (&nbsp; Galatians 3:1 ) also in the wider sense of all
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• Nazirite
  ...y. (For a better suggestion, see Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols)iii. 500.) No view is free from difficulty, but on the whole the suggestion of ...t flesh. A razor passed not over his head.’ But the further statement that he alone was permitted to enter the Holy of Holies is so improbable as to less
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• Leprosy
  ...been to the priest; unless, indeed, it is because he was a Samaritan that he is spoken of as healed rather than cleansed. </p> <p> Literature.—This is ...rs-by to keep away from him, by calling out, 'Unclean! unclean!' nor could he speak to any one, or receive or return a salutation, since in the East this
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• Repentance
  ...might have expected for sins which hitherto he had not thought of as sins, he now regarded them with the more loathing and contempt. </p> <p> Literature. ...s of the kingdom of heaven. While Luke does not include this initial call, he notes several strong calls for repentance in Jesus' teachings (see esp. 10:
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• Bishop Of Rome Julius
  ...ues, "in coemeterio Calepodii ad Callistum" on the [[Aurelian]] Way, where he had built a basilica. </p> <p> [J.B—Y.] </p>
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• Perfection (Of Jesus)
  ...f Faith </i> , with Martineau’s reviews thereof, in <i> Essays </i> , vol. iii.; Martineau, <i> [[Seat]] of [[Authority]] in [[Religion]] </i> , bk. v.; W
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• Mark
  ...s and the later ministry to the Apostles. It was also widely believed that he died at Alexandria, receiving (according to some versions) the crown of mar ...Peter, at the request of the brethren at Rome, which, when St. Peter knew, he approved, and published it in the church, commanding the reading of it by h
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• Papias
  ...he used any apocryphal Gospel is quite doubtful. Eusebius’ statement that ‘he has set forth another story also about a woman informed against to the Lord ...s Sayings," fragments of which have been preserved by Eusebius and others; he was, it is said, the companion of Polycarp. </p>
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• The Gospel Of Matthew
  ...(&nbsp;Matthew 26:1-56 ). </p> <p> A. Authorities plotted Jesus' death, as He had foretold (&nbsp;Matthew 26:1-5 ). </p> <p> B. Jesus' anointing symboliz ...lestine]] and went to preach to others ( <i> Historia Ecclesiastica </i> , III, 24). Clement of [[Alexandria]] is responsible for the statement that the p
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• Book Of Tobit
  ...he first who separated the deutero-canonical from the canonical books, yet he entertained the highest opinion of the book of Tobit. "If it is history," s ...ler ( <i> Speaker's Apocrypha </i> , I, 164 ff). Marshall ( <i> Hdb </i> , III, 788) gives his reasons for concluding that the original language was Arama
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• Johannes Oecolampadius
  ...ria, Switzerland, the [[Pioneer]] of the Ref. ii, .427; Soames, Hist. Ref. iii 153 sq.; Ruchat, Swiss Ref. Ch. ch. i, iv, and p. 117-136; Gieseler, Eccles
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• Nero
  ...rift für die neutest. Wissenschaft.]ii. [1901] 81-96=Gesammelte Schriften, iii. [Berlin, 1907] 431-446; on Nero as persecutor of Christians, cf. C. F. Arn ...e. Not long after his death there arose a curious rumour in the East, that he had come to life again, or had not really died. The East had seen nothing b
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• Consciousness
  ...of higher quality than <i> a priori </i> arguments of any description. Yet he has not forgotten the views of modern critics, and has been careful to show
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• Darius
  ...05 B.C., would be meant if Nehemiah were the writer; but it is more likely he was not, and that the continuation of the register down to Alexander's cont ...they stabbed him in several places, and left him expiring in his chariot. He was dead when Alexander arrived, who could not forbear weeping at so sad a
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• Abram
  ...Babylon, and saw the whole people prostrate in adoration. ‘Wondrous orb,' he exclaimed, ‘thou surely art the [[Creator]] and Ruler of all nature! but ...thou shalt shew unto me; At every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother." (&nbsp;Genesis 20:13.) What a sweet and interesting tale th
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• Capernaum
  ...Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] ii. 403–408, iii. 344–360; Sepp, <i> Neue Entdeckungen </i> (Munchen. 1896); G. A. Smith, ...haps received Jesus' call at the adjoining sea beach (&nbsp;Mark 1:16-17). He healed the centurion's servant there, and Simon's wife's mother (&nbsp;Matt
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• Hazael
  ...srael in a kind of subjection (&nbsp;2 Kings 13:3-7; &nbsp;2 Kings 13:22). He took [[Gath]] and even "set his face to go up to Jerusalem" (&nbsp;2 Kings ...t the price of all the money he could raise, to evacuate Judea, with which he for the moment complied; yet, in the following year, the army of Hazael ret
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• Election
  ...[[Doctrine]] </i> , 1889, p. 37ff.; C. Gore, in <i> Studia Biblica </i> , iii. [1891] 37ff.; Sanday-Headlam, <i> Romans 5 </i> ( <i> International Critic ...all the comforting and assuring promises which Christ gives to those whom He describes as ‘given’ Him by the Father (&nbsp; John 6:37; &nbsp; John 6
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• Book Of Judith
  ...of Adar, A.D. 117-118, to commemorate this day ( '''''יוםטוריינוס''''' ). He makes Nebuchadnezzar stand for Trajan, Nineveh for Antioch, Assyria for Syr ...v 4 </i> , III, 230-37, with full bibliography; compare <i> Hjp </i> , II, iii, 32-37; Pentin, <i> The Apocrypha in English Lit </i> ., Judith, 1908; and
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• Life
  ...pressed. Jesus Christ is not only the Life-giver, but is Himself the Life. He imparts His gift to those who know Him by an inward fellowship, and become ...ardinal topic of eternal life. His [[Epistles]] throb with this theme, and he conspicuously presents Christ as the source of this life in its fullest con
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• Reginald Pole
  ...the time of his decease for the clergy, and in the devotional books which he was putting together for his people, it is hard to find anything but good- ...ith abetting the Marian persecution, but it is highly questionable how far he was answerable for it (1506-1558). </p>
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• Ben-Hadad
  ...the Syrians as he might have done, he only was to smite them thrice, which he did in [[Aphek]] (&nbsp;2 Kings 13:14-19) in the [[Esdraelon]] plain, where ...sha caused him to think [[Hittites]] and [[Egyptians]] were attacking him. He lifted the siege and retreated home (&nbsp;2 Kings 6:24-7:16 ). As Elisha p
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• Phnicians Phoenicia
  ...lized Greeks (cf. <em> EBi </em> <em> [Note: Encyclopædia Biblica.] </em> iii. col. 3189, 3190). </p> <p> The best account that we have of the nature and
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• Judaea
  ...> PE </i> F [Note: EF Palestine Exploration Fund.] <i> Memoirs </i> , vol. iii.; C. W. Wilson in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. ii. p. 791; Smith .... In fixing this boundary, Josephus regards Idumaea as part of Judaea, for he immediately after reckons that as one of the eleven districts into which Ju
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• Judæa
  ...> PE </i> F [Note: EF Palestine Exploration Fund.] <i> Memoirs </i> , vol. iii.; C. W. Wilson in Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. ii. p. 791; Smith .... In fixing this boundary, Josephus regards Idumaea as part of Judaea, for he immediately after reckons that as one of the eleven districts into which Ju
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• Francis Of Assisi
  ...ot only the brutes, but even inanimate creaturess as brothers and sisters. He had a compassion for brute animals, especially such as are employed in the
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• Fabius Claudius Gordianus Fulgentius Bishop Of Ruspe
  ...[[Paris]] (1684) by [[L.]] Mangeant. The whole, with many letters to which he replied, is in Migne, <i> Patr. Lat. </i> t. lxv.; Schroeckh, <i> Kirchenge
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• Macedonia
  ...40; &nbsp;Acts 17:1-14; see [[Berea]] ; [[Thessalonica]] ; [[Philippi]] ). He revisited the area during his third missionary journey (&nbsp;Acts 19:21; & ...First Letter to the Thessalonians which Paul wrote from [[Corinth]] after he had preached in Beroea and in Athens (&nbsp;Acts 17:13-15 ). </p> <p> Apart
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• Soberness Sobriety
  ...naticism, do., 1833; Hugh Blair, Sermons, do., 1815, vol. i. no. xi., vol. iii. no. xii.; [[Augustine]] Birrell, Selected Essays, do., 1909, p. 258f.; see
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• Rome
  ...ho was able firstly to control and then to correct the disorders. In 27 BC he took the name Caesar [[Augustus]] and became the first ruler of what became ...s at Thapsus in 46 b.c. Augustus completed it. On its destruction by fire, he built a much larger building, which retained the original name. It consiste
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• Holiness
  ...m in this world. Into the world Christ sent the men for whose consecration He prayed, and His promise, ‘Ye shall know that ye are in me’ (&nbsp;John ...th all its holiness and blessedness from him. John tells the church, that "he saw no temple there, for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the templ
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• Passover
  ...pe]] [[Anicetus]] that the quartodeciman use was the only one permissible. He did not succeed. Neither could Anicetus succeed in persuading the old maste ...the son (&nbsp;Exodus 12:26) asked the father the meaning of the Passover; he in reply recounted the deliverance, and explained &nbsp;Deuteronomy 26:5, w
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• Melchizedek
  ...ven and earth," who would make Abram heir of the world which is His; next "he blessed the most high God" on the part of Abram for His having delivered hi ...arnate comes upon the stage and takes to Himself a [[Priesthood]] in which He admits no peer, and of which eternal and superabundant adequacy is the note
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• Nineveh
  ...national records, were at once the gods' temple and the king's abode, for he was the religious head of the nation and the favorite of the gods. </p> <p> ...Nineveh, more especially those by [[George]] Smith, of the British Museum. He has discovered not only the buildings, but the remains of a fine ancient li
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• Blasphemy
  ...d directly against God. This was manifestly the attempt of Rabshakeh, when he said, "Neither let [[Hezekiah]] make you trust in the Lord," (the word is < ...ll this seemed rank blasphemy, and he delivered his soul by denouncing it. He personified the [[Empire]] as the Beast whose seven heads had names of blas
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• Book Of Sirach
  ...i> Bible Polyglotte </i> (F. Vigoureux), V, 4 ff; Schurer <i> Gjv 4 </i> , III, 221 ff. The text of the Hebrew as yet known i </p>
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• Creation
  ...2; &nbsp;1 Corinthians 15:21; &nbsp;Genesis 2:17; &nbsp;Genesis 3:19). But he did not entail death on the animal world according to any scripture; and ge ...eas, or forms, to variable matter. [[Aristotle]] had no cosmogony, because he supposed the world to be without beginning and without end. According to th
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• Ahab
  ...ratitude (&nbsp;1 Kings 22:3). The [[Moabite]] stone mentions Omri's son; "He also said, I will oppress Moab," confirming [[Scripture]] that it was not u ...e prophet Micaiah, by contrast, had consistently told Ahab the truth. When he told Ahab that the coming war would bring defeat, Ahab threw him into priso
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• Job
  ...ect prince, was very severely tested by the leader of the sceptical party. He was deprived of his property, his kingdom, his only son, and his wife, but ...said, that after God turned his captivity, and blessed him a second time, he lived one hundred and forty years, &nbsp;Job 42:16 . Its style is in many p
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• Abbott Of Monte Cassino Benedictus Of Nursia
  ...character of its founder. [[Fleury]] thinks he was not ordained, although he preached ( <i> Eccl. Hist. </i> xxxii. 15). The idea of his being a priest
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• Provision
  ...is commonly, although not necessarily, appointed by the pope. </p> <p> '''III.''' ''In The Russo-Greek Church,'' the candidates are presented by the holy
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• Christ In Jewish Literature
  ...hows how it is possible for a Jew to remain a whole-hearted Jew, while yet he feels a frank admiration and reverence towards Jesus. With his full recogni
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• Acts Of The Apostles (Apocryphal)
  ...ement nor the author of the Prologues seems to have any consciousness that he has used a source of doubtful orthodoxy. </p> <p> Later on, Augustine and o
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• Pius Ii
  ...e in informing himself of everything worth noticing in the countries which he visited. His principal works, besides those already mentioned, are, Cosmogr
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• Circumcision
  ...n no sacrifice of principle was understood; for in order to gain the Jews, he became "as a Jew." See [[Abraham]] , and See [[Baptism]] . </p>
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• Philo
  ...Exegese,’ Alttestamentliche Abhandlungen, Münster, 1908; E. Schürer, GJV_ iii.4 [Leipzig, 1909] 633-716; W. Bousset, Die Religion des Judentums2, Berlin, ...si, one of the translators, has revived Philo's synonym Jedidiah, by which he was anciently designated in Rabbinical literature (see Bartolocci, ut sup.,
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• Holy Spirit
  ...em. He gives them the inner assurance that God has made them his sons, and he guarantees to them that they will inherit his eternal blessings (&nbsp;Roma ...l theology of the Spirit is difficult to epitomize. He sovereignly Acts as he chooses! Most Christian traditions stress the data of certain portions of S
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• Merit
  ...whole subject in <i> [[Justification]] and [[Reconciliation]] </i> , vol. iii. [English translation p. 434 ff.]. </p> <p> Literature.—Schultz, ‘Der s ...See Meritum). See South's ''Sermons, The Doctrine Of Merit Stated'' , vol. iii, ser. 1; Toplady's [[Works]] , 3:471; Hervey's ''Eleven Letters. To Wesley'
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• Gnosticism
  ...<i> Introduction à l’étude du gnosticisme au ii </i> <i> e </i> <i> et au iii </i> <i> e </i> <i> siècle </i> , Paris, 1903; W. Bousset. <i> Hauptproble ...ee if they follow, or surpass, His example. Besides furnishing an example, He was also supposed to have made a revelation of truth, to secret traditions
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• The Wisdom Of Solomon
  ...9). </p> <p> For detailed bibliography see Schurer, <i> Gjv 4 </i> , 1909, III, 508 ff; <i> Hjp </i> , 1886, II, 3, pp. 236 f, is necessarily very defecti
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• Parable
  ...s too well remembered to admit of the incorporation of new creations. What He had said became early a precious heritage for all believers, and, besides, ...m, being relieved from the dangers of success and failure, labours so that he may present his account with joy in the presence of the King, being prepare
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• Ambrosius Of Milan
  ...and the Benedictine. Erasmus's ed. was pub. at Basle, by Froben, in 1527. He divided the works into four tomes, with the titles, (1) <i> Ethica, </i> (2
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• Pentecost
  ...assent; timerent enim ne [[Christiani]] viderentur.’ A few sentences later he speaks again of Pentecost not as one day but as a period-‘excerpe singula ...ll not come; but if I depart, I will send him unto you." (&nbsp;John 16:7) He did depart, and the Holy Ghost came. What an evidence to all the other glor
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• Artaxerxes
  ...ling, sanctioned Nehemiah's going as civil governor. Like Cyrus and Darius he identified [[Jehovah]] with his own supreme god, [[Ormuzd]] (&nbsp;Ezra 7:1 ...omon, by Rehoboam, king of Judah. If this be true, we need not wonder that he should recommend to Cyrus to favour the Jewish nation. This Cyrus performed
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• Lord'S Prayer (I)
  ...r. Rep. </i> 1902, p. 42, 1903, p. 12; <i> aeg. Urkunden aus Berlin </i> , iii. No. 954; on the clay tablet, from Megara, containing the Lord’s Prayer,
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• Asia
  ...9w6CIKlUCspRBvNyEBAQvgUoFIq5uTmDwUhLSwNzd4rboBRvGxkZGWPGjIEgaOPGjbCVDMK3A4/He/z48a+//lpbWwtiR5iVK1dGRkbK3ep4PN7gBYhfApFIJBAIpFIp6BoDQZCSkpK6ujpQY4tEIjabf ...e in view. St. Paul almost certainly uses the word in its Roman sense when he speaks of ‘the firstfruits of Asia’ (&nbsp;Romans 16:5 Revised Version)
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• Inquisition
  ...omplices. When there is no shadow of proof against the pretended criminal, he is discharged, after suffering the most cruel tortures, a tedious and dread ...he twelfth century by father Dominic, who was charged by pope [[Innocent]] III. with orders to excite catholic princes and people to extirpate heretics.
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• Antioch
  ...000 Jewish families in [[Lydia]] and [[Phrygia]] (Jos. <i> Ant </i> . xii. iii. 4), many of whom must have found a home in Antioch. Trade doubtless attrac ...nsued his forces suffered many defeats, though the injuries and atrocities he committed in Jerusalem were unspeakable. With Antiochus Epiphanes died the
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• Regeneration
  ...ore the believer does not sin in his own proper nature, and if he does sin he seeks and finds forgiveness. And the paradox is true to the real religious ...life the experience of the newborn child of God. ‘If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold, they are become
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• Epistle To Thehebrews
  ...p untenable. It is incredible that St. Paul, who insisted so strongly that he received his gospel by direct revelation (Galatians 1), could have written ...hrist, the privilege of personal access to God is free to all. On all this he founds an exhortation to a life of faith and obedience, and shows that it h
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• Epistle To Thephilippians
  ...in a later letter, never betrays a sign of real excitement or depression. He never jumps from one subject to another, and then back again as everyone do ...nd followed. The whole of it shows, as Theophylact observes, how very much he loved and estimated those to whom it was addressed. </p>
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• Altar
  ..." is too severe a word for the Greek; Paul's object was to conciliate, and he tells the Athenians: Ye are "rather religious," or "more given to religion" ...ra 3:2 ). [[Josephus]] described the altar in the rebuilt Temple of Herod. He wrote that the altar was fifty cubits square and fifteen cubits high with a
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• Purgatory
  ...of what nature the pains are, or how long each soul is detained there, yet he believes that those who are in this place are relieved by the prayers of th ...of what nature the pains are, or how long each soul is detained there, yet he believes that those who are in this place are relieved by the prayers of th
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• Angel
  ...abakkuk by the hair and carries him from Judah to Babylonia, in order that he may share his dinner with Daniel in the lion’s den; and, once more, in Th ...tance (&nbsp;Matthew 26:53 ). He taught that angels would be with him when he returned to earth at the second coming (&nbsp;Matthew 25:31 ), and that the
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• Maccabees
  ...od had him drowned while he was bathing at Jericho, in the same year, when he had reached the age of seventeen. </p> <p> <strong> 15. Mariamme </strong> ...ll others that were zealous for the law, he erected his standard, on which he inscribed the above mentioned motto. Those, also, who suffered under [[Ptol
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• The Council Of (Concilium Tridentinunm) Trent
  ...Nov. 23, he read the letter of the king of France to the council, in which he strongly urg </p>
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• Indian Navigator Cosmas
  ...ll. des voyages, </i> vol. i.; Gosselin, <i> Géogr. syst. des Grecs, </i> iii. 274; Mannert, <i> Einleit. in der Geogr. d. Alien, </i> 188–192; Ch
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• Ancient. Psalmody
  ...ch. iii, iv. See also Deyling, Hymni a Christianis decantandi, Obss. Sac. iii, 430; Walch, De Hymnis Eccl. Apostol. (1737); Ililliger, De Psal. Hymns. at
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• Ptolemy
  ...d, put to death by Ptolemy. But the latter did not long enjoy his success. He fell from his horse in the battle and died within a few days. &nbsp;1 Macca ...ditions to &nbsp; Esther 11:1 ). </p> <p> (4) Ptolemy, son of a Dositheus; he and his father were bearers of the "epistle of Phrurai" (Additions to &nbsp
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• Hebrew Schools
  ...scholar, but had his daughter instructed in this classical language, since he regarded it as necessary to a good female education, and quoted R. Jochanan
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• Talmud
  ..., it was said: “What has been occupying him so long indoors? [[Assuredly]] he has been concocting plans to oppress the people yet morel” ’ (Bernfeld, ...</p> <p> Lightfoot has judiciously availed himself of such information as he could derive from it. Some of the popes, with a barbarous zeal, and a timid
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• Assurance
  ...ddle of the 2nd cent., ‘that he who strives in the corruptible contest, if he be found acting unfairly, fouling a competitor in the race, or trying with ...evil, and that in practice he violates that law under which as a creature he is placed, and is thereby exposed to punishment;—if also it is there stat
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• Linus
  ...martyr of the faith, being beheaded by order of Saturninus, whose daughter he had healed of demoniacal possession. His memory is honoured by the Western ...nd [[Epistle]] to Timothy (&nbsp; 2 Timothy 4:21 ). All writers agree that he is identical with the first [[Bishop]] of Rome. Thus Irenæus: ‘Peter a
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• A Monophysite Leader Philoxenus
  ...hose who divided Christ ( <i> ib. </i> 730). Evagr. <i> [[H.]] [[E.]] </i> iii. 31, 32; Theod. Lect. fragm. p. 569; Theophan. <i> Chronogr. </i> pp. 115,
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• Criticism (The Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis)
  ...t no one else) sees God face to face, and &nbsp;Numbers 12:8 , where again he (alone) sees the form of God. But in &nbsp;Exodus 33:20 no man, not even Mo
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• Fight
  ...-33 . Moreover, he would have lost his status as a Roman citizen. Probably he uses the word figuratively of contending with ferocious men. [[Ignatius]] s ...' ''' (''' v. i.) [[Strength]] or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To ca
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• Irregularity
  ...ng to Greek canon law the presbyter may be married; and it is only in case he should be made bishop that his wife is obliged to enter a convent (Cone. Tr
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• Revelation Of John:
  ...ntary </i> , 520 ff), and of Rev 13-19 in the reign of Nero (690 ff). Even he, however, has to interpret the chapter on the last things of the future. (2
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• Alexander I
  ...is work Scrittori d'Italia) gives a list of the writings of this pope, but he only published his letters, his bulls, and a little treatise on the concept
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• Revelation
  ...the purpose of Divine revelation as it concerns man’s life a life in which he receives God’s grace, realizes God’s will, reproduces God’s character ...prophets and others to record and interpret his pre-Christ revelation, so he used apostles and others to record and interpret his post-Christ revelation
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• Sabbath
  ...sort of tribute, or small rent, by which they held the possession. Beside, he intended to inculcate humanity upon his people, by commanding that they sho ...even dissuade, but simply pleads for liberty of judgment. At the same time he certainly disapproved of all attempts to make the observance of the Sabbath
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• Bishop Of Rome Innocentius
  ...i> de Civitate Dei </i> , though he took 13 years to complete it, in which he sees a vision of the kingdom of God rising on the ruins of the kingdom of t
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• Primacy
  ...sovereign of the church, it seems that it should have been requisite that he should have outlived all the apostles; for otherwise, the church would have ...sovereign of the Church, it seems that it should have been requisite that he should have outlived all the apostles; for otherwise the Church would have
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• Preaching
  ...of death on all he says. He does declaim; but all is lanquid and cold, and he lays his system out as an undertaker does the dead. Since the reformers, we ...sp;2 Corinthians 5:19) that St. Paul preached it so fervently, and because he had proved in his own experience that this, ‘his gospel,’ was the ‘po
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• Zechariah
  ...ed Coincidences, 2:2.) Thus No. 27 will be the same person as No. 25; else he may have been the same as No. 26. </p> ...cation of the Temple. &nbsp;2 Chronicles 29:13. Another conjecture is that he is the same as Zechariah, the father of Abijah, the queen of Ahaz. </p>
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• Books Of Maccabees
  ...1898,68-76; Torrey, "Die Briefe 2 Mak," <i> Zatw </i> , 1900,225-42. </p> III. 3 Maccabees. <p> <b> 1. Name: </b> </p> <p> The name 3 Maccabees, though o ...g erudition and unwavering confidence-almost worthy of Bentley '''''—''''' he carries his readers often beyond the bounds of true criticism, and it is on
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• Woman
  ...ns 12:7,11, makes clear that God's Spirit dispenses his spiritual gifts as he wills, which surely implies "irrespective of gender." This means that Paul
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• Spurious. Revelations
  ...states that there is an Arabic version among the Vatican MSS. </p> <p> '''III.''' ''Pseudo-Revelations [[Bearing]] Extracanonical Names.'' '''''—'''''
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• Christ In Art
  ...osaics, etc. Westcott, in his <i> [[Epistles]] of St. John </i> , Appendix iii., cites the Patristic authorities. The dictionaries by Smith-Cheetham ( <i>
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• Barnabas
  ...ee. A third makes him the missionary or apostle to Cyprus, and states that he died by martyrdom at Salami a in a.d. 61. From an early date also the writi ...e, as the people of Lystra, on the cure of the impotent man, supposed that he was their national god, Jupiter, king of the gods, come down from heaven (&
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• Attributes Of Christ
  ...mentioned (the quot. in &nbsp;Matthew 8:17 can hardly bear this meaning); He truly died, but it was a voluntary death (&nbsp;John 10:17-18; and note tha
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• Paul Of Samosata
  ...:1, p. 68, 299 sq.; [[Fragments]] in Leont. Byz. Contr. Nestor. et Eutych. iii; Ehrlich, Diss rtatio de Errorib. Pauli Samos. (Leips. 1745, 4to), p. 23; F
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• The Christian Calendar
  ...ly wrote before the discussion became acute, as in the time of Polycrates. He held (the <i> Paschal Chronicle </i> states) that our Lord, being the true
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• Epistles To Thethessalonians
  ...h, <i> History of NT Times </i> , Eng. translation, 4 vols., London, 1895, iii. 215); (γ) that the Epistle was written by Timothy, who was influenced by ...s a great apostasy from the purity and simplicity of the Christian faith . He then exhorts them to hold fast by the traditions they had received, whether
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• Philip Melanothon
  ...ch. i; Mosheim, Ecclesiastes Hist. vol. iii; Hagenbach, Kirchengesch. vol. iii; Fisher, Hist. Ref. p. 97 sq.; Dorner, Gesch. der protestant. Theologie, p.
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• Purification-Waters
  ...711); Marck, Dissert. ad Vet. Test. Fascic. p. 114 sq.; Deyling, Observat. iii, 89 sq.; Th. Dassov. De Vacca Rufa, Observat. Instrux. (J. G. W. Dunkel. Li
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• Gospel Of Matthew
  ...ouncil, handed over to the Roman governor and crucified (26:47-27:66). But he rose from death (28:1-15) and, before finally leaving his disciples a few w ...say unto you," and astonishing his hearers with the "authority" with which he speaks. The awful majesty of our Lord's reproofs in his teaching in the Tem
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• Teaching Of Jesus
  ...‘then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets.’] of the Kingdom, if Jesus ever us
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• St. Bernard Of Clairvaux
  ..., with unexampled splendor, twenty years after his death, by [[Alexander]] III, and the Roman Church celebrates his memory on the 20th of August. Of all t
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• Teaching Of The Twelve Apostles
  ...tor </i> , Jan. 1885; Zahn's discussions in his <i> Forschungen </i> , pt. iii. p. 278 (1884), and Taylor's Lectures at the [[Royal]] Institution, 1885, i ...ching was is not known. From the work itself, it may safely be stated that he was a Jewish Christian. </p> <p> '''VI.''' ''Scripture [[Quotations]] And A
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• Author Of N.T. Apocryphal Additions Leucius
  ...nty for us to identify his work. But there is no trustworthy evidence that he affixed the name of Leucius to any composition besides the Acts of Peter an
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• Demoniacal Possession Demon Demoniacs
  ...should not be made known‡ [Note: For the reason of Christ’s not wishing to he made known see Sanday in JThSt, v. p. 321 ff., and Wrede, ‘Zur Messiaser-
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• Stephen Langton
  ...hapter 11; and the authorities already cited in the articles (See Innocent Iii), ''And'' (See John), king of England. (J.H.W.) </p> ...scholarly attainments; in 1206 visited Rome, was made Cardinal by Innocent III., presented to the Archbishopric, and consecrated at Viterbo in 1207; King
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• Haggai
  ...encourages His people to continue His work (&nbsp;Haggai 2:4-9 ). </p> <p> III. God's People Must Reconsider the Priority of a [[Pure]] Life (&nbsp;Haggai ...he touches). </p> <p> '''IV.''' (&nbsp;Haggai 2:20-23). On the same day as III, addressed to Zerubbabel, the representative of the theocracy, who asked ab
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• Imputation
  ...ische Grundbegriff der </i> <i> δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ erörtert auf Grund v. Röm. III </i> , 21-26, 1888; Kölbing, <i> Studien zur Paulinische Theologie </i> , ...that he is one with Christ, and Christ one with him, and in an true sense he becomes a partaker of the divine nature. The notion of legal transference i
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• The Synoptic Gospels
  ...the Divine, and nothing inconsistent with the human conditions under which He worked and lived. This was the greatest problem ever set to literature, and
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• Epistle Of Clement Of Rome
  ...: chaff-Herzog The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia (Eng. tr. of [[Pre).],]] iii. [1909]. General works: [[A.]] Harnack, <i> Geschichte der altchristl. Litt
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• Immortality
  ...he remaining literature of our period adds nothing of importance. </p> <p> III. <i> [[Conclusion]] </i> .-The principal trend of the teaching of the NT li ...itance that can never perish, spoil or fade" (&nbsp;1 Peter 1:3-4 ). Later he states that this new birth is "not of perishable seed, but of imperishable"
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• Canon Of The Old Testament
  ...rophecy; in His own name He supplied what was wanting in Law and Prophets. He did not pronounce any book in Itself adequate to determine the communion be ...included in the enumeration here made is to be placed among the Apocrypha" He puts Daniel in the hagiographa. </p> <p> The Alexandrine Jews, though more
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• The Revelation Of John
  ...ll the prophets, to the grand consummation (&nbsp;Revelation 1:7): "Beheld he cometh with clouds," etc. (&nbsp;Revelation 1:8; &nbsp;Revelation 1:17), [[
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• Huguenots
  ...injuries which thou hast done us; and while he rewards the sufferers, may he pardon those who exposed us to suffer! O, may God, who hath made thee to us ...e-total number of those who emigrated ranged front 300,000 to 400,000, and he was further of opinion that a like number perished in prison, on the scaffo
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• Maccabee
  ...of abhorrence to the Jews. He then turned his arms towards Ilumsea, where he captured the towns of Dora (Ewald spells it Adora) and Marissa, and forced
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• Filioque Controversy
  ...of Doctrines, '''''§''''' 169; Neander, Church History, Torrey's transl., iii, 234, 553 sq.; Schaff, Hist. of the [[Christian]] Church, '''''§''''' 131;
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• Offices Of Christ
  ...tion Of Christ]]; Intercession Of Christ . </p> Literature <p> Euseb., <i> HE </i> , I,3; Aug., <i> De civ. Dei </i> , x. 6; Catech. [[Council]] of Trent ...n, was already king (rex fuit, or rex natus erat), as in &nbsp;John 18:37. He disclaims only the "exercise" of kingly power, not the fact. We distinguish
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• Christ As King
  ...one who has the key to open the way for people to enter the kingdom. When he is present, the kingdom of God is present (&nbsp;Luke 11:20; &nbsp;17:21; & ...esus. Jesus' kingship finds its highest exercise as He gives the blessings He secured for His people through His atoning work (&nbsp;Romans 8:32; &nbsp;E
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• Immanuel Kant
  ...it. Leipz. 1848); E. Remhold, Gesch. d. Philos. (4th ed. Jena, 1854), vol. iii; Lewes, History Philos. (3d ed. 1871, 2 vols. 8vo), vol. ii; Hurst's Hagenb ...his critical method did for philosophy what Copernicus did for astronomy; he centralised the intelligence in the reason or soul, as the latter did the p
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• Felix
  ...nology]] of Felix and Festus’ in <i> Journal of Theological Studies </i> , iii. [1901-02] 120; S. Buss, <i> Roman Law and History in the NT </i> , 1901, p ...rty and forbidding none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him." He doubtless hoped they would supply the money wherewith to buy his deliveranc
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• Education
  ...rature, and ethics as the ground-work of theological training, after which he proceeded to the exposition of the sacred Scriptures. Under Clement and Ori ...th a small stiletto.’ Only after considerable progress had been made would he finally reach the dignity of papyrus. </p> <p> For the mass of young Jews o
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• Cross
  ...point in respect to Jesus, namely, whether he was really dead, or whether he had merely fallen into a swoon, a soldier thrust his lance into his side; b ...they were to adore! Imbert replied, it was Christ, not the wood; for which he was cited before the archbishop of Bourdeaux, suspended from his functions,
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• Bethsaida
  ...healed a blind man in Bethsaida (&nbsp;Mark 8:22), and on another occasion he miraculously fed five thousand people not far from Bethsaida (&nbsp;Luke 9: ...Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] ii. 413, and iii. 358, 359; Tristram, <i> Land of [[Israel]] </i> , p. 418, also <i> Topog.
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• Love
  ...uantitatively conceived; the greatness of God’s love is seen in this, that He loves that which is sinful (cf. &nbsp;1 John 2:2). Both the Gospel and the ...train his children, so that they might grow into the sorts of people that he, in his superior wisdom, wants them to be. God’s love towards his childre
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• Philosophy
  ...is difference necessarily found its chief expression in Ethics. </p> <p> ''Iii. '' '''Christianity in Contact with [[Ancient]] Philosophy.''' - The only d ...17:28) corroborates the notion that he was not anti-intellectual; instead, he gives a reasonable, philosophical deposition when challenging the intellect
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• Tyre
  ...ns. The Lord Jesus entered the coasts of Tyre, but it is uncertain whether He entered Tyre itself (&nbsp;Matthew 15:21; &nbsp;Mark 7:24; &nbsp;Mark 7:26) ...n this sentence. Huetius relates of one Hadrianus Parvillerius, that "when he approached the ruins of Tyre, and beheld the rocks stretched forth to the s
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• Text Of The Gospels
  ...sed. We propose to examine a few examples which throw light on the methods he employed. </p> <p> One of the most important, Instructive, and truly typica
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• Norway
  ...ian [[Missions]] in the Mid. Ages; Brit. and For. Ev. Rev. Oct. 1868, art. iii, which should be read with corrections in April, 1869, p. 430-435; and the
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• The Religion Of Babylonia And Assyria
  ...other hand, is a God revealed in history. He brought Israel out of Egypt. He is continually made known to His people through the prophets as a God revea
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• Ephraim The Syrian
  ...atest services to the church was the marvellous variety and richness which he gave to its public worship. Ephraim's quotations from the Gospels have been
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• Federal Theology
  ...s, Griffin, Burge. and Weeks, on the Atonement; Neander, Dogmengesch. per. iii, bk. ii, c-f; Max Goebel, Gesch. d. chr. Lebens, etc., Vol. ii, A, '''''§'
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• Mystics
  ...and amiable archbishop of Cambray, favoured the same sentiments, for which he was reprimanded by the pope. His work entitled, "An Explication of the Maxi ...ere open in him, as they were in any animal, at his birth into this world; he became an earthly creature, subject to the dominion of this outward world,
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• Pontius Pilate
  ...and he was banished to [[Vienne]] in Gaul, where, according to tradition, he committed suicide. </p> ...way a serious claimant to Jewish or Roman political power. The inscription he insisted on placing over the cross according to all the Gospels was Pilate'
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• Intercession
  ...at of the bishop and of the whole Church’ ( <i> ib. </i> 5). To the Romans he writes: ‘Only pray that I may have power within and without’ ( <i> ib. ...ce that comes through salvation accomplished through Christ and notes that He is ever present in heaven to intercede for those who come to Him. See Praye
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• Vigilantius
  ...of no value, which must be placed in the catalogue of heretical writings. He was answered by the blessed presbyter Jerome." This judgment lasted long. I ...the Scriptures. His work was not of lasting consequence, probably because he lacked the reformatory spirit which alone is competent to resist the perver
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• Apocryphal Gospels
  ...not mentioned in any canonical Gospel but based upon &nbsp;1 Peter 3:19 : "He went and preached unto the spirits in prison." Two saints who were raised a
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• Forgiveness
  ...the [[Gentile]] (&nbsp;Galatians 3:7-9; cf. &nbsp;Acts 3:25 ). Like Jesus, he sees the tension between God as merciful and God as righteous resolved in t ...vents as such; he seems to be engaged rather in choosing those facts which he can subordinate to his teaching purposes. The choice, then, of this circums
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• The Epistle Of Jude
  ...pistle of few lines, but full of the strong words of heavenly grace." Also he quotes ver. 6 (comm. on &nbsp;Matthew 22:23) and ver. 1 (comm. on &nbsp;Mat ...the Lord Jesus (&nbsp;Acts 20:35 ) not recorded in the Gospels, but whence he derived it is unknown. As much may be said of this of Enoch which Jude rece
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• Gospel According To The Hebrews
  ...hich I have spoken is a sin of ignorance" (Hieron., <i> Adv. Pelag </i> ., iii.2). </p> 7. Conclusion <p> This Gospel is not to be classed with heretical
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• Music
  ...the temple service, which had been neglected in his predecessor's reign, "he set the Levites in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, with psalteries, an ...l. David's skill on the harp in youth brought him under Saul's notice, and he played away Saul's melancholy under the evil spirit (&nbsp;1 Samuel 16:16-2
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• The Dispersion
  ...the earth" (&nbsp;Amos 9:9 ). </p> Literature <p> Schürer, <i> GJV </i> 4, III, 1ff; Harnack, <i> Expansion of Christianity </i> , I, 1-40; Fairweather, <
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• Dates
  ...is Gospel with the account of the [[Resurrection]] of the crucified Jesus, he opens his second treatise with the outpouring of the [[Holy]] Spirit. For t
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• Parousia
  ...n of the thought of the Parousia from conceptions of time and space, while he still retains, like St. Paul, something of the older point of view. Space f ...; Mark 14:61-68 , &nbsp; Matthew 23:37-39 ). As to the exact time at which He expected His return we have no information, except such sayings as &nbsp; M
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• Bishop Of Eclana Julianus Eclanensis
  ...<i> Libellus Fidei a Rufino Palaestinae Provinciae Presbytero </i> , which he has published in his ed. of Marius Mercator ( <i> ad Primam Partem </i> , d
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• Nicodemus
  ...ok the faith of others, only confirms his. He remembers now Jesus had said He "must be lifted up," like the brazen "serpent," that all believers in Him m ...memory. He could hardly at that moment have anticipated the Resurrection. He may even have been encouraged to bring his gift by the thought that Jesus d
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• Miracle
  ...ciations formed between their sensible ideas and the words of language, or he must have endowed those men with the gift of prescience, and have impelled ...ut the entire period of history until Christ's return (1:7; 13:10-12). But he often withholds miraculous healing because of the remedial value of sufferi
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• Founder Of A Gnostic Sect Valentinus
  ...¿Ï‚ and in the Pleroma Μονογενής and appears in each locality as He can be comprehended there. </p> <p> The preceding survey shews that in the
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• Obadiah
  ...> <p> '''(II.)''' Cause of that doom (&nbsp;Obadiah 1:10-16). </p> <p> '''(III.)''' Re-establishment of [[Israel]] in their rightful possessions. </p> <p> ...<p> 10. An officer of high rank, in the court of Ahab. &nbsp;1 Kings 18:3. He was a devout worshipper of [[Jehovah]] , and at the peril of his life, conc
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• Emperor Justinianus I
  ...ion of the church in her synods and those which the emperor may deal with. He always speaks with the utmost respect of the sacred canons, sometimes quote
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• Jacques Davy Du Perron
  ...as they do not show that profound reach and insight into things with which he is usually credited. There were also published afterwards, under his name,
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• Will
  ...1902, pp. 1 ff., 145, ff.; H. Bergson, Time and Free Will, do., 1910, ch. iii. For discussions of the subject from a theistic point of view see T. B. Str ...m who has created all moral excellence, but of any of those beings on whom he has conferred the most ordinary degrees of mercy and justice. The natural b
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• Patriarch Of Alexandria Dioscorus
  ...al treatment of Flavian, which he practically sanctioned, in which perhaps he personally took part, has made his memory specially odious; and his name is
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• Hugh Latimer
  ...o us to present a combination of many noble and disinterested qualities. " He was brave, honest, devoted, and energetic, homely and popular, yet free fro ...eal as a preacher had full scope, but under Mary his mouth was gagged, and he was burnt at the stake along with Ridley, opposite Balliol College, Oxford
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• Pentateuch
  ...s given by its passing hints. </p> <p> Thus Joseph's "anguish of soul when he besought" the brothers, unnoticed in the direct story, but incidentally com ...ld avoid the two extreme views that Moses wrote all the Pentateuch or that he wrote none of it. We should take the claims of the Bible concerning itself
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• Abstinence
  ...ary principle of Christian abstinence to refute this dualistic asceticism. He shows that Christianity is not a matter of prohibitions, but of a renewed l ...s the principle of the decree, &nbsp;Acts 15:29. In &nbsp;1 Timothy 4:3-4, he foretells the rise of Gnostic heretics, the forerunners of the ascetics of
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• Chronology Of The New Testament
  ...e 1st cent. is that illustrated by the last book of the NT Canon. </p> <p> III. Results. The following table gives the dates arrived at by Harnack, Turner
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• Euchites
  ...Walch, <i> Hist. der Ketz. </i> iii. 418; and Neander, <i> Ch. Hist. </i> iii. 323. </p> <p> [G.S.] </p>
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• Heathen
  ...92, ii. 347; T. Zahn, <i> Introd. to the NT </i> , Eng. translation, 1909, iii. 374. </p> <p> James Donald. </p> ...sufficient efficacy to redeem to God a sinner who is thus disposed, though he have never heard of his name? Or who has a warrant to affirm, that the supp
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• Joan
  ...sise au [[Siege]] Papal entre [[Leon]] IV et Benoit III (Amsterdam, 1649). He was followed on the same side by [[Leibnitz]] (Flores sparsi in tumulum Pap
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• Malachi
  ...hweh as in all the prophets from Amos downwards is a God of righteousness. He rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked. The day of Jahweh, on which ...so that Judah's offering shall be pleasant unto Jehovah; on the other hand He shall be a swift witness against wrong doers, wherefore "return unto Me," i
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• Gamaliel
  ...hürer, <i> GJV </i> [Note: JV Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes (Schürer).]4 iii. 121). </p> <p> Literature.-G. Milligan, in <i> Hasting's Dictionary of the ...t the disciples had stolen away the body of Jesus, and then pretended that he had arisen from the dead. If the Jewish council had thought this, it would
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• Manicheans
  ...ur. Asiat. </i> a [[Syriac]] document called the Apocalypse of Adam, which he shewed to be one of those brought by the Manicheans into Armenia in 590 a.d
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• Psalms
  ...ph, but from members of the choir which he founded, so the psalms in Books III, IV, V, inscribed with the name of David, were written by his royal represe ...ometimes as a king, sometimes as a conqueror; and in those Psalms in which he is introduced as a conqueror, the resemblance is very remarkable between th
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• Winter
  ...was more apocalyptist than scribe, it should not have been overlooked that he has advanced, however briefly, his own decision on the moot point, whether ...rinting press which sustains the carriage. <p> WINTER, To pass the winter. He wintered in Italy. [[Cattle]] winter well on good fodder. </p> <p> WINTER,
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• Epistle To The Colossians
  ...St. Mark. He simply used its language, and to a most extraordinary extent. He is writing for a different purpose, and applies to that purpose phraseology ...Christ. He has risen to a new life whose centre and secret are in heaven. He must still mortify the deeds of the flesh, but from a new motive and in the
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• Epistle To The Philippians
  ...Rome, and probably near the close of his imprisonment, about A.D. 62, when he was expecting to be released and again to visit the [[Philippian]] saints. ...risk (*) prefixed: Vietorinus, ''In Ep. Ad Ph.'' (in Mai, ''Script. Vet.'' III, 1:51; Pseudo-Hieronymus, ''Commentarii'' (in ''Opp. [Suppos.],'' 11:1011);
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• Antiochus Iv
  ...of king. He was ethnarch (“ruler of the people”) of these two territories. He proved to be a poor ruler and was deposed in A.D. 6. His territories were p ...brought about the insurrection of the Jews, under the Maccabees, upon whom he made an unsuccessful war in 167-164 bc. After this war Antiochus retired to
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• The Gospel Of Luke
  ...1:5-36 does not record the fact that [[Jerusalem]] was destroyed, nor does he change Christ's "flee to the mountains" to "Pella in North Peraea," whither
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• Lord'S Supper. (I.)
  ...isible word’ conveying the truth of the awful mystery of Redemption. Until He came, however long or short might be the interval, His followers, Jew and G
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• William Of Occam
  ...ately designated by him "Mein Meister Occanz," "Mein lieber Meiste Occam." He is said to have been the only schoolman whom the great Reformer habitually
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• Giovanni Morone
  ...ere Morone's feelings when he saw the power of the Inquisition, from which he had suffered so much, again seated on the papal throne. Morone died Decembe
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• Proverbs
  ...shall be taken away from him </i> ’ (&nbsp;Matthew 25:29). Cf. R. Hillel: ‘He who increases not, decreases,’ which means that one who does not improve ...) But such was the grace of Jesus to his disciples, that when he was alone he expounded and explained all things unto them. When we read, therefore, the
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• Archaeology And Biblical Study
  ...only through the rule of his sons, but also by the monuments of stone that he left behind. In Jerusalem the thirty-five acre platform on which Herod buil
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• Persia
  ...about 558 BC, [[Cyrus]] proceeded to enlarge his territory, as one by one he conquered kingdoms large and small. One of his greatest triumphs was the co ...lood royal, revolted, and slew him after his seven months' reign. </p> <p> He reverted to Cyrus' policy, by grant enabling the Jews to complete the templ
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• Deuteronomy
  ...exion with Israel. Jahweh has made known Himself and His will by the deeds He has wrought for and among His people. (Hence it was a right instinct which ...of Israel’s twelve tribes (32:48-33:29). After viewing the promised land, he died peacefully (34:1-12). </p>
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• Neo-Platonism
  ...e primal One, into whom it sinks unconscious and loses itself. </p> <p> '''III.''' ''Concluding Observations.'' '''''—''''' Neo-Platonism and Christiani
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• Hosea
  ...aithful will reap punishment for their sins (&nbsp;Hosea 9:5-9 ). </p> <p> III. God's Loyal Love Is the Only Basis for a [[Lasting]] Relationship with His ...> <p> So also the [[Saviour]] took out of an unholy world the church, that He might unite her in holiness to Himself. No more remarkable prophecy exists
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• Death
  ...ath’ as denoting a certain spiritual state </em> in which men may live and he still destitute of all that is worth calling ‘life,’ is quite common (& ...11:25-26 ). Jesus went on to call Lazarus from the tomb; but in doing so, he ironically sealed His own death in the plans of the Jewish authorities (&nb
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• Book Of Lamentations
  ...p> C. Call on the Lord to relent (&nbsp;Lamentations 2:20-22 ). </p> <p> [[Iii. A]] Personal Cry to God (&nbsp;Lamentations 3:1-66 ) </p> <p> A. I am suf ...ere attached. The affinities with later books are not very marked, and may he due to derivation from the elegies. And there is avowedly much resemblance
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• Stoics
  ...don, 1880; H. Ritter, History of [[Ancient]] Philosophy, Eng. translation, iii. [Oxford. 1839]; A. Grant, The Ethics of Aristotle, 2 vols., London, 1866; ...s name from the painted ''"Portico",'' ( '''stoa''' ), at Athens, in which he taught. Zeno was followed by Cleanthes, (circa, B.C. 260); Cleanthes was fo
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• Anthropology
  ...sor Orr writes: "In a personal communication Lord Kelvin states to me that he thinks it 'almost infinitely improbable' that radium had any appreciable ef <p> The science of man as he exists or has existed under different physical and social conditions. </p>
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• Novatianus And Novatianism
  ...et passim; Walch Ketzerhist. ii. 185; Natal. Alex. ed. Mansi saec. iii. c. iii. art. iv.; Tillem. Mém.; Bingham Opp. t. vi. 248 570 viii. 233 (ed. Lond
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• The Arrest And Trial Of Jesus Christ
  ...e, which led to all the others, was in not discharging Jesus at once, when he had pronounced the verdict of acquittal. </p> <p> All the subsequent procee
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• Christ In The Early Church
  ..., are of such a kind and number that if one should wish to enumerate them, he may be compared to men who gaze at the expanse of the sea and wish to count
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• Persians
  ...scepter over to his son Xerxes II (B.C. 424), who reigned but two months. He was followed by his stepbrother Sogdianus (B.C. 424), whose rule came to an ...te 35, number 1, l. 8), who boasts of having conquered it and other lands (he reigned from 812 to 783 or from 810 to 781 BC). </p> Literature. <p> Beside
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• Athenagoras
  ...version is employed; probably the [[Septuagint]] throughout. From the N.T. he often quotes or borrows phrases, without mentioning whence they come. It is ...esh; (3) that they committed the most horrible crimes in their assemblies. He also claimed for the Christians the benefit of the toleration which in the
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• Saint Helena Mother Of Constantine The Great
  ...Sepulchre by Constantine. But his account seems inconsistent. The crosses, he says, were found <i> near </i> the Lord's tomb— παρὰ τὸ μν
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• Bishop Of Halicarnassus Julianus
  ...aita relates a public disputation with the Gaianites of that city in which he took part ( <i> Viae Dux </i> , u.s. 150 seq.). They were known in the West
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• Fishing
  ...n a basket and a net, resembling the landing-net represented in Wilkinson, iii, 55. The [[Mishna]] (vi, 76,116) describes it by the word '''''אָקיּן ...o stood on the shore. He was literally naked and pulled on his coat before he went ashore (&nbsp;John 21:7 ). </p>
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• Joram
  ...his <i> BR </i> P [Note: RP Biblical Researches in Palestine.] i. 537–568, iii. 390–418; Petermann, ‘On the Fall of the Jordan’ in <i> Jour. R. Geog ...rons of which the Israelites sustained a defeat, and the king was wounded. He returned to Jezreel to be healed of his wounds, leaving the army in the cha
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• Commentaries
  ...all built on the Wellhausen foundations (see [[Criticism Of The Bible]] . III). Dr. Driver himself writes on Deuteronomy; Dr. J. Skinner, on Genesis; Dr.
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• Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
  ...rather unfavorable, perhaps even unjust. Of the discourses of Lacordaire, he maintains that they are " unreadable" (p. 166). See also Blackwood's Magazi
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• Synesius
  ...As the conversion of Synesius cannot be fixed to any certain date, and as he avowed his inability to renounce his philosophic opinions when chosen bisho
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• Mass
  ...s them in wine, and puts them in a box; out of which, upon every occasion, he takes some of it with a spoon, and, putting it on a dish, sets it on the al ...ass is that composed by St. Ambrose, and used only at Milan, of which city he was bishop; the Gallic mass, used by the ancient Gauls; and the Roman mass,
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• The Methodist Episcopal Church
  ...cial station in our Church hereafter, where the laws of the state in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and permit the liberated slave to enjoy f
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• Bishop Of Hierapolis Papias
  ...his writings, shew any signs that he knew more of the work of Papias than he could have learned from Eusebius. The latest trace of the existence of the
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• Humility
  ...le of the wise should have sufficient pride to stand in defence of the Law he represents.’ Self-assertion has therefore its legitimate sphere, and the ...e least saint and apostle (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 15:9; &nbsp;Ephesians 3:8 ) he gloried in the grace of God (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 15:10; cf. &nbsp;2 Corinth
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• Priests And Levites
  ...impression that he made as he officiated in his high-priestly vestments: ‘He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at full; a ...s were entirely unknown, others that he invented freely, others again that he reproduces trustworthy pre-exilic information. The student has only an asso
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• Books Of Samuel
  ...' </p> <p> Though the author of 1 and 2 Samuel is not named, it seems that he took much of his material from the records kept by such people as Samuel, N ...eases in direct proportion to the distance of the narrator from the things he describes. Hence the later elements in these books are primarily of value n
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• Eutyches And Eutychianism
  ...conducted, nor to accept the qualifications or paraphrases kindly offered. He passed away, but Eutychianism exists still (Pusey, <i> Councils of the Chur
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• Omnipresence
  ...before us is that God is with His people everywhere. They cannot go where He is not present, to succour and to bless. </p> <p> Literature.—In addition ...d benevolence continually produced, demonstrate beyond all rational doubt. He must therefore be alike present every where, and fill infinite space with h
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• Nestorius
  ...s been shown that the great opponent of Nestorius was Cyril of Alexandria. He published '''''Ἀναθεματισμοί''''' , five books '''''Κατὰ ...ures, the divine and the human, coexist in Christ, but are not united, and he would not allow to the Virgin Mary the title that had been given to her as
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• Benedict De Spinoza
  ...uted into five parts: I. On God; II. On the Nature and Origin of the Soul; III. On the Nature and Origin of the Passions; IV. On the Slavery of Man, or th
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• Canon Of The New Testament
  ...and attacked the very idea of a Canon as an authoritative standard, while he criticised the usefulness and theological value of the several books of the ...l the churches when the evidence had been more fully tested. A third class he calls "the spurious," as "the Shepherd of Hermas," "the Epistle of Barnabas
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• Genesis
  ...d and directs the nations, blessing and cursing according to His purposes. He reveals Himself to, calls, enters into covenant with, and promises to bless ...itutions which were to be the basis of the Sinaitic legislation. As a rule he enlarges only on those epochs of the history at which some new religious ob
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• Epistle To The Ephesians
  ...ut this they cannot stand. The apostle asks the prayers of the saints that he might make known the mystery of the glad tidings with boldness; and closes ...mbers one of another Eph (&nbsp;Ephesians 4:25 ). It is on this basis that he urges honesty and patience and truth in our intercourse with each other, an
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• Bishop
  ...&nbsp; 1 Thessalonians 5:12 ‘those that are over you,’ &nbsp; Romans 12:8 ‘he that ruleth.’ and &nbsp; Hebrews 13:7; &nbsp; Hebrews 13:17; &nbsp; Hebre ...uke 2:36-37), and a bishop ought to stand well in the esteem of his flock, he should be married but once. That prohibition no longer holds good, now that
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• Book Of Daniel
  ...aiteth and cometh to the 1335 days — full blessing. Daniel was told to go: he should stand in his lot at the end of the days. </p> <p> Much of this remar ..., Persia, Greece, the [[Ptolemies]] of Egypt, and the Seleuccids of Syria. He then pointed to an immediate future when God would judge Antiochus and his
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• Glory
  ...glory is communicated, not only to believers, but to every agency by which He acts: the Spirit (&nbsp;1 Peter 4:14, &nbsp;Ephesians 3:16), the gospel (&n ...bsp; 1 Corinthians 11:7 a), lost through sin, but meant to be recovered as he is transfigured ‘from glory to glory’ (&nbsp; 2 Corinthians 3:18 ). For
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• Moral Theology
  ...gaining ground in the theological schools of Germany. In his introduction he furnishes a valuable resume of the history of Roman Catholic moral theology
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• Gregory Vii. (Hildebrand)
  ...8vo); Soeltl, Gregor VII (Leipsig, 1847, 8vo); Milman, Latin Christianity, iii, 140 sq.; Helfenstein, Gregor's VII Be-strebungen (Frankf., 1856, 8vo); Gfr
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• Septuagint
  ...nts; sometimes the [[Apostle]] appears to quote from memory; in some cases he freely conflates two or more passages. In Hebrews, in which the argument is ...he Hebrew text, yet Salmasius, Bochart, Bauer, and others, have shown that he has adhered to the Septuagint throughout that work. How extensively this ve
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• Book Of Zephaniah
  ...d's righteous justice will be impartial (&nbsp;Zephaniah 3:1-8 ). </p> <p> III. God [[Promises]] to Form a New People (&nbsp;Zephaniah 3:9-20 ). </p> <p> ...cy: </b> </p> <p> The Messianic King is not mentioned by Zephaniah. Though he draws a sublime picture of the glories of the Messianic age (&nbsp;Zephania
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• Land Of Gennesaret
  ...tina.] 113; Neubauer, <i> Géog. du Talm </i> . 45f.; Josephus, <i> BJ </i> iii. x. 8; Ruetsche in <i> PR </i> E [Note: RE Real-Encyklopädie fur protest. ...utumnal fruit beyond men's expectation, but preserves them a great while." He says that it supplies grapes and figs through ten months of the year, and o
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• Syriac Versions
  ...n the rest. This may lead us again to look at the testimony of Bar-Salibi; he tells us when speaking of this version of Matthew, there is found occasiona ...stament </i> , 95-106; G. H. Gwilliam, <i> Studia Biblica </i> , II, 1890, III, 1891, V, 1903, and <i> Tetraevangelium sanctum Syriacum </i> ; Scrivener,
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• Zebedee
  ...i. § 161). It is, however, also recognized that ‘The Holy One, blessed be He, should cause His [[Shekinah]] to dwell in Zebulun’ ( <i> Shem. Rab </i> ...fisherman of Galilee; father of James and John. In easy circumstances, for he owned a boat and hired servants (&nbsp;Matthew 4:21; &nbsp;Mark 1:20). [[Sa
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• Arabia
  ...s posterity, should ‘be a wild man,' and always continue to be so, though ‘he shall dwell for ever in the presence of his brethren.' And that an acute an ...are &nbsp;Job 39:5-8), portrays the Bedouin's boundless love of freedom as he rides in the desert spear in hand, despising town life. His dwelling in the
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• Ideas (Leading)
  ...nd, and to those who believe on the other, sums up all spiritual blessing. He is the source of [[Eternal]] Life, the giver of the living water, the </p>
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• Greek Philosophy
  ...the Person of Christ, 1:17, Engl. transl.); and in the distinction, which he constantly makes, between the absolute God and the secondary deity, who alo
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• Slavery Slave
  ...Paul’s attitude towards slavery exemplified in a concrete case. Here again he does not ask Philemon to free Onesimus; and it is clear from &nbsp; 1 Timot ...too, emphatically proclaims universal brotherhood (see, e.g., de Officiis, iii. 6). Still, such voices were comparatively rare. Men for the most part acqu
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• Bishop Of Rome Sixtus Iii.
  Bishop Of Rome Sixtus Iii. <ref name="term_15188" /> ...s attributed to him, and to the emperor Valentinian under his instigation. He is said to have built the basilicas of St. Maria Maggiore on the Esquiline
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• City
  ...lived His life in a crowd, that He was so seldom alone that occasions when He sought solitude are specially noted, and that it was the sight of great mas ...inscription how, as there was ‘no cistern in the midst of’ a certain city, he ‘said to all the people: make you each a cistern in his house’ (cf. Cis
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• Cerinthus
  ...hus,’ by A. S. Peake, in <i> Encyclopaedia of [[Religion]] and Ethics </i> iii. 318. </p> <p> W. D. Niven. </p> ...part to Judaism, and considered the [[Mosaic]] law binding on Christians. He taught that the righteous would enjoy a paradise of delights in Palestine,
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• Onesimus
  ...ransmits (Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius, etc.)iii. 11) a tradition that he was martyred at Rome; while another authority (Galesinius) describes that m ...ned the first time; and knowing the apostle while in his master's service, he visited the apostle in the prison. The Lord, who by his providence brought
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• Manasseh
  ...he sacrifice of his son and the practice of witchcraft and magic, of which he is accused, were also sanctioned by ancient [[Israelitish]] custom. The rea ...1-20; &nbsp;2 Kings 23:12,26; &nbsp;2 Chronicles 33; &nbsp;Jeremiah 15:4 . He is called MANASSES in &nbsp;Matthew 1:10 . </p> <p> 3. Father of Gershom, t
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• Book Of Psalms
  ...Songs of Zion praise God indirectly by describing the [[Holy]] City where He has chosen to live among His people and be worshiped. They show God lives a ...t, "Let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen." To which he adds, "The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended." </p> <p> &nbsp;P
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• Prussia
  ...t the close of 1253, and Allert, in 1254, established himnself in Livonia. He had already been empowered to exercise again the power of a legate in Pruss
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• Assumption Of Moses
  ...331; F. C. Burkitt, in <i> Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) </i> iii. 448-450; R. H. Charles, <i> [[Apocrypha]] and Pseudepigrapha </i> , Oxford
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• Nicolaitans
  ...to clear the character of Nicolas have generally tried also to prove that he was not the man whom the Nicolaitans claimed as their head. But the one poi ...a, however (Strom. iii. 4; cf. Eus. Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius, etc.)iii. 29), has an independent tradition about Nicolas which vindicates his chara
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• Bel And The Dragon
  ...menti Graece </i> (1871), and Swete, <i> The Old Testament in Greek </i> , III, 1894, and later editions, give the Septuagint and Theodotion on parallel p
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• Pre-Eminence
  ...e greatness of their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, or as to the fact that He is the coming Universal King. See also artt. Divinity of Christ, Incarnatio
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• Books Of Chronicles
  ...place of the altar of sacrifice (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 21:18-22:1 ) </p> <p> III. David's [[Preparing]] to [[Build]] God's House (&nbsp;1 Chronicles 22:2-29 ...ices, God punished him (10:1-13:22). </p> <p> Asa began a reform, but then he also departed from the ways of God (14:1-16:14). It was left to the next ki
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• Nathanael
  ...s name occurs only in Jn. but the following are reasons for believing that he was identical with <strong> [[Bartholomew]] </strong> , who is never mentio
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• Des Cartes Rene (Du Perron)
  ...nchen, 1867, p. 461 sq.; Farrer, Critical History of Free Thought, Lecture III; Hagenbach, History of Doctrines, '''''§''''' 225, 238; Tholuck, Academisc
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• Mohammedan Sects
  ...mense success, chiefly with the Turcomans, his own nation, so that at last he found himself at the head of nearly a million men, horse and foot. Their wa
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• Jesus Christ (Part 2 Of 2)
  ..., and those from the highways and hedges, was a commentary on the counsels He had just been giving, but it had its deeper lesson in picturing the rejecti
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• Protestant Methodists
  ...dists; Fletcher's Works; Bogue and Bennett's Hist. of the Dissenters, vol. iii; Walker's address to the Methodists. </p>
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• Council
  ...popes. If God had been pleased to exempt them from a possibility of error, he would have announced that important privilege in his written word; but no s ...e was formed on this account, and an army sent to extirpate them. Innocent III. spirited up this barbarous war. [[Dominic]] was the apostle, the count of
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• Canons Of Discipline Canon Law Canons And Decretals Of Rome.
  ...archbishops of Canterbury, from [[Stephen]] Langton, in the reign of Henry III, to Henry Chicheley, in the reign of Henry V, and adopted also by the provi
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• Mohammedanism
  ...We must reflect that military glory and booty to the Bedouins, who formed,he flower of the first Arabian armies, were not less enticing than the pleasur
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• Episcopacy
  ...hbishop]] Usher projected a plan for the reduction of episcopacy, by which he would have moderated it in such a manner as to have brought it very near th ...tinguished by a particular name, being denominated, from the city in which he presided, a metropolitan. </p>
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• Ignatius Of Loyola St.
  ...(See [[Jesuits]]). In 1609 Ignatius was beatified by pope Paul V; in 1622 he was canonized by [[Gregory]] XV. The Acta Sanctorum for July 31 gives, besi
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• Lord
  ..., 1908; H. R. Mackintosh, <i> The Person of Jesus Christ </i> , 1912, bk. iii. ch. v.; W. Bousset, <i> Kyrios Christos </i> , 1913. </p> <p> G. Wauchope ...says and in the way that the world needs? How can people be convinced that He is the Messiah of Israel and the Lord of all people, who comes near to all
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• Gentiles
  ..., Cambridge, 1896-98, ii. 230; W. R. Smith, <i> Encyclopaedia Biblica </i> iii. 3063; H. B. Swete, <i> The Holy Spirit in the NT </i> , London, 1909, pp. ...aul experienced great resentment among the Jews because of the opportunity he was offering the Gentiles (&nbsp;Romans 2:15-16 ). Nevertheless, in New Tes
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• Heresy
  ...inate deities, were either good or evil angels in their various ranks, and he uproots the whole superstition, by showing that the "thrones and dominions" ...Holy [[Trinity]] to be God, or maintain that there are more Gods than one, he shall undergo the same penalties and incapacities which were inflicted on a
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• Benedict I
  ...rtations in Italian. Benedict was always opposed to the Jesuits, and, when he died, was preparing to suppress the order. '''''—''''' i.e. du pape Benoi
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• Leo I
  ...d of a large number of MSS., preserved chiefly in the libraries of France, he was enabled to introduce such essential improvements into the text, and by
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• Pomerania
  ...] III confirmed his election by a brief of Oct. 13,1551. But Oct. 24,1552, he was inaugurated again, this time according to the [[Protestant]] rite. Afte
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• Leader Of Jewish Sect Dositheus
  ...Dosthai which it probably really represents. Drusius (de Sectis Hebraeorum iii. 4 6) and Lightfoot (Disquis. Chorograph. in. Johann. iv.) shew that this w
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• Influence
  ...ooks, <i> Influence of Jesus </i> ; Dale, <i> The Living Christ </i> , ch. iii.; Stalker, <i> Imago [[Christi]] </i> , ch. xvii.; Newman, <i> Gram. of [[A ...acter or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) In
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• Confession
  ...ould prefer it to be one of those two or three which, next the Holy Bible, he would have preserved from the supposed total destruction of books. A high e ...t of his home, double-mindedness, and doubts. It is no ideal picture which he draws of his own conduct or of the life of his fellow-Christians. But, as v
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• Family
  ...here speaks on behalf of the whole of the communities of Christians which he had evangelized, or perhaps of all throughout the world, as in &nbsp;Romans ...ance to relationships within the family of God than to the natural family. He said, “whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the s
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• John Scotus (Erigena)
  ...r it. His inquiries in England had been attended with like disappointment, He remarks that, "many foreign writers who have spoken of this work have not h
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• Christology
  ...a pipe, and was crucified by the Jews, although, having no material body, he did not actually suffer. With him Soter, the proper redeemer, united himsel
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• Naphtali
  ...of the Sea of [[Chinnereth]] (Lake Galilee) where Jesus grew up and where he spent most of the time recorded of him in the New Testament. The country wa ...esh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali, and he carried them captive to Assyria’ (&nbsp; 2 Kings 15:29 ). See also Tribes
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• Ministration Minister
  ...cott in Smith’s <i> [[Db]] </i> [Note: Dictionary of the Bible.] ii. 857b, iii. 1380). With Him, such love is not an occasional precept of benevolence, bu
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• Magic
  ...figuratively that the Galatians had been bewitched (&nbsp;Galatians 3:1 ). He likely alluded to magical practices in his treatment of heresy in &nbsp;Col ...of the witch of Endor, Samuel appearance was apparently unexpected by her; he did not come through the enchantments. - Editor). </p> <p> The [[Scriptures
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• Saint Hilarius Pictaviensis
  ...Rome or elsewhere, had never dawned upon his mind. No leave was asked when he descended into Italy to confront Auxentius. [[A]] cheap popular Life of Hil
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• The Pastoral Epistles
  ...to be by some one else" (Shaw, <i> The Pauline Epistles </i> , 483). </p> III. Date and Order. <p> <b> 1. Date of the Epistles: </b> </p> <p> In regard t
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• Living
  ...e defended. ‘He who spoke in the OT was God, and from the first that which He spoke about was the consummation which filled His thought’ (A. B. Davidso ...than to repair the roof of the cathedral. He did not receive the pallium. He died in 1020. See Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 1:472 sq. <
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• Samaritans Samaria
  ...tal first at Shechem, then at Tirzah, but when [[Omri]] came to the throne he built a new capital at Samaria. Samaria remained the capital till the end o ...trolled by circumstances, or a product of the age in which He lived, could He have risen to this? </p> <p> See also Gerizim, Jacob’s Well, Sychar. </p>
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• Song Of Songs
  ...p. 43) pertinently remarks that in many of the popular Arabic poems which he has collected there is an absence of definite verse-measure, and considers ...she had about him (3:1-5), and finally she imagines her wedding day, when he comes and praises her beauty (3:6-5:1). </p> <p> Another dream indicates th
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• Popery
  ...sess. 22, can. 9.) </p> <p> Though the council of Lateran, under Innocent III. in 1215 (can. 9.) had expressly decreed, that, because, in many parts with ...uded fancying their own bravery and privilege above all the world besides. He that comes to read the [[Jewish]] writings, especially those that are of th
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• High Priest
  ...ee B. Pick, <i> Lutheran Church Review </i> , 1898, I, 127-41; II, 370-74; III, 555-56; IV, 655-64; and the commentaries on the passages cited. </p>
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• Philip Jacob Spener
  ...died the theological tendency of the Church was greatly changed from what he found it at the beginning of his career. More than half the faculties and a ...imself in Dresden and in Berlin, but Halle was the centre of the movement; he was an earnest and universally esteemed man (1636-1705). </p>
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• Joppa
  ...e learned how different are God’s thoughts of religious purity from man’s. He became convinced that all manner of meats-and, inferentially, all manner of ...n the Tanner. At noon, while Simon Peter waited for a meal to be prepared, he prayed on the flat roof of the tanner's house. In a trance Peter saw what s
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• Pseudo-Areopagita Dionysius
  ...> Script. Eccl. Hist. Lit. </i> (1740); Brucker, <i> Hist. Crit. </i> tom. iii. (1766); [[J.]] [[L.]] Mosheim, <i> Commentatio de Turbata per Recentiores
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• Didache
  ...ngen zur Geschichte des NT Kanons und der altkirchl. Litteratur </i> , pt. iii., Erlangen, 1884; G.V. Lechler, <i> Das apostolische und nachapostolische Z
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• New England Theology
  ...nful. He has had but few adherents, and doubts are expressed as to whether he has been correctly understood by many on this point (Park, ''Memoir,'' p. 3
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• Exodus
  ...ed E [Note: Elohist.] ’s Book of Judgments in favour of Deuteronomy, which he made Moses’ parting address; and combined the displaced Book of Judgments ...ys under the guidance of the pillar of fire and cloud, &nbsp;Numbers 9:22; he also gives a list of seventeen stations, mostly unknown, where thy rested o
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• Physician
  ...r, if Luke was a Greek either of [[Antioch]] or of [[Antiochian]] descent, he may have had such training as was characteristic of Asia Minor at that time ...ses, and be exercised as to why they are sent or allowed, though doubtless he may use the means, without trusting to them apart from the blessing of God
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• Thomas A Kempis
  ...e Bible? "And, inasmuch as a Kempis also belongs to that side, inasmuch as he is manifestly antischolastical, gives prominence to the religious and moral ...chiefly resided for 70 long years, and of which he became sub-prior, where he spent his time in acts of devotion and copying MSS., that of the Bible, amo
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• Thomas À Kempis
  ...e Bible? "And, inasmuch as a Kempis also belongs to that side, inasmuch as he is manifestly antischolastical, gives prominence to the religious and moral ...chiefly resided for 70 long years, and of which he became sub-prior, where he spent his time in acts of devotion and copying MSS., that of the Bible, amo
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• Jehoiada
  ...ique privilege of interment "among the kings in the city of David, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and toward His (God's) house." The ...oration of the [[Temple]] were among the great works effected by Jehoiada. He died B.C. 834. </p> <p> 5. Second priest, or '''sagan''' , to [[Seraiah]] t
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• Light
  ...Sermons </i> , 3rd series, 149; G. Macdonald, <i> Unspoken Sermons </i> , iii. 163; G. A. Smith, <i> [[Forgiveness]] of Sins </i> , 89; R. Rainy, <i> [[S ...ing in him will no longer be in darkness (12:46). </p> <p> Paul concurs as he harks back to the creation account: "For God, who said, Let light shine out
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• The First Epistle Of Peter
  ...significant on this account is his testimony. The descriptive titles which he here gathers together and places on the brow of the Christian brotherhood a
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• Patriarch Of Constantinople Acacius
  ...s no longer able to animate it. In the course of a few years all for which he had laboured was undone. The Henoticon failed to restore unity to the East,
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• Moors
  ...uld either be sent out of Spain or destroyed by the sword. Although Philip III, who was then on the throne, did not wish to accede to so general a measure
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• English Versions Of The Bible.
  ...rote to Cecil in its favor. He was at the time looking forward to the work he afterwards accomplished, of one other special Bible for the churches, to be
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• Ephesus
  ...them that if they did not change and regain their original spirit of love, he would act against them in judgment and bring their church to an end. But th .... Hicks, <i> [[Ancient]] Greek [[Inscriptions]] in the Brit. Museum </i> , iii. 2 [1890]; D. G. Hogarth, <i> Excavations in Ephesus: the Archaic [[Artemis
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• Commentary
  ...'s interruption. </p> <p> 1. Mr. Henry did not live to complete this work. He went as far as the end of Acts. Romans was done by Dr. Evans; the 1st Corin ...1858 sq., 9 vols. [18 half vols.] 8vo [pt. i, translation; ii, exposition; iii, history, with suppl. Atlas]); Lange, Bibelwerk [mostly theological and hom
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• Book Of Micah
  ...chariah 12:1-14; &nbsp; Zechariah 13:1-9; &nbsp; Zechariah 14:1-21 came to he looked upon as writings of Isaiah and Zechariah respectively. The final sta ...p> H. God judges corrupt, greedy officials (&nbsp;Micah 3:9-12 ). </p> <p> III. God [[Promises]] a Day of International Peace and [[Worship]] (&nbsp;Micah
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• Adrian I
  ...e, he caused to be reprinted, without making any alteration in the opinion he had originally expressed on the papal infallibility, viz., "The pope may er
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• Church Of England
  ...ch is stated in the [[Methodist]] Quarterly, 1853, page 157. </p> <p> [['''Iii.''' Doctrines]] '''''—''''' </p> <p> '''(1.)''' The doctrinal standards
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• Leo The Isaurian
  ...it, would present him in a vastly more favorable light than that in which he has been left to stand. (D. B. G.) </p> <p> '''5.''' ''Literature. '''''—
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• Docetism
  ...ouch the heavens with His head; that His footsteps left no trace; and that He was not really crucified, but, according to Photius, another person in His
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• Christian. Marriage
  ...y the divine Spirit, and possessing an interest in the redeeming blessings he has purchased are to marry only on Christian principles, and, of course, on
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