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Law
...John 2:2;   1 John 4:10 virtually sustain the doctrine of St. Paul on law, sin, and sacrifice. G. G. Findlay. ...more exact manifestation of the brightness, perfection, and glory of that law, under which angels and our progenitors in paradise were placed, and which

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God
...t the custom of our Lord to make minute regulations, as did the [[Mosaic]] Law. He rather laid down general principles; and it would be somewhat remarkabl ...wn Law. In the [[Talmud]] He is represented as a great Rabbi, studying the Law, and keeping the [[Sabbath]] (Gilbert, in Hastings’ DCG [

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Justification
...nal. He gathers humanity rather into His own Person, stretches over it the law of His own life, so that it holds in Him as its root. Into this new order o ...n the condition of righteous men, in this respect, that the penalty of the law does not lie against them, and that they are the acknowledged objects of th

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Atonement
...hey are saved from the power as well as the guilt of sin; freedom from the law of sin and death completes the release from its condemnation; the release f ...t secret of atonement. The innocent suffering with and for the guilty is a law from which Jesus did not withdraw Himself. In His consciousness of solidari

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Sacrifice
...Christian teachers, because the animal victims and not the human servant, law and not prophecy, have given it significance; the OT system of ritual sacri ...eaningless. The [[Homily]] of Salvation truly says "reason is satisfied by God's great wisdom in this mystery of our redemption, who hath so tempered His ju

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Covenant
...offerings, this does not eliminate from them the element of expiation. The Law itself speaks of expiation in connexion with the burnt-offerings ( Lev ...ent ; G. Vos, Biblical Theology ; J. Zinkand, Covenants: God's Claims . 

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Jesus Christ
...nd probably chief in importance, was the education in the home. The Jewish Law earnestly impressed upon parents, especially upon fathers, the duty of inst ...s by Jesus to represent deity. In other instances Jesus exercised God's authority in forgiving sins ( Mark 2:1-12;  Luke 7:44-49 ) and ac

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Moses
...the author of the Pentateuch. Besides such expressions as ‘The law of Moses’ (  Luke 2:22 ), ‘Moses enjoined’ (  Matthew 8:4 )

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Sanctification
...’ the ‘law’ of sin and death is done away altogether, and obedience to the law of God is merged in a higher and nobler loyalty to the God and Father of Je ...elievers are to "pursue" sanctification ( Hebrews 12:14 ). Apart from God's sanctifying work in human beings, "no one will see the Lord" ( Hebrews

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Inspiration
...reason, not only that the matter contained in the book of "the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms," (the usual phrase by which the Jews designa ...utterance to this saying He Himself proceeds to repeal commandments of the Law, substituting for them His own better principles, and thus showing that wha

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Providence
...necessity, do not lack the raiment they require. Work you must; it is the law of your lives as God’s rational creatures; but learn from the birds and t ...names for the unknown operations of providence; for it is certain that in God's universe nothing comes to pass causelessly, or in vain. Every event has its

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Prayer
...( e.g.   Genesis 28:20; see art. Vows). (ii.) The Law ( i.e. as codified and expanded in later times). The reticence a ...t not to be neglected. It is true there is no absolute command for this in God's word; yet from hints, allusions, and examples, we may learn that it was the

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Trinity
...zed in the names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but in one name, which is God's; and, therefore, though we be thrice put under water to represent the myste ...m, while Ebonites described Jesus as an ordinary man indwelt with God's power at baptism. [[Arius]] was also an influential theologian who

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Ethics
...t ( Matthew 7:24-27 ), and is due in part to a supposition that every law is for every man. The disciples, having a special task, might be under spec .../p> See also [[Theology Of Deuteronomy]]; [[Jesus Christ]]; [[Law]]; [[Salvation]]; [[Sanctification]]; [[Sermon On The Mount]]; [[Ten Comman

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Grace
...deals with sinful mankind not on the ground of merit or after the mode of Law, as though they were servants or subjects, but solely from His own natural ...asizes the free character of grace. The one reference in James links it to God's gift (4:6). Peter, who also includes it in his greeting, quotes the same Ol

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Love
...James.-The Epistle of James by calling the commandment of love ‘the royal law’ ( James 2:8) places love in the centre of religion. This love is no ...here and now. Christians love because they have been loved. In such love, God's eternal purposes are being experienced and carried out by his people (&nbsp

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Sabbath
...f rest; and it was also strictly enjoined upon the [[Israelites]] in their law, both on the ground of its original institution,  Exodus 20:8-11 , and ...seventh-day Sabbath is the desirable day and according to ‘an unchangeable Law of well-establisht Order both in the [[Revealed]] Word and in [[Created]] N

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Predestination
...ace of God, they were absolutely incapacitated for obedience to the divine law. To get rid of this difficulty, Augustine, in some degree, transferred the ...braham, the Covenant with Israel, the discipline and growing revelation of Law and [[Prophets]] leads up (on predestination here, cf.   Genesis 18:18

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Faith
...und the expression: ‘Before the faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed’ ( Galat ...sues appear under the terms Justification, Atonement, Propitiation, Grace, Law (in NT), etc. But St. Peter in his 1st Ep., St. John in his 1st Ep. and Rev

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Elijah
...ostdiluvial world, as Enoch's to the antediluvial, against their unbelief. God's voice, "This is My beloved Son, hear Him," attests that the servants must b ...rk 9:4-5;  Luke 9:30,33 ). Some have seen the two as representing the Law and the Prophets, which were now both considered to be subservient to Chris

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Mediator
...s righteousness, His disposition to treat men according to a perfect moral law. When sin is passed over, righteousness is not manifested. But it was demon ...ng by this person; that it is he who spake to the patriarchs, who gave the law by Moses, and who is called in the Old Testament, "the angel of the covenan

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Adoption
...ὸν νόμον; the reference is not only to those who were under the [[Mosaic]] Law, but to all subject to any system of positive ordinances (so perhaps in &nb ...ry way great and extensive. 1. It implies great honour. They have God's name put upon them, and are described as "his people, called by his name, "

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Marriage
...he qualified answer of v. 9. This answer really admits the validity of the law of   Deuteronomy 24:1 , with its stricter interpretation (see p. 586 b ...marriage relationship. For marriage to function now according to God's ideal, believers in Christ need to marry only believers. Whenever God direc

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Creation
...he stronger surviving the weaker in the struggle for existence, and by the law of "natural selection" assuming those members which it needed for its devel ...the world. Like many Old Testament passages, this passage in Hebrews links God's creative activity with His redemptive activity. The people of [[Ly

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Righteousness
...ghteousness in the New Testament ; P. Stulmacher, Reconciliation, Law and Righteousness ; J. A. Zeisler, The Meaning of Righteousness in ...m> d ) Since righteousness is conformity to the Divine will, and the Law which reveals that will is righteous in the whole and its parts (  Psa

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Miracles
...t an act is not less Divine because it is fundamentally in accordance with law’ ( Life of Christ in Recent Research , p. 218). It may ...is their being wrought, or not, in support of doctrine in accordance with God's known word and revelation; for God cannot by subsequent revelation contradi

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Law Of Moses
...round. Christ glorified is the One whom God now recognises He only suits God's glory. Hence every one that is not 'in Christ' is a sinner already condemne ...from Mount Sinai, that which may be called the rough outline of the Mosaic law is given by God, solemnly recorded by Moses, and accepted by the people. In

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Scribes
...rs, and in stimulating hope for the future. The ordinances of the [[Oral]] Law were at last written down, and to their careful preservation by the Scribes ...d from the common herd, "people of the earth," "cursed" as not knowing the law ( John 7:15;  John 7:49). Fees were paid them for arbitrations (&

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Forgiveness
...E. Ladd, A [[Theology]] of the New Testament ; E. A. Martens, God's Design: A [[Focus]] on Old Testament Theology ; J. Milgrom, Cult a ...of His people (  Leviticus 11:44 ). Thus the [[Pauline]] saying, ‘The law hath been our tutor to bring us to Christ’ (  Galatians 3:24 ), is p

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Angel
.../i> ; A. C. Gaebelein, The Angels of God ; B. Graham, Angels: God's [[Secret]] Agets ; H. Lockyer, The [[Mystery]] and [[Ministry]] of ...y be asked, are the holy angels made at all subservient to the purposes of God's government? This question is answered by St. Paul in his [[Epistle]] to the

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Revelation
...ssible the operation of the human conscience, is sometimes called ‘natural law’ ( Romans 2:15; see [[Conscience]] ). The revelation throug ...idence, is evident from the ideas it gives us of God's perfections, of the law of nature, of redemption, of the state of man, &c. As to its external evide

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Reconciliation
...ile both unto God." This he did by the same act; abolishing the ceremonial law by becoming the antitype of all its sacrifices, and thus, by the sacrifice ...and love are harmonized. By Christ's sacrifice the sinner is brought into God's favor, which by sin he had justly forfeited. Hence his prayer is," God be p

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Gospel
...i> vii. [1895-96] 297f., xii. [1900-01] 482b, xxi. [1909-10] 497f. For the Law in Hebrews, see A. S. Peake, Hebrews (Century Bible, 1902). p. 30f ...s 3:22,26;  Galatians 2:16,20 ). One must believe the gospel for here God's salvation is mediated. (2) [[Growing]] . The gospel is both a mess

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Deuteronomy
...> ) As He is God of the whole earth, Jahweh’s will is the moral law, and in connexion with its requirements He rewards and punishes (cf. the te ...settle down in an agriculturally fertile country. Moses’ repetition of the law therefore included adjustments to fit in with the people’s new way of lif

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Worship
...ctive, and to this day the church continues to debate the relationship of "law" and "grace" in the life of the Christian. The second concerned the relatio ...arvest in the kingdom of grace; the law of the letter from Mount Sinai—the law of the spirit from the heavenly Jerusalem. This festival originally embrace

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Law In The Old Testament
Law In The Old Testament <ref name="term_5919" /> ...osephus, Ant. , XX, viii, 8; ix, 2). (3) That the Mosaic law as to divorce was to give place to one more stringent appe 

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Person Of Christ
...are the conditions of entrance. He put aside the ancient ordinances of the Law. He called all the weary to Himself for rest; most amazing of all, He claim ...s this Word, eternal in His subsistence, God's eternal fellow, the eternal God's self, that, as "come in the flesh," was Jesus Christ ( 1 John 4:2 ). "

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Logos
...bringing life and light to men. He comes with a gospel that supersedes the Law of Moses, for it is a gospel of grace as well as of truth. Himself the Son ...Gospel Jesus spoke and acted as the incarnate logos , continuing God's creative and redemptive work. Hence, He could change water to wine, create

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Holy Spirit
...p;2 Corinthians 3:17;  Galatians 5:5; see [[Flesh]] ; [[Freedom]] ; [[Law]] ). This change in the behaviour of believers does not happen aut ...e of God's personality and power, living in and divinely empowering all of God's true people in diverse and incomplete ways that foreshadow their complete,

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Word
...desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it" ( Isaiah 55:11 ). God's word as his creative power and revelation is perfect and all-sufficient, es ...ngs is summed up as the prophetic λόγος. In  Galatians 5:14 the whole Law is said to be summed up in one λόγος, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour

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Pharisees
...heir practice ( Matthew 23:2-3). But while pressing the letter of the law they ignored the spirit ( Matthew 5:21-22;  Matthew 5:27;  M ...ncipient neo-Pharisaism with its exclusiveness and ‘desire to be under the law,’ and combated it so successfully. While the statement in the JE_ (ix. 66

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Pentateuch
...am's prayer ( Numbers 23:10). [[Order]] . The development of God's grace to man is the golden thread running through the whole, and binding th ...h profit. At times we must sacrifice our need for security in certainty to God's nature as sovereign mystery. See [[Authority]]; Inspiration; Revelation. </

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Messiah
...s the centre of his thought would have been to replace the legalism of the Law by the legalism of a new authority. St. Paul was evidently acquainted with ...o-fold Messias; one the son of Ephraim, a poor and despised teacher of the law; the other the son of David, to be a conqueror. Nehemiah was content to be

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David
...he Ziphites for betraying David: "Blessed be ye of the Lord (thus claiming God's sanction to treachery, malice, and bloodthirsty persecution of the innocent ...the first time introduced into public worship. [[Zion]] became henceforth "God's holy hill." David's wars. David now entered on a series of conques

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Holiness
...persons and to the nation, holiness acquired a deeper significance. In the Law of [[Holiness]] (Leviticus 17 ff.) the command. ‘Ye shall be holy; for I ...dus 19:5-6) And hence the gospel-charter, corresponding to the same as the law by Moses had typically represented, makes the same proclamation. "Ye are (s

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Leviticus
...onial pollution a pollution which includes more than ethical elements. The law-book probably arose at some sanctuary other than Jerusalem, and expressed a ...truction is a gift from God and helps the people understand how to live as God's covenant people. The book thus provides an important part of the story of G

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Israel
...bout b.c. 300. They were composed under the influence of the [[Levitical]] law. The history was re-told in Chronicles, in order to furnish the faithful wi ...as a politically separate religiously oriented nation; rather, he spoke of God's all-encompassing kingdom. And while it is true Paul spoke of his ethnic peo

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Kingdom Of God
...> The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus ; R. Schnackenburg, God's Rule and Kingdom ; R. H. Stein, The Method and [[Message]] of Jesu ...powerful (in Jesus' day wealth and power were often thought to be signs of God's blessing). Jesus included everyone without distinction. He spoke of God sen

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Fire
...trickery or hidden evidence here. There is no hypocrisy in GOD's presence. GOD's fierce anger is displayed in all its justice, righteousness and purity. </p ...sence in fire. To Moses at the bush,  Exodus 3:2 at the giving of the law on Mount Siani,  Exodus 19:18-19. To Isaiah in the vision,  Isaia

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Adam
...collected into our system, wholly forbids us to suppose that the image of God's moral perfections in man was a blurred and dim representation. To whatever ...is intended to show that the provision made for divorce in the [[Mosaic]] law ( Deuteronomy 24:1) was only a concession to the hardness of men’s h

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Calvinism
...ity with the Lutherans. With them, in words, he taught the universality of God's good will; but it was a universality which he extended only to the off ...hreefold economy: (1) Theeconomy before the law; (2) The economy under the law; (3) The economy of the Gospel. See his Summa Doctrine de Feedere et Testam

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Abraham
...ousness"; but the faith that justified him was evinced, by his offering at God's command his son, to be not a dead but a living "faith that works by love." ...l persons with whom modern Christians are privileged to join in witness to God's power and his plan of salvation through Christ. While Christians can rejoic

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Book Of Exodus
...y established his covenant with Israel as his chosen people, giving them a law-code and a religious order to govern their national life. The instructions ...of God's people prepares for worship ( Exodus 40:1-33 ). E. God's presence fills the worship place continually for His obedient people (&nbsp

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Propitiation
...ness rather than in any definite legal obligation; the Pauline idea of the law of righteousness is absent. If a Pauline philosophy of redemption lies behi ...do not mean by God's anger, any such passion, but the just declaration of God's will to punish, upon our provocation of him by our sins; we do not make the

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Prophet
...parted and lots cast for His vesture," "His ears opened" to "come" and "do God's will" at all costs, when God would not have animal "sacrifice" (Psalm 22; P ...r most essential characteristic is that they were instruments of revealing God's will to man, as in other ways, so specially by predicting future events, an

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Salvation
...sp;Galatians 3:8 ). The objective basis and means of salvation is God's sovereign and gracious choice to be "God with us" in the person of Jesus Ch ...te us from God's love in Christ ( Romans 8:35-39 ). [[Confidence]] in God's ability to keep those who have entrusted their lives to Christ is not, howe

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Satan
...mission, faith, and so his end being blessed, as in Job's case. Man can in God's strength "resist Satan" ( James 4:7); by withholding consent of the wi ...e sinner is translated out of "the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son." ( Colossians 1:13) And there is another and a open

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Regeneration
...4 ). The law of God has its place in producing this conviction of sin; but law alone will not produce spiritual contrition. See Repentance. For this there ...( Ephesians 2:1 ). [[Left]] to themselves, human beings will corrupt God's revelation of Himself and turn to gross forms of disobedience ( Romans

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Circumcision
...hether the members of that church were not seeking to be "justified by the law" upon their observing "days, and months, and times, and years." Had he done ...κατατέμνειν is used in the Septuagintof incisions forbidden by the Mosaic Law: e.g. κατετέμνοντο κατὰ τὸν ἐθισμὸν

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Anthropology
...ndividuals. God's knowledge of people is intimate, personal, and profound. God's love is offered to human beings individually. The relationship between huma ...y must limit itself to a period of time inside of 100,000 years" (Orr, God's Image , etc., 176). Professor Tait of [[Edinburgh]] limited the range

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Will Of God
...decision making. We are left "in the middle, " knowing that we are to seek God's guidance through the Scriptures, prayer, the counsel of Christian leaders,

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Christianity
...precedents, Greek philosophy and intellectual habitudes, Roman polity and law, the superstitious ideas and observances of paganism—must be taken into a ...Jericho; Apollos, distinguished for eloquence; Paul, learned in the Jewish law; [[Sergius]] Paulus, governor of the island of Cyprus; Cornelius, a Roman c

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Life
...protects the believer ( Romans 8:7-39;  Ephesians 6:10-18 ). The Law threatens this life by tempting people to believe that they can attain this ...is drained from the body, so is life. The connection is so strong that the law forbade the consumption of blood or meat with blood in it ( Genesis 9:

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Talmud
...36). It is clear from this that the Written Law of the Bible, and the Oral Law as contained in the Talmud, are of equal authority. The Talmud is again ref ...developed system for settling disputed questions of halakah (oral law). It includes commentary on all six major divisions of the Mishnah, but del

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Priest
...parable in fact with that of the Rabbis, the masters and expounders of the Law. A sacrificial priest becomes an anachronism when his duties are in abeyanc ...receive is the redemption money of the firstborn, the right of taking the law from the chest, and of pronouncing the benediction in the synagogue. From s

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Nehemiah
...arrying the daughter of Sanballat the Horonite. [[Zeal]] for the purity of God's worship, priesthood, and people, makes the act praiseworthy as one of faith ... O. God's day must be respected ( Nehemiah 13:15-22 ). P. God's way demands purity in marriage and in ministers ( Nehemiah 13:23-31 ).

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Christology Christ
...erse (‘and from all the things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses, by him is justified every one that believeth’) St. Paul seems t ...ing into his family. Since Christ is the goal and end of the Old Testament Law, so "faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through

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Glory
... Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) . [[Robert]] Law. ...nd acknowledge it. In a number of passages it is difficult to know whether God's glory refers to his actual glory or to human recognition of it. This is tru

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Aaron
...tainous land of Edom, was encamped at Mosera, he ascended Mount [[Hor]] at God's command. There Moses stripped him of his pontifical robes, and put them upo ...s, require here to be pointed out. Before the promulgation of the law by Moses, the fathers of every family, and the princes of every tribe, were

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Elisha
...the law, foreruns the gentler Elisha, so John the greatest prophet of the law foreruns Jesus the gracious Savior. ...s God (cf.  Daniel 12:2 ), when they are brought into connection with God's true Prophet they will be restored to life as unexpectedly and as powerfull

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Church
...may he called the provincial Church (A. Harnack, [[Constitution]] and Law of the Church , Eng. translation, London, 1910, p. 160). Besi ...y incorporated and Å“cumenical society of the Roman Empire, with its canon law and hierarchical jurisdiction, and from that Kingdom of Christ which Luther

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Genesis
...n, injustice, and conniving ( Genesis 38:1-30 ). 3. God's presence is the only blessing His servant needs ( Genesis 39:1-23 ). < ...s book; and it is supposed that he penned it after the promulgation of the law. Its authenticity is attested by the most indisputable evidence, and it is

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Heaven
...ories of thought. For example, the Rabbinical tradition could think of the Law, the Temple, and other central ideas of Judaism as laid up with God before ...ity of languages shall then cease, inasmuch as it took its first rise from God's judicial hand, when he confounded the speech of those who presumptuously at

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Holy Ghost
...nsciousness of our own good works.' This, he affirms, is ‘the testimony of God's Spirit.' But this is included in the testimony of our own spirit: yea, and ...on of the existence and divinity of the Holy Spirit may be expected in the law and the prophets, and is, in fact, to be traced there with certainty. The S

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Authority In Religion
..., in which our Lord refers to Isaiah not merely as an interpreter of God’s law, but as a teacher of God’s people. But the inference is not to be straine ...Rests on Personal Authority They all rest on the assumption that God's self-revelation came to an end with the apostolic age. The Biblical theory

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Epistle To The Romans
...‘it has learned to break with Judaism, and to regard the standpoint of the law as once for all past and done with.’ This is ‘a remarkable forward step ...goodness of God, their defection would make the way for the resumption of God's ways with Israel, and both Gentiles and Jews would manifestly come in on th

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Paul The Apostle
...f Jerusalem, who thought that he persuaded Jews not to keep the Law, and to undertake the [[Temple]] charges for four men who were under a vow, .... C. van Unnik, Tarsus or Jerusalem ; S. Westerholm, Israel's Law and the Church's Faith ; B. [[Winter]] and A. Clark, The Book of A

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Testimony
...witness to the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus in a human court of law, John reminds them with the Book of Revelation that their ultimate destiny ...Jesus alone could say it, "I delight to do thy will [[O]] my God, yea thy law is within my heart"â€”or as the margin renders it, "in the midst of my

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Hosea
...13:1-16 ). I. [[Repentance]] results in restoration and life for God's people ( Hosea 14:1-9 ). Billy K. Smith ...ng (which they so craved for originally), without a sacrifice (which their law requires as essential to their religion), without an image ... ephod ... te

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Conscience
...and faith unfeigned are ‘the end of the charge’ and the fulfilling of the law ( 1 Timothy 1:5). To be perfectly educated, in short, a conscience mus ...to receive progressively a revelation of the righteousness of God. But is law the last word? May there not be mercy and an atonement? [[Cannot]] the accu

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Children Of God
...God ( Matthew 25:40); He is conscious that He has never broken God’s law. Therefore He can know God as the Father; and He is able to reveal God to m ...f His love, and able to "rise and go to their Father." They are objects of God's love ( John 15:13;  Romans 5:8 ) and of His gracious search and s

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Election
.... It is rather a stronghold in time of trial and a confession of praise to God's grace and to His glory. Timothy [[George]] This word has different meanings. 1. It signifies God's taking a whole nation, community, or body of men, into external covenant wi

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Praise
...is sufficient reason for praise. A psalmist, captivated by the reality of God's choice of Jacob, exhorts, "Sing praise" ( Psalm 135; cf.  Revelat ...12; in  Ephesians 1:14 , of the whole company, the church, viewed as "God's own possession" (RV); in  Ephesians 1:6 , with particular reference to

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Truth
...perfect. The apostles further taught that the truth of God outlined in the Law and embodied in Christ was brought home to the heart and mind of men by man ...not believe the truth, but instead had pleasure in unrighteousness (2:12). God's choosing of the [[Thessalonian]] believers for salvation came about by mean

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Work
...nally to their rightful positions as kings and queens of the new creation, God's resplendent images, who will exercise dominion through service and love (22

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Mercy
...i> . R. Bultmann, TDNT, 2:477-87; 5:159-61; J. D. M. Derrett, Law in the New Testament ; H.-H. Esser, NIDNTT 2:593-601; N. Glue ...pest to society to escape unpunished, or so mitigates the sentence of the law as to put it into his power to do still greater hurt to others, he violates

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Mystery
...unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law." The little ones must hear all revelation as much as the intellec ...hey occupy as those who have experienced the fulfillment of the mystery of God's purposes. Although predicted in the Scriptures, the mystery was kept silent

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Isaiah
...God brings life ( Isaiah 60:1-62:12 ). F. [[Prayer]] brings God's help ( Isaiah 63:1-65:25 ). G. [[Judgment]] and deliverance a ...itions such as suit comforting exhortations. The many epithets attached to God's name are designed as so many stays whereon faith may rest and repel despair

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Synagogue
...rford, Pharisaism, London, 1912, pp. 80-83). The reading from the Law introduced by Ezra ( Nehemiah 8:5) became soon afterwards a fixed cust ...stomary greeting, with a doxology. A section was then read from the Mosaic law. Then followed, after the singing of a second doxology, the reading of a po

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Justice
...he custom of employing persons of high rank to execute the sentence of the law, is still retained in the principality of Senaar, where the public executio ...e time. But there were different kinds of imprisonment recognized by Roman law, and it lay within the magistrate’s power to decide which kind the prison

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Apocrypha
...privilege. But the identification of wisdom in Sirach with interest in the Law ( Sirach 39:1) tends to limit this grace itself and confine it to Isra ...will remain four hundred years and then die. The next three visions stress God's coming intervention and salvation of His people through the pre-existent Me

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Adultery
...mind, among the Jews, God's high displeasure against this violation of his law; and though some lax moralists have been found, in modern times, to palliat ...for reviving an obsolete penalty, or else sanctioning an infraction of the law. In  Matthew 5:82 He condemns their usage of divorce except in the cas

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Miracle
...own observation of the regularity of their effects. The existence of this law is made known to us not only by these means, but also by the still clearer ...held sway and where people require "power evangelism" to be converted. But God's sovereignty warns against trying to predict when they may occur and refutes

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Fear
...e revelation of God to people in the New Testament contains the element of God's mysterious otherness calling for reverent obedience. The New Testament chur ...l. The [[Torah]] was thus a tutor to bring them to Christ. The religion of law, in which God was a Sovereign to be obeyed and a Judge to be dreaded, was c

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Resurrection
...this idea alone retains its vitality in Philo’s system, the future of the Law which is destined to attain universal sway’ (Les idées philosophiques et ...e of the basis for hoping and not fearing death. It also affects morality. God's future judgment modifies earthly behavior. Paul's conclusion that "If the d

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Epistle To The Galatians
...was the least danger of the Gentile Christians being made to submit to the Law. There is therefore no reason for surprise that the recent attack on the au ...were in fact utterly opposed, but if led by the Spirit they were not under law. The works of the flesh are set forth in contrast to the fruit of the Spiri

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Repentance
...t would seem to have been his own experience of it: the crushing weight of law; the emergence of desire: the resultant sense of helplessness; and the deli ...raim? My heart is changed within me I will not carry out my fierce anger." God's true love for Israel would triumph, and he would keep covenant with his peo

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Assurance
...ht himself also to walk even as he walked’ ( 1 John 2:5 f.). Law aptly characterizes St. John’s doctrine of personal assurance when he say ...that man is by nature prone to evil, and that in practice he violates that law under which as a creature he is placed, and is thereby exposed to punishmen

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Mystics
...is said to have been the famous Bossuet, bishop of Meaux. Mr. [[William]] Law, author of the "Serious Call," &c, degenerated in the latter part of his li ...t derived to our souls. Law's Life; Law's Spirit of [[Prayer]] and Appeal; Law's Spirit of Love, and on Regeneration. 

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Son Of God
...rred] (1900); F. W. Robertson, Serm. ii. 136, 235; P. Brooks, Law of [[Growth]] , 346. James Stalker. ...bsp;Acts 3:17;  Acts 13:27). Deniers of Jesus' Godhead on the plea of God's unity copy the Jews, who crucified Him because of His claim to be God. The

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Canon Of The Old Testament
...ved by vision or prophecy; in His own name He supplied what was wanting in Law and Prophets. He did not pronounce any book in Itself adequate to determine ...Epiphanes (168 B.C.) in persecuting the Jews sought out "the books of the law" and burnt them ( 1 Maccabees 1:56). To possess a book of the covenant

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Biblical Theology
...tical theories. This is not to denigrate scholarship but to recognize that God's word, if living and true, calls for substantially (not totally) different a ...[[Return]] and the Maccabees, in which are seen at work the [[Levitical]] law, and various anti-legal tendencies. It must be obvious that attempts to int

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Isaac
...common title (See [[Abimelech]] , i.e. my father a king. Isaac had obeyed God's vision in not going down to Egypt, a place of spiritual danger though abund ...er should serve the younger, but Rebekah, instead of leaving the matter in God's hands, contrived by a deceitful stratagem to get the blessing for Jacob ins

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Heart
...remiah 17:1 ). In short, the heart needs to be educated by filling it with God's word ( Proverbs 22:17-18 ). In that way a person will grow in favor an ...e where God does His work in the individual. For instance, the work of the law is “written in their hearts,” and conscience is the proof of this (&nbs

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The Johannine Theology
...al of the absoluteness of moral obligation, the repudiation of the eternal law upon which all moral life is based. In other words, to sin is to assert one

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Blasphemy
...against any of the false gods whom his [[Egyptian]] father worshipped,—the law in the words now quoted is sufficiently explicit; and the circumstances of ...and God (εἰς Μωσῆν καὶ τὸν θεόν). According to the [[Levitical]] law the punishment for blaspheming the name of [[Jahweh]] was death by stoning

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Paul
...nst the Christians. He considered that [[Stephen]] was a rebel against the law and that therefore he deserved execution ( Acts 6:13;  Acts 7:58; ...of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee’ ( Philippians 3:5); and these terms betoken an intensel

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Ezra
...f the Jewish people. Ezra is the true founder of Judaism. By investing the Law with a sanctity and influence that it had never before possessed, and makin ...of Jerusalem was rebuilt ( Nehemiah 6:15), after which Ezra read the law to the people and explained its meaning ( Nehemiah 8:1-2;  Nehemi

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Vicarious Sacrifice
...e sins of many ( Hebrews 9:28). ‘Not the satisfaction of the law, the removal of the curse, the endurance of the penalty of sin, but a Divin

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Wisdom
...omen who should decry love.… It is the forgetfulness of this psychological law which stultifies the so-called liberal Christianity. It is the realisation ...iestly ritual, ‘wisdom’ came to be defined as observance of the [[Mosaic]] Law ( Sir 19:20-24; Sir 24:23 ). On its Divine side, ‘wisdom’ was

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Election Elect
...disciples’ preaching than the Jews, since to the latter had been given the Law and the Prophets. The justness of the objection may be granted. But against ...timate ends, but they suffer the consequences that attend the rejection of God's will. [[Walter]] A. Elwell See also Israel; Mess

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Book Of Job
...s Job had. They must take a sacrifice, and Job must pray for them: Job was God's servant, and him God would accept. God blessed his latter end more than the ...ighteous?" and so the book is resolved into a theodicy, a justification of God's ways with man. Well the friends of Job do their best to make their interpre

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Josiah
...se in Jerusalem the three from Babylon were guests, from whom Zechariah by God's command took silver and gold to make crowns for the high priest Joshua's he ...ah gathered Jerusalem’s leading citizens together at the temple, where the law was read to them. He gained their support in renewing the nation’s covena

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Evil
...osition) sent by God that eventually destroyed Saul. The spirit, then, was God's instrument of judgment on Saul because of his rebellious attitude. Morally, ...for the perfection and order of the whole creation; only they, contrary to God's intention and command, have abused what was necessary for the perfection of

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Image
...o those which follow, is found in  Hebrews 10:1, where the [[Mosaic]] Law is spoken of as being a mere ‘shadow’ of the coming bliss, instead of r ...references to graven and molten images connected with idolatry, which the law strictly forbade the [[Israelites]] to make, the word is used in several im

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Book Of Numbers
...God was thrown open by ‘another priest, who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an indissoluble life’ (&n ... they are taken into consideration, and hence their perversities and God's chastisements are prominent. These lead, in their spiritual significance, t

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Spirit
... The Spirit distributes gifts in the church which are designed to equip God's people for serving and building up the body of Christ ( 1 Corinthians ...rs must worship in spirit and in truth" ( John 4:24 ). While God's Spirit is holy, reference is made to unclean, evil, and demonic spirits tha

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Jewish. Scribes
...the Syrians, and check [[Hellenistic]] luxuries, these two doctors of the law enacted that contact with the soil of any foreign country, and the use of g

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Light
...equence, infallible as the foundations of the universe and Nature’s oldest law, the light returns on you, this time, with lightning ’ ...bsp;Psalm 27:1;  Isaiah 9:2;  2 Corinthians 4:6 ) in contrast to God's judgment ( Amos 5:18 ). Throughout the Old Testament light is regularl

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Blood
...oth in the heavens and upon earth. Even the balance of nature will reflect God's hand of judgment as Christ takes up His reign. Nature off balance reflects ...d the flesh of animals to be a source of food for human beings, but in the law he set out for Israel, those who took an animal’s life had to acknowledge

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Incarnation
...aw a law recognized as Divine to be Lord of the Sabbath, and to give a new law to His disciples. In all His teaching there is an implicit claim to infalli ...ust be two natures if there be two persons in Christ, led Eutyches, by the law of contrarieties, to an exact counterpart, that there is but one person in

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Man
...men have actually sinned, though, prior to the giving of explicit law, their sin was different in kind from Adam’s wilful disobedience ( R ...live a life of dependence on the promises; of regularity and obedience to God's word; of holy joy and peace; and have a hope full of immortality. 

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Baptism
...ing of Easter, contrasts the practice of Jesus with that of the [[Mosaic]] Law in the matter of the making of rules. It is quite possible that no ..., his higher nature doth not sin, his normal direction is against sin; the law of God after the inward man is the ruling principle of his true self (&nbsp

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Persecution
...o nation, but embraced all peoples. As such Christianity stood outside the law of the Empire. It created divisions in every nation, and town, and family. ...e a Christian, openly declared for the Christians, and published the first law in favour of them. The death of Maximin, emperor of the east, soon after pu

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Egypt
...dynasty, answering to the end of the period of the Judges. Thus, God's providence secured Israel from being crushed by tire overwhelming rival emp ...1 . Egypt too, it must be remembered, was the place of sojourn of God's favoured people Israel. It was a king of Egypt who caused to be translated

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Noah
...world by God's making human life inviolable on the ground of man's bearing God's image. These three precepts, abstinence from blood, murder punishable by de ...long with Daniel and Job, though able to secure only their own safety when God's sore judgements were on the land.  Ezekiel 14:14,16,20 . See ARK and F

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Books Of Chronicles
...bsp;2 Chronicles 36:9-21 ) VI. Providential [[Decree]] to Rebuild God's House ( 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 ) A. Date and origin of decree

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Angels
...by a series of powers or angels, who were ignorant of God; the [[Mosaic]] Law was given by them (cf. above, 5 ( b )). Cerinthus is the ...ts and visible agents, the invisible angels work in a marvelous way, under God's providence, guiding events at the crisis so as to carry out the foreordaine

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Omnipresence
...s of space, and to prove that everywhere there are indications of the same law and order as in the world around us, and that the indications of the presen ...Effects are produced by power, not by laws. A law cannot execute itself. A law refers us to an agent. The usual argument a priori, on

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Antichrist
...premature counterfeit of the true unity, only to be realized when Christ, God's true [[Vicar]] on earth, shall appear, and all the earth shall "in a pure l ...l powers. The last battle will be won by God and the beneficiaries will be God's people. L. Ann Jervis Bibliography . M. D. Hooke

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Woman
...ssiping or noisy or uneducated women), but Paul bases his rationale in the law (v. 34) and says nothing of these cultural phenomena. Others take verses 33 ...esians 5:22-33). Not only is the spirit of that relationship to be the new law of love, but the relationship itself is made sacramental by its comparison

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Revelation Of God
...women into God's presence. For believers today, the Bible is the source of God's revelation. In the written word we can identify God, know and understand so

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Altar
...the [[Urim]] and [[Thummim]] whereby the high priest miraculously learned God's will; and the ark of the covenant, whence God gave His answers in a clear v ...eby given to God. The acceptance of the offerings by the priest symbolized God's acceptance, manifest in blessings ( Exodus 20:24 ) and covenant renewa

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Tradition
...lical materials as well as come to a deeper understanding of the nature of God's inspiration. The common characteristics of material preserved at specific w ...R. T. Herford, Pharisaism , 1912; J. Z. Lauterbach, article‘Oral Law,’ in Jewish Encyclopedia ix. 423 ff.; A. C. Zenos, article‘Tra

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Sin
...must encounter ‘of enforcing his inherited organic nature to obey a moral law’ (Tennant, Hulsean Lectures , p. 81). But, apart from the fact t ...ere of good. '''4.''' That eternal vengeance is inconsistent with God's gospel revelation of Himself as love. But the New [[Testament]] abounds in

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Anthropomorphism
...k to some and foolishness to others ( 1 Corinthians 1:23 ), but it is God's wisdom revealing His way of salvation. Christ Jesus took the form (morphe) ...ligion , 1889; J. Fiske, The Idea of God , 1901; J. Orr, God's Image in Man , 1905; D. B. Purinton, [[Christian]] Theism , 1

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Christ
...be added, that He is the One great and glorious object of which the whole law, types, prophecies, and revelations point; and in whom they all, like rays ...om the beginning, who is described by the prophets, under the character of God's Anointed, the Messiah, or the Christ. As to the use of the term in the New

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Perseverance
...rs of holiness. This ideal is laid upon men by God, not to impose a harder law, but from His consuming passion to bring them to the fullest life. ...rowth]] into maturity is of the nature of salvation ( 1 Peter 2:2 b). God's grace continues to uphold and enable. Faith must be nurtured and strengthen

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Expiation
...and without shedding of blood there is no remission." Thus, by their very law, and by constant usage, were the Jews familiarized to the notion of expiato ...covered or shut out the claims and demands of the law against the sins of God's people, whereby he became "propitious" to them. The idea of vicari

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Ten Commandments Law Torah
Ten Commandments Law Torah <ref name="term_42048" /> ...h fulfills the Law ( Galatians 5:16;  Romans 8:1 ). Paul saw the Law as no longer to be viewed legalistically. Nevertheless, it is still the rev

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Death Of Christ
...what is the law of the Spirit of life and righteousness in Christ but the law of that moral order, through which Christ Jesus, by means of His mediation, ...ve faith in Jesus. Human sins are not just swept aside as inconsequential; God's justice is shown in that they are borne by the sinless Son of God, and beca

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Malachi
...righteous, on the day of Jahweh, with a concluding exhortation to obey the Law of Moses, and a promise of the coming of [[Elijah]] to lead the people to r ...God's name; ushered in by the forerunner Elijah, preaching a return to the law of Moses, and to the piety of Israel's forefathers, lest Jehovah come and s

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Epistle Of James
...est is against a ceremonialism which neglects the weightier matters of the Law; cf. esp.   James 1:27 , where ‘religion’ means religion on its ou ...arned against speaking evil one of another, in doing which they judged the law, which inculcates loving one's neighbour as oneself. None should exercise s

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Hell
...nfinite. [[Questions]] will remain. But believers personally know God's love in Jesus Christ. And their response to a lost world will parallel that ...). To the bad '''''Ηades''''' was depicted as a place of punishment, where God's wrath reached to the depths ( Deuteronomy 32:22;  Amos 9:2; &nbsp

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Prophetess Prophet Prophecy
...assical Old Testament prophecy and apostolic prophecy that delivered to us God's authoritative [[Scriptures]] have ceased. Others feel, however, that a seco

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Job
...ld not have used the [[Tetragrammaton]] so freely. Of familiarity with the Law there are, indeed, very few traces, but that is doubtless owing to the poet ...Add to this, that its prophetic parts reflect much light on the economy of God's moral government; and every admirer of sacred antiquity, every inquirer aft

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Promise
...3 ,Acts 2:33, 2:38-39 ). There are other subjects related to God's promise: rest ( Hebrews 4:1 ); the new covenant with its prospect of a ...l prevailed when, over the centuries, the Israelites became disobedient to God's covenant and ultimately were punished by exile. So desperate was the nation

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Lord
...obey Him totally. He is the Lord who reveals Himself in His covenant, His law, and His faithfulness. About 300 B.C. adonai became more

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Ezekiel
...ord ( Ezekiel 21:1-32 ) 4. Because Israel refused to live by God's covenant demands ( Ezekiel 22:1-31 ) 5. Because of the two si ...ill heaven and earth pass one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law until all be fulfilled" ( Matthew 5:18). The antitypical perfection of

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Obedience
...Jesus. The Spirit's abiding presence enables all God's people to carry out God's will and to live obediently before him. Harvey E. Finley ...that will not trust God. Obedience comes from a heart that trusts God. If God's people obey Him, they find the blessings He yearns to give. If they disobey

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Imputation
...ification before God is of the latter kind, and may be defined thus: it is God's gracious donation of the righteousness of Christ to believers, and his acce ...he prophets, which is received by faith in Christ by whose expiatory death God's retributive righteousness has been made manifest ( Romans 3:21 , &nbsp

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Fall
...se St. Paul goes on to show that till the time of Moses, in the absence of law, the descendants of Adam could not be held as blameworthy as Adam himself w ...may mean simply “when” (NIV; compare REB). One should also be reminded of God's grace to allow life to continue and the Hebrew understanding that death inv

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Book Of Ezra
...tical solutions for difficult problems. ( Ezra 10:12-17 ) P. God's way expects “fruit in keeping with repentance” ( Matthew 3:8 ) fro ...y years is broken in the year b.c. 458, when Ezra, the teacher of the Law , at the head of a fresh band of exiles, leaves [[Babylonia]] bearing

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Jews
...ceremonies essential to their religion can no more be observed: the ritual law, which cast a splendour on the national worship, and struck the [[Pagans]] ...ceremonies essential to their religion can no more be observed: the ritual law, which cast a splendour on the national worship, and struck the Pagans so m

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Samuel
...to which belonged "the sons of the prophets," whose education, beside the law, was in sacred, vocal, and instrumental music and processions ( 1 Samu ...;1 Samuel 25:1;  1 Samuel 28:3 ). It also left Saul without access to God's word. In desperation he acknowledged Samuel's power and influence by seekin

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Book Of Romans
...rgency of the times ( Romans 13:8-14 ). 1. Love fulfills the law ( Romans 13:8-10 ). 2. The critical nature of the times calls

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Hope
...never disappoints us; for through the Holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts” (  Romans 5:5 Williams). Hence, Paul's ...sting in our works is disallowed, we may boast or exult in hope of sharing God's glory ( Romans 5:2; cf.  Hebrews 3:6 ). Hope has a sanct

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Education
...men could, if they wished, receive a more thorough education in the Jewish law by becoming students of learned Jewish teachers ( John 3:10;  Act ...increase this use, in so far as it was now necessary to study not only the Law but also the Prophets and the Kethubim, seeing that these afforded propheti

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Proselyte
...Paul’s words, ‘by receiving circumcision, became a debtor to do the whole law’ ( Galatians 5:3)-was always admitted with fervour. ‘That proselyt ...s tenderer and whose ethical standards were higher, that made love and not law the interpreter of duty and the inspiration of service, that lived not in a

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Confession
...desire the coming of Christ, to satisfy for their sins, and accomplish the law by himself. (6.) That Christ was born in the ti ...ch in [[Alexandria]] at the end of the 1st cent. interpreted the [[Moral]] Law. The writer teaches definitely: ‘Thou shalt confess thy sins’ (ch. 19),

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John The Baptist
...e he had rebuked Herod for making her his wife in flagrant defiance of the law of Israel ( Leviticus 18:16;  Leviticus 20:21). Josephus, on the ...ed the overthrow of Herod's army, which he had sent against his father-in- law, Aretas, to the just judgment of God for putting John the Baptist to death.

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Idolatry
...temptation to a simple, restrained, agricultural people, whose worship and law demands the greatest purity of heart and of life. - Editor). ...livered from it ( Joshua 24:14;  Ezekiel 20:7 ). Many a token of God's displeasure fell upon them because of this sin. The idolatry learn

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Neonomians
...considered the formal obligation to do so as arising merely from the moral law, which, requiring supreme love to God, requires acquiscence in any revelati ...rlessly set forth the extent, spirituality, and unflinching demands of the law; they think it necessary also to urge upon sinners the legal dispensation,

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Christian. Marriage
...generally celebrated in private houses. In England, by the ancient common law, a like custom prevailed as in [[Scotland]] until 1757, when, by lord Hardw

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Prophecy
...that the existence of the things must needs be necessary; therefore, from God's judging infallibly concerning things which depend not on necessary but free ...r most essential characteristic is that they were instruments of revealing God's will to man, as in other ways, so specially by predicting future events, an

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Religion Of Israel
...s its expression in this, that public and private life, civil and criminal law, military and political matters were all controlled by religious principles

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Book Of Daniel
...is a revelation extending from the days of Daniel to the final blessing of God's people. The city and sanctuary are in view in  Daniel 9 , here the peo ...Daniel, the inspired book continues to give hope, strength, and courage to God's people, especially in times of persecution, and to call for ultimate faithf

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Jubilee
...4:13-23 ); but 3, are ultimately rescued and blessed according to God's purposes, and on the ground of the day of atonement. Israel have sold thems ...erhaps devoted to school and instruction of the people, the reading of the law and such services (Ewald). 

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Hand
...my right hand, I shall not be moved,"  Psalms 16:8 . To turn from the law of God, neither to the right hand nor to the left, is a frequent Scripture ...pleasure, or lack of respect. When used in reference to God, it symbolized God's warning and punishment. Hebrew “to fill the hand” expressed th

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Philosophy
...ablish the sovereignty of Virtue. He affirmed the existence of a universal law of right and wrong. He connected philosophy with action, both in detail and ...an reason, especially in light of the moral degeneracy in humans, requires God's help in resolving philosophical questions. The sacrificial structu

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Preaching
...ly quoted them, and referred their auditors to the Holy [[Scriptures]] for law. [[Pope]] Leo X. did not know this when he told Prierio, who complained of ...s truth, and filled "with faith and the Holy Ghost," depending wholly upon God's blessing for success, and going forth in his name, with ardent longing to "

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Scripture
...even the universality of its truth." "Blessed are" they.. "who walk in the law of the Lord."  Psalms 119:1. Rice, ''Our 66 Sacred Books.'' ...ded to our OT. There is frequent reference to the canonical groups of the ‘Law’ and the ‘Prophets.’ Of the Hagiographa, the Books of Psalms, Proverb

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Sadducee
...separated themselves from the congregation, and left the observance of the law, when one sect followed the one, and another sect followed the other, whom

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Mohammedanism
...nto the causes of these successes of the Crescent, we find that Mohammed's law was artfully and marvellously adapted to the corrupt nature of man; and, in

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Flesh
...ict are most vivid in contexts where Paul is describing the demands of the law on the one hand ( Romans 7:4,7-11;  Galatians 5:2-5 ), and its im .../i> , as opposed to the ‘mind,’ or higher nature of man, which accepts the Law of God ( Romans 7:25), and the ‘spirit,’ which is the principle of

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Mary
...to redeem, and to be born under the law, to redeem them that are under the law, he must still come nearer to our nature, and be born as the children are b ...and because she was a Jewish woman he was circumcised and submitted to the Law. Paul's words here or elsewhere tell us nothing about the nature of his con

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Mission
...r and dishonor. He is a chosen representative of Jesus Christ according to God's will and decree ( 1 Corinthians 1:1;  2 Corinthians 1:1;  Ga ...and it is necessary that the saved should participate in this fundamental law of Christ’s being ( John 6:53-57). It was the Son’s gracious will

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Pauline Theology
...ing not a primary part of God's plan. Indeed, this could be shown from the Law itself, which proved that faith was the primary method of salvation (Rom 4;

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History
...cate a divine concession but God's full intention ( Matthew 19:4-9 ). God's greatest revelation, Jesus, is the guide to interpretation. M Rand ...tical history history of war and conquests, or military history history of law history of commerce history of the crusades, &c. In these and similar examp

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Will
...ecause we love the brethren.’ Life, however, means death to sin and to the Law which enslaved to sin ( Romans 7:6,  Colossians 2:20;  Colos ...> [   Luke 7:30 , "rejected God's purpose"  1 Corinthians 4:5 ). God's will or desire is perfect, but it is large enough to incorporate and circum

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Divorce
...onfirms and elaborates the Old Testament concepts of marriage and divorce. God's ideal for marriage is a monogamous, permanent, and exclusive union. Because ...), they must also, like Jesus, give help to those who, having broken God’s law, are later repentant ( Luke 7:36-50;  John 8:1-11; cf.  Hose

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Sadducees
...rected against the Pharisees. In His protest against their making void the Law by their traditions He was at one with the Sadducees. Yet it was from the S ...isees say that some things are the work of fate ''(He Should Have [[Said]] God'S Providence; He Uses The Roman Mode Of Expression)'' , but others in our own

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Suffering
...nd human comprehension. Job is to accept his suffering without questioning god's wisdom or justice. The Book of Ecclesiastes also questions the cau ...sp;Psalm 66:10 ). Ultimately, the writers consigned themselves to trust in God's sometimes hidden wisdom ( Job 42:2-3;  Psalm 135:6 ). Th

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Offices Of Christ
...rifice may be found much more widely than merely in death, is shown by the law of service illustrated in the washing of the disciples' feet ( John 13 ...is advent, revealed to man, in his state of error, ignorance, and sin, the law of God to man, and the mercy of God to the sinner. He who in his own person

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Philo
...s variety is not, however, thereby reduced to a system. By this method the Law is spiritualized, on the presupposition that nothing could be contained in ...s souls, and, on the other hand, who held the Messiah to be the highest of God's messengers, to suppose a particular connection between him and the Logos. B

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The Book Of Deuteronomy
...edience. His notices of the children of [[Esau]] supplanting the Horims by God's help, and [[Moab]] supplanting the giant [[Emim]] ( Deuteronomy 2:9-13 ... III. Second Sermon: God's Law Guides and Gives Unique Identity to God's People ( Deuteronomy 4:44-28:68 ) A. Covenant faith demands t

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Jerusalem
...he Ammonite. Ezra cooperated with him (Nehemiah 8) by reading publicly the law at a national assembly on the first of the seventh month, the anniversary o ...nslation, do. 1908, i. 44-64, 182-184, ii. 97-99, The Constitution and Law of the Church in the First Two Centuries , Eng. translation, do. 1910,

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Father
...ave begotten you through the gospel." The father's great duty was to teach God's laws continually to his children; "speaking of them when thou sittest in th ...:12;  Ephesians 6:2, and disrespect towards them was condemned by the law as one of the worst crimes.  Exodus 21:15;  Exodus 21:17;  1

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Intercession
...ht exaltation to power in heaven and on earth. Now He intercedes for us at God's throne of grace.   Hebrews 7:25 proclaims the complete deliverance tha ...od, crying as it cloth for mercy and salvation! Surely it speaks to God of God's faithfulness to his promises, and Christ's claim to his merits; and it spea

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Book Of Psalms
...1, 95. 11. Liturgical psalms describe activities and responses of God's worshiping congregation. These appear in  Psalm 67:1 ,  Psalm 68: ...heir whole condition, and the principles on which they stand with God, His law being written in their hearts; ending with full and continued praise </

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Presence Of God
...until he comes again ( Matthew 28:20 ). In the age to come, God's presence will be the ultimate blessing, for believers will see him face to ...od with His people. The church is called to be a manifestation of God's presence. That community is fed by the presence of God found in communion b

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Universalism
...] , 1884, with full and interesting references; Plumptre’s brother-in-law, F. D. [[Maurice]] ( Theological Essays , 1853), had stated philos ...child's head and pronouncing its name, declared it gratefully received as God's gift, and solemnly dedicated to his loving service, pronouncing on it the b

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Dispensation
...aw ( Exodus 19:8 ) This is the period of acceptance of the [[Jewish]] law. 6. Grace ( John 1:17 ) This dispensation begins with the dea ...were until John.  Luke 16:16 . During this 'Dispensation of Law' the Times of the [[Gentiles]] commenced in the political supremacy of Nebu

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Conversion
...> The [[Conditions]] of Conversion If conversion is the result of grace on God's part, it is the result of repentance and faith on a person's part. Repentan ...ciple to turn; conversion is our actual turning. In the covenant, God's putting his Spirit into us is distinguished from our walking in his statute

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Plagues Of Egypt
...re forced to dig wells, for pure water to drink,—was a significant sign of God's displeasure for their senseless idolatry in worshipping the river and its f ...e different dispensations of the law and the gospel? Every thing under the law, like the full flowing streams of the Nile turned into blood, is made a sou

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Hagar
...the land of idols and worldliness; untaught by the piety of Abraham and by God's mercy to herself. ...irit, is persecuted by the older Israel, which is under the bondage of the Law. Hagar, the mother of bondmen, answers to the present [[Jerusalem]] (τῇ

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Paul Of Samosata
.... For Paul's meaning is that ''Christ,'' while obeying the commands of the law, and suffering its penalties, acted and suffered ''Alone;'' nor did ''God,'

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Exodus
...institutions, whether civil or ceremonial, are based. Civil and ceremonial law have equal authority and equal value. As yet, however, the principles which ...about the middle of it, having been two months on their journey. Here the law was given, and here they abode during all the transactions recorded in &nbs

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Sign
...in Jonah. The New Testament often rebukes the demand for a sign to confirm God's work ( Matthew 16:1;  John 2:18;  John 4:48;  1 Corinth ...ide. So in these eight signs in John we are told that [[Christ Jesus]] is GOD's answer to every need of the human heart.  Romans 4:11 (a) The

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Peter
...St. Paul strongly insisted upon the Gentiles’ freedom from the ceremonial Law, but still he had much in common with his Jewish predecessors, particularly ...and in calling him '"our beloved brother," and confirming the doctrine of "God's longsuffering being for salvation," from Paul's epistles:  Romans 2:4

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Anger
...modifies the conception of the Divine sternness ( Romans 9:22). The ‘Law,’ in making transgression possible, ‘worketh wrath’ ( Romans 4:1 ...er than it is to deny it. Jesus warns that angry people will face God's judgment ( Matthew 5:22; cf.  Galatians 5:20;  Colossians 3:

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Theology Of John
...his neighbour hath fulfilled the law â€¦ for love is the fulfilment of the law.’ No more comprehensive phrase, however, to describe in brief th ...J. Painter, [[Reading]] John's Gospel Today ; S. Pancaro, The Law in the Fourth Gospel: The [[Torah]] and the Gospel, Moses and Jesus, Judais

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Antinomians
...llowing sentiments, however, among others, are taught in his sermons: "The law is cruel and tyrannical, requiring what is naturally impossible." "The sins ...htly of good works, or asserted that believers have nothing to do with the law of God, without fully explaining what they mean: when they assert that God

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Knowledge
...ruth]] ). If people profess to be God’s people but do not know or obey his law, they only bring God’s judgment upon themselves ( Isaiah 5:13; &nbsp ...leads to obedience to His word of love. So the Christian is caught up into God's mission of love to the world in order that the world may come to know and b

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Immortality
...timately the body of him who possesses the life of God must pass under the law of eternal life, although the author of the Fourth Gospel never states the ...wledge, beyond what in this life is attainable; '''2.''' From the law of contraries, according to which, as rest prepares for labor, and labor fo

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Daniel
...crushed by the world power. The pair Daniel 4 and Daniel 5 shows God's power to humble the world power in the height of its impious arrogance; fir ...uring this period for his piety and his stict observance of the [[Mosaic]] law (1:8-16), and gained the confidence and esteem of those who were over him.

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Abortion
...Attempts to thwart this divine process would clearly be attempts to usurp God's role by destroying the human life God has begun to create and hence morally ...not been formed in the womb: this is based on Exodus 21. By the Visigothic law, the person who administered a draught for the purpose was punished with de

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Punishment
...ruck them dead, it was while Peter was presiding and executing judgment as God's representative ( Acts 5:1-11 ). [[Eternal]] Punishment </ ...in the absence of such sanction. would fail to command the respect of the law-breaker. Punishment may also be imposed with a view to reform the offender

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Freedom
...( Galatians 5:18 ) produces in the believer the very conduct that the law calls for ( Galatians 5:22-23 ). Finally, we should note that ...church, some people have always thought that we are no longer bound by the law but are “free” in Christ to act however we like. The [[Scriptures]] con

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Lust
...he origin of evil desire-not the body as such, but the sinful personality (Law [ Tests of Life 3, 1914, p. 149] explains ‘flesh’ otherwise he ...sp;1 John 2:16-17 ). Here we see that our lusts are in direct violation of God's perfect will, because they usually are misdirected, moving and leading us a

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Pl. Haphtaroth Haphtarah
...he portion from the prophets which is read instead of the portion from the law that could not be read, and which liberates from the injunction of reading

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Legalism
...ul's View of the Law in Romans and Galatians ; idem, Paul and the Law, A Contextual [[Approach]] ; J. A. Fitzmyer, According to Paul (n.) Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law. 

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Murder
...nt Research ; R. Westbrook, Studies in Biblical and [[Cuneiform]] Law . ...daggers ( sicae ; cf. Latin sicarius , ‘a murderer.’ The law passed under Sulla against murderers was Lex [[Cornelia]] de Sicariis <

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Inheritance
...rt of the property belonging to the inheritance. According to the levirate law, however, when a man died leaving no son, his brother or other next-of-kin ...the Jewish People ; A. N. Sherwin-White, Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament . 

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The Epistles Of John
...nnean. James, whose molding was in Judaism, presents as a rule of life the law, under the gospel, established in its spirit, the letter only being superse ...ence toward God ( 1 John 4:17 ,  1 John 4:18 ); the motives: (1) God's love to us ( 1 John 4:19 ); (2) that the only possible response to thi

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Jephthah
...28-29 is not in point, for it refers to a forced devoting of the wicked to God's glory in their destruction; God alone could so devote any. Nor was Jephthah ...a superstitious and ill-instructed man, and, like Samson, an instrument of God's power, rather than an example of his grace. 

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Theology Of Jeremiah
...d Book of Comfort (30:11; 33:15). God will do right by his people (30:11). God's intention is unchanged: he will "rejoice in doing them [Israel] good, and w

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Christian Law Of. Divorce
Christian Law Of. Divorce <ref name="term_37588" /> ...act would not have been committed with the present disposition, and state law tempted to its performance. We think that in such a case as this, at least

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Melchizedek
...hes from him (the giver's token of acknowledgment that all his property is God's), and so was superior to [[Levi]] and the Aaronic priesthood which were in ...tribe of Levi, as was the case after the promulgation of the Deuteronomic law (probably in the 7th cent.). At an earlier date persons belonging to other

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Peace
...> The Old [[Testament]] anticipated, and the New Testament confirmed, that God's peace would be mediated through a messiah (see  Isaiah 9:6-7;  Mi ...of that peace of God and peace with God, in the blood and righteousness of God's dear Son, "which passeth all understanding, keeping the heart and mind, in

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Theology Of James
...aizers]]; [[Justification]]; [[Law]]; [[Paul The Apostle]]; [[Works Of The Law]] Bibliography . [[P.]] [[H.]] Davids, [[Commentary]]

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Theology Of Hosea
...hat their salvation was only in God (13:4), anticipating the full scope of God's redemption through Christ. [[Robert]] [[D.]] Spender 

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Nazarite
...pe of [[Messiah]] ( Song of [[Solomon]] 5:10). But Israel so despised God's favors to tempt the Nazarite to break the vow; "ye gave the Nazarite wine t ... Numbers 6:2. As the Nazarite was a witness for the straitness of the law, as distinguished from the freedom of the gospel, his sacrifice of himself

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Redemption
...us, ‘born of a woman, born under the law, that he might buy out them under law, that we might receive the adoption of sons’ ( Galatians 4:4 f.); </ ...ies. When people are redeemed from the bondage of sin and the curse of the law, they come into a new life of liberty as the sons of God. [[Sin]] no longer

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Omniscience
...pressive. With them it is connected with man's state of trial; with a holy law, all the violations of which, in thought, word, and deed, are both infallib ...itself is thereby virtually denied. Nothing remains but to recognize that God's eternal knowledge of the outcome of the freewill choices of man implies tha

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Ark
...i> it is rendered die [[Lade]] mit dem Gesetz , ‘the ark with the law.’ When the Decalogue came to be known as ‘the testimony,’ the new nam .... The two tables of stone which constituted the "testimony" or evidence of God's covenant with the people ( Deuteronomy 31:26 ), the "pot of manna" (&n

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Death
...ple, [[Simeon]] asked God to let him “depart in peace” because he had seen God's salvation ( Luke 2:29 ). [[Similar]] to the Old Testament accounts of ...rld from each other. On one side of the point of separation you behold the law, with its priests, its sacrifices, and its rites, retiring from sight. On t

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Family
...tthew 10:35 f.,  Luke 12:52 f. that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are of one family or household (οἰκιακοί Mt., ‘in one house’ L ...he primary purpose of the family of God. [[Obedience]] to Christ and doing God's will was the calling for everyone. This faith commitment, then, shaped the

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Samson
...y over "Samson the destroyer of their country" to their god Dagon provoked God's jealousy for His honour. A Philistine multitude, including all their lords, ...;Judges 15:1-5). In retaliation for their murder of his wife and father-in-law, Samson killed more Philistines ( Judges 15:6-8). When the Philistines

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Book Of Zechariah
...stores His [[Faithful]] [[Remnant]] ( Zechariah 8:1-23 ). A. God's jealousy leads to hope for His people ( Zechariah 8:1-5 ). B. ...12:8;  Zechariah 14:11 ,  Zechariah 14:16-19 ). (vi) The idea of God's providence as extending to the whole earth ( Zechariah 1:14-17;  

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Gnosticism
...overcome; it lay in wickedness; the flesh was to be mortified; there was a law in the members warring against the spirit. [[Divorced]] from the general te ...ring [[Messiah]] and of the fulfilment in Jesus of the types of the Mosaic law they felt that the veil had been removed for them and that they enjoyed a k

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Philosopher Justinus Martyr
...at [[I]] am." By these two cases, specimens of a hundred others drawn from Law and Psalm and Prophets, it will be seen how clearly the problem was present

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Religion
...[Scriptures]] of the Old and New Testaments that arose in conjunction with God's saving Acts in Israel's history and culminated in Jesus Christ. Se ...ves, that the [[Gentiles]] have the law written on their hearts, and are a law unto themselves; yet the greatest moralists among them were so blinded as t

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Parable
...succession of Rabbinical precedents and their artificial mediation of the Law of God, and discovered a new source of illumination and authority in the ph ...n Treasure;]] the [[Pearl Of Great Price;]] and the NET. 3. God's way of bringing into blessing. The [[Lost Sheep;]] the [[Lost Piece O

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Epistle Of Barnabas
...tells us of him. And it is difficult to think that any Jew, born under the Law, and nurtured in the stirring traditions of its maintenance in the face of ...was really Christian; of its exclusion of Jews, as such, from all part in God's covenant; and of its dwelling precisely upon those doctrines of the Christi

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Merit
...ut either from a relative justice or equity, such as that implied in Roman law by the relation of father and son, or lord and slave (Aquinas, Summa Th

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Baptists
...ve the seventh day of the week as their Sabbath, apprehending the original law of the [[Sabbath]] to remain in force, unaltered and unrepealed. These are ...them observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, apprehending the law that enjoined it not to have been repealed by Christ. Some of the General B

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Holiness Purity
...l requirements connected with hand-washing that Jesus enunciates the great law, repealing all the Levitical rules as to unclean meats ( Mark 7:6-23,

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The Arrest And Trial Of Jesus Christ
...sequent proceedings were contrary to both the letter and the spirit of the law. Although Pilate took his place upon the judgment seat, his acts, properly

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Theology Of Bible
.... [[Notice]] that this sketch of biblical theology centers on the theme of God's redemption and interprets everything in the light of that theme. [

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The Fall
...clopedia of Christianity, 4:170-74; A. A. Hoekema, [[Created]] in God's Image ; P. E. Hughes, The True Image ; J. Murray, ZPEB, < ...t the tree was so named, because man, by eating of it and so transgressing God's commandment, arrogated to himself " die Fähigkeit zur selbständigen W

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Government
...Bible in Its World ; A. N. Sherwin-White, Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament ; W. Temple, [[Citizen]] and Churchman . ...earth. At the same time there is no constitutional check on misrule; the ‘law of the kingdom’ in   Deuteronomy 17:14 deals rather with moral and r

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Evolution
...sis. '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneou ...ion to [[Religion]] (1873); Leconte, Religion and Science; Simcox, Natural Law (1877); Wright, Philosophical Discussions, especially pages 97-266; Weisman

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Pentecost
...a close parallel to the circumstances which had heralded the giving of the Law from Sinai, which, as we have seen, was commemorated at Pentecost. In the c ...olding by tradition the festival as chiefly referring to the giving of the law on mount Sinai, of which they are very tenacious, and not knowing that it i

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Tithes
...between tithes and Christian giving may be apprehended as that between the law and the gospel as incentives and forces in life. It is the relation between ...( Amos 4:4) upbraids [[Israel]] with zeal for the letter of the tithe law while disregarding its spirit. Malachi ( Malachi 3:10) seconded Nehemi

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Ruth
...> D. The “emptiness” of Naomi's return to Judah provided the transition to God's grace by means of Ruth ( Ruth 1:19-22 ). II. In the [[Ordinar ...t heretofore," compare  Genesis 12:1;  Acts 7:3;  Acts 7:5. God's providence "under whose wings she was come to trust" ( Ruth 2:12; &nbs

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Prophets Prophecy
...will not find it difficult to believe that our Lord’s words concerning the Law (  Matthew 5:18 ) may be adapted, and that in the highest spiritual se ...e Spirit ( Acts 2:17 ) as a fulfillment of Joel's prediction that all God's people, young and old, male and female, would prophesy. These gifts may int

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Oath
...ry, and the great argument for the wholesale exclusion of testimony by the law is done away with. No intelligent judge or juryman ever relied upon the sec

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Kenosis
...ful ( 2 Corinthians 5:21)]; ‘Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us’ [Christ as the sacrificial victim ‘becam ...ose problem of life was, not the disclosure of the full power and glory of God's natural attributes, but the manifestation of the love of God, and of the ex

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Crimes And Punishments
...ews]] seem to have had relative autonomy in the matters of their religious law and customs. Even [[Jewish]] communities outside [[Palestine]] were under t ...strong> , which is reserved for aggravated cases of prostitution (H [Note: Law of Holiness.] 21:9) and incest (20:19). Here the probability seems in favou

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The Ten Commandments
 (See [[Law]] .) ...mandments marks an era in the history of God's dispensations. Of the whole law this was both the first portion to be communicated, and the basis of all th

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Theology Of Matthew
...is both new and old. Clearly, the author of Matthew saw the fulfillment of God's promises to Israel in Jesus and in the new people of God he formed, the chu

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Sabbatical Year
...edemption can be inferred.   Deuteronomy 31:10-13 prescribes that the Law is to be read every 7th year (the ‘year of release’) at the Feast of [[ ...r of release was to gather the people together for a public reading of the law, to remind them of their responsibilities as God’s people. This reading w

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Power Of The Keys
...and this absolution of the Church, in virtue of the power of the keys, is God's absolution. A ban unjustly imposed can do the person so punished no harm, a

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Epistle To The Ephesians
...s alive in his sins, and grace meets his need: in Ephesians it is God's quickening power on behalf of those dead in sins, as displayed in ...eëminently practical, bringing the significance of the great revelation of God's will to the everyday duties of life, and lifting all things up to a higher

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Judaism
...under the law were numerous, and its sanctions severe. [[Notwithstanding]] God's prophets, and oracles, and ordinances, and the symbol of his presence, were ...rule of religion but the law of Moses; and the Rabbinists, who add to the law the traditions of the Talmud. See those articles, and books recomm

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The Gospel Of Matthew
.... Spectacular events pointed to the saving significance of Jesus' death as God's Son ( Matthew 27:45-56 ). G. Jesus' dead body was entombed and could n ...tions ( Matthew 4:14 ff), the work of Jesus as the fulfillment of the Law and [[Prophets]] (  Matthew 5:17 ), His quiet, undemonstrative methods

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Hebrews
...rews 8; he points out the efficacy of the ceremonies and sacrifices of the law, and the sufficiency of the atonement made by the sacrifice of Christ, Hebr ...ristian leaders ( Hebrews 13:17-19 ). J. Christian love does God's will ( Hebrews 13:20-21 ). X. [[Conclusion]] ( Hebrews 1

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Idolatry Idol
...6:24 ). [[Idolatry]] is a major theme of the Bible. It challenges God's sovereignty and attempts to offer an alternate explanation to the issues of ...sehold gods ( Genesis 31:19). The penalty that [[Israelite]] law laid down for idol worship was death ( Exodus 22:20;  Deuteronomy

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Ten Commandments
...seen in the possession of another, we will have missed the whole point of God's instruction and be in dire peril of falling back into the very pit from whi ...blishment. On the Decalogue in the NT see art. Law (in nt). F. H. Woods. 

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Letter To The Galatians
...hemselves ( Galatians 6:13 ). 2. Christ recreates us to meet God's claims ( Galatians 6:14-17 ). a. Christians glory in the cros ...10), Paul concludes by emphasizing again that the cross of Christ, not the law of Moses, is the basis of the gospel (6:11-18). 

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Paul As A Student
...himself in Christ-this golden climax-"For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I liv

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Redeemer; Redemption
...g to go in redemption rather than set aside one jot or tittle of His moral law. He will not redeem men except on terms which leave them men. He will not o

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Targum
...he time of Ezra, this custom began: since this learned scribe, reading the law to the people in the temple, explained it, with the other priests that were ...return from Babylon; for it is said that when they read in the book of the law, "they gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."â€˜ (

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Vow
.... Both men and women could “vow” a vow. Numbers 30 deals with the law concerning vows; cf. Num. 30:2: “If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swe ...on conversation, by any of your usual oaths, "neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool, &c. For, by the detestab

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Articles (The Thirty-Nine)
...folks to be offended, we give not to our princes the ministering either of God's Word or of the sacraments, that which thing the injunctions also lately set

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Hopkinsians
...excluded from our affections, is evident even from the terms of the divine law,—"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." And the [[Scriptures]] teach ...rcise faith in his blood, who is set forth to be a propitiation to declare God's righteousness, that he might be just, and yet be the justifier of him who b

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Wages
...f Biblical Theology , pp. 505-8; C. H. J. Wright, God's People in God's Land: Family, Land and [[Property]] in the Old Testament . ...also of yearly engagements ( Leviticus 25:53 ), but the Deuteronomic Law enjoins daily payment of wages, in cases of poverty at least (  Deuter

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Theology Of Galatians
...[Commentary]] on Galations ; [[J.D.G.]] Dunn, Jesus, Paul and the Law ; [[D.]] Guthrie, Galatians ; [[W.]] Neil, The Letter of

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Friends Society Of.
...he instituted a new ceremony on that occasion. He conformed to the Mosaic law, which was not abrogated until his crucifixion, when he blotted out the han

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Eschatology
...or positive social change. Premillennialists, on the other hand, regarding God's kingdom as partially or wholly future, have often recognized the massive sc ...coming age, when God’s [[Kingdom]] is to be supreme and all enemies of the Law are to be punished. It was these elements that were embodied in the Messian

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Omnipotence
...very point colored by the consciousness of that divine uniqueness in which God's omnipotence occupies a foremost place. Literature. Oehler, The ...Haag, Histoire des Dogmes Chretiens, 1:291; 2:16 sq., 139 sq., 147. (See [[Law]]). 

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Mediation Mediator
...lays of God's power which, appropriately, struck terror into the hearts of God's people (vv. 18-21). From this the author concludes that since Jesus is the ...p; Job 1:5 for his sons; cf.   Job 42:7-9 for his friends). Under the Law the people could approach God only through the Aaronic priesthood; but the

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Old Testament
...his faith at the root is what constituted him heir of the promises. It is God's design that spiritual truths should not lie always on the surface, but ofte ...ὐτὴ ἡ εἰκών), the clear, full expression of the ‘good things’ of which the Law was but a dim, uncertain ‘shadow,’ was found only in Christ, by the off

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Education In Bible Times
...personal behavior  James 1:25;  1 John 2:2-6 ); and the work of God's Spirit in illuminating the learner as he or she is instructed in the faith ...ophets were begun at other places. The main study at these centers was the Law and its interpretation. Not all of the students of these schools had predic

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Children (Sons) Of God
...they are now ‘sons of God’; Christ has ‘redeemed’ them from the bondage of Law that they might ‘receive the adoption of sons,’ and, because they are s ...his state of rebellion against God or sin have lost the actuality of being God's children. All people (“whosoever,”  John 3:15 ) retain th

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Theology Of Romans
...au, Moses over Pharaoh, or now the Gentiles over Paul's own kind, it is by God's sovereign grace that even a remnant is saved. Yet there is an adde

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Writing
...e taught music and singing, and without doubt writing also, the [[Mosaic]] law and poetry. They were denominated, in reference to their instructers, the s ...during the course of many generations. Yet, even so, Jewish writers of the Law were thought to be less accurate than copyists of the Koran. D. S.

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Incest
...f Leviticus ; R. Westbrook, Studies in Biblical and [[Cuneiform]] Law ; idem, ABD, 5:546-56; B. Witherington, NTS 31 (1985 ...w, which is received in this country, and from which the rule of the Roman law differs very little, prohibits marriages between relations within three deg

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Humility
...sciple of the wise should have sufficient pride to stand in defence of the Law he represents.’ Self-assertion has therefore its legitimate sphere, and t ...of spirit ( Matthew 5:3 ) that accrues no merit but depends solely on God's righteousness for salvation ( Luke 18:9-14,15-17 ). It may involve pra

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Lutherans
...he righteousness of the flesh, or civil justice, when it is obliged by the law and by force not to steal, not to kill, not to commit adultery, &c. Therefo ...still more offence than the action itself. Having collected from the canon law some of the most extravagant propositions with regard to the plentitude and

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Eschatology Of The Old Testament (With Apocryphal And Apocalyptic Writings)
...sion of the kingdom of God would take place till the earth was filled with God's glory (e.g.  Isaiah 2:2-5 , with  Micah 4:1-5;  Isaiah 42:4;

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Inspiration And Revelation
...ed through the possession of a written law, faithfully observed such inner law as he had. St. Paul fully recognized this, and used it as an a fortiori

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Tithe
...,  Genesis 14:20   28:22 . This was prescribed in the [[Mosaic]] law,  Numbers 31:31 . A twofold tithe was required of each [[Jewish]] citi ...n home in safety.  Genesis 28:22. The first enactment of the law, in respect of tithe, is the declaration that the tenth of all produce, as

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Punishments
...to have been cast from "the pinnacle" of the Temple. Criminals executed by law were burned outside the city gates, and heaps of stones were flung upon the ...28;  2 Samuel 21:6;  2 Samuel 21:9). Punishments not ordained by law: sawing asunder, and cutting with iron harrows ''(Isaiah, ''  Hebrews

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Passover
...our fathers, to rebuild thy Temple speedily, in our days, and to make Thy law our portion.’ And at evening service in the synagogue daily the counting ...seeking the Lord is acceptable to Him, even where the strict letter of the law has been unavoidably unfulfilled ( Hosea 6:6;  Micah 6:8;  M

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Mariolatry
...hurch history and Christian antiquities, "we love her memory, we would, by God's grace, follow her example in faith and humility, meekness and obedience; we

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Witness
...;  Revelation 2:13;  Revelation 17:6; (d) of the interpreters of God's counsels, yet to "witness" in [[Jerusalem]] in the times of the Antichrist, ...16). To discourage people from making accusations secretly or lightly, the law required them, in certain cases, to participate publicly in the punishment

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The Sermon On The Mount
...ew 5:29 margin). (4) Universal Love Is the Fundamental Social Law. It is the dynamic principle of true character and right cond

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Polytheism
...n. vol. 1: p. 177, 179; Kaims's Sketches of the History of Man; [[Bishop]] Law's Theory of Religion, p. 58, 65 to 68, 94, 296; article [[Polytheism]] in E ...are furnished by the Greek religion, such as Thermis and Dike, personified law and justice; Metis, Mnemosyne, Thanatos, the daemons of battle; and a great

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Book Of Micah
...ant people can expect better days ahead ( Micah 7:8-14 ). C. God's enemies face shameful judgment ( Micah 7:15-17 ). D. The inco ...ants, officials and other upper class city dwellers. [[Corruption]] in the law courts made it easy for these people to do as they wished, while poorer cla

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Sacrifices
...t when they came out of Egypt. Now, they had a conscience of sin. This the Law had produced ( Galatians 3:19;  Galatians 4:3). Accordingly, in t ...fficult, and is denied by many, who believe that it was revealed under the law. The arguments already stated in favor of the divine institution of primiti

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Book Of Proverbs
...30:1-31:31 ). A. Human beings cannot fully discover or understand God's wisdom ( Proverbs 30:1-33 ). B. Humans can practice righteous ...inked durable riches and righteousness: her fruit is better than gold. All God's works in creation were carried out in wisdom. This introduces Christ as 

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Saul
...attle of Gilbea. Saul had "put away out of the land wizards," etc. But the law forbad them to live ( Leviticus 19:31;  Leviticus 20:27;  De ...th his sons on Mount Gilboa. He was succeeded by David, who was his son-in-law, and whom he had endeavored to put to death. His history is contained in &n

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Type
...ecomes the surety of a better covenant than that given under the Levitical Law ( Hebrews 7:22; cf.  Hebrews 7:11). The anticipatory and typical ...e where David pitched a tent for the ark and had his throne and ruled over God's chosen people type of delivering grace established in power and blessing

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Solomon
...warning him so plainly; also with his own former scrupulous regard for the law, so that he would not let his Egyptian queen remain in the neighbourhood of ...n auditorium called the Hall of [[Pillars]] ( 1 Kings 7:6), a central law court called the Hall of [[Judgment]] ( 1 Kings 7:7) and a separate pa

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Excommunication
...ifying their judgment or opinion that the person is unworthy of a place in God's house. In the conclusion of this article, however, we must add, that too gr ...9;  Malachi 4:6 ). The Jewish community assumed authority to curse on God's behalf ( Numbers 23:8;  Isaiah 66:5 ). Old Testament terms for ex

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Apostle
...ul, no longer an apostle of the synagogue, nor sent by men to maintain the law of Moses, but now an Apostle and envoy of Jesus Christ. &c. St. Je ...eople of God, corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel, and signifying God's saving activity at work in Jesus and his followers. Their number implies th

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Idol
...nce of the deadly wound), yet is" ( Revelation 17:8); and in spite of God's judicial plagues men repented not of the works of their hands, that they sh ...nd Rachel had stolen the [household gods] that were her father’s.” Hurrian law of this period recognized “household idols” as deeds to the family’s

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Pharaoh
...own wife, Tahpenes.  1 Kings 11:18-20. '''Pharaoh, father-in-law of Solomon.''' - The mention that the queen was brought into the city of Da ...id,  1 Kings 11:18-22; B. C. 1030. 6. Pharaoh, the father-in-law of Solomon,  1 Kings 3:1   7:8   9:16,24 , B. C. 1010. 

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Slavery Slave
...iew so predominates that the prolongation of the time of servitude, if the law had ever become actually operative, is left out of account. The fact that t ...clavage dans l’antiquité2, 3 vols., Paris, 1879; W. W. Buckland, The Roman Law of Slavery, Cambridge, 1908; L. Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners under

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Leadership
...5:2-3 ). Gifts were to be used in serving one another as good stewards of God's grace (4:10). When [[Korah]] was not content to serve in the secondary role

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Day Of Atonement
...-goat. The [[Gemara]] says the red cloth ought to turn white as a token of God's acceptance or the atonement; which illustrates  Isaiah 1:18, "Though y ...y." Its ritual was further enlarged and the special parts mentioned in the law were fully explained, fixed and specialized. Compare especially the tract "

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The Book Of Exodus
...ositions were restricted to particular occasions. Ordinarily, according to God's usual way of dealing with His children, they depended on natural supplies. ...'''' ḥōthēn ''''' probably does not mean father-in-law but brother-in-law ( Judges 1:16;  Judges 4:11 ); or in  Exodus 2:18 we find fa

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Federal Theology
...l character is given to a multitude of things under the economy before the law (the coats of skins, the ark, the rainbow, etc. bk. ii, chap. 8: '''''§'''

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Sanctuary
...of holiness. GOD's people could and should find their place of worship in GOD's own person, in His presence. (See also  Ezekiel 11:16). &nbsp ...alm 77:13 . The sanctuary was where, in retirement from man and the world, God's glory was seen, and His mind apprehended; it was where the sacrifices were

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Creation Create
...nd female and in God's image. Indeed, the Bible is essentially a record of God's establishment of, and activity within, the community of faith. The communit

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Mahometanism
...ltitudes to embrace his religion, and submit to his dominion. Besides, his law was artfully and marvellously adapted to the corrupt nature of man; and, in ...ath. Abubeker and Ali, the former the father-in-law, the latter the son-in-law, of this pretended prophet, aspired both to succeed him in the empire which

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Jeroboam
...> The prophet, the instrument of his sin (according to God's righteous law:  Proverbs 1:31;  Jeremiah 2:19), became the instrument of his pu ...gh places, and engaging them in such worship as was contrary to the divine law. This was the sin of Jeroboam's family, and it was the cause of its utter e

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Judgment
...e, both inward and outward. The great first and second commandments in the law which our Lord enunciated to the lawyer ( Matthew 22:37-39) are in the ...atthew 7:2; (b) of "judgment" by man upon Christ,  Luke 24:20; (c) of God's "judgment" upon men, e.g.,  Romans 2:2,3;  3:8;  5:16; &nbsp

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Sinai
...frequent allusions in Scripture to the glorious and awful delivery of the Law,  Judges 5:5   Psalm 68:8,17   Habakkuk 3:3 . In the New Tes ...hese mountains so well adapted for the purpose of giving and receiving the law as this rocky pulpit of ''Ras Sufsafeh'' and the natural amphitheatre of ''

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Pagan Gods
...s the epitome of youthful, manly beauty. He served as the god of medicine, law, and shepherds. Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of sexual love and beauty.

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Spirituality
...struggle ( Romans 7:15-25 ); but we also will continually experience God's grace, for through Christ we are "more than conquerors" ( Romans 7:24- ...Christ. The specific and supreme work of the Holy Spirit is to shed abroad God's love in the heart ( Romans 5:5 ). Spirituality sets the affections on

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The Religion Of Babylonia And Assyria
...The rulers of the zodiac are Sin, Shamash and Ishtar, and according to the law of correspondence, the Divine power manifested in them is identical with th

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Feasts
...confirms Christ's covenant of grace in the heart more effectually than the law of [[Sinai]] written on stone ( 2 Corinthians 3:3-18). '''(3) ...up at the age of twelve; that, too, was in excess of what was required by law, but was apparently in accordance with custom (so Edersheim, op. cit. <

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Judge
...7.] See [[Call]] , No. 13, [[Conclude, Condemn, Decree, Determine, Esteem, Law]] (go to), [[Ordain, Sentence, Think]]  Acts 21:25[[Judgment]] ...used not only of an act of deliverance, but of a process whereby order and law are maintained within a group. This idea also is included in the concept of

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A 2Nd Century Heretic Marcion
...a mutilated form. His form exhibits a hostility to Judaism, the [[Mosaic]] law, and the work of the Creator, of which there is not a trace in genuine Paul

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Water
...the same heart cannot overflow in both blessings and curses by the natural law that the same fountain cannot send forth both sweet water and bitter-a vari ...God's blessings ( Isaiah 58:11 ), God's voice ( Ezekiel 43:2 ), God's wrath ( Hosea 5:10 ), and justice ( Amos 5:24 ). Among the metaph

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Ahab
...cles 19:2;  1 Corinthians 15:33) would have cost him his life but for God's interposition ( 2 Chronicles 18:31) "moving them to depart from him." ...ould be easily bribed, local officials were corrupt, and no one upheld the law on behalf of ordinary citizens ( 1 Kings 21:1-16). The prophet Elijah

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Divination
...re by breaking the laws in consulting the dead, as if they were less under God's control than the living. [[Abject]] superstition never reasons. Samuel's pr ...in this special instance to appear. Of course Satan can do nothing without God's permission, but it must be remembered that it is Satan that had the power o

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Example
... , 1879; Stalker, Imago Christi , 1889; Drummond, Natural Law in the [[Spiritual]] World , and The Changed Life ; Sheldon, ...ll light without a shade, all beauty without a spot, all the purity of the law, and the excellency of the Gospel. Here we see piety without superstition,

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Gamaliel
...edited with having expressly recommended the combining of the study of the Law with manual labour or business activity (Schürer, GJV [Note: JV G a celebrated rabbi, and doctor of the Jewish law, under whose tuition the great Apostle of the [[Gentiles]] was brought up,

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The Book Ofjob
...questions discussed in the colloquy are unnoticed, but the declaration of God's absolute power is illustrated by a marvellously beautiful and comprehensive ...ht of God; moral corruption is propagated. There is promulgated to men the law of God, which they must not infringe, and the transgressions of which are v

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Captivity
...ptivity" ( Revelation 13:10); Satan who "brings into captivity to the law of sin and death" ( Romans 7:23) is brought into captivity ( 2 Co '''Captivity.''' A word used to designate the subjugation of God's people. God often punished the sins of the Jews by captivities or servitude

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Oracle
...enumerates their excellent properties under various epithets; such as the law of the Lord, his testimony, his statutes, his commandments, his judgments, ...> In the N.T. the word thus translated is λόγιον; it is applied to the law given to Moses, and committed to Israel; and also to truths revealed in N.T

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Greek Philosophy
...knowledge is not to be gained by any effort of human thought, but only by God's revelation of himself; and such a revelation is only possible in the form o

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Mohammedan Sects
...ohammed, the apostle of God, to Mosaylima, the liar. The earth is God's: he giveth the same for inheritance unto such of his servants as he pleases

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Cloud
...heat ( Psalms 105:39;  Isaiah 4:5). Its fire symbolized God's purity and glory ( Exodus 24:17;  Daniel 7:10), and His consuming ...he love which He has made known, bestowed and sealed. To His disciples the Law is no more a threat and fear, but is written upon the heart for honour and

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Merciful Mercy
...er light in the face of Jesus Christ. He was the ultimate manifestation of God's mercy, the assurance of that mercy for believers, and the basis of their ow

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Corban
...may effect a retractation of a rash vow by quoting what is written in the Law. One may say to him: If thou hadst known that thou wast transgressing such ...indeed, the first to which a promise is given. For the first table of the law gives no promise. It is the first commandment in the second table that open

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Savior
...but the aim is precisely the same '''''—''''' to show the weakness of the law and the effectual fruit of the Gospel. '''8.''' We are now in a po

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Abram
...derstand that the son of the bondwoman represented those who are under the law; and the child of the freewoman those who by faith in Christ are supernatur ...only son: and yet he could not, when driven by famine into Egypt, trust to God's watchful care over Sarah. But we shall discover, that in this instance of d

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Acceptance
...ra-distinguished from [[Judaism]] and other faiths, which are religions of Law, Salvation, according to the NT throughout (explicitly in the writings of S ...on. People are made acceptable to God because the just requirements of the law have been met by the sacrifice of Jesus ( Romans 3:21-26 ,  Roman

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Glory Of God.
...this passage (compared with  1 Peter 4:11) we find the broad ethical law laid down, viz. all our actions should tend to the greater glory of God, wh

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Body
...]‘bodies’), the body only of the slave being taken into account by ancient law. From the literal meaning of σῶμα as an organism made up of interrelat ...into a “spiritual body,” that is a personality created and formed anew by God's Spirit. The resurrection body is that communion with the Lord and with peop

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Decalogue
...the Decalogue, see Darling, Cyclopoedia Bibliographica, 3, 222 sq. (See [[Law]]). ...ake to thyself any graven image,' etc. to; the third, 'Thou shalt not take God's name in vain etc.; the fourth, 'Remember to keep holy the sabbath day,' etc

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Hugo Grotius
...y the creditor, which is properly called, in the technical language of the law, satisfaction. While, therefore, it was the original design of Grotius, in ...oned by Louis XIII.; in 1625 he published his famous work on international law, "De Jure Belli et Pacis"; from 1634 to 1645 he acted as Swedish ambassador

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Rest
...p with the Father and the Son, in contrast to the weekly Sabbath under the Law. Because this sabbath "rest" is the "rest" of God Himself,  Hebrews 4: ... Hebrews 11 . Here the rest is also portrayed as a city prepared for God's faithful peoplea city whose builder is God himself. Whatever this rest cons

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Firstborn
...[Note: Among modern orthodox Jews, priests and Levites are exempt from the law of redeeming their firstborn; this applies also to those whose wives are da ...jealousies and quarrels arising from the polygamy practised in Israel. The law in   Deuteronomy 21:15-17 is directed against the abuse. Reuben, altho

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Jehovah
...ple all whatever they want. [[Prayer]] is to supply the ellipsis, pleading God's covenanted promises: light, life, peace, salvation, glory, their exceeding ...hen borrows, to prevent the repetition of the sound Adonay. That a similar law or notion prevailed even before the [[Christian]] era may be inferred from

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Theology Of Ezra
...st be remembered that the raison d' être of this congregation was to build God's house. People who could no longer be true to this central goal should not w

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Sermon On The Mount
...lar discourse. See also such articles as [[Authority]] of Christ, Law, Teaching of Christ, etc. etc. Literature.—This is given exhaust ...stological terms to identify believers with Jesus (5:3-11). They are God's law fulfilled in Jesus and applied to Christians. The community in Christ descr

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Idea Of Revelation
...alogy of the Word made flesh and the word made Scripture. The twin foci of law and gospelin the giving of the Mosaic legislative corpus and in the human s

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Unbelief
...eism considers as fanaticism; and it casts away from itself all notions of God's anger, judgments, or punishments, as representations arising only from the ...reckoned as guilty of impiety any of their number who brought a matter of law before idolatrous judges; much more should Christians shun heathen courts,

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Old Testament (I. Christ As Fulfilment Of)
...and the Prophets , 1905; [[R.]] Mackintosh, Christ and the Jewish Law , 1886; [[S.]] Mathews, The Messianic Hope in the [[Nt]] , 19

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Entire. Sanctification
...tianity, a series of essays; Crane, [[Holiness]] the [[Birthright]] of all God's Children; also, article in the Meth. Quar. Rev. Oct. 1878, on Christian Per

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World
...ie Geisterwelt im Glauben des Paulus, Göttingen, 1909. [[Robert]] Law. ...es up the inhabited earth. The inhabited earth was created with delight by God's wisdom ( Proverbs 8:27-31 ). Before Jesus' birth [[Caesar]] [[Augustus

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Building
... 4:17;  Romans 12:1 ). [[Heavenly]] [[Houses]] for God's People The resurrection body of the believer can also be called a dwel ...its omission ‘a grammatical laxity,’ and the former is of opinion that the law of the article is in some respects less precise in the NT than in the class

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Head
...Luke. It would certainly have appealed to him as an example of ‘spiritual’ law in the ‘natural’ world, confirming and enforcing his own moral and spir ...e the world will be brought into complete subjection with the exception of GOD's people who refuse to thus bow.  Revelation 17:9 (a) We are to

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Nature
...ings have a place and purpose in God’s order. This was demonstrated in the law God gave to ancient Israel. He allowed his people to plant trees for fruit

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Mormons
...believed by every true Mormon, that Smith's prophecies are superior to the law of the land. I have heard the Prophet say that he would yet tread down his

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Gods
...is place to the israelites who stood before Mt. [[Sinai]] and received the law (τρὁς οὕς ὁ λογος τοῦ θεοῦ ἐγένετο,   ...were men appointed to represent God and adjudicate on important matters of law. Septuagint has "Criterion of God." In   Exodus 22:8 the word is used

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Arminianism
...ly fellowship among men;—in fine, to a tranquillity and peace according to God's word and becoming the Christian name, excluding the Papacy, with which no u ...cientific form and defensible shape the ecclesiastical doctrine respecting God's nature; the second, of the subsequent movement by which the true doctrine o

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Stoic Philosophy
...friendship from, an indulgence into a duty. It extended the conception of law and of moral obligation, and rendered them imperative upon societies and in

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Esther
...s patriotic venture before the king after previous fasting three days, and God's interposing to incline the king's heart to hold out to her the golden scept ...n and the lessons of history ( Esther 9:1-32 ). VI. Work for God's people can bring new opportunities for service and honor ( Esther 10:1

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New Creation
...status implies newness of life and a new manner of life that accords with God's will. The two thoughts are inseparable. [[Philip]] H. Towner ...hings belong to God to deal with as he may think proper: there is no known law by which he binds himself to preserve as it now stands either the creation

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Time
...o all people through God's saving work in Jesus. Thus, "now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation" ( 2 Corinthians 6:2 ); now is the ...h : “It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law” (Ps. 119:126). A third use connotes “season,” or a regular

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Purity
...bsp;1 Timothy 4:12 ); and reverence ( 1 Peter 3:2 ). Paul as God's servant commended himself through his sufferings and his moral and spiritua ...purity is acquired by the due observance of external rites. The [[Jewish]] law prescribed various regulations by means of which outward defilement might b

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Hobab
...did not need to be entreated, but entreated to go with her godly mother-in-law ( 1 John 1:16-17). Hobab's family by joining Israel escaped Amalek's d ...ruption of Hobab), a prophet sent to the Midianites, with Moses’ father-in-law. On his nationality, and the events connected with him, see Kenites, Midian

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Calling Call
...er, for ( a ), the present writer’s Christ and the [[Jewish]] Law ; A. Ritschl, [[Justification]] and [[Reconciliation]] , vol. ...bably he is using the word in a broad sense: "Let everyone remain loyal to God's call, which means living as a Christian in whatever situation you find your

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Power
...sp of this meaning, its administration was spoken of as different from the law of a carnal commandment, being ‘the power of an endless life’ ( He ...(cp.  Romans 8:38;  1—Peter 3:22 ); (c) of that which manifests God's "power:" Christ,  1—Corinthians 1:24; the Gospel,  Romans 1:16;

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Book Of Joshua
...s, declared that they would serve the Lord. They thus still remained under law, their obedience being the condition of their living in peace, and being bl ...s nothing in it inconsistent with the divine attribute of justice, or with God's ordinary way of governing the world. (See [[Joshua]]); also (See [[Canaanit

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Oaths
...t from that which our Lord condemns in the present instance. In a court of law we take the oath to convince our fellow-men, who cannot see our heart and j ...do not condemn oaths under any circumstance, but they condemn the abuse of God's name in oaths. Brad [[Creed]] 

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Septuagint
...hew 5, which He quotes in order to contrast with them His own higher moral law). 3 which come under none of these heads are  Luke 2:23,  Matthew ...has evidently followed it in his allegorical expositions of the [[Mosaic]] law; and though Dr. Hody was of opinion that Josephus, who was a native of Pale

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Good
...Paul’s counsels and commands even in his letters show that this end of the Law was ideal rather than actual. It is certain that the Christian Church in th ...> 4. [[Moral]] works actions which are just and in conformity to the moral law or divine precepts. [[Depart]] from evil, and do good.  Psalms 34

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Guilt
...peaking of the guilt of the race or of the individual, some knowledge of a law governing moral actions must be presupposed (cf.   John 9:41;   J ...ected with sin in the Bible. Sin is basically against God or against God's law. It can mean rebellion against God, or a willful transgression. Sin can als

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Psalms
...asius, ascribe the collection to Ezra, "the priest and ready scribe in the law of Moses" ( Ezra 7:6;  Nehemiah 8:9). ''(On Shiggaion, Etc., See ...the true priest, the everlasting king. The [[Israelitish]] polity, and the law of Moses, were purposely framed after the example and shadow of things spir

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Lamb
...en, is found in love. And still further, central in the throne of God, the law of the moral order of the world, the power which moves history to its goal, ...lamb of God's providing,  Genesis 22:8 , and the [[Paschal]] lamb of God's appointment for sacrifice in Israel, e.g.,  Exodus 12:5,14,27 (cp. &nb

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Apocalyptic Literature
.... The ‘new age’ was to be inaugurated by wide-spread study of the Law, to which the Jews would be forced by terrible suffering. [[Certain]] passa ...and leads them back to Jerusalem. Certain of them would not submit to the law in all its strictness, but, turning aside, founded Samaria. After some time

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Epistle To The. Romans
...the law are correlative; at the same time, this is no disparagement of the law, but rather a proof of human weakness ( Romans 7:1-25). So henceforth

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Amos
...some new and hitherto unheard-of function. He begins by boldly speaking in God's name, assuming that even the people of the Northern Kingdom were familiar w

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Animals
...the leopard symbolizes God's wrath. Isaiah illustrated the serene peace of God's kingdom as creating the seemingly impossible occurrence of a leopard lying ...l turned to our own way." Similarly, the people of Israel are spoken of as God's sheep (  Psalm 74:1;  100:3;  Jeremiah 23:1;  Matthew 9

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Justin
...cipate in and bear our infirmities, and take away from us the curse of the law. In him were united and made objective the human reason and the divine inte

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Levites
...for the fear wherewith he feared Me and was afraid before My name ... The law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips; he walked ...s granted to volunteers, drawn to Jerusalem by the fervor of their love to God's service,  Deuteronomy 12:18,19   18:6-8 . The consecration of Lev

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Magi
...eology and politics; they being always esteemed as the interpreters of all law, both divine and human; on which account they were wonderfully revered by t ...ellows, for fear of polluting it; to do either of these was death by their law. The Magian religion as reformed by Zoroaster, seems in many things to be b

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Wealth
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Retribution
...the eternal verities, until he carries the whole problem into the light of God's presence and revelation, and then he understands that the end will

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Epistle To The Hebrews
...e in amongst them. A very striking contrast between the terror of law and the fulness of grace is now given, to which latter with all its blessin

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Eternity
...n the future. Its use is mainly poetical: of God ( Isaiah 57:15), His law ( Psalms 19:9), His attributes ( Psalms 111:3;  Psalms 111:1 ...ns Inadequate Eternity, one may surely hold, must span or include, for God's eternal consciousness, the whole of what happens in time, with all of past,

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Jethro
...e, and [[Jethro]] an official name. In   Judges 1:16 Moses' father-in-law is called a Kenite, but the exact signification of this term is not known. ...> ). An [[Arab]] sheik and priest of the Sinaitic Peninsula, the father-in-law of Moses; referred to by this name in   Exodus 3:1;   Exodus 4:18

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Authority Of The Bible
...t affirms; obeyed, as God's command, in all that it requires; embraced, as God's pledge, in all that it promises." Nigel [[M.]] de [[S.]] Cameron <

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Theology Of Luke-Acts
...ends as Paul, in Rome, proclaims "the kingdom of God and about Jesus that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles" ( Acts 28:23,28 ). Thus, the

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Abstinence
...excluded. ‘The carnal mind is enmity against God, it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be’ ( Romans 8:7). This determines positi ...e sacrifice of one's lawful right for our neighbor's good accords with the law of love: "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything

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Alms
...htful claim upon us for, in the court of God's equity, though not of human law. God gives us means for this very end ( Ephesians 4:28). ...the people might eat (Ex..  Deuteronomy 23:10-11 ). In addition, the law instructed [[Israel]] to give generously to the needs of their Hebrew neigh

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Rock
...ion of them so as to show that Israel had failed to attain unto God’s true law of righteousness, because they sought it not by faith but by works. Because

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Hilkiah
...ho like Moses had learned in Egypt ( Acts 7:22). The ignorance of the law which this narrative implies accords with the prevalence of idolatry and of ...). 8. A companion of Ezra at the public reading of the Law (  Nehemiah 8:4 ); he appears as [[Ezekias]] in 1Es

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Dreams
...the mind of the Lord's people, would be to lessen the divine authority of God's holy word, which, in all cases; is able to make us "wise unto salvation thr ...nsciousness, whether it be partial or complete, and as such are subject to law; if any are to be regarded as ‘supernatural,’ it must be owing not to t

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Gentiles
...tament thought, the church made up of Jew and Gentile was the holy nation, God's own people ( 1 Peter 2:9 ). The apocalypse with its shifting ...his does not touch unbelieving Jews and Gentiles, who are kept separate in God's present and future dealings. 

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Slave
...ho had submitted to this operation remained, according to the words of the law, a servant "forever." ''[In Other Words, He [[Became]] A "Bond-Servant", Or ...ption]] ). (Concerning freedom from bondage to the law see [[Freedom]] ; [[Law]] .) 

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Bless
...dom of the Messiah. See also  1 Chronicles 16:2-3 . In the [[Mosaic]] law, the manner of blessing is appointed by the lifting up of hands. Our Lord l ...he would render them -worthy of the kingdom of the Messiah. In the Mosaic law, the manner of blessing was appointed by the lifting up of hands, and we se

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Holiness Holy
...but only if that includes living with others who desire nothing less than God's holiness ( Hebrews 10:19-26 ). Once a person begins to comprehend the

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Ethics Of Jesus
...once it has been ascertained. As He made it easy to love God by revealing God's love, so did He make it easy to love man by revealing the greatness of man,

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Doctrine Of Necessity
...on the one hand of the eternity of future punishments, and on the other of God's compassion to sinners, and his solemn assurance that he desires not their d

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Magic
...;  6:12,30 ). Even Balaam, both a magician and prophet, could only do God's will ( Numbers 23:12 ). God could overturn a curse and make it a bless ...The Hebrews had no magic of their own. It was so strictly forbidden by the law, that it could never afterward have had any recognized existence, save in t

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Pre-Existence Of Jesus Christ
...divine titles, and accepted religious worship, was that peculiar angel of God's presence, in whom God resided, or who was united to the [[Godhead]] in a pe ...rson of divine dignity, constituted the creator of the world, the angel of God's presence, or the medium by which God manifested himself to the ancient patr

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Family Relationships
...o be distinguished from a servant ( Leviticus 22:11 ). The [[Mosaic]] Law commands that such strangers be treated with consideration ( Exodus 12

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Atheism
...ge, meant one who denied "the gods," especially the gods recognized by the law of the state. In this way several of the Greek philosophers (even Socrates)

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Liberty
...their patron, to whom they were bound to render, in the language of Roman Law, obsequium et officium . 4. In the philosophical sens ...sp; Matthew 11:29-30 ). His religion is to St. James ‘the perfect law, the law of liberty’ (  James 1:25 ). The instrument in freeing from bondage

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Sexual Immorality
...Old Testament, on which Christian morals and ethics are based. The Mosaic law condemned adultery, but placed less emphasis on prohibiting some other sexu

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Call
...and temporary effects upon many who hear it, for it is always ascribed to God's makinghis word effectual through the enlightening and sanctifying influence

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Reprobation
...of inevitable punishment; nor can they ever submit to the dominion of the law of God: their doom is fixed and threats and examples can avail nothing. </p ...of inevitable punishment; nor can they ever submit to the dominion of the law of God: their doom is fixed, and threats and examples can avail nothing. (S

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Babel
...Jeremiah 39:13-14. He calls himself in the inscriptions "son," i.e. son in law of the "king of Babylon." He built the palace on the right bank of the anci ...eir own name, for the Lord's name alone is to be exalted. As the result of God's judgement they were scattered and formed into nations according to their to

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Herod
...ul pleaded before him, who naturally consulted him on a question of Jewish law). (See [[Festus]] .) The great pomp with which he and his sister [ ...ommunicating the secret entrusted to him alone, and he threw his mother-in-law, Alexandra, into prison. 2. In the war between

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Theology Of First And Second Timothy
...ighteous; however, it still retains a didactic function for believers. The law teaches them how to love Christ and their neighbor. In no way can it be for

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Theology Of Nehemiah
...They completely lost their confidence when the work was accomplished with God's help (6:16). Paul Ferguson See also [[Israel]];

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The Book Of Joshua
...hua 23:1-16 ). D. God calls His people to remember the history of God's faithfulness and choose to serve only Him ( Joshua 24:1-28 ). ...would be following his master and predecessor Moses' pattern in recording God's dealings with Israel through him;  Joshua 24:26 looks like his own sub

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Amen
...rs', and even brings a revelation that surpasses that of the Old Testament law itself. In this way, whenever Jesus says "amen lego humin" </i

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Book
...have done him services. A similar proceeding will take place at the day of God's final judgment. [[Sealed Book]] mentioned  Isaiah 29:11 , an ...d to transmit to posterity,  Deuteronomy 27:2,3   Job 19:23,24 . God's laws were written on stone tablets. [[Inscriptions]] were also made on tile

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Trust
...ll put me in trust. 11. [[Care]] management.  1 Timothy 6 12. In law, an estate, devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee sh

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Crucifixion Cross
...Peter 1:18 ); “propitiation,” which refers to Jesus' death as “satisfying” God's righteous wrath ( Romans 3:25;  Hebrews 2:17 ); and “justificat ...ss (3:1). Thus, while Paul concentrates on faith versus observation of the Law as the mechanism for applying for the application of grace and the obtainin

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Meaning Of Time
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Fruit
...ruit-grower on his farm will have much to teach the preacher as to natural law in the spiritual world. He will learn amongst other things how vital is the ...lts of the life lived by the ungodly, who care not for the instructions of GOD's Word. These evil men produce no good results in the sight of GOD. 

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Sacrament
...ent must have an active faith and make a personal response to the power of God's spirit. The Latin Bible translated the Greek word mysterion </ ...but rather they be certain sure witnesses and effectual signs of grace and God's good will towards us, by the which he doth work invisibly in us, and doth n

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Unity
...sally victorious, because God is God, and God is Love. [[Robert]] Law. ...a result of sinful pride ( Genesis 11:4-8 ). The prophetic vision of God's future anticipates the day when God will reunite the divided kingdoms of Is

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Originality
...to which He stoops. He sets up His own authority over against that of the Law: ‘Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time … but I say unto y

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Christ In Mohammedan Literature
...atherless. That Christ will return to judge the world according to the law of Mohammed is a text on which his ‘Meccan Revelations’ contain ma

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Christology
...upon Christianity merely as a perfected Judaism, upon the Gospel as a new law, and upon Christ as a second Moses. [[Origen]] derived the name of the sect

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Loan
...Borrowing; [[Coins]]; Ethics in the Bible; Jubilee, Year of; [[Justice]]; Law; Poor, Widows, Orphans, [[Levites]]; [[Sabbatical Year]]; Slavery; [[Strang ...money with those who came to pay their annual half-shekel. The [[Jewish]] law did not forbid temporary bondage in the case of debtors, but it forbade a H

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Drink
...th is often referred to also as a "cup of wine" and therefore experiencing God's judgment is compared to becoming drunk ( Psalm 75:8;  Revelation ...fully strained their drinks through a sieve, through fear of violating the law of  Leviticus 11:20,23,41,42 . (See  Matthew 23:24 . "Strain at"

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Religion In Ancient Greece
...God and the soul, of the relation of God to the physical universe, and of God's government of the world, have been worked out along the lines laid down by

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Teach; Teacher; Teaching
...s wisdom and affinity in the midst of the rabbis or Jewish teachers of the Law in the temple ( Luke 2:41 f). In the power of the Spirit He taught so

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Pharisee
...The Pharisee From Fear'' ( '''''פרוש''''' '''''מיראה''''' ), who keeps the law because he is afraid of a future judgment; and '''7.''' ''The Phar

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Ordination
...Lord Jesus Christ, and the due order of this realm!" The constitution and law of England seem to know nothing of uninterrupted lineal descent, but consid ...tion from the pope of Rome is the one essential channel for the descent of God's grace to man, and there is conceded a power as far-reaching and dangerous a

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Individual
...action and manners, and the law they wish to see obeyed is God’s. For this law it is the individual that signifies—the pressure of his personal call bei

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War
...he legal procedures of civil government to their personal behaviour. Civil law requires legal retaliation for wrongdoing, and therefore imposes a punishme ...their comrades ‘who went down to the battle’ (  1 Samuel 30:24 f., a law first introduced by David, but afterwards characteristically assigned to Mo

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling
.... Stahl was largely influenced by the later Schelling in his philosophy of law and in his discussion of the relations of Church and State. Coleridge recei

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Epistle To Thehebrews
...mental attitude. The characteristic Pauline antitheses ‘faith and works,’ ‘law and promise,’ ‘flesh and spirit,’ are replaced by new contrasts-‘ea

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Commandments
...g circumstances and times. Our Lord’s ‘fulfilment’ of the ancient Law has thus its outcome in a new morality which cannot be separated from His g

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Offering
...rance]] Offering  Leviticus 4:2 (c) Here is revealed the sweetness of GOD's care in that the sacrifice of CHRIST is efficacious for the sins which are ... Leviticus 2:2,13   Numbers 15:4-5 . In some cases the law required only offerings of corn or bread, as when they offered the first fr

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Psychology
...s "Geist" and "Seele"; Laid-law, Bible Doctrine of Man ; Orr, God's Image in Man ; Davidson, Old Testament Theology . 

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Advocate
...adversary of every poor sinner; (see  Matthew 5:25) so Christ is our law advocate, and fully and legally appointed to this office, by JEHOVAH himsel ...dvocates were employed by the church to defend it by arms, when force gave law to Europe. Some advocates were called nominative, from their being

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Offerings And Sacrifices
...[[Torah]] and the [[Holiness]] School ; [[J.]] Gordon McConville, Law and [[Theology]] in Deuteronomy ; [[J.]] Milgrom,  Leviticus

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Crime; Crimes
...in such acts, the practice became symbolical of infidelity to God and His law, and Thus served as a frequent figure of speech for Israel's error and apos

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Samaritans
...but what is commanded in the law; whereas the Jews frequently abandon the law to follow the inventions of their rabbins. At the time when they wrote to S ...ority greater than attached to any copy in the possession of the Jews. The law, (that is, the five books of Moses), was their sole code; for they rejected

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Baxterianism
...as to this intent. Christ hath given faith to none by his law or testament, though he hath revealed that to some he will, as benefactor a

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Consecration
...reafter profane that holy place by musters of soldiers, or keeping profane law courts, or carrying burdens through it; and at the end of every curse he bo ...give themselves determines the nature of the sacrifice. When the cause is God's, the gift is consecrated. Jesus' mission was to sanctify persons. Paul said

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Reconcilation
...ful relationship with Himself. The New Testament not only reveals God's act of reconciliation in Christ, but it also exhorts us to be reconciled to ...g back of the sinner in love and loyalty to God, but to the restoration of God's forfeited favour. This is effected by his justice being satisfied, so that

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Obedience Of Christ
...hew 17:27 .  Luke 2:22 .  Psalms 40:7-8 . He was obedient to the law of nature; he was in a state of subjection to his parents; and he fulfilled ...the book it is written of me) to do thy will, [[[[O]] G]] od." It was His law of life: "I do always the things that are pleasing to him. I do nothing of

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Servant
...tures]] have set him forth, the service of his Father, magnifying his holy law, and fulfilling all righteousness; yea, more than repairing all the breache ...the Canaanites, the Hebrew obtained many servants. These were protected by law,  Deuteronomy 1:16,17   27:19 , and might become proselytes, atte

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Lawlessness
...econd coming. In this figure the rebellion that has exerted itself against God's will in every age reaches its height in the last day. By bringing ...1 John 3:4). Literature.—Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible, art. ‘Law (in NT)’; Bruce, Training of the Twelve , pp. 67–95; [[Kin

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Torah
...omans 13:8-10;  Galatians 5:14; compare  Matthew 22:37-40 ). See Law; [[Pentateuch]] . Daniel C. Browning, Jr. TORAH . See Law (in [[Ot), Â§Â§]] 2, 3. 

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First Epistle Of Peter
...The peculiar character of this moment, in which judgement as the issue of God's moral government is imminent, is marked by the reference to the time of Noa ...again, and exclianged what Peter himself calls the unbearable yoke of the law for the liberty which is in Christ. At the same time it must be admitted th

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Pelagianism And Pelagius
...it of man's salvation is, however, to be ascribed to God, because, without God's grace, man's efforts would be unavailing. Wiggers has forcibly observed tha

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Theology Of First And Second Samuel
...ahamic and Davidic covenants does not mean that they are totally devoid of law or obligation ( Genesis 12:1;  17:1;  2 Samuel 7:14-15; &nbs

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Flood
...ecame enormously wicked. The human mind was ever bent on nothing but evil. God's creature had corrupted the earth and filled it with lawlessness. As such Go ...e and power of the wicked who seek to overthrow GOD's people and to hinder GOD's work.  Jeremiah 46:7 (a) The power of Egypt is thus described

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Authority
...ldren of God ( John 1:12 ), and they have freedom with respect to the law ( 1 Corinthians 8:9 ). While authority is valueless without the power ...hem, are call authorities, as they influence the opinions of others and in law, the decisions of supreme courts have a binding force upon inferior courts,

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Birds
...-31;  Luke 12:6-7 ), Jesus taught His disciples to have confidence in God's love. In the [[Sermon]] on the Mount, Jesus summarized one of the greatest ...e cormorant, ibis, crane, pelican, stork, seagull and heron. [[Israelite]] law again prohibited the use of these as food ( Leviticus 11:13-19;  

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Theological Aspects Of. Death
...ection of damnation. The whole man shall go away from the glory and joy of God's presence into everlasting punishment. This is the second death." See also F

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Sanctify
...than the observance of those external rites was unto the privileges of the law. ...> That holy man amaz'd at what he saw, made haste to sanctify the bliss by law. 8. To secure from violation. Truth guards the poet, sanctifies th

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Theology Of Joel
...alatians 3:28 generally echoes Joel's thought in saying that possession of God's Spirit is not restricted by considerations such as one's religious or ethni

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Money
...ng God's "redemption" (an economic term) of his people: this image conveys God's ownership of his people and their resulting obligation to obey him (cf. &nb ...preserved in the temple to prevent fraud; hence those prohibitions in the law, "Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights," in Hebrew, stones, "a gre

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Elder
...ospel and the demands of the Lord are imprinted in the hearts and lives of God's people ( 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12;  2 Timothy 2:24-26 ). ...and fitted for the work, and devoted to it, were entitled by the Christian law, as set forth by the apostles, to be supported by the people; but there was

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Theology Of Ephesians
...eople (Jews), that the Gentiles were to be fellow participants in God's eternal purpose. The Role of Cosmic [[Powers]] . Another

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Protestant Methodists
...es of extreme necessity; fighting, quarrelling, brawling; brother going to law with brother; returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; the using ma

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Augustine
...aith and good works; and when he had opportunity he instructed them in the law of God, and gave them suitable advice, requiring nothing of them except Chr ...ivine grace, or the influence of the Holy Spirit, for our obedience to the law of God. He ascribed the renovation of our moral constitution wholly to this

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Physical
....; Bushnell, Nature and the [[Supernatural]] ; Drummond, Nat. Law in the [[Spiritual]] World ; Mozley, University Sermons , pp.

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Book Of Zephaniah
...and bless the remnant of His people ( Zephaniah 2:4-15 ). C. God's righteous justice will be impartial ( Zephaniah 3:1-8 ). III. ...g and exertion are mingled with intimations of a complete manifestation of God's righteousness and love in the restoration of his people ( Isaiah 38:8-

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Brotherly Love
...e test of our love to God (  1 John 4:11-21 ), ‘the fulfilment of the law’ (  Romans 13:8-10 ), and the crown of Christian purity (  1 Pe ...d the idea of love for the brethren in  Galatians 5:14 , “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Also

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Book Of Deuteronomy
...aracterised by exhortations to obedience by a people brought into God's land. It is often quoted in the [[N.T.]] and the Lord three times quoted fr

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Philanthropy
...of life,—will be permeated and freely used by this great law of love. That law will find its fullest application in the service of the alien, and the fore

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Fulfilment
...hew 5:17, etc., see further the present writer’s Christ and the Jewish Law , 1886; works on the Sermon on the Mount (B. W. Bacon; Votaw, in Hasti

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Day
...exodus), but more often for an era as a singular stage in the progress of God's plan for salvation. The "Day" and [[Calendars]] of [[Worship]] The Hebrews, in conformity with the [[Mosaic]] law, reckoned the day from evening to evening. The natural day, that is, the po

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Human Sexuality
...hter, aunt (including the wife of one's uncle), daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, his wife's child or grandchild, and the sister of one's wife (18:6-18). Th

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Curse
...deed, under this head we include all the death-penalties of the [[Jewish]] law (Jn [?] 8:5), especially the punishment attempted ( John 8:59;  J ...The New Testament responds: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, [[Cursed]] is every one that

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Works
...ey will be rewarded for good works but any unworthy works will not survive God's judgment ( 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 ). See [[Faith]]; [[Salvation]] . Man is justified by faith apart from the 'works of the law' ( Romans 3:20;  Galatians 2:16 ), but real faith will produce 'g

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Bread
...the guest at his table. It was a gravely unnatural offence to violate that law of hospitality. Of this offence [[Judas]] [[Iscariot]] was guilty at the La ...urderers, and all kinds of hypocrites may be found in man's organizations. GOD's true Church, however, contains, as members, only those who belong to [[Jesu

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Heathen
...nt in 2:14f, where he depicts heathen human nature as bearing witness to a law written within, and being guided by it to well-doing. The [[Apostle]] also ...ospel, but they are liable to condemnation for the breach of God's natural law: nevertheless, if there be any of them in whom there is a prevailing love t

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Theology Of Judges
...of Judges with the relationship of law and grace and with the character of God's rule over his people is prominent in many passages in the New Testament. </

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Koran
...ery essence of God: and the first transcript has been from everlasting, by God's throne, written on a table of vast bigness, called the preserved table, in ...virtues, more particularly to a complete and unconditional resignation to God's will, legends, principally relating to the patriarchs, and, almost without

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Korân
...ery essence of God: and the first transcript has been from everlasting, by God's throne, written on a table of vast bigness, called the preserved table, in ...virtues, more particularly to a complete and unconditional resignation to God's will, legends, principally relating to the patriarchs, and, almost without

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Lange
...him with such prerogatives, and glorify him with soul and body, which are God's. There was no necessity at all to sin; that complaint can only be establish

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Zechariah
...[Abi]] daughter of Zechariah; hence it appears Ahaz was Zechariah's son in law; Isaiah naturally chose him as the other of the two witnesses. The undesign ...Ahava.  Ezra 8:16. He stood at Ezra's left hand when he expounded the law to the people.  Nehemiah 8:4. (B.C. 459). 11. One of the fami

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Propitiation Expiation
...of His people. [[A]] sacrifice was necessary to satisfy the demands of His law, but God Himself provided the [[Sacrifice]] out of His incomparable love. W

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Gerizim
...nbsp;Nehemiah 13:28, a grandson of [[Eliashib]] the high priest was son-in-law to Sanballat, and was expelled for this ‘mixed marriage.’ More reliable ...n yearly offered by this interesting community; they possess a copy of the law, attributed to Manasseh, and known to the [[Christian]] fathers of the seco

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Eye
...l 1:18;  Ezekiel 10:12;  Revelation 4:6 ), likewise, reassure of God's awareness of His people's plight wherever they might be. Other use ...ee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in thy mouth …” (Exod. 13:9). “Eyes” are used as typical of

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Richard Baxter
...e for all alike, as to this intent. Christ hath given faith to none by his law or testament, though he hath revealed that to some he will, as benefactor a

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Delight
...( Romans 7:22 ). We are to delight in our weakness, for this is when God's power is most clearly revealed in our lives ( 2 Corinthians 12:10 ). W ...o be greatly pleased or rejoiced followed by in. I delight in the law of God after the inward man.  Romans 7 . 

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Heir
...Jews]] until Herod made one. The subdivision of land by the absence of the law of primogeniture, and the equal division among sons except double to the ol ...eousness, heirs of salvation, &c., by virtue of the death of Christ, or of God's gracious promises. Heir-presumptive, one who, if the ancestor should di

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Foot
...ciples any greater humiliation than had been rendered to them. It became a law of the Kingdom to ‘wash one another’s feet’ ( John 13:5;  J ...eing that is acceptable to GOD until we trust [[Jesus Christ]] and become GOD's children.  Ezekiel 1:7 (b) These are types of the walk of our

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Judaeus Philo
...he Life of the [[Wise]] Man Made [[Perfect]] by Instruction; The Unwritten Law; Abraham; On [[Special]] Laws; On [[Rewards]] and Punishments; That Every M

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Dead Sea Scrolls
...who will restore and make atonement for the sons of light and will execute God's judgment against Belial and his lot. Since their discovery the Dea ...es, they believed that by observing their own interpretation of the Jewish law and by frequent ritual bathing they preserved a faithful remnant. Thus they

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Perfection
...is perfection. Hence the characteristic ‘thou shalt not’ of the [[Jewish]] law, with its possibility of evasion under seeming compliance, gives place to a ...OEconomia Faederum Dei, lib. 3: cap. 12 & 124; Bates's Works, p. 557, &c. Law and [[Wesley]] on Perfection; Doddridge's Lectures, lec. 181. 

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Primitive. Religion
...octrine of holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Next we have God's blessing on all that Job possessed, as in  Psalms 107:38. Then his anx

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Moral Law
Moral Law <ref name="term_51415" /> ...of the [[Moral]] Law; Watts, Uses of the Moral Law; Cobbin, View of Moral Law; Cudworth, [[Eternal]] and [[Immutable]] Morality; [[Cumberland]] Presb. Qu

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History Of The People Israel
...to constantly increasing deeds of violence. That under these circumstances God's blessing also departed from him is proved by the collapse of his life's wor

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Touch
...-21 ); but in the second, through Christ's blood they enter eternally into God's very presence (vv. 22-24). The appropriate charge to believers, therefore,

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Hymnology
...''Of freest grace and love,''' '''Works cannot stand before God's law,''' '''A broken reed they prove;''' '''Faith looks to Jes

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Gospels
...s consisting of Jews or proselytes still under the authority of the Mosaic Law; (4) its conception of the [[Kingdom]] as to be inaugurated shortly when th ...planets are found, on fuller knowledge, to be in harmony with the general law. [[Fourfold Gospel]] - Irenaeus (iii. 11), [[Athanasius]] (Syn. S

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Evidence
...as an enlightened understanding; love to God and his people; a delight in God's word; worship and dependence on him; spirituality of mind; devotedness of l ...at author. See a picture of God, as far as he is imitable by man, drawn by God's own hand. What beauty appears in the whole! How just a symmetry! What exact

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David - In His Services
...demanded, that all these Psalms tell us that forgiveness comes without the law and without works? [[Forgiveness]] and peace come to him that believeth. 'T

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Biblical. Slavery
...r '''(1)''' Jesus, in an analogous case, appeals to the paramount law of nature as superseding such temporary regulations as the "hardness of men

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Uncleanness
...the law and prevented people from doing the more important things that the law required ( Mark 7:5-9; see [[Tradition]] ). The laws of ceremonial cle ...e while in abeyance. There is an intense reality in the fact of the divine law taking hold of a man by the ordinary infirmities of flesh, and setting its

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New Covenant
...venant promises and to see their nonliteral fulfillment in the church. The law written on the heart is the moral lawto which [[Christians]] are subjectand

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Hebrew Philosophy
...ll utterance of "a large heart" ( 1 Kings 4:29), the careful study of God's creaturesthis is the sum of wisdom. Yet in fact the very practical aim of t

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Athanasius
...power as to impel youths, as yet under age, to profess it, a virtue beyond law?" (1, 105). (Taylor, [[Ancient]] Christianity, 1, 222; see also Taylor's re

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The Council Of (Concilium Tridentinunm) Trent
...e proposed for examination. '''1.''' Whether the faithful are, by God's command, obliged to receive in both kinds? '''2.''' Whether Jesus

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Children
...e or evade the humanity He had assumed; or set aside in His own person the law that governs it: on the contrary, He sanctified every age in turn by Himsel ...under the father's training. At 12 he became "son of (i.e. subject to) the law," and was advanced to a fuller instruction in it. Smiting, or even cursing,

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Stoics
...od, the ruler and upholder of all that exists, is identical with universal law, and like all else is material. Though believing in a First Cause and a Min ...to be good. According to them, self-preservation and defense is the first law of animated nature. All animals necessarily derive pleasure from those thin

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Fall Of Man
...pride. 3. Horrid ingratitude. 4. [[Visible]] contempt of God's majesty and justice. 5. Unaccountable folly. 6. A cruelty ...y of showing divine mercy. But by permitting evil, mysterious as it seems, God's works of grace, mercy, and wisdom in saving sinners have been wonderfully m

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Laws Of Nature
..., and that God is all in all. See Herzog, Real- umcytol. 10:224 sq. (See [[Law]]). 

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