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...were, taken off. In old times, letters, and other writings that were to be sealed, were first wrapped round with thread or flax, and then wax and the seal we ...h are thus entered the names of those who are chosen to salvation, is "the book of life," &nbsp;Philippians 4:3 . </p>

...used of the "book" seen in the vision in &nbsp;Revelation 5:1 , RV, "close sealed (with seven seals)," the successive opening of which discloses the events d ...er from the world and from his or her unholy past. It is incongruous for a sealed believer to ignore God's present sanctifying work through the Spirit result

...ater justification, a Babylonian. The names of the chief characters in the book seem certainly to be corrupted forms of [[Babylonian]] and [[Elamite]] deit ...e kings see PERSIA. </p> <p> There are several apocryphal additions to the book of Esther in the LXX and the Vulgate. The principal of these are: </p> <p>

...(Lond. 1866, imp. 8vo). On the American book, see Brownell, Family Prayer-book (N. Y. 1855, royal 8vo); Butler, Common Prayer interpreted by its History (

...etc.). The perverted conception of the school of Baur that we have in the book an anti-Pauline manifesto (thus also Pfieiderer; compare <i> Hibbert Lectur

...lly distinct work), 1902-03.]Berlin, 1903, p. 401ff.; A, Jeremias, article‘Book of Life’ in <i> Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics </i> ; W. Bousset, < ...th for the wicked (Jub xxx 20 22). To have one’s name blotted out from the Book of Life was equivalent to complete condemnation (Eth. Enoch 108:3). </p> <p

...rom the part which the covenant conception plays in the second part of the Book of Isaiah in connexion with the figure of the Servant of Jehovah, who is ca ...3:14 ) and "this is my blood of the covenant" (&nbsp;Matthew 20:28 ). The Book of Hebrews expands on how Jesus and his blood are essential elements of the

Book Of. Revelation <ref name="term_57970" /> ...in periodicals. The following are the exegetical helps solely on the whole book; to the most important we prefix an asterisk: St. Anthony, ''Expositio'' (

...e coming of [[Jehovah]] in judgement. </p> <p> The spiritual value of this book, and of Ezra, is the setting forth of the principle that, in a day of ruin, ...[[Alexander]] the Great. </p> <p> <strong> 3. [[Historical]] value of the Book </strong> . On the whole, recent criticism has been favourable to the older

...trong> 5. Style </strong> As might be expected, the style and diction of a book belonging to the last half of the 5th cent. are inferior to those of the pr ...uted with God (&nbsp;Jeremiah 12:1-6 ). Job disputed with his friends. The Book of Malachi is made up of six disputation passages and two appendices. The d

...udah. </p> <p> This is a commentary on the fourteenth chapter of the First Book of Kings, which relates the arrival of [[Shishak]] at Jerusalem, and his su ...ntly. A few books could contain the writings of many scrolls. This kind of book has become known as a codex. (See also [[Manuscripts]] .) </p>

...e excavations at Pergamus, [[Athens]] and Rome, reveal the same type - the book-rooms, the colonnade where masters walked or sat and talked with their pupi

...ng Belshazzar, since it was to the national dishonor. </p> <p> If Daniel's book had been a late one, he would have copied Berosus; if it had been at varian ...ple triumph (see [[Apocalyptic Literature]] ). </p> <p> '''Contents of the book''' </p> <p> After Daniel and his friends proved their faithfulness to God d

...for the Roman church made as much a part of the Bible canon as the Hebrew Book of Daniel. Protestant churches have as a rule excluded the whole of the Apo

...city: the defiled and idolaters are outside. </p> <p> The Lord closes the book, saying simply [["I]] Jesus," speaking personally rather than officially. T

...her faith. The articles are far more thoroughly Protestant than the Prayer-book, taken as a whole. Although the articles expressly assert that the Church o

...Ezra to read from the book of the law of Moses (&nbsp;Nehemiah 8:1 ). The book was probably the [[Pentateuch]] (Torah) or some part of it. Ezra read, and ...ppointed, and for the first-fruits’ (&nbsp; Nehemiah 13:30 ). </p> <p> The Book of Nehemiah (see next article) is composite in character, and the narrative

...' is not without its apocalyptic elements. These, however, are confined to book 1:3, 4; but they are destitute of signification or originality. (See [[Herm

...in the five years which intervened between B.C. 588 and 583. </p> <p> The book of Obadiah is a sustained denunciation of the Edomites, melting into a visi ...iel: he returned from exile. &nbsp; Ezra 8:9 . </p> <p> 11. [[Priest]] who sealed the covenant. &nbsp; Nehemiah 10:5 . </p> <p> 12. Levite who acted as doork

Book With The Seven Seals <ref name="term_55224" /> ...ing of the seals implies that the leaves of the book or parchment-roll are sealed down in successive portions, and the idea of completeness in the seven is t

...l influential members, among them David Whitmer, the second witness to the Book of Mormon, and Oliver Cowdery, the first convert by baptism. Smith's presen

...s of &nbsp; Exodus 20:1-17 , E [Note: Elohist.] relates the ceremony which sealed the covenant (&nbsp; Exodus 24:3-8 ); the usual practice of Moses with rega ...es the sacred historian, who annexed the circumstances of his death to the book of Deuteronomy, &nbsp;Deuteronomy 34:6 . From an obscure passage in the New

...1:1-14; &nbsp;Colossians 1:12-20; &nbsp;Hebrews 1:1-3. From the [[Mosaic]] book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament Jesus quoted texts to withstand the awf ...h as the Wisdom of Ben Sira, the Wisdom of Solomon, 1 and 2 Maccabees, the Book of Enoch, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and the Assumption of Mo

...that another writer records in the books of 1 and 2 Samuel (see [[Psalms, Book Of]] ) </p> <p> ''' Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text [ ...last by night in disguise was a suppliant before the witch of Endor, which sealed his destruction (1 Samuel 28; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 10:13). As David was "watc

...from small beginnings less than a century ago, a vast system of tract and book publication in the interest of Christianity has sprung up and spread abroad

...]] [[Commentary]] on the Book of Job </i> ; [[J.]] [[E.]] Hartley, <i> The Book of Job </i> ; [[G.]] [[W.]] Parsons, <i> BibSac </i> 138 (1981): 139-57; [[

...every nation of the world. </p> <p> All this was in the mind of Jesus. The Book of Jonah was a favourite with Him, and it is the OT manifesto of the imperi ...es brought together. This was divinely ordered that the Bible might be the book of mankind, not of Israel alone. The bear of Lebanon ( '''''Ursus Syriacus'

...say he also died in the twelfth year of the captivity, Jeremiah 36-43. The book of Baruch is justly placed among the apocryphal writings. [[Grotius]] think ...with Jeremiah by Johanan into Egypt (&nbsp;Jeremiah 43:6). The apocryphal book of Baruch is evidently one of later composition. </p> <p> '''2.''' Son of [

...Saviour, in laying down for us the correct lines of its interpretation has sealed it with the stamp of Divine approval, but also because the conscience and r ...that continueth not in all things that are written," or required, "in the book of the law, to do them," &nbsp;Galatians 3:10 . To deliver man from this pe

...</strong> . Perhaps = <strong> [[Adonikam]] </strong> , one of those that sealed the covenant (&nbsp; Nehemiah 9:38; &nbsp; Nehemiah 10:16 ). </p> <p> <stro ...phat's reign (&nbsp;2 Chronicles 17:8), sent with the princes to teach the book of the law throughout Judah. </p> <p> '''3.''' &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:16, called

...ced. </p> <p> iv. The Epistle to the Hebrews.-The oratorical style of this book, where the clauses and phrases are more carefully balanced than in St. Paul ...appear when those things were done which are recorded in the middle of the book. See [[Pentateuch]] . </p>

...s 20:34). Letters. were written by [[Jezebel]] in the name of [[Ahab]] and sealed with his seal (&nbsp;1 Kings 21:8-9; &nbsp;1 Kings 21:11); by Jehu (&nbsp;2

...ite]] (&nbsp; 1 Chronicles 27:20 ). <strong> 3. </strong> One of those who sealed the covenant (&nbsp; Nehemiah 10:23 ). <strong> 4. </strong> The last king ...of King David. (B.C. 1019). </p> <p> 4. One of the heads of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:23. (B.C. 410). </p>

...adadezer king of Zobah. &nbsp;2 Samuel 8:3,12 . </p> <p> 2. [[Levite]] who sealed the covenant. &nbsp; Nehemiah 10:11 . </p> <p> 3. The northern limit of the ...l 8:12. (B.C. before 1043). </p> <p> 2. A Levite or family of Levites, who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:11. (B.C. 410). </p> <p> 3. T

...y do not mean that Christ will come in person, but in spirit, and that the sealed who are dead before that time will be raised from their graves to partake o

...i> Sketches of Jewish Social Life </i> , p. 161 ff.; Thomson, <i> Land and Book </i> ; Bender, ‘Beliefs, Rites, and Customs of the Jews connected with De ...eph of Arimathea, in which the body of Jesus was laid, should be carefully sealed and made as secure as the officials could make it. "So they went, and made

...nbsp;Hebrews 9:14 ff.). These aspects are set forth in detail and give the book its character. In both Christ and the believer the inner experience is iden ...d as the most important point; which our venerable martyrs gloried in, and sealed with their blood; and which, as the church of [[England]] observes, is a "v

...5. One ormore of the priests who returned from the captivity, one of whom sealed the covenant. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:7; &nbsp;Nehemiah 12:4 &nbsp; 17 </p> ...s who ‘went up with Zerubbabel’ (&nbsp; Nehemiah 12:4 ), and of those who ‘sealed unto the covenant’ in the time of Nehemiah (&nbsp; Nehemiah 10:7 ). <stro

...the vast majority of surviving [[Hellenistic]] letters. </p> <p> Even the Book of Revelation has some characteristics of a letter. John sent it to the chu ...nd. </p> <p> LET'TER, To impress or form letters on as, to letter a book a book gilt and lettered. </p>

...cal [[Commentary]] on the Book of Amos </i> ; [[E.]] Hammershaimb, <i> The Book of Amos: [[A]] Commentary </i> ; [[J.]] [[H.]] Hayes, <i> Amos, the Eighth-

...ot be said that these four tests would give an indefeasible right to every book to claim a place in the Canon if it were not already there <em> e.g. </em> ...ritten it. The New Testament is a complete organic whole, so that even one book could not be omitted without loss to the completeness of the Christian cycl

Sealed Books <ref name="term_59589" /> ...rtain cathedral and collegiate churches. A folio reprint of the [[Sealed]] Book was issued by Piekering (1844), and again by Masters ](1848, 8vo). See Leei

...ve is the number of the heavenly elders, 12 times 12,000 the number of the sealed elect. The tree of life yields twelve manner of fruits (&nbsp;Revelation 22

...sed perfect knowledge within the sphere in which His vocation lay. The one book which He studied was the OT, and He used it continually in temptation, conf ...uth of the Gospels as guaranteed by God. They were to be read as any other book; the supernatural elements were to be discounted entirely or taken as myths

Book Of The Covenant <ref name="term_50295" /> ...us 23:28-31 ). </p> <p> <strong> 2. Date </strong> . As to the date of the Book of the Covenant, there is no evidence save what the document itself affords

...ought proper to give the church so large an account of his history, in the book of Esther, which is principally, if not wholly, recorded for this purpose, ...at probability that Mordecai was very young when taken into captivity. The book of Esther gives the whole history of Mordecai's elevation, the punishment o

...y do not mean that Christ will come in person, but in spirit, and that the sealed who are dead before this time, will be raised from their graves to partake

..." i.e., by this blood of my child I have recovered thee as my husband, and sealed our union again (&nbsp;Exodus 4:25). </p> <p> The name was given at circumc ...aham believed God’s promises and acted upon his commands. His circumcision sealed his faith and demonstrated his obedience (&nbsp;Romans 4:11). The covenant

<p> Abraham ("father of a multitude".) Up to &nbsp;Genesis 17:4-5, his being sealed with circumcision, the sign of the covenant, ABRAM (father of elevation). S ...this the introductory title of St. Matthew’s Gospel testifies; it is ‘the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, <i> the son of Abraham

...h speaks of the vicarious sacrifices offered by the patriarchs; and in the book of Job, in which that patriarch is said to have offered sacrifices for the ...h speaks of the vicarious sacrifices offered by the patriarchs; and in the book of Job, in which that patriarch is said to have offered sacrifices for the

...ned by God himself. </p> <p> <i> Kings and Human [[Government]] </i> . The book recognizes that their kings and leaders were given by God (9:34) and that h

...God over all the powers of evil. With all its problems and mysteries, this book has proved in times of despair the means of begetting and sustaining faith ...as faithful (1:5; 3:14; 19:11). All whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life respond to the promise of this [[Faithful]] One, "I am coming soon,

...even before the ordinance of Parliament appeared, in 1645, forbidding the Book of Common Prayer. The old Puritanism, however, was now passing away. A gene

...7. Father of Ezra the scribe. &nbsp; Ezra 7:1 . </p> <p> 8. [[Priest]] who sealed the covenant. &nbsp; Nehemiah 10:2 . </p> <p> 9. Son of Hilkiah: 'ruler of .... He was charged by Jeremiah to communicate to the Jews already in exile a book in which the prophet had written out his prediction of all the evil that sh

...ficance of the name being made evident on its very first appearance in the book, when the Lamb is described as having been slain, and yet standing in the m ...from the creation of the world, to the time when vision and prophecy were sealed. And all the light, which emanates from so many various points, is concentr

...ery and [[H.]] Gehman, <i> [[A]] Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Kings </i> ; [[G.]] von Rad, <i> Studies in Deuteronomy, </i> pp. 74-79;

.... [[Solemnly]] and hopefully praying for the Lord to come, John closed his book (&nbsp;Revelation 22:17 ,Revelation 22:17,&nbsp;22:20 ). The churches must ...eportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/revelation,+the+book+of The Book Of Revelation from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>

...he priesthood, the temple, and sacrificial worship. Here the author of the Book of Hebrews, by means of typological interpretation, demonstrated Jesus Chri ...nagogue-worship, developed by and after the exile, largely substituted the book for the symbol, and thought for the sensuous or object appeal; it was also

...a law-book but a history,’ so the history of Christianity becomes a lesson-book for all who would understand its real essence. </p> <p> The question thus o ...rs of civilization ( <i> Church in Roman [[Empire]] </i> , 147, etc.). The Book of Acts and the Epistles show how striking were the results. Churches were

...yrs under the altar in heaven (&nbsp;Revelation 6:9), the mystic number of sealed persons from the twelve tribes (&nbsp;Revelation 7:4; &nbsp;Revelation 14:1 ...cted. At different times men have endeavoured by the interpretation of the Book of Daniel to determine the precise date at which it will occur; but among t

...[[Hebron]] would naturally take the route by Jerusalem (Thomson, Land and Book, 2:31). [[Adonizedek]] ("lord of righteousness") corresponds; being also th ...Jerusalem. The story survives with many embellishments in the Ethiopic <i> Book of Adam </i> ; and only for its beginnings, with mixed Jewish and Christian

...d ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise’), &nbsp;Ephesians 4:30 (‘sealed in the Holy Spirit’). The aorists in all three passages, which connect th ...enting them for baptism (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 7:14), which grace is visibly sealed and increased by baptism. They are presumed to be regenerated, until years

...;Revelation 13:18), the judged world power, contrasts with the ''144,000'' sealed and transfigured ones. (See [[Antichrist]] .) </p> <p> [[Forty]] symbolizes ...God (&nbsp;Revelation 1:4; &nbsp;Revelation 3:1; &nbsp;Revelation 4:5 ); a book with 7 seals (&nbsp;Revelation 5:1 ); a lamb with 7 horns and 7 eyes (&nbsp

Book Of Deuteronomy <ref name="term_65833" /> ...e in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. </p> <p> The Book of Deuteronomy is in a word characterised by exhortations to <i> obedience

.... &nbsp;1 Chronicles 7:8 . </p> <p> 2. One of the chiefs of the people who sealed the covenant. &nbsp;Nehemiah 10:19 . </p> <p> 3. City assigned to the pries ...8). B.C. post 1856. </p> <p> '''3.''' One of the chief [[Israelites]] that sealed the covenant on the return from Babylon (&nbsp;Nehemiah 10:19), B.C. cir. 4

...and guided by the cloud; all were safely brought through the sea; all were sealed as by a baptism into trustful allegiance to Moses as their deliverer; yet i

...at prominence to the work of the Holy Spirit, teaching that believers were sealed with the promised third person of the [[Trinity]] (&nbsp;Ephesians 1:13 ), ...Scripture]] teaching. It is a peculiarity of the Bible; no other religious book has that as a distinguishing feature. It is the element of promise that run

...s 21; &nbsp;2 Kings 9:26). This was the turning point whereat his doom was sealed. Elijah with awful majesty denounces his sentence, "in the place where dogs ...king of Israel from about 875 to about 853 b.c. The account of him in our Book of Kings is drawn from two separate sources, one of which views him more fa

...The [[Theology]] of the Book of Ruth </i> ; [[R.]] [[L.]] Hubbard, <i> The Book of Ruth </i> ; [[O.]] Loretz, <i> [[Cbq]] </i> 22 (1960): 391-99; [[E.]] Me

...ed is every one which continued, not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them’ (&nbsp;Galatians 3:10). With this curse in its co ...s 15:3-4 ). St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John, the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Book of Revelation, are at one here. The class of expressions in which this idea

...been profaned by the Greeks, they found there only one small phial of oil, sealed up by the high. priest, which would hardly suffice to keep in the lamps so

...ok Mark with him on a mission to Cyprus, and we hear no more of him in the Book of Acts. When Mark next appears (Col. and Philem.), it is as the ‘fellow- ...o be introduced into the churches. Clement gives this account in the sixth book of his Institutions; and Papias, bishop of Hierapolis, bears testimony to i

...te his notions about the origin of evil. The seventy-first chapter of that book is entitled, "A proof that man is free, and has power to this extent, that ...eadership of Jesus Christ as Head of the body. </p> <p> Such believers are sealed by the Spirit (&nbsp;Romans 9:13 ); therefore, the power of God working in

...rchase to Baruch. &nbsp;Jeremiah 32 </p> <p> I subscribed the evidence and sealed it. &nbsp;Jeremiah 32 </p> 3. A witness one who testifies to a fact. This s ...arithmetic, to whom the facit at the end of the examples in his ciphering-book is the whole ground for his assuming that such and such figures amount to s

...ke the Jew and the Christian, the Moslem based his faith upon the revealed book known as the Bible. It is further urged in defence of the Arabian religion

...esis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy; the book of Joshua, the book of Judges, the two books of Samuel, the two books of Kings, the Psalms of D

...on, <i> [[Ancient]] Egyptians, passim </i> ; Thomson, <i> The Land and the Book </i> ; van Lennep, <i> Bible Lands and Customs; ZDP </i> V [Note: DPV Zeits ...ist, deep soil grew and matured their ears ready for harvest. </p> <p> The Book of Ruth provides a vivid picture of the harvesting scene that was carried o

...he considered himself to be an apostle. Even though the only place in the Book of Acts where Paul is called an apostle is in reference to the apostles of ...rs, to see the laws observed. </p> <p> Apostle, in the Greek liturgy, is a book contained the epistles of St. Paul, printed in the order in which they are

...of information than the [[Pauline]] Epistles, though later in date, is the Book of Acts, now firmly established as the work of St. Luke, the companion of S ...all reign with Christ is made up of those written in heaven, in the Lamb's book of life, the spirits of just, men made perfect (&nbsp;Hebrews 12:22-23; &nb

...friendship, and that is the surest reconciliation, that is sanctified and sealed at the Lord's Table. </p> <p> And then, when your [[Saviour]] says to you a

...hians 1:7 ). The Ephesians are told that they by the [[Holy]] Spirit "were sealed for the day of redemption" (&nbsp;Ephesians 4:30 ). This is an unusual way

...knowledge, eloquence, and the highest and richest poetry, as we see in the book of Job. Men were not then, as many moderns have supposed, a race of babies, ...usually in the form of a roll, the last fold being pasted down. They were sealed, &nbsp;1 Kings 21:8 , and sometimes wrapped in an envelope, or in a bag of

...r Israel from the hand of the Philistines. Samson betrayed his secret, but sealed his mission by his own death. &nbsp;Judges 13:1-5 . </p> <p> Christ was mor ...ion of the term to the undressed vine of the sabbatical year in a previous book (Levit.) tends to the same conclusion. A custom of this kind might have rea

...hould come near them. In several places, the oracles were given by letters sealed up, as in that of Mopsus, and at [[Mallus]] in Cilicia. [[Oracles]] were fr ...e excellency of several oracles, as appears at large from Origen's seventh book against him. Among the Jews there were several sorts of real oracles. They

...sought to entrap Nehemiah. &nbsp; Nehemiah 6:10 . </p> <p> 19. Priest who sealed the covenant, &nbsp; Nehemiah 10:8; his family went up with Zerubbabel. &nb ...''''' </i> ). One of the commission appointed by Jehoshaphat to teach the book of the Law in Judah. The names of the commissioners as a whole belong to a

...which he gives an account of the weights and measures used in Scripture, a book still useful for Biblical archaeology. </p> <p> '''5.''' '''''Περὶ''''

...blished with A. Harkavy. On page 169 we find the first three verses of the book of Leviticus, of which we subjoin the first, together with the Hebrew: Hebr

...nd transmitted in writing his doctrines, "the second and better elementary book for the human race," expecting (according to Ritter [Lessing's philosophisc

...d. The burning of Resby is given in the twentieth chapter of the fifteenth book of the Scotichronicon. Still these opinions continued to extend, especially

...markable discoveries. </p> <p> Literature.-W. M. Thomson, The Land and the Book, 1910, p. 462f.; A. P. Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, new ed., 1887, pp. 240 ...they rose with a gentle slope, and met the view in every direction, like a book laid out for perusal on a reading desk. This was the seat of the capital of

...ted with whoremongering, as spiritually related (&nbsp;Ephesians 5:5). The book of [[Enoch]] takes the carnal cohabitation view; but because &nbsp;Judges 1 ...except eight persons, perished by the flood. </p> <p> The language of the book of Genesis does not compel us to suppose that the whole surface of the glob

...cript translations of parts of the Old. Test., and is also translating the book of Psalms. Since then the [[Pentateuch]] has been published (1884). See Bib

...hey had corrupted the ritual and the faith of the Western Church (Southey, Book of the Church). (See [[Tradition]]). </p>

...ue will do it. An impertinent book, and the time and money spent upon that book will do it. A second sleep in the morning more than is necessary will do it

...]] in Chronicles </i> ; [[H.]] [[G.]] [[M.]] Williamson, <i> Israel in the Book of Chronicles. </i> </p>

..., pp. 139-144). This so-called Gnosticism may be traced through Philo, the Book of Wisdom, and Sirach, ‘back to the [[Persian]] speculations with which t ...nd there will be the twelve tribes, and some of each of the twelve will be sealed for blessing. &nbsp;Ezekiel 48; &nbsp;Revelation 7:3-8 . God, who is guardi

...ay be conferred on men by Jesus (cf. &nbsp;John 17:17-19). </p> <p> In the Book of Acts Jesus is called τὸν ἄγιον καὶ δίκαιον (&nbsp;A

.... </p> <p> [[Barnabas]] was a Levite (&nbsp;Acts 4:36). They are among the sealed tribes (Revelation 7). Their name is still preserved in the [[Jewish]] Levy ...f the tabernacle, and the third the boards and pillars. They also kept the book of the Law, &nbsp;Deuteronomy 17:8-12, and served as judges, etc. Forty-eig

...ut in paradise, the rose of the valleys-a stranger must not rule over this sealed fountain; this is why the hind of love has preserved the holy seed in purit

...esus went on to call Lazarus from the tomb; but in doing so, he ironically sealed His own death in the plans of the Jewish authorities (&nbsp;John 11:45-53 ) ...ger exist (&nbsp;Revelation 21:4 ). </p> <p> Finally, Scripture is not the book of death, but of life, of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. I

...ont. </p> <p> WOE </p> <p> The word οὐαί occurs freely in the LXX , in the Book of [[Enoch]] (esp. xciv., c.), and in the Gospels, but is found only twice ...mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase …” (Jer. 32:12). An object or animal(s) can signify the

...3. Israel's deliverance front Egyptian bondage and adoption by Jehovah was sealed by the Passover, which was their consecration to Him. &nbsp;Exodus 12:1-14 ...produced, "and that there existed a flock of 2,000,000 (The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined, pt. 1, chap. 10). </p> <p> But </p> <p> '''(

...ll peoples’ (&nbsp; Psalms 99:2 ), and in one of the later portions of the Book of Isaiah, where He is described as ‘the high and lofty One that inhabite ...in a real way; and more perfectly, and with more intelligence, when he is sealed by the Holy Ghost, as cleansed by the blood of Christ." Upon this are based

...e Lord is not slack concerning his promise” (&nbsp;2 Peter 3:9 ). The last book of the Bible begins and ends with a reference to Christ's return. “Behold ...ristian, however, was the pledge given in the resurrection of Christ. This sealed His Messiahship and proved His lordship (&nbsp;Romans 1:4; &nbsp;Ephesians

...and when we make use besides of one or two sidelights which fall from the book of Acts and the pages of Josephus, we find that for knowledge regarding the ...rrative, than in any of the others. It is also to be remembered, that this book, which contains so much additional information relative to the doctrines of

...s,'' p. 448). (See [[Prison]]). </p> <p> According to Thomson ( ''Land And Book,'' 2, 262-4), dry cisterns are often used in Palestine for granaries, and a

...tate in the aisle of the chancel, near the communion table, took a written book in his hand, and pronounced curses upon those who should hereafter profane ...g heats. Such is the Christian's heart. It is a spring shut up, a fountain sealed, a garden reserved for Jesus only. [[O]] come, Great King, and enjoy thy po

...antiquity, to authorize such a conclusion. '''''—''''' Thomson, ''Land And Book'' , 2:382-384. (See [[Covenant]]). </p>

...[Israel]] (&nbsp;1 Kings 17:1 ). The message could be long; thus the whole Book of Malachi is a pronouncement oracle. This kind of oracle usually told what ...nquiry by letter to Heliopolis. The god directed the reply to be made by a sealed letter. When opened, it was found blank. Trajan's inquiry had been a blank

...letter against this brief, and, notwithstanding the anathemas, he had his book printed again, adding to it the approvals of twenty-nine French prelates..

...a Dr. Deacon. According to these men, every rite and every phrase, in the book called the [[Apostolical]] Constitutions, were certainly in use among the a ...Cyril]] of Jerusalem, Catechetical Discourses; Gregory the Great, Liturgy; Book of Morals; the so called [[Apostolic]] Constitutions (bk. 8); Bingham, [[An

...rity, but as having spiritual worth and influence. The denominational Year-book for 1890 reports 407 churches, of which 240 are in New England, chiefly in

...elech’s herdsmen return to him a well they had seized. The arrangement was sealed by Abimelech’s acceptance of a gift from Abraham (&nbsp;Genesis 21:22-32) ...f., &nbsp; Genesis 26:1 ff.) gives two variants of the same tradition. The Book of Jubilees, in the section parallel to &nbsp; Genesis 12:10 ff., exonerate

...side of a roll. John was struck, not only with the fact that the roll was sealed, but also with the amount of writing it contained" ( <i> HDB </i> , I, 231)

...emembrances. With the sixth verse of the twentieth chapter this remarkable book all at once becomes autobiographical of Luke as well as biographical graphi

...l that,-ere ever He was aware, the Holy [[Ghost]] had witnessed it and had sealed it on His mind and on His heart, that, in all that He, the Son of Mary, was

..."Lord God, " who sits on the throne, for he is worthy (v. 11). He holds a sealed scroll—Holy [[Scripture]] containing his will and testamentin his right ha

...se (&nbsp; Deuteronomy 20:5 ): no compact or agreement was completed until sealed by a sacrifice (&nbsp; Genesis 31:54 etc.); at the opening of a campaign th ...cial system is seen in that His sacrifice had to be offered only once. The book ends with an encouragement to offer sacrifices of praise to God through Chr

...of it the covenant between God and man which Christ makes is ratified and sealed. Consequently the meaning of the expression is not substantially different

...nner circle of disciples, Jesus declared was destined to be consecrated or sealed in His own life-blood. The emphasis on the connexion between the message an

...aiah 9:1-2; &nbsp;Matthew 4:16). Naphtali shall have its 12,000 elect ones sealed (&nbsp;Revelation 7:6), and its allotment in restored Israel (&nbsp;Ezekiel ...oe or a hind upon the mountains of spices, and thus frequently through the book of the Songs, surely it can be no difficult matter to behold Jesus in the t

...red, from the visible to the invisible world. By this action the worshiper sealed a contract with God. Blood, believed to contain the "life" of an animal (or ...ld be ratified with sacrificial blood; but before Moses could sprinkle the Book of the Covenant and the people who covenanted (&nbsp;Exodus 24:6 , &nbsp;Ex

...ll), Christ is present, and the 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

...inking may foreshadow the Lord's Supper, which celebrates the new covenant sealed by Christ's death (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 11:25-26 ). </p> <p> This symbolic m ...frequently used figuratively in the [[Scriptures]] (see Thomson, Land and Book, 1:496). The wise man exhorts his disciple (&nbsp;Proverbs 5:15) to "drink

...ms to have been contemplated by the same prophet in another passage of his book: "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut th

...us 15 </p> <p> HAND, To give or transmit with the hand. </p> <p> Hand me a book. </p> 1. To lead, guide and lift with the hand to conduct. 2. To manage as, ...and was to conspire together (&nbsp; Proverbs 11:21 etc.). To strike hands sealed a compact (&nbsp; Proverbs 6:1 etc.). Folded hands he token slumber (&nbsp;

...</em> , 1907, pp. 296 360, with the illustrations there and throughout the book). </p> <p> The <strong> bucket </strong> of &nbsp; Numbers 24:7 , &nbsp; Is ...wife's love, seek none else. So the heavenly spouse is called "a fountain sealed" (&nbsp;Song of Solomon 4:12). </p> <p> '''(9)''' The foundation was an obj

...s his grace, see that ye"grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption!" (&nbsp;Ephesians 4:30) I cannot dismiss the su ...ep, <i> Bible Lands and Customs </i> , p. 132; W. M. Thomson, <i> Land and Book </i> , iii. 472. </p> <p> C. H. Prichard. </p>

...spoken, and advisedly, as if the New Test. were, as to this doctrine, one book in harmony with itself. That there are in the New Test. different types of

...autiful, the whole interior being planted with orchards (Thomson, Land and Book, ii, 327 sq.). (See [[Cuneiform]] Inscriptions). </p> <p> The present site,

...urrection of Christ. When we consider its commencement, as recorded in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, we see two simple and incontrovertible facts:

...the peculiar cause for calling it New was, as being newly accomplished and sealed by the blood of its almighty Author; and when first so called the Lord Jesu ...ranslation in the Revised Version (British and American), "especially in a book which is so impregnated with the language of the [[Septuagint]] as the Epis

...out six inches long, and a bit of paper is fastened round it with gum, and sealed with an impression of ink, which resembles our printers' ink, but is not so ...ment; and at the conclusion of the New Testament stands its only prophetic book, the Revelation of John. </p> <p> In this also we must thankfully adore div

...," the Jewish magistrate, who "exercised his right in the king's name, and sealed his decrees, which the king alone could annul, with the royal arms. He made

...s to Peter the coin found in the mouth of the first fish which came to his book as he lowered it into the lake! What confirmation of all that they had lear ...nthians 4:9 ). Indeed, existence and ministry of the [[Corinthian]] church sealed Paul's apostleship, showing he had done the work of an apostle. He also qua

...h but one will and operation was taught. This paper also was ordered to be sealed, by the emperor. </p> <p> '''8''' (March 7). The passages adduced by Agatho

...as diverse institutions. They are used as convertible terms throughout the Book of Feuds. " Feudum idem cum beneficia,"' says Du Cange (s.v., p. 258, cal.)

...especting Christ as our Living Food and [[Strength]] that is ‘represented, sealed, and applied’ to us in the Lord’s Supper. </p> <p> (4) <i> As applied t

...Austria, 1:254; Kohlrausch, Hist. of Germany, ch. 4; Robertson, Charles V, book 10. (See Charles V;) (See [[Interim]]); (See [[Reformation]]). </p>

...lish the sacred Scriptures. </p> <p> They were to her a holy, but a sealed book; her intellect revelled with greater delight in the mazes of human learning

...d in the Koran, but was the first to make an authentic copy of this sacred book of Islam, thus furnishing the basis for all future copies of the Koran. The

...fe and experience of which there are abundant traces in the NT outside the Book of Revelation, and which indicate a ‘war in heaven’ (&nbsp;Revelation 1

...as sealed, and the people bound to it, by blood. Moses "sprinkled both the book and all the people." &nbsp;Hebrews 9:19 . </p>

<p> '''Architecture.''' The book of Genesis, &nbsp;Genesis 4:17; &nbsp;Genesis 4:20; &nbsp;Genesis 4:22, app ...one small chamber (with a narrow passage leading to it), and containing a sealed massive stone sarcophagus, holding the embalmed body of the monarch. Of lar

...re in [[Thy]] sight) into thy bottle" (the repository of precious objects, sealed up anciently), so as to reserve them for a manifold recompence of joy herea ...were probably made of the [[Skins]] of animals. Accordingly, in the fourth book of the. [[Iliad]] (1. 247), the attendants are represented as bearing wine

...ce of help had Been cut off from him. Samuel told him that his destiny was sealed, and Predicted that on the morrow Saul and his sons would be with him. All

...[[Israel]] has served as a preparation, and to this the Gentiles are come, sealed unto salvation by the Holy Spirit of power. </p> <p> &nbsp;Ephesians 1:15 ,