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  • David
    ...ll known. The biblical book of Psalms contains many of the songs and poems he wrote during his long and eventful career. In these writings David gives hi ...at he was to Him alone, kept him from behaving proudly in prosperity. Then he was anointed for the third time king, namely, over Israel (his reign lastin
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  • Egypt
    ...[[Deborah]] and Barak. with distinguishing surnames. the quarries. Rameses III records his successes on his great temple of Medeenet Haboo in western Theb ...gdom, for the Egyptians, and more especially for the Greeks at Alexandria. He was worshipped as a form of Osiris, an infernal Zeus, associated with Isis.
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  • Jesus Christ
    ...impious, and cast upon the Father the care of making His path plain, while He awaited, prudently as well as bravely, the gradual disclosure of His call t ...laimed that the Scriptures spoke directly about him (&nbsp;John 5:39 ) and he was the fulfillment of its prophecies ( </p>
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  • Paul
    ...eriod at [[Antioch]] in Syria. In response to an invitation from Barnabas, he had come from Tarsus to help the newly formed Antioch church (&nbsp;Acts 11 ...his retreat? No exact information is supplied, but the probability is that he betook himself to the scenes of the earlier revelations made to his forefat
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  • Moses
    ...ns (&nbsp;Exodus 4:1-9; &nbsp;Exodus 4:30). In response to his excuse that he was not a good speaker, God gave him Aaron as a spokesman (&nbsp;Exodus 4:1 ...d Dispensation, Jesus and the NT writers thought of him as something more. He was an historical personage of such unique prominence in Israel’s history
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  • Bishop Of Lyons Irenaeus
    ...to the lists of those men who, since the apostles, had presided over them (iii. 3). </p> <p> The main representatives therefore of genuine apostolical tra
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  • Eusebius Of Caesarea
    ...e especially of the Peripatetics, Stoics, and materialists of all schools. He claims to have thus given a complete answer to those who charge Christians ..."Burn Eusebius! As he has cut Christ asunder, so let him be cut asunder." He fled to Rome. The tide was turned by the death of Theodosius, A.D. 450. Leo
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  • John The Baptist
    ...<i> Expositor </i> , i. v. [1877] 11ff., 98 ff., viii. [1878] 23 ff., <i> iii </i> . i. [1885] 267 ff., v. i. [1895] 201 ff., vi. [1897] 139 ff., vii. [1 ...pistle thither; it was the accompanying writing to the Gospel, and with it he also sent the Gospel. Who was better qualified to promulgate the Gospel amo
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  • Messiah
    ...achings of Jesus respecting Himself as ‘Son of Man,’ whereby we learn that He was ‘made perfect through sufferings,’ and became ‘the leader of our .../em> , but as the result of the in-working of God in human lives, to which He comes through the mediation of faith in Jesus, His supreme revelation. To f
    284 KB (47,622 words) - 13:41, 14 October 2021
  • Testaments Of The Twelve Patriarchs
    ...e prayer and weeping ( <i> Test. Sim </i> . ii. 13) and two years fasting (iii. 4; in Judah’s case abstinence from flesh and wine and all enjoyment till
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  • Elisha
    ...dness deprived him of complete triumph; for when told to smite the ground, he smote but thrice, instead of five or six times. Spiritually, if we fainted ...sp;2 Kings 3:15 ). The supernatural abounds in his life; in many instances he manifests the power of prediction (&nbsp; 2 Kings 4:16 , 2Ki 5:26 , &nbsp;
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  • Assyria And Babylonia
    ...Assyrian assistance in the time of Shalmaneser. Finally, Tiglath-pileser [[Iii.]] became master of Babylonia, and after him it fell into the hands of the
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  • Herod
    ...was an expert on Jewish affairs and bore the ceremonial title of king, but he had no authority over the Jews of Judea (&nbsp;Acts 25:13; &nbsp;Acts 26:3; ...o Rome, where he died in the third year of [[Trajan]] (A.D. 100). </p> <p> He was the last of the race of Herod commemorated in history. &nbsp;Acts 25:13
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  • Flavius Claudius Julianus Emperor
    ...e city from the "list of the empire and called it by its old name Mazaca." He fined the Christians 300 pounds of gold, confiscated church property, and e
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  • Elijah
    ...in person as at the transfiguration, &nbsp;Matthew 17:3, even after which He said (&nbsp;Matthew 17:11), "Elias shall first come and restore all things, ...g that Elijah was a man "just like us." His prayers were effective because he was righteous. </p> <p> Jesus used the story of God sending Elijah to the w
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  • Mediator
    ...Ascension, will be the means of attracting [[Gentile]] as well as Jew. So He is the Good Shepherd, whose very vocation it is to lay down His life for th ...for the purpose of reconciling us to God, while the condescension by which he approached to man, in taking part of flesh and blood, fulfilled the graciou
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  • God
    ...y also be the meaning of St. Luke in Acts; but it is equally probable that he refers to the OT ‘servant of Jahweh.’ This is clearly the meaning in &n ...eption of God. Our Lord teaches that God is One, and at the same time that He is no mere Monad, but Triune. Cf. art. Trinity. </p> <p> A. J. Maclean. </p
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  • Cyprianus Thascius Caecilius
    ...ast. Cyprian sent Jubaian a reply so elaborate that, at the final council, he read it aloud as his own best exposition of his views, with Jubaian's convi
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  • Synagogue
    ...II. xvi. 3, 4; xxi. 3, 7; xxviii. 2, 4; xl. 2; xlvi., xlvii. 3; xlviii. 1; III. viii. 2; VI. xliii. and VII. ii. 8; also in the later ecclesiastical rules ...mmunity was free to exercise his gift. When a likely stranger was present, he was invited by the ruler of the synagogue to address the congregation (&nbs
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  • Aurelius Augustinus
    ...inis </i> , in refutation of the propositions of Coelestius in 412; in 417 he wrote <i> de Gestis Pelagii </i> , a discussion of the proceedings in [[Pal
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