Paradise [N] [E] [S]Persian loanword for an area enclosed by a wall or garden. Its three uses in the Hebrew Bible ( Neh 2:8 ; Eccl 2:5 ; Sol 4:13 )...
Confidence [N]A multifaceted word that encompasses within Christian thought a range of aspectsfaith in God, certainty and assurance of one's relations...
Word of god [E]CalledBOOK Psalms 40:7 ; Revelation 22:19 BOOK OF THE LORD Isaiah 34:16 BOOK OF THE LAW Nehemiah 8:3 ; Galatians 3:10 GOOD W...
rTIHE ancient name of Thessalonica1 was Therme or Therma* -*- 'the hot-spring,' and there are still warm springs in the neighbourhood, though not at ...
Body [N]Old Testament. The doctrine of creation sets forth the essential corporeality of human existence. When God created Adam and Eve, he provided t...
Hope [N] [T] [E]To trust in, wait for, look for, or desire something or someone; or to expect something beneficial in the future.The Old Testament. Th...
Deliver The Old Testament. The concept of deliverance occurs in the Old Testament with two meanings. The first is in a nontheological sense signifying...
Heal, Health With characteristic realism the Bible accepts the prevalence in God's world of ill-health and affliction, although originally it had no p...
Ascension of Jesus Christ Event, recorded most fully in ac 1:1-11, by which Christ concluded his postresurrection appearances, left the earth, and was...
Prayer [N] [T] [E] [S]An examination of the Old and New Testaments and of the early Church Fathers reveals certain minimal beliefs or assumptions that...
XV. 1 Thessalonians 5, 25.?Brethren, pray for us. This brief request, standing, as it does, in a series of laconic exhortations, is a striking illus...
by Alfred Edersheim 1876 Chapter 11 Jewish Views on Trade, Tradesmen, and Trades' Guilds We read in the Mishnah (Kidd. iv. 14) as follows: Rabbi M...
PART VIII. ESCHATOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF FINAL THINGS. Neither the individual Christian character, nor the Christian church as a whole, attains it...
CHAPTER II. THE RECONCILIATION OF MAN TO GOD, OR THE APPLICATION OF REDEMPTION THROUGH THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. SECTION I.?THE APPLICATION OF...
OF THE BEING OF GOD. SOME, because the Being of God is a first principle, not to be disputed; and because that there is one is a self-evident propos...
CHAPTER VI THE DIVINE DECREES. Augustine: De predestinatione; Epistola CXOIV., Ad Sixtum. Anselm: Concordia praescientiae et praedestinationis. Calv...
Preached at a Wednesday's Evening Lecture in Great Eastcbeap, Dec. 27, 1752. Psalm LXXXVII. 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God ! ...
ProlegomenaProlegomenaChapter I.Literature?1. Editions, &c. (A) Before 1601 only Latin translations. The first, at Vicenza, 1482, completed by Barnaba...