The new Sunday school teachers' Biblical dictionaryElliot Stock, 1879 - 7 pages |
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... term elder became descriptive , not of age , but of office . A similar change took place in Greece and in Rome . In the New Testament the elders appear as forming , in conjunction with the scribes and high priests , the great national ...
... term elder became descriptive , not of age , but of office . A similar change took place in Greece and in Rome . In the New Testament the elders appear as forming , in conjunction with the scribes and high priests , the great national ...
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... term consists of two Hebrew words , ' praise ye , ' and ' Jehovah , ' which may have coalesced together , at an early period , in the sublime anthems of the temple ; so that a sacred song was commenced by the entire choir of musicians ...
... term consists of two Hebrew words , ' praise ye , ' and ' Jehovah , ' which may have coalesced together , at an early period , in the sublime anthems of the temple ; so that a sacred song was commenced by the entire choir of musicians ...
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... term Amorites denoted generally these Canaan- itish tribes , it was also applied to a particular elan , which had their abode on the mountains that run along the western border of the Dead Sea , and also on the east of the Jordan , from ...
... term Amorites denoted generally these Canaan- itish tribes , it was also applied to a particular elan , which had their abode on the mountains that run along the western border of the Dead Sea , and also on the east of the Jordan , from ...
Page 54
... term world , and personified in the name Satan , -the evil influences of a wicked man's own heart , which , working their natural effects , would destroy the body , and , in the consequent pain and debility , might lead to repentance ...
... term world , and personified in the name Satan , -the evil influences of a wicked man's own heart , which , working their natural effects , would destroy the body , and , in the consequent pain and debility , might lead to repentance ...
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... term Asia denoted very different extents of country , according to the prevailing knowledge of geography in each period . In the Roman era it was used only of some districts of what is now termed Western Asia . In the Bible it denotes ...
... term Asia denoted very different extents of country , according to the prevailing knowledge of geography in each period . In the Roman era it was used only of some districts of what is now termed Western Asia . In the Bible it denotes ...
Common terms and phrases
Abimelech Abraham Acts altar ancient animals apostle appears Arabs Babylon bear Bible Cæsarea Canaan canon Christ Christian Chron church circumcision comp Corinth cross Damascus David death denotes Deut divine earth east Egypt Egyptian Epistle Euphrates existence Exod Ezek fact father favour feet gospel Greek Hebrew Hebrew word Hebron Hence Herodotus holy honour idolatry Israel Israelites Jehovah Jerusalem Jesus Jewish Jews John Josephus Josh Judah Judea king land Lebanon Letter Lord Luke Matt means ment mind Moses mountains narrative nation nature Numb Old Testament original Palestine passage Paul period persons priests prophet regard religion religious rendered Roman sacred Scripture Septuagint signifies Syria temple term Testament things thou tion tree tribes truth unto valley viii whence worship writing xvii xviii xxii xxiii xxiv
Popular passages
Page 116 - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Page 194 - This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Page 11 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 469 - Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Page 194 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Page 353 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 178 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood : and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 403 - For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish : to the one we are the savour of death unto death ; and to the other the savour of life unto life.
Page 16 - For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things, " that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well.
Page 52 - In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.