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27121 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 5.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… further spiritual development to the people. We are too prone to miss this moral purpose, because it is often conveyed in a form adapted to the standpoint …
27122 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 10.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Israel’s spiritual calling of voluntary self-surrender to God.Ewald suggests that Eli had attained the dignity of judge owing to some outward deliverance …
27123 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 10.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… one spiritually, the other outwardly; both prevailed-but the one spiritually, the other outwardly. The work of Samson ended in self-indulgence, failure, and …
27124 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 22.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the spiritual character of the relationship between God and themselves, nor yet that of His ordinances in Israel.Literally, “his eyes stood” ( 1 Samuel 4:15 …
27125 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 22.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… not spiritual belief in Israel. Such feelings, when uncombined with repentance, would lead to a revival of religiousness rather than of religion; to confidence …
27126 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 31.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , his spiritual activity had not been interrupted. Known and owned as prophet, he closely watched, and at the proper time decisively directed the religious …
27127 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 32.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , and spiritually of religious depression, caused by the desolateness of their sanctuary, and the manifest absence of the Lord from among His people. It was …
27128 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 34.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… new spiritual life among Israel. The expression, “a burnt-offering wholly unto Jehovah,” is regarded by Keil as implying that the sacrifice was not, as ordinarily …
27129 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 35.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the spiritual and national administration of affairs, as the center and organ of the religious and political life of the people.Of course, not the Gilgal …
27130 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 47.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… ,” more spiritually enlightened than the rest, answered: “And who is their father?” implying that, in the case of the other prophets also, the gift of prophecy was …
27131 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 49.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… “the spiritual gifts” in the early Church will readily occur to us. But perhaps it is more important to remember that we are always—and now more than ever—prone …
27132 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 49.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… new spiritual influence which had come upon Saul was, that when his uncle, Ner, met him upon the Bamah, or high place ( ver. 14 ), probably joining him in his worship …
27133 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 52.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… a spiritual one. Unable to give it, Saul withdrew from the assembly. Did he wonder whether after all it would come to pass or what would happen, and wait till a …
27134 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 63.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… become spiritual and Divine; and consequently any government that contravened this must be swept away to give place to another. If it be asked, what this Divine …
27135 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 77.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the spiritual meaning of ritual worship was understood even in early Old Testament times, laid open the mingled folly and presumption of the king, and announced …
27136 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 84.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… higher spiritual qualifications, were so necessary in his after-calling. Nor was it time lost even so far as his outward influence was concerned. It was then …
27137 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 90.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the spiritual response to the challenge of the Philistine which sprung unbidden to his lips ( ver. 26 ), and which, when the hour for personal action came, was felt …
27138 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 90.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of spiritual assurance and confidence in the God of Israel with which he spake.
27139 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 91.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… only spiritually, but even intellectually. The first demand upon us is to be spiritual; the next to be genuine and true, without seeking to clothe ourselves …
27140 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 4, p. 100.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… all spiritual and even intellectual progress. The child is ignorant of all the bearings of what he learns; the beginner of the full meaning and application …