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3081 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ephesians, Epistle to The.37
… the church, and the marriage tie as exemplified in the relation between Christ and the church. In Colossians we have in like manner distinct passages which …
3082 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ephesians, Epistle to The.74
… the church throughout the world one body, but it is the body of Christ who is its Head ( Ephesians 1:21 f). He has, as Lightfoot suggests, the same relation to the church …
3083 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Essenes.61
… the churches under them. They have no one city but many of them dwell in every city." It may be observed that this statement is a contradiction of Philo's statement …
3084 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics, III.34
… . The church is Christ's body of which individuals are the members, necessary to one another and deriving their life from the head. The gospel is social as well …
3085 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethiopia.5
… Christian churches multiplied along the banks of the Nile. In the 8th century Egypt was invaded by 100,000 Nubians to repay an insult given to the Coptic …
3086 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethiopia.9
… Abyssinian churches separated themselves from Rome, believing so thoroughly in the Deity of Christ as to refuse to accept His humanity as essential "nature …
3087 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethiopia.11
… ancient churches were often basilican, but modern native churches are quadrangular or circular. The Holy of Holies always stands in the center, and is supposed …
3088 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Excommunication.4
… in body but present in spirit"), the church, in a formal meeting ("In the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together"), carrying out the apostle's desire and …
3089 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fullness.4
… , "the church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all." The church is the fullness of Christ; the body of believers is filled with the presence …
3090 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Galatians, Epistle to The.91
… " and "churches" foreign to the historian's usage (see Acts 6:2; 9:19; 14:20 ). We must choose between North and South Galatia; and if churches existed among the people …
3091 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Galatians, Epistle to The.97
… , in churches of some standing, he was surrounded by a body of sympathetic "brethren" ( Galatians 1:1 ) whose support gave weight to his remonstrance with the Galatians …
3092 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Gnosticism.79
… the church astray. They alleged that sin was a thing indifferent in itself. It made no difference to the spiritual man whether he sinned with his body or not …
3093 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Golgotha.3
… the church of the Holy Sepulcher, but that the hill was skull-like in form is quite a modern idea. Guthe combines (2) and (3) and considers that a natural skull-like …
3094 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Head.8
… His church, not to the oneness of Christ and His church, while in Ephesians 4:16 the dependence of the church upon Christ is spoken of. These passages should …
3095 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Healing, Gifts of.6
… the Church: There is abundant evidence that in the early centuries the gifts of healing were still claimed and practiced within the church (Justin, Apol. ii …
3096 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.80
… a church at a distance. It is probable that a body of Jewish Christians existed in Rome, as in other large cities of the Empire. But this view does not, as von Soden …
3097 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 2.56
… the church, and one of his favorite figures was of the church as the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit is represented as animating this body, as communicating …
3098 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hope.8
… adventist bodies can use all the New Testament promises literally, and the translation of the eschatological language into modern practical terms is …
3099 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hymenaeus.8
… the church. But this seems quite inadequate to exhaust the meaning of the words employed by Paul. Others take it to signify the infliction of some bodily suffering …
3100 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. James.10
… the church instead of to Herod. The accounts of his trial and death are similar to that in Acts 12:1 - 2 .