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3181 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Moses.8 (William Smith)
… the Church, compared with the more familiar comparisons of Christ to Adam, David, Joshua, and yet has as firm a basis in fact as any of them, it may be well to draw …
3182 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Romans Epistle to the.3 (William Smith)
… the church of Rome was at this time a Greek and not a Latin church. All the literature of the early Roman church was written in the Greek tongue. 6. The heterogeneous …
3183 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Rome.6 (William Smith)
… ., the church of St. Paolo alle tre fontane on the Ostian road. To these may be added—(7) The supposed scene of St. Peter’s martyrdom, viz., the church of St. Pietro in Montorio …
3184 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Stephen.2 (William Smith)
… early Church of Jerusalem, made by the Hellenistic against the Hebrew Christians. His Greek name indicates his own Hellenistic origin. His importance is …
3185 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Synagogue The Great.2 (William Smith)
… national Church.
3186 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Thessalonians Second Epistle to the.2 (William Smith)
… the church of Thessalonica. We notice two points especially which call for his rebuke:— First, it seems that the anxious expectation of the Lord’s advent, instead …
3187 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Widow.2 (William Smith)
… apostolic Church the widows were sustained at the public expense, the relief being daily administered in kind, under the superintendence of officers appointed …
3188 Smith's Bible Dictionary, p. Wine.2 (William Smith)
… Christian Church it was usual to mix the sacramental wine with water. (The simple wines of antiquity were incomparably less deadly than the stupefying and …
3189 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. ἐκκλησία.8
… the body for order's sake; aa. those who anywhere, in city or village, constitute such a company and are united into one body: Acts 5:11; Acts 8:3; 1 Corinthians 4:17 …
3190 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. ἔξω.4
… Christian church (cf. Lightfoot on Col. as below; Meyer on Mark as below): 1 Corinthians 5:12, 1 Corinthians 5:13; Colossians 4:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; those who are …
3191 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. κοινωνία.3
… (mystical) body of Christ or the church, ibid.; τῆς διακονίας, 2 Corinthians 8:4; τοῦ μυστηρίου, Ephesians 3:9 Rec. εἰς κοινωνίαν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ, to obtain fellowship …
3192 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. μέλος.2
… of bodies given up to criminal intercourse, because they are as it were members belonging to the harlot's body, 1 Corinthians 6:15. Since Christians are closely …
3193 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. ναός.2
… Christian church, as dwelt in by the Spirit of God: 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21; for the same reason, of the bodies of Christians, 1 Corinthians …
3194 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. οἰκοδομή.4
… heavenly body, the abode of the soul after death, 2 Corinthians 5:1; tropically, of a body of Christians, a Christian church (see οἰκοδομέω, b. β' .), Ephesians 2:21 (cf …
3195 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. οἶκος.5
… ); a body of Christians (a church), as pervaded by the Spirit and power of God, is called οἶκος πνευματικός, 1 Peter 2:5 .
3196 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. πνεῦμα.12
… theocratic body (the church) of all the higher spiritual gifts and blessings; (cf. the resemblances and differences in Philo's use of τό θεῖον πνεῦμα, e. g. de gigant …
3197 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. ποίμνιον.2
… ; of bodies of Christians (churches) presided over by elders (cf. references under the word ποιμήν, b.), Acts 20:28, Acts 20:29; 1 Peter 5:3; with a possessive genitive …
3198 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. πρεσβυτέριον.2
… any body (church) of Christians, 1 Timothy 4:14 (ecclesiastical writings (cf. references under the word πρεσβύτερος, 2 b.)).
3199 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. σύσσωμος.2
( 4954 ) σύσσωμος (L T Tr WH συνσωμος (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συσσωμον ( σύν and σῶμα ), belonging to the same body (i. e. metaphorically, to the same church) (R. V. fellow-members of the body ): Ephesians 3:6. (Ecclesiastical writings.)
3200 Thayer's Greek Lexicon, p. σῶμα.5
… , the body consisting of flesh, i. e. the physical body (tacitly opposed to Christ's spiritual body, the church, see 3 below), Colossians 1:22 (differently in Colossians …