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3241 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Assyria.42
… king of Egypt, which included a crocodile. At Assur he planted a botanical garden stocked with trees from the conquered provinces. After his death the Assyrian …
3242 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Astronomy, I.141
… nature of the flaming sword that kept the way of the tree of life ( Genesis 3:24 ), are unsupported conjectures not worthy of attention. The astronomer Pingre …
3243 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Authority in Religion.123
The authority of sonship, and of participation in the tree of life belongs to all believers ( John 1:12; Revelation 22:14 ).
3244 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.114
… . Some of the motives in this beautiful myth are similar to those found in Gen. Food of life seems to belong to the same category as the tree of life in Gen. The Babylonian …
3245 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Between the Testaments.43
… rule of their princes and nobles. As the core of their religion died, the bark of the tree flourished. Thus, tithes were zealously paid by the believer (compare …
3246 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Body.12
… of the old dispensation ( Hebrews 9:24 - 28 ). Special terms, "body of his flesh" ( Colossians 1:22 ); "body of sin" ( Romans 6:6 ); "body of this death" ( Romans 7:24 ); "body of his …
3247 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Boy.2
… of special importance in the family life of all ancient people. In Syria the father even was called by the name of his son. He was known as the father of Joseph …
3248 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bread.44
… of today that, seeing a scrap of bread on the roadside, he will pick it up and throw it to a street dog, or place it in a crevice of the wall, or on a tree-branch …
3249 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Carmel.3
… of beauty ( Song of Solomon 7:5 ), of fruitfulness ( Isaiah 35:2 ), of majesty ( Jeremiah 46:18 ), of prosperous and happy life ( Jeremiah 50:19 ). The languishing of Carmel …
3250 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chameleon.5
… its life in the trees. Its prominent eyes with circular lids, like iris diaphragms can be moved independently of each other, and add to its striking appearance …
3251 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cherubim (1).3
… of Adam from the garden of Eden, at the east thereof, together with the flaming sword "to keep the way of the tree of life." In their function as guardians of Paradise …
3252 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cherubim (1).4
… devoid of the more spiritual notions of Hebraism, the garden was the abode of the gods who alone had access to the tree of life from the fruit of which they derived …
3253 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Christianity.82
… relations of human life, it approves itself as a religion for all sections and races of mankind, for all grades of civilization and stages of culture, appealing …
3254 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Conscience.24
… practice of auricular confession, which became, especially to many of the inmates of the houses of religion, the most interesting business of life; because …
3255 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Crown of Thorns.2
… purpose of the soldiers. Others have designated the Paliurus aculeatus or the Lycium horridum. Both Geikie (Life of Christ, 549) and Farrar (Life of Christ, note …
3256 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Damascus.12
… of the Ghuta, a fertile plain about 2,300 ft. above sea level, West of Mt. Hermon. The part of the Ghuta East of the city is called el-Merj, the "meadow-land" of Damascus …
3257 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Death.8
… . Conception of Sin and Death: According to Genesis 2:17, God gave to man, created in His own image, the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil …
3258 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Death.14
… bloom of youth or in the prime of life; that the law of the survival of the fittest is true only when the fact of the survival is taken as a proof of their fitness …
3259 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eden.9
… palm tree. This "tree of life" appears frequently upon the inscriptions with two guardian spirits standing on either side.
3260 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Egypt.133
… sycamore tree. They therefore needed to have plates of food and jars of water in the tomb, and provided perpetually by their descendants in front of the doorway …