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32621 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.45
The character of the gods changed indeed as the people who revered them changed. The Babylonians who built vast temples and composed many inscriptions …
32622 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.117
… astral character, and this world-system forms the kernel of the ancient and oriental conception of the universe. This conception of the universe as a double …
32623 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of.118
… Babylonian gods had an astral character in the earlier period. On the contrary, there seems, as we have already attempted to show in the discussion of the pantheon …
32624 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Balaam.12
… . Balaam's Character: This may furnish us a clue to his character. It, indeed, remains "instructively composite." A soothsayer who might have become a prophet …
32625 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine).41
… Messianic character of John and his preaching and baptizing. Johannic baptism has been a fruitful theme of debate. The question does not affect the personal …
32626 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Beatitudes.5
… ideal character of the members of the Kingdom of God. In view, however, of their omission from Luke's list, it is impossible to affirm this with certainty. That …
32627 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bel, and the Dragon.52
… the character of Yahweh. He is great and the only (true) God in Bel and the Dragon (verse 41), the living God in contrast with Bel (verse 57). Of the nature of His demands …
32628 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bel, and the Dragon.52
… the character of Yahweh. He is great and the only (true) God in Bel and the Dragon (verse 41), the living God in contrast with Bel (verse 57). Of the nature of His demands …
32629 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bethuel (1).2
… leading character in the narrative is in connection with Rebekah's betrothal to Isaac; and even here, his son Laban stands out more prominently than he--a …
32630 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bible, The, I-III Introduction.63
… origin, character, contents and purpose of the Christian Scriptures, regarded as the depository and authoritative record of God's revelations of Himself …
32631 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bible, The, I-III Introduction.73
… the character and contents of the Jewish Bible--the Bible in use by Christ and His apostles. Apart from references in the New Testament itself, an important …
32632 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bible, The, IV Canonicity.31
… in character and style. It is less a narrative than a didactic work, written to convince its readers that Jesus is "the Son of God" ( John 20:31 ). The gospel may be presumed …
32633 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Biblical Theology.45
… teleological character of the Old Testament, have been brought out, in the most signal manner, by theological scholars like Dorner, Dillmann, Kittel, Kautsch …
32634 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Bless.3
… the character of the bestowal; for instance (where man is the recipient), whether the good is temporal or spiritual, or both.
32635 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Caesar's Household.9
… and character of Paul. The Jewish community in Rome had for years past been permeated with the hope of the coming of the Messiah; indeed successive rumors …
32636 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cain.3
… Cain's character we see "a terrible outburst of selfwill, pride, and jealousy, leading to a total and relentless renunciation of all human ties and affection …
32637 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canon of the Old Testament, I.36
… authoritative character of their writings. And so it will be to the end of time. "We cannot be certain that anything comes from God unless it bring us personally …
32638 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canon of the Old Testament, II.4
… authoritative character. The king and his coadjutators recognize at once that it is ancient and that it contains the words of Yahweh ( 2 Kings 22:13, 18 - 19 ). Its …
32639 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Catholic Epistles.3
… . The character and contents of these seven epistles are treated under their various heads. The letters of James and Jude belong to the Judaic school of Christianity …
32640 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Change.2
… of character, haphakh: (1) of leprosy, "changed unto white" ( Leviticus 13:16 ); (2) figuratively of the moral life, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin?" ( Jeremiah 13:23 ); so …