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32661 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Courts, Judicial.4
… . Character of the Judges: Among the Hebrews, the law was held very sacred; for God Himself had given it. Hence, those who administered the law were God's special …
32662 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Covenant, in the Old Testament.29
… ethical character of God was developed. The subject will therefore naturally receive a fuller treatment in other articles. It is perhaps sufficient here …
32663 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Creation.20
… and character, the Old Testament furnishes no theoretic account of the manner and order in which creative process is carried on.
32664 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Creation.31
… contingent character of the world. God and the world are not to be taken simply as cause and effect, for modern metaphysical thought is not content with such …
32665 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Creed; Creeds.41
… of God and the Nicene Creed defined the character and relation of the Son and the Holy Spirit, the Athanasian Creed may be regarded as establishing the great …
32666 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Crime; Crimes.90
… Christian character ( Ephesians 4:31; 1 Peter 4:4, 14; 2 Peter 2:2, 10, 12; James 4:11; Jude 1:10 ); and katalaleo = "babble against," "gossip." It will be noticed from the above that …
32667 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Criticism.77
… learn God's will and to give a religious character to what we should call purely secular transactions (contracts, etc.). Firstlings were offered there on the …
32668 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cruel; Cruelty.3
… , that character may grow step by step. A gradual development of spiritual and ethical ideals may clearly be traced in the sacred records. We must therefore …
32669 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Daniel, Book of.32
… and character of the revelations, this attack on the genuineness of Daniel may safely be left to the defenders of the possibility and the fact of a revelation …
32670 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Dark Sayings.2
… elaborate character corresponding to our "parables"; frequently a vein of taunt runs through them, and they played an important part in compositions directed …
32671 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Death.8
… organic character of the revelation of salvation. It is true that death in Holy Scripture is often measured by the weakness and frailty of human nature ( Genesis …
32672 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Dispersion, The.64
… the character of their religion as a religion of revelation. Although they had to live within "the hedge of the Law" to protect them against the corruptions …
32673 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Divination.45
… the character of the deity to whom it was offered. The soul of the animal as seen in the liver became then a reflector of the soul of the god (see EB ,XX, 102 f). On the …
32674 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Education.33
… , ethical character of the individual and the mutual, spiritual fellowship of believers.
32675 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elam; Elamites.69
… sun-god Samas; Kunzibami was the W. Semitic Hadad, also known by his Mitannian (Hittite) name of Tesup. Humban, Human, or Umman (Assyrian), "the god of gods," "the king," was …
32676 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Elam; Elamites.70
… cuneiform character. The cylinder-seals are either inscribed with dedications, or with the name of the owner, his father, and the god whom he worshipped, as …
32677 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.17
… and character, having "not the Spirit of Christ, is none of his" ( Romans 8:9 ). The chosen community accordingly, not as it seems ab extra, but as it is in its essence …
32678 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.18
… same character; asserting or connoting, in appropriate contexts, the element of the inscrutable and sovereign in the action of the Divine will upon man, and …
32679 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.26
… Divine character has been beclouded in its beauty. Sovereignty has been divorced from love, and so defaced into an arbitrary fiat, which has for its only reason …
32680 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eli.2
… other characters who are associated with him. The chief interest centers in Samuel. In Eli's first interview with Hannah ( 1 Samuel 1:12 ff), she is the central …