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3261 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ephraim (1).5
… fruit trees. The uplands are accessible at many points from the maritime plain; but the great avenue of entrance to the country runs up Wady esh-Sha`ir to Nablus …
3262 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics of Jesus.35
… , Rest, Life, Eternal Life, Blessedness. His exposition of the last of these, at the commencement of the Sermon on the Mount, is highly instructive. Seldom, indeed …
3263 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fable.3
… life only. But, while these distinctions serve some practical purpose in distinguishing (say) the fables of Aesop from the parables of Christ, they are of little …
3264 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fall, The.14
… legend of a Golden Age, in many people's obsequious honoring of the serpent, in the equally widespread belief in a tree of life. The Babylonian representation …
3265 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Food.20
… (melach), of course, played an important part, then as now, in the cooking and in the life of the Orientals. To "eat the salt" of a person was synonymous with eating …
3266 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Games.42
… propounded. Of these riddles which, of course, have no direct historic value, but are interesting specimens of riddle lore, one of the best is the following …
3267 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 3.11
… , the tree of life is mentioned only in 2:9 and 3:23, while in 2:17 and 3:3 ff the Divine command is restricted to the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But it is impossible …
3268 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Genesis, 4.46
… the tree of life ( Genesis 3:22 ff). He sets enmity between the human race and the seed of the serpent, so that at least the possibility of a moral contest yet exists …
3269 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Images.28
… , Religion of the Semites, 169, 437; Stade, Geschichte, 160 ff; Fraser, Golden Bough, II, 56-117; John O'Neill, Night of the Gods, II, 57); but the tree of life is closely connected …
3270 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.65
… man's life. How few indications of such a view can be found and how little most of these indications prove we can see in the work of H. Duhm, Die bosch Geister im …
3271 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.66
… proof of the life-producing God. Such a tree naturally suggests that it is a place where divine life can be felt. Trees that have been made sacred by manifestations …
3272 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Job, Book of.65
… question of life after death, rises here in the same tentative way: using first the analogy of the tree which sprouts again after it is cut down ( Job 14:7 - 9 ), and …
3273 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.7
… conception of spiritual life is closely analogous to the common conception of physical life. We do not conceive that a man lives because he breathes and …
3274 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John the Baptist.35
… sinfulness of the people and their lack of repentance, was a commonplace in the message of their teachers (Edersheim, Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, I …
3275 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jotham.3
… told of him, but the downfall of Abimelech is referred in part to his "curse" ( Judges 9:57 ). The fable tells of the kingship of the trees which, after having been declined …
3276 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Libraries.21
… , the Tree of Life, the Book of Life, the Holy Spirit. Apocryphal libraries include the library which Yahweh is alleged to have formed on the 7th day of creation …
3277 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Life.20
… . The Tree of Life in the midst of the garden indicated a possible immortality for man upon earth ( Genesis 2:9; 22, 24 ) (see TREE OF LIFE ).
3278 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Life.21
… partaking of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil," they were driven forth from the garden lest they should eat of the tree of life and become immortal …
3279 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Life.36
… of the water of life freely ( Revelation 21:6; 22:17 ). The river of life flows through the streets of the New Jerusalem ( Revelation 22:1 ), and the tree of life blooms …
3280 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Life, Tree of.1
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