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32781 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 1.49

character of the recipient. The end in view is not personal, merely to the agent, but concerns theocratic kingdom and implies the covenant between God and …

32782 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 1.55

… Moral Character: The activity of the Spirit in the Old Testament is not limited to gifts for service. Moral and spiritual character is traced to the Spirit’s …

32783 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 1.64

… of God in Wisd. Here the ethical element in character is a condition of the Spirit’s indwelling. "Into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter: nor dwell in the …

32784 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 2.37

… -sacramentarian character of the teaching of the Book of Acts, and indeed in the New Testament generally. Certainly no particular efficacy seems to be attached …

32785 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hosea.46

… the character of Jacob ( Hosea 12:3, 12 ). Repeatedly he declares that Yahweh is the God of Israel "from the land of Egypt" ( Hosea 12:9; 13:4 ), alludes to the sin of Achan …

32786 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hours of Prayer.2

… spontaneous character. In what manner or how far back in Jewish history the sacrificial prayer, mentioned in Luke 1:10, originated no one knows. In the days …

32787 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Husband.2

… religious character and significance. It was through it that the cult of the household and tribal deities was practiced and perpetuated. The house-father …

32788 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Image.8

… human character. It is more in harmony with modern conceptions (a) to regard man as originally endowed with the power of right choice, rather than with a complete …

32789 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Image.10

… and character to an ultimate assimilation of His doxa, the absorption of the splendor of His presence" (Sanday and Headlam, Romans, 218; see Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians …

32790 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Image.14

… the character and glory of God. (c) In the two Pauline passages ( 2 Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 1:15 ), the reference is probably to the glorified, exalted Christ; not …

32791 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Immaculate Conception, The.11

… Divine character, without a free, cooperating human factor, is no human holiness at all. This dogma reads Mary out of the human family, reduces her to an image …

32792 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Immanuel.8

… whose character and work shall entitle him to the great names of 2 Samuel 9:6. In him should dwell all the fullness of God. He was to be "of the stem of Jesse," the bringer …

32793 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Imputation.12

… or character of the person to whom something is imputed. When, for example, we say that we impute bad motives to anyone, we do not mean that we make such a one bad …

32794 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Imputation.26

… gracious character of Justification consists for Paul in the fact that the righteousness on the ground of which God justifies the ungodly is a righteousness …

32795 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Imputation.28

… objective character of this righteousness. It is the righteousness of Philippians 3:9; the righteousness which God imputes to the believer in Christ. Thus …

32796 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Imputation.29

… gracious character of Justification. The apostle in these passages wishes to illustrate from the case of Abraham the gracious character of Justification …

32797 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Inspiration, 1-7.31

… its character, as prophetic, that is, of Divine origin; or only that portion of Scripture which we discriminate as particularly prophetic, the immediate revelations …

32798 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Inspiration, 1-7.32

… its character, as revelation, but only that element in Scripture which we call specifically prophecy, then it is directly only of that element in Scripture …

32799 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Inspiration, 1-7.33

God," were in the act to stone Him, when He defended Himself thus: "Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came …

32800 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Inspiration, 8-18.3

… of God": This view of the Scriptures as a compact mass of words of God occasioned the formation of a designation for them by which this their character was explicitly …