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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 …