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32821 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.68
… of God is taken. This presupposes a personal God; and, as a matter of fact, a fixed personality is demanded by the character of such a God. His "I" impresses itself …
32822 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.71
… dignified character. The people preferred to worship their God at such places where He had manifested Himself, usually on high place, on which an altar had …
32823 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.73
… indissoluble character, but that the covenant was based on certain conditions. The superficial opinion of the people might often cause them to forget this …
32824 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.75
… absolute God. Passages like Exodus 15:11, too, purpose chiefly only to express His unique character; but if He is without any equals among the gods, then He is …
32825 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 1.78
… ) Ethical Character of the God of Moses. A further attribute of the God of Moses, which exalts Him far above the ethnic divinities of the surrounding peoples …
32826 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.10
… in character in the days of the earlier kings. Before this time the collective relation to God prevailed. Only as a member of the tribe or of the nation was the …
32827 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.11
… the gods. However, the more exalted character of the Israelite conception of God appears in a most pronounced way in this comparison, since the Babylonian …
32828 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.14
… their God, and confines itself more to the general revelation of God in Nature and in the history of mankind, but in doing this regards the fear of God as the …
32829 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.18
… inferior character in comparison with the service in the Temple in Jerusalem, where no images were to be found. But in other respects, too, the arbitrary conduct …
32830 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.19
… heathen god, with a clearly defined purpose. His voluptuous worship was not at all in harmony with the serious character of the Mosaic religion, and it seriously …
32831 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.21
… deep character was felt by Elijah to be the distinguishing mark of his God. His successor, Elisha, after the storm had cleared the religious atmosphere in …
32832 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.31
… magnificent character, these pictures of the future are found in Isaiah, while in Jeremiah their realization and spiritualization have progressed farther …
32833 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.38
… in character. The conception of Wisdom has assumed a specifically Jewish and theocratic character.
32834 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Israel, Religion Of, 2.47
… Living God: If we ask what the specific and unique character of this religion was, by which it was distinguished from all other religions of antiquity, and …
32835 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).27
… Egyptian characters represents the Semitic letters ya`aqobh-'el, and which therefore seems to show that in the earlier half of the 15th century BC (so Petrie …
32836 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).30
… his character and conduct when he was grown ((b) above). This construction does not interfere with a connection between the patriarch Jacob and the "Jacob-els …
32837 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).50
… his character? In particular, what attitude did he maintain toward the most significant thing in his life, the promise of God to his house? And lastly, what resemblances …
32838 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).51
… the character of Jacob.
32839 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).53
… other character in the Old Testament. By alternate giving and withholding, by danger here and deliverance there, by good and evil report, now by failure of …
32840 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jacob (1).65
… Jacob's character and that of his descendants. With few exceptions the qualities mentioned above (IV, 2) will be found, mutatis mutandis, to be equally applicable …