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3541 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Synagogue The Great.2 (William Smith)
… national Church.
3542 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Thessalonians Second Epistle to the.2 (William Smith)
… the church of Thessalonica. We notice two points especially which call for his rebuke:— First, it seems that the anxious expectation of the Lord’s advent, instead …
3543 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Widow.2 (William Smith)
… apostolic Church the widows were sustained at the public expense, the relief being daily administered in kind, under the superintendence of officers appointed …
3544 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Wine.2 (William Smith)
… Christian Church it was usual to mix the sacramental wine with water. (The simple wines of antiquity were incomparably less deadly than the stupefying and …
3545 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. ἐκκλησία.8
… the body for order's sake; aa. those who anywhere, in city or village, constitute such a company and are united into one body: Acts 5:11; Acts 8:3; 1 Corinthians 4:17 …
3546 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. ἔξω.4
… Christian church (cf. Lightfoot on Col. as below; Meyer on Mark as below): 1 Corinthians 5:12, 1 Corinthians 5:13; Colossians 4:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:12; those who are …
3547 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. κοινωνία.3
… (mystical) body of Christ or the church, ibid.; τῆς διακονίας, 2 Corinthians 8:4; τοῦ μυστηρίου, Ephesians 3:9 Rec. εἰς κοινωνίαν τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ, to obtain fellowship …
3548 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. μέλος.2
… of bodies given up to criminal intercourse, because they are as it were members belonging to the harlot's body, 1 Corinthians 6:15. Since Christians are closely …
3549 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. ναός.2
… Christian church, as dwelt in by the Spirit of God: 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 2:21; for the same reason, of the bodies of Christians, 1 Corinthians …
3550 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. οἰκοδομή.4
… heavenly body, the abode of the soul after death, 2 Corinthians 5:1; tropically, of a body of Christians, a Christian church (see οἰκοδομέω, b. β' .), Ephesians 2:21 (cf …
3551 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. οἶκος.5
… ); a body of Christians (a church), as pervaded by the Spirit and power of God, is called οἶκος πνευματικός, 1 Peter 2:5 .
3552 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. πνεῦμα.12
… theocratic body (the church) of all the higher spiritual gifts and blessings; (cf. the resemblances and differences in Philo's use of τό θεῖον πνεῦμα, e. g. de gigant …
3553 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. ποίμνιον.2
… ; of bodies of Christians (churches) presided over by elders (cf. references under the word ποιμήν, b.), Acts 20:28, Acts 20:29; 1 Peter 5:3; with a possessive genitive …
3554 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. πρεσβυτέριον.2
… any body (church) of Christians, 1 Timothy 4:14 (ecclesiastical writings (cf. references under the word πρεσβύτερος, 2 b.)).
3555 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. σύσσωμος.2
( 4954 ) σύσσωμος (L T Tr WH συνσωμος (cf. σύν, II. at the end)), συσσωμον ( σύν and σῶμα ), belonging to the same body (i. e. metaphorically, to the same church) (R. V. fellow-members of the body ): Ephesians 3:6. (Ecclesiastical writings.)
3556 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. σῶμα.5
… , the body consisting of flesh, i. e. the physical body (tacitly opposed to Christ's spiritual body, the church, see 3 below), Colossians 1:22 (differently in Colossians …
3557 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. σῶμα.8
… , mystical body"; so in the N. T. of the church : Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 2:16; Ephesians 4:16; Ephesians 5:23; Colossians 1:18; Colossians …
3558 Thayer’s Greek Lexicon, p. σωτήρ.2
… the body, i. e. of the church, Ephesians 5:23 ( σωτήρ ὄντως ἁπάντων ἐστι καί γενέτωρ, of God the preserver of the world, Aristotle, de mundo, c. 6, p. 397{b}, 20); σωτήρ is used …
3559 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of OT Words, p. Teach.12
… the church at Rome.
3560 Vine’s Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Assembly.3
… My Church," Matthew 16:18, and which is further described as "the Church which is His Body," Ephesians 1:22; Ephesians 5:23, (b) in the singular number (e.g., Matthew 18 …