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35781 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Christ, the Exaltation of.34
… His spiritual presence, do not affect the fact that He has been exalted to the position of ultimate Lord and final judge of men. We may therefore define this …
35782 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Christ, the Exaltation of.35
… a spiritual dynamic drawn from a series of past events. It is the living relation of the complete humanity of the redeemed to the God man, and must therefore …
35783 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Christianity.50
… Divine spiritual power.
35784 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Christianity.56
… extraordinary spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament. This is its own explanation of its being."
35785 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Christianity.61
… truth. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. There can be no impersonal knowledge of religious, any more than of ethical and aesthetic, truth. In these …
35786 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Christianity.82
… pure spirituality in worship and morality; its elevating and emancipating tendency in all the relations of human life, it approves itself as a religion …
35787 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Chronology of the Old Testament.23
… the spiritual facts and truths with which the authors were concerned. We are not, therefore, to expect to find a perfectly arranged order of periods and dates …
35788 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.30
… was spiritual power. When the name ekklesia was given by Jesus to the society He came to found, His promise to Peter included the bestowal of the gift of power …
35789 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.32
… had spiritual discernment ( 1 Corinthians 2:15; 14:29; 1 John 4:1 ) as the Divinely employed medium of fresh revelations ( 1 Corinthians 14:25, 30 - 31; Ephesians 3:5; compare …
35790 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church.33
… a spiritual kind ( Acts 20:17, 28, 35; 1 Timothy 3:2, 5; James 5:14; 1 Peter 5:2 ). See BISHOP. Next there are the deacon and the deaconess ( Philippians 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:8 - 13 ), whose …
35791 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.32
… his spiritual function that he should have revelations ( Ephesians 3:5 ). There is no indication that his office was in any sense administrative.
35792 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.38
The function of the elders was, in general, spiritual, but involved an oversight of all the affairs of the church ( 1 Timothy 3:2; 5:17 ).
35793 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Church Government.46
… the spirituality of His Kingdom: "My kingdom is not of this world" ( John 18:36 ). It follows that only where the life of a church touched the civic life of the community …
35794 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Circumcision.9
3. Spiritual Significance: In Jeremiah 9:25 and Deuteronomy 30:6 we find the spiritual significance of circumcision. A prophet like Jeremiah was not likely …
35795 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Citizenship.9
… and Spiritual: What more natural than that Paul should sometimes use this civic privilege to illustrate spiritual truths? He does so a number of times. Before …
35796 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Clean.2
… , ethical, spiritual, figurative uses continually overlap, especially the last four.
35797 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Clean.5
… or Spiritual: The ethical or spiritual meaning, either directly or figuratively, is found in the Old Testament chiefly in Job, Psalms, the Prophets, whose interest …
35798 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cleanse.5
… and Spiritual: In the ethical and spiritual sense, using the symbolism chiefly of 2. This embodies two phases: (1) the actual removal of sin by the person’s own …
35799 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Clod.3
Figurative: "Jacob shall break his clods" ( Hosea 10:11 ), i.e. "must harrow for himself," used figuratively of spiritual discipline (compare Isaiah 28:24 the King James Version).
35800 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Colossians, Epistle to The.9
… . The spiritual powers cease to have any authority over the Christians. It is to set Christ forward, in this way, as Head over all creation as very God, and out of …