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36181 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.28

… present spiritual state. The category of duration recedes before that of moral quality. Yet it has its own stupendous importance. In triumphant contrast …

36182 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.32

… primarily spiritual. The substitution in the Fourth Gospel of the Supper Discourse ( John 14:1 - 31 through John 16:1 - 33 ) for the apocalyptic chapters in the Synoptics …

36183 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Johannine Theology, 2.34

… as spiritual, so also is the assimilation (compare Philippians 3:21 ). The very idea of the spiritual body is that it perfectly corresponds to the character …

36184 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John the Baptist.31

… and spiritual insight of the parents shown in the incidents recorded are ample evidence that his training was a fitting preparation for his great mission …

36185 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John the Baptist.42

… the spiritual cleansing which the Messiah would bestow. "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me .... shall baptize you with …

36186 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.59

… a spiritual world, and moves with ease among the richest and highest elements of spiritual experience. Using common words, he yet reads into them the deepest …

36187 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, Gospel of.61

… own spiritual history, he remembered with special vividness those words and works of Christ which determined his own life, and led him on to the full assurance …

36188 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Apostle.7

… a spiritual biography, a record of the growth of faith on the part of the writer, and of the way in which his eyes were opened to see the glory of the Lord, until …

36190 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 1-3.52

… the spiritual and eternal world. Thus it is that his thought so constantly develops itself by antithesis. Each conception has its fundamental opposite …

36191 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 1-3.53

… . Great spiritual intuitions shine like stars in sentences of clear-cut gnomic terseness. Historical ( 1 John 1:1 ) and theological ( 1 John 1:2; 4:2 ) statements are …

36192 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 1-3.57

… , being spiritual, did not suffer. That is to say, that, in the language of the Epistle, the Christ "came by water," but not, as John strenuously affirms, "by water and …

36193 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 1-3.59

… false spiritualism which regards the contemplation of heavenly things as of far superior importance to the requirements of commonplace morality is …

36194 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 1-3.72

… the spiritual realm. Unreal Christianity in every form is comprehensively a "lie." It may be the antinomian "lie" of him who says he has no sin ( 1 John 1:8 ) yet is indifferent …

36195 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 1-3.84

… of spiritual kinship ( 1 John 5:1 ). But true love is inseparable from righteousness. We truly love the children of God only when we love God, and we love God only …

36196 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 4-9.7

… that spiritual and theological atmosphere; they are equally characterized by that type of thought which we call Johannine and which presents an interpretation …

36197 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. John, the Epistles Of, Part 4-9.11

… present spiritual fact ( John 3:18 - 19 ), the Epistle clings to the "popular" idea of a Judgment Day. But it ought to be noted that in the Epistle, as compared with the …

36198 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Joshua, Book of.53

… direct spiritual instruction and example. The Canon of the Law, moreover, was already closed; and however patent and striking might be the resemblance of …

36199 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Joshua, Book of.60

… and spiritual lessons which may be elucidated therein, and enforced from its teaching. The Divine leading in history is the first thought with the writer …

36200 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Josiah.14

… the spiritual atmosphere of his time and the prophetic consciousness of a day of wrath impending, the prophet Zephaniah is illuminating, especially for …