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36521 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.26

… more spiritual Judaism; its earliest preachers and adherents alike never dreamed of severing from the synagogue. Christians were only another of the Jewish …

36522 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 3.5

… the spiritual wants of the empire and offering a Redeemer, (3) the example of the pure lives and heroic deaths of the early Christians, and (4) the success which …

36523 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 3.6

… and spiritual bankruptcy of the antique world, the internal rottenness and decay of heathen systems. All ancient national religions had failed and were …

36524 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 3.7

… and spiritual power to political. Besides, Christianity when once studied by the thinkers of the ancient world was found to be in accord with the highest …

36525 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.18

… in spiritual utterance and the like, to which those Epistles present no parallel, and which only the Corinthian Epistles rival.

36526 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.19

… its spiritual elevation and ardor, is nothing short of a moral impossibility. A mighty mind and equally great heart live in every page, and a soul exquisitely …

36527 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.28

… already spiritually advanced. On the other hand (a curious paradox in view of the historical development of Roman Christianity), there is no allusion in the …

36528 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.36

… permanent spiritual possession, bearing a significance far-reaching and benign.

36529 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.37

… its spiritual center, so to speak, and is not the perspective very different? The apostle is always conscious of the collective aspect of the Christian life …

36530 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.40

… a spiritual being, of the eternal difference of right and wrong, and of the witness of creation to personal "eternal power and Godhead" as its cause, and that …

36531 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Romans, Epistle to The.45

… that spiritual liberty and power are ours; the Spirit of life is from the Head to the member. Held by grace in this profound and multiplex connection, where …

36532 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Rudiments.5

… to spiritual things, they were formal and sensuous. They were "weak," for they had no power to rescue man from condemnation, and they could not save him from sin …

36533 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sabbath.13

… and spiritual history. There is no distinct mention of the Sabbath in Gen, though a 7-day period is referred to several times ( Genesis 7:4, 10; 10, 12; 29:27 f). The first …

36534 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sabbath.17

… not spiritual nor prompted by love and gratitude. The Sabbath is exalted by the great prophets who faced the crisis of the Babylonian exile as one of the most …

36535 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sabbath.36

… the spiritual observance of the Sabbath was the supreme test of their right relation to God. In those prophecies of Isaiah, which deal primarily with the …

36536 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sacraments.8

… and spiritual interpretation of the gospel, never questioned its necessity (compare Romans 6:3 ff; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:5 ). On any other supposition …

36537 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sacraments.11

… f), spiritual quickening ( Colossians 2:12 ) are associated with Baptism; the Lord’s Supper is declared to be a participation in the body and blood of Christ ( 1 …

36538 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sacrifice, in the New Testament, 1.47

… and spiritual ( Romans 8:23; Ephesians 4:30 ). The simple word (lutrosis, "redemption," 10 times in Septuagint as the translation of 5 Hebrew words) occurs once for …

36539 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sacrifice, in the New Testament, 1.48

… a spiritual sense). katallage, "reconciliation," only twice in the Septuagint) means the relation to God into which men are brought by Christ’s death, 4 times …

36540 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Sacrifice, in the New Testament, 1.89

… sinner’s spiritual life by thinking of a transfer of the sinner’s "curse" to Christ, which He bore on the cross, and of God’s righteousness through Christ ( Philippians …