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37401 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Rock.16

… for spiritual refreshment ( 1 Corinthians 10:4 ).

37403 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 1.58

… and spiritually. In the East was born the religion of humanity.

37404 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 1.63

… lofty spiritual teachings of Plato and combined them with the idea of the brotherhood of humanity. It also preached that man must work out his salvation …

37405 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 1.73

… ministered spiritual support and calm resignation at many a heathen deathbed. It may be declared to be the first system of religious thought--for it was a …

37406 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 1.75

… the spiritual monotheism of their race combined it with Greek philosophy which had been setting steadily for monotheism. With the Jews the exclusively …

37407 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 1.77

… the spiritual qualities of Greece. The kinship of man with the divine, learned from Socrates and Plato, went forth on its wide evangel. This Greek civilization …

37408 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 1.81

… also spiritual things. Many of these early traders and artisans were Christians, and while they bought and sold the things that perish, they did not lose an …

37409 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 1.83

… its spiritual ambition. It enlarged the vision of the church. Only a citizen (Paul) of such a world-empire could dream of a religion for all humanity. If the Roman …

37410 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 1.86

… and spiritual demands of man’s nature. A moral bankruptcy was immanent. The old Roman religion of abstract virtues had gone down in formalism; it was too cold …

37411 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.4

… the spiritual needs of the empire continued to be met more and more by philosophy and the mysteries which promised immortality. The cult of the Genius of …

37412 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.11

… of Spiritual and Temporal: They thought not merely in national or racial but in ecumenical terms. The Romans could not understand a kingdom of God upon earth …

37413 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Roman Empire and Christianity, 2.15

… and spiritual support to thousands of the human race before the dawn of Christianity. But we shall not blame, when we recognize that for its own life and mission …

37414 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 …

37415 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 …

37416 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 …

37417 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 …

37418 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.

37419 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 …

37420 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 …