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37661 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Prayer.4 (William Smith)
… man’s spiritual unity with God in Christ, and of the consequent gift of the Holy Spirit. So also is it said of the spiritual influence of the Holy Ghost on each …
37662 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Prophet.3 (William Smith)
… things spiritual. Teaching by act and teaching by word were alike their task. But during the time of the judges, the priesthood sank into a state of degeneracy …
37663 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Prophet.5 (William Smith)
… of spiritual religion. The system of morals put forward by the prophets, if not higher or sterner or purer than that of the law, is more plainly declared, and …
37664 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Prophet.8 (William Smith)
… their spiritual intuition; but there are no grounds for believing that, contemporaneously with this miracle, there was wrought another miracle, enlarging …
37665 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Revelation of St John.3 (William Smith)
… spiritual sense; that there may be one or more than one typical, imperfect, historical fulfillment of the prophecy, in each of which the higher spiritual fulfillment …
37666 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sabbath.3 (William Smith)
… the spiritual blessings it was ordained to confer. The almost total silence of the epistles in relation to keeping the Sabbath doubtless grew out of the …
37667 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sabbath.4 (William Smith)
… . (2) Spiritual nurture. One day in seven is to be set apart for the culture of the spiritual nature. These two principles of Sabbath-keeping will always go together …
37668 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sacrifice.6 (William Smith)
… a spiritual meaning. Our Lord is declared (see 1 Peter 1:20 ) “to have been foreordained” as a sacrifice “before the foundation of the world,” or, as it is more strikingly …
37669 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Salutation.2 (William Smith)
… for spiritual mercies was also used. The concluding salutation consisted generally of the term “I salute,” accompanied by a prayer for peace or grace.
37670 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Samuel.2 (William Smith)
… the spiritual father of the psalmist-king. The death of Samuel is described as taking place in the year of the close of David’s wanderings. It is said with peculiar …
37671 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Satan.2 (William Smith)
… implies spiritual nature and spiritual influence. We conclude therefore that he was of angelic nature, a rational and spiritual creature, superhuman in …
37672 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Serpent.2 (William Smith)
… and spiritual, had been overcome, and thus help to strengthen the weak faith of the Israelites in a victory over both. Others look upon the uplifted serpent …
37673 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Shew-bread.2 (William Smith)
… as spiritual food, as a means of appropriating and retaining that life which consists in seeing the face of God.
37674 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Simon.10 (William Smith)
… in spiritual offices. Simon’s history, subsequent to his meeting with Peter, is involved in difficulties. Early Church historians depict him as the pertinacious …
37675 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sin offering.3 (William Smith)
… a spiritual significance and effect. They restored an offender to his place in the commonwealth of Israel; they were therefore an atonement to the King of …
37676 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Tabernacle.13 (William Smith)
… its spiritual food, and live in communion with God; and the altar of incense, the symbol of prayer. The holy of holies, beyond, taught that there was progress in …
37677 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Thessalonians First Epistle to the.4 (William Smith)
… to spiritual gifts was manifesting itself. ch. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-20. 4. There was the danger of relapsing into their old heathen profligacy. ch. 1 Thessalonians …
37678 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Timothy Epistles of Paul to.2 (William Smith)
… such spiritual utterances. In 1 Timothy 4:1 we have a distinct reference to them. (5) The tendency of the apostle’s mind to dwell more on the universality of the …
37679 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Tongues Gift of.3 (William Smith)
… of spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12-14 implies that the gift was of this nature, or given for this purpose. Nor, it may be added, within the limits assigned …
37680 Smith’s Bible Dictionary, p. Tongues Gift of.5 (William Smith)
… . The spiritual gifts are classified and compared, arranged, apparently, according to their worth. The facts which may be gathered are briefly these: