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4161 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. God, 3.10

… inner spirits own not God, but the devil, as their father ( John 8:42 - 44 ). So their filial relation to God may be broken, but His nature and attitude are not changed …

4162 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.43

… persons, not so different from men in their nature, but with more than human powers. Gods, nymphs and satyrs, noble "heroes" or evil spirits have superhuman powers …

4163 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.48

… remain spirits more or less vague, but spirits who care for men, who may be approached as a man approaches his ruler, spirits bound to man by close social ties …

4164 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.59

… an evil spirit; later critics have treated the whole institution as a clever device to deceive the people; but in view of the respect paid to the oracle through …

4165 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.68

… , if not its meaning, varied greatly. It might be worship to spirits of the earth whose anger was to be feared; it might be offered when an army was going into battle …

4166 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Greece, Religion in Ancient.79

… gods not so much for salvation from evil, as for positive blessings.

4167 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Guilt.6

… do evil, to learn to do well ( Isaiah 1:1 - 31 ). Thus the motive and the inner spirit come in ( Micah 6:8; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 58:1 - 12 ), and guilt gains a new depth and quality …

4168 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Guilt.8

… is not primarily a matter of the outward deed but of the inner spirit, Jesus marks different degrees of guilt as depending upon a man’s knowledge and motive …

4169 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Har-magedon.2

… unclean spirits issuing from the mouth of the dragon, the beast and the false prophet, assemble here for "the war of the great day of God, the Almighty." Various …

4170 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hebrews, Epistle to The.74

… were not of their number. They had witnessed "signs and wonders" and "manifold powers" and "gifts of the Holy Spirit" ( Hebrews 2:4 ). Their conversion had been thorough …

4171 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 1.49

… "the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily upon him." In 1 Samuel 16:14 we read "the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him." In …

4172 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 1.54

Spirit and his own spirit would be the evil spirit. Or the "evil spirit from Yahweh" may have referred, in the prophet’s mind, to an actual spirit of evil which …

4173 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 2.13

… the Spirit’s presence and action are assumed. From time to time, reference is made to the Spirit for special reasons, but the action of the Spirit in and through …

4174 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Holy Spirit, 2.22

Spirit or the Trinitarian implications in the teaching as to the Spirit. Here, however, we have a very suggestive hint toward a doctrine of the Spirit which …

4175 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Horseleach.2

… kind, not only a horse-leech. The Arabic `aluqah, which, it may be noted, is almost identical with the Hebrew form, is a ghoul (Arabic ghul), an evil spirit which seeks …

4176 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Hosea.43

… , "are not independent; the one leads to the other. The fundamental evil is that there is no knowledge of God in the land, no true conception of Deity. He is thought …

4178 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Intercession.41

… generous spirit the leader of Israel intercedes with God for his nation. It was natural that this striking example of intercessory prayer should be followed …

4179 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jeremiah (2).17

… preferred not to utter them; and then they burned in his breast as a fire (20:7 ff; 23:9). He personally stood in need of love, and yet was not permitted to marry (16:1 …

4180 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Jesus Christ, 4a.46

… was not deceived. He saw how little change of heart underlay it all. The Regenerator had not yet come. But one day there appeared before him One whom he intuitively …