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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 …
4177 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Infirmity.2
… an evil spirit.
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 …