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4581 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.2
Election - e-lek’-shun (ekloge, "choice," "selection"):
4582 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.17
… and choice of them to be the people of God has no relation to their virtues, or to their strength. The reason lies out of sight, in the Divine mind. So too "the Israel …
4583 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Election.23
… Divine choice is sovereign; and also that "his tender mercies are over all his works," that `He willeth not the death of a sinner,’ that "God is love." Let us relieve …
4584 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Epicureans.21
… every choice and of every aversion, and to it we come back, inasmuch as we make feeling the rule by which to judge every good thing" (Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus …
4585 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Epistle.19
… contains choice specimens of personal and official letters, approximating in literary form the epistles of the New Testament. In each case they begin, like …
4586 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Esther.2
… . The choice fell upon the Jewish maiden. Soon after her accession a great crisis occurred in the history of the Jews. The entire people was threatened with …
4587 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics, I.103
… deliberate choice of self in preference to God. It is personal and willful rebellion. It is to be overcome, therefore, not by the suppression of the body or the …
4588 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics, II.6
… deliberate choice. Virtue is therefore an activity which at every point seeks to strike the mean between two opposite excesses. Plato’s list of virtues …
4589 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Ethics, III.11
… fight choice of wisdom is represented as the dictate of piety not less than of prudence.
4590 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Eunice.5
… made choice of her son to be his companion in his missionary work. Eunice is not afterward mentioned in the New Testament; though it is a possible thing that …
4591 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fable.5
… the choice of AbimeItch as king with the fable of the trees that could find no tree that would accept the trouble of the kingship except the worthless bramble …
4592 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Fall, The.16
… the choice, whether he would be faithful and obedient to God’s word and would leave to Him alone the decision as to what is good or evil, or whether he would reserve …
4593 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Family.17
… the choice of one man and one woman of each other for a permanent family relation. Over and through the whole of the Bible this ideal is dominant. There may be …
4594 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Food.17
… first choice of the trees to be their king ( Judges 9:9 ), and the olive tree to respond, "Should I leave my fatness, which God and man honor in me, and go to wave to and …
4595 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Food.19
… of choice grapes, somewhat as in patriarchal times ( Genesis 49:11 - 12 ). J. T. Haddad, a native Syrian, for many years in the employment of the Turkish government, tells …
4596 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Food.23
… six choice sheep" ( Nehemiah 5:18 ).
4597 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Foreknow; Foreknowledge.23
… own choice, but have been "called" into this relationship by God, and that in accordance with an eternal purpose on His part.
4598 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Foreknow; Foreknowledge.25
… His choice of them, not only because it is the teaching of the entire Scripture that God’s choice of Israel was sovereign and gracious, and not only because …
4599 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Foreordain; Forordination.2
… the choice, calling and blessing of those who, through faith, are made partakers of eternal life ( Romans 8:29 - 30; Ephesians 1:5, 11 ). In this, its soteriological aspect …
4600 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Free; Freedom.2
Free; Freedom - See CHOICE; WILL .