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4741 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Choice, Choose, Chosen.1
Choice, Choose, Chosen
4742 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Choice, Choose, Chosen.3
… "made choice;" 1 Corinthians 1:27, 28; Ephesians 1:4; James 2:5 .
4743 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Choice, Choose, Chosen.5
in the Middle Voice, signifies "to choose," either in addition or in succession to another. It has this meaning in Acts 15:40, of Paul's choice of Silas. For its other meaning, "to call or name," John 5:2, see CALL.
4744 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Choice, Choose, Chosen.7
… a "choice" made by God (as in Deuteronomy 7:6, 7; Deuteronomy 26:18, Sept.); in Philippians 1:22; Hebrews 11:25, of human "choice." Its special significance is to select rather …
4745 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Choice, Choose, Chosen.13
signifies "to choose before," Acts 10:41, where it is used of a choice made before by God.
4746 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Choice, Choose, Chosen.19
akin to A, No. 1 and B, "a picking out, choosing" (Eng., "eclogue"), is translated "chosen" in Acts 9:15, lit., "he is a vessel of choice unto Me." In the six other places where this word is found it is translated "election." See ELECTION.
4747 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Elect, Elected, Election.5
… . See CHOICE, B.
4748 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Elect, Elected, Election.9
… the "choice" of God of Saul of Tarsus, the phrase is, lit., "a vessel of choice." It is used four times in Romans; in Acts 9:11, of Esau and Jacob, where the phrase "the purpose …
4749 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Heresy.3
… choosing, choice" (from haireomai, "to choose"); then, "that which is chosen," and hence, "an opinion," especially a self-willed opinion, which is substituted for submission …
4750 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Love.5
… deliberate choice, made without assignable cause save that which lies in the nature of God Himself, Cp. Deuteronomy 7:7, 8 .
4751 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Purpose.18
"to bring forth or forward," or, in the Middle Voice, "to take by choice, prefer, purpose," is translated "He hath purposed" in 2 Corinthians 9:7, RV (AV, "he purposed").
4752 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Sanctification, Sanctify.5
… the choice, or election, of God; it is a Divine act preceding the acceptance of the Gospel by the individual." * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, pp. 115,271 …
4753 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Sick, Sickly, Sickness.5
… ." The choice of this verb instead of the repetition of No. 1 (ver. 14, see above), is suggestive of the common accompaniment of "sickness," "weariness of mind" (which is …
4754 Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words, p. Turn.9
… deliberate choice; conversion is a voluntary act in response to the presentation of truth. See CONVERT.
4755 Bible Readings — Bible Questions Answered, p. 308 (Ellen G. White Estate)
Choice of Service and Worship
4756 Bible Readings — Bible Questions Answered, p. 375 (Ellen G. White Estate)
Results of Our Choice
4757 365 Days in the Gospels and Spirit of Prophecy, p. 14.6 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… their choice has been. Every question of truth and error in the long-standing controversy will then have been made plain. In the judgment of the universe, God …
4758 365 Days in the Gospels and Spirit of Prophecy, p. 23.5 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… his choice to forgo the enjoyments and luxuries of life for the stern discipline of the wilderness. Here his surroundings were favorable to habits of simplicity …
4759 365 Days in the Gospels and Spirit of Prophecy, p. 83.5 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… speaker's choice of language or his manner may not please the hearers, and they dwell upon these defects. Thus the truth they need, and which God has graciously …
4760 365 Days in the Gospels and Spirit of Prophecy, p. 85.5 (Ellen G. White Estate)
… of choice is ours, and it rests with us to determine what we will become. The wayside, the stony-ground, the thorny-ground hearers need not remain such. The Spirit …