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93281 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Ephesians, Epistle to.13 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the faithful in Christ. He speaks to the Ephesians as a type or sample of the church universal.” The church’s foundations, its course, and its end, are his theme …
93282 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Ephesians, Epistle to.16 (Matthew G. Easton)
… their faith and holiness ( Ephesians 1:15 ), and transported with the consideration of the unsearchable wisdom of God displayed in the work of man’s redemption …
93283 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Esther.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter to her adopted father, docile and obedient to his counsels, and …
93284 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Eternal life.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the faithful have here on earth ( John 3:36; John 5:24; John 6:47, John 6:53-58 ) is inseparably connected with the eternal life beyond, the endless life of the future …
93285 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Eunice.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… “unfeigned faith.”
93287 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Faith — Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true ( Philippians 1:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ). Its primary idea is trust. A thing …
93288 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… all faith, and is sometimes spoken of as an equivalent to faith ( John 10:38; 1 John 2:3 ). Yet the two are distinguished in this respect, that faith includes in it assent …
93289 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
Historical faith is the apprehension of and assent to certain statements which are regarded as mere facts of history.
93290 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.5 (Matthew G. Easton)
Temporary faith is that state of mind which is awakened in men (e.g., Felix) by the exhibition of the truth and by the influence of religious sympathy, or by what is sometimes styled the common operation of the Holy Spirit.
93291 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.6 (Matthew G. Easton)
Saving faith is so called because it has eternal life inseparably connected with it. It cannot be better defined than in the words of the Assembly’s Shorter …
93292 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.7 (Matthew G. Easton)
… saving faith is the whole revealed Word of God. Faith accepts and believes it as the very truth most sure. But the special act of faith which unites to Christ …
93293 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.8 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of faith. By faith the believer directly and immediately appropriates Christ as his own. Faith in its direct act makes Christ ours. It is not a work which God …
93294 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.9 (Matthew G. Easton)
Saving faith is a moral act, as it proceeds from a renewed will, and a renewed will is necessary to believing assent to the truth of God ( 1 Corinthians 2:14; 2 Corinthians …
93295 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.10 (Matthew G. Easton)
Faith is necessary to our salvation ( Mark 16:16 ), not because there is any merit in it, but simply because it is the sinner’s taking the place assigned him by God, his falling in with what God is doing.
93296 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.11 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of faith is the divine testimony, not the reasonableness of what God says, but the simple fact that he says it. Faith rests immediately on, “Thus saith the Lord …
93297 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.12 (Matthew G. Easton)
Faith in Christ secures for the believer freedom from condemnation, or justification before God; a participation in the life that is in Christ, the divine …
93298 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faith.14 (Matthew G. Easton)
The faith=the gospel ( Acts 6:7; Romans 1:5; Galatians 1:23; 1 Timothy 3:9; Jude 3 ).
93299 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faithful.1 (Matthew G. Easton)
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93300 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Faithful.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Faithful — as a designation of Christians, means full of faith, trustful, and not simply trustworthy ( Acts 10:45; Acts 16:1; 2 Corinthians 6:15; Colossians 1:2; 1 Timothy …