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93581 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, General.55
… the faith. The commandments of the Lord had been received through them ( 2 Peter 3:2 ). In the Ignatian epistles they have a place of acknowledged supremacy by …
93582 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, General.71
… Christian faith deeply tinged with the spirit of contemporary paganism; the faith in Christ the Saviour-God, which satisfied the widespread yearning for …
93583 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, General.72
… the faith--the age of martyrs and apostles. Acts of martyrs were eagerly read, and in particular the Apocryphal Acts were drawn upon to satisfy the desire for …
93584 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, the Separate Acts.10
… ." With faith in the resurrection is associated the demand for strict sexual abstinence. Only they who are pure (i.e. who live in chastity) shall see God. "Ye have …
93585 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, the Separate Acts.15
… establish faith in Christ not by words merely but by miraculous deeds and powers (allusion to 1 Corinthians 4:20; 1 Thessalonians 1:5 ). On the entreaty of the …
93586 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, the Separate Acts.19
… whose faith was allied with the grossest superstition.
93587 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, the Separate Acts.22
… colors faith in God, meekness, love, chastity, etc. As for the picture of his body it was the dead picture of a dead man. Chapters 30 through 36 narrate the healing …
93588 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Acts, the Separate Acts.24
… His faithful people, and indeed is present with them to be their support in every trial (103). The Acts of John also reveal a strong encratite tendency, although …
93589 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apocryphal Gospels.40
… the faith, and also as showing the free and practically unlimited nature of the controversy, of which the canon as finally adopted was the result. He rejected …
93590 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apostasy; Apostate.2
… the faith. Paul was falsely accused of teaching the Jews apostasy from Moses ( Acts 21:21 ); he predicted the great apostasy from Christianity, foretold by Jesus …
93591 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apostasy; Apostate.4
… the faith. The persecutions of the early Christian centuries forced many to deny Christian discipleship and to signify their apostasy by offering incense …
93592 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apostasy; Apostate.5
… the faith may be intellectual, as in the case of Ernst Haeckel, who, because of his materialistic philosophy, publicly and formally renounced Christianity …
93593 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apostle.9
… of faith unto the Gentiles" ( Acts 14:27 ), they thereby justified their claim to be the apostles not only of the church, but of the Holy Spirit.
93594 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apostles' Creed; The.4
… Christian faith. This is a special reason for considering the foundations on which these articles of faith rest.
93595 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apostles' Creed; The.13
… of Faith": In any case, the fact is certain that before the middle of the 2nd century the confession at baptism had crystallized into tolerably settled shape …
93596 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Apostles' Creed; The.21
… (only faith-cures), no resurrection from Joseph's tomb. This no doubt takes the bottom from the Apostles' Creed, but it takes the bottom also out of apostolic …
93597 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Arabia.59
… Jewish faith, especially certain branches of Himyar and Kinda, both descendants of Kahtan, the former in southern, the latter in central Arabia. Judaism was …
93598 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Arabia.60
… their faith into a trench of fire in which they were burned (Koran 85 4). News of this atrocity was either carried by those who escaped or sent by the Lakhmid, king …
93599 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Arabia.63
… Jewish faith. They gave up the worship of idols, studied the various sacred books, and sought to find out the true way. They are considered in the Koran as having …
93600 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Arabic Language.9
… the faithful, untranslated, whithersoever it has spread in the wide world of Islam, Arabic is identified with Islam in its origin, its history, its literature …