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93701 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Break.2
… ; "breaking faith," Hosea 4:2; parach = "to break forth as a bud" ( Leviticus 13:12 ); nathats or nathaq = "destroy" ( Ezekiel 23:34 the King James Version, the Revised Version …
93702 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Brethren of the Lord.2
… the faithful group of women, they "continued steadfastly in prayer," awaiting the promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit. Their subsequent participation in …
93703 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Brethren of the Lord.5
… into faithful confessors, before the view of Jesus, provision was made for her deeper spiritual communion with her risen and ascended Son through the testimony …
93704 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Brother.2
… same faith ( Acts 11:29; 1 Corinthians 5:11 ); (10) a favorite oriental metaphor used to express likeness or similarity ( Job 30:29, "I am a brother to jackals"); (11) a fellow …
93705 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Build; Building.7
… holy faith ( Jude 1:20 ).
93706 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Builder.3
… their faith and life ( Acts 20:32; 1 Corinthians 8:1 the Revised Version, margin, "buildeth up"; 1 Corinthians 10:23 margin, Greek "build up"; 1 Corinthians 14:4, 17 m; 1 Thessalonians …
93707 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Busybody.2
… Christian faith ( 1 Corinthians 13:1 - 13 ).
93708 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canon of the New Testament.27
… your faith and perseverance" (Epistle to Phil, XIII). This is an illustration of what must have happened toward furthering a knowledge of the writings of the …
93709 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canon of the Old Testament, I.30
… of faith, and eventually a catalogue or list. In present usage it signifies a collection of religious writings Divinely inspired and hence, authoritative …
93710 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canon of the Old Testament, I.35
… their faith and regulative of their conduct which were written for this definite purpose by those whom they believed to be inspired of God. It was this which …
93711 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canon of the Old Testament, II.3
… of faith and action" (Driver, Deuteronomy, 343). According to 1 Kings 8:9, when Solomon brought the Ark up from the city of David to the Temple, the two tables were …
93712 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Canon of the Old Testament, II.20
… what faith we have placed in our own writings is evident by our conduct; for though so great an interval of time (i.e. since they were written) has now passed, not …
93713 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Cappadocia.5
… the faith to which he afterward won the formal assent of his whole nation. Here Basil governed the churches of his wide diocese and organized monasticism …
93714 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Captain.4
… our faith), "captain" being still retained in the Revised Version, margin. Compare Acts 3:15 and Acts 5:31, where the same Greek word is rendered "Prince," the Revised …
93715 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Captivity.66
… too faithful a representative of the people. Jeremiah charges him with covetousness, the shedding of innocent blood, oppression and violence ( Jeremiah …
93716 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Captivity.89
… the faith of their fathers in the God of Abraham. Exposed to the taunts and the scorn of nations that despised them, they formed an inner circle of their own …
93717 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Captivity.97
… and faith should have been undertaken, without stimulus from without, by the residue of the people. We have already seen how little initiative was to be expected …
93718 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Catechist; Catechumen.2
… Christian faith. A catechumen, one whom the catechist instructs or catechizes, in preparation for the ceremony of baptism.
93719 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Catholic Epistles.2
… the faithful, whether to the Jews of the Dispersion, as Peter writes, or even to all who are living as Christians under the same faith." Three other explanations …
93720 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Catholic Epistles.3
… Christian faith. In his first epistle Peter addressed the same Christians, including also Gentileconverts, resident in five provinces of Asia Minor: "elect …