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93821 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. David.24 (Matthew G. Easton)
… unfailing faith in God, and his joyful confidence in his gracious covenant promises ( 2 Samuel 23:1-7 ).
93822 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Deluge.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… continued faithful and true to God, the household of Noah. “Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations.”
93823 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Egypt.8 (Matthew G. Easton)
… new faith derived from Asia, which was a sort of pantheistic monotheism, the one supreme god being adored under the image of the solar disk. The attempt led …
93824 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Election of Grace.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… on faith or repentance, but is of soverign grace ( Romans 11:4-6; Ephesians 1:3-6 ). All that pertain to salvation, the means ( Ephesians 2:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:13 ) as well …
93825 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Epaphras.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… “a faithful minister of Christ.” He was thus evidently with him at Rome when he wrote to the Colossians. He was a distinguished disciple, and probably the founder …
93826 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 …
93827 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 …
93828 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 …
93829 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 …
93830 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Eunice.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… “unfeigned faith.”
93832 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 …
93833 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 …
93834 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.
93835 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.
93836 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 …
93837 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 …
93838 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 …
93839 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 …
93840 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.