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94901 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 3-5.19
… the faith by giving examples showing how God stands by His people, helping in all their trials and delivering them out of the hands of their enemies. Note further …
94902 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 3-5.36
… the faithful observing of which the martyrs died. The four cardinal virtues are but forms of that true wisdom which is to be obtained only through the Mosaic …
94903 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Maccabees, Books Of, 3-5.37
… the faithful atones for the sins of the people ( 4 Maccabees 6:24; 4 Maccabees 17:19 - 21; compare Romans 3:25 ).
94904 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Macedonia.29
… Christian faith in Macedonia at this time may be judged from the phrases used by Paul in his 1st Epistle to the Thessalonians, the earliest of his extant letters …
94905 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Macedonia.34
… Christian faith, their love of the brethren--these are a few of the characteristics which Paul specially commends in them (1 and 2 Thessalonians; Philippians …
94906 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Magic; Magician.27
… personal faith in a God or gods whose favor depends on moral acts and on ritual acts only in so far as they have a voluntary and ethical character. If it be granted …
94907 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Magic; Magician.31
… personal faith in a pure spiritual being, was radically opposed to all magical beliefs and practices. The fact that the Hebrews stood apart as believers …
94908 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Man of Sin.6
… of faith, of apostasy, of culmination of both good and evil ("Let both grow together until the harvest," Matthew 13:30 ), with the seeming triumph for the time of the …
94909 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Manasseh (3).2
… trembling faith and tender hope (compare Isaiah 38:15 f), his name may perhaps memorialize the father's sacred feelings; the name of his mother Hephzibah too …
94910 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Manasseh (3).5
… the faith which had wrought the deliverance of 701. It was the fight of the decadent formal against the uprising spiritual; and, as in all such struggles, it …
94911 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Manifold.2
… is faithful to Christ. In Ecclesiasticus 51:3, we have "manifold afflictions" (pleion).
94912 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mark, John.4
… and faith. Mark was "cousin" to Barnabas of Cyprus ( Colossians 4:10 ) who also seems to have been a man of means ( Acts 4:36 ). Possibly Cyprus was also Mark's former home …
94913 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mark, John.7
… of faith alone. There are hints that Mark's family, like Paul's, were Hebrews of the Hebrews, and it is not without significance that in both verses ( Acts 13:5 …
94914 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mark, John.9
… the faithful few among Jewish Christians who stand by Paul. He is Paul's honored "fellowworker" and a great "comfort" to him.
94915 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mark, the Gospel According To, 2.24
… invincible faith; (4) There is in Him a marvelous combination of greatness and lowliness; (5) There are inevitable sufferings--bearing the penalty of others …
94916 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mark, the Gospel According To, 2.42
… personal faith ( Mark 1:23 - 26; Mark 5:1 - 20; Mark 6:35 - 43 ). The power of faith, within the will of God, is limitless ( Mark 11:25 ); faith leads to doing the will of God, and only …
94917 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Martha.3
… her faith in Jesus ( John 11:21 f) and in her belief in the final resurrection ( John 11:24 ). The power of Him, whom she termed the "Teacher," to restore Lazarus to life …
94918 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Martyr.2
… my faithful martyr"; also 17:6, "the blood of the martyrs of Jesus," where alone the American Standard Revised Version retains "martyrs." These 3 passages are the …
94919 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mary.45
… Christian faith. This makes it sufficiently evident, on the one hand, that the household never shared the feelings of the official class among the Jews; and …
94920 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mary.85
… of faithful women.