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94961 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 …
94962 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 …
94963 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 …
94964 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 …
94965 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 …
94966 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Manifold.2
… is faithful to Christ. In Ecclesiasticus 51:3, we have "manifold afflictions" (pleion).
94967 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 …
94968 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 …
94969 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.
94970 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 …
94971 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 …
94972 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 …
94973 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 …
94974 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 …
94975 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mary.85
… of faithful women.
94976 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mary.86
… generous, faithful, loving, true and brave. She came in sorrow to the tomb to anoint the body of her dead Lord; she went away in joy to proclaim Him alive forevermore …
94977 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Matthew, the Gospel of.22
… and faith proclaimed by Christ (compare Galatians 3:24 )--all this is only intelligible when we remember that the book was written for Jewish readers. Again …
94978 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mediation; Mediator.55
… remains faithful and suffers for it. Whether in Isaiah 53:1 - 12 the Servant is the pious remnant of the people or is conceived of as an individual we need not …
94979 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Mediation; Mediator.81
… by faith, becomes to the believer the principle of ethical transformation, so that he may become worthy of the Divine favor which he now enjoys. As a result …
94980 International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. Meekness.3
… instruction: faith and meekness are his delight," the Revised Version (British and American) "in faith and meekness is his good pleasure"; Ecclesiastes 3:19, "Mysteries …