⇒Definition of step2. His Official Position.— The first authentic notice we find of him is in Ac 6:5. In the distribution of the common fund that was intrusted to the apostles (Ac 6:15) for the support of the poorer brethren (see Mosheim, De Rebus Christ. ante Const. p. 118,...
The answer is found in the definition of 'love', and that the fact that Biblical love is NOT a warm, gooey feeling inside, meaning that our feelings can align with true love, but it is not the foundation of it. Based on the above definitions of love, it is obvious that the Lord Go...
Sixth, going back to the matter of definition, when an alien sinner actually repents of stealing prior to his scriptural baptism, since it is not the definition of stealing that changes (and it is not), then it has to be that his relationship to the act changes. He no longer steals!
therefore “angels” (Biblical angels almost always fill the role of messenger, and one could argue that theyalwaysdo, given a sufficiently broad definition of “messenger”), but this is a matter of later interpretation, and not strictly what the Bible states. And neither the Bible nor the ...
Prophets and ascetics wore it over the underclothing, to signify the sincerity of their calling (Isa 20:2; Mt 3:4; see Wetstein, N.T. 1, 384 sq.). The Apocrypha intimates that this habit of sackcloth was that in which good people clothed themselves when they went to prayers (Baruch...
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Another writer (Hilgenfeld) has attempted a distinct definition of the three stadia of this development. It is difficult to discover in the actual history the regularity of departure and return implied in such a figure, and yet we may derive from it a correct notion of the general direction....
His principal work aimed to show the differences between Numenius and Plotinus, and that the latter could not justly be charged with plagiarism of the former's doctrines. If he did not himself eventually become a Christian, he appears to have highly approved of St. John's definition of the ...
⇒Definition of minister(3) to the priests and Levites, who are thus described by the prophets and later historians (Jer 33:21; Eze 44:11; Joe 1:9,13; Ezr 8:17; Ne 10:36), though the verb, whence meshareth is derived, is not uncommonly used in reference to their services in ...