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Forehead

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The practice of veiling the face (forehead) in public for women of the high classes, especially married women, in the East, sufficiently stigmatizes with reproach the unveiled face of women of bad...

Paper

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[[941]Writing]

Ephesians, The Epistle To The

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was written by the apostle St. Paul during his first captivity at Rome, (Acts 28:16) apparently immediately after he had written the Epistle to the Colossians [[489]Colossians, The Epistle To The,...

Colossians, The Epistle To The

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was written by the apostle St. Paul during his first captivity at Rome. (Acts 28:16) (A.D. 62.) The epistle was addressed to Christians of the city of Colosse, and was delivered to them by...

Galatians, The Epistle To The

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was written by the apostle St. Paul not long after his journey through Galatia and Phrygia, (Acts 18:23) and probably in the early portion of his two-and-a-half-years stay at Ephesus, which...

Hebrews, Epistle To The

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+ The author--There has been a wide difference of opinion respecting the authorship of this epistle. For many years Paul was considered the author; others think it may have been Luke, Barnabas, or...

Philippians, Epistle To The

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was St. Paul from Rome in A.D. 62 or 63. St. Paul's connection with Philippi was of a peculiar character, which gave rise to the writing of this epistle. St. Paul entered its walls A.D. 52. (Acts...

Romans, Epistle To The

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+ The date of this epistle is fixed at the time of the visit recorded in Acts 20:3 during the winter and spring following the apostle's long residence at Ephesus A.D. 58. On this visit he remained...

Corinthians, First Epistle To The

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was written by the apostle St. Paul toward the close of his nearly three-years stay at Ephesus, (Acts 19:10; 20:31) which, we learn from (1 Corinthians 16:8) probably terminated with the Pentecost...

Philemon, The Epistle Of Paul To

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is one of the letters which the apostle wrote during his first captivity at Rome A.D. 63 or early in A.D. 64. Nothing is wanted to confirm the genuineness of the epistle: the external testimony is...

Corinthians, Second Epistle To The

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was written a few months subsequent to the first, in the same year--about the autumn of A.D. 57 or 58--at Macedonia. The epistle was occasioned by the information which the apostle had received...

Timothy, Epistles Of Paul To

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The Epistles to Timothy and Titus are called the Pastoral Epistles, because they are principally devoted to directions about the work of the pastor of a church. The First Epistle was probably...

Lodge, To

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This word, with one exception only, has, at least in the narrative portions of the Bible, almost invariably the force of "passing the night."

Thessalonians, First Epistle To The

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was written by the apostle Paul at Corinth, a few months after he had founded the church at Thessalonica, at the close of the year A.D. 62 or the beginning of 53. The Epistles to the Thessalonians,...

Willows, The Brook Of The

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a wady mentioned by Isaiah, (Isaiah 15:7) in his dirge over Moab. It is situated on the southern boundary of Moab, and is now called Wady el-Aksa.

Thessalonians, Second Epistle To The

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appears to have been written from Corinth not very long after the first, for Silvanus and Timotheus were still with St. Paul. (2 Thessalonians 1:1) In the former letter we saw chiefly the...

Dispersion, The Jews Of The

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or simply THE DISPERSION, was the general title applied to those Jews who remained settled in foreign countries after the return from the Babylonian exile, and during the period of the second...

Angel Of The Lord

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(Genesis 16:7) etc. (The special form in which God manifested himself to man, and hence Christ's visible form before the incarnation. Compare (Acts 7:30-38) with the corresponding Old-Testament...

Canon Of Scripture, The

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may be generally described as the "collection of books which form the original and authoritative written rule of the faith and practice of the Christian Church," i.e. the Old and New Testaments....

Micah, The Book Of

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Three sections of this work represent three natural divisions of the prophecy--1, 2; 3-5; 6,7--each commencing with rebukes and threatening and closing with a promise. The first section opens with...

Sabaoth, The Lord Of

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occurs in (Romans 9:29; James 5:4) but is more familiar through its occurrence in the Sanctus of Te Deum--"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth." Sabaoth is the Greek form of the Hebrew word...

Tiberias, The Sea Of

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(John 21:1) [[1226]Gennesaret, Sea Of, SEA OF]

Uzza, The Garden Of

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the spot in which Manasseh king of Judah and his son Amon were buried. (2 Kings 21:18, 26) It was the garden attached to Manasseh's palace. ver. 18. The fact of its mention shows that it was not...

Acts Of The Apostles

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the fifth book in the New testament and the second treatise by the author of the third Gospel, traditionally known as Luke. The book commences with an inscription to one Theophilus, who was...

Atonement, The Day Of

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I. The great day of national humiliation, and the only one commanded in the Mosaic law. [[215]Fasts] The mode of its observance is described in Levi 16, and the conduct of the people is...

Mountain Of The Amorites

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specifically mentioned (1:19,20) comp. Deuteronomy 1:44 It seems to be the range which rises abruptly from the plateau of et-Tih, south of Judea, running from a little south of west to north of...

Wilderness Of The Wandering

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(The region in which the Israelites spent nearly 38 years of their existence after they had left Egypt, and spent a year before Mount Sinai. They went as far as Kadesh, on the southernmost border...

Daniel, The Book Of

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stands at the head of a series of writings in which the deepest thoughts of the Jewish people found expression after their close of the prophetic era. Daniel is composed partly in the vernacular...

Dedication, Feast Of The

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the festival instituted to commemorate the purging of the temple and the rebuilding of the altar after Judas Maccabbeus had driven out the Syrians, B.C. 164. 1 Macc. 4:52-59. It is named only once...

Eclipse Of The Sun

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No historical notice of an eclipse occurs in the Bible, but there are passages in the prophets which contain manifest allusion to this phenomenon. (Joel 2:10, 31; 3:15; Amos 8:9; Micah 3:6; ...

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