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Obscurity - We wait for light, but behold
Obscurity. You are not for
Obscurity designed. Darkness of meaning unintelligibleness as the
Obscurity of writings or of a particular passage. Illegibleness as the
Obscurity of letters or of an inscription. A state of being unknown to fame humble condition as the
Obscurity of birth or parentage
Fuscation - ) A darkening;
Obscurity; obfuscation
Enubilate - ) To clear from mist, clouds, or
Obscurity
Darkness - ) The absence of light; blackness;
Obscurity; gloom. ) Want of clearness or perspicuity;
Obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion
Becloud - ) To cause
Obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud
Caligo - ) Dimness or
Obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself
Uncloud - ) To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from
Obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like
Gloominess - Want of light
Obscurity darkness dismalness
Obscurity - OBSCURITY. —Those who are called from darkness to light do not perform the journey instantaneously, and so must be conscious of
Obscurity, in various ways and to different degrees, in their progressive apprehension of the gospel of Christ. In teaching by parables there was necessarily an element of
Obscurity; but this stumbling-block Christ frequently removed (
Matthew 13:11), and promised the clearance of all hindrances to the perfect knowledge of God (
John 16:13;
John 16:25).
Obscurity was not infrequently felt by the Apostles in their efforts to discern the meaning of the Lord’s other utterances.
Obscurity there must often be when spiritual realities are expressed by the inadequate vehicle of human vocabulary. When the Infinite strives to find portrayal in the finite, there must be what we call
Obscurity.
Obscurity must disappear more and more, for the darkness cannot confine the Light of the world within any bounds (
John 1:5;
John 8:12;
John 9:5). The steadfast disciple will learn to understand His speech (
John 8:43), and release from
Obscurity will convey increase of freedom (
John 8:32)
Dimness - ) The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness;
Obscurity
Opacity - )
Obscurity; want of clearness
Loomy - ) Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through
Obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy
Explicate - ) To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or
Obscurity; to interpret
Muddiness - )
Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness
Disinter - ) To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from
Obscurity into view
Expound - ) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of
Obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle
Explain - ) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of
Obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible
Dusk - ) Imperfect
Obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening
Expound - To explain to lay open the meaning to clear of
Obscurity to interpret as, to expound a text of scripture to expound a law
Umbrage - ) Shade; shadow;
Obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage
Emerge - ) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or
Obscurity
Whiteness - ) The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or
Obscurity on the surface
Dimness -
Obscurity of vision imperfect sight as the dimness of a view
Lanes -
Luke 14:21 (c) The streets refer to the public places, and the lanes refer to the out-of-the-way places where people live in more or less
Obscurity
Shadow - ) Darkness; shade;
Obscurity. ) Shade within defined limits;
Obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. ) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with
Obscurity
Emersion - ) The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from
Obscurity or difficulties
Background - ) A place in
Obscurity or retirement, or out of sight
u'Cal - But there is great
Obscurity about the passage
Haze - ) Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively,
Obscurity; dimness
Ascertain - ) To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from
Obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine
Rope - ) To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or
Obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see
Rope - ) To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or
Obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see
Shadow - Shade within defined limits
Obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a plane and represtnting the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light as the shadow of a man, of a tree or a tower. Darkness shade
Obscurity
Explanation - ) The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from
Obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty
Dark - Darkness
Obscurity the absence of light.
Obscurity secrecy a state unknown as, things done in the dark.
Obscurity a state of ignorance as, we are all in the dark
Loom - ) Partial or total darkness; thick shade;
Obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
Loom - ) Partial or total darkness; thick shade;
Obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
Badger Skins - There is much
Obscurity as to the meaning of the word tachash , rendered "badger" in the Authorized Version, (
Exodus 25:5 ; 35:7 ) etc
Night -
Obscurity a state of concealment from the eye or the mind unintelligibleness
Muggletonians - The followers of Ludovic Muggleton, a journeyman tailor, who, with his companion Reeves (a person of equal
Obscurity, ) set up for great prophets, in the time of Cromwell
Darkness -
Obscurity want of clearness or perspicuity that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood as the darkness of counsels
Hosea (2) - Often he is prone to approach to allegory; often he sinks down in
Obscurity
Shade - Literally, the interception, cutting of or interruption of the rays of light hence, the
Obscurity which is caused by such interception. Darkness
Obscurity as the shades of night
Declare - ) To make clear; to free from
Obscurity
Wrap - Things reflected on in gross and transiently, are thought to be wrapped in impenetrable
Obscurity
Shade - ) Darkness;
Obscurity; - often in the plural. ) Comparative
Obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light
Revive - ) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion,
Obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century
Dark - ) Absence of light; darkness;
Obscurity; a place where there is little or no light
Corner - Neither did CHRIST live, suffer and die hidden in
Obscurity
Basel, Council of - After lingering some years in
Obscurity, the Council of Basel closed at Lausanne
Rhodo, a Christian Writer - He mentions a book of "Problems" published by Tatian, intended to exhibit the
Obscurity of the Holy Scriptures, and promise to give the solutions; but Eusebius does not seem to have met with this work
Sequester - ) To cause to retire or withdraw into
Obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; - often used reflexively
Nazareth - After this, save as a centre of pilgrimage, Nazareth sank into
Obscurity
Mary Tudor - After Henry's repudiation of Catherine, Mary was harshly treated and during the reign of Edward VI remained in comparative
Obscurity
Nail - He knows that which is done in
Obscurity, privately and without publicity
Cloud - A state of
Obscurity or darkness
Tudor, Mary - After Henry's repudiation of Catherine, Mary was harshly treated and during the reign of Edward VI remained in comparative
Obscurity
Saul - At the same time, with so much told us about Saul; and told us in such a plain, open, and straightforward style; and told us, as it must have been, for our instruction, we may surely hope to be able, amid all his acknowledged
Obscurity, to gather sufficient instruction out of Saul to justify us in taking him up for our subject this evening. ...
But, unhappily, the
Obscurity begins further back than Saul. The
Obscurity begins with Saul's father and mother. There is no
Obscurity about Samuel. ' Yes, there is some quite inexplicable
Obscurity about Kish as well as about Saul; an
Obscurity that perplexes us, and throws us out at the very opening of his son's sad history. And yet, when we turn back and begin to read Saul's whole history over again with our eye on the object; when we stop and look round about us as we read, the ancient
Obscurity begins to pass off, but only to let alarm and apprehension for ourselves and for our own sons take its place. Why hold up our hands at Saul's
Obscurity, and at Saul's ignorance of Samuel? We have it in ourselves. Matthew Henry in two or three words makes clear to us all the
Obscurity of Saul's 'other heart. ...
No; there is no such
Obscurity about Saul getting another heart and yet that heart coming to nothing. And the more we work on Saul under that great preacher and after him, the more we feel the
Obscurity and the mystery of Saul's dark character
Zeb'Ulun - Thus remote from the centre of government, Zebulun remains throughout the history with one exception, in the
Obscurity which envelops the whole of the northern tribes
Zerah - There has been much controversy as to its historicity, and the question is still involved in
Obscurity
Doctrine - Thus the idea of God's sovereignty excites submission; his power and justice promote fear; his holiness, humility and purity; his goodness, a ground of hope; his love excites joy; the
Obscurity of his providence requires patience; his faithfulness, confidence
Rass - His riches disappear, and he himself fades into
Obscurity
Revive - To recover from a state of neglect, oblivion,
Obscurity or depression
Depth - Abstruseness
Obscurity that which is not easily explored as the depth of a science
Degrees - The point is involved in entire
Obscurity; and, after all, the title of these Psalms may be only a musical direction to the temple choir
Gemara - The Jews have little value for this Jerusalem Talmud, on account of its
Obscurity
Urim And Thummin - Various in fact are the conjectures upon this subject, and Moses has nowhere spoken of the Urim and Thummim in such terms as to remove the
Obscurity
Darkness - The "day of darkness" in
Joel 2:2 , caused by clouds of locusts, is a symbol of the
Obscurity which overhangs all divine proceedings
Inchantments - They affected
Obscurity and night, or would show their skill only before the uninformed or mean persons, and feared nothing so much as serious examinations, broad day-light, and the inspection of the intelligent
Sadducees - Their origin is involved in some
Obscurity; probably sprung from Zadok
Ulfilas - His career is involved in much
Obscurity. gives details which shed light on the
Obscurity. The subsequent history of Ulfilas is involved in much
Obscurity
Cross - It means a willingness to lay aside opportunities for earthly advancement and be willing to live in more or less of
Obscurity if that is the will of GOD
Birthright - Reuben forfeited the blessings of his birthright, as we see by the express declaration of his father Jacob, in his benediction of his children,
Genesis 49:1 , &c, for the crime of incest with his father's concubine, on account of which his tribe continued all along in
Obscurity; while the priesthood was conferred on Levi, the government on Judah, and the double portion on Joseph, to descend to their respective tribes
Polychronius, Bishop of Apamea - , but he calls in the aid of Symmachus and Theodotion; and the frequency of his references to the Hebrew, as well as the remarkable fragment on the "obscurity of Scripture" among the extant fragments of his commentary on job, shew some acquaintance with that language. His temper was not controversial, and he has no place in the history of polemical theology—a circumstance which has saved him from the stigma of heterodoxy, but consigned his life and works to comparative
Obscurity
Humiliation of Christ - In his circumstances, laid in a manger when he was born; lived in
Obscurity for a long time; probably worked at the trade of a carpenter; had not a place where to lay his head; and was oppressed with poverty while he went about preaching the Gospel
Ezekiel, Book of - ' It was because of this
Obscurity that the Jews forbade any one to read it till he had attained the age of thirty
Psalms - Taken as one grand whole, they form a complete epitome of the gospel; and from those which plainly point to Christ, and can refer to no other, we may venture to conclude that those which do not in our apprehension, the
Obscurity ariseth from our dulness, and not from any want of allusion to him
Tyrannus - All this is conveyed by the reading of the chief representative of the Western text, but the present writer has no doubt that here, as elsewhere, the reviser has been endeavouring to remove
Obscurity from the narrative
Mystery - "The other extreme lies in an attempt to explain the mysteries of revelation, so as to free them from all
Obscurity
Albion - Albion , king of the Langobardi, or Lombards, and founder of the kingdom subject to that people in Italy, was the son of that Audoin under whom the Lombards emerge from
Obscurity to occupy Pannonia, invited by the Emperor of Constantinople, in accordance with the usual Byzantine policy, as a check to the Gepidae
Babylon (2) - Its boundaries and history are involved in much
Obscurity
Prophecy - A degree of
Obscurity rests on the prophetic writings, which patient and prayerful study alone can dispel; while those that are yet unfulfilled must await the coming of the events, which will make all at length clear
Chaldean Philosophy - The Chaldeans also adopted a symbolical mode of instruction, and transmitted their doctrines to posterity under a veil of
Obscurity, which it is not easy to remove. ...
The Chaldean philosophy, notwithstanding the
Obscurity that has rendered it difficult of research, has been highly extolled, not only by the orientals and Greeks, but by Jewish and Christian writers: but upon recurring to authorities that are unquestionable, there seems to be little or nothing in this branch of the barbaric philosophy which deserves notice
Assyria - ...
The early history of Assyria is involved in
Obscurity
Jesus - ...
...
The first year may be called the year of
Obscurity, both because the records of it which we possess are very scanty, and because he seems during it to have been only slowly emerging into public notice
Antichrist - But the language of the apostles is obscure, and this
Obscurity has been deepened by the conflicting interpretations of expositors
Pharaoh - Some of them have been identified, by the labors of Champollion and others, with kings whose proper names we know from other sources, while others still remain in
Obscurity
Hosea - Brevity causes
Obscurity, the
Obscurity being designed by the Spirit to call forth prayerful study
Stephen - Paul’s conversion followed soon after; but the date of this event is itself involved in much
Obscurity, depending, as it does, on whether we identify the visit to Jerusalem mentioned in Galatians 2 with the visit of Paul and Barnabas described in Acts 11, 12 or with that described in Acts 15. Luke, probably having himself no exact date to rely upon, has left the chronology of this section of the Acts in intentional
Obscurity
Chaos - Hebrew verbs denote sinking into
Obscurity, becoming nothingness, or falling prey to weakness
Meekness - Thus, the meekness which He blessed and taught by His own conduct was the self-conquest which rendered Him indifferent to the glamour of external conditions such as wealth, ease, fame, and sovereignty, by which even the greatest minds have been dazzled; and further, it was opposed to the spirit of resentment, hatred, and pride, which is often the product of contumely, pain, unjust suffering, and
Obscurity
Darkness - In the natural sense of the word, it means the
Obscurity, such as is described at the original state of things, when JEHOVAH went forth in acts of creation
Musical Instruments of the Hebrews - (There has been great
Obscurity as to the instruments of music in use among the Hebrews, but the discoveries on the monuments of Egypt and Assyria have thrown much light upon the form and nature of these instruments
Miltiades, 2nd Cent. Christian Writer - ...
Great
Obscurity hangs over his relation to Montanism, owing to a strange confusion, either on the part of Eusebius or of his copyists, between the names Miltiades and Alcibiades
Peter - After that time his labors are involved in
Obscurity
Horn - The little horns represent kings or generals, or men who rise up out of
Obscurity and are not well known
Clear - To free from
Obscurity, perplexity or ambiguity as, to clear a question or theory to clear up a case or point
Ezekiel - This
Obscurity arises, in part at least, from the nature and design of the prophecies themselves; they were delivered amidst the gloom of captivity; and though calculated to cheer the drooping spirits of the Jews, and to keep alive a watchful and submissive confidence in the mercy of God, yet they were intended to communicate only such a degree of encouragement as was consistent with a state of punishment, and to excite an indistinct expectation of future blessings, upon condition of repentance and amendment
Kadesh Barnea - Kadesh gradually sank to its original
Obscurity as a watering place for the nomads of the desert
Ark - ...
The ultimate fate of the κιβωτός is involved in
Obscurity
Medes, me'Dia - The deepest
Obscurity hangs, however, over the whole history of the Medes from the time of their bearing sway in Babylonia, B
Apocalypse - " The omission of this book in some of the early catalogues of the Scriptures, was probably not owing to any suspicion concerning its authenticity or genuineness, but because its
Obscurity and mysteriousness were thought to render it less fit to be read publicly and generally
Behmenists - The essential
Obscurity of the subjects indeed he could not remedy
Rome - The beginnings of Rome are shrouded in
Obscurity
Mephibosheth - He had been for a considerable time living in
Obscurity with Machir in Lodebar beyond Jordan, near Mahanaim, his uncle Ishbosheth's seat of government, when David through Ziba heard of him, and for the sake of Jonathan, and his promise respecting Jonathan's seed (
1 Samuel 20:15;
1 Samuel 20:42), restored to him all the land of Saul and admitted him to eat bread at his table at Jerusalem continually
Scribes - Unless the Priest became a scribe also, he remained in
Obscurity
Beam And Mote - Freytag): ‘How seest thou the splinter in thy brother’s eye and seest not the cross-beam in thine eye?’...
There is no
Obscurity in the terms used
Pleroma - The
Obscurity of this statement is removed by the active interpretation; the supplementary ‘unfulled’ patch takes away from the original garment
Mystery - ...
It is important to observe that the connotation of intrinsic difficulty of comprehension,
Obscurity, which has become inseparable from the word in modern use, is misleading. Manifestly an interpretation of parabolic utterance which supposes it adopted in order to fulfil the prophetic sentence of judicial blindness on Israel cannot be attributed to Jesus, since the end sought in the parables themselves is the reverse of intentional
Obscurity
Nazareth - , that Jesus lived for thirty years ‘in the deep
Obscurity of a provincial village … not only in a despised province, but in its most disregarded valley’ (F
Nazareth - , that Jesus lived for thirty years ‘in the deep
Obscurity of a provincial village … not only in a despised province, but in its most disregarded valley’ (F
Version, the Authorised - " They had endeavoured to take a middle course between the Puritans who had forsaken "the old ecclesiastical words," and the
Obscurity of the Papists in "retaining foreign words of purpose to darken the sense
Nazarene - The greatest
Obscurity envelops these Jewish Christian parties
Revelation of John, the - Revelation was omitted by the council of Laodicea from its list of books to be read publicly, doubtless because of its prophetic
Obscurity. Dionysius of Alexandria says many before his time rejected it because of its
Obscurity, or because it supported Cerinthus' view of an earthly kingdom. ...
The most primitive testimony is decidedly for it; the only objections were subjective: (1) the opposition of many to the millennium in it; (2) its symbolism and
Obscurity prevented its being publicly read in churches and its being taught to the young
Ezekiel - ...
The
Obscurity lies in the subject matter, not in the form or manner of his communications. ), while the better disposed were awakened to a deeper search into the things of God by the very
Obscurity of the symbols
Version - The origin of this the most important of all the versions is involved in much
Obscurity
Angels of the Seven Churches - If this use of the word by the author has led to confusion and
Obscurity, the reason lies probably in the limitations of that symbolism which was the characteristic vehicle of Jewish apocalyptic literature (see W
Essenes - -The whole subject of Essenism is wrapped in
Obscurity: the Essenes remain, and will remain, the ‘great enigma of Jewish history. ’ The
Obscurity is all the more tantalizing because we know enough to perceive that for the history of religion the Essenes are of surpassing interest and importance
Simon Magus - "Seek
Obscurity" was Fénelon's motto. Instead of that the poor impostor tried to get Peter to share his apostolic popularity with him for thirty pieces of silver! If you are a platform, or a pulpit, or any other kind of mountebank, seek
Obscurity, for your soul's salvation lies there
Diana - ...
The origin of the name ‘Artemis’ is veiled in
Obscurity, and the attempts of both ancients and moderns to derive the word have been unsuccessful; the best suggestion is that of Ed
Jesus Christ - ...
The Year of
Obscurity . James Stalker described the three-year public ministry of Jesus as the year of
Obscurity, the year of public favor, and the year of opposition. ...
The year of
Obscurity began sometime in a
Prophecy - ...
The objection which has been raised to Scripture prophecy, from its supposed
Obscurity, has no solid foundation. Some degree of
Obscurity is essential to prophecy; for the end of it was not to gratify human curiosity, by a detail of future events and circumstances; and too great clearness and speciality might have led to many artful attempts to fulfil the predictions, and so far the evidence of their accomplishment would have been weakened. The two great ends of prophecy are, to excite expectation before the event, and then to confirm the truth by a striking and unequivocal fulfilment; and it is a sufficient answer to the allegation of the
Obscurity of the prophecies of Scripture, that they have abundantly accomplished those objects, among the most intelligent and investigating, as well as among the simple and unlearned, in all ages
Colossians, Epistle to the - Paul’s earlier writings, by ‘a certain ruggedness of expression, a want of finish that borders on
Obscurity
John the Baptist - ...
Although his formative years were lived in
Obscurity in the desert (
Luke 1:80 ), his public ministry ended nearly four hundred years of prophetic silence
Providence - While he is guiding the sun and moon in their course through the heavens; while in this inferior world he is ruling among empires, stilling the ragings of the waters, and the tumults of the people, he is at the same time watching over the humble good man, who, in the
Obscurity of his cottage, is serving and worshipping him
Arnobius - 1850) protests against the
Obscurity and neglect which have attended his name; holds that his "peculiar position and character invest his sentiments and reasoning with very singular interest and value"; pronounces him to be in some respects "the keenest of the apologists," and to be remarkably apposite to the popular arguments of modern times (pp
Allegory - He adds, that the mystical allegory is, on account of the
Obscurity resulting from the nature of the figure, and the style of the composition, so agreeable to the nature of the prophecy, that it is the form which it generally, and indeed lawfully, assumes, as best adapted to the prediction of future events
Sabbath - The origin of this institution, and its early history among the Israelites, are involved in much
Obscurity
Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch - Sanday describes him as "one of the precursors of that group of writers who, from Irenaeus to Cyprian, not only break the
Obscurity which rests on the earliest history of the Christian church, but alike in the East and in the West carry it to the front in literary eminence, and distance all their heathen contemporaries" ( Studia Biblica , p
Egypt - After the fall of the Old Empire came a period of decline and
Obscurity
Mill - The grinding of corn at so early an hour throws light on a passage of considerable
Obscurity: "And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon; and they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat, and they smote him under the fifth rib; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped,"
2 Samuel 4:5-7
King (2) - This ‘Son of Man’ is no earthly monarch, but a Being of Divine and heavenly nature; not one who by means of a revolution rises from his native
Obscurity to a throne, but one who descends from heaven to earth
Pride (2) - The Magnificat proclaimed the truths that whilst poverty and
Obscurity are not bars to acceptance with God, there are evils peculiarly belonging to high rank which utterly disqualify
Prophecy - Hence, likewise, here and there a shade of
Obscurity. " Objections, however, have been raised against the prophecies from their
Obscurity
Oracle - Vossius allows that it was the devil who spoke in oracles; but thinks that the
Obscurity of his answers was owing to his ignorance as to the precise circumstances of events. That artful and studied
Obscurity in which the answers were couched, says he, showed the embarrassment the devil was under; as those double meanings they usually bore provided for their accomplishment
Nahum -
Obscurity is sometimes met with ( e
Isaiah - In his sentiments there is uncommon elevation and majesty; in his imagery, the utmost propriety, elegance, dignity, and diversity; in his language, uncommon beauty and energy; and, notwithstanding the
Obscurity of his subjects, a surprising degree of clearness and simplicity
Apocalypse - ]'>[8] ...
As to the literary form of the apocalypses, the most salient distinguishing feature is a certain
Obscurity of imagery, which sometimes takes the form of a grotesqueness, and of an incongruity in details, winch are excusable only upon The supposition that the awkward imagery was capable of the twofold task of conveying the meaning to those for whom it was intended, and of veiling it from others. ...
This
Obscurity of style is connected with the fact that apocalypses were, so far as we know, in nearly every case pseudonymous
Passover - It must be admitted that the materials are scanty and not free from
Obscurity. But whatever
Obscurity may hang round the original connection between the Paschal feast and the Eucharist, there can be no question that when Easter came to be observed, as it was observed at the same season of the year,-in spring-it was regarded as the counterpart of the Jewish Passover
Synagogue - ]'>[3] Life , § 54, of the synagogue of Tiberias)...
The origin of the synagogue as a characteristic institution of Judaism is hidden in
Obscurity
Elijah - Every part of his character is marked by a moral grandeur, which is heightened by the
Obscurity thrown around his connections, and his private history
Egypt - ...
The early history of ancient Egypt is involved in great
Obscurity
Eunomius, Bishop of Cyzicus - Photius speaks very depreciatingly of his studied
Obscurity, the weakness of his arguments, and his logical power
Advent (2) - It was even thought by many that He was hidden somewhere in
Obscurity, only waiting for a more penitent disposition in the national mind; and so inflamed was the common imagination with these ideas, that popular excitement was easily aroused, and any bold spirit, rising in revolt against the existing state of things, could find a group of followers ready to believe in him as the one who should deliver Israel
Barnabas - And I had resolved to continue in the same
Obscurity, till at length William Farel detained me at Geneva, and that not so much by counsel and exhortation, as by a dread imprecation, which I felt to be as if God from heaven laid His mighty hand upon me to arrest me
Joannes, Bishop of Ephesus - were pure and benevolent," or believed that the four last years of that emperor "were passed in tranquil
Obscurity" (cf
Minucius Felix, Marcus - If these things were not true, at least the
Obscurity in which they shrouded their rites shewed that they were such as they had cause to be ashamed of
Music, Instruments, Dancing - ...
In light of the recognized
Obscurity in many of the headings, one can speak in general terms of five different types of information provided by the Psalm titles
Rome, Romans - ...
The beginnings of Rome are shrouded in
Obscurity, but the spade has helped to correct and amplify what we learn from history
the Man Which Sowed Good Seed in His Field But His Enemy Came And Sowed Tares Among the Wheat - THE Son of Man lived in
Obscurity in Nazareth till He began to be about thirty years of age, growing in wisdom every day, and every day saving to Himself-...
-What if EarthBe but the shadow of Heaven, and things thereinEach to other like more than on Earth is thought?And one day in His solitary and meditating walks He came on a field in which blades of tares were springing up among the blades of the wheat all over the field
Antichrist - The strands that went to the composition of the idea were various and strangely interwoven, and much
Obscurity still hangs over the subject
Bride - This custom serves to explain a circumstance in Samson's marriage, which is involved in some
Obscurity
Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint - His letters, though often turgid and pedantic, defaced by an artificial phraseology and abounding in passages of great
Obscurity, often describe persons, objects, and transactions in a very lively and picturesque manner
Hannah - Surely we should seek
Obscurity, and wish with all our heart that our so offensive name should never be spoken in this world again, or written or read
Prophet - The
Obscurity, in some parts, of prophecies of which other parts have been plainly fulfilled is designed to exercise our faith, the obscure parts yet awaiting their exhaustive fulfillment; e
Sibylline Oracles - This put considerable power into the hands of the officials who had charge of them, especially as the
Obscurity of their contents made the sense of certain passages conveniently ambiguous, and it is not surprising to find that, as time went on, their reputation suffered in the same way as the Greek oracles; the Roman, like the Greek, Sibyllina might ‘philippize’; genuine lines might be interpreted for private ends, if a political leader could influence the expositors, and forged lines could be surreptitiously introduced
Synagogue - -Like the beginnings of all great movements in history, the origin of the institution is wrapped in
Obscurity
Sacraments - Harnack, indeed, places the grouping together of Baptism and the Eucharist as among ‘a series of the most important Christian customs and ideas’ whose origin is involved in
Obscurity and ‘in all probability will never be cleared up’ (History of Dogma, Eng
Samuel - And then when Saul became king, Samuel was compelled to retire into
Obscurity, and become of no reputation
Jesus Christ - To effect this purpose, it was absolutely necessary for these founders of Christianity to avoid confusion and
Obscurity of language, and to express their ideas in a cool and cautious style
Baruch, Apocalypse of - When the author thinks for a moment about the fate of apostate Israelites, he falls into intentional
Obscurity (xlii
Palestine - The favourite, and most probable, modern theory regarding the Philistines is that they were of Cretan origin; but everything respecting that mysterious race is veiled in
Obscurity
Judas Iscariot (2) - —The
Obscurity which rests upon the early history of Judas accounts to a large extent for the difficulty of estimating his character
Judgment Damnation - The wicked simply disappear from the scene, the nature and term of their punishment being left shrouded in
Obscurity
God - This development is lost in
Obscurity, but the evidence from ancient literature contemporary with the Old Testament attests to the use of the plural form in other cultures around Israel as the designation of a single deity that embodies the entirety of divine life
Complacency - By these words He testified the peculiar pleasure with which He regarded His Son at the moment of His consecration to His mission; His satisfaction with the spirit of submission to the Father’s will which had characterized Jesus throughout the years of
Obscurity during which He prepared Himself for His ministry, and the lowliness with which He submitted to the baptism of John—because thus it became Him ‘to fulfil all righteousness’; and His gracious acceptance of the voluntary offering which the Son now made to the Father
Jeremiah - We may trace through a number of self-revealing passages, the general drift of which is plain notwithstanding the
Obscurity of some sentences and the chronological uncertainty, Jeremiah’s progress from youthful consecration and ardour, through moods of doubt and passionate repugnance, to a complete self-conquest and settled trust (see, besides chs
Psalms - Their
Obscurity and occasional want of connection with the psalm's contents (as title Psalm 34) are incompatible with their origination from forgers
Pentecost - Did it really so happen that that day was ‘the first day of the week’? This depends on what day the 16th Nisan fell that year: and it is mixed up with the
Obscurity attending the day of our Lord’s death (see art
Pentecost - Did it really so happen that that day was ‘the first day of the week’? This depends on what day the 16th Nisan fell that year: and it is mixed up with the
Obscurity attending the day of our Lord’s death (see art
Prayer - We should likewise avoid length and
Obscurity in our sentences, and in the placing of our words; and not interline our expressions with too many parentheses, which cloud and entangle the sense
Revelation (2) - Paul urges, in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, that if the message of the Christ was not understood by the Jews, it was due to their incapacity, not to its
Obscurity
Roads And Travel - The beginnings of travel as of so many other human institutions are hidden in
Obscurity
Gospels, Apocryphal - ...
(2) The authorship of the Gospel according to the Hebrews is in complete
Obscurity
Church - The destruction of Jerusalem left the Gentile Churches, and especially the Church of Rome, without a rival, for the Jewish Church of Jerusalem sank into
Obscurity, and never recovered; nor did any other community of Jewish Christiana take its place
Jerusalem - The origin of the city of Jerusalem is lost in
Obscurity, and probably, owing to the difficulties in the way of excavation, must continue to be matter of speculation
Apocrypha - Therefore it is not just to say that this hope had faded away or suffered temporary
Obscurity during the period when the Apocrypha was written, the truth being that it was then more vigorous than ever in certain circles
Christ in the Early Church - Only a fragment remains of the writings of the latter; and those of the former, as well as the exact nature of his teaching, are wrapped in considerable
Obscurity
Christ in the Middle Ages - He is the life of the living, the resurrection of the dead, the restorer of the deformed and disordered who have corrupted and spoiled themselves by sin, the beginning of all light, the illumination of all those who are illuminated, the revealer of
Obscurity according to what it is proper for us to know, and the beginning of all beginning
Church (2) - Now our knowledge of the first days of Christianity derived from the NT is but fragmentary, and the period immediately following is one of great
Obscurity; but from the middle of the 2nd cent
Lutherans - But, after all, and in spite of the boasted authority of the keys, complete confidence in divine forgiveness was never inculcated; for it was neither the interest nor the inclination of the church of Rome to teach the simple doctrine of Christian faith, but rather to involve it in metaphysical
Obscurity
Jesus Christ - The
Obscurity, the meanness, and the poverty of his external condition are thus represented: "He shall grow up before the Lord like a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form or comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him