, His by creation and sustenance, by sovereign purpose and control (see artt. Unity and
). While he is bound to exclude from intimacy those who are unsympathetic with his inner life (
), he is by no means to hold aloof from ordinary intercourse with all sorts and conditions of men (
), but here also is to find a field for that exercise of Christian principles and virtues (
; cf. In a higher sense than to other men the
), as a system of Divinely appointed duties and opportunities, all subservient to the education and development of Christian character-as that apprenticeship in doing the will of God which is most perfectly adapted to his present capabilities and needs (
). This is not merely an end for which the
may be used, but the end for which it exists. When these conditions are absent, when life in the
is not inspired by love to God, to the higher self, and to one’s neighbour as oneself, it inevitably becomes ‘worldly’; and even when these are present,
liness is a danger still to be guarded against. The terrestrial environment appeals directly not to the spiritual but to the psychical and animal nature, and where, as even in the Christian, life is not entirely emancipated from the bias of sin, whore higher and lower elements mingle and contend, there is necessarily a tendency for the relatively good to displace the absolutely good; and if this tendency is not counteracted and overcome, the uses and enjoyments of the
-innocent in themselves and capable of being elevated to the higher range of values-become the means of chaining life to the lower. The single passage in the apostolic writings that suggests a psychology of
where its constituents are given as ‘the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life. ’ Here it is seen that the
exerts its downward pull upon human nature principally in two ways: by the desire (ἐπιθυμία) it excites, and by the false confidence (ἀλαζονεία) it inspires. The sensuality of the pagan
ff. (b) The second chief element in the
ly temper is what St. John calls ‘the vainglory of life’-the delusive satisfaction, the baseless sense of security (atheistic) or of superiority (egoistic) which the attainment of
ly desire engenders. And no less characteristic of the
ly mind are the uneasiness and distress consequent upon the lack of such sense of security: God-forgetting anxiety, painful and harmful as it is futile (
), reaching its climax in that sense of instability and vanity in all earthly things which, without its counterpoise of faith in spiritual reality, leads directly to the inverted
liness of pessimism, and by rebound to cynical hedonism-‘let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die’ (
). The adulation of the populace is fatal to the
) those in whom it is not united with love and a sense of love’s responsibilities. Finally, this whole view of life, for which spiritual realities are non-existent, finds expression in the ‘wisdom of this
), which moves, however skilfully, only on the plane of material things and interests (τὰ ἐπίγεια φρονοῦντες,
Leo Xii, Pope - As pope, he combated the indifferentism and Protestant proselytism of the period, and stimulated the devotion of the Catholic
World by the jubilee of 1825
Demiurge - In the sense of a
World-maker, distinct from the Supreme God, Demiurge became a common term in the various systems of Gnosticism
Omniscience - In God there is no successsion of acts, all is present to Him always, the past as well as the future, everything is as if it were happening now, nor is there anything in all the
World which is not present to Him always
Archives, Vatican - Compiled for administrative purposes, they furnish a mine of information for historians, and are the most important archives in the
World
Following of Christ - It is a series of counsels of perfection written in Latin in a familiar style, and divided into four books: ...
Useful admonitions for a spiritual life
Admonitions concerning spiritual things
Of interior consolation
Of the Blessed Sacrament, usually omitted in Protestant editions
It aims to instruct the soul in Christian perfection with Christ as the Divine Model and, next to the Bible, is perhaps the most widely read spiritual book in the
World
John Baptist Mary Vianney, Saint - In 1818 he was made parish priest at Ars, a remote French hamlet, where his exercise of the sacred ministry, especially in the direction of souls, made him known throughout the Christian
World
Irvingites - Statistics are not available, but the number of churches is not more than 80 throughout the
World
Birt, Dom Henry Norbert - He entered the Benedictine Order at Downside Abbey, England, 1880, was ordained, 1889, and after a period of teaching and parochial work at Coventry, became assistant and secretary to Abbot Francis Gasquet, army chaplain during the South African war, and to the home forces during the
World War
Census - A census or enrollment of the people is mentioned several times in the Old Testament and notably in the New Testament (Luke 2), the enrollment of "the whole
World" which occasioned the journey of Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem wherc Christ was born
Ham - ) ...
The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian
World
Death: Desired by Few - Burckhardt states, that although the Arabs are strict predestinarians, yet when the plague visited Medina, many of the townsmen fled to the desert, alleging as an excuse that although the distemper was a messenger from heaven sent to call them to a better
World, yet being conscious of their own unworthiness, and that they did not merit this special mark of grace, they thought it more advisable to decline it for the present, and make their escape from the town
Self-Knowledge - and is of the greatest utility, as it is the spring of self-possession, leads to humility, steadfastness, charity, moderation, self-denial, and promotes our usefulness in the
World
Boreal - ) Designating or pertaining to a terrestrial division consisting of the northern and mountainous parts of both the Old and the New
World; - equivalent to the Holarctic region exclusive of the Transition, Sonoran, and corresponding areas
Imitation of Christ - It is a series of counsels of perfection written in Latin in a familiar style, and divided into four books: ...
Useful admonitions for a spiritual life
Admonitions concerning spiritual things
Of interior consolation
Of the Blessed Sacrament, usually omitted in Protestant editions
It aims to instruct the soul in Christian perfection with Christ as the Divine Model and, next to the Bible, is perhaps the most widely read spiritual book in the
World
Memlinc, Hans - " "Christ the Light of the
World," with its naive pageantry, is in the Munich Gallery
Memling, Hans - " "Christ the Light of the
World," with its naive pageantry, is in the Munich Gallery
Rahab (2) - " Egypt is put foremost, as first of the great
World powers that opposed God
so: God so Loved Etc - In these days of advanced mechanism even greater marvels in miniature have been achieved, but never has so much meaning been compressed into so small a space as in that famous little word 'So,' in the text which tells us that 'God so loved the
World, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life
Holy See, Archives of the - Compiled for administrative purposes, they furnish a mine of information for historians, and are the most important archives in the
World
Centurion - In
Acts 10:1 , the conversion of the centurion Cornelius marked the beginning of the church's outreach to the Gentile
World
Mistress - Rome was mistress of the
World
Maimed - In the ancient
World the maimed had difficulty finding work and relied on the generosity of others (
Luke 14:13 )
Rasshopper - They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old
World
Plantain - It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the
World
Archives of the Holy See - Compiled for administrative purposes, they furnish a mine of information for historians, and are the most important archives in the
World
Hans Memlinc - " "Christ the Light of the
World," with its naive pageantry, is in the Munich Gallery
Hans Memling - " "Christ the Light of the
World," with its naive pageantry, is in the Munich Gallery
Christian - ...
It was not long, alas! before the outward profession of Christbecame separated from true faith in Him in the great mass who were recognised as Christians in the
World, and in practice they became anything but followers of Christ, as both scripture and history show
Irdle - GOD had intended Israel as a wonderful nation, but she mingled with the
World around her and became a rotten, useless people
Cloven - ...
Acts 2:3 (c) This probably represents the messages which the Holy Spirit brings, one to the saved, the Church, and the other to the unsaved, the
World
Principality - The status of those who hold the first place, as rulers among men,
Titus 3:1 ; but the word especially refers to the spiritual high powers in the unseen
World, whether good or bad
Henry Birt - He entered the Benedictine Order at Downside Abbey, England, 1880, was ordained, 1889, and after a period of teaching and parochial work at Coventry, became assistant and secretary to Abbot Francis Gasquet, army chaplain during the South African war, and to the home forces during the
World War
Silver - In the sandy desert, as well as in this wicked
World, the sinner needs a sure foundation, a safe resting place
Ablution - A ceremony in use among the ancients, and still practised in several parts of the
World
Incorporeality of God - If God were corporeal, he could not be present in any part of the
World where body is; yet his presence is necessary for the support and, motion of body
Amaurites - He acknowledged the divine Three, to whom he attributed the empire of the
World
Frigate - After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the
World till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them
Eriugena, John Scotus - 847), and acquired prominence in the
World of letters through his translation of the works of Pseudo-Dionysius
Agabus - A prophet who came from Jerusalem to Antioch, and foretold a famine "throughout all the
World: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar
Huldah - Her name is the same as the Hebrew name for the
World
Merodachbaladan - Hezekiah was glad of this, but it was accepting the friendship of the
World, to which as a result his posterity would be captives
Monk - ) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the
World, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty
Vatican Archives - Compiled for administrative purposes, they furnish a mine of information for historians, and are the most important archives in the
World
Potsherds - The ruins of many of the most ancient cities in the
World show little but such fragments of pottery covering the ground; it is usually coarse in grain, but well glazed
Vianney, John Baptist Mary, Saint - In 1818 he was made parish priest at Ars, a remote French hamlet, where his exercise of the sacred ministry, especially in the direction of souls, made him known throughout the Christian
World
Sabbatical Year - God appointed the observance of the Sabbatical year, to preserve the remembrance of the creation of the
World; to enforce the acknowledgment of his sovereign authority over all things, particularly over the land of Canaan, which he had given to the Hebrews; and to inculcate humanity on his people, by commanding that they should resign to servants, to the poor, to strangers and to brutes, the produce of the fields, of their vineyards, and of their gardens
World: Not to Build Too Confidently on it - Herein we read a lesson as to our
Worldly schemes and possessions: this poor fleeting
World deserves not that we should build our hopes and joys upon it as though they could last us long
Secundus, a Gnostic - Irenaeus reports two things as peculiar in his teaching: (1) he divided the primary Ogdoad into two Tetrads, a right-hand and a left-hand one, the one being called light, the other darkness; (2) he did not allow the Sophia out of whose passions, according to the Valentinian theory, the material
World took its origin to have been one of the 30 primary Aeons
Paganism - The second sort, called physic, or natural, was studied and taught by the philosophers, who, rejecting the multiplicity of gods introduced by the poets, brought their theology to a more natural and rational form, and supposed that there was but one Supreme God, which they commonly make to be the sun; at least, an emblem of him, but at too great a distance to mind the affairs of the
World, and therefore devised certain demons, which they considered as mediators between the Supreme God and man; and the doctrines of these demons, to which the apostle is thought to allude in
1Ti_4:1. Thus things continued in the Gentile
World, until the light of the Gospel was sent among them: the times before were times of ignorance, as the apostle calls them: they were ignorant of the true God, and of the worship of him; and of the Messiah, and salvation by him. that they were then without Christ; aliens from the commonwealth of Israel; strangers from the covenants of promise: having no hope, and without God in the
World; and, consequently, their theology was insufficient for their salvation
Nippur - Although it is never mentioned in the Bible, its history is important in the larger context of the biblical
World. The records, known as the Murashu documents after the banking family responsible for them, give some indication of the extent of Jewish involvement in the business
World after the time of the Babylonian Exile. He was thought of as god of the terrestrial
World and the father of other gods
Leviathan - But it is at least equally probable that the allusion is to the creation of the
World (
Psalms 74:16-17 ), and to the mythological sea-monsters then vanquished. ]'>[3] ‘their mourning’) aroused by magicians (
Job 3:8 ) is most likely a denizen of the abyss which threatens the
World with destruction. It will be noted that there is a close connexion between leviathan and the watery
World
Generation - ...
In
Luke 16:8, "the children of this
World are in respect to their own (so the Greek) generation (i. in relation to men of their own kind, men of this
World) wiser than the children of light," are in respect to their generation (men of their kind, godly, men of the
World to come)
Gentiles - ...
With all the superiority of the gentile great
World kingdoms, in military prowess, commerce, luxury, and the fine arts, Israel stood on an immense moral elevation above them, in the one point, nearness to God, and possession of His revealed will and word (
Exodus 19:5-6;
Psalms 147:19-20;
Psalms 148:14;
Romans 3:1-2). ...
"The times of the Gentiles" began with Judah's depression and captivity under Nebuchadnezzar, to whom God delegated the
World empire (
Jeremiah 27:6-7), from whence Jeremiah's counsel to the Jews to submit to hint was true patriotism, not cowardice. " "The receiving of them shall be life from the dead" to the whole
World (
Micah 5:7;
Isaiah 2:2-4;
Revelation 11:2-15)
Idleness - "He neither lives to God, to the
World, nor to himself. He lives not to the
World, nor for the benefit of his fellow-creatures around him. While all creation is full of life and activity, and nothing stands still in the universe, he remains idle, forgetting that mankind are connected by various relations and mutual dependencies, and that the order of the
World cannot be maintained without perpetual circulation of active duties
Stoics - Their distinguishing tenets were, that God is underived, incorruptible, and eternal; possessed of infinite wisdom and goodness: the efficient cause of all the qualities and forms of things; and the constant preserver and governor of the
World: That matter, in its original elements, is also underived and eternal; and is by the powerful energy of the Deity impressed with motion and form: That though God and matter subsisted from eternity, the present regular frame of nature had a beginning originating in the gross and dark chaos, and will terminate in a universal conflagration, that will reduce the
World to its pristine state: That at this period all material forms will be lost in one chaotic mass; and all animated nature be reunited to the Deity: That from this chaotic state, however, the
World will again emerge by the energy of the efficient principle; and gods, and men, and all forms of regulated nature be renewed and dissolved, in endless succession: And that after the revolution of the great year all things will be restored, and the race of men will return to life
Day of the Lord - Israelites of Old Testament times looked for the day when God would intervene in the affairs of the
World, righting the wrongs and establishing his just rule on the earth. ...
Jesus Christ’s first coming was, in a sense, a day of the Lord, for through Christ God intervened in the affairs of the
World to conquer Satan, deal with sin and proclaim his kingdom (
Matthew 3:11-12;
Matthew 4:14-17;
Acts 2:16-21; see KINGDOM OF GOD). They will reach their climax when Christ returns at the end of the age to purge the
World of sin and bring his kingdom to its victorious completion (
Isaiah 2:2-4;
Matthew 24:29-31;
Matthew 25:31-32;
2 Peter 3:3-4;
2 Peter 3:10). The spirit of antichrist, which has always been in the
World, will express itself in a final great rebellion against God. ...
In a series of devastating judgments, God will pour out his wrath upon a rebellious
World (
Mark 13:32-372;
Revelation 6:17;
Revelation 14:9-11;
Revelation 16:2). ...
However, no one knows when the end of the age will come, and Christians should not behave foolishly by thinking the
World is about to come to an end (
Matthew 24:36;
2 Thessalonians 2:1-2;
2 Thessalonians 3:11-12)
Jew - God, to carry out his purpose and preserve his church, called Abraham to leave his father's house and his country, and separated him and his household from the rest of mankind; gave him special promises, made covenants with him, and constituted him the "Father of the Faithful" to the
World. From that time, for two thousand years, the visible church of God was confined to the family of this man; and for fifteen centuries the history of this family is the only sacred history of the
World. They were separated from the
World by most stringent laws; and it was necessary during all that time for the rest of mankind, through the Jews, to learn the way to be saved. Nothing can more conclusively show the hand of God in directing the history of the
World, and in controlling the affairs of nations, than the prophecies and the facts connected with the history of Abraham and of his descendants. In some of these the
World has an interest. And he informs us that the
World is again to be indebted to the Jews; he says: "Now if the fall of them be the riches of the
World and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?"
Romans 11:11-12. They have long been the great bankers of the
World. The number of Jews in the
World is estimated at 9,000,000, of whom 50,000 live in New York city, where they accumulate great wealth
Poetry - About one-third of the Old Testament is poetry, the oldest, the purest, and the most sublime in the
World. There are no lyrics in the
World comparable with the Psalms of David, no gnomic poetry equal to the Proverbs, and no didactic poem so perfect in form, so profound and majestic in thought or so exalted and spiritual in conception as the book of Job
Devotion to the Sacred Heart - On the feast of the Sacred Heart celebrated on the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi an act of reparation is prescribed for recitation in every church in the
World. In spite of much opposition the feast was allowed in 1765, and extended to the
World in 1856; in 1929 it was raised to the highest rank
Order of Friars Preachers - The Friars Preachers have also made notable contributions to the
World of art. Although they suffered a considerable decrease in numbers and property due to the Reformation and the French Revolution, their spread in the New
World counterbalanced these losses
Order of Preachers - The Friars Preachers have also made notable contributions to the
World of art. Although they suffered a considerable decrease in numbers and property due to the Reformation and the French Revolution, their spread in the New
World counterbalanced these losses
Dominicans - The Friars Preachers have also made notable contributions to the
World of art. Although they suffered a considerable decrease in numbers and property due to the Reformation and the French Revolution, their spread in the New
World counterbalanced these losses
Man - Therefore, if Adam had come into the
World as a child he could not have lived in it. Not by the natural law of evolution, but by the Creator's special interposition, man came into the
World, the priest of nature, to interpret her inarticulate language and offer conscious adoration before God
Sobriety - In our pursuit of this
World, as opposed to covetousness. In the use and estimate of the things of this
World, as opposed to excess
Noah - In consequence of the hopeless wickedness of the
World at this time, God resolved to destroy it. On coming from the ark he built an altar, made an offering, and received a promise that the
World should never again be destroyed by a flood
Judgment the Day of - In the
World, however, the ungodly are often seen to prosper, and the righteous to be oppressed. Men might be judged either individually, each on his departure from the
World, or collectively
Hilarianus (1) Quintus Julius, Latin Chiliast Writer - ...
The second treatise, Chronologia sive Libellus de Mundi Duratione, is founded on a dispute about the date of the end of the
World. The author counts 5,530 years from the Creation to the Passion; gives the
World 6,000; and would therefore end it c
Influences, Divine - What doctrine can be more reasonable? "The operations which the power of God carries on in the natural
World are no less mysterious than those which the Spirit performs in the moral
World
Genesis - " Genesis gives us a history of the origin of the
World, of the human family, of sin, of the promise of redemption, and of the Jewish people. Its value cannot be overestimated as a fragment of literature or as a work of history, and it has been well observed that in the first page of Genesis a child may learn more in an hour than all the philosophers in the
World learned without it in a thousand years
Lamb - He, the submissive and spotless One, was "like a lamb dumb before his shearer," and was proclaimed by John as "the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the
World;" and again as 'the Lamb of God' as an object for the soul's contemplation. He will always bear the character of the chosen One of God "that taketh away the sin of the
World" on the ground of the sacrifice of Himself
Object - When we say, "God created the
World,"
World denotes the thing produced, and is the object after the verb created
Sacred Heart, Devotion to the - On the feast of the Sacred Heart celebrated on the Friday after the Octave of Corpus Christi an act of reparation is prescribed for recitation in every church in the
World. In spite of much opposition the feast was allowed in 1765, and extended to the
World in 1856; in 1929 it was raised to the highest rank
Daniel, the Book of - He does not, as they writing amidst the covenant people do, make God's people the foreground; but writing in a pagan court he makes the
World kingdoms the foreground, behind which he places the kingdom of God, destined ultimately to be all in all. The judgment of the
World given to the saints, and the destruction of the blasphemous king at the Lord's coming, (
Daniel 7:8;
Daniel 7:25;
Daniel 11:36) foretold by Daniel, are further unfolded by Paul (
1 Corinthians 6:2;
2 Thessalonians 2:3-12). The miracles, like those of Moses in Egypt, were designed to show to the seemingly victorious
World power the really superior might of the seemingly prostrate kingdom of God, and so to encourage the captive Jews to patient trustfulness in God. The language of Daniel from
Daniel 2:4 to the end of Daniel 7 is Chaldee, the
World empire's language, the subject here being about the
World at large. ...
(1) That the four
World monarchies should rise (Daniel 2; Daniel 7), Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, and that Rome in a tenfold divided form should be the last, and should be overthrown by Messiah's kingdom alone; Charlemagne, Charles V, and Napoleon have vainly tried to raise a fifth. ...
But when God's people rested on the
World powers the instrument of their sin was made the instrument of their punishment. Daniel's position in the Babylonian court answers to the altered relations of the theocracy and the
World power; see above. He represents the covenant nation in exile, and in subjection to the
World power externally. His high dignities in the
World typify the ultimate giving of the earth kingdom "to the people of the saints of the Most High" (
Daniel 7:27). Daniel 2-7 represent the
World powers developed historically; Daniel 8-12 their development in relation to Israel. The period of Daniel's prophecies is that from the downfall of the theocracy to its final restoration; it is the period of the
World's outward supremacy, "the times of the Gentiles" (
Luke 21:24;
Daniel 9:27;
Daniel 12:7), not set aside by Christ's first coming (
John 18:36;
Matthew 4:8-10); for Satan yet is "prince of this
World," and Israel has been depressed and Judah's kingdom prostrate ever since the Babylonian captivity. But His second advent shall usher in the restored Israelite theocracy and His
Worldwide manifested kingdom. In Daniel 2 the
World kingdoms are seen by the pagan king in their outward unity and glory, yet without life, a metal colossus; in Daniel 7 they appear to the prophet of God in their real character as instinct with life, but mere beast life, terrible animal power, but no true manhood; for true manhood can only be realized by conscious union with God, in whose image man was made. ...
The universal expectation of a Savior existed even in the Gentile
World at the very time He came; doubtless due to Daniel's prophecy carried far and wide by the Jews (Tacitus, Hist
Gnosticism - Over against the gnostic assertion that the true God would not enter our
World, John stressed in his Gospel that Jesus was God's incarnate Son. The gnostic Marcion thus rejected the Old Testament, pointing out that the lesser or subordinate god revealed in it dealt with matter, insisted on law rather than grace, and was responsible for our decaying, tragedy-filled
World. The spiritual Christians were the true Christians who belonged to the heavenly
World which was the true one. This belief that the spiritual Christians did not really belong to this
World resulted in some Gnostics seeking to withdraw from the
World in asceticism. Salvation was thus seen by the gnostics in a cosmic rather than a moral context—to be saved was to be enabled to return to the one true deity beyond this
World. ” In this view, gnosticism resulted from the attempt of early Christian thinkers to make Christianity understandable, acceptable, and respectable in a
World almost totally permeated by Greek assumptions about the reality of the
World. The expansion of Christianity from Palestine and its Jewish
World of thought to the Roman Empire where Greek thought reigned called for an interpretation of Christianity that was more understandable. In particular, the ultimate goal of the Gnostics—to return to the absolute deity beyond matter and to be in some sense absorbed into the deity—belongs to near eastern pre-Christian mystical thought and not primarily to the Hellenistic
World. ...
Although the radical conclusions of some scholars regarding a highly developed pre-Christian gnosticism have been discounted, it does seem clear that there were many ideas, assumptions, and perceptions about deity, reality, and the relationships of persons to gods and the
World that were incorporated into the gnostic sects from outside Hellenistic sources. The early Christian preachers and writers, seeking to speak and write to be understood, used terms current in the first century
World in the vague context of gnostic religious longings and gave them new meaning in the context of the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus
Dualism - ...
(2) The existence in the
World of two kinds of being or substance, matter and mind, produced by one and the same cause
Bermudas - Org
diocese of Hamilton
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Liberia - Archdioceses, past and present, include ...
Monrovia
Dioceses, past and present, include: ...
Cape Palmas
Gbarnga
See also: ...
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Kibroth-Hattaavah - It is to find death in the pot, when we seek that from the creature which the Creator only can supply, Oh, how many Kebroth-hattaavahs doth the present
World afford, as well as the wilderness to Israel!...
Reproach - Besides, it has a tendency to humble us, detach us from the
World, and excite in us a desire for that state of blessedness where all reproach shall be done away
Easter - This controversy was determined in the council of Nice, when it was ordained that Easter should be kept upon one and the same day, which should always be Sunday, in all Christian churches in the
World
Smyrna - God encouraged them with the promise that, no matter how much they might suffer in the present
World, he would preserve the faithful for his heavenly kingdom (
Revelation 2:10-11)
Martyr d'Anghiera, Peter - His writings include the first account of Spanish discoveries in the New
World, the voyages of Columbus, Balboa, etc
Money - Christians have a responsibility to give their money generously, both as an offering to God and as a service to his work in the
World (
2 Corinthians 9:6-13; see GIVING)
Disallow - God disallows that Christians should conform to the immoral practices of the
World
Japheth - ’ The peoples connected with Japheth (
Genesis 10:1-4 ) occupy the northern portion of the known
World, and include the Madai (Medes) on the E
Ministry - He directs the affairs of this
World by the ordinary ministry of second causes
Rise (up) - ...
Revelation 13:1 (a) Most commentators believe that this is a development of the antichrist who emerges from among the common people (the sea), who assumes great power and presents himself as the CHRIST who is to rule the
World
Professor - A term commonly used in the religious
World, to denote any person who makes an open acknowledgment of the religion of Christ, or who outwardly manifests his attachment to Christianity
Promises of God - Watts says, "he could dare put into the hands of every Christian, among all their divided sects and parties in the
World
Watchfulness - We are to watch against the insinuations of Satan; the allurements of the
World; the deceitfulness of our hearts; the doctrines of the erroneous; and, indeed, against every thing that would prove inimical to our best interests
Fishers -
Jeremiah 16:16 (a) These are messengers of GOD sent throughout the
World to find His people, the Jews, and bring them to Him for judgment
Belie - Slander doth belie all corners of the
World
Antigua - See also, ...
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Guilty - Wicked corrupt sinful as a guilty
World
Sick - ...
Song of Solomon 2:5 (b) The wise man is telling us by this expression that his whole soul and being is given up to love and loving, so that nothing else in the
World matters
Hail - It will also form a notable part of the judgements of God in His future dealings with this guilty
World
Ethiopia - ...
Archdioceses, past and present, include ...
Addis Abeba
Dioceses, past and present, include: ...
Adigrat
Other ecclesiastical divisions include: ...
Asmara (Vicariate Apostolic)
Awasa (Vicariate Apostolic)
Dessié (Prefecture Apostolic)
Emdeber (Apostolic Exarchate)
Endeber (Prefecture Apostolic)
Gambella (Prefecture Apostolic)
Gondar (Prefecture Apostolic)
Harar (Vicariate Apostolic)
Jimma-Bonga (Prefecture Apostolic)
Meki (Vicariate Apostolic)
Nekemte (Vicariate Apostolic)
Soddo-Hosanna (Vicariate Apostolic)
See also: ...
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patron saints index: Ethiopia
Lobe - ) A round model of the
World; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; - called also artificial globe
Rhodes - This statue was seventy cubits high, and bestrode the mouth of the harbour, so that ships could sail between its legs, and it was accounted one of the seven wonders of the
World
Zephaniah - He denounces the judgments of God against the idolatry and sins of his countrymen, and exhorts them to repentance; he predicts the punishment of the Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites, and Ethiopians, and foretels the destruction of Nineveh; he again inveighs against the corruptions of Jerusalem, and with his threats mixes promises of future favour and prosperity to his people; whose recall from their dispersion shall glorify the name of God throughout the
World
Lobe - ) A round model of the
World; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; - called also artificial globe
Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the Unite - While accepting the Westminster Confession of Faith, in general, they emphasize the following points: ...
(1) There are no eternal reprobates;
(2) Christ died not for a part only, but for all mankind;
(3) all persons dying in infancy are saved through Christ and the sanctification of the Spirit;
(4) the Spirit of God operates in the
World coextensively with Christ's atonement, in such a manner as to leave all men inexcusable
Lights on the Altar - ) In addition to what isset forth in the article to which the reader is referred, wereproduce from Wheatley on the Prayer Book the following: "Amongother ornaments of the Church were two lights enjoined by theInjunctions of King Edward VI to be set upon the Altar as asignificant ceremony to represent the Light which Christ's Gospelbrought into the
World
Advent - The word isused of the first coming of Christ at His Birth, and of His SecondComing to judge the
World
Hospitality - ...
Hospitality in the ancient
World focused on the alien or stranger in need. In the ancient
World the practice of hospitality meant graciously receiving an alienated person into one's land, home, or community and providing directly for that person's needs. ...
Some forms of hospitality toward nonforeign strangers appear to have been commonly practiced among the nations of the biblical
World. In the ancient
World, to share food with someone was to share life. Symbolically Jesus came as an alien figure to "tabernacle" in a
World that did not recognize or receive him (
John 1:10-14 ). Jesus, the guest, also becomes the host who receives an alienated
World. Those who confess Jesus as Christ become aliens and strangers in the
World (
John 15:18-19 ;
1 Peter 1:1 ; 2:11 ). In a general sense, Christians now serve as co-hosts with Christ to a
World consisting of those who are "excluded from the citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise" (
Ephesians 2:12 ). Certainly, held up before the Christian is the model of Jesus, who serves as host to an alienated
World, who commended hospitality in his teaching, and who himself is encountered as one receives the alienated person (
Matthew 10:40 ; 25:31-46 ). Herron, Word and
World 6 (1986): 76-84; R. Malina, Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament and Its Social
World, pp
Apostle - The term is applied to Jesus Christ, who was God's envoy to save the
World,
Hebrews 3:1 ; though, more commonly, the title is given to persons who were envoys commissioned by the Savior himself. After his resurrection, he sent them into all the
World, commissioned to preach, to baptize, to work miracles, etc
Montmartre - Built in Romanesque style surmounted by a Byzantine dome, it has cost something over $8,000,000, and is one of the most imposing of modern religious edifices in the
World. Motivated by a like desire to make expiation, a new confraternity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was established in Montmartre, 1876, and in 1894 was privileged to incorporate into itself other confraternities, of like name and object, throughout the
World
Maelmhaedhoc o'Morgair - They purport to be brief descriptions of all the future popes from the time of the vision to the end of the
World. This does not mean to indicate that the end of the
World will occur in the reign of the last pope; the last prophecy is couched in special terms, viz
Malachy, Saint - They purport to be brief descriptions of all the future popes from the time of the vision to the end of the
World. This does not mean to indicate that the end of the
World will occur in the reign of the last pope; the last prophecy is couched in special terms, viz
Mystical Numbers - Four is the symbol of the material
World, of man, of God's kingdom on earth. This signifies that they will judge all men, for there are four quarters of the
World, East, West, North, and South
Title - Aramaic (which was spoken ordinarily by the people of Jerusalem and the pilgrims from Palestine), Latin (the official language), and Greek (the lingua franca of the
World). The Evangelist sees, in this announcement in the three languages of the Roman Empire, a symbol of the proclamation to the
World of the Messiahship of Jesus, notwithstanding the efforts of the Jews to cover Him with ignominy
Branch - Fruit bearing, so as to "fill the face of the
World with fruit" (
Isaiah 27:6). Believers being such "as He is in this
World" (
1 John 4:17) are also "branches" in Him the living vine, yielding fruit instinctively, spontaneously, naturally, their love corresponding to His (John 15), "the branch of My planting" (
Isaiah 60:21)
Prince - "); "r" in
Acts 3:17 ; 4:5,8 ; 13:27 ; 14:5 ; (e) of rulers of synagogues,
Matthew 9:18,23 , "r;" so
Luke 8:41 ; 18:18 ; (f) of the Devil, as "prince" of this
World,
John 12:31 ; 14:30 ; 16:11 ; of the power of the air,
Ephesians 2:2 , "the air" being that sphere in which the inhabitants of the
World live and which, through the rebellious and godless condition of humanity, constitutes the seat of his authority; (g) of Beelzebub, the "prince" of the demons,
Matthew 9:24 ; 12:24 ;
Mark 3:22 ;
Luke 11:15
Salt - Apart from its obvious use in cooking, salt was widely used in the ancient
World to keep perishable foods from decay (
Leviticus 2:13;
Job 6:6). If they are living as they should, Christians will be a good influence in a
World corrupted by sin (
Matthew 5:13;
Mark 9:50)
Transfiguration - In coming into the
World, Jesus had laid that glory aside, but now it reappeared briefly, displayed through a human body. ...
The Father’s final words, ‘Hear him’, indicated that this one, besides being the kingly Messiah and the suffering servant, was the great prophet who announced God’s message to the
World (
Matthew 17:5; cf
Backsliding - ...
The causes of backsliding are the cares of the
World; improper connections; inattention to secret or closet duties; self-conceit, and dependence; indulgence; listening to and parleying with temptations. A backsliding state is manifested by indifference to prayer and self-examination; trifling or unprofitable conversation; neglect of public ordinances; shunning the people of God; associating with the
World; thinking lightly of sin; neglect of the Bible; and often by gross immorality
Bourignonists - The Light of the
World, and The Testimony of Truth. She held many extravagant notions, among which, it is said, she asserted that Adam, before the fall, possessed the principles of both sexes; that in an ecstacy, God represented Adam to her mind in his original state; as also the beauty of the first
World, and how he had drawn from it the chaos; and that every thing was bright, transparent, and darted forth life and ineffable glory with a number of other wild ideas
Numbers, Mystical - Four is the symbol of the material
World, of man, of God's kingdom on earth. This signifies that they will judge all men, for there are four quarters of the
World, East, West, North, and South
Patience of God - There are many instances of his patience recorded in the Scriptures; with the old
World,
Genesis 6:3 ; the inhabitants of Sodom, Gen. in the Gentile
World
Reflectiveness - —This is the habit of bending back the attention of the mind from action and experience to scrutinize and contemplate the nature and meaning of self and the
World. Deep, steady reflectiveness is rare amid the extraordinary preoccupation in business of the modern
World which, like briers, chokes the word
Communion (2) - This communion cannot be interrupted by any local mutations: it is far superior to all outward services and ordinances whatsoever; it concerns the whole soul, all the affections, faculties, and motions of it being under its influence: it is only imperfect in this life, and will be unspeakably enlarged in a better
World. the advantages of communion with God are, deadness to the
World,
Philippians 3:8
Nature - It is used also, for the system of the
World, and the Creator of it; the aggregate powers of the human body, and common sense,
Romans 1:26-27 . Some understand it in a more comprehensive sense, as signifying those stated orders by which all the parts of the material
World are governed in their several motions and operations
Earthquake - It must have been a terrible one, since two and a half centuries later it was still being made an epoch in
Zechariah 14:5; his sin in the spiritual
World was connected with the convulsion in the natural
World
Valentinians - The sister of Nous they called Aletheia or Truth; and these constituted the first quaternity of AEons, which were the source and original of all the rest; for Nous and Aletheia produced the
World and life, and from these two proceeded man and the church. Her Enthymese or Thought, dwelling near the Pleroma, perfected by the Christ, produced every thing that is in this
World by its divers passions
Certain - It is not unlike, for importance, the phrase of a man of God, to distinguish from a man of the
World; or the natural man, to distinguish from the spiritual and the inward man of the heart, to denote somewhat from that which is merely outward. All men, from our first father, have left Bethlehem-judah, the land of bread, for so the name means; and Jerusalem, the holy city; and by going down to the Moabs and the Jerichos of the
World, have fallen among thieves, and been left more than half dead by the great enemy of souls
Dispensations - These have varied in several ages of the
World, and have been adapted by the wisdom and goodness of God to the circumstances of his intelligent and accountable creatures. All these were adapted to the conditions of the human race at these several periods; all, in regular succession, were mutually connected and rendered preparatory one to the other; and all were subservient to the design of saving the
World, and promoting the perfection and happiness of its rational and moral inhabitants
Reconciliation - God was in Christ, when Christ was on earth, reconciling the
World unto Himself, not imputing unto them their trespasses; but now that the love of God has been fully revealed in the cross, the testimony has gone out
World wide, beseeching men to be reconciled to God
Owner - It was not so common among them as among the Greeks and Romans, and the condition of the slave in the Jewish social economy was much happier than in the Gentile
World. The terrible punishment mentioned in
Luke 12:46 (‘the lord of that servant … will cut him in sunder
, and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers’) is probably taken from the punishments which were practised in the Gentile
World
Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus - When Victor of Rome sought to unify the practice of the whole Christian
World in the matter of Easter celebration, he first asked for meetings of bishops in different places to report on the practice of their localities. Polycrates himself had followed the traditions of his kindred, seven of whom had been bishops before him, and had been confirmed in his view by his own study of the whole Scripture and by conference with brethren from all the
World
Sunday-Schools - Suchschools gradually spread and increased, until to-day it issaid that the Sunday-schools of the
World number three millionsof teachers and over thirty millions of scholars. Theseperplexing problems no doubt arise from two main causes, (1)a practical, though oftentimes unconscious, ignoring of the Church'sown order and method and (2) from the mixed conditions of thereligious
World of to-day "by reason of our unhappy divisions
Anglican Communion, the - Under this term are included the Churchof England, the Church of Ireland, the Church of Scotland, theChurches in British North America, the West Indies, Australia, SouthAfrica and in all the English colonies throughout the
Worldwherever established. " The Anglican Communion is one of the most powerfulforces in our modern religious
World. The following Table taken from theNew York
World Almanac for 1901 gives some idea of...
THE RELIGION OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE
Thousand Years - ) On the same just principle they who have suffered for Christ, and not worshipped the Godopposed
World power, shall come to life again and reign with Christ (
2 Timothy 2:12), at His coming, a thousand years. "...
Ten, the "world number", raised to the third power, the "divine number", expresses the
World pervaded by God. did not treat the
World's riches, ambitions, and pleasures as their portion. ...
As long as he rules in the darkness of the
World we live in an atmosphere tainted with evil physical and spiritual (
Ephesians 2:2). Christ's coming will purify the
World (
Malachi 3:3). Satan will no longer seduce the flesh, nor be the "god" and "prince of this
World" (
John 14:30;
2 Corinthians 4:4), which now "lieth in the wicked one" (
1 John 5:19). ...
This will be the manifestation of "the
World ("age", aion ) to come" already set up invisibly in the saints in "this
World" (
Hebrews 2:5;
Hebrews 5:5). As each seventh year was Israel's year of remission, so of the
World's seven thousands the seventh shall be its sabbatism (
Hebrews 4:9, margin). ...
"When Christianity became a
Worldly power under Constantine, the future hope was weakened by joy over present success" (Bengel); the church becoming a harlot ceased to be the bride going to meet her Bridegroom. Church and state will be coextensive; and the church and the
World no longer in mutual repulsion. The distinction between them shall cease, for the church will be co-extensive with the
World. The veil shall be taken off Israel first, then off all people, and the kingdoms of this
World shall be the kingdoms of Christ (
Revelation 11:15;
Isaiah 25:7). the translated church, Israel, the
World of nations. In the judgment on this, the
World of nature is destroyed and renewed, as the
World of history was before the millennium. the wife of the Lamb; for the elect church shall hold the primacy among the redeemed throughout eternity, because she alone shall have witnessed for Christ in the face of an opposing
World and the prince of darkness (
Revelation 21:24)
Michael -
Daniel 10:21, "none holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince," means that Michael alone, with the angelic speaker, had the office of protecting Israel, the
World powers were all against Israel. When the
World powers seemed to have overwhelmed the kingdom of God so utterly, Israel needed to have her faith in God's promises of restoration reinvigorated by a glimpse into the background of history in the
World of spirits, and to see there the mighty angelic champions who are on her side under the Son of God (
2 Kings 6:17)
Sun - " (
Malachi 4:2) And indeed when we consider that the Sun, as the creature of God, becomes the source and fountain of light and life to the whole
World, of animal and vegetable life; there is certainly a great beauty in the allusion to him, the Sun of righteousness, from whom the whole of the spiritual as well as the natural
World, derive their very being, their upholding, and prosperity. But the emblem of the Sun of this lower
World, considered as referring to Christ the Sun of righteousness, falls far short in a thousand instances where Jesus becomes most precious to his people
Sidon - or ZIDON, a celebrated city and port of Phenicia, and one of the most ancient cities in the
World; as it is supposed to have been founded by Sidon, the eldest son of Canaan, which will carry it up to above two thousand years before Christ. Add to this, they were, if not the first shipwrights and navigators, the first who ventured beyond their own coasts, and in those early ages engrossed the greatest part of the then commerce of the
World. In all these respects, however, Sidon was totally eclipsed by her neighbour and rival, Tyre; whose more enterprising inhabitants pushed their commercial dealings to the extremities of the known
World, raised their city to a rank in power and opulence unknown before, and converted it into a luxurious metropolis, and the emporium of the produce of all nations
Natural - Nor does it signify one who is entirely governed by his fleshly appetites, or what the
World calls a voluptuary, or sensualist. The Apostle manifestly takes his "natural man" from among such as the
World hold in the highest repute for their natural parts, their learning, and their religion. These are the persons whom he terms the wise, the scribes, the disputers of this
World—men to whom the Gospel was a stumbling block and foolishness,
1 Corinthians 1:20 ;
1 Corinthians 1:23
Care - ...
In
Matthew 13:22 in Christ's parable of the four seeds, the third person is represented by the seed that was choked out by the "cares of the
World. " The enigmatic meaning of the parable is that preoccupation with the
World depletes one's devotion to God. Because the
World is temporal, inordinate care for the
World causes preoccupation with the result of not caring for eternal things; consequently, the Word does not become deeply implanted
Sin (2) - National sins are punished in this
World, as nations have no life beyond the grave (
Proverbs 14:34). The punishment of the individual's sins are remedial, disciplinary, and deterrent in this
World; and judicially retributive in the
World to come. But Satan has had his triumph in bringing sin and death into the
World; his sharing the sinner's eternal punishment will be the reverse of a triumph; the abiding punishment of the lost will be a standing witness of God's holy hatred of sin, and a preservative against any future rebellion
Death of Christ - —The aim of the present article is to examine the place of the death of Christ in the moral order of the
World. What is the moral order of the
World? The question may be answered as follows:—The will and purpose of God are in the way of coming to realization in the individual and social life and destiny of humanity. This is what is here understood as the moral order of the
World. But it is necessary, in order to prevent confusion of ideas, to mark the important distinction that exists in the nature of things as they now are in man’s moral history, between the moral order of the
World and the moral course of the
World. The moral order of the
World as just defined is only one of the constituent factors of the
World’s moral course. These three factors constitute that actual moral course that the
World is ever following; and the predestined end of their relation to one another will be realized in the complete and eternal victory and triumph of righteousness over sin, through the unerring and all-sufficient administrative judgments of God’s moral government of the
World (
Matthew 13:41-43, 1 Corinthians 15:24-28). It is the moral course of the
World as so understood that explains the nature and methods of the historical revelation, contained in the Bible, of God’s will and purpose in their relation to man’s moral life and destiny. The course of the
World as so understood occupied a determinative place in our Lord’s conceptions of man’s moral life and destiny (See Progress). It was on the place of His death in the moral order of the
World, and as therein related to man’s sin and God’s governmental judgment, that He depended for the victory and triumph of Righteousness over Sin in the dispensation of the Spirit (
John 17:7-11). This means that although He appeared and lived and died in the moral course of the
World, He was not of the
World, had absolutely no fellowship with it in so far as it was under the domination of sin. But sin He hated with perfect hatred; and He lived and died to save men and the moral course of the
World from it. His life of perfect union with His Father’s will and purpose in all things implied not only that He lived entirely on the side and in the interests of the moral order of the
World, but also that the latter found in Him, for the first time on earth, the One Individual moral Being in whom it had secured its perfect form of manifest realization, in so far as this was possible in one life in human form. It was this fact, on the one hand, and the hatred of the men over whom the
World’s sin had gained complete domination on the other, that determined His way to His destiny on Calvary. Saying after saying of His, bearing on this point, seems almost to convey the impression that He must have regarded this sinful and guilty opposition, without which He would not have been put to death, as not required by the interests and objects of the moral task which He had come into the
World to accomplish (
Matthew 23:33-39, Luke 13:31-35;
Luke 23:23-27, John 7:19;
John 8:21-59;
John 15:17-27;
John 19:10-11). (2) Then, again, His own words show that the inward ‘moral’ struggles and agonies of His life arose out of the prospect and contemplation of the development of the manifestations of the
World’s sin and unbelief against Him and against His claim to be entirely identified with His Father’s will and purpose in all His words and deeds. This achievement from beginning to end was made by Him in His position as internally related to the moral order of the
World, and through it to the
World in its character, aspirations, and activities as under the domination of sin. ...
In the first place, the fact has its validity in the established nature of the moral order of the
World and in Christ’s own place in this order. This is an order of things which has its foundations in the moral nature of God; in the moral nature of man as made in the image of God as a Moral Being; in the fact and in the nature of the moral relations between God and men and between man and man; and also in the fact that Christ as the Son of God came into the
World to qualify Himself for occupying His momentous position of mediation within the sphere of the moral relations of God to men and of men to God. What, then, does His attitude of unreserved and bold antagonism to the legal system of Judaism imply in the point of view here considered? (1) It implies that in His position in the moral order of the
World He stood on the eternal fact and truth that the direct relations between God as a Moral Being and men as moral beings are inward and therefore essentially moral. He came into the
World, as He Himself always represented, on one entirely homogeneous moral undertaking; and when this undertaking was fulfilled, He spoke of it in terms which show that He regarded the finished task as one homogeneous moral result (
John 17:4;
John 19:28). He lived and died determined by the same moral principle, in the same spirit of love and self-sacrifice and service, and in the same spirit of perfectly wise and loyal regard to all the demands of God’s will and purpose on Him, and to all the demands on Him of the
World’s moral needs. All the moral powers of holy love, self-sacrifice, and service that were individualized in Him as the incarnate Son of God and man’s Redeemer,—these powers, which were His life, He laid down, consecrated, employed, every moment and in every situation of His life of free activity, in order perfectly to fullil His life’s vocation as determined for Him by His Father’s will and purpose, and by the moral necessities of the
World which He had come to save. ...
(2) But if His life prepared Him for dying, His death on the cross raised the moral splendour and value of His whole life to its highest powers of revelation and effect in the human soul and in the moral history of the
World. The complex event for which the cross stands is the most momentous and the most creative moral event in the history of the
World’s moral course. It now remains to note, from the standpoint of the moral order of the
World, some features of our Lord’s place and work therein, as the Mediator between God and men. —(5) The moral means in question consist in the revelation of the holy gracious love or righteousness of God as realized by Christ, and manifested in His life and death of perfect self-sacrifice for the
World’s salvation. —(7) This internal, immediate union of the individual with Christ, and therefore with God, is the true way of salvation and life for man (
John 14:6) This secures not only forgiveness, but every moral or spiritual blessing that the individual needs for this
World and the next, every blessing that God has to give or that it is possible for Him to bestow in Christ and through the work of His Spirit in the heart
Daniel, Theology of - ...
The narratives of chapters 1-6 have in common a single theme: Daniel and his three friends successfully bear witness to their faith before a hostile
World. The historical section in general forms a theology of history in which God delivers those who faithfully represent him in the
World and humiliates the proud who fail to acknowledge him. Other Old Testament prophets knew that Yahweh, the god of Israel, was sovereign over the whole
World, including the other nations. Through both the narratives and visions, Daniel demonstrates the lordship of God over the whole
World, not just Jerusalem and the Israelites. ...
The sovereignty of God is played out in the rest of the book in the conflict between the proud and arrogant rules of the
World and the kingdom of God. Rather than present sermons against Israel's immediate neighbors, Daniel sees visions of future empires that oppose God
Worldwide and oppress his people everywhere. Both the historical narratives and the visions portray a struggle between these successive rulers of the
World and God's kingdom. God's sovereignty over the proud and arrogant rules of the
World climaxes in Michael's final victory provided for all who are written in "the book" (12:1). In the visions of chapters 7-12, the arrogance of future
World leaders is the enemy of God and his people. ...
The pride of the
World empires is central to the ideas of chapters 7-12. The scheme of empires in chapters 7,8 is a succession of
World leaders, which depicts the limits of imperial pride, reaching the climax at the little horn with the big mouth (7:8). ...
Prevalent in this book is the idea of four great
World kingdoms followed by a fifth (chaps. During the postponement, God's faithful people will endure severe testing and persecution at the hands of proud, irreligious leaders of the
World. ...
In other words, the details of eschatology are not as crucial as eschatological ethics: behaving Christ-like now in this
World, and living in the expectation and anticipation of Christ's return
God - ...
God as Present with Us God is present in His
World in a unique manner. As spirit, God has the perfect capability of being present everywhere in the
World at once. He enters into personal relationships with the people who inhabit His
World. Theologians used the term omnipresence , derived from Latin, to speak of God's presence everywhere in all the
World's space. God is living, working in His
World, and relating to His people. ...
God's power is His ability to accomplish His purposes and carry out His will in the
World. He works for the right, seeking to extend righteousness and justice throughout the
World. ...
God at Work in His
World God is not an inert being far removed from the
World. God is the personal God who cares about and works in the
World He created. The sovereign God exercises His lordship or ownership of the
World by continuing to work in His
World and through His people. The sovereign, absolute Lord will accomplish His will in His
World. It is an explicit formulation of the doctrine of God in harmony with the early Christian message that “God was in Christ, reconciling the
World unto himself” (
2 Corinthians 5:19 )
Animals - In Genesis 1 , God's approval of the created
World is regularly expressed by the phrase "and God saw that it was good. Jesus reaffirms the value of the animal
World in
Luke 12:6 : "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. "...
As Creator, God is Lord over the
World, including animals, for, "The earth is the Lord's and everything in it" (
1Col 10:26; cf. Christ's work of creating, sustaining, and reconciling all things also includes the animal
World (
Colossians 1:16-17 ). Human salvation is inseparable from the liberation of the created
World, including animals. The concept of dominion in
Genesis 1:28 involves wise stewardship and rsponsible care for the animal
World. Further, humanity is responsible to God with respect to this stewardship, for the created
World remains God's
World. However, a very strong link exists between the animal
World and humanity since in
Genesis 1:24-31 both are created on the same day, and in
Genesis 2:7,19 both the man and the animals are formed from the ground. ...
Illustrations from the Animal
World Since the people of the Bible interacted regularly with animals they often used images from the animal
World as illustrations. The image is used in another way in
John 1:29 : "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the
World!" In Revelation Jesus is regularly spoken of as the Lamb. ...
Similarly, Jesus used illustrations from the animal
World in his parables and teaching
Missions - The OT, especially in the portions which express the ideals and spirit of prophecy, is full of principles and promises which find their fulfilment in the
World-wide mission of Christianity (Horton, The Bible as a Missionary Book). It is one of the paradoxes of history, that the missionary propaganda which aimed at the conversion and blessing of the
World, sprang from a people whose predominant characteristics were pride in racial privileges, expectation of national greatness, and contempt for all who were not of the seed of Abraham. ‘As thou hast sent (ἀτέστειλας) me into the
World, even so have I also sent (ἀτέστειλα) them into the
World’ (
John 17:18). It is an entire misreading of the Gospel history to imagine that the glorious conception of a
World-wide mission was an afterthought, which only occurred to the disciples, or was suggested to them, after the resurrection of our Lord. Indications of a
World mission in the teaching of Jesus. —Apart from the essentially universal character of the gospel, which inevitably involved a universal mission, there are indications that the
World-wide view was brought before the minds of the disciples prior to the time when the great commission was given. The disciples were to be ‘the salt of the earth’ and ‘the light of the
World’ (
Matthew 5:13-14). So also, when defending the woman who had anointed Him with the box of ointment, He said, ‘Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole
World, this … shall be told for a memorial of her’ (
Matthew 26:13). In the interpretation of the parable of the Tares (one of the earlier parables) it is said that ‘the field is the
World’ (
Matthew 13:38). Direct intimations of a
World mission are not awanting, as in the apocalyptic discourses in the Synoptics, which are prefaced with a declaration of the destruction of the Temple (‘There shall not be left one stone upon another which shall not be thrown down,’
Matthew 24:2, Mark 13:2, Luke 21:6), and contain the announcement that ‘this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
World, for a witness to all the nations’ (
Matthew 24:14 ||
Mark 13:10). In the Fourth Gospel the evidence of a
World view as part of the instruction given to the disciples is very plain. In connexion with the visit of the Greeks, He uttered the pregnant and impressive prophecy, ‘I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me’ (
John 12:32); and a little further on in the same chapter we find the words, ‘I came not to judge the
World, but to save the
World’ (
John 12:47). In the private converse of our Lord and His disciples, in the last days of the earthly ministry, the vision of the
World is repeatedly brought before the minds of the disciples as the object of the Saviour’s thought and the scope of the disciples’ mission, as—’That the
World may know that I love the Father … even so I do’ (
John 14:31); ‘As thou hast sent me into the
World, even so have I also sent them into the
World’ (
John 17:18; also
John 12:46-48, John 16:8-11, John 17:2;
John 17:21). Judas (not Iscariot) is even represented as asking, ‘How is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us and not unto the
World?’ (
John 14:22), as if the limitation of His work was a source of perplexity to him. Unless we are to regard the Gospels as entirely unhistorical, and all such universal references as due to the mind of the Church (which would then be greater than its Lord) at a later time, it must be admitted that the disciples were aware of the
World-wide character of the work they were to undertake. The frequency of the
World references in the earthly ministry May to some extent account for the fact that the missionary commission is mentioned only once in each of the Gospels (
Matthew 28:16-20 ||
Mark 16:15 ||
John 20:21 ||
Luke 24:46-48), and in
Acts 1:8. Go ye into all the
World, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you all the days, unto the consummation of the age’ (πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος, 1618383428_7). If any reliance is to be placed on Acts as an historical document, it is abundantly evident that the first disciples did know of the
World mission, and that they were moving ill the line of their instructions
Guardian - The guardian appears to be an image for the “elemental things of the
World,” that is, of celestial or demonic powers regarded as gods by pagan Gentiles
Benedict of Nursia, Saint - A brother of Saint Scholastica, when only 17 he renounced the
World, and the wealth and position of his family and took refuge in a cave at Subiaco, in the Sabine mountains, where he lived as a hermit for several years and established twelve monasteries for his followers, over which he ruled as abbot
Fabiola, Saint - She renounced the
World and devoted her immense wealth to the needs of the poor and sick
Jean Besse - During the
World War he directed the weekly publication of the newspaper, "L'Univers
Doxology - Doxology the Less, was anciently only a single sentence without a response, running in these words: "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,
World without end, amen
Winds - The rush of invaders is figuratively spoken of as a whirlwind (
Isaiah 21:1 ); a commotion among the nations of the
World as a striving of the four winds (
Daniel 7:2 )
Nursia, Benedict of, Saint - A brother of Saint Scholastica, when only 17 he renounced the
World, and the wealth and position of his family and took refuge in a cave at Subiaco, in the Sabine mountains, where he lived as a hermit for several years and established twelve monasteries for his followers, over which he ruled as abbot
Dissolution - The dissolution of the
World is an awful event, which we have reason to believe, both from the Old Testament and the New, will certainly take place
Soul: Needing Something to Cling to - And just as in a neglected garden you may see the poor creepers making shift to sustain themselves as best they can; one convolvulus twisting round another, and both draggling on the ground; a clematis leaning on the door, which will by-and-by open and let the whole mass fall down; a vine or a passion-flower wreathing round a prop which all the while chafes and cuts it; so in this fallen
World it is mournful to see the efforts which human souls are making to get some sufficient object to lean upon and twine around
Accursed - ...
Sometimes it is that which the
World would call a "blessing," for the Lord said, "I will curse your blessings,"
Malachi 2:2
Countenance - The form of the face of the Jew identifies him at once in every part of the
World
Perilous Times - This plainly shows (and the solemn fact is confirmed by other passages) that so far from the
World being converted before the Lord returns, even the professing church itself has been hopelessly corrupted, and the path of the Christian becomes more and more difficult as he seeks to avoid the multiplied dangers and seductions by which he is surrounded
Millennium - Postmillennialism teaches that through the preaching of the Word of God, the
World will be converted and will then usher in Christ and the kingdom of God
Righteousness - No one in the
World is righteous in the eyes of the Lord, that is, except the Christian
Jonathan - Saul's son, David's dear friend, (
1 Samuel 18:1) His death, with that of Saul, gave birth to one of the most poetical as well as devout elegies the
World ever knew
Conversion - "He shall reprove, saith Jesus, the
World of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment
Gaza - (Hebrew: the strong) ...
City in Syria, the modern Ghuzzeh, 50 miles southwest of Jerusalem, one of the oldest cities in the
World, mentioned in Genesis 10, and first occupied by the Hevites
Aven - It appears, however, highly probable, by the behaviour of Pharaoh to Joseph and Jacob, and especially by Joseph's care to preserve the land to the priests,
Genesis 47:22-26 , that the true religion prevailed in Egypt in his time; and it is incredible that Joseph should have married the daughter of the priest of On, had that name among the Egyptians denoted only the material light; which, however, no doubt they, like all the rest of the
World, idolized in after times, and to which we find a temple dedicated among the Canaanites, under this name,
Joshua 7:2
East - one of the four cardinal points of the
World; namely, that particular point of the horizon in which the sun is seen to rise
Light - Hence the beauty and force of the expressions, "God is light,"
1 John 1:5 , and "the Father of lights,"
James 1:17 ; Christ is the "Sun of righteousness," and "the light of the
World,"
John 1:9 8:12
Paulicianism - Originally they held the following: ...
the God of the material universe and the God of the spirItual
World are distinct ...
all matter is evil ...
the Old Testament is to be rejected ...
Christ was not incarnate but was an angel whose mother was the heavenly Jerusalem ...
Baptism and the Eucharist consist in hearing the Word of God ...
there are no other sacraments ...
They were also Iconoclasts
Christian - They were known to each other as, and were among themselves called, brethren, (
Acts 15:1,23 ;
1 Corinthians 7:12 ) disciples , (
Acts 9:26 ; 11:29 ) believers , (
Acts 5:14 ) saints , (
Romans 8:27 ; 15:25 ) The name "Christian," which, in the only other cases where it appears in the New Testament, (
Acts 26:28 ;
1 Peter 4:16 ) is used contemptuously, could not have been applied by the early disciples to themselves, but was imposed upon them by the Gentile
World
Existence of God - The innumerable alterations and manifest dependence every where observable in the
World, prove that the things which exist in it neither are nor could be from eternity. It is self-evident that they never could form themselves out of nothing, or in any of their respective forms; and that chance, being nothing but the want of design, never did nor could form or put into order any thing; far less such a marvellous and well connected system as our
World is. Moreover, when we consider the diversified and wonderful forms of creatures in the
World, and how exactly those forms and stations correspond with their respective ends and uses; when we consider the marvellous and exact machinery, form, and motions of our own bodies; and especially when we consider the powers of our soul, its desires after an infinite good, and its close union with and incomprehensible operations on our bodies, we are obliged to admit a Creator of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness. "It is argued from the support and government of the
World. , are generally greatest; the prolonging of men's lives, when the
World needed to be peopled, and now shortening them when that necessity hath ceased to exist; the almost universal provision of food, raiment, medicine, fuel, &c. , in a manner different from and contrary to the carnal policy of those concerned; and especially the strangely similiar but diversified erection, preservation, and government of the Jewish and Christian churches: who, I say, can consider all these things, and not acknowledge the existence of a wise, merciful, and good God, who governs the
World, and every thing in it?" ...
5. "It is proved from the miraculous events which have happened in the
World; such as the overflowing of the earth by a flood; the confusion of languages; the burning of Sodom and the cities about by fire from heaven; the plagues of Egypt; the dividing of the Red Sea; raining manna from heaven, and bringing streams of water from flinty rocks; the stopping of the course of the sun, &c. It is impossible that these predictions, which were so exactly fulfilled in their respective periods, and of the fulfilment of which there are at present thousands of demonstrative and sensible documents in the
World, could proceed from any but an all-seeing and infinitely wise God. "The existence of God farther appears from the fearful punishments which have been inflicted upon persons, and especially upon nations, when their immoralities became excessive, and that by very unexpected means and instruments; as in the drowning of the old
World; destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; plagues of Pharaoh and his servants; overthrow of Sennacherib and his army; miseries and ruin of the Canaanites, Jews, Syrians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Saracens, Tartars, and others
Jesus Christ - ” Proper name of the Savior of the
World. Jesus is the clearest picture of God the
World has ever seen—that is the affirmation of believing hearts. Rather, they were caught up in the historical reality of what God was doing for them and all the
World through Jesus Christ. None before or since had seen a person bring God's resurrection life to bear on this
World's most pressing problem, death. Until that coming, Christians were to live in the
World by the ethical injunctions He gave (Matthew 5-7 ) and in the kind of love He had shown and commanded (John 14-16 ). His return heralds the end and brings an end to the struggle of good and evil, the battle between the kingdoms of this
World which must become the kingdom of our God and of His Christ (
Revelation 11:15 ). His followers must go and tell; His followers must unite the hope of eschatology and the life of ethics in a fashion that will share the gospel with all the
World (
Matthew 28:19-20 ). All of these will find His people faithful, even as He is to His promise—found faithful even as God was to God's promises in sending this Child of promise to the
World. God determined, before the foundation of the
World, that the redemption of the
World would be accomplished through Jesus, the Lord of Glory (
Ephesians 1:1 ). John pulled out all the stops in his melodic introduction of Jesus Christ: the Word who made the
World (
John 1:1-3 ), the Life (
John 1:4 ), the Light (
John 1:5 ), the Glory of God (
John 1:14 ), One full of grace and truth (
John 1:17 ), the Son who makes the Father known (
John 1:18 ). His way of being in the
World was a way of obedience, faithfulness, and service. In the great deed of the cross they saw the salvation of the
World
Apocalyptic - Type of biblical literature that emphasizes the lifting of the veil between heaven and earth and the revelation of God and his plan for the
World. ...
Apocalyptic and Revelation The fundamental conviction of apocalyptic is that the
World may be understood, but only by revelation that enables understanding. Similarly there are earthly counterparts of heavenly realities, seen for instance in the ghastly pairing of the two women who are also cities in Revelation 17-21 : on the one hand the Great Whore, who enslaves the
World by war and commerce, and on the other the Bride of Christ, who brings healing to the nations. ...
God's Rule over a Chaotic
World The basic message of Daniel 2-5 is that "the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and sets over them anyone he wishes" (
Daniel 5:21 ). ...
As in the Book of Job, no reason is given for the presence of such things in God's
World, but a profound answer is provided nonetheless: All these things issue from the scroll that only the slain Lamb is worthy to open (5:1-10). Such evils are permitted to exist in the
World only because the LambGod himself in Christhas suffered them all firsthand (especially the final one). ...
Ultimately, God's rule over the
World is to be expressed by the overthrow of the powers that produce such evils (
Revelation 6:15-17 ; foreshadowing the climactic overthrow of Babylon the Great in chapters 17-19 ). ...
Similarly between the sixth and seventh trumpets another interlude occurs (
Daniel 7:18:13 ) that concerns the preaching of the gospel before a hostile
World. ...
The message of the book is that, even though we cannot avoid bearing the mark of the beast as inhabitants of this
World-order (13:16), yet, viewed from heaven, we also bear the name of God and of the Lamb on our foreheads, and are secure with him (14:1-5). The powers of this
World will be overthrown and replaced by the kingdom of God. This means both secular
World powers and the power of evil that lie behind them. The vision that energizes apocalyptic is the day when "the kingdom of the
World has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ" (
Revelation 11:15 )
Knowledge - To be known by God may mean that a nation or individual is chosen by God to play a part in God's purposes in the
World (
Jeremiah 1:5 ;
Amos 3:2 ;
Galatians 4:9 ). Jesus' knowledge of the Father consists of His hearing God's word and obediently expressing it to the
World. So the Christian is caught up into God's mission of love to the
World in order that the
World may come to know and believe in Jesus as the revelation of the Father's love for the
World
Adultery - A fallen
World undergoing a gradual course of remedial measures needs anomalies to be pretermitted for a time (
Romans 3:25 margin;
Acts 17:30), until it becomes fit for a higher stage, in its progress toward its finally perfect state. God sanctions nothing but perfection; but optimism is out of place in governing a fallen
World not yet ripe for it. " The once faithful church has ceased to be persecuted by conforming to the godless
World and resting upon it. But the divine principle is, when the church apostatizes from God to intrigue with the
World, the
World, the instrument of her sin, shall at last be the instrument of her punishment
Cross, Crucifixion - The Gospel of Mark indicates that it is at the cross that we recognize Jesus as God's divinely appointed Savior of the
World (10:45; 15:39). ...
The cross of Christ is the center of the work that God did in Christ, "reconciling the
World to himself" (
2 Corinthians 5:19 ). He did not stumble onto it by accident but chose the weak and foolish things of the
World in order deliberately to confound the wise and to shame the strong. Thus, a fourth element, and perhaps the most radical, of God's character is demonstrated in the cross: the love of God for the despised of the
World.
Galatians 3:13-14 ) and thereby serves not only to state the radical nature of Christ's humiliation, but by implication to judge the
World and all its inhabitants as being "the despised" who must identify with a crucified messiah in order to receive God's salvation. So now a third theological category is defined by the cross, that of ministry in the
World. Those who are compelling others to be circumcised are avoiding being persecuted "for the cross of Christ" (6:12), and Paul expressly declares that he will never boast in anything except "the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the
World has been crucified to me, and I to the
World" (v
the Merchant Man Who Sold All That he Had And Bought the Pearl of Great Price - ...
Now, the
World of books, to begin with, is not unlike a merchant man seeking goodly pearls. But as time goes on, and as the real use of a good book, and the real rarity of a good book, become revealed to him, the true reader will be found giving up all his reading time, and all his reading outlay, to the really great and life-long books of the
World, and to them alone. ...
You may not be much of a merchant man in the
World of books, and yet this parable may be found entirely true of you in some other
World of your own. " And all the
World knows how John Wesley sold, so to speak, every other doctrine in order to hold and to preach immediate and soul-saving faith, and with what immediate and soul-saving results. As Law did also in a whole
World of doctrines, and habits, and practices, connected with secret prayer. "What is a man profited," our Lord demands of every man among us, "if he shall gain the whole
World and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" Our Lord was the last to undervalue the
World which He had made, and of which He is the Heir, and yet He says that if any man should have this whole
World in one hand, and his immortal soul in the other hand, he will be a fool of the first water if he holds to the whole
World and lets go his immortal soul. Oh, what a mad market that is in which men's souls, worth more than the whole
World, are sold away every day for nought, and for far less than nought. He who alone knows the exchangeless value of our immortal souls, He came and redeemed our souls at a price which was worth far more than the whole
World, and all our souls to the bargain. " All of you, then, who are seeking for goodly pearls, whether in the
World of books, or of doctrines, or of any other kind of good things; here, under your very eye; here, to your very hand, is the greatest and the best Pearl in all the
World
Creation - The term is therefore most generally applied to the original production of the materials whereof the visible
World is composed. The accounts of the creation of the
World which have existed among different nations, are called Cosmogonies. Most of the writers who come nearest to Moses in point of antiquity have favoured the
World with cosmogonies; and there is a wonderful coincidence in some leading particulars between their accounts and his. The problem of creation has been said to be, "Matter and motion being given, to form a
World;" and the presumption of man has often led him to attempt the solution of this intricate question. But the true problem was, "Neither matter nor motion being given, to form a
World. " At first, the cosmogonists contented themselves with reasoning on the traditional or historical accounts they had received; but it is irksome to be shackled by authority; and after they had acquired a smattering of knowledge, they began to think that they could point out a much better way of forming the
World than that which had been transmitted to them by the consenting voice of antiquity. From his day to ours, the
World has been annoyed with systems; but these are now modified by the theories of chemists and geologists, whose speculations, in so far as they proceed on the principle of induction, have sometimes been attended with useful results; but, when applied to solve the problem of creation, will serve, like the systems of their forerunners, to demonstrate the ignorance and the presumption of man. ...
Here we see all the principal objects of creation mentioned exactly in the same order which Moses had assigned to them in his writings; and when we consider what follows;—the war of the giants; the general corruption of the
World; the universal deluge; the preservation of Deucalion and Pyrrha; their sacrifices to the gods on leaving the vessel in which they had been preserved;—there can scarcely remain a doubt that Ovid borrowed, either directly or at second hand, from Moses. This train of reasoning would lead us to conclude that Ovid, and indeed the whole Heathen
World, derived their notions respecting the creation, and the early history of mankind, from the sacred Scriptures: and it shows how deficient their own resources were, when the pride of philosophy was forced to borrow from those whom it affected to despise. When the sole self-existing Power, himself undiscerned, but making this
World discernible, with five elements and other principles of nature, appeared with undiminished glory, expanding his idea, or dispelling the gloom. They introduce two eternal principles, the one good, called Oromasdes, the other evil, called Arimanius; and they make these two principles contend with each other in the creation and government of the
World. The cosmogony of the northern nations, as may be collected from the Edda, supposes an eternal principle prior to the formation of the
World. Plato supposed the
World to be produced by the Deity, uniting eternal, immutable ideas, or forms, to variable matter. Aristotle had no cosmogony, because he supposed the
World to be without beginning and without end
Behmenists - Whence there is good and evil in all this temporal
World, in all its creatures, animate and inanimate; and what is meant by the curse that dwells every where in it. ...
The year after he wrote his Three Principles, by which are to be understood the dark
World, or hell, in which the devils live; the light
World, or heaven, in which the angels live; the external or visible
World, which has proceeded from the internal and spiritual
Worlds, in which man, as to his bodily life, lives; ...
Behmen produced this Three fold Life of Man, according to the Three Principles. In this work he treats more largely of the state of man in this
World: ...
1. The life of the third principle, or of this external and visible
World
Benson, Robert Hugh - His writings include "The Light Invisible," "By What Authority?," "The Conventionalists," "Lord of the
World," "Come Rack! Come Rope!," "The Coward," "Oddsfish," "Initiation," "The Queen's Tragedy," "The Upper Room," "The Mirror of Shalott," "The Dawn of All," "Confessions of a Convert," "An Average Man," "Paradoxes of Catholicism," "The Friendship of Christ," "Book of the Love of Jesus," "The City Set on a Hill," "The Religion of a Plain Man," "Alphabet of the Saints in Rhyme," and "A Mystery Play in Honor of the Nativity of Our Lord
Denmark - Org
World Fact Book
diocese of Copenhagen
patron saints index: Denmark
patron saints index: Copenhagen
Order of Servants of Mary - She held in her hand the black habit, and a nearby angel bore a scroll reading Servants of Mary Mary told them, ...
You will found a new order, and you will be my witnesses throughout the
World
Theatre - From the cities of Greece proper, theatres spread all over the Greek and Roman
World
Catholic Women's League - Internationally, the Catholic Women's League of England and Wales is part of a
World-wide organization, consisting of about 55 Leagues corresponding to 26 nationalities, designed to place the organized energies of Catholic women at the service of the Church, for the defense of Catholic principles
Harlot - Many of these follow the practice of the mother church in seeking the favor and the gifts of the
World
Taxing - The first is said to have been the result of an edict of the emperor Augustus, that "all the
World (i
Terah - What a wonderful part the descendants of this Chaldean shepherd have played in the history of the
World! ...
Conviction: of Sin - But, blessed be God, we are thus judged and sentenced in ourselves that we may not be condemned with the
World
Election - That gracious and almighty act of the Divine Spirit, whereby God actually and visibly separates his people from the
World by effectual calling,
John 15:19
Be - ) To exist actually, or in the
World of fact; to have ex/stence
Word, the - Philo's Logos ("word") on the contrary excludes personality, and is identical at times with God, at other times with the
World
Spikenard - Brought from distant India it suggested our Lord's declaration, "wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole
World, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her
Prophets, False - the Lord, early in His ministry, warned His hearers to beware of false prophets,
Matthew 7:15 ; and in the church, the spirits are to be tried, for many false prophets have gone forth into the
World
Miracle - A miracle is an out-of-the-ordinary direct and divine intervention in the
World
Vials - There are seven direct judgements of the wrath of God (they are no longer mere providential actings) upon the settled sphere of God's dealings, whereby those who have received the mark of the beast are grievously affected; and upon masses of people outside that sphere, and upon the sources of national life and prosperity; also on those in authority in the
World; also on the Euphrates, that it may be dried up to make way for the kings from the sun rising; followed by a general break up of human governments introductory to the reign of Christ
Integrity - Many hold, that a certain artful sagacity, founded upon knowledge of the
World, is the best conductor of every one who would be a successful adventurer in life, and that a strict attention to integrity would lead them into danger and distress
Sword - The word (λόγος) of God is likened to a two-edged sword,
Hebrews 4:12 , and the words of the Lord Jesus when He will come forth in judgement on Christendom and the
World are compared to a "sharp two-edged sword
Be - ) To exist actually, or in the
World of fact; to have ex/stence
Robert Benson - His writings include "The Light Invisible," "By What Authority?," "The Conventionalists," "Lord of the
World," "Come Rack! Come Rope!," "The Coward," "Oddsfish," "Initiation," "The Queen's Tragedy," "The Upper Room," "The Mirror of Shalott," "The Dawn of All," "Confessions of a Convert," "An Average Man," "Paradoxes of Catholicism," "The Friendship of Christ," "Book of the Love of Jesus," "The City Set on a Hill," "The Religion of a Plain Man," "Alphabet of the Saints in Rhyme," and "A Mystery Play in Honor of the Nativity of Our Lord
Servant Friars - She held in her hand the black habit, and a nearby angel bore a scroll reading Servants of Mary Mary told them, ...
You will found a new order, and you will be my witnesses throughout the
World
Servites - She held in her hand the black habit, and a nearby angel bore a scroll reading Servants of Mary Mary told them, ...
You will found a new order, and you will be my witnesses throughout the
World
Pestilence - Like the Asiatic cholera, it is one of the most appalling scourges sin has brought on this
World; and may in this point of view correspond with the "plagues" referred to in the Bible,
Exodus 9:14 11:1
1 Kings 8:37
Religious of Perpetual Adoration - Retreats are conducted by the religious and instruction given to children and converts, but the special work of the community is the direction of the Association of Perpetual Adoration and Work for Poor Churches (in America, popularly known as the "Tabernacle Society"), a
World-wide organization, having its center in Rome, enjoying fullest papal approbation and enriched with many indulgences and spiritual favors
Society of the Divine Saviour - The congregation has been assigned a new mission field in the province of Fu-kien, China, to replace the Prefecture Apostolic of Assam, India, transferred after
World War I to the Salesians
Salvatorians (2) - The congregation has been assigned a new mission field in the province of Fu-kien, China, to replace the Prefecture Apostolic of Assam, India, transferred after
World War I to the Salesians
Regeneration - Regeneration may also signify, in a cosmic sense, renewal of the Stoic
World-cycle; and, in Christian eschatology, the resurrection of the dead (Matthew 19)
Saint John's Seminary, England - This school did not survive long, and after
World War I Bishop Amigo of Southwark founded the College of Saint Joseph at Mark Cross, Sussex, for the boys in humanities
John, First Epistle of - There were those who, denying this great foundation of the faith, spoke as of the
World, and who had the
World's approval. The character of God morally, which had been seen in Christ, is now seen in those who are the objects of His love; they are identified even in this
World with Christ as He is, from whom they derive everything in new creation. It is in loving one another that believers come out before the
World as the disciples of Christ. Those born of God get the victory over the
World — those, in fact, who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. The glory of His person eclipses all that naturally appeals to them, and they are thus delivered from the influence of the
World. Then they know that they are of God, and that the whole
World lies in the wicked one — the difference morally between Christians and the
World
Eternity - The Jew found himself in an evil
World. If the eternal, omnipotent God ruled the
World, then all this must surely end. The Day of the Lord would come for oppressed Israel, for the oppressors, for the whole
World, and (in Apocalyptic literature, Ps-
Sol 3:16, 13:9 etc. Then the present evil
World (עוֹלִם הַוְּה) would give place to a new and glorious era (עוֹלִם הַכָּא, see Generation). Later Judaism developed the idea, probably borrowed from the Zend religion, of a series of
World epochs (cf. the
World empires of Daniel’s vision), followed by the Messianic age. He retained and perhaps developed the view of a new age (עוֹלָם חַפָא) about to dawn on the
World as opposed to the present (עוֹלָם הַוָּה;
Matthew 12:32, cf
Proverbs, Book of - In this book God has furnished, through the wisest of men, principles and precepts for the guidance and security of the believer in passing through the temptations to which he is exposed in an evil
World. Under symbolic terms, such as 'the evil man' and 'the strange woman,' the great forms of evil in the
World, violent self-will, and corrupting folly, are laid bare in their course and end. ...
In detail the book refers to the
World, showing what things are to be sought and what to be avoided, and evinces that in the government of God a man reaps according to what he sows, irrespective of the spiritual blessings of God in grace beyond and above this
World. ...
Proverbs 3 shows that it is the fear of God, and subjection to Hisword, that is the only true path in an evil
World. Again the
World has its counter attractions by the strange woman; but the dead are there, and her guests in the depths of Sheol. ...
Christians should study the Book of Proverbs, for (even when properly occupied with heavenly things, and the interests of Christ on earth) they are apt to overlook the need of wisdom from heaven to pass through this evil
World, and to manage their affairs on earth in the fear of God
Borrow - ...
As they had spoiled Israel by the bondservice unremunerated, so Israel, Jehovah's host (
Exodus 12:41) marched forth "with an high hand" (
Exodus 14:8)," by strength of Jehovah's hand" (
Exodus 13:16), having "spoiled" their spoilers, an earnest of the saints' and Israel's final victory over the
World powers and the prince of this
World (
Zechariah 14:14)
Faithfulness of God - Gill, in the performance of what he has said with respect to the
World in general, that it shall not be destroyed by a flood, as it once was, and for a token of it, has set his bow in the clouds; that the ordinances of heaven should keep their due course, which they have done for almost 6000 years exactly and punctually; that all his creatures should be supported and provided for, and the elements all made subservient to that end, which we find do so according to his sovereign pleasure,
Genesis 9:1-29 . He fulfilled his threatening to the old
World in destroying it
Savior - There Christ is a savior for the outcasts of Israel (
Luke 2:11 ) and the savior of the
World (
John 4:42 ; also
1 John 4:14 ). In a pagan
World offering numerous “saviors” such as the pagan gods Zeus and Asclepius, the Roman emperor, and various philosophers, the church witnessed to Christ as the savior who could rescue humanity from the penalty and power of sin
Language - It is plain from Scripture, that in the early ages of the
World, "the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. But while men have thus employed their time and attention to the discovery of what, even if it could have been attained, would not have profited, the word of God teaches the cause of speech in the great Giver of all good, and the diversity of speech when the entrance of sin into the
World had made man rebellious
Horse - ...
Zechariah 6:3 (b) The black horse - represents
World-wide famine which naturally follows great wars both international and internal. ...
Zechariah 6:3 (b) The white horse - probably represents a man-made peace which will be forced upon the
World by the antichrist under the guise of religion and righteousness
Alexandria - The Pharos lighthouse was visible for miles at a height of over 400 feet and is remembered today as one of the seven wonders of the
World. The finest library in the ancient
World with over 500,000 volumes attracted many scholars
Leg - ...
Song of Solomon 5:15 (b) In the
World of sports the leg and its strength and power to endure are prime requisites for success. The nation was upheld in its position as a
World ruler by these two elements of strength
Light - He not only exposed all the evil in the
World and all the false pretensions of the leaders of Israel; but "the life was the light of men. In the midst of darkness they are set to shine as lights in the
World
Diana - In the heavens she was Luna, (the moon,) on earth Diana, in the unseen
World Hectate. It was 220 years in building, and was one of the seven wonders of the
World
Judgment - ...
THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, for which the word "judgment" alone is sometimes used, is that great day, at the end of the
World and of time, when Christ shall sit as judge over all the universe, and when every individual of the human race will be judged and recompensed according to his works, whether they be good or evil. It will break upon the
World suddenly, and with a glorious but awful majesty
Kingdom of Heaven - They afterwards learned that his kingdom was not of this
World,
John 18:36-37 ; that its origin, spirit, means, and ends were spiritual and heavenly. It has indeed its outward form, the visible church,
Matthew 13:47 , and bestows on the
World the richest of temporal blessings; but its true dominion is in the souls of men
Hell - It really means the place of the dead, the unseen
World, without deciding whether it be the place of misery or of happiness. The word Hades , like Sheol sometimes means merely "the grave," (
Acts 2:31 ;
1 Corinthians 15:55 ;
Revelation 20:13 ) or in general "the unseen
World
Course - It is translated "course" in
Ephesians 2:2 , "the course of this
World," i. See AGE , ETERNAL , EVER ,
World
Jesus - " Thus Joshuawas a type of the spiritual Saviour of the
World. When then we profess our belief in JESSUas we do in the Creed, it is as if we said, "I believe that JESUS,in the highest and utmost importance of that Name, to be the Saviourof the
World
Litany of Loreto - ...
God the Son, Redeemer of the
World, have mercy on us. ...
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the
World, spare us, O Lord. ...
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the
World, graciously hear us O Lord...
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the
World, have mercy on us
Loreto, Litany of - ...
God the Son, Redeemer of the
World, have mercy on us. ...
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the
World, spare us, O Lord. ...
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the
World, graciously hear us O Lord...
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the
World, have mercy on us
Crucified - The reader will not need to be told, that thus they treated the Lord of life and glory, whom none of the princes of this
World knew, until that the holy Sufferer fainted from beneath the load and severity of his pain, when they compelled one that was passing by to bear the cross for the Lord Jesus. Over this view only, let the reader and writer for a moment pause, while listening to the call of the Holy Ghost by his servant the Baptist, "Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the
World!" (
John 1:29)...
Was there ever such an object proposed to the mind of contemplation as the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross? It should seem as if the Lord Jesus, thus stretched forth and thus lifted up, was inviting, with his arms extended and his heart bleeding, all his redeemed to come to him. Oh, for grace, with Paul, to determine "to know nothing among men, save Jesus Christ and him crucified!" And with the same holy indignation as he felt, against every thing that would check the ardour of his love, to cry out, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the
World is crucified unto me and I unto the
World!" (
Galatians 6:14)...
Anchor - But Christian hope reaching out towards the eternal
World is something much greater than our familiar human hopes of blessings yet unrealized; and the use which this writer made of an anchor to represent the hope of the Christian soul at once transformed the figure (as the Catacombs bear witness) into one of the dearest symbols of the Christian religion. This is really a mixture of metaphors-the metaphor of an anchor entering into the unseen
World to which Christian hope clings, and another metaphor by which the Holy of Holies becomes a type of that
World unseen. ) as a pattern of heaven itself where Christ appears before God on our behalf (
Hebrews 9:24), the figurative faultiness of the language is more than atoned for by its rich suggestiveness as to the Christian’s grounds of hope with regard to the
World to come
Noah - reveals the fact thatNoah had faith, and that in godly fear he prepared the ark, in obedience to God's warning, for the saving of his house, thereby condemningthe
World and becoming heir of the righteousness which is by faith. It was a new beginning in a new earth: the "heavens and the earth which are now " are in
2 Peter 2:5 ;
2 Peter 3:6,7 , put in contrast to the "world that then was ," the 'old
World. ' Alas! in this new
World failure at once characterised the man to whom government had been entrusted
Age - It is also used in speaking of the times past since the creation of the
World. The several ages of the
World may be reduced to three grand epochas, viz. The Jews call the third age, the age to come, or the future age; denoting by it the time from the advent of the Messiah to the end of the
World. Among the poets, the four ages of the
World are, the golden, the silver, the brazen, and the iron age
Bouddhists - The Bouddhists do not believe in a First Cause: they consider matter as eternal; that every portion of animated existence has in itself its own rise, tendency, and destiny; that the condition of creatures on earth is regulated by works of merit and demerit; that works of merit not only raise individuals to happiness, but, as they prevail, exalt the
World itself to prosperity; while, on the other hand, when vice is predominant, the
World degenerates till the universe itself is dissolved. They suppose, however, that there is always some superior deity, who has attained to this elevation by religious merit; but they do not regard him as the governor of the
World. The Bouddhists are taught that there are four superior heavens which are not destroyed at the end of "kulpu," that below these there are twelve other heavens, followed by six inferior heavens; after which follows the earth; then the
World of snakes; and then thirty-two chief hells; to which are to be added, one hundred and twenty hells of milder torments
Noah - reveals the fact thatNoah had faith, and that in godly fear he prepared the ark, in obedience to God's warning, for the saving of his house, thereby condemningthe
World and becoming heir of the righteousness which is by faith. It was a new beginning in a new earth: the "heavens and the earth which are now " are in
2 Peter 2:5 ;
2 Peter 3:6,7 , put in contrast to the "world that then was ," the 'old
World. ' Alas! in this new
World failure at once characterised the man to whom government had been entrusted
Ecclesiastes - ...
Not only does God control affairs in people’s lives; he is the Creator who has given them his
World. Therefore, they should accept whatever God determines for them and find enjoyment in God’s
World and in all their activities in that
World (2:24; 9:7-10). Having set out the central message of his book, the writer turns to consider some related matters: the control of God over life’s affairs (3:1-15), the widespread injustice in the
World (3:16-4:3), and the uselessness of self-centred achievement (4:4-16)
Mission(s) - The mission of the churches is to send our missionaries to all parts of the
World until everyone has had the opportunity to hear the message of Jesus and accept Him as Lord. The mission begins with Jesus who was sent to earth to reveal the Father (
John 1:18 ;
John 14:9 ), to glorify Him (
John 13:31 ;
John 14:13 ;
John 17:1 ,
John 17:1,17:6 ), to bring the kingdom of God on earth (
Matthew 12:22-32 ), and to make God's love and mercy known to a lost
World. Each of the Gospels and Acts contains an account of His mandate to His followers, telling them to go to all the
World, make disciples, baptize them, and preach the gospel (
Matthew 28:19-20 ;
Mark 16:15-16 ;
Luke 24:46-49 ;
John 20:21-22 ;
Acts 1:8 ). Instead of looking to foreigners to come to Jerusalem as did the Old Testament, the church's mission is to go into all the
World and not wait for the
World to come to it. Christ has promised that He will be with the church until “the end of the
World. ” With this assurance, the church was obedient, for the gospel was presented first in Jerusalem (Acts 1-8 ), then in Samaria (Acts 8-12 ) and finally to all the
World (Acts 13-28 ). In fact, the disciples were not to go out into the
World until the Holy Spirit had come upon them (
Acts 1:8 ). The church's mission to the
World was strengthened through its intimate fellowship and unity (
Acts 2:44 ), and every effort was made to maintain this characteristic (
Acts 6:1-7 ;
Acts 15:1 ; and Paul's letters to the churches in Corinth and Galatia)
Elements - ...
From Plato downwards στοιχεῖα frequently denotes the elements of which the
World is composed. στοιχεῖοα has this meaning in Wisdom of Solomon 7:17 : ‘For himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the constitution of the
World, and the operation of the elements’ (καὶ ἐνέργειαν στοιχείων; cf. Those who are in bondage to the στοιχεῖα of the
World are compared with heirs who are still under guardians and stewards (
Galatians 4:2-3), where the parallel suggests the personality of the στοιχεῖα. The observance of times and seasons is according to the στοιχεῖα of the
World, not according to Christ (
Colossians 2:8)-a contrast which suggests that the στοιχεῖα and Christ are personal rivals. When men died with Christ from the στοιχεῖα of the
World (
Colossians 2:20), this was more than a death to rudimentary teaching. 1315) the spirits who come before the king say: ‘We are the στοιχεῖα, the rulers of this under
World’ (οἱ κοσμοκρἀτορες τοῦ σκότους τούτου). The belief in a
World of intermediate spirits is the basal thought of Gnosticism, which St. ‘Jewish worship of law and pagan worship of gods are for him fundamentally the same bondage under the lower
World-powers which stand between God and men. ‘This may or may not seem strange to us, but we must ever learn anew that bygone times had a different conception of the
World’ (Hollmann in Die Schriften des NT, ii
Deluge - From this flood, the state of the
World is divided into diluvian and ante-diluvian. Can an universal deluge be more clearly expressed? If the deluge had only been partial, there had been no necessity to spend an hundred years in the building of an ark, and shutting up all sorts of animals therein, in order to re-stock the
World: they had been easily and readily brought from those parts of the
World not overflowed into those that were; at least, all the birds never would have been destroyed, as Moses says they were, so long as they had wings to bear them to those parts where the flood did not reach. Bryant, in his Mythology, has pretty clearly proved that the deluge, so far from being unknown to the heathen
World at large, is in reality conspicuous throughout every one of their acts of religious worship. But are not most, if not all these hypotheses quite arbitrary, and without foundation from the words of Moses? It is, perhaps, in vain to attempt accounting for this event by natural causes, it being altogether miraculous and supernatural, as a punishment to men for the corruption then in the
World
Nabuchodonosor ii - He took pride not only in the arts of war, but in works of peace, and his long reign marks the height of the grandeur reached by the second Babylonian Empire, when, through his efforts, Babylon became one of the wonders of the
World
Lauds - Lauds is preeminently the hour in the Office in which the Church praises God, the Light of the
World
Discipline, Congregation of - Regarding the regulars in other parts of the
World, its duty was to offer the pope suggestions for the promotion of regular discipline
Liberius, Pope - At the time of his election, the Christian
World was perturbed by the exiling of Saint Athanasius and the activities of the Arians
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Michael - He is also represented as warning against "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole
World" (
Revelation 12:7-9 )
Unicorn - Most probably, however, the word denotes the Bos primigenius ("primitive ox"), which is now extinct all over the
World
Hypocrites: Seeking Their Own Advantage - God is in the hypocrite's mouth, but the
World is in his heart, which he expects to gain through his good reputation. ' ...
Thus some, by the name they get for great saints, advance their
Worldly interests, which lie at the bottom of all their profession
Hearing: Carelessly - We had no object in the
World but merely amusement and curiosity, to watch the simple machinery by which the same current is made to drift the boat in opposite directions from side to side
Diamond - first discovered diamonds for the western
World in India
Theodicy - The study of the problem of evil in the
World
Judgment-Day: Forgotten - Is it not foolish to be living in this
World without a thought of what you will do at last? A man goes into an inn, and as soon as he sits down he begins to order his wine, his dinner, his bed; there is no delicacy in season which he forgets to bespeak
World, Ages of - The first extends from the beginning of the
World to the deluge, and comprehends one thousand six hundred and fifty-six years
Sceptre -
Psalms 125:3, "the sceptre of the wicked (world power; "Persia" at this time) shall not rest (permanently) upon the lot of the righteous," namely, on the Holy Land: a psalm written after the return from Babylon
Again - ...
There is not, in the
World again, such a commerce as in London
Appoint - ...
He hath appointed a day in which he will judge the
World
Ephraim - This is a type of the religious man of the
World whose human attitudes are above reproach, but who has not a proper relationship to GOD
Bear - ...
Daniel 7:5 (b) This animal is used as a type of the Medo-Persian empire which was the second great
World kingdom to appear following the fall of Babylon
Predestinate - " (
Ephesians 1:5) Hence it will follow, that all the purposes of God in Christ concerning redemption are first formed in the Lord Jesus, and then the church in him; and hence the church is represented as saying: with one voice, (
2 Timothy 1:9) "Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the
World began
Behold - Behold the lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the
World
Foundation - Original rise as the foundation of the
World
Hinduism - Bound up with its castes, and its intricate social customs, it is a national, not a
World religion
Jew - It was in this kingdom that the Deuteronomic reform occurred, which was the first step in the creation of an organized religion sharply differentiated from the other religions of the
World
Jordan - The argument evidently is that if in this life the people of this
World are wearied with the realities of eternity, what would be their condition if they were transported across the river into Heaven, where there are none of the things that attract the unsaved
Tribulation - Besides the application of this term to any time of distress, and its special reference to this dispensation, respecting which it is said, "In the
World ye shall have tribulation,"
John 16:33 — the Lord spoke of a distinct period of distress, such as never had been, or should be again
Adam - For their sin God expelled them from Paradise and they were condemned to pain and hardship in the outer
World
Abyssinian Church - They claim there is but one nature in Christ, reject all the aecumenical councils since Ephesus, have some minor heresies of their own, and practise probably the lowest type of Christianity in the
World
Epistle to the Romans - In the Epistle he dwells on the justification of mankind through faith in Christ, the sinfulness of the
World, the meaning and fruits of justification, why Israel failed to come unto the law of justice, what faith is, and why it is essential, and its fruits, viz:, humility, obedience, unity, and charity
Esthonia - ...
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Adore - But in the Eastern
World, the customs and methods observed in acts of reverence among men, from the humbler to the higher ranks, too nearly approach that homage, which is due only to the Lord
Serpent, Brazen -
John 3:14 , declares, that "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up," alluding to his own death, which, through faith, was to give life to the
World
Babylon - Nabuchodonosor made it one of the wonders of the
World
Romans, Epistle to the - In the Epistle he dwells on the justification of mankind through faith in Christ, the sinfulness of the
World, the meaning and fruits of justification, why Israel failed to come unto the law of justice, what faith is, and why it is essential, and its fruits, viz:, humility, obedience, unity, and charity
Eclipse of the Sun - The darkness that overspread the
World at the crucifixion cannot with reason be attributed to an eclipse, as the moon was at the full at the time of the passover
Religious Orders - In the American Church there are many religiousorders composed of men or women who have separated themselves fromthe
World that they may devote themselves by associated effort moreunreservedly to the Church's work
Devotion to the Holy Family - Since the three holiest persons the
World has ever beheld, Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, His immaculate mother, Mary, and His foster-father, Saint Joseph, dwelt together for many years in the humble home of Nazareth, it is natural that Catholics should venerate them not only as individuals but also as a family. Pope Leo XIII, in his Apostolic letter "Neminem fugit" (June 14, 1892) and in his brief "Quum nuper" (July 2, 1892), affiliated to this society all the similar organizations throughout the
World and enriched it with many privileges and indulgences. In 1847 the organization was approved by Pope Pius IX, who elevated the confraternity of Liege to the dignity of an archconfraternity, with the right to affiliate to itself other confraternities throughout the
World and to communicate to them its spiritual privileges
Family, Holy - Since the three holiest persons the
World has ever beheld, Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, His immaculate mother, Mary, and His foster-father, Saint Joseph, dwelt together for many years in the humble home of Nazareth, it is natural that Catholics should venerate them not only as individuals but also as a family. Pope Leo XIII, in his Apostolic letter "Neminem fugit" (June 14, 1892) and in his brief "Quum nuper" (July 2, 1892), affiliated to this society all the similar organizations throughout the
World and enriched it with many privileges and indulgences. In 1847 the organization was approved by Pope Pius IX, who elevated the confraternity of Liege to the dignity of an archconfraternity, with the right to affiliate to itself other confraternities throughout the
World and to communicate to them its spiritual privileges
Holy Family, Devotion to the - Since the three holiest persons the
World has ever beheld, Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God, His immaculate mother, Mary, and His foster-father, Saint Joseph, dwelt together for many years in the humble home of Nazareth, it is natural that Catholics should venerate them not only as individuals but also as a family. Pope Leo XIII, in his Apostolic letter "Neminem fugit" (June 14, 1892) and in his brief "Quum nuper" (July 2, 1892), affiliated to this society all the similar organizations throughout the
World and enriched it with many privileges and indulgences. In 1847 the organization was approved by Pope Pius IX, who elevated the confraternity of Liege to the dignity of an archconfraternity, with the right to affiliate to itself other confraternities throughout the
World and to communicate to them its spiritual privileges
Philosopher, Philosophy - This latter is variously designated in scripture as the wisdom of this
World, fleshly wisdom, wisdom of man, the wisdom that does not come from above. ...
The Colossian saints were warned against being spoiled by such philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
World; which stands in contrast to what is 'after Christ. ...
Again, another class resort to spirits, and let them teach them: they imagine the inhabitants of the unseen
World must be able to tell them what is true, and these spirits even profess to interpret scripture for them
Power - He rejects the offer of
World empire (
Luke 4:6; Luke
Luk_4:8), and warns those whom He sent forward to tell of His approach not to rejoice even in the exercise of His delegated power (
Luke 10:20). His Kingdom was to be coextensive with the
World and its nationalities (
Matthew 8:11;
Matthew 26:13;
Matthew 28:19, John 10:16;
John 17:20). The gift of His life, offered freely and apart from external constraint, was to be the bond of union among His disciples (
Matthew 26:26-28, John 15:12-13), and was to be the power that would draw the
World unto Him (
John 3:14;
John 12:32). The impression thus made upon His disciples became in turn the testimony which they gave to the
World—‘The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth’ (
John 1:14). —Christ declared of His Kingdom that it was not of this
World (
John 18:36). Those
Worldly kingdoms were of the sword, established by and for physical dominion. The new and wonderful element that made its citizenship not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man (
John 1:13), consisted in this, that whereas in the kingdoms of the
World there had been an ever-ascending scale of power, man living unto himself, and governments existing for the sake of the governing classes, so there was in this Kingdom a correspondingly descending scale of service in which all those features were precisely reversed. The constitution and aspirations of the Kingdom, as embodied in the Sermon on the Mount, not only surpass all similar requirements of government, but seem to invert all that the
World had hitherto counted great and noble. It was in vain to go out to the conquest of the
World unless this base of operations was safeguarded. ...
The second charge affected the
World that was to be His possession, the nations that were to bring each its special riches and glory into His Kingdom (
Matthew 28:19-20, cf. He recognized the right and claim of the
World to wait until it received sufficient evidence that He had been sent to be its Ruler. The
World that will say the Church is one will say that Christ is Lord (
John 10:16;
John 17:21-23)
Flood - A miraculous deluge of water God used to discipline His
World made evil through human sin. This evangel with its penetrating analysis of the nature of God, the human possibility for righteousness or for alienation, and its relevance to salvation history is the proclamation by which Abram was to bring blessing to the entire
World (
Genesis 12:3 ). Accordingly, He vowed never to doom the
World again despite the enormous, continuing evil of the human creatures, an evil inconsistent with all God made and intended. Informed, instructed, provided for, covenanted with to become the head of a new race and blessed to be productive and to increase on earth, Noah was made the mediator of a
World-encompassing covenant where the image of God would guarantee equality in society. Here the Flood account highlights a person's potential: to walk with God, to be blameless and righteous in a wicked
World, to be a mediator of divine grace possible for all people, and to know that the future was safe and sure by the oath God had sworn. Such was and is the revelation God committed to Abram to herald and to bring the blessing of the knowledge of God to the whole
World
Inheritance - As the biblical history of Israel unfolds, the promised inheritance specifies a righteous remnant who will inherit the
World as an everlasting possession (
Psalm 2:8 ;
Isaiah 54:3 ;
Daniel 7:14 ). The reality of the inheritance of the land was deferred to the future and intertestamental literature emphasized the inheritance of eternal life and the
World to come. This idea was broadened in the rabbinic literature where having an inheritance or share in the
World to come was a primary aspiration of the Jews. A notable dichotomy existed between those who would inherit the future
World (the redeemed) and those who would not (the condemned). The initial promise to Abraham of the land of Canaan (
Hebrews 11:8 ) is broadened to include "the
World" (
Romans 4:13 ). Inheriting the "world to come" is a guarantee for all those who belong to God's family
Hatred - The Christians of the Apostolic Age could not but love the
World which ‘God so loved’ (
John 3:18), and for whose sins Christ is the propitiation (
1 John 2:2). Their ‘world’ hated them, and, in many instances, ended by murdering them; but persecution and bloodshed only constrained them to love the more, in accordance with the precepts of the Sermon on the Mount (
Matthew 5:44). The early Church extorted from that pagan
World the beautiful tribute, ‘See how these Christians love one another!’ The Spirit of Christ moved His followers to ‘put away all bitterness and wrath … with all malice,’ to be ‘kind one to another’ (
Ephesians 4:31 f. While they could recall the time when they were ‘hateful, hating one another’ (στυγητοί, μισοῦντες ἀλλήλους,
Titus 3:3; Vulgate ‘odibiles, odientes invicem’), the spirit of the new life was φιλαδελφία (love of the brethren), to which was added a
World-wide ἀγάπη (
2 Peter 1:7). ...
To orthodox Judaism, as well as to cultured Hellenism and the hard pagan Roman
World, it seemed natural to love only one’s friends. Into a
World dominated by such ideas Christianity brought that enthusiasm of humanity which is the reflexion of Christ’s own redeeming love
Angel - Others suppose that he did this because of the proneness of the Gentile
World, and even the Jews, to idolatry; but a better reason has been assigned by others, viz. that this first history was purposely and principally written for information concerning the visible
World; the invisible, of which we know but in part, being reserved for a better life. Some think that the idea of God's not creating them before this
World was made, is very contracted. To suppose, say they, that no creatures whatever, neither angels nor other
Worlds, had been created previous to the creation of our
World, is to suppose that a Being of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, had remained totally inactive from all eternity, and had permitted the infinity of space to continue a perfect vacuum till within these 6000 years; that such an idea only tends to discredit revelation, instead of serving it.
Matthew 13:39 , and live for ever in the
World of glory,
Luke 20:36 . ...
The authors who have written on this subject have been very numerous; we shall only refer to a few: Reynolds's Enquiry into the State and Economy of the Angelical
World; Doddridge's Lect
Separation - —In discourses descriptive of the present condition and future prospects of the Kingdom of God, Christ taught that the Kingdom in its ideal state of purity would not be realized till the end of the
World, when the object in view is to be attained by means of a judicial separation between real members and those who are members only in outward appearance or profession (
Matthew 13:24-30;
Matthew 13:36-43;
Matthew 13:47-50). But the evil element referred to in the parables is not that which has always existed in the
World, and must be expected to continue, but that which has entered the Kingdom in the course of, and as the result of, its own operations, which tend to gather within its pale spurious adherents as well as genuine (
Matthew 13:47). , that the evil element is in the
World, the good element in the Kingdom, and the blending of the two merely contiguity or co-existence in space. It is hard to see why our Lord should have been at such pains to point out what must be perfectly obvious to everybody, that the
World is evil, and why He should recommend a tolerant attitude toward the evil, instead of making it a reason for earnest evangelistic effort. It could by no possibility give rise to the painful reflexion and inquiry described in the parable (
Matthew 13:27, which are in reality due to the circumstance that the sin which exists in the
World ‘is always forcing its way anew into the circle in which the Kingdom of God is being realized. It is almost needless to remark that if the Son of Man at the end of the
World is to ‘gather out of his kingdom all things that offend (πάντα τὰ σκάνδαλα), and them which do iniquity,’ they must have existed previously within it (
Matthew 13:41). The wide and sweeping character of its operations exposed it to the risk of gathering into its bosom some who might do it serious discredit in the eyes of those who had its purity and welfare at heart, as well as of the
World at large (
Matthew 13:47). Besides, the exercise of a decisive judgment would in many cases require a delicacy of discrimination and an insight into human character possessed only by a Divine person, and it is accordingly reserved for the Son of Man, in His capacity as Judge, at the end of the
World
Monk - (Greek: monachos) ...
Term originally applied to hermits or anchorites but from an early period, by popular rather than scientific designation, a cenobite, or member of a community of men living apart from the
World, under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, in accordance with the rule of a particular order
Diabolism - Witchcraft, real or alleged, has brought misfortune and cruelty into the
World; many phenomena of spiritism, or spiritualism, hear unmistakable characteristics of maleficent spiritual agencies
Didache - The second part begins with an instruction on Baptism; the third speaks of teachers or doctors in general, and the last chapter exhorts to watching and tells the signs of the end of the
World
Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles - The second part begins with an instruction on Baptism; the third speaks of teachers or doctors in general, and the last chapter exhorts to watching and tells the signs of the end of the
World
Day of Christ - According to
2 Peter 3:10 that day will be unexpected and will be accompanied by signs in the
World of nature
Judas Thaddeus, Saint - After the Lord's Supper, Judas asked Christ why He would not manifest Himself to the
World (John 14)
Jude, Saint - After the Lord's Supper, Judas asked Christ why He would not manifest Himself to the
World (John 14)
Maximus of Constantinople, Saint - Of noble parentage, he became secretary to Emperor Heraclius, but left the
World, 630, to enter the monastery at Chrysopolis, where he was later elected abbot
Chile - ...
Archdioceses, past and present, include ...
Antofagasta
Concepci´n
La Serena
Puerto Montt
Santiago de Chile
Dioceses, past and present, include: ...
Arica
Chillán
Copiapó
Iquique
Linares
Los Angeles
Melipilla
Osorno
Punta Arenas
Rancagua
San Bernardo
San Carlos de Ancud
San Felipe
Talca
Temuco
Valdivia
Valparaíso
Villarrica
Other ecclesiastical divisions include: ...
Aysén Vicariate Apostolic
Calama Territorial Prelature
Chile Military Ordinariate
Illapel Territorial Prelature
Magallanes Prefecture Apostolic
See also: ...
World Fact Book
patron saints index: Chile
patron saints index: Chilean army
patron saints index: Chilean navy
Dante Alighieri - In 1309, in anticipation of the visit to Italy of Emperor Henry VII, he wrote his famous treatise on the monarchy "De Monarchia" and in 1317, having settled at Ravenna, completed hig masterpiece, the "Divina Commedia," an allegory of human life in the form of a vision of the
World beyond the grave, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, written with the avowed object of converting a corrupt society
Shem - ,
Genesis 10:21-31 ) Shem, the ‘son’ of Noah, is the eponymous ancestor of several peoples, occupying, roughly speaking, the central portions of the known
World
Millennium - The triumph of the gospel, it is held, must be looked for by the wider and more efficient operation of the very forces that are now at work in extending the gospel; and that Christ will only come again at the close of this dispensation to judge the
World at the "last day
Steel - It has been inferred from a passage in (
Jeremiah 15:12 ) that the "iron from the north" there spoken of denoted a superior kind of metal, hardened in an unusual manner, like the steel obtained from the Chalybes of the Pontus, the iron smiths of the ancient
World
Love - "Simon, LOVEST (phileis ) thou Me?" Love to one another is the proof to the
World of discipleship (
John 13:35)
East - In
Luke 1:78 it is used metaphorically of Christ as "the Dayspring," the One through whom light came into the
World, shining immediately into Israel, to dispel the darkness which was upon all nations
East, Turning to the - When converts toChristianity were baptized, which was usually in the early morning,they first turning to the west where the night was fast receding,renounced the
World and the powers of darkness, then turning tothe east where the sun was rising as the source of all light, theyconfessed their belief in Christ who, in Holy Scripture is Himselfcalled the EAST, "the Dayspring from on high
Christian: Professor Cannot be Neutral - ' So remember, you who profess to be followers of the Lord Jesus, that to yon indifference is impossible; you must bless the church and the
World by your holiness, or you will curse them both by your hypocrisy and inconsistency
Candle - In beautiful contrast, as the woman in the parable "lit the candle, swept the house, and sought diligently until she found" the lost piece of silver, so God (
Luke 15:8) searches out His elect so that not one is lost, and takes each out of the darkness of this
World, and restores the divine image, with a view to their salvation
Diana - It was built outside the city walls, and was one of the seven wonders of the ancient
World
Worm, - There is the same allusion in (
Isaiah 66:24 ) which words are applied by our Lord, (
Mark 9:44,46,48 ) metaphorically to the torments of the guilty in the
World of departed spirits
Zebulun - The glory of Zebulun was that from its territory came the Messiah, who brought God’s light into a dark
World (
Isaiah 9:1;
Matthew 4:12-16; see NAZARETH)
Pearl - ...
Matthew 13:45 (b) This gem is a type of the church which is hidden in the
World, and sought out by our Lord JESUS CHRIST who paid the great price at Calvary to purchase us with His own Blood
Hosea - Before the coming of the Messiah there was probably no more Christ-like teacher than the prophet of Mount Ephraim, who provided our Lord with His favourite quotation, ‘I will have mercy
and not sacrifice’; and it is evident that his prevision of a new covenant, linking Divine and human love in everlasting bonds, was scarcely less precious to the Apostle of the Gentiles than to the Saviour of the
World
Joshua - Platonic and Philonic-teaching as to the distinction between visible things and their heavenly ideas, says that the rest which Joshua gave the Israelites, when he led them into the promised land, was after all not the Rest of God, but only the material symbol suggesting the spiritual reality-the Sabbath-rest which remains in the unseen
World for the people of God (
Hebrews 4:8-9)
Rat - These were introduced into America from the Old
World
Depart - ) To quit this
World; to die
Jehoshaphat (2) - , which reads, "The Lord judgeth"), but to either (a) the scene of great victories, as those of the Maccabees; or (b) the general judgment at the end of the
World; or (c) the truth that God's persecuted people he will defend and vindicate
Alighieri, Dante - In 1309, in anticipation of the visit to Italy of Emperor Henry VII, he wrote his famous treatise on the monarchy "De Monarchia" and in 1317, having settled at Ravenna, completed hig masterpiece, the "Divina Commedia," an allegory of human life in the form of a vision of the
World beyond the grave, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, written with the avowed object of converting a corrupt society
Dung - ...
Philippians 3:8 (a) Paul uses this figure to show his utter contempt for the things in the
World - things which he formerly had thought were profitable and helpful to him
Shame - So that our first parents in the garden, before sin entered into the
World, knew nothing of shame
Contend - If these
Worldly religionists are made weary by the feeble Christian influences around them here, what will they do when they are really in the presence of the Lord?...
"Footmen" represent Christians in this
World who have a feeble, halting walk and yet live very much better lives than the ungodly
Crooked - ...
Isaiah 40:4 (b) Our Lord is promising that things in this
World, or in the life of His child which may be unrighteous, ungodly, harmful and hindering may be straightened out by His power and be made to fit into GOD's plan
Hem of the Garment - All the Israelites were to wear on the border of their garment a riband of blue (the colour of heaven) that they might look upon it and remember the commandments and be holy unto God: typical of the walk of the Christian as being heavenly in its character, not according to this
World, but according to the good and perfect and acceptable will of God
Cedar - ...
Zechariah 11:2 (b) This is a type of the great nation of Israel which had grown to be a
World power and then because of disobedience to GOD was cut down and destroyed as a nation
Foul -
Revelation 18:2 (a) In this way GOD reveals His utter hatred for the wicked practices and the evil beliefs which prevail in those great
World systems of religion which are described as Babylon
Badgers' Skins - Typically the badgers' skins refer to the holy, separate walk of the Lord Jesus, in entire protection from all the contaminations of the
World: He was always morally 'separate from sinners
Frogs - The three unclean spirits like frogs (
Revelation 16:13) symbolize...
(1) "proud infidelity", opposing Christ and God, "out of the dragon's mouth";...
(2) "the spirit of the
World", whether lawless socialistic democracy or despotism, setting man above God, "out of the beast's mouth";...
(3) "lying spiritualism", superseding the harlot and proceeding "out of the false prophet's mouth
Star of the Wise Men - The star was probably a meteoric body employed by the God of nature to be His instrument in the
World of revelation, to guide the wise men to the divine Messiah
Austria - ...
Archdioceses: ...
Salzburg
Vienna
Dioceses: ...
Eisenstadt
Feldkirch
Graz-Seckau
Gurk
Innsbruck
Linz
Sankt Pölten
Other ecclesiastical divisions: ...
Faithful of Eastern Rite (Byzantine) (Ordinariate)
Military Ordinariate
Wettingen-Mehrerau (Territorial Abbey)
See also: ...
World Fact Book
patron saints index
Pelagianism - Every infant born into the
World is in the same condition as Adam before the fall and becomes a sinner because he sins
Thorns, Thistles - There are about a dozen different words translated 'thorns,' and 'thistles,' showing how plentiful these results of the curse are in this sin-stained
World
Science - ) Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical
World and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc
Universal - ) Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal
World
Abbey, Solesmes - The community of Solesmes has achieved
World-wide reputation for erudition; the restoration of the true Gregorian chant of the Church is perhaps its greatest work
Ernest Psichari - In 1914 he resolved to join the Dominicans, but was killed in the opening days of
World War I
Jesus Christ - Hence the Hebrews call him, Jehoshuah, or Joshua, or Joshuah, he who shall save; and as Christ means, anointed of JEHOVAH, the Sent, the Sealed of the Father; full of grace and truth; both names together carry this blessed meaning with them, Jesus Christ the Saviour of the
World by the anointing of JEHOVAH to all the purposes, of salvation
Air - When the air is tainted with malaria it permeates everywhere and poisons everything; so Satan has such power that his poisonous spirit morally contaminates everything in the
World, of which he is the god
Monitor - ) Any large Old
World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp
Jehoahaz - He was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned about three months only in Jerusalem, in the year of the
World 3395
Joel - The principal predictions contained in this book are the Chaldean invasion, under the figurative representation of locusts; the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus; the blessings of the Gospel dispensation; the conversion and restoration of the Jews to their own land; the overthrow of the enemies of God; and the glorious state of the Christian church in the end of the
World
Rainbow - The 'bow set in the clouds' was given by God to Noah as a token that He would not again destroy the
World by a flood
Grove - In the religions of the ancient heathen
World groves play a prominent part
Week - It is clear that if not in Paul's time, yet very Soon after, the Roman
World had adopted the hebdomadal division
Transfiguration - Besides its great purpose, the attestation of Christ's Messiahship and divinity, this scene demonstrated the continued existence of departed spirits in an unseen
World, furnished in the Savior's person an emblem of humanity glorified, and aided in preparing both him and his disciples for their future trials
Bahia - Thome de Sousa, first governor of Brazil, arrived at Bahia in 1549 with six Jesuits, the first to come to the New
World, and two days later the first Mass was said there
Solesmes Abbey - The community of Solesmes has achieved
World-wide reputation for erudition; the restoration of the true Gregorian chant of the Church is perhaps its greatest work
Thaddeus, Judas, Saint - After the Lord's Supper, Judas asked Christ why He would not manifest Himself to the
World (John 14)
Tribute - Every Jew throughout the
World was required to pay an annual tribute or capitation-tax of half a shekel, about twenty-five cents, in acknowledgment of God's sovereignty and for the maintenance of the temple service,
Exodus 30:12-15
Theatre - A place of action or exhibition as the theater of the
World
Sabellianism - The Sabellians first taught that the Father became Man in Christ and gave His life for the redemption of the
World
Sabellians - The Sabellians first taught that the Father became Man in Christ and gave His life for the redemption of the
World
Sabellius - The Sabellians first taught that the Father became Man in Christ and gave His life for the redemption of the
World
Temporal - Pertaining to this life or this
World or the body only secular as temporal concerns temporal affairs
Sabellianism - The Sabellians first taught that the Father became Man in Christ and gave His life for the redemption of the
World
Gloria Patri - "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost,As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
World withoutend
Nicolas - convert to Judaism from the heathen
World, had been given office in the Church, up to this point
Retreat - It is a cheering sign of spiritual revival which many willwelcome, to see Bishop and Clergy thus meeting and withdrawing fora season from the
World, for prayer, for intercommunion andinstruction
Providence - The notion of a providence is founded upon this truth, that the Creator has not so fixed and ascertained the laws of nature, nor so connected the chain of second causes, as to leave the
World to itself, but that he still preserves the reins in his own hands, and occasionally intervenes, alters, restrains, enforces, suspends, &c, those laws by a particular providence. Simplicius argues thus for a providence: If God does not look to the affairs of the
World, it is either because he cannot or will not; but the first is absurd, since, to govern cannot be difficult where to create was easy; and the latter is both absurd and blasphemous. After this he shows that the Deity exercises a particular providence over the
World, taking care of small no less than great things. In proving this he observes "that a superior nature of such excellence as the divine, which hears, sees, and knows all things, cannot, in any instance, be subject to negligence or sloth; that the meanest and the greatest part of the
World are all equally his work or possession; that great things cannot be rightly taken care of without taking care of small; and that, in all cases, the more able and perfect any artist is, (as a physician, an architect, or the ruler of the state,) the more his skill and care appear in little as well as great things. "...
The term providence, in its primary signification, simply denotes foresight; and if we allow the existence of a supreme Being who formed the universe at first, we must necessarily allow that he has a perfect foresight of every event which at any time takes place in the natural or moral
World. The providence of God is implied in his very existence as an intelligent Creator; and it imports not only an abstract foresight of all possible events, but such a predisposition of causes and effects, such an adjustment of means and ends, as seems to us to exclude that contingency of human actions with which, as expectants of positive rewards and punishments in another
World, we firmly believe it to be altogether consistent. " If, then, the Deity pervades and actuates the material
World, and his unremitting energy is the cause to which every effect in it must be traced; the spiritual
World, which is of greater consequence, cannot be disregarded by him. Is there not one atom of matter on which he does not act; and is there one living being about which he has no concern? Does not a stone fall without him; and does, then, a man suffer without him? The inanimate
World is of no consequence, abstracted from its subserviency to the animate and reasonable
World; the former, therefore, must be preserved and governed entirely with a view to the latter. The Deity cannot be an indifferent spectator of the series of events in that
World to which he has given being. We cannot conceive of any reasons that can influence the Deity to exercise any providence over the
World, which are not likewise reasons for extending it to all that happens in the
World. If we are persuaded that God governs the
World, that he has the superintendence and direction of all events, and that we are the objects of his providential care; whatever may be our distress or our danger, we can never want consolation, we may always have a fund of hope, always a prospect of relief
John, Theology of - The prologue introduces the incarnation of the preexistent Word and poetically sets the stage for all that is to follow: God discloses his Son in the
World of darkness; he is popularly rejected; a select group of followers discover life; and even though the darkness tries, it cannot defeat this Son. In a
World of falsehood and error, Jesus cuts a path, a way, to God that is true and life-giving (14:6). The Word eternally existed with God in eternity and was God's agent in creating this
World. Seven signs not merely display the miraculous power of Jesus, but reveal his role as the Son of God and savior of the
World. These are gifts possessed exclusively by those who belong to Jesus' flock (10:1-10) and which remain mysterious to those in the
World, whose domain is darkness. The
World is dead (5:24), but Jesus offers life to those who believe (1:4; 3:15-16,36; 4:14; 5:24; 6:35,47; 8:12; 10:10).
In 8:12 light and life are juxtaposed: "I am the light of the
World. " As the
World is in death (and needs life), so, too, it exists in darkness and needs light (1:5; 11:10; 12:35-36,46;
1 John 2:8,11 ). John the Baptist sounds this note when Jesus is introduced (1:29): "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the
World. " Thus
in 6:51b Jesus says, "This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the
World. This describes the Spirit as an advocate, a defender who will stand with the disciples, strengthening them before the
World (15:18-27; 16:8-10). Moreover, they belong to a community that has stepped out of the
World and its darkness and built a refuge for others who seek community. And, to no one's surprise, it experiences conflict with the
World. ...
John anticipates a life of spiritual and moral dedication that is completely devoted to God (10:36) and conscious of its separation from the
World (
1 John 2:15-17 ). Believers are not removed from the
World; they live in it (17:15-19) and therefore are subject to temptation and evil. ...
Conflict in the
World . The
Worldview of the Johannine literature is consistently dualistic. Believers are reminded that they no longer belong to the
World (15:19) because the
World is openly hostile to Jesus and his followers. The experience of Jesus becomes the paradigm for discipleship: "If the
World hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first" (15:18). The hatred of the
World is everywhere (
1 John 3:13 ) because it is under the power of the evil one (
1 John 5:19 ). The
World brings theological falsehood through its religious corruption and false teachers (
1 John 4:3-5 ;
2 John 1:7 ). But the Christian who is diligent and faithful will conquer the
World (
1 John 5:4 )
Magisterium - The Church exercises this teaching power infallibly in matters of faith and morals, in virtue of the promise of Divine assistance given her by Christ, "And behold I am with you all days even to the consummation of the
World" (Matthew 28). When all the bishops in the
World agree in their teaching on a particular doctrine of faith or morals, which is not solemnly defined, this constitutes an infallible teaching of the Ecclesia Docens, because the Church as a whole cannot fall into error in these matters
Ararat - And certainly not among the mountains of Ararat or of Armenia generally, nor those of any part of the
World where I have been, have I ever seen one whose majesty could plead half so powerfully its claims to the honor of having once been the stepping-stone between the old
World and the new
Christ: the Soul's Only Defence - Thy riches are no security, for Satan can make these a snare to thee, and if thou shouldst mount so high, the bird of prey can follow thee and rend thee in pieces! The busy
World with all its cares cannot shelter thee, for here it is that the great enemy is most at home; he is the prince of this
World, and seizes men who find their joys therein as easily as a kite lays hold upon a sparrow
Glass - ...
Glass was known in the ancient
World from about 2600 B. During this period, Alexandria, Egypt, became
World famous as a center for the production of glassware
Horn - The four horns in
Zechariah 1:18 represent the four ruling powers of the
World, to be superseded finally by Messiah's kingdom: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. (On "the little horn" of the third and of the fourth
World powers (
Daniel 7:8;
Daniel 8:9)
Preadamite - But this being expressly contrary to the first words of Genesis, Pereyra had recourse to the fabulous antiquities of the Egyptians and Chaldeans, and to some idle rabbins, who imagined there had been another
World before that described by Moses. " It is also clear from
Genesis 3:20 , where it is said, that "Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living, " that is, she was the source and root of all men and women in the
World; which plainly intimates that there was no other woman that was such a mother
Artemis - Often standing beside her is a fawn or stag on each side representing her relation to the animal
World. Artemis was the chief deity of Ephesus, and her temple was one of the seven wonders of the ancient
World
Conclude - The
World will conclude I had a guilty conscience. The
World will conclude that I ahd a guilty conscience--that is here the object, referring to the subsequent clause of the sentence
Gulf - Some commentators have discovered in Jesus’ employment of this term (‘chasm’), as well as in His assertion of the possibility of conversation, an approval in general terms of a current Rabbinical belief that the souls of the righteous and of the wicked exist after death in different compartments of the same under
World (see J. There is, moreover, an evident implication in the context that the gulf is not confined to the
World beyond the grave
Apocalypse - He pictures various phases of the Church's conflict with the
World by means of different symbolical visions. ...
Chapters 12:1 to 19:10, describe the struggle between the Church and the
World, ending in the destruction of Babylon
Allegory - The Old Testament writers were very partial to this way of teaching, in conveying divine truths through the medium of human illustrations; and sometimes by other objects from the
World of nature and art. Well might it be said, as it is said, when Jesus, who had been secretly set up from everlasting the glorious Head of his body the church, was openly to be brought into the
World,"Let all the angels of God worship him!" (
Hebrews 1:6) It will be a blessed view of this sweet allegory, now so graciously explained to us as it is, by the Holy Ghost himself, if both he that writes and he that reads, when summing up the wonderful account, can say with the apostle, "We are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free
Religion And Science - Religion and science lie in different provinces and each has its own legitimate field; the former deals mostly with the
World of unseen realities which science cannot know, the latter mostly with the
World of sense and matter about which religion has little to say
Science, Religion And - Religion and science lie in different provinces and each has its own legitimate field; the former deals mostly with the
World of unseen realities which science cannot know, the latter mostly with the
World of sense and matter about which religion has little to say
Noah - His efforts to reform the degenerate
World, continued as some suppose for one hundred and twenty years, produced little effect,
Matthew 24:37 ; the flood did not "find faith upon the earth. ...
Numerous traces of traditions respecting Noah have been found all over the
World
Rest - But sin entered into the
World by man, with all its baneful consequences; and unless God were to acquiesce in a
World of sin and moral woe He must needs work in grace
Tongues, Confusion of - The belief that the
World, after the Flood, was re-populated by the progeny of a single family, speaking one language, is reconciled in the Bible with the existing diversity of tongues by a story which relates how the descendants of Noah, in the course of their wanderings, settled in the plain of Shinar, or Babylonia, and there built of brick a city, and a tower high enough to reach heaven, as a monument to preserve their fame, and as a centre of social cohesion and union. Among these was the prevalence in the
World of different languages, which contributed so greatly to produce between the various peoples, who were thus unintelligible to one another, feelings of mutual suspicion and fear (cf. At the same time, all languages must have arisen from certain faculties and instincts common to human nature; and the presence, in languages belonging to distinct families, of onomatopoetic, or imitative, words serves to illustrate the essential similarity of human tendencies in the sphere of speech all the
World over
Confidence - To put one's ultimate trust or confidence either in human ability and power or in false gods and the things of this
World is to discover with the men of Shechem the ultimate weakness of the mundane
World (
Judges 9:26 ). ...
This developing sense of confidence in the Lord provided the basis for a sense of assurance to Israel for living in this
World as a people of God
Noah - This patriarch is rightly regarded as the connecting link between the old and the new
World. The judgment-threatened now fell on the guilty
World, "the
World that then was, being overflowed with water, perished" (
2 Peter 3:6 )
Exaltation (2) - So it is a law of the Kingdom of God that life in this
World must be sacrificed, if need be, that life eternal may be gained as a permanent possession. When the heavenly voice spoke, the Saviour was consoled and uplifted by the thought that He would cast out the prince of this
World, and be lifted up (ὑψωθῶ) as a victorious conqueror. The outwardly shameful death of the cross would be His true exaltation as the
World’s Saviour. ‘He rose again from the dead on the third day, He ascended up into heaven, He sitteth on the right hand of God the Father, He shall come to judge the
World at the last day
Mirror - So this
World of time and sense, as apprehended by the human mind, imperfectly mirrors the true and eternal
World, leaving many things ‘enigmatic. 514) in his well-known simile of the cave compares our sense-impressions to shadow-shapes that come and go, giving but hints of the real
World beyond; and the figure of the mirror is found in such Platonists as the writer of Wisdom (Wisdom of Solomon 7:26) and Philo (de Decal
Enmity - The friendship (φιλία, which implies ‘loving’ as well as ‘being loved’) of the
World, which loves its own (
John 15:19), is enmity with God (
James 4:4, Vulgate inimica est dei). Just because he is not of the
World, the
World hates him (
John 15:18 ff
Earth Earthen Earthy Earthly - Earth (γῆ) is used in a variety of meanings, which may be distinguished as follows: (1) the dust or matter of which the first man was made (
1 Corinthians 15:47); (2) the fertile soil which yields grass and herbs and fruit (
Hebrews 6:7, James 5:7, Revelation 9:4); (3) the solid ground upon which men stand or fall (
Acts 9:4;
Acts 9:8); (4) the land in contrast with the sea (
2 Peter 3:5, Revelation 10:5); (3) the whole
World as the abode of men (
Acts 1:8, etc.
Hebrews 8:1); (8) the earth in contrast with the underworld (
Philippians 2:10, Revelation 5:3;
Revelation 5:13); (9) the earth with a moral connotation, as the sphere of a merely
Worldly life to which is opposed the heavenly life with Christ in God (
Colossians 3:2;
Colossians 3:5). In
Philippians 2:10, while ‘things on earth’ are contrasted with ‘things in heaven’ the meaning of ἐπίγειος itself is that suggested by (5), the ‘things on earth’ being the inhabitants of the whole
World; and there is a further contrast with the ‘things under the earth,’ the inhabitants of the under
World (cf
Foot - ...
Matthew 5:13 (a) Here we find a type of the actions of the
World against the professing Christian who claims that he belongs to the Lord, yet shows no proofs of it in his daily life. Neither the
World nor the church has any confidence in that man, and refuses to receive his testimony. ...
Matthew 18:8 (b) In this way the Lord is telling us that if we want to walk in the ways of the
World so that the feet take us astray to the picture show, the tavern, the dance, it is best to cut off that foot so that such desires cannot and will not keep us away from CHRIST
Covenant - For so the apostle was commissioned by the Holy Ghost, to inform the church concerning that eternal life which was given us, he saith, in Christ Jesus, "before the
World began?" (
Titus 1:2;
2 Timothy 1:9) So that this everlasting covenant becomes the bottom and foundation in JEHOVAH'S appointment, and security of all grace and mercy for the church here, and of all glory and happiness hereafter, through the alone person, work, blood-shedding, and obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is on this account that his church is chosen in Christ before the foundation of the
World. (
Ephesians 1:4) And from this appointment, before all
Worlds, result all the after mercies in time, by which the happy partakers of such unspeakable grace and mercy are regenerated, called, adopted, made willing in the day of God's power, and are justified, sanctified, and, at length, fully glorified, to the praise of JEHOVAH'S grace, who hath made them accepted in the Beloved. But the whole purport, plan, design and grace, originating as it did in the purposes of JEHOVAH from all eternity, had all the properties in it of an everlasting covenant; and Christ always, and from all eternity, "was considered the Lamb slain from the foundation of the
World
Philippians, Epistle to the - The testimony is not viewed as opposed by the Jewish leaders, as in the beginning of the Acts, nor in conflict with Judaising influences, as at Antioch; but as in contact with the
World power (Rome), which was holding Paul, the vessel of it, in bondage. This was in order that, in the complete abnegation of self, as to the state of their minds, by the death of Christ, they might by God's power be manifest as a divine generation (children of God), occupying collectively the place which Christ had occupied in the
World — lights in the
World, holding forth the word of life
Only Begotten - " In
John 3:16 the statement, "God so loved the
World that He gave His only begotten son," must not be taken to mean that Christ became the only begotten son by incarnation. In
1 John 4:9 the statement "God hath sent His only begotten son into the
World" does not mean that God sent out into the
World one who at His birth in Bethlehem had become His Son
Prince - There is difference of opinion as to who are ‘the princes of this
World’ (RV_ ‘rulers of this
World,’ RVm_ ‘age’) here referred to. But others find in the passage an allusion to the evil spirits to which there was a tendency in later Judaism to assign part at least of the government of the
World
Phenicia - ...
Phoenicia lay in the very centre of the old
World, and was the natural entrepot for commerce with foreign nations. " "The trade routes from all Asia converged on the Phoenician coast; the centres of commerce on the Euphrates and Tigris forwarding their goods by way of Tyre to the Nile, to Arabia, and to the west; and, on the other hand, the productions of the vast regions bordering the Mediterranean passing through the Canaanite capital to the eastern
World. The far-reaching commercial activity of the Phoenicians, especially with Tarshish and the western
World, enriched them with vast wealth, which introduced boundless luxury and developed among them a great activity in all manner of arts and manufactures. ) ...
The Phoenicians were the most enterprising merchants of the old
World, establishing colonies at various places, of which Carthage was the chief
Baptism - Immediately upon trusting CHRIST the believer is reckoned as having been baptized in or buried with the Lord JESUS in contrast with his former position of being buried in the
World. The believer is said to be "in Christ," whereas, before, he was "in the
World. ...
Colossians 2:12 (b) Here again baptism is a symbol of burial in order that the
World may know that the Christian is dead and buried so far as the
World is concerned
Day-Star - Christ was the Sun, the Light of the
World. 234) had called Christ not a Star but the Sun and the Light of the
World, in Revelation Christ calls Himself the Morning-Star as ‘the herald and introducer of a new era,’ and the gift of the Morning-Star means ‘the dawn of a brighter day and a new career. In the squalid place of the
World (Revised Version margin ἐν αὐχμηρῷ τόπῳ-the adj. Such hopes 2 Peter holds before Christians in the squalidness of a
World where God is not known
Glory - The presence of God once dwelt in the
World in the glory that filled the tabernacle or temple, but now that glory dwelt in the
World in the form of a human being (
John 1:14;
Romans 8:17-18). This was partly because Christ’s glory during his earthly life was not a visible majestic splendour, such as he had as God before the
World began. In being born into this
World he laid that glory aside; though the event known as the transfiguration was a foretaste of a greater glory that would yet be his (
Matthew 17:1-6;
John 17:5; see TRANSFIGURATION)
Paradise (2) - The strangely mingled life man lives, half in, half out of the spiritual
World, will not suffer a system which ignores so large a portion of his consciousness. This man never knew much of any
World beyond his own
World of violence and rapine. Hutton, The Soul in the Unseen
World, 155 ff
Body - Jesus' body becomes the locus for God's redemptive activity in the
World. Indeed his body is both temple and sacrifice in that it manifests the glory of God and atones for the sins of the
World (
Mark 14:22 ;
Luke 22:19 ;
John 1:14 ; 2:21 ;
Romans 3:24-25 ;
Hebrews 9:14 ;
1 Peter 2:19,24 ). The primary allegiance of the body is not to the things of this
World or to the sinful desires of the flesh (
Romans 6:12-23 ). This special presence of God constitutes a community of faith whose identity cannot be confined to this
World. Vogel, Body Theology: God's Presence in Man's
World
Evil - Matter, he conceives, resists the will of the supreme Artificer, so that he cannot possibly execute his designs; and this is the cause of the mixture of good and evil, which is found in the material
World. " What that property of matter is which opposes the wise and benevolent intentions of the first Intelligence, Plato has not clearly explained; but he speaks of it as ξυμφυτος επιθυμια , an intimate propensity to disorder, and says, that before nature was adorned with its present beautiful forms, it was inclined to confusion and deformity, and that from this habitude arises all the evil which happens in the
World. Some of the Stoics adopted the notion of the Platonists concerning the origin of evil and ascribed it to the defective nature of matter, which it is not in the power of the great Artificer to change; asserting, that imperfections appear in the
World, not through any defect of skill in its author, but because matter will not admit of the accomplishment of his designs. Thus, when Chrysippus was asked whether diseases were to be ascribed to Divine providence, he replied that it was not the intention of nature that these things should happen; nor were they conformable to the will of the Author of nature and Parent of all good things; but that, in framing the
World, some inconveniences had adhered by necessary consequence, to his wise and useful plan. To others the question concerning the origin of evil appeared so intricate and difficult, that, finding themselves unequal to the solution of it, they denied either that there is any God at all, or, at least, any author or governor of the
World. The Epicureans belonged to this class; nor does Lucretius allege any other reason for denying the system of the
World to be the production of a Deity beside its being so very faulty. And thus all sorts of evils have entered into the
World, without any diminution to the infinite goodness of its Creator and Governor
Claim - ...
The narrative of the Gospels describes how Christ moved amid the social and religious relationships of the
World into which He came. His kingdom is declared to be entirely distinct from that of the
World, and it is only when challenged on a question of right conduct that He lays down the principle that whatever Caesar has an undisputed claim upon ought to be regarded as his, and whatever belongs to God should be rendered to Him only. With regard to all such relationships and connected claims Christ uses the vocabulary and valuation current in the
World. Afterwards, to one who understood it all, it was evident that attention to their own claims had blinded the religious leaders of Israel to the presence of the Lord of Glory (
1 Corinthians 2:8), just as the worship of nature, degraded and degrading, had darkened and alienated from God the heart of the Gentile
World (
Romans 1:21). ...
It is thus evident from the Gospel narratives that the Hebrew-Roman
World, into which Christ came as the Son of Man, had reached a high stage of development with regard to social authority and obedience. ...
It was largely due to this prevalence of legal relationship that the first presentation of the gospel to the
World took the familiar form of forensic process and judicial pronouncement. ...
There were, however, two great relationships in the Hebrew-Roman
World that were strangely marked by aloofness and disruption, namely, spiritual fellowship between God and man, and the racial status of Jew and Greek. In the Roman
World, the most sincere and eloquent teacher of the age (Lucretius) had shown that there was no Divine care for man as had been once supposed, for in his vision of the opened heavens he had seen the gods in a happy seclusion of their own, undisturbed by the sound of human pain and sorrow (de Rer. It must have been indescribably wonderful in such an age to learn that ‘God was in Christ reconciling the
World unto himself’ (
2 Corinthians 5:19)
Creation - One of the most convincing proofs of the composite authorship of the Pentateuch has always been found in the existence side by side of two independent and mutually irreconcilable accounts of the creation of the
World. ]'>[1] starts with a description (
Genesis 2:2 ) of the primeval chaos a dark formless watery abyss, out of which the
World of light and order was to be evolved. The
World whose origin is here described is a solid expanse of earth, surrounded by and resting on a
World-ocean, and surmounted by a rigid vault called the firmament , above which the waters of a heavenly ocean are spread. Such a
World is unknown to science; and the manner in which such a
World was conceived to have come into being cannot truly represent the process by which the very different
World of science and fact has been evolved. From these Assyriologists have deciphered a highly coloured mythological epic, describing the origin of the
World in the form of a conflict between Marduk, god of light and supreme deity of the pantheon of Babylon, and the power of Chaos personified as a female monster named Ti’âmat (Heb. The material is derived from some form of the Babylonian cosmogony, and shares the imperfection and error incident to all pre-scientific speculation regarding the past history of the
World. In opposition to the heathen theogonies, the
World is affirmed to have been created, i. The spirituality of the First Cause of all things, and His absolute sovereignty over the material He employs, are further emphasized in the idea of the word of God as the agency through which the various orders of existence were produced; and the repeated assertion that the
World in all its parts was ‘good,’ and as a whole ‘very good,’ suggests that it perfectly reflected the Divine thought which called it into being
Gentiles - The history of the Apostolic Age is mainly the history of how Christ was brought to the Gentile
World, and how the Jewish nation ‘hardened its heart more and more against the appeal of Christianity’ (Harnack, op. In the OT, it disclosed certain fundamental principles which, when we study them in the light of Christianity, we perceive to have been also promises of a purpose of mercy for the whole
World. ...
Very little is taught by the pre-Exilic prophets as to the
World being Israel’s mission-field, but much is said about God’s chastising the nations. When we read those words, and ‘the Servant of the Lord Songs,’ with their bright outlook on the Gentile
World, the expectation is raised that the missionary calling of Israel is about to be fulfilled. -Was there present to the mind of Christ, while accomplishing the work of Him that sent Him, a purpose of salvation that included the Gentiles? Did He look beyond ‘the lost sheep of the house of Israel’ to other sheep far off from the mountains of Canaan, who had also to be sought and found? When Satan showed Him the kingdoms of the
World, did He turn away from the sight of the
World with the repugnance of a Jew of His time, or did the sight move Him to compassion, and enkindle a great hope in His heart? It is not easy to see how the Christian Church can cease believing that Christ had a purpose of mercy for the
World, and the expectation of subduing it unto Himself, unless she is to revise her whole doctrine of the Person of her Lord. ‘The day and the hour’ may be unknown to Christ as the Son, but the Father’s purpose of love for the
World cannot be unknown; if He be the Son, He must have made that purpose His own. be admitted, His using the title also pointed to His coming Lordship over the
World. 64), it follows that the sayings, ‘The gospel must first be preached unto all the nations’ and ‘Wheresoever the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole
World’ (
Acts 13:10;
Acts 14:9), were put on record in little more than twenty years after they were spoken. This sentence occurs in one of the last parables of judgment (
Matthew 21:43), but other sayings reported before lead up to it, as: ‘Many shall come from the east and west’; ‘The field is the
World’; ‘The last shall be first, and the first last’ (
Matthew 8:11;
Matthew 13:38;
Matthew 20:16). This Gospel is the crowning proof that there was present to the mind of our Lord from the beginning a purpose of salvation which comprehended the Gentile
World. For here Jesus calls Himself ‘the light of the
World,’ speaks of ‘giving his flesh for the life of the
World,’ and of ‘sending his disciples into the
World in like manner as the Father sent him into the
World’; to the woman at the well He speaks of the hour when, not the coming to God at the ancient sanctuaries, but the coming to the Father ‘in spirit and truth,’ will be the mark of the sincere worshipper; He resides two days with the Samaritans; He proclaims to the leaders of the Jewish Church that He has ‘other sheep, not of this fold,’ whom
Light - ’s version of the Sermon on the Mount it occurs in a context laying stress upon the supreme need of the heavenly mind in religion; and as the main rival to God in man’s affections is the
World, in the shape of material wealth, the pursuit of the single mind is naturally correlated with the avoidance of covetousness. As the functions of the physical life depend largely upon the soundness of the organs of vision, by means of which men move safely and freely in the outside
World, so the mental and moral health of man is bound up with the condition of his inner life. When the latter is darkened by the intrusion of a divided affection, especially in the form of some appetite such as covetousness or
Worldliness, then ‘how great is the darkness’! For religion, as Christ taught it, is not admitting God into life. And nothing can be more ominous than when the soul, which is man’s delicate faculty for seeing and choosing God, is diverted to double-mindedness or to an attempt to reconcile the competing interests of God and of the
World. The disciples are cautioned against the tendency, whether due to modesty or to cowardice, to refrain from letting their faith tell upon the
World. In
Luke 11:33 it is impossible to trace any very obvious connexion between this and what precedes, any more than between it and what follows, unless the idea of the editor is that Solomon’s wisdom and Jonah’s preaching were frank and open to the
World (hence
Luke 11:33), while no sign (
Luke 11:29) is needed if the inner heart be pure and true (
Luke 11:34-38). Jesus is warning His disciples that while their relation to the outside
World is often full of annoyance and suffering, yet this bitter experience (
Matthew 5:10 f. ‘You are the light of the
World,’ He urges. What Jesus inculcates is an attitude of consistent goodness, void of monasticism and ostentation alike, as corresponding to the nature of His Kingdom, whose property and destiny it is to become manifest to the
World (cf. ‘Heaven means both the
World of light above us and the
World of hope within us, and the earliest name of the Divine beings is simply “the bright ones. But if they were simply metaphors, they would show how closely the
World without is adapted to express and render definite the yearnings and the fears of the
World within’ (J. It is not Christians but Christ, the incarnate Logos, who is the Light of the
World (
John 1:4;
John 8:12;
John 9:5;
John 12:46). This antithesis means more, however, than a metaphysical dualism running through the
World. ‘The true light, which lightens every man, was coming into the
World’; i. Later on, this is frankly stated by Jesus Himself at the feast of Tabernacles, when brilliant illuminations were held every night—a symbolism which may have suggested the cry, ‘I am the light of the
World’ (
John 8:12; cf
Simon Maccabaeus - Later writers have increased the blasphemy of this doctrine, and said that Simon declared himself to the Samaritans as the Father, to the Jews as the Son, and to the rest of the
World as the Holy Ghost. He gave himself out as "the great power of God," that is, a person in whom divine power resided: and, after he had heard the Apostles, he seems to have so far enlarged his doctrine, as to have said, that the God whose minister he was, and who had always been worshipped in Samaria, had revealed himself to the Jews by his Son, and to the rest of the
World by the Holy Ghost. To this he added, that the Holy Ghost, by which God was revealed to the Gentiles, resided in himself: and this I take to be the real origin of the story, that he was the God who revealed himself as the Father to the Samaritans, as the Son to the Jews, and as the Holy Ghost to the rest of the
World. By another mental process, in which this first idea was a partner, he produced the angels, and they created the
World. This then was the doctrine of Simon: the supreme God, by a mental process, produced different orders of angels, and they created the
World. If I have argued rightly, I have freed the doctrine of Simon Magus from some of its impieties; but there is still much which is absurd, and much which is impious; for he believed that the
World was created, not by the supreme God, but by inferior beings: he taught also, that Christ was one of those successive generations of aeons which were derived from God; not the aeon which created the
World; but he was sent from God to rescue mankind from the tyranny of the demiurgus, or creative aeon. His other doctrines were, that the writers of the Old Testament were not inspired by the supreme God, the Fountain of good, but by those inferior beings who created the
World, and who were the authors of evil. Hence we find him embracing the opinion, that the
World was created by angels, who were themselves produced from God. The first intelligences of Plato were employed by God to create the
World: Simon also taught that the angels, or aeons, created the
World; but in one respect the Gnostics had totally changed the philosophy of Plato; for they taught that the angel, or angels, who created the
World, acted contrary to the wishes of the Supreme God
Gnostics - Thus we find in it the Platonic doctrine of ideas, and the notion that every thing in this lower
World has a celestial and immaterial archetype. Hence arose their fundamental tenet, that the creator of the
World, or Demiurgus, was not the same with the supreme God, the Author of good, and the Father of Christ. Those who embraced the doctrine of two principles supposed the
World to have been produced by the evil principle; and, in most systems, the creator, though not the father of Christ, was looked upon as the God of the Jews, and the author of the Mosaic law. Some, again, believed that angels were employed in creating the
World; but all were agreed in maintaining that matter itself was not created, that it was eternal, and remained inactive, till...
Dispositam, quisquis fuit ille Deorum, Congeriem secuit, sectamque in membra redegit: OVID. These successive aeons or emanations appear to have been inferior each to the preceding; and their existence was indispensable to the Gnostic scheme, that they might account for the creation of the
World without making God the author of evil. At length, one of the aeons passed the limits of the pleroma, and, meeting with matter, created the
World, after the form and model of an ideal
World which existed in the pleroma or in the mind of the supreme God. Added to which, we are to suppose that the Demiurgus formed the
World without the knowledge of God; and that, having formed it, he rebelled against him. Christ was sent into the
World to remedy the evil which the creative aeon or Demiurgus had caused. We have seen that the God who was the father or progenitor of Christ, was not considered to be the creator of the
World
Spirituality - Christian spirituality is not a gnostic renunciation of the created
World nor the Platonic flight of the soul from the body. The
World is the object of God's love (
John 3:16 ), and we are to glorify God in our bodies (
Romans 12:1 ;
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ). Spirituality must be practiced in this
World, which God made good (
Mark 7:19 ) and which God is in the process of redeeming (
Romans 8:18-25 ). As in the Old Testament, spirituality does not imply that one is to flee this
World to find God, but that one must find God and grow in grace in this
World, even discovering avenues (i. When a Christian mixes the Christian construal with other construals (such as a materialistic conception of the
World), then there is a kind of double vision that leads to conflicts, hypocrisy, and the like (see
Matthew 6:19-24 ). Initially, this begins by repenting (metanoia
turning our spiritual eyes away from our former conceptions of the
World to see life from Christ's vantage point), followed by concentrating on, focusing on, conceptualizing, and even imaging Christ's character and God's presence and activity primarily through Scripture reading and prayer in the context of the fellowship of believers. Through this work of the indwelling presence of the Spirit of Christ and our response we come to have the "mind of Christ"Christ's way of seeing the
World that becomes "second nature" in us (
Philippians 2:1-5 )
Monotheism - Thus the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel, tracing all things back to God with whom the Word is one (
John 1:1), asserts nothing less than the uniqueness as well as the eternity and sovereignty of Him from whom they proceed; and the true Light entering into the
World enlighteneth not this or that nation only, but every man (
John 1:9). The area and claims of the Divine Kingdom, the Kingdom of God, are explicitly enlarged beyond any mere national limits, and made to embrace the whole
World (
Luke 16:16, John 4:21 ff. It is indeed not bodily or material (
Luke 17:21), but transcends the
World (
John 18:36). ‘The field’ in which the seed is sown is ‘the
World’ (
Matthew 13:38); and the final injunction to Christ’s followers is that they are to go into all the
World to make disciples of all the nations (
Matthew 28:19). ...
The same teaching is conveyed with more or less directness in the assertion of the subordination and judgment of the prince of this
World (
John 16:11); in the stress laid upon the unique obligation and importance of love to God as constituting the first and greatest commandment (
Matthew 22:37 ||
Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27); in the appeal made by Christ Himself to a similar unique obligation of worship and service to the one only God (
Matthew 4:10 ||
Luke 4:8); in the emphatic affirmation of a common Fatherhood and Godhead (
John 20:17; cf. , Glasgow, 1894; Orr, Christian View of God and the
World1
, pp
Zabii - Townley's "Essays:"—The Zabii, or Zabians, were a sect of idolaters who flourished in the early ages of the
World, considerable in their numbers, and extensive in their influence. Maimonides says, "This people," that is, the Zabii, "had filled the whole
World. They maintained the doctrine of the eternity of the
World. "All the Zabii," says Maimonides, "believe in the eternity of the
World; for, according to them, the heavens are God. " Holding the eternity of the
World, they easily became Pre-Adamites, affirming that Adam was not the first man. "...
The modern Sabians, who inhabit the country round about Mount Libanus, believe the unity of God, but pay an adoration to the stars, or the angels and intelligences which they suppose reside in them, and govern the
World under the supreme Deity
Adam - It is enough for any man, or for any school of men, to be enabled to take us back to the first beginnings of this present system of things, when as yet our earth was without form and void, and to lead us up step after step, age after age, till we open our eyes on this wonderful
World as it now is. Even after they have led us so far up on the shining path of scientilic truth, we feel sure that there are still sources and paths and fields uf light, as well as shadows and belts and whole
Worlds of darkness, over which we have been hurried, and into which we have not been led or let look. 'The Scripture begins,' says Butler, 'with an account of God's creation of the
World, in order to ascertain who He is concerning whose providences, commands, promises, and threatenings this sacred book all along treats, the Maker and Proprietor of the
World, He whose creatures we are-the God of Nature, Revelation, indeed, considers the common affairs of this
World, and what is going on in it, as a mere scene of distraction, and cannot be supposed to give any account of this wild scene for its own sake. This earth, our habitation, has everywhere the appearance of being a ruin, and revelation comes in on the supposition that this
World is in a ruined state. It is a fashion with the prevailing philosophy of our day to decry and contemn the old, orthodox, and fruitful argument from final causes; but I shall continue, in this matter also, to follow Bishop Butler, to me by far the deepest and the wisest philosopher the
World has ever seen. ...
Now, the multiplication and the increase of the image of God is an altogether worthy reason, adequate explanation, and final cause for the creation of this
World, and for all the processes, preparations, and providences through which this
World has passed. All of God's wisdom and power that was expended on this
World, and on Adam its possessor and its priest, was all to find its reward and its return in a
World replenished with a race of creatures who were to be such partakers of the divine nature that they would live for ever and grow for ever in the love, in the holy fellowship, in the blessed service, and in the full enjoyment of God. That was why God prepared such a home for man as this
World in Adam's day was, and still in our day is. And this
World is a sad mixture of false good and real evil; a widespread scene of all sorts of trials, vexations, and miseries, all arising from the frame and nature and condition both of man and the
World. My first attempt, therefore, upon any man, to convince him of Adam's fall as the ground of Christ's redemption, should be an attempt to do that for him which affliction, disappointment, sickness, pain, and the approach of death have a natural tendency to do; that is, to convince him of the vanity, poverty, and misery of his life and condition in this
World. I would appeal at first to nothing but his own nature and condition in this
World to demonstrate this capital truth of Holy Scripture that all mankind lie in a fallen state. Now, Death made his first approach to this
World in that hour of Adam and Eve's first temptation. It runs thus: 'Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the
World, and death by sin, therefore, as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. ' To Paul's so comprehensive mind, so far-sweeping imagination, and so righteousness-hungry heart, Adam and Christ are the two poles upon whom this whole
World of human life revolves
Anne, Saint - From these we learn that Anne and Joachim had reached old age and still remained childless; their prayers were answered, an angel of the Lord announcing to Anne that the fruit of her womb would be blessed by all the
World
Knights of Columbus - The charitable accomplishments of the Knights of Columbus include beds endowed in Catholic hospitals, seholarships provided in Catholic colleges, the maintenance of free employment bureaus, distinguished services during the
World War, the foundation of a chair in American History at the Catholic University of America, etc
Kolping, Adolph - Father Kolping was elected president of this society; with Cologne as his headquarters, he visited the industrial centers of Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland, and established a widespread organization of societies called Gesellenverein (society of young journeymen), throughout the German-speaking
World, with a priest at the head of each
Lima, Peru - The Jesuits arrived at Lima in 1567, founded schools and colleges, and introduced the printing press, from which a catechism, the first book printed in the New
World, was issued
de Rossi, Giovanni Battista - As a result of his explorations and researches De Rossi became a famous authority on epigraphy and Roman topography, and stirred up a
World-wide interest in Christian antiquities
Jashar, Book of - In the OT there are two quotations from this book ( a )
Joshua 10:12-13 ; the original form must have been a poetical description of the battle of Gibeon, in which would have been included the old-world account of Jahweh casting down great stones from heaven upon Israel’s enemies
Kingdom of God - Not only a place or goal to be attained, but an influence under which our minds come when we are one with Christ and acting under His ideals; the sway of Grace, in our hearts; the rule of God in the
World, Thy kingdom come; the place where God reigns; the goal at which we have to aim; the Church, which exercises this influence, administers the sacraments as a means of this grace, upholds even in persecution the laws of God, tabernacles the Body and Blood of His Divine
Kingdom of Heaven - Not only a place or goal to be attained, but an influence under which our minds come when we are one with Christ and acting under His ideals; the sway of Grace, in our hearts; the rule of God in the
World, Thy kingdom come; the place where God reigns; the goal at which we have to aim; the Church, which exercises this influence, administers the sacraments as a means of this grace, upholds even in persecution the laws of God, tabernacles the Body and Blood of His Divine
Pallen, Conde Benoist - He edited Church Progress and the Catholic
World, 1887-1897; was Catholic revisory editor for Encyclopedia Americana and the New International Encyclopedia
Chaucer, Geoffrey - He defended the Church against age-long calumnies in "The Franklin's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale," but he depicted the Plantagenet
World as it was: where the churchman type was gross he represented it grossly; he did not attempt to make it better
Abel - He therefore slighted the promised seed, and redemption by, Christ: and stands in the front of the Bible, the first desit the
World ever knew
Zoan - "The whole constitutes one of the grandest and oldest ruins in the
World
Debt - Debt in this sense is a reminder of the difficulties of life in the everyday
World, where debts can easily bring a person to ruin
Leopard - "The mountains of the leopard" (
Song of Solomon 4:8), namely, Lebanon and Hermon, where still they are found; "the mountains of prey" (
Psalms 76:4), symbolizing the rapacious
World kingdoms
Steward - ...
Christians are God’s stewards, appointed by him to look after his interests in the
World
Athens - The capital of Attica, the most celebrated city of the ancient
World, the seat of Greek literature and art during the golden period of Grecian history
Gebal - Still its fame for building ships and trading throughout the
World continued
Hylozoism - , protests against a mechanical view of the
World, but tends to make all beings conform to a uniform pattern
Tin - ) There call be little doubt that the mines of Britain were the chief source of supply to the ancient
World,
("Tin ore has lately been found in Midian
Advocate - The Spirit was promised to remain with Jesus' disciples always (14:16), to "teach" (14:26), to "testify" about Christ and to enable them to testify (15:26), and to "convict the
World of guilt" (16:7)
Commination - It is substituted in the room of that godly discipline in the primitive church, by which ( as the introduction to the office expresses it ) "such persons as stood convicted of notorious sins were put to open penance, and punished in this
World, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord; and that others, admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend
Theatre - ) In
1 Corinthians 4:9 "spectacle" is literally, "theatrical spectacle," a spectacle in which the
World above and below is the theater, and angels and men the spectators
Muth-Labben - Saul slain by the Philistines by whom he had sought to slay David, and receiving the last thrust from one of the Amalekites whom he ought to have destroyed, and Nabal ("fool") dying after his selfish surfeit when churlishly he had refused aught to David's men who had guarded him and his, are instances of the death of such
World-wise "fools" (
1 Samuel 25:26;
1 Samuel 25:38;
2 Samuel 3:33;
Psalms 14:1)
Macedonia - The third great
World-kingdom, the Macedonian empire, received its name from this comparatively little spot
Honduras - ...
Archdioceses, past and present, include ...
Tegucigalpa
Dioceses, past and present, include: ...
Choluteca
Comayagua
Juticalpa
San Pedro Sula
Santa Rosa de Copán
Trujillo
See also: ...
World Fact Book
patron saints index
Old Testament - The Law (Genesis—Deuteronomy) begins with the creation of the
World and concludes as Israel is about to enter the Promised Land
Alway - stand also for Anno Mundi, in the year of the
World
Always - stand also for Anno Mundi, in the year of the
World
Assurance - Conversation with the
World will give them knowledge and assurance
Giovanni de Rossi - As a result of his explorations and researches De Rossi became a famous authority on epigraphy and Roman topography, and stirred up a
World-wide interest in Christian antiquities
Guatemala - See also: ...
World Factbook
Catholic-Hierarchy
Asp - The prophetic vision is God's restoration of the
World order so that small children can play around the holes of poisonous snakes without fear (
Isaiah 11:8 )
God, Kingdom of - Not only a place or goal to be attained, but an influence under which our minds come when we are one with Christ and acting under His ideals; the sway of Grace, in our hearts; the rule of God in the
World, Thy kingdom come; the place where God reigns; the goal at which we have to aim; the Church, which exercises this influence, administers the sacraments as a means of this grace, upholds even in persecution the laws of God, tabernacles the Body and Blood of His Divine
Albania - ...
Ecclesiastically the country is governed by the archdioceses of ...
Shkodrë-Pult
Tiranë-Durrës
the dioceses of ...
Lezhë
Pult
Rrëshen
Sapë
and the Byzantine Apostolic Administration ...
Albania Meridionale
See also, ...
World Fact Book
Catholic-Hierarchy
Creator - The heathen
World are charged with serving the creature more than the Creator. by whom also he made the
Worlds
Balaam -
2 Peter 2:15 (b) This man is typical of one who claims to be a servant of GOD and is sometimes used of GOD, but for the sake of permanence and prosperity is willing to lead his flock astray and to invite
Worldliness to come in among the members. This is typical of modern-day preachers who will promote and permit wicked,
Worldly things and who will teach error because of the pay they receive from those who like to hear them. ...
Revelation 2:14 (b) Here we see a type of those in the church who invite unsaved men of the
World to bring in their ideas and to lead the church to engage in things which are not according to the Scriptures, and which are quite opposed to the will of GOD
Wormwood - He will make the so-called pleasures and attraction of the
World bitter and offensive in the eyes of those who indulge in them
Hiding Place - The
World generally thinks of Him as being a careless, indifferent person, who can be easily avoided and carelessly disobeyed
Sanctuary - The sanctuary was where, in retirement from man and the
World, God's glory was seen, and His mind apprehended; it was where the sacrifices were offered, and God was worshipped. Here it is called 'worldly,' (κοσμικός) in reference possibly to its order, and its contrast to the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man
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