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Children of God

1. Physical and Limited Sonship Disappears: As the doctrine of Divine fatherhood attains its full spiritual and moral significance in the New Testament, so does the experience and idea of sonship. All traces of physical descent have disappeared. Paul's quotation from a heathen poet: "For we are also...

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Great; Greatness

grat, grat'-nes: "Great" occurs very often in Scripture. The chief words so translated are gadhol, rabh; megas, polus. (1) In the Old Testament many other terms are employed: (a) gadhol is used to express greatness in various senses, chiefly of magnitude, including excellence, e.g. "great lights" (G...

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Hebrews, Epistle to The

1. Summary of Contents: I. The Revelation of God in His Son (Heb 1:1-14-Heb 2:1-18). 1. Christ the completion of revelation (Heb 1:1-3). 2. Christ's superiority over the angels (Heb 1:4 ff). (1) Because lie is a Son (Heb 1:4-6). (2) Because His reign is eternal (Heb 1:7 ff). 3. The dangers of neglec...

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Messiah

To the prevalence of the Messianic hope among the Jews in the time of Christ the Gospel records bear ample testimony. We see from the question of the Baptist that "the coming one" was expected (Mt 11:3 and parallel), while the people wondered whether John himself were the Christ (Lu 3:15). 1. The Je...

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Prayer

prar (deesis, proseuche, (enteuxis; for an excellent discussion of the meaning of these see Thayer's Lexicon, p. 126, under the word deesis; the chief verbs are euchomai, proseuchomai, and deomai, especially in Luke and Acts; aiteo, "to ask a favor" distinguished from erotao, "to ask a question," is...

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Profess; Profession

pro-fes', pro-fesh'-un (naghadh; homologeo, homologia): "Profess" means literally "to own before," hence, to make open or public announcement; it occurs only once in the Old Testament as the translation of naghadh, "to put before," often "to tell," "to show," "to declare" (De 26:3); in the New Testa...