{"query": "Easton: Appeal", "count": 12, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1f88b985117e", "title": "Easton: Appeal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A reference of any case from an inferior to a superior court. Moses established in the wilderness a series of judicatories such that appeals could be made from a lower to a higher (Ex. 18:13-26.) Unde"}, {"id": "card_c_03d648f00295", "title": "Easton: Appeal cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 25:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_6aa5296e4546", "title": "Easton: Appeal references Caesarea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Caesarea (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_069566d4eb24", "title": "Easton: Appeal references Paul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Paul (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_9bf7ce2fdd05", "title": "Easton: Caesar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title assumed by the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar. In the New Testament this title is given to various emperors as sovereigns of Judaea without their accompanying distinctive proper names (J"}, {"id": "card_n_f658e3e5bc23", "title": "Easton: Adjuration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A solemn appeal whereby one person imposes on another the obligation of speaking or acting as if under an oath (1 Sam. 14:24; Josh. 6:26; 1 Kings 22:16). We have in the New Testament a striking exampl"}, {"id": "card_n_72e03ea5bfc2", "title": "Easton: Festus, Porcius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The successor of Felix (A.D. 60) as procurator of Judea (Acts 24:27). A few weeks after he had entered on his office the case of Paul, then a prisoner at Caesarea, was reported to him. The “next day,”"}, {"id": "card_n_60dc80d6f932", "title": "Easton: Oath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A solemn appeal to God, permitted on fitting occasions (Deut. 6:13; Jer. 4:2), in various forms (Gen. 16:5; 2 Sam. 12:5; Ruth 1:17; Hos. 4:15; Rom. 1:9), and taken in different ways (Gen. 14:22; 24:2;"}, {"id": "card_n_d527b91db34d", "title": "Easton: Zelophehad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First-born, of the tribe of Manasseh, and of the family of Gilead; died in the wilderness. Having left no sons, his daughters, concerned lest their father’s name should be “done away from among his fa"}, {"id": "card_n_d5aa0bbe6827", "title": "Easton: Elements", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In its primary sense, as denoting the first principles or constituents of things, it is used in 2 Pet. 3:10: “The elements shall be dissolved.” In a secondary sense it denotes the first principles of "}, {"id": "card_n_20a80f7bca8c", "title": "Easton: Citizenship", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The rights and privileges of a citizen in distinction from a foreigner (Luke 15:15; 19:14; Acts 21:39). Under the Mosaic law non-Israelites, with the exception of the Moabites and the Ammonites and ot"}, {"id": "card_n_915917bcd1fb", "title": "Easton: Revelation, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The author of this book was undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four times in the book itself (1:1"}]}