{"query": "Easton: Avenger of blood", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1aa07a7839ff", "title": "Easton: Avenger of blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. goel, from verb gaal, “to be near of kin,” “to redeem”), the nearest relative of a murdered person. It was his right and duty to slay the murderer (2 Sam. 14:7, 11) if he found him outside of a "}, {"id": "card_n_b003bb46e6aa", "title": "Easton: Blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the "}, {"id": "card_n_8b78ff3fde97", "title": "Easton: Kinsman", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. goel, from root meaning to redeem. The goel among the Hebrews was the nearest male blood relation alive. Certain important obligations devolved upon him toward his next of kin. (1.) If any one fr"}, {"id": "card_n_a3df6a5166f6", "title": "Heidelberg Q79", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why then doth Christ call the bread his body, and the cup his blood, or the new covenant in his blood; and Paul, the communion of body and blood of Christ?\n\nChrist speaks thus, not without great reaso"}, {"id": "card_n_d1b2d9bd24c0", "title": "Easton: Goel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Hebrew the participle of the verb gaal, “to redeem.” It is rendered in the Authorized Version “kinsman,” Num. 5:8; Ruth 3:12; 4:1, 6, 8; “redeemer,” Job 19:25; “avenger,” Num. 35:12; Deut. 19:6, et"}, {"id": "card_n_2288684e8c31", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_014: Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God. But that the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, I read"}, {"id": "card_n_9b276ed995a5", "title": "Sermon: Restoration Through the Blood", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Restoration Through the Blood\nMain Text: 1 Peter 5:9–11 NKJV\nIntroduction\nGod designed us to live in love — with Him, one another, and creation.\nSin corrupted the code, introducing viruses: lust, gree"}, {"id": "card_n_8fa579adfa24", "title": "Easton: Abel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Hebhel), a breath, or vanity, the second son of Adam and Eve. He was put to death by his brother Cain (Gen. 4:1-16). Guided by the instruction of their father, the two brothers were trained in t"}, {"id": "card_n_f00240775d03", "title": "Easton: Drink-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consisted of wine (Num. 15:5; Hos. 9:4) poured around the altar (Ex. 30:9). Joined with meat-offerings (Num. 6:15, 17; 2 Kings 16:13; Joel 1:9, 13; 2:14), presented daily (Ex. 29:40), on the Sabbath ("}, {"id": "card_n_aaeb5084db01", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah-judged. (1.) One of David’s body-guard (1 Chr. 11:43). (2.) One of the priests who accompanied the removal of the ark to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:24). (3.) Son of Ahilud, “recorder” or annalist un"}, {"id": "card_n_1987410ceae9", "title": "Easton: Plague", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “stroke” of affliction, or disease. Sent as a divine chastisement (Num. 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 Sam. 24:21). Painful afflictions or diseases, (Lev. 13:3, 5, 30; 1 Kings 8:37), or severe calamity ("}, {"id": "card_n_ad9dc748d311", "title": "Easton: Horn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4, 5). Flasks or vessels were made of horn (1 Sam. 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39). But the word is used also metaphorica"}, {"id": "card_n_6cb382b0b203", "title": "Easton: Sin-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13; 9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14. On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev. 16:5, 1"}, {"id": "card_n_4d86f761eb36", "title": "Easton: Pilate, Pontius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Probably connected with the Roman family of the Pontii, and called “Pilate” from the Latin pileatus, i.e., “wearing the pileus”, which was the “cap or badge of a manumitted slave,” as indicating that "}, {"id": "card_n_23a5f7a54976", "title": "Heidelberg Q75", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How art thou admonished and assured in the Lord's supper, that thou art a partaker of that one sacrifice of Christ, accomplished on the cross, and of all his benefits?\n\nThus: That Christ has commanded"}, {"id": "card_n_4043b9cf7c83", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §276: I saw, then, that they went on their way to a pleasant river; which David the king call...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I saw, then, that they went on their way to a pleasant river; which David the king called \"the river of God\", but John, \"the river of the water of life\". Now their way lay just upon the bank of the ri"}, {"id": "card_n_3038662d5414", "title": "Canons of Dort, Head 2: Of the Death of Christ and the Redemption of Men Thereby (Particular Redemption)", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The death of God's Son is the only and most perfect sacrifice and satisfaction for sin; and is of infinite worth and value, abundantly sufficient to expiate the sins of the whole world. It was the wil"}, {"id": "card_n_9239bcbc20ad", "title": "1 Clement VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things, beloved, we write unto you, not merely to admonish you of your duty, but also to remind ourselves. For we are struggling on the same arena, and the same conflict is assigned to both of u"}, {"id": "card_n_a11f8a556cda", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxiv: How base and putrid, every common matter is!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "How base and putrid, every common matter is! Water, dust, and from the mixture of these bones, and all that loathsome stuff that our bodies do consist of: so subject to be infected, and corrupted. And"}, {"id": "card_n_c01d455ff842", "title": "Heidelberg Q78", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Do then the bread and wine become the very body and blood of Christ?\n\nNot at all; but as the water in baptism is not changed into the blood of Christ, neither is the washing away of sin itself; so the"}]}