{"query": "Easton: Canon", "count": 10, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2e39054b9b10", "title": "Easton: Canon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is derived from a Hebrew and Greek word denoting a reed or cane. Hence it means something straight, or something to keep straight; and hence also a rule, or something ruled or measured. It c"}, {"id": "card_n_8b7feef8497c", "title": "Easton: Scripture", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Invariably in the New Testament denotes that definite collection of sacred books, regarded as given by inspiration of God, which we usually call the Old Testament (2 Tim. 3:15, 16; John 20:9; Gal. 3:2"}, {"id": "card_c_b1e9fa1e635a", "title": "Easton: Canon references Psalms", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Psalms. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_6639463b61e8", "title": "Easton: Canon references Law", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Law (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_bd4565f9ace2", "title": "Easton: Leviticus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The third book of the Pentateuch; so called in the Vulgate, after the LXX., because it treats chiefly of the Levitical service. In the first section of the book (1-17), which exhibits the worship itse"}, {"id": "card_n_ebb9ee6aa3ee", "title": "Easton: Malachi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Messenger or angel, the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the last book of the Old Testament canon (Mal. 4:4, 5, 6). Nothing is known of him beyond what is contained in his book of prophec"}, {"id": "card_n_35cbbc002896", "title": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Its canonicity. All the results of critical and historical research to which this epistle has been specially subjected abundantly vindicate its right to a place in the New Testament canon among t"}, {"id": "card_n_d80fbe8b0d63", "title": "Easton: Apocrypha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translations made from the"}, {"id": "card_n_2e6ce5fca91a", "title": "Easton: Lamentations, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called in the Hebrew canon ’Ekhah, meaning “How,” being the formula for the commencement of a song of wailing. It is the first word of the book (see 2 Sam. 1:19-27). The LXX. adopted the name rendered"}, {"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"}]}