{"query": "Easton: Christian", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f55864c9ac8f", "title": "Easton: Christian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given by the Greeks or Romans, probably in reproach, to the followers of Jesus. It was first used at Antioch. The names by which the disciples were known among themselves were “brethren,” “th"}, {"id": "card_n_f510f74b1f7a", "title": "Easton: Hope", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). “Hope is an essential and fundamen"}, {"id": "card_n_f4ca4e01c4e4", "title": "Easton: Mnason", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reminding, or remembrancer, a Christian of Jerusalem with whom Paul lodged (Acts 21:16). He was apparently a native of Cyprus, like Barnabas (11:19, 20), and was well known to the Christians of Caesar"}, {"id": "card_n_e336d82739e0", "title": "Easton: Mystery", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The calling of the Gentiles into the Christian Church, so designated (Eph. 1:9, 10; 3:8-11; Col. 1:25-27); a truth undiscoverable except by revelation, long hid, now made manifest. The resurrection of"}, {"id": "card_n_60b0e3e89d33", "title": "Easton: Teil tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(an old name for the lime-tree, the tilia), Isa. 6:13, the terebinth, or turpentine-tree, the Pistacia terebinthus of botanists. The Hebrew word here used (elah) is rendered oak (q.v.) in Gen. 35:4; J"}, {"id": "card_n_20db105b14a4", "title": "Easton: Alms", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not found in the Old Testament, but repeatedly in the New. The Mosaic legislation (Lev. 25:35; Deut. 15:7) tended to promote a spirit of charity, and to prevent the occurrence of destitution among the"}, {"id": "card_n_e373a1911a6f", "title": "Easton: Antioch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) In Syria, on the river Orontes, about 16 miles from the Mediterranean, and some 300 miles north of Jerusalem. It was the metropolis of Syria, and afterwards became the capital of the Roman provin"}, {"id": "card_n_fb7f817c5014", "title": "Easton: Gospels", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The central fact of Christian preaching was the intelligence that the Saviour had come into the world (Matt. 4:23; Rom. 10:15); and the first Christian preachers who called their account of the person"}, {"id": "card_n_5daed6c3700e", "title": "Easton: Philemon, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written from Rome at the same time as the epistles to the Colossians and Ephesians, and was sent also by Onesimus. It was addressed to Philemon and the members of his family. It was written for th"}, {"id": "card_n_d423b7639365", "title": "Easton: Baptism, Christian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ordinance immediately instituted by Christ (Matt. 28:19, 20), and designed to be observed in the church, like that of the Supper, “till he come.” The words “baptize” and “baptism” are simply Greek "}, {"id": "card_n_aa52cee81e3f", "title": "Easton: Deaconess", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rom. 16:1, 3, 12; Phil. 4:2, 3; 1 Tim. 3:11; 5:9, 10; Titus 2:3, 4). In these passages it is evident that females were then engaged in various Christian ministrations. Pliny makes mention of them also"}, {"id": "card_n_bc1c7e3a697a", "title": "Easton: Onesiphorus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bringing profit, an Ephesian Christian who showed great kindness to Paul at Rome. He served him in many things, and had oft refreshed him. Paul expresses a warm interest in him and his household (2 Ti"}, {"id": "card_n_d02d5dc72307", "title": "Easton: Bond", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An obligation of any kind (Num. 30:2, 4, 12). The word means also oppression or affliction (Ps. 116:16; Phil. 1:7). Christian love is the “bond of perfectness” (Col. 3:14), and the influences of the S"}, {"id": "card_n_a5988ad0bc47", "title": "Easton: Evil-speaking", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is expressly forbidden (Titus 3:2; James 4:11), and severe punishments are denounced against it (1 Cor. 5:11; 6:10). It is spoken of also with abhorrence (Ps. 15:3; Prov. 18:6, 7), and is foreign to t"}, {"id": "card_n_1c0d3a9c4ba6", "title": "Easton: Charity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Cor. 13), the rendering in the Authorized Version of the word which properly denotes love, and is frequently so rendered (always so in the Revised Version). It is spoken of as the greatest of the t"}, {"id": "card_n_164eee547fd8", "title": "Easton: Zeal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An earnest temper; may be enlightened (Num. 25:11-13; 2 Cor. 7:11; 9:2), or ignorant and misdirected (Rom. 10:2; Phil. 3:6). As a Christian grace, it must be grounded on right principles and directed "}, {"id": "card_n_8b344e295909", "title": "Easton: Hermas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mercury, a Roman Christian to whom Paul sends greetings (Rom. 16: 14). Some suppose him to have been the author of the celebrated religious romance called The Shepherd, but it is very probable that th"}, {"id": "card_n_9472ccf3448e", "title": "Easton: Immanuel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God with us. In the Old Testament it occurs only in Isa. 7:14 and 8:8. Most Christian interpreters have regarded these words as directly and exclusively a prophecy of our Saviour, an interpretation bo"}, {"id": "card_n_b03fc83a1c3e", "title": "Easton: Blemish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Imperfection or bodily deformity excluding men from the priesthood, and rendering animals unfit to be offered in sacrifice (Lev. 21:17-23; 22:19-25). The Christian church, as justified in Christ, is “"}, {"id": "card_n_b0fbbec3a8f1", "title": "Easton: Lord’s day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only once, in Rev. 1:10, was in the early Christian ages used to denote the first day of the week, which commemorated the Lord’s resurrection. There is every reason to conclude that John thus used the"}]}