{"query": "Easton: Cor", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_94d35c03990a", "title": "Easton: Holy Ghost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The third Person of the adorable Trinity. His personality is proved (1) from the fact that the attributes of personality, as intelligence and volition, are ascribed to him (John 14:17, 26; 15:26; 1 Co"}, {"id": "card_n_987b6375e5b0", "title": "Easton: Brother", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) In the natural and common sense (Matt. 1:2; Luke 3:1, 19). (2.) A near relation, a cousin (Gen. 13:8; 14:16; Matt. 12:46; John 7:3; Acts 1:14; Gal. 1:19). (3.) Simply a fellow-countryman (Matt. 5"}, {"id": "card_n_f2bb144eaee2", "title": "Easton: Resurrection of the dead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Will be simultaneous both of the just and the unjust (Dan. 12:2; John 5:28, 29; Rom. 2:6-16; 2 Thess. 1:6-10). The qualities of the resurrection body will be different from those of the body laid in t"}, {"id": "card_n_e3713c4d742c", "title": "Easton: Thorn in the flesh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Cor. 12:7-10). Many interpretations have been given of this passage. (1.) Roman Catholic writers think that it denotes suggestions to impiety. (2.) Luther, Calvin, and other Reformers interpret the"}, {"id": "card_n_f3c237065b9d", "title": "Easton: Afflictions", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Common to all (Job 5:7; 14:1; Ps. 34:19); are for the good of men (James 1:2, 3, 12; 2 Cor. 12:7) and the glory of God (2 Cor. 12:7-10; 1 Pet. 4:14), and are to be borne with patience by the Lord’s pe"}, {"id": "card_n_ce6428cb4ceb", "title": "Easton: Cor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This Hebrew word, untranslated, denotes a round vessel used as a measure both for liquids and solids. It was equal to one homer, and contained ten ephahs in dry and ten baths in liquid measure (Ezek. "}, {"id": "card_n_732fe14a8a42", "title": "Easton: Carnal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor. 3:3). They are represented as of a “carnal mind, which is enmity against God” (Rom. 8:6, 7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man’s animal nat"}, {"id": "card_n_1d9002e393d5", "title": "Easton: Death", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "May be simply defined as the termination of life. It is represented under a variety of aspects in Scripture: (1.) “The dust shall return to the earth as it was” (Eccl. 12:7). (2.) “Thou takest away th"}, {"id": "card_n_1cd8ff22d726", "title": "Easton: Sanctification", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Involves more than a mere moral reformation of character, brought about by the power of the truth: it is the work of the Holy Spirit bringing the whole nature more and more under the influences of the"}, {"id": "card_n_9db57be7f60a", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, First Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written from Ephesus (1 Cor. 16:8) about the time of the Passover in the third year of the apostle’s sojourn there (Acts 19:10; 20:31), and when he had formed the purpose to visit Macedonia, and t"}, {"id": "card_n_b85b00d05fcb", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, Second Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia. Purs"}, {"id": "card_n_a585f167937e", "title": "Easton: Collection", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Christians in Palestine, from various causes, suffered from poverty. Paul awakened an interest in them among the Gentile churches, and made pecuniary collections in their behalf (Acts 24:17; Rom. "}, {"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_68ff70c54dd2", "title": "Easton: Faithful", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a designation of Christians, means full of faith, trustful, and not simply trustworthy (Acts 10:45; 16:1; 2 Cor. 6:15; Col. 1:2; 1 Tim. 4:3, 12; 5:16; 6:2; Titus 1:6; Eph. 1:1; 1 Cor. 4:17, etc.). "}, {"id": "card_n_8a72f4736488", "title": "Easton: Reprobate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That which is rejected on account of its own worthlessness (Jer. 6:30; Heb. 6:8; Gr. adokimos, “rejected”). This word is also used with reference to persons cast away or rejected because they have fai"}, {"id": "card_n_9d20f74c192b", "title": "Easton: Communion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fellowship with God (Gen. 18:17-33; Ex. 33:9-11; Num. 12:7, 8), between Christ and his people (John 14:23), by the Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14; Phil. 2:1), of believers with one another (Eph. 4:1-6). The Lor"}, {"id": "card_n_4a546aae8ade", "title": "Easton: Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of form or person (Prov. 1:9; 3:22; Ps. 45:2). (2.) Favour, kindness, friendship (Gen. 6:8; 18:3; 19:19; 2 Tim. 1:9). (3.) God’s forgiving mercy (Rom. 11:6; Eph. 2:5). (4.) The gospel as distingu"}, {"id": "card_n_62f678fe448f", "title": "Easton: Achaichus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Cor. 16:17), one of the members of the church of Corinth who, with Fortunatus and Stephanas, visited Paul while he was at Ephesus, for the purpose of consulting him on the affairs of the church. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_1ad06120c75b", "title": "Easton: Kiss", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of affection (Gen. 27:26, 27; 29:13; Luke 7:38, 45); reconciliation (Gen. 33:4; 2 Sam. 14:33); leave-taking (Gen. 31:28, 55; Ruth 1:14; 2 Sam. 19:39); homage (Ps. 2:12; 1 Sam. 10:1); spoken of as betw"}, {"id": "card_n_f6f97d6f3362", "title": "Easton: Air", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The atmosphere, as opposed to the higher regions of the sky (1 Thess. 4:17; Rev. 9:2; 16:17). This word occurs once as the rendering of the Hebrew ruah (Job 41:16); elsewhere it is the rendering of sh"}]}