{"query": "Easton: Corinthians, First Epistle to the", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_c151b7407fba", "title": "Easton: Clement", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mild, a Christian of Philippi, Paul’s “fellow-labourer,” whose name he mentions as “in the book of life” (Phil. 4:3). It was an opinion of ancient writers that he was the Clement of Rome whose name is"}, {"id": "card_n_1f1e791cf4af", "title": "Easton: Apollos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Jew “born at Alexandria,” a man well versed in the Scriptures and eloquent (Acts 18:24; R.V., “learned”). He came to Ephesus (about A.D. 49), where he spake “boldly” in the synagogue (18:26), althou"}, {"id": "card_n_73971d3aa279", "title": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle is addressed to “the strangers scattered abroad”, i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora). Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already taught. P"}, {"id": "card_n_c11c336c7bf0", "title": "Easton: Galatians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this epistle is not called in question. Its Pauline origin is universally acknowledged. Occasion of. The churches of Galatia were founded by Paul himself (Acts 16:6; Gal. 1:8; 4:13,"}, {"id": "card_n_8811a78673eb", "title": "1 Corinthians 15", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,\n2. by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached"}, {"id": "card_n_018641dc4cd7", "title": "Easton: First-born, Redemption of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son. But when the extensive plan of sacrificial worship was introduced, requiring a company of men to be exclusive"}, {"id": "card_n_a29a0c47b9e4", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Paul in this epistle speaks of himself as having left Ephesus for Macedonia (1:3), and hence not Laodicea, as mentioned in the subscription; but probably Philippi, or some other city in that region, w"}, {"id": "card_n_3eac20d6d4c5", "title": "Easton: First-fruits", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals. The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be waved"}, {"id": "card_n_12032d50c8df", "title": "Easton: Birthright", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) This word denotes the special privileges and advantages belonging to the first-born son among the Jews. He became the priest of the family. Thus Reuben was the first-born of the patriarchs, and s"}, {"id": "card_n_7327b80a124c", "title": "Easton: Titus, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was probably written about the same time as the first epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities. “Both letters were addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their respective c"}, {"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_c_7379a2d0509f", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, Second Epistle to t references 1 Corinthians", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references 1 Corinthians. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_b0901e3bb6b0", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, Second Epistle to t references 2 Corinthians", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references 2 Corinthians. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_5e0f288472aa", "title": "1 Clement XL", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things therefore being manifest to us, and since we look into the depths of the divine knowledge, it behoves us to do all things in [their proper] order, which the Lord has commanded us to perfo"}, {"id": "card_n_a2c2aae2159f", "title": "1 Clement XLVII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "place in the times of Paul._ Take up the epistle of the blessed Apostle Paul. What did he write to you at the time when the gospel first began to be preached? Truly, under the inspiration of the Spiri"}, {"id": "card_n_1d432ab74f1a", "title": "1 Clement V", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "recent times. The martyrdom of Peter and Paul._ But not to dwell upon ancient examples, let us come to the most recent spiritual heroes. Let us take the noble examples furnished in our own generation."}, {"id": "card_n_546e05c03552", "title": "1 Corinthians 15:3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,"}, {"id": "card_n_b2f6fee38af3", "title": "Easton: Colossians, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D. 57, or, as some think, 62, and soon after he had written his Epistle to the Ephesians. "}]}