{"query": "Easton: Debt", "count": 8, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0dbb2495b4d4", "title": "Easton: Debt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Mosaic law encouraged the practice of lending (Deut. 15:7; Ps. 37:26; Matt. 5:42); but it forbade the exaction of interest except from foreigners. Usury was strongly condemned (Prov. 28:8; Ezek. 1"}, {"id": "card_n_c6ff957ce5cf", "title": "Easton: Trespass offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ‘asham, “debt”), the law concerning, given in Lev. 5:14-6:7; also in Num. 5:5-8. The idea of sin as a “debt” pervades this legislation. The asham, which was always a ram, was offered in cases wh"}, {"id": "card_c_cc0d5fad6cf5", "title": "Easton: Debt references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_1c706d2e6aba", "title": "Easton: Debtor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and creditor are laid down in the Scriptures. (1.) The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor what he could most easily dispense wit"}, {"id": "card_n_d46250e36e08", "title": "Easton: Ransom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The price or payment made for our redemption, as when it is said that the Son of man “gave his life a ransom for many” (Matt. 20:28; comp. Acts 20:28; Rom. 3:23, 24; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Gal. 3:13; 4:4, 5"}, {"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_81bd3c3606cb", "title": "Easton: Redemption", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom. The Greek word so rendered is apolutrosis, a word occurring nine times in Scripture, and always with the idea of a ransom"}, {"id": "card_n_16e019f825c8", "title": "Easton: Adullam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the royal cities of the Canaanites, now ‘Aid-el-ma (Josh. 12:15; 15:35). It stood on the old Roman road in the valley of Elah (q.v.), which was the scene of David’s memorable victory over Golia"}]}