{"query": "Easton: Degrees, Song of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_663e36151935", "title": "Easton: Degrees, Song of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Song of steps, a title given to each of these fifteen psalms, 120-134 inclusive. The probable origin of this name is the circumstance that these psalms came to be sung by the people on the ascents or "}, {"id": "card_n_eae42d5ac273", "title": "Easton: Solomon, Song of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also, after the Vulgate, the “Canticles.” It is the “song of songs” (1:1), as being the finest and most precious of its kind; the noblest song, “das Hohelied,” as Luther calls it. The Solomonic"}, {"id": "card_n_ea0835f4fb1b", "title": "Easton: Jasher", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Upright. “The Book of Jasher,” rendered in the LXX. “the Book of the Upright One,” by the Vulgate “the Book of Just Ones,” was probably a kind of national sacred song-book, a collection of songs in pr"}, {"id": "card_n_fe28ba888e84", "title": "Easton: Kishon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Winding, a winter torrent of Central Palestine, which rises about the roots of Tabor and Gilboa, and passing in a northerly direction through the plains of Esdraelon and Acre, falls into the Mediterra"}, {"id": "card_n_4e8b942c6618", "title": "Easton: Branch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A symbol of kings descended from royal ancestors (Ezek. 17:3, 10; Dan. 11:7); of prosperity (Job 8:16); of the Messiah, a branch out of the root of the stem of Jesse (Isa. 11:1), the “beautiful branch"}, {"id": "card_n_d02fc584c4c4", "title": "Easton: Eden", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Delight. (1.) The garden in which our first parents dewlt (Gen. 2:8-17). No geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. It has been placed in Armenia, in the region w"}, {"id": "card_c_bb4b8e3afe3f", "title": "Easton: Degrees, Song of references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_9322cdc04493", "title": "Easton: Degrees, Song of references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_ee6df934e217", "title": "Easton: Hammath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Warm springs, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35). It is identified with the warm baths (the heat of the water ranging from 136 degrees to 144 degrees) still found on the shore a litt"}, {"id": "card_n_8b9cacdbe1fa", "title": "Easton: Music", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jubal was the inventor of musical instruments (Gen. 4:21). The Hebrews were much given to the cultivation of music. Their whole history and literature afford abundant evidence of this. After the Delug"}, {"id": "card_n_6b5a79199aa3", "title": "Easton: Faith", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true (Phil. 1:27; 2 Thess. 2:13). Its primary idea is trust. A thing is true, and therefore worthy of trust. It admits of man"}, {"id": "card_n_7c20ad8d03d5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_012: I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me. And I come to the fields and spacious palaces of my memory, where are the treasures of innumerable images,"}, {"id": "card_n_29b06212e953", "title": "Easton: Judges, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is so called because it contains the history of the deliverance and government of Israel by the men who bore the title of the “judges.” The book of Ruth originally formed part of this book, but about "}, {"id": "card_n_683b72cdbc78", "title": "Easton: Poetry", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon, redempti"}, {"id": "card_n_06e412fd6877", "title": "Easton: Micah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sixth in order of the so-called minor prophets. The superscription to this book states that the prophet exercised his office in the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. If we reckon from the begi"}, {"id": "card_n_c6b09e6f09b6", "title": "Easton: Habakkuk, Prophecies of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Were probably written about B.C. 650-627, or, as some think, a few years later. This book consists of three chapters, the contents of which are thus comprehensively described: “When the prophet in spi"}, {"id": "card_n_2f61d840e647", "title": "Easton: Doctor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 2:46; 5:17; Acts 5:34), a teacher. The Jewish doctors taught and disputed in synagogues, or wherever they could find an audience. Their disciples were allowed to propose to them questions. They "}, {"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_c1c9c6aa0d07", "title": "Easton: Taanach", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sandy place, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, on the south-western border of the plain of Esdraelon, 4 miles south of Megiddo. Its king was conquered by Joshua (12:21). It was assigned to th"}, {"id": "card_n_923e6fcb9080", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_002: And I resolved in Thy sight, not tumultuously to tear, but gently to withdraw...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I resolved in Thy sight, not tumultuously to tear, but gently to withdraw, the service of my tongue from the marts of lip-labour: that the young, no students in Thy law, nor in Thy peace, but in l"}]}