{"query": "Easton: Evil-speaking", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_fb8ac8aab396", "title": "Easton: Blasphemy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the sense of speaking evil of God this word is found in Ps. 74:18; Isa. 52:5; Rom. 2:24; Rev. 13:1, 6; 16:9, 11, 21. It denotes also any kind of calumny, or evil-speaking, or abuse (1 Kings 21:10; "}, {"id": "card_n_9dabe84ba943", "title": "1 Clement XXX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He hates, that we may be blessed._ Seeing, therefore, that we are the portion of the Holy One, let us do all those things which pertain to holiness, avoiding all evil-speaking, all abominable and impu"}, {"id": "card_c_6f0e5ca38478", "title": "Easton: Jehoiachin references Evil-merodach", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Evil-merodach (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_a9f4ad2e48ab", "title": "Easton: Nergal-sharezer references Evil-merodach", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Evil-merodach (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_6c23f0fead9d", "title": "Easton: Babylon, kingdom of references Evil-merodach", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Evil-merodach (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_350a3eb29db1", "title": "Easton: Kings, The Books of references Evil-merodach", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Evil-merodach (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_0f39582e9536", "title": "Easton: Evil-speaking cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 4:11 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_516f051614aa", "title": "Easton: Evil-speaking cites Titus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Titus 3:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_9b0bb1e08e75", "title": "Easton: Backbite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Ps. 15:3, the rendering of a word which means to run about tattling, calumniating; in Prov. 25:23, secret talebearing or slandering; in Rom. 1:30 and 2 Cor. 12:20, evil-speaking, maliciously defami"}, {"id": "card_n_5194615fb2b3", "title": "1 Clement XXII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "which proclaims the misery of sinful conduct._ Now the faith which is in Christ confirms all these [admonitions]. For He Himself by the Holy Ghost thus addresses us: “Come, ye children, hearken unto m"}, {"id": "card_n_69063cde269e", "title": "Polycarp to the Philippians II", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“Wherefore, girding up your loins,” “serve the Lord in fear” and truth, as those who have forsaken the vain, empty talk and error of the multitude, and “believed in Him who raised up our Lord Jesus Ch"}, {"id": "card_n_7031ddc0463c", "title": "Easton: Fallow-ground", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The expression, “Break up your fallow ground” (Hos. 10:12; Jer. 4:3) means, “Do not sow your seed among thorns”, i.e., break off all your evil habits; clear your hearts of weeds, in order that they ma"}, {"id": "card_n_2379d1c697de", "title": "1 Clement XXXV", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How blessed and wonderful, beloved, are the gifts of God! Life in immortality, splendour in righteousness, truth in perfect confidence, faith in assurance, self-control in holiness! And all these fall"}, {"id": "card_n_9cc87a3d875d", "title": "Polycarp to the Philippians IV", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“But the love of money is the root of all evils.” Knowing, therefore, that “as we brought nothing into the world, so we can carry nothing out,” let us arm ourselves with the armour of righteousness; a"}, {"id": "card_n_13725052742c", "title": "Easton: Veil, vail", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Heb. mitpahath (Ruth 3:15; marg., “sheet” or “apron;” R.V., “mantle”). In Isa. 3:22 this word is plural, rendered “wimples;” R.V., “shawls” i.e., wraps. (2.) Massekah (Isa. 25:7; in Isa. 28:20 re"}, {"id": "card_n_031435246b63", "title": "Easton: Beriah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A gift, or in evil. (1.) One of Asher’s four sons, and father of Heber (Gen. 46:17). (2.) A son of Ephraim (1 Chr. 7:20-23), born after the slaughter of his brothers, and so called by his father “beca"}, {"id": "card_n_ce76f9222108", "title": "Easton: Evil-merodach", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Merodach’s man, the son and successor of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (2 Kings 25:27; Jer. 52:31, 34). He seems to have reigned but two years (B.C. 562-560). Influenced probably by Daniel, he showe"}, {"id": "card_n_0504c8eaaa65", "title": "Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen. 2, 3). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take of the fruit which grew upon it. But they disobeyed the divine injunction, and so sin"}, {"id": "card_n_169d14dde498", "title": "Easton: Agony", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Contest; wrestling; severe struggling with pain and suffering. Anguish is the reflection on evil that is already past, while agony is a struggle with evil at the time present. It is only used in the N"}]}