{"query": "Easton: Faith", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_88255c9e83e6", "title": "Easton: Proportion of faith", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, “according to the proportion of faith.” The meaning is, that the utterances of the “prophet” were not"}, {"id": "card_n_8b9c55c0f098", "title": "Easton: Schoolmaster", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The law so designated by Paul (Gal. 3:24, 25). As so used, the word does not mean teacher, but pedagogue (shortened into the modern page), i.e., one who was intrusted with the supervision of a family,"}, {"id": "card_n_4400e2a6cc9a", "title": "Easton: Assurance", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The resurrection of Jesus (Acts 17:31) is the “assurance” (Gr. pistis, generally rendered “faith”) or pledge God has given that his revelation is true and worthy of acceptance. The “full assurance [Gr"}, {"id": "card_n_a310af9b7a0d", "title": "Easton: Syrophenician", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation” (Mark 7:26), i.e., a Gentile born in the Phoenician part of Syria. (See PHENICIA.) When our Lord retired into the borderland of Tyre and Sidon (Matt. 15:21), a Syr"}, {"id": "card_n_4a82d606103e", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, were all chosen by God for the positions they held; so also we"}, {"id": "card_n_f510f74b1f7a", "title": "Easton: Hope", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). “Hope is an essential and fundamen"}, {"id": "card_n_2e39054b9b10", "title": "Easton: Canon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is derived from a Hebrew and Greek word denoting a reed or cane. Hence it means something straight, or something to keep straight; and hence also a rule, or something ruled or measured. It c"}, {"id": "card_n_b8db1abf3beb", "title": "Easton: Eunice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Happily conquering, the mother of Timothy, a believing Jewess, but married to a Greek (Acts 16:1). She trained her son from his childhood in the knowledge of the Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:15). She was dist"}, {"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_c_94ee1e0da720", "title": "Easton: Faith cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 16:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_0adf5b801418", "title": "Easton: Babe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used of children generally (Matt. 11:25; 21:16; Luke 10:21; Rom. 2:20). It is used also of those who are weak in Christian faith and knowledge (1 Cor. 3:1; Heb. 5:13; 1 Pet. 2:2). In Isa. 3:4 the word"}, {"id": "card_c_055409848dac", "title": "Easton: Faith cites 1 John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites 1 John 2:3 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_beee9f6c6fbe", "title": "Easton: Faith cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 16:31; Acts 10:43; Acts 13:48 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_5161f6faccae", "title": "Easton: Baptism, John’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was not Christian baptism, nor was that which was practised by the disciples previous to our Lord’s crucifixion. Till then the New Testament economy did not exist. John’s baptism bound its subjects to"}, {"id": "card_c_9c4631ab947c", "title": "Easton: Faith cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 10:38; John 7:38; John 3:16; John 6:44 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_653f4daea47d", "title": "Easton: Shield", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used in defensive warfare, varying at different times and under different circumstances in size, form, and material (1 Sam. 17:7; 2 Sam. 1:21; 1 Kings 10:17; 1 Chr. 12:8, 24, 34; Isa. 22:6; Ezek. 39:9"}, {"id": "card_n_e45e7e2430ff", "title": "Easton: Saviour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who saves from any form or degree of evil. In its highest sense the word indicates the relation sustained by our Lord to his redeemed ones, he is their Saviour. The great message of the gospel is "}, {"id": "card_n_f75f7c66596f", "title": "Easton: Sosthenes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Safe in strength, the chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth, who was seized and beaten by the mob in the presence of Gallio, the Roman governor, when he refused to proceed against Paul at the instig"}, {"id": "card_n_f816e9c29cca", "title": "Easton: Conversion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The turning of a sinner to God (Acts 15:3). In a general sense the heathen are said to be “converted” when they abandon heathenism and embrace the Christian faith; and in a more special sense men are "}]}