{"query": "Easton: Fear of the Lord the", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_646dfa6224c0", "title": "Easton: Fear of the Lord the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is in the Old Testament used as a designation of true piety (Prov. 1:7; Job 28:28; Ps. 19:9). It is a fear conjoined with love and hope, and is therefore not a slavish dread, but rather filial reveren"}, {"id": "card_n_e613a49342d0", "title": "Easton: Doors", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Moved on pivots of wood fastened in sockets above and below (Prov. 26:14). They were fastened by a lock (Judg. 3:23, 25; Cant. 5:5) or by a bar (Judg. 16:3; Job 38:10). In the interior of Oriental hou"}, {"id": "card_n_9e88feeb505a", "title": "Easton: Temple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First used of the tabernacle, which is called “the temple of the Lord” (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ’s human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called “th"}, {"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_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_780d61508626", "title": "Barnabas XX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But the way of darkness is crooked, and full of cursing; for it is the way of eternal death with punishment, in which way are the things that destroy the soul, viz. idolatry, over-confidence, the arro"}, {"id": "card_n_24346c864151", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_059: But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lord, who hast no lord; hath this third kind of temptation also ceased from me, or can it cease through this whole life? To w"}, {"id": "card_n_7ebc4edb4ae4", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_02: Rabbi Hanina, the vice-high priest said: pray for the welfare of the governme...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Hanina, the vice-high priest said: pray for the welfare of the government, for were it not for the fear it inspires, every man would swallow his neighbor alive. R. Hananiah ben Teradion said: if"}, {"id": "card_n_efd92dd5f79e", "title": "Easton: Luke, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Luke. 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