{"query": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_c_5cfda24ac80f", "title": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_35cbbc002896", "title": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Its canonicity. All the results of critical and historical research to which this epistle has been specially subjected abundantly vindicate its right to a place in the New Testament canon among t"}, {"id": "card_n_c11c336c7bf0", "title": "Easton: Galatians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this epistle is not called in question. Its Pauline origin is universally acknowledged. Occasion of. The churches of Galatia were founded by Paul himself (Acts 16:6; Gal. 1:8; 4:13,"}, {"id": "card_n_1f1e791cf4af", "title": "Easton: Apollos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Jew “born at Alexandria,” a man well versed in the Scriptures and eloquent (Acts 18:24; R.V., “learned”). He came to Ephesus (about A.D. 49), where he spake “boldly” in the synagogue (18:26), althou"}, {"id": "card_n_73971d3aa279", "title": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle is addressed to “the strangers scattered abroad”, i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora). Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already taught. P"}, {"id": "card_n_9c0a44a13695", "title": "Easton: Epistles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The apostolic letters. The New Testament contains twenty-one in all. They are divided into two classes. (1.) Paul’s Epistles, fourteen in number, including Hebrews. These are not arranged in the New T"}, {"id": "card_n_b85b00d05fcb", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, Second Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia. Purs"}, {"id": "card_n_a29a0c47b9e4", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Paul in this epistle speaks of himself as having left Ephesus for Macedonia (1:3), and hence not Laodicea, as mentioned in the subscription; but probably Philippi, or some other city in that region, w"}, {"id": "card_n_7327b80a124c", "title": "Easton: Titus, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was probably written about the same time as the first epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities. “Both letters were addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their respective c"}, {"id": "card_n_88c46b589551", "title": "Easton: Romans, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom. 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, and Gaius of Corinth entertained the apostle at the time of his writing it (16:23; 1 Cor. 1:14), and E"}, {"id": "card_n_4c70970fb72d", "title": "Easton: Ephesians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to the Colossians, which in many points it resembles. Contents of. The Epistle to the Colossians is mainly polemical, designed to refute certain"}, {"id": "card_n_d71a58fce1e5", "title": "Easton: Peter, Second Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence is wholly in favour of its claim to be the production of the apostle whose name it bears. It appear"}, {"id": "card_n_ba272ce3a5e6", "title": "Easton: Jude, Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author was “Judas, the brother of James” the Less (Jude 1:1), called also Lebbaeus (Matt. 10:3) and Thaddaeus (Mark 3:18). The genuineness of this epistle was early questioned, and doubts regardin"}, {"id": "card_n_b2f6fee38af3", "title": "Easton: Colossians, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D. 57, or, as some think, 62, and soon after he had written his Epistle to the Ephesians. "}, {"id": "card_n_0eb0b11f33ad", "title": "Hebrews 11", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.\n2. For by this, the elders obtained approval.\n3. By faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, s"}, {"id": "card_n_1c96c264acf7", "title": "Hebrews 11:6", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him."}, {"id": "card_n_55c637befd94", "title": "Easton: Timothy, Second Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats Timothy to come to hi"}, {"id": "card_n_5daed6c3700e", "title": "Easton: Philemon, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written from Rome at the same time as the epistles to the Colossians and Ephesians, and was sent also by Onesimus. It was addressed to Philemon and the members of his family. It was written for th"}, {"id": "card_n_dbd4afee24c0", "title": "Hebrews 9:27", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,"}, {"id": "card_n_bb6a0264e07f", "title": "Easton: Onesimus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Useful, a slave who, after robbing his master Philemon (q.v.) at Colosse, fled to Rome, where he was converted by the apostle Paul, who sent him back to his master with the epistle which bears his nam"}]}