{"query": "Easton: John, Third Epistle of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_1bffd00e7703", "title": "Easton: John, Third Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is addressed to Caius, or Gaius, but whether to the Christian of that name in Macedonia (Acts 19: 29) or in Corinth (Rom. 16:23) or in Derbe (Acts 20:4) is uncertain. It was written for the purpose of"}, {"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_c_e483924f7bf1", "title": "Easton: Resurrection of Christ cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 2:19; John 20:26; John 20:27; John 21:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_3ec1d5f12944", "title": "Easton: Perseverance of the saints cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 10:28; John 10:29; John 11:42; John 14:16 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_4d974cdf43bd", "title": "Easton: Gaius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A Macedonian, Paul’s fellow-traveller, and his host at Corinth when he wrote his Epistle to the Romans (16:23). He with his household were baptized by Paul (1 Cor. 1:14). During a heathen outbrea"}, {"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_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_c8cb62e4a2e0", "title": "Easton: John, Second Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is addressed to “the elect lady,” and closes with the words, “The children of thy elect sister greet thee;” but some would read instead of “lady” the proper name Kyria. Of the thirteen verses composin"}, {"id": "card_n_5a4b51460cae", "title": "Easton: Andrew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Manliness, a Greek name; one of the apostles of our Lord. He was of Bethsaida in Galilee (John 1:44), and was the brother of Simon Peter (Matt. 4:18; 10:2). On one occasion John the Baptist, whose dis"}, {"id": "card_n_c5d384b56970", "title": "Easton: John, Gospel of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this Gospel, i.e., the fact that the apostle John was its author, is beyond all reasonable doubt. In recent times, from about 1820, many attempts have been made to impugn its genuin"}, {"id": "card_n_ab437ef6a525", "title": "Easton: John the Baptist", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The “forerunner of our Lord.” We have but fragmentary and imperfect accounts of him in the Gospels. He was of priestly descent. His father, Zacharias, was a priest of the course of Abia (1 Chr. 24:10)"}, {"id": "card_c_deedb5392d34", "title": "Easton: Intercession of Christ cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 17:20; John 17:24; John 14:6 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_1b3cd7133c4d", "title": "Easton: John", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) One who, with Annas and Caiaphas, sat in judgment on the apostles Peter and John (Acts 4:6). He was of the kindred of the high priest; otherwise unknown. (2.) The Hebrew name of Mark (q.v.). He i"}, {"id": "card_n_fb7f817c5014", "title": "Easton: Gospels", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The central fact of Christian preaching was the intelligence that the Saviour had come into the world (Matt. 4:23; Rom. 10:15); and the first Christian preachers who called their account of the person"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"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_c_a68062b6c284", "title": "Easton: John, Third Epistle of cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 20:4 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_915917bcd1fb", "title": "Easton: Revelation, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The author of this book was undoubtedly John the apostle. His name occurs four times in the book itself (1:1"}, {"id": "card_n_cb7a50f82cc0", "title": "Easton: John, First Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The fourth of the catholic or “general” epistles. It was evidently written by John the evangelist, and probably also at Ephesus, and when the writer was in advanced age. The purpose of the apostle (1:"}, {"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"}]}