{"query": "Easton: Judgments of God", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3cc1635a21d6", "title": "Easton: Judgments of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The secret decisions of God’s will (Ps. 110:5; 36:6). (2.) The revelations of his will (Ex. 21:1; Deut. 6:20; Ps. 119:7-175). (3.) The infliction of punishment on the wicked (Ex. 6:6; 12:12; Ezek"}, {"id": "card_n_47d53c1177e0", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_58: “My Son, beware thou dispute not of high matters and of the hidden judgments ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, beware thou dispute not of high matters and of the hidden judgments of God; why this man is thus left, and that man is taken into so great favour; why also this man is so greatly afflicted, a"}, {"id": "card_n_058570f8c25e", "title": "Easton: Obadiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of one chapter, “concerning Edom,” its impending doom (1:1-16), and the restoration of Israel (1:17-21). This is the shortest book of the Old Testament. There are on record the account of fou"}, {"id": "card_n_b9afe43cf871", "title": "Easton: Joel, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Joel was probably a resident in Judah, as his commission was to that people. He makes frequent mention of Judah and Jerusalem (1:14; 2:1, 15, 32; 3:1, 12, 17, 20, 21). He probably flourished in the re"}, {"id": "card_n_58db624a34cd", "title": "Easton: Jehoshaphat, Valley of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Scripture only in Joel 3:2, 12. This is the name given in modern times to the valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, and the Kidron flows through it. Here Jehoshaphat overthrew"}, {"id": "card_n_ac10a439bca1", "title": "Easton: Son of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The plural, “sons of God,” is used (Gen. 6:2, 4) to denote the pious descendants of Seth. In Job 1:6; 38:7 this name is applied to the angels. Hosea uses the phrase (1:10) to designate the gracious re"}, {"id": "card_n_8658e42c6d01", "title": "Easton: Darkness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex. 10:21) is described as darkness “which may be felt.” It covered “all the land of Egypt,” so that “they saw not one another.” It did not extend to the l"}, {"id": "card_n_14c77f15675e", "title": "Psalm 48 — Psalm 48", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.>> Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, o"}, {"id": "card_n_98eacd96058f", "title": "Easton: Gaza", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Called also Azzah, which is its Hebrew name (Deut. 2:23; 1 Kings 4:24; Jer. 25:20), strong, a city on the Mediterranean shore, remarkable for its early importance as the chief centre of a great commer"}, {"id": "card_n_b48602ef6dba", "title": "Easton: Creation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“In the beginning” God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things e"}, {"id": "card_n_e26790741c38", "title": "Easton: Fall of man", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An expression probably borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revolt of our first parents from God, and the consequent sin and misery in which they and all their poste"}, {"id": "card_n_876ff200d814", "title": "Easton: On", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Light; the sun, (Gen. 41:45, 50), the great seat of sun-worship, called also Bethshemesh (Jer. 43:13) and Aven (Ezek. 30:17), stood on the east bank of the Nile, a few miles north of Memphis, and near"}, {"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_d958e17500f7", "title": "Easton: Jehiel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God’s living one. (1.) The father of Gibeon (1 Chr. 9:35). (2.) One of David’s guard (1 Chr. 11:44). (3.) One of the Levites “of the second degree,” appointed to conduct the music on the occasion of t"}, {"id": "card_n_357e2ea73f8f", "title": "Barnabas XXI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is well, therefore, that he who has learned the judgments of the Lord, as many as have been written, should walk in them. For he who keepeth these shall be glorified in the kingdom of God; but he w"}, {"id": "card_n_fcea49f2a0b0", "title": "Easton: Repentance", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote repentance. (1.) The verb metamelomai is used of a change of mind, such as to produce regret or even remorse on account of sin, but not "}, {"id": "card_n_ced4babf8538", "title": "Easton: Gospel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word of Anglo-Saxon origin, and meaning “God’s spell”, i.e., word of God, or rather, according to others, “good spell”, i.e., good news. It is the rendering of the Greek evangelion, i.e., “good mess"}, {"id": "card_n_71cbf4222dc8", "title": "Easton: Reconcilation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A change from enmity to friendship. It is mutual, i.e., it is a change wrought in both parties who have been at enmity. (1.) In Col. 1:21, 22, the word there used refers to a change wrought in the per"}, {"id": "card_n_c6915f43001a", "title": "Easton: Pomegranate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “grained apple” (pomum granatum), Heb. rimmon. Common in Egypt (Num. 20:5) and Palestine (13:23; Deut. 8:8). The Romans called it Punicum malum, i.e., Carthaginian apple, because they received i"}, {"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"}]}