{"query": "Easton: Justice", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_cd012773b4fe", "title": "Easton: Justice of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That perfection of his nature whereby he is infinitely righteous in himself and in all he does, the righteousness of the divine nature exercised in his moral government. At first God imposes righteous"}, {"id": "card_n_038997dfea3c", "title": "Easton: Justice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is rendering to every one that which is his due. It has been distinguished from equity in this respect, that while justice means merely the doing what positive law demands, equity means the doing of w"}, {"id": "card_n_c86266734a83", "title": "Easton: Habitation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God is the habitation of his people, who find rest and safety in him (Ps. 71:3; 91:9). Justice and judgment are the habitation of God’s throne (Ps. 89:14, Heb. mekhon, “foundation”), because all his a"}, {"id": "card_n_c161d5235c28", "title": "Easton: Living creatures", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As represented by Ezekiel (1-10) and John (Rev. 4, etc.), are the cherubim. They are distinguished from angels (Rev. 15:7); they join the elders in the “new song” (5:8, 9); they warn of danger from di"}, {"id": "card_c_61a0e80be962", "title": "Easton: Justice of God cites James", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites James 1:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_e44556ff7b1a", "title": "Easton: Martyr", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who bears witness of the truth, and suffers death in the cause of Christ (Acts 22:20; Rev. 2:13; 17:6). In this sense Stephen was the first martyr. The Greek word so rendered in all other cases is"}, {"id": "card_n_6ba7dc280f35", "title": "Easton: Agag", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as “Pharaoh” was of the Egyptian. (1.) A king of the Amalekites referred to by Balaam (Num. 24:7). He lived at the time of the Exodus. (2.) Another king "}, {"id": "card_n_975638af6bad", "title": "Easton: Eldad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God has loved, one of the seventy elders whom Moses appointed (Num. 11:26, 27) to administer justice among the people. He, with Medad, prophesied in the camp instead of going with the rest to the"}, {"id": "card_n_4e42734f809c", "title": "Easton: Balance", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs in Lev. 19:36 and Isa. 46:6, as the rendering of the Hebrew kanch’, which properly means “a reed” or “a cane,” then a rod or beam of a balance. This same word is translated “measuring reed” in "}, {"id": "card_n_db1f2d2a2201", "title": "Easton: Areopagus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Latin form of the Greek word rendered “Mars’ hill.” But it denotes also the council or court of justice which met in the open air on the hill. It was a rocky height to the west of the Acropolis at"}, {"id": "card_n_b9773ee5cbfd", "title": "Easton: Imputation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is used to designate any action or word or thing as reckoned to a person. Thus in doctrinal language (1) the sin of Adam is imputed to all his descendants, i.e., it is reckoned as theirs, and they are"}, {"id": "card_n_bba889543f24", "title": "Easton: Comforter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The designation of the Holy Ghost (John 14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7; R.V. marg., “or Advocate, or Helper; Gr. paracletos”). The same Greek word thus rendered is translated “Advocate” in 1 John 2:1 as appli"}, {"id": "card_n_fbfa0cbf408e", "title": "Easton: Gate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of cities, as of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:13; Neh. 1:3; 2:3; 3:3), of Sodom (Gen. 19:1), of Gaza (Judg. 16:3). (2.) Of royal palaces (Neh. 2:8). (3.) Of the temple of Solomon (1 Kings 6:34, 35; 2 Kings"}, {"id": "card_n_d969476d3fa7", "title": "Easton: Goodness of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A perfection of his character which he exercises towards his creatures according to their various circumstances and relations (Ps. 145:8, 9; 103:8; 1 John 4:8). Viewed generally, it is benevolence; as"}, {"id": "card_n_58a1d4f48cb1", "title": "Easton: Face", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Means simply presence, as when it is recorded that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the “face [R.V., ‘presence’] of the Lord God” (Gen. 3:8; comp. Ex. 33:14, 15, where the same Hebrew word is rendered"}, {"id": "card_n_5097a3805501", "title": "Easton: Punishment", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The New Testament lays down the general principles of good government, but contains no code of laws for the punishment of offenders. Punishment proceeds on the principle that there is an eternal disti"}, {"id": "card_n_e594af270f6a", "title": "Easton: Magistrate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A public civil officer invested with authority. The Hebrew shophetim, or judges, were magistrates having authority in the land (Deut. 1:16, 17). In Judg. 18:7 the word “magistrate” (A.V.) is rendered "}, {"id": "card_n_122750d2f8fe", "title": "Easton: Gilgal", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rolling. (1.) From the solemn transaction of the reading of the law in the valley of Shechem between Ebal and Gerizim the Israelites moved forward to Gilgal, and there made a permanent camp (Josh. 9:6"}, {"id": "card_n_2db9fce50af9", "title": "Easton: Amos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets. He was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He was a man of humble birth, neither a “prophet nor a pr"}, {"id": "card_n_bf06f027e6db", "title": "Easton: Adoni-zedec", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lord of justice or righteousness, was king in Jerusalem at the time when the Israelites invaded Palestine (Josh. 10:1, 3). He formed a confederacy with the other Canaanitish kings against the Israelit"}]}