{"query": "Easton: Life", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e329b30cc288", "title": "Easton: Eternal life", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This expression occurs in the Old Testament only in Dan. 12:2 (R.V., “everlasting life”). It occurs frequently in the New Testament (Matt. 7:14; 18:8, 9; Luke 10:28; comp. 18:18). It comprises the who"}, {"id": "card_n_49c1aecc4946", "title": "Easton: Life", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Generally of physical life (Gen. 2:7; Luke 16:25, etc.); also used figuratively (1) for immortality (Heb. 7:16); (2) conduct or manner of life (Rom. 6:4); (3) spiritual life or salvation (John 3:16, 1"}, {"id": "card_n_759f8b59f423", "title": "Easton: Tree of life", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stood also in the midst of the garden of Eden (Gen. 2:9; 3:22). Some writers have advanced the opinion that this tree had some secret virtue, which was fitted to preserve life. Probably the lesson con"}, {"id": "card_n_db9e04710313", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_56: My Son, so far as thou art able to go out of thyself so far shalt thou be abl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My Son, so far as thou art able to go out of thyself so far shalt thou be able to enter into Me. As to desire no outward thing worketh internal peace, so the forsaking of self inwardly joineth unto Go"}, {"id": "card_n_e2da2944e15f", "title": "Easton: Age", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used to denote the period of a man’s life (Gen. 47:28), the maturity of life (John 9:21), the latter end of life (Job 11:17), a generation of the human race (Job 8:8), and an indefinite period (Eph. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_a60f84ac4731", "title": "Easton: Zaphnath-paaneah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name which Pharaoh gave to Joseph when he raised him to the rank of prime minister or grand vizier of the kingdom (Gen. 41:45). This is a pure Egyptian word, and has been variously explained. Some"}, {"id": "card_n_cef4a44af69f", "title": "Easton: Reuben", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Behold a son!, the eldest son of Jacob and Leah (Gen. 29:32). His sinful conduct, referred to in Gen. 35:22, brought down upon him his dying father’s malediction (48:4). He showed kindness to Joseph, "}, {"id": "card_n_2802dc7e6b6f", "title": "Easton: Heart", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "According to the Bible, the heart is the centre not only of spiritual activity, but of all the operations of human life. “Heart” and “soul” are often used interchangeably (Deut. 6:5; 26:16; comp. Matt"}, {"id": "card_n_f510f74b1f7a", "title": "Easton: Hope", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). “Hope is an essential and fundamen"}, {"id": "card_n_ba4002bbeb64", "title": "Easton: Samson", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of the sun, the son of Manoah, born at Zorah. The narrative of his life is given in Judg. 13-16. He was a “Nazarite unto God” from his birth, the first Nazarite mentioned in Scripture (Judg. 13:3-5; c"}, {"id": "card_n_0b1437a41623", "title": "Easton: Jesus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Joshua, the son of Nun (Acts 7:45; Heb. 4:8; R.V., “Joshua”). (2.) A Jewish Christian surnamed Justus (Col. 4:11). Je’sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish "}, {"id": "card_n_f555183374fe", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_06_07: Great is Torah for it gives life to those that practice it, in this world, an...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Great is Torah for it gives life to those that practice it, in this world, and in the world to come, As it is said: “For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh” (Prover"}, {"id": "card_n_0500da92d451", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_033: It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish n...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish not to joy in Thee, which is the only happy life, do not truly desire the happy life. Or do all men desire this, but because"}, {"id": "card_n_51dacf5e3be1", "title": "Easton: Conversation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Generally the goings out and in of social intercourse (Eph. 2:3; 4:22; R.V., “manner of life”); one’s deportment or course of life. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of verbal communic"}, {"id": "card_n_ece6ab5be240", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xxvii: If in this kind of life thy body be able to hold out, it is a shame that thy ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If in this kind of life thy body be able to hold out, it is a shame that thy soul should faint first, and give over, take heed, lest of a philosopher thou become a mere Cæsar in time, and receive a ne"}, {"id": "card_n_fa6ce7542cd8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_022: For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and "}, {"id": "card_n_8dbac54e731b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xv: The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption. His soul is restless, fortune uncertain, and f"}, {"id": "card_n_3aada1e2b5a3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_023: The day now approaching whereon she was to depart this life (which day Thou w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The day now approaching whereon she was to depart this life (which day Thou well knewest, we knew not), it came to pass, Thyself, as I believe, by Thy secret ways so ordering it, that she and I stood "}, {"id": "card_n_6bd1867c8704", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_026: Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? A life various"}, {"id": "card_n_c536440b0b63", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_01: _He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness_,(1) saith the Lord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "_He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness_,(1) saith the Lord. These are the words of Christ; and they teach us how far we must imitate His life and character, if we seek true illumination, and"}]}