{"query": "Easton: Living creatures", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_19a9728abf6b", "title": "Easton: Living creatures references Ezekiel", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Ezekiel. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_d1c9c3e55dc1", "title": "Easton: Creature", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine at"}, {"id": "card_n_00531d1d59cc", "title": "Revelation 5", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals.\n2. I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open"}, {"id": "card_n_ae616b992662", "title": "Easton: Cherub", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Plural cherubim, the name of certain symbolical figures frequently mentioned in Scripture. They are first mentioned in connection with the expulsion of our first parents from Eden (Gen. 3:24). There i"}, {"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_914c072daa28", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_ii: It were indeed more happy and comfortable, for a man to depart out of this wo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It were indeed more happy and comfortable, for a man to depart out of this world, having lived all his life long clear from all falsehood, dissimulation, voluptuousness, and pride. But if this cannot "}, {"id": "card_n_37a1c0cd5363", "title": "Easton: Doleful creatures", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(occurring only Isa. 13:21. Heb. ochim, i.e., “shrieks;” hence “howling animals”), a general name for screech owls (howlets), which occupy the desolate palaces of Babylon. Some render the word “hyaena"}, {"id": "card_n_115cd5f47623", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_03_03: 'Ye, too, creatures of earth, have some glimmering of your origin, however fa...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'Ye, too, creatures of earth, have some glimmering of your origin, however faint, and though in a vision dim and clouded, yet in some wise, notwithstanding, ye discern the true end of happiness, and s"}, {"id": "card_n_c80c8646b8f6", "title": "1 Clement XXXIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "love. God Himself is an example to us of good works._ What shall we do, then, brethren? Shall we become slothful in well-doing, and cease from the practice of love? God forbid that any such course sho"}, {"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_8822cf90b458", "title": "Heidelberg Q32", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why art thou called a Christian?\n\nBecause by faith I am a member of Christ, and thus a partaker of his anointing; that I may confess his name, present myself a living sacrifice of thankfulness to "}, {"id": "card_n_e91e5b22158f", "title": "Easton: Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or forma"}, {"id": "card_n_224f0624a043", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_039: Whereat then rejoicest thou, O great Paul?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whereat then rejoicest thou, O great Paul? whereat rejoicest thou? whereon feedest thou, O man, renewed in the knowledge of God, after the image of Him that created thee, thou living soul, of so much "}, {"id": "card_n_41d9cbb63b29", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_003: I remember also, that when I had settled to enter the lists for a theatrical ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I remember also, that when I had settled to enter the lists for a theatrical prize, some wizard asked me what I would give him to win; but I, detesting and abhorring such foul mysteries, answered, \"Th"}, {"id": "card_n_4012f113880f", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_02_07: Then said I: 'Thou knowest thyself that ambition for worldly success hath but...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then said I: 'Thou knowest thyself that ambition for worldly success hath but little swayed me. Yet I have desired opportunity for action, lest virtue, in default of exercise, should languish away.' T"}, {"id": "card_n_69eb8810552c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_046: Thou hast taught me, good Father, that to the pure, all things are pure; but ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou hast taught me, good Father, that to the pure, all things are pure; but that it is evil unto the man that eateth with offence; and, that every creature of Thine is good, and nothing to be refused"}, {"id": "card_n_47cc63f19e66", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_012: For other than this, that which really is I knew not; and was, as it were thr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For other than this, that which really is I knew not; and was, as it were through sharpness of wit, persuaded to assent to foolish deceivers, when they asked me, \"whence is evil?\" \"is God bounded by a"}, {"id": "card_c_5dc720364d8a", "title": "Easton: Doleful creatures references Babylon", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Babylon (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_91113c8562eb", "title": "Easton: Ghost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma, both meaning “breath,” “life,” “spirit,” the “living principle” (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:"}]}