{"query": "Easton: New Testament", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8464079d9b3f", "title": "Easton: New Testament", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 22:20), rather “New Covenant,” in contrast to the old covenant of works, which is superseded. “The covenant of grace is called new; it succeeds to the old broken covenant of works. It is ever fr"}, {"id": "card_n_bcf612baa9e1", "title": "Easton: Testament", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Occurs twelve times in the New Testament (Heb. 9:15, etc.) as the rendering of the Gr. diatheke, which is twenty times rendered “covenant” in the Authorized Version, and always so in the Revised Versi"}, {"id": "card_n_9766871f45b6", "title": "Easton: Quotations", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Old Testament in the New, which are very numerous, are not made according to any uniform method. When the New Testament was written, the Old was not divided, as it now is, into chapters and v"}, {"id": "card_n_779567f94985", "title": "Easton: Vaticanus, Codex", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is said to be the oldest extant vellum manuscript. It and the Codex Sinaiticus are the two oldest uncial manuscripts. They were probably written in the fourth century. The Vaticanus was placed in the "}, {"id": "card_n_6bd81caffadd", "title": "Easton: Syriac", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(2 Kings 18:26; Ezra 4:7; Dan. 2:4), more correctly rendered “Aramaic,” including both the Syriac and the Chaldee languages. In the New Testament there are several Syriac words, such as “Eloi, Eloi, l"}, {"id": "card_n_8b7feef8497c", "title": "Easton: Scripture", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Invariably in the New Testament denotes that definite collection of sacred books, regarded as given by inspiration of God, which we usually call the Old Testament (2 Tim. 3:15, 16; John 20:9; Gal. 3:2"}, {"id": "card_n_d0a36622cd97", "title": "Easton: Covenant", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a “cutti"}, {"id": "card_n_fb5c0aaf1941", "title": "Easton: Messiah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. mashiah), in all the thirty-nine instances of its occurring in the Old Testament, is rendered by the LXX. “Christos.” It means anointed. Thus priests (Ex. 28:41; 40:15; Num. 3:3), prophets (1 Ki"}, {"id": "card_n_29f94b123a26", "title": "Easton: Church", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., “the Lord’s house”), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia, "}, {"id": "card_n_9bf7ce2fdd05", "title": "Easton: Caesar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title assumed by the Roman emperors after Julius Caesar. In the New Testament this title is given to various emperors as sovereigns of Judaea without their accompanying distinctive proper names (J"}, {"id": "card_n_860dacfc4990", "title": "Easton: Measure", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Several words are so rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) Those which are indefinite. (a) Hok, Isa. 5:14, elsewhere “statute.” (b) Mad, Job 11:9; Jer. 13:25, elsewhere “garment.” (c) Middah, the w"}, {"id": "card_n_7d5ce7aee5ff", "title": "Easton: Lily", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrew name shushan or shoshan, i.e., “whiteness”, was used as the general name of several plants common to Syria, such as the tulip, iris, anemone, gladiolus, ranunculus, etc. Some interpret it, "}, {"id": "card_n_9b69fdfc4bc2", "title": "Easton: Resurrection of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the cardinal facts and doctrines of the gospel. If Christ be not risen, our faith is vain (1 Cor. 15:14). The whole of the New Testament revelation rests on this as an historical fact. On the d"}, {"id": "card_n_d80fbe8b0d63", "title": "Easton: Apocrypha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hidden, spurious, the name given to certain ancient books which found a place in the LXX. and Latin Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, and were appended to all the great translations made from the"}, {"id": "card_n_9c0a44a13695", "title": "Easton: Epistles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The apostolic letters. The New Testament contains twenty-one in all. They are divided into two classes. (1.) Paul’s Epistles, fourteen in number, including Hebrews. These are not arranged in the New T"}, {"id": "card_n_a1d2034016d8", "title": "Easton: Sinaiticus codex", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Usually designated by the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, is one of the most valuable of ancient MSS. of the Greek New Testament. On the occasion of a third visit to the convent of St. Catherine,"}, {"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_e2f860e7d5f2", "title": "Easton: Dye", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The art of dyeing is one of great antiquity, although no special mention is made of it in the Old Testament. The Hebrews probably learned it from the Egyptians (see Ex. 26:1; 28:5-8), who brought it t"}, {"id": "card_n_1d5f190300e8", "title": "Easton: Emerald", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. nophek (Ex. 28:18; 39:11); i.e., the “glowing stone”, probably the carbuncle, a precious stone in the breastplate of the high priest. It is mentioned (Rev. 21:19) as one of the foundations of the"}, {"id": "card_n_4aa47c220cf2", "title": "Easton: Belial", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Worthlessness, frequently used in the Old Testament as a proper name. It is first used in Deut. 13:13. In the New Testament it is found only in 2 Cor. 6:15, where it is used as a name of Satan, the pe"}]}