{"query": "Easton: Prophecy", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2f9c2d26c46b", "title": "Easton: Prophecy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Or prediction, was one of the functions of the prophet. It has been defined as a “miracle of knowledge, a declaration or description or representation of something future, beyond the power of human sa", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_4a546aae8ade", "title": "Easton: Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of form or person (Prov. 1:9; 3:22; Ps. 45:2). (2.) Favour, kindness, friendship (Gen. 6:8; 18:3; 19:19; 2 Tim. 1:9). (3.) God’s forgiving mercy (Rom. 11:6; Eph. 2:5). (4.) 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This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,\n2. who testifie", "authority_tier": "scripture", "source": "World English Bible · Revelation 1", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "signpost_aurelius_christ_ethics", "title": "Marcus Aurelius's Meditations (~170 AD) — the Sermon on the Mount in Stoic prose, written while persecuting Christians", "shelf": "signposts", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor 161-180 AD) wrote a private journal of Stoic philosophical reflections, never meant for publication, that contains parallels to the Sermon on the Mount so direct they ar", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Signposts among the nations — parts of the story, and the hole Christ filled (Genesis 11; Hebrews 1:1-2; Acts 17)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "signpost_tao_logos_derek_the_way", "title": "The nations reached for the Way — Tao, Logos, Derek — each with the hole; Christ filled it (John 14:6)", "shelf": "signposts", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Parts of one story, scattered among the nations (Genesis 11; Acts 17:26-27): each reached for the eternal, rational, source-of-all principle by which the cosmos is ordered, and each named it in its ow", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Signposts among the nations — parts of the story, and the hole Christ filled (Genesis 11; Hebrews 1:1-2; Acts 17)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "signpost_torah_structure_covenant_sequence_to_new_covenant", "title": "The Torah mapped structurally -- a sequence of covenants; the Law as DIRECTION (torah from yarah, 'to aim'); the covenant a CUT in blood; the new covenant written on the heart", "shelf": "signposts", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Torah is structurally a SEQUENCE OF COVENANTS, not a flat rulebook -- and its own key words say so. 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