{"query": "Easton: Sceptre", "count": 5, "results": [{"id": "card_n_91a860fa326a", "title": "Easton: Sceptre", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shebet = Gr. skeptron), properly a staff or rod. As a symbol of authority, the use of the sceptre originated in the idea that the ruler was as a shepherd of his people (Gen. 49:10; Num. 24:17; P"}, {"id": "card_n_154d4d078d35", "title": "Easton: Star, Morning", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name figuratively given to Christ (Rev. 22:16; comp. 2 Pet. 1:19). When Christ promises that he will give the “morning star” to his faithful ones, he “promises that he will give to them himself, tha"}, {"id": "card_n_0d8566b1a5d6", "title": "Easton: Peor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Opening. (1.) A mountain peak (Num. 23:28) to which Balak led Balaam as a last effort to induce him to pronounce a curse upon Israel. When he looked on the tribes encamped in the acacia groves below h"}, {"id": "card_n_70b278a335a1", "title": "1 Clement XXXI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "blessing._ Let us cleave then to His blessing, and consider what are the means of possessing it. Let us think over the things which have taken place from the beginning. For what reason was our father "}, {"id": "card_n_87533691fea2", "title": "1 Clement XVI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For Christ is of those who are humble-minded, and not of those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Sceptre of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp of pride or arrog"}]}