{"query": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_a29a0c47b9e4", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Paul in this epistle speaks of himself as having left Ephesus for Macedonia (1:3), and hence not Laodicea, as mentioned in the subscription; but probably Philippi, or some other city in that region, w"}, {"id": "card_n_55c637befd94", "title": "Easton: Timothy, Second Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was probably written a year or so after the first, and from Rome, where Paul was for a second time a prisoner, and was sent to Timothy by the hands of Tychicus. In it he entreats Timothy to come to hi"}, {"id": "card_n_7327b80a124c", "title": "Easton: Titus, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was probably written about the same time as the first epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities. “Both letters were addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their respective c"}, {"id": "card_n_b85b00d05fcb", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, Second Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia. Purs"}, {"id": "card_n_7672e1661e23", "title": "Easton: Thessalonians, Epistles to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first epistle to the Thessalonians was the first of all Paul’s epistles. It was in all probability written from Corinth, where he abode a “long time” (Acts 18:11, 18), early in the period of his r"}, {"id": "card_n_73971d3aa279", "title": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle is addressed to “the strangers scattered abroad”, i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora). Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already taught. P"}, {"id": "card_n_c11c336c7bf0", "title": "Easton: Galatians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this epistle is not called in question. Its Pauline origin is universally acknowledged. Occasion of. The churches of Galatia were founded by Paul himself (Acts 16:6; Gal. 1:8; 4:13,"}, {"id": "card_n_018641dc4cd7", "title": "Easton: First-born, Redemption of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son. But when the extensive plan of sacrificial worship was introduced, requiring a company of men to be exclusive"}, {"id": "card_n_3eac20d6d4c5", "title": "Easton: First-fruits", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals. The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be waved"}, {"id": "card_n_12032d50c8df", "title": "Easton: Birthright", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) This word denotes the special privileges and advantages belonging to the first-born son among the Jews. He became the priest of the family. Thus Reuben was the first-born of the patriarchs, and s"}, {"id": "card_c_85b19a776e13", "title": "Easton: Titus, Epistle to references 1 Timothy", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references 1 Timothy. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_d6e307b96f69", "title": "1 Timothy 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.\n2. The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospita"}, {"id": "card_n_b2f6fee38af3", "title": "Easton: Colossians, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D. 57, or, as some think, 62, and soon after he had written his Epistle to the Ephesians. "}, {"id": "card_n_88c46b589551", "title": "Easton: Romans, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom. 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, and Gaius of Corinth entertained the apostle at the time of his writing it (16:23; 1 Cor. 1:14), and E"}, {"id": "card_c_46bb36d730d2", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to references Ephesus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Ephesus (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_c_f0c9e6013760", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to references Laodicea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Laodicea (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_cfbc48b0937c", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to references Macedonia", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Macedonia (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_c_6ecfd5e532a4", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to references Philippi", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Philippi (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_9db57be7f60a", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, First Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written from Ephesus (1 Cor. 16:8) about the time of the Passover in the third year of the apostle’s sojourn there (Acts 19:10; 20:31), and when he had formed the purpose to visit Macedonia, and t"}, {"id": "card_n_9239bcbc20ad", "title": "1 Clement VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things, beloved, we write unto you, not merely to admonish you of your duty, but also to remind ourselves. For we are struggling on the same arena, and the same conflict is assigned to both of u"}]}