{"query": "Easton: Tongues, Confusion of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_de13aa6f7c0b", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Confusion of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God “confounded their language” (Gen. 11:"}, {"id": "card_n_48b778dd5047", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Gift of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Granted on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:4), in fulfilment of a promise Christ had made to his disciples (Mark 16:17). What this gift actually was has been a subject of much discussion. Some have argue"}, {"id": "card_n_4fdf3cc0a40c", "title": "Easton: City", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues, the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12). Next, we have "}, {"id": "card_c_7df99489d84e", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Confusion of references Noah", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Noah (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_n_11462bbce2a6", "title": "Easton: Megiddo", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Place of troops, originally one of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 12:21), belonged to the tribe of Manasseh (Judg. 1:27), but does not seem to have been fully occupied by the Israelites til"}, {"id": "card_n_982b9ffe05f0", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_06_xv: Not vegetative spiration, it is not surely (which plants have) that in this l...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not vegetative spiration, it is not surely (which plants have) that in this life should be so dear unto us; nor sensitive respiration, the proper life of beasts, both tame and wild; nor this our imagi"}, {"id": "card_n_80acf3dd2e2b", "title": "Easton: Gifts, spiritual", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. charismata), gifts supernaturally bestowed on the early Christians, each having his own proper gift or gifts for the edification of the body of Christ. These were the result of the extraordinary "}, {"id": "card_n_67b527fb7255", "title": "Easton: Demetrius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) A silversmith at Ephesus, whose chief occupation was to make “silver shrines for Diana” (q.v.), Acts 19:24, i.e., models either of the temple of Diana or of the statue of the goddess. This trade "}, {"id": "card_n_bd877f031a70", "title": "Easton: Babel, tower of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the tower which the primitive fathers of our race built in the land of Shinar after the Deluge (Gen. 11:1-9). Their object in building this tower was probably that it might be seen a"}, {"id": "card_n_1a69b0ccebe1", "title": "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O for a thousand tongues to sing\nMy great Redeemer's praise,\nThe glories of my God and King,\nThe triumphs of His grace!\n\nMy gracious Master and my God,\nAssist me to proclaim,\nTo spread through all the"}, {"id": "card_n_1e6acbf52c16", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_024: But you, chosen generation, you weak things of the world, who have forsaken a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But you, chosen generation, you weak things of the world, who have forsaken all, that ye may follow the Lord; go after Him, and confound the mighty; go after Him, ye beautiful feet, and shine ye in th"}, {"id": "card_n_4f1d626f71c5", "title": "Easton: Judge", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. shophet, pl. shophetim), properly a magistrate or ruler, rather than one who judges in the sense of trying a cause. This is the name given to those rulers who presided over the affairs of the Is"}, {"id": "card_n_8ac81dbe47df", "title": "Psalm 140 — Psalm 140", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man; those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves tog"}, {"id": "card_n_a75d485f6a78", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_023: But that orator was of that sort whom I loved, as wishing to be myself such; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that orator was of that sort whom I loved, as wishing to be myself such; and I erred through a swelling pride, and was tossed about with every wind, but yet was steered by Thee, though very secret"}, {"id": "card_n_63fbf5d81905", "title": "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,\nTune my heart to sing Thy grace;\nStreams of mercy, never ceasing,\nCall for songs of loudest praise.\nTeach me some melodious sonnet,\nSung by flaming tongues above;\nP"}, {"id": "card_n_b44bd65d11a8", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §246: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. Pray, who are your kindred there? if a man may be so bold. BY-ENDS. Almost the whole town; and in particular, my Lord Turn-about, my Lord Time-server, my Lord Fair-speech, (from whose ancestors t"}, {"id": "card_n_ed835c2ee4ca", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_011: But when that man of Thine, Simplicianus, related to me this of Victorinus, I...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But when that man of Thine, Simplicianus, related to me this of Victorinus, I was on fire to imitate him; for for this very end had he related it. But when he had subjoined also, how in the days of th"}, {"id": "card_n_c39f91ab51be", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_003: Thou hadst pierced our hearts with Thy charity, and we carried Thy words as i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou hadst pierced our hearts with Thy charity, and we carried Thy words as it were fixed in our entrails: and the examples of Thy servants, whom for black Thou hadst made bright, and for dead, alive,"}, {"id": "card_n_79769921b892", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_028: And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated from the bitterness of the waters, brings forth, not the moving creature that hath life, but the living soul. For now hath"}, {"id": "card_n_e596d990c2c3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_020: Her mother-in-law also, at first by whisperings of evil servants incensed aga...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Her mother-in-law also, at first by whisperings of evil servants incensed against her, she so overcame by observance and persevering endurance and meekness, that she of her own accord discovered to he"}]}