{"query": "Easton: Wise men", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_250b46e425dd", "title": "Easton: Wise men", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Dan. 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. The word in the original (hakamim) probably means “medicine men. In Chaldea medicine was only a bran"}, {"id": "card_n_bba8da4d6545", "title": "Easton: Dream", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men. The most remarkable instances of this are recorded in the history of Jacob (Gen. 28:12; 31:10), Laban (31:24), Joseph (37:9-11),"}, {"id": "card_c_7cd134d7334c", "title": "Easton: Wise men references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_8564d1ef7b71", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_43: “My Son, let not the fair and subtle sayings of men move thee.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, let not the fair and subtle sayings of men move thee. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.(1) Give ear to My words, for they kindle the heart and enlighten the mind, they brin"}, {"id": "card_n_0ea6a1edcda4", "title": "Easton: Call", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) To cry for help, hence to pray (Gen. 4:26). Thus men are said to “call upon the name of the Lord” (Acts 2:21; 7:59; 9:14; Rom. 10:12; 1 Cor. 1:2). (2.) God calls with respect to men when he desig"}, {"id": "card_c_fe453f815d94", "title": "Easton: Wise men references Chaldea", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Chaldea (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_9fde7fa66056", "title": "Easton: Wise men references Dan", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Dan (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_522d3d5d0d23", "title": "Easton: Wise men references East", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions East (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_7bfd29b313b5", "title": "Easton: Wise men references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (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_778f4d1051fc", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_08: Open not thine heart to every man, but deal with one who is wise and feareth ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Open not thine heart to every man, but deal with one who is wise and feareth God. Be seldom with the young and with strangers. Be not a flatterer of the rich; nor willingly seek the society of the gre"}, {"id": "card_n_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? Why seek they"}, {"id": "card_n_158be448b164", "title": "Easton: Works, Good", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity of good works, and lowers the sense of their importance (Rom. 6), although it has been answered a tho"}, {"id": "card_n_47d7cada69de", "title": "Easton: Jabin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Discerner; the wise. (1.) A king of Hazor, at the time of the entrance of Israel into Canaan (Josh. 11:1-14), whose overthrow and that of the northern chief with whom he had entered into a confederacy"}, {"id": "card_n_07409f53f9ed", "title": "Easton: Myrrh", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. mor. (1.) First mentioned as a principal ingredient in the holy anointing oil (Ex. 30:23). It formed part of the gifts brought by the wise men from the east, who came to worship the infant Jesus "}, {"id": "card_n_fb3106749bd3", "title": "Easton: Legion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A regiment of the Roman army, the number of men composing which differed at different times. It originally consisted of three thousand men, but in the time of Christ consisted of six thousand, exclusi"}, {"id": "card_n_98d90634948d", "title": "Easton: Enos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Man the son of Seth, and grandson of Adam (Gen. 5:6-11; Luke 3:38). He lived nine hundred and five years. In his time “men began to call upon the name of the Lord” (Gen. 4:26), meaning either (1) then"}, {"id": "card_n_4d2be55cd64d", "title": "Easton: Wise, wisdom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A moral rather than an intellectual quality. To be “foolish” is to be godless (Ps. 14:1; comp. Judg. 19:23; 2 Sam. 13:13). True wisdom is a gift from God to those who ask it (Job 28:12-28; Prov. 3:13-"}, {"id": "card_n_de342130506b", "title": "Easton: Dispensation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. oikonomia, “management,” “economy”). (1.) The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations"}, {"id": "card_n_2cb8bbf620e3", "title": "Easton: Providence", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Literally means foresight, but is generally used to denote God’s preserving and governing all things by means of second causes (Ps. 18:35; 63:8; Acts 17:28; Col. 1:17; Heb. 1:3). God’s providence exte"}, {"id": "card_n_5e9fcbcdb3df", "title": "Easton: Apparel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Old Testament times the distinction between male and female attire was not very marked. The statute forbidding men to wear female apparel (Deut. 22:5) referred especially to ornaments and head-dres"}]}