{"query": "Mary, Handmaid of the Lord", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_37ef068d8441", "title": "Easton: Martha", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bitterness, the sister of Lazarus and Mary, and probably the eldest of the family, who all resided at Bethany (Luke 10:38, 40, 41; John 11:1-39). From the residence being called “her house,” some have"}, {"id": "card_n_9e88feeb505a", "title": "Easton: Temple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First used of the tabernacle, which is called “the temple of the Lord” (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ’s human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called “th"}, {"id": "card_n_74fe8de824a9", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §232: Then was Pickthank sworn, and bid say what he knew, in behalf of their lord the king, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then was Pickthank sworn, and bid say what he knew, in behalf of their lord the king, against the prisoner at the bar. Pickthank's testimony PICK. My Lord, and you gentlemen all, This fellow I have kn"}, {"id": "card_n_5fb49f6d21b3", "title": "Easton: Mary", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew Miriam. (1.) The wife of Joseph, the mother of Jesus, called the “Virgin Mary,” though never so designated in Scripture (Matt. 2:11; Acts 1:14). Little is known of her personal history. Her gen"}, {"id": "card_n_66110960397e", "title": "Barnabas XIV", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "and broke._ Yes [it is even so]; but let us inquire if the Lord has really given that testament which He swore to the fathers that He would give to the people. He did give it; but they were not worthy"}, {"id": "card_n_1c4189e4cc5c", "title": "Mary, Handmaid of the Lord", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Receives an impossible calling, asks the necessary practical question, then yields with let-it-be; ponders things in her heart through years of unfolding.\n\nFailure mode: None recorded; the model of co"}, {"id": "card_n_9d11f44229d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_001: O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of praise. Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea,"}, {"id": "card_n_9204e18a473a", "title": "Easton: Simon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The abbreviated form of Simeon. (1.) One of the twelve apostles, called the Canaanite (Matt. 10:4; Mark 3:18). This word “Canaanite” does not mean a native of Canaan, but is derived from the Syriac wo"}, {"id": "card_n_20c23de1f3d0", "title": "Jeremiah 31", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “At that time,” says the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”\n2. The LORD says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even"}, {"id": "card_n_01fa9e92e9a9", "title": "1 Corinthians 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,\n2. to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called sain"}, {"id": "card_n_5194615fb2b3", "title": "1 Clement XXII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "which proclaims the misery of sinful conduct._ Now the faith which is in Christ confirms all these [admonitions]. For He Himself by the Holy Ghost thus addresses us: “Come, ye children, hearken unto m"}, {"id": "card_n_9b69fdfc4bc2", "title": "Easton: Resurrection of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the cardinal facts and doctrines of the gospel. If Christ be not risen, our faith is vain (1 Cor. 15:14). The whole of the New Testament revelation rests on this as an historical fact. On the d"}, {"id": "card_n_ebf734c6d3cc", "title": "The Nicene Creed", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We believe in one God, the Father almighty,\nmaker of heaven and earth,\nof all things visible and invisible.\n\nAnd in one Lord Jesus Christ,\nthe only-begotten Son of God,\nbegotten of the Father before a"}, {"id": "card_n_0b1437a41623", "title": "Easton: Jesus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Joshua, the son of Nun (Acts 7:45; Heb. 4:8; R.V., “Joshua”). (2.) A Jewish Christian surnamed Justus (Col. 4:11). Je’sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. To distinguish "}, {"id": "card_n_422813a1fbea", "title": "Easton: Moab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The seed of the father, or, according to others, the desirable land, the eldest son of Lot (Gen. 19:37), of incestuous birth. (2.) Used to denote the people of Moab (Num. 22:3-14; Judg. 3:30; 2 Sam. 8"}, {"id": "card_n_24346c864151", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_059: But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lord, who hast no lord; hath this third kind of temptation also ceased from me, or can it cease through this whole life? To w"}, {"id": "card_n_2b25f6e96b6d", "title": "Easton: Capernaum", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Nahum’s town, a Galilean city frequently mentioned in the history of our Lord. It is not mentioned in the Old Testament. After our Lord’s expulsion from Nazareth (Matt. 4:13-16; Luke 4:16-31), Caperna"}, {"id": "card_n_90e6bd3a2a19", "title": "Genesis 2", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.\n2. On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_1d76c314259f", "title": "Exodus 20", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. God spoke all these words, saying,\n2. “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.\n3. “You shall have no other gods before me.\n4. “You shall not m"}, {"id": "card_n_8fc4ffc7fb8f", "title": "Revelation 22", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,\n2. in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of l"}]}