{"query": "The Centurion at the Cross", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_eb53cb35ed0b", "title": "Easton: Cross", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ itself (Eph. 2:16; Heb. 12:2; 1 Cor. 1:17, 18; Gal. 5:11; 6:12, 14; Phil. 3:18). The word is also used "}, {"id": "card_n_da50e6c26b71", "title": "The Centurion at the Cross", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Roman officer overseeing the execution; sees how He cries out and gives up the spirit; sees the things that happened — darkness, earthquake, the tearing of the veil reported later; declares: Truly thi"}, {"id": "card_n_0515a8f681bf", "title": "Easton: Cornelius", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A centurion whose history is narrated in Acts 10. He was a “devout man,” and like the centurion of Capernaum, believed in the God of Israel. His residence at Caesrea probably brought him into contact "}, {"id": "card_n_74d12d41f383", "title": "Easton: Offence", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) An injury or wrong done to one (1 Sam. 25:31; Rom. 5:15). (2.) A stumbling-block or cause of temptation (Isa. 8:14; Matt. 16:23; 18:7). Greek skandalon, properly that at which one stumbles or tak"}, {"id": "card_n_3009c2596c0f", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_11: Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many seekers of comfort, but few of tribulation. He findeth many companions of His table, but few of His fasting. "}, {"id": "card_n_29cd469adbc5", "title": "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When I survey the wondrous cross\nOn which the Prince of glory died,\nMy richest gain I count but loss,\nAnd pour contempt on all my pride.\n\nForbid it, Lord, that I should boast,\nSave in the death of Chr"}, {"id": "card_n_faea09fdb08c", "title": "Easton: Cyrene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city (now Tripoli) in Upper Libya, North Africa, founded by a colony of Greeks (B.C. 630). It contained latterly a large number of Jews, who were introduced into the city by Ptolemy, the son of Lagu"}, {"id": "card_n_0a57be27db93", "title": "Easton: Titus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Honourable, was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, and accompanied them to the council at Jerusalem (Gal. 2:1-3; Acts 15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts of the Apostles. He appears to"}, {"id": "card_n_fc55d1720cc9", "title": "Caesar at the Rubicon", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "General forbidden by the Senate from bringing his army into Italy; pauses at the Rubicon, says alea iacta est, crosses with the army; civil war follows; assassinated five years later on the senate flo"}, {"id": "card_n_0ae03ccbda7e", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §83: Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behol...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then the Interpreter took him, and led him up towards the door of the palace; and behold, at the door stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in; but durst not. There also sat a man at a littl"}, {"id": "card_n_29bf24e804b7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_018: These things I being ignorant of, scoffed at those Thy holy servants and prop...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things I being ignorant of, scoffed at those Thy holy servants and prophets. And what gained I by scoffing at them, but to be scoffed at by Thee, being insensibly and step by step drawn on to th"}, {"id": "card_n_08158d7be922", "title": "Easton: Red Sea, Passage of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The account of the march of the Israelites through the Red Sea is given in Ex. 14:22-31. There has been great diversity of opinion as to the precise place where this occurred. The difficulty of arrivi"}, {"id": "card_n_e518ae8c8e4c", "title": "A parable — Doubt silence", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist cried: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He cried it day and night, and there was no answer. He wrote the cry down anyway. Centuries later the Son of God said the same words from"}, {"id": "card_n_169ab095061e", "title": "Easton: Kibroth-hattaavah", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The graves of the longing or of lust, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was probably in the Wady Murrah, and has been identified with the Erweis el-Ebeirig, where the remains"}, {"id": "card_n_4386d44613c7", "title": "Easton: Millennium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A thousand years; the name given to the era mentioned in Rev. 20:1-7. Some maintain that Christ will personally appear on earth for the purpose of establishing his kingdom at the beginning of this mil"}, {"id": "card_n_31cca21741a0", "title": "Easton: Caesarea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on the great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, at the northern extremity of the plain of Sharon. It was built by H"}, {"id": "card_n_0c27a480e54a", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §123: PRUD.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "PRUD. Do you not find sometimes, as if those things were vanquished, which at other times are your perplexity? Christian's golden hours CHR. Yes, but that is seldom; but they are to me golden hours in"}, {"id": "card_n_3fb94a85bd2c", "title": "Easton: Palm tree", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tamar), the date-palm characteristic of Palestine. It is described as “flourishing” (Ps. 92:12), tall (Cant. 7:7), “upright” (Jer. 10:5). Its branches are a symbol of victory (Rev. 7:9). “Rising"}, {"id": "card_n_49c58db7d30d", "title": "Easton: Rahab", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Insolence; pride, a poetical name applied to Egypt in Ps. 87:4; 89:10; Isa. 51:9, as “the proud one.” Rahab, (Heb. Rahab; i.e., “broad,” “large”). When the Hebrews were encamped at Shittim, in the “Ar"}, {"id": "card_n_5b2f31bc921b", "title": "Easton: Crucifixion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the M"}]}