{"query": "The Reticular Activating System — the gate of reception", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ras7gate0recv", "title": "The Reticular Activating System — the gate of reception", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The reticular activating system is the confirmed biology of reception — the tissue that decides what reaches awareness.\n\nIn the brainstem sits the reticular formation, a netlike core of neurons. Its a"}, {"id": "card_n_fbfa0cbf408e", "title": "Easton: Gate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of cities, as of Jerusalem (Jer. 37:13; Neh. 1:3; 2:3; 3:3), of Sodom (Gen. 19:1), of Gaza (Judg. 16:3). (2.) Of royal palaces (Neh. 2:8). (3.) Of the temple of Solomon (1 Kings 6:34, 35; 2 Kings"}, {"id": "card_n_7bf587a27c24", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_17_the_narrow_gate: \"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that ...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads t"}, {"id": "card_n_bfd4a1bca8d5", "title": "Easton: Shallecheth, The gate of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "I.e., “the gate of casting out,” hence supposed to be the refuse gate; one of the gates of the house of the Lord, “by the causeway of the going up” i.e., the causeway rising up from the Tyropoeon vall"}, {"id": "card_n_17f4f305d575", "title": "1 Clement XLVIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us therefore, with all haste, put an end to this [state of things]; and let us fall down before the Lord, and beseech Him with tears, that He would mercifully be reconciled to us, and restore us t"}, {"id": "card_n_cca3b515028a", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §399: Then I saw in my dream that the Shining Men bid them call at the gate; the which, when ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Then I saw in my dream that the Shining Men bid them call at the gate; the which, when they did, some looked from above over the gate, to wit, Enoch, Moses, and Elijah, &c., to whom it was said, These"}, {"id": "card_n_c3203934b80d", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §54: First, Thou must abhor his turning thee out of the way; and thine own consenting thereu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First, Thou must abhor his turning thee out of the way; and thine own consenting thereunto: because this is to reject the counsel of God for the sake of the counsel of a Worldly Wiseman. The Lord says"}, {"id": "card_n_d86e1363382f", "title": "Easton: Corner", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The angle of a house (Job 1:19) or a street (Prov. 7:8). “Corners” in Neh. 9:22 denotes the various districts of the promised land allotted to the Israelites. In Num. 24:17, the “corners of Moab” deno"}, {"id": "card_n_fa1a942e187a", "title": "Easton: Bethesda", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "House of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, “a swimming bath”) with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it “the sheep-pool.”"}, {"id": "card_n_e26790741c38", "title": "Easton: Fall of man", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An expression probably borrowed from the Apocryphal Book of Wisdom, to express the fact of the revolt of our first parents from God, and the consequent sin and misery in which they and all their poste"}, {"id": "card_n_da60afdc482a", "title": "Easton: Chronology", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is the arrangement of facts and events in the order of time. The writers of the Bible themselves do not adopt any standard era according to which they date events. Sometimes the years are reckoned, e."}, {"id": "card_n_f75c46e2876e", "title": "Easton: Synagogue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. sunagoge, i.e., “an assembly”), found only once in the Authorized Version of Ps. 74:8, where the margin of Revised Version has “places of assembly,” which is probably correct; for while the origi"}, {"id": "card_n_dfe230563b45", "title": "Mordecai at the Gate", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sits at the gate; uncovers the assassination plot; refuses to bow to Haman; condemned to the gallows Haman built; on a sleepless night the king reads the chronicles and Mordecai is honored; eventually"}, {"id": "card_n_50398b704081", "title": "Easton: Chaldea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used of the whole of the Mesopotamian plain. The Hebrew name is Kasdim, which is us"}, {"id": "card_n_8d1c964dd9c3", "title": "Easton: Sin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is “any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law of God” (1 John 3:4; Rom. 4:15), in the inward state and habit of the soul, as well as in the outward conduct of the life, whether by omissi"}, {"id": "card_n_48613152e266", "title": "Easton: Baptism of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Christ had to be formally inaugurated into the public discharge of his offices. For this purpose he came to John, who was the representative of the law and the prophets, that by him he might be introd"}, {"id": "card_n_462dd2ad643c", "title": "Devotional: Insight: The Ephraim Gate", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Be careful which gates you open. God may be warning you to close off partnerships, habits, or voices that look like allies but are walking in rebellion. If you don't close the gate when He says to — i"}, {"id": "card_n_dd81cb3cf665", "title": "Easton: Ruth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father, Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law, who refused to lea"}, {"id": "card_n_146eb6567951", "title": "Easton: Elder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A name frequently used in the Old Testament as denoting a person clothed with authority, and entitled to respect and reverence (Gen. 50:7). It also denoted a political office (Num. 22:7). The “elders "}, {"id": "card_n_2db0ba0e16e5", "title": "Easton: Beautiful gate", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name of one of the gates of the temple (Acts 3:2). It is supposed to have been the door which led from the court of the Gentiles to the court of the women. It was of massive structure, and covered"}]}