{"query": "The archetypes — figures of the Word", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_k_spine_archetypes", "title": "The archetypes — figures of the Word", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The people and scenes of Scripture read as living patterns — Jonah fleeing, Elijah under the juniper, Peter at the fire, Thomas doubting. Each is a seed of the Word, a figure the reader is invited to "}, {"id": "card_n_ad9dc748d311", "title": "Easton: Horn", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4, 5). Flasks or vessels were made of horn (1 Sam. 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39). But the word is used also metaphorica"}, {"id": "card_n_975b4b9e29e3", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §358: IGNOR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "IGNOR. When do our thoughts of ourselves agree with the Word of God? CHR. When we pass the same judgment upon ourselves which the Word passes. To explain myself--the Word of God saith of persons in a "}, {"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_ced4babf8538", "title": "Easton: Gospel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word of Anglo-Saxon origin, and meaning “God’s spell”, i.e., word of God, or rather, according to others, “good spell”, i.e., good news. It is the rendering of the Greek evangelion, i.e., “good mess"}, {"id": "card_n_2288684e8c31", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_014: Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God. But that the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, I read"}, {"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_29f94b123a26", "title": "Easton: Church", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Derived probably from the Greek kuriakon (i.e., “the Lord’s house”), which was used by ancient authors for the place of worship. In the New Testament it is the translation of the Greek word ecclesia, "}, {"id": "card_n_6ebe7f9139d7", "title": "Easton: Easter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Originally a Saxon word (Eostre), denoting a goddess of the Saxons, in honour of whom sacrifices were offered about the time of the Passover. Hence the name came to be given to the festival of the Res"}, {"id": "card_k_spine_the_word", "title": "The Word — special revelation, the other half of the floor", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The floor has two halves and they are one. Alongside the created order stands the Word — the Scripture, its figures, its teachings. Special and general revelation are not two domains but one floor (se"}, {"id": "card_n_6b809ee37820", "title": "Easton: Bullock", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The translation of a word which is a generic name for horned cattle (Isa. 65:25). It is also rendered “cow” (Ezek. 4:15), “ox” (Gen. 12:16). (2.) The translation of a word always meaning an anima"}, {"id": "card_n_4d83e01c50a0", "title": "Easton: Atonement", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word does not occur in the Authorized Version of the New Testament except in Rom. 5:11, where in the Revised Version the word “reconciliation” is used. In the Old Testament it is of frequent occu"}, {"id": "card_n_2133c346ee9b", "title": "Easton: Love", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word seems to require explanation only in the case of its use by our Lord in his interview with “Simon, the son of Jonas,” after his resurrection (John 21:16, 17). When our Lord says, “Lovest tho"}, {"id": "card_n_b184a75bce39", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_010: An opening thus made, ruminating with myself on the like things, that no one ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "An opening thus made, ruminating with myself on the like things, that no one of those dotards (who lived by such a trade, and whom I longed to attack, and with derision to confute) might urge against "}, {"id": "card_n_2024c1ff59f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_013: And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest grace unto the humble, and by how great an act of Thy mercy Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in that Thy Wo"}, {"id": "card_n_166c9f38534e", "title": "Psalm 33 — Psalm 33", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright. Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings. Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with"}, {"id": "card_n_71d82ac3286f", "title": "Easton: Money", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Of uncoined money the first notice we have is in the history of Abraham (Gen. 13:2; 20:16; 24:35). Next, this word is used in connection with the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (23:16), and again i"}, {"id": "card_n_05e4265f7048", "title": "Easton: Astronomy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrews were devout students of the wonders of the starry firmanent (Amos 5:8; Ps. 19). In the Book of Job, which is the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are disting"}, {"id": "card_n_d82725fd8bf4", "title": "Easton: Tophet", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Topheth, from Heb. toph “a drum,” because the cries of children here sacrificed by the priests of Moloch were drowned by the noise of such an instrument; or from taph or toph, meaning “to burn,” and "}, {"id": "card_n_6ef003c76c13", "title": "Easton: Gilead, Balm of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The region of Gilead abounded in spices and aromatic gums, which were exported to Egypt and Tyre (Gen. 37:25; Jer. 8:22; 46:11; Ezek. 27:17). The word “balm” is a contracted form of “balsam,” a word d"}]}