{"query": "The evolution of language — descent traced by regular law", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_dcb1a67c26e8", "title": "The evolution of language — descent traced by regular law", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Languages descend like living lineages, and the descent is RECOVERABLE — the comparative\nmethod is one of the humanities' deterministic sciences. English 'father' descends from\nProto-Indo-European *ph"}, {"id": "card_n_5cf4150c037e", "title": "Easton: Law", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A rule of action. (1.) The Law of Nature is the will of God as to human conduct, founded on the moral difference of things, and discoverable by natural light (Rom. 1:20; 2:14, 15). This law binds all "}, {"id": "card_n_600ccc86ead6", "title": "Easton: Canaan, the language of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned in Isa. 19:18, denotes the language spoken by the Jews resident in Palestine. The language of the Canaanites and of the Hebrews was substantially the same. This is seen from the fragments of"}, {"id": "card_n_4150298825ee", "title": "Easton: Hebrew language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The language of the Hebrew nation, and that in which the Old Testament is written, with the exception of a few portions in Chaldee. In the Old Testament it is only spoken of as “Jewish” (2 Kings 18:26"}, {"id": "card_n_8032ca300afc", "title": "Easton: Chaldee language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Employed by the sacred writers in certain portions of the Old Testament, viz., Dan. 2:4-7, 28; Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26; Gen. 31:46; Jer. 10:11. It is the Aramaic dialect, as it is sometimes called, as "}, {"id": "card_n_7fd809c41510", "title": "Easton: Law of Moses", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut. 1:5; 4:8, 44; 17:18, 19; 27:3, 8). As a written "}, {"id": "card_c_30bed664fe83", "title": "The language tree instantiates language evolution", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The branching structure."}, {"id": "card_n_8da68bf0ab0f", "title": "Easton: Judgment, The final", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sentence that will be passed on our actions at the last day (Matt. 25; Rom. 14:10, 11; 2 Cor. 5:10; 2 Thess. 1:7-10). The judge is Jesus Christ, as mediator. All judgment is committed to him (Acts"}, {"id": "card_c_877f4bfad1c4", "title": "Grimm's Law instantiates language evolution", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The regularity of sound change."}, {"id": "card_n_aabbe96cf183", "title": "Easton: Fast", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26-32. It is called “the fast” (Acts 27:9). The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old Tes"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4a34825837", "title": "Easton: Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The five-fold volume, consisting of the first five books of the Old Testament. This word does not occur in Scripture, nor is it certainly known when the roll was thus divided into five portions Genesi"}, {"id": "card_n_d9698f4661ae", "title": "Easton: Justification", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A forensic term, opposed to condemnation. As regards its nature, it is the judicial act of God, by which he pardons all the sins of those who believe in Christ, and accounts, accepts, and treats them "}, {"id": "card_n_e0accfb8fba2", "title": "Easton: Tithe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tenth of the produce of the earth consecrated and set apart for special purposes. The dedication of a tenth to God was recognized as a duty before the time of Moses. Abraham paid tithes to Melchized"}, {"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_9762ae853ecb", "title": "Galatians 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?\n2. I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive th"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_7f184b75428e", "title": "Easton: Samaritan Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On the return from the Exile, the Jews refused the Samaritans participation with them in the worship at Jerusalem, and the latter separated from all fellowship with them, and built a temple for themse"}, {"id": "card_n_e1972a6f765f", "title": "Easton: Job, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A great diversity of opinion exists as to the authorship of this book. From internal evidence, such as the similarity of sentiment and language to those in the Psalms and Proverbs (see Ps. 88 and 89),"}, {"id": "card_c_ddc15bc5379f", "title": "Peoples are traced by language descent", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The comparative method dates the dispersal of tongues."}, {"id": "card_n_058570f8c25e", "title": "Easton: Obadiah, Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Consists of one chapter, “concerning Edom,” its impending doom (1:1-16), and the restoration of Israel (1:17-21). This is the shortest book of the Old Testament. There are on record the account of fou"}]}