{"query": "Easton: Grace, means of", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c755a13a48d5", "title": "Easton: Grace, means of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An expression not used in Scripture, but employed (1) to denote those institutions ordained by God to be the ordinary channels of grace to the souls of men. 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Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_titus_2_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Titus 2:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Titus 2:11 — Here we have the grounds or considerations upon which all the foregoing directions are urged, taken from the nature and design of the gospel, and the end of Christ's death.\nI. From the"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_corinthians_8_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 8:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Corinthians 8:1 — Observe here,\nI. The apostle takes occasion from the good example of the churches of Macedonia, that is, of Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, and others in the region of Macedonia,"}, {"id": "card_n_158be448b164", "title": "Easton: Works, Good", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity of good works, and lowers the sense of their importance (Rom. 6), although it has been answered a tho"}, {"id": "card_n_e2dd406a0837", "title": "Easton: Generation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gen. 2:4, “These are the generations,” means the “history.” 5:1, “The book of the generations,” means a family register, or history of Adam. 37:2, “The generations of Jacob” = the history of Jacob and"}, {"id": "card_n_de783f2a9744", "title": "Easton: Perseverance of the saints", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Their certain continuance in a state of grace. Once justified and regenerated, the believer can neither totally nor finally fall away from grace, but will certainly persevere therein and attain everla"}, {"id": "card_n_df21a88e0bd5", "title": "Easton: Axe", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Used in the Authorized Version of Deut. 19:5; 20:19; 1 Kings 6:7, as the translation of a Hebrew word which means “chopping.” It was used for felling trees (Isa. 10:34) and hewing timber for building."}, {"id": "card_n_9524b2918830", "title": "Easton: Carriage", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In the Authorized Version this word is found as the rendering of many different words. In Judg. 18:21 it means valuables, wealth, or booty. In Isa. 46:1 (R.V., “the things that ye carried about”) the "}, {"id": "card_n_0667b6bec0dd", "title": "Easton: Jeroboam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1 Kings 11:26-39), “an Ephrathite,” the first king of the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two years (B.C. 976-945). He was the son of a widow of "}, {"id": "card_c_m_afa2a955137c", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace cites Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Election of Grace cites Matthew."}, {"id": "card_c_m_02167e84b49b", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace cites Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Election of Grace cites Hebrews."}, {"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_ca42a63e4ef6", "title": "Easton: Damnation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Rom. 13:2, means “condemnation,” which comes on those who withstand God’s ordinance of magistracy. This sentence of condemnation comes not from the magistrate, but from God, whose authority is thus"}, {"id": "card_n_cd47c460640c", "title": "Easton: Letter", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Rom. 2:27, 29 means the outward form. The “oldness of the letter” (7:6) is a phrase which denotes the old way of literal outward obedience to the law as a system of mere external rules of conduct. "}]}