{"query": "Easton: Justice of God", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_cd012773b4fe", "title": "Easton: Justice of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That perfection of his nature whereby he is infinitely righteous in himself and in all he does, the righteousness of the divine nature exercised in his moral government. At first God imposes righteous"}, {"id": "card_c_m_a00b9120fe09", "title": "Easton: Letter shares a section with Easton: Justice of God", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Letter shares a section with Easton: Justice of God."}, {"id": "card_n_c86266734a83", "title": "Easton: Habitation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "God is the habitation of his people, who find rest and safety in him (Ps. 71:3; 91:9). Justice and judgment are the habitation of God’s throne (Ps. 89:14, Heb. mekhon, “foundation”), because all his a"}, {"id": "card_n_58a1d4f48cb1", "title": "Easton: Face", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Means simply presence, as when it is recorded that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the “face [R.V., ‘presence’] of the Lord God” (Gen. 3:8; comp. Ex. 33:14, 15, where the same Hebrew word is rendered"}, {"id": "card_n_d969476d3fa7", "title": "Easton: Goodness of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A perfection of his character which he exercises towards his creatures according to their various circumstances and relations (Ps. 145:8, 9; 103:8; 1 John 4:8). Viewed generally, it is benevolence; as"}, {"id": "card_n_ac10a439bca1", "title": "Easton: Son of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The plural, “sons of God,” is used (Gen. 6:2, 4) to denote the pious descendants of Seth. In Job 1:6; 38:7 this name is applied to the angels. Hosea uses the phrase (1:10) to designate the gracious re"}, {"id": "card_n_2db9fce50af9", "title": "Easton: Amos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Borne; a burden, one of the twelve minor prophets. He was a native of Tekota, the modern Tekua, a town about 12 miles south-east of Bethlehem. He was a man of humble birth, neither a “prophet nor a pr"}, {"id": "card_n_c161d5235c28", "title": "Easton: Living creatures", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As represented by Ezekiel (1-10) and John (Rev. 4, etc.), are the cherubim. They are distinguished from angels (Rev. 15:7); they join the elders in the “new song” (5:8, 9); they warn of danger from di"}, {"id": "card_n_71cbf4222dc8", "title": "Easton: Reconcilation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A change from enmity to friendship. It is mutual, i.e., it is a change wrought in both parties who have been at enmity. (1.) In Col. 1:21, 22, the word there used refers to a change wrought in the per"}, {"id": "card_n_b48602ef6dba", "title": "Easton: Creation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“In the beginning” God created, i.e., called into being, all things out of nothing. This creative act on the part of God was absolutely free, and for infinitely wise reasons. The cause of all things e"}, {"id": "card_n_975638af6bad", "title": "Easton: Eldad", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Whom God has loved, one of the seventy elders whom Moses appointed (Num. 11:26, 27) to administer justice among the people. He, with Medad, prophesied in the camp instead of going with the rest to the"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_samuel_15_10", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 15:10", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Samuel 15:10 — Saul is here called to account by Samuel concerning the execution of his commission against the Amalekites; and remarkable instances we are here furnished with of the strictness of"}, {"id": "card_c_aff73c6a74ac", "title": "Easton: Letter ↔ Easton: Justice of God", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_i_l — a structural sibling link restored from 1.0's nesting (re-verified same section live). Connects the map so no card is left orphaned."}, {"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_4a82d606103e", "title": "Easton: Election of Grace", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Scripture speaks (1) of the election of individuals to office or to honour and privilege, e.g., Abraham, Jacob, Saul, David, Solomon, were all chosen by God for the positions they held; so also we"}, {"id": "card_n_c6267fa0737c", "title": "Easton: Inspiration", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That extraordinary or supernatural divine influence vouchsafed to those who wrote the Holy Scriptures, rendering their writings infallible. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” (R.V., “Every"}, {"id": "card_n_e91e5b22158f", "title": "Easton: Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is converse with God; the intercourse of the soul with God, not in contemplation or meditation, but in direct address to him. Prayer may be oral or mental, occasional or constant, ejaculatory or forma"}, {"id": "card_n_d070a34c67cf", "title": "Easton: Word of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God’s organs in communicating his will to men. It is his “word,” because he speaks to us in its sacred pages. Whate"}, {"id": "card_n_e1df4c77bac5", "title": "Easton: Word, The", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13). As such, Christ is the revealer of God. His office is to make God known. “No man h"}, {"id": "card_n_939087c78d96", "title": "Easton: Bless", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) God blesses his people when he bestows on them some gift temporal or spiritual (Gen. 1:22; 24:35; Job 42:12; Ps. 45:2; 104:24, 35). (2.) We bless God when we thank him for his mercies (Ps. 103:1,"}]}