{"query": "Easton: Proportion of faith", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_88255c9e83e6", "title": "Easton: Proportion of faith", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, “according to the proportion of faith.” The meaning is, that the utterances of the “prophet” were not"}, {"id": "card_c_m_b1d55242c69b", "title": "Easton: Proportion of faith shares a section with Easton: Mercurius", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Proportion of faith shares a section with Easton: Mercurius."}, {"id": "card_c_m_e84c91c28722", "title": "Easton: Proportion of faith shares a section with Easton: Naked", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Proportion of faith shares a section with Easton: Naked."}, {"id": "card_n_6b5a79199aa3", "title": "Easton: Faith", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true (Phil. 1:27; 2 Thess. 2:13). Its primary idea is trust. A thing is true, and therefore worthy of trust. It admits of man"}, {"id": "card_c_4a003235a249", "title": "Easton: Mercurius ↔ Easton: Proportion of faith", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_m_p — 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_c_b69f16eb74c9", "title": "Easton: Proportion of faith ↔ Easton: Naked", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Both belong to dictionary · easton_concept_m_p — 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_4400e2a6cc9a", "title": "Easton: Assurance", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The resurrection of Jesus (Acts 17:31) is the “assurance” (Gr. pistis, generally rendered “faith”) or pledge God has given that his revelation is true and worthy of acceptance. The “full assurance [Gr"}, {"id": "card_n_8b9c55c0f098", "title": "Easton: Schoolmaster", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The law so designated by Paul (Gal. 3:24, 25). As so used, the word does not mean teacher, but pedagogue (shortened into the modern page), i.e., one who was intrusted with the supervision of a family,"}, {"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_2acf4e5828ab", "title": "Easton: Ruth The Book of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books of the Hebrew Bible. The history it contains refers to a period perhaps about one hundred and twenty"}, {"id": "card_n_c5d384b56970", "title": "Easton: John, Gospel of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this Gospel, i.e., the fact that the apostle John was its author, is beyond all reasonable doubt. In recent times, from about 1820, many attempts have been made to impugn its genuin"}, {"id": "card_n_2e39054b9b10", "title": "Easton: Canon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is derived from a Hebrew and Greek word denoting a reed or cane. Hence it means something straight, or something to keep straight; and hence also a rule, or something ruled or measured. It c"}, {"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_f510f74b1f7a", "title": "Easton: Hope", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Rom. 8:24; 1 John 3:2). “Hope is an essential and fundamen"}, {"id": "card_n_31cca21741a0", "title": "Easton: Caesarea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Palestinae), a city on the shore of the Mediterranean, on the great road from Tyre to Egypt, about 70 miles northwest of Jerusalem, at the northern extremity of the plain of Sharon. It was built by H"}, {"id": "card_n_a310af9b7a0d", "title": "Easton: Syrophenician", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation” (Mark 7:26), i.e., a Gentile born in the Phoenician part of Syria. (See PHENICIA.) When our Lord retired into the borderland of Tyre and Sidon (Matt. 15:21), a Syr"}, {"id": "card_n_c509e7979431", "title": "Easton: Sheep", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Are of different varieties. Probably the flocks of Abraham and Isaac were of the wild species found still in the mountain regions of Persia and Kurdistan. After the Exodus, and as a result of intercou"}, {"id": "card_n_048bd5e3c62d", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, which they divided into four books, which they called “Books of the Kingdom.” The Vulgate version foll"}, {"id": "card_n_6cb382b0b203", "title": "Easton: Sin-offering", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. hattath), the law of, is given in detail in Lev. 4-6:13; 9:7-11, 22-24; 12:6-8; 15:2, 14, 25-30; 14:19, 31; Num. 6:10-14. On the day of Atonement it was made with special solemnity (Lev. 16:5, 1"}, {"id": "card_n_19006cf8f9e2", "title": "Easton: Forest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ya’ar, meaning a dense wood, from its luxuriance. Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Eccl. 2:6; Isa. 44:14; Jer. 5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of Ep"}]}