{"query": "Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_0504c8eaaa65", "title": "Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen. 2, 3). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take of the fruit which grew upon it. But they disobeyed the divine injunction, and so sin"}, {"id": "card_c_m_2e59f8677adc", "title": "Easton: Samuel, Books of shares a section with Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Samuel, Books of shares a section with Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil."}, {"id": "card_c_m_e06a3fd1ee31", "title": "Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil shares a section with Easton: Stephen", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil shares a section with Easton: Stephen."}, {"id": "card_n_3b46d79dcf77", "title": "Easton: Adam", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Red, a Babylonian word, the generic name for man, having the same meaning in the Hebrew and the Assyrian languages. It was the name given to the first man, whose creation, fall, and subsequent history"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_22_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 22:12 — Here is, 1. The special care God takes to preserve knowledge, that is, to keep up religion in the world by keeping up among men the knowledge of himself and of good and evil, notwi"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_119_68", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:68", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 119:68 — Here, 1. David praises God's goodness and gives him the glory of it: Thou art good and doest good. All who have any knowledge of God and dealings with him wilt own that he does good"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_peter_3_16", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:16", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Peter 3:16 — The confession of a Christian's faith cannot credibly be supported but by the two means here specified - a good conscience and a good conversation. conscience is good when it does it"}, {"id": "card_n_3c46d22b79c7", "title": "Easton: Apple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tappuah, meaning “fragrance”). Probably the apricot or quince is intended by the word, as Palestine was too hot for the growth of apples proper. It is enumerated among the most valuable trees of"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_18_15", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:15", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 18:15 — Note, 1. Those that are prudent will seek knowledge, and apply their ear and heart to the pursuit of it, their ear to attend to the means of knowledge and their heart to mix faith "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_ecclesiastes_6_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 6:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Ecclesiastes 6:1 — Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God's providence; now here he shows the evil of the contrary, h"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_19_2", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:2", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 19:2 — Two things are here declared to be of bad consequence: - 1. Ignorance: To be without the knowledge of the soul is not good, so some read it. Know we not our own selves, our own hear"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_colossians_1_9", "title": "Matthew Henry on Colossians 1:9", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Colossians 1:9 — The apostle proceeds in these verses to pray for them. He heard that they were good, and he prayed that they might be better. He was constant in this prayer: We do not cease to pra"}, {"id": "card_n_29926e451adb", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_06: The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man. Have a good conscience and thou shalt ever have joy. A good conscience is able to bear exceeding much, and is exceeding joyful in the mid"}, {"id": "card_n_f9487d3abff4", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_12: It is good for us that we sometimes have sorrows and adversities, for they of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is good for us that we sometimes have sorrows and adversities, for they often make a man lay to heart that he is only a stranger and sojourner, and may not put his trust in any worldly thing. It is"}, {"id": "card_n_fd479429e947", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_02_09: He [Rabban Yohanan] said unto them: go forth and observe which is the right w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He [Rabban Yohanan] said unto them: go forth and observe which is the right way to which a man should cleave? Rabbi Eliezer said, a good eye; Rabbi Joshua said, a good companion; Rabbi Yose said, a go"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_james_3_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on James 3:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On James 3:13 — As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_15_2", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:2", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 15:2 — Note, 1. A good heart by the tongue becomes very useful. He that has knowledge is not only to enjoy it, for his own entertainment, but to use it, to use it aright, for the edificati"}, {"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_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_48d3f72261be", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_04_02: Then said I: 'Verily, wondrous great are thy promises; yet I do not doubt but...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then said I: 'Verily, wondrous great are thy promises; yet I do not doubt but thou canst make them good: only keep me not in suspense after raising such hopes.' 'Learn, then, first,' said she, 'how th"}]}