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A (A-Z entry)
The symbol employed in textual criticism for a MS of the New Testament in Greek written on parchment in Egypt ( Alexandria? Hence known ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abilene (A-Z entry)
An area NW of Damascus round Abila. Luke 3: 1 mentions that when John the Baptist the Baptist began his ministry Abilene was governed ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abraham's Bosom (A-Z entry)
In Jesus' parable of Dives and Lazarus ( Luke 16: 19–31 ) both characters die, and in the abode of the dead, which is ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abraham's Bosom (A-Z entry)
This expression occurs in the parable of the Rich Man ( Dives ) and Lazarus ( Luke 16.19–31 ); after his death, Lazarus is ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
access (A-Z entry)
When visitors or ambassadors are granted an audience with the pope or a president, a trusted member of the staff shows them the way ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Aceldama (A-Z entry)
(AV) Aramaic for ‘Field of Blood’ and rendered Hakeldama by NRSV; ‘Aceldama which means “Blood Acre” ’ by REB ( Acts 1: 19 ): ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Acts (Chapters)
Before Beginning … Acts continues the story that began with Luke's Gospel. What began with Jesus' life did not end on Easter. God's plan ...
Source: The Catholic Study Bible
The Acts of John (Chapters)
In the East the earliest unambiguous patristic attestation to the Acts of John is in Eusebius ( HE 3. 25. 6 (Schwartz GCS 9.2, ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Acts of Paul (Chapters)
Attestation Tertullian, de Baptismo 17 (ed. A. Reifferscheid and G. Wissowa, CSEL 20 (Prague, Vienna, Leipzig, 1890), p. 215, or ed. J. W. P. ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Acts of Peter (Chapters)
The figure of Peter gave rise to much apocryphal literature. The Acts and Passion of Peter appear in various forms and in various languages. ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
The fifth book of the NT. Without the Acts it would be impossible to write an account of the Christian Church of the first ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
is the second volume of a two-volume work, Luke-Acts , which relates the story of the early church in ways that are strikingly similar ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
The fifth book of the New Testament in the common arrangement, Acts records certain phases of the progress of Christianity for a period of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
The Acts of Thomas (Chapters)
Ancient testimony to the existence of the Acts of Thomas is late and may be seen in Epiphanius, adv. Haer. 2. 47. 1 and ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
adoption (A-Z entry)
In the OT children are brought by adoption into families, as Moses ( Exod. 2: 10 ) was by Pharaoh's daughter, and Esther by ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
adoptionism (A-Z entry)
A theory about the Person of Christ associated with the heretic Nestorius ( d. 451 CE ) that Jesus was a man gifted with ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
adoration (A-Z entry)
The loving worship of God in response to his first loving us (1 John 4: 9–10 ). It is described as a ‘sacrifice of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Adramyttium (A-Z entry)
Port on the NW coast of modern Turkey. Paul was put on board a ship from Adramyttium at Caesarea on his way to Rome ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Adria, Sea of (A-Z entry)
In the 1st cent. CE the name was applied not only to the modern Adriatic (between Italy and the Balkan peninsula) but also southwards ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
advent (A-Z entry)
An alternative translation of the Greek parousia , otherwise rendered ‘coming’ in the English versions, with reference to the eschatological expectation of Christ's coming ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
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