{"query": "Easton: Christ", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_01067474d2d0", "title": "Easton: Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered “Messiah” (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was ano"}, {"id": "card_n_48613152e266", "title": "Easton: Baptism of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Christ had to be formally inaugurated into the public discharge of his offices. For this purpose he came to John, who was the representative of the law and the prophets, that by him he might be introd"}, {"id": "card_n_d8eac9a8c73f", "title": "Easton: Fulness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of time (Gal. 4:4), the time appointed by God, and foretold by the prophets, when Messiah should appear. (2.) Of Christ (John 1:16), the superabundance of grace with which he was filled. (3.) Of "}, {"id": "card_n_7eb2b20adbc7", "title": "Easton: Kingly office of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three special relations in which Christ stands to his people. Christ’s office as mediator comprehends three different functions, viz., those of a prophet, priest, and king. These are not th"}, {"id": "card_n_ceb655cfccfc", "title": "Easton: Revelation of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The second advent of Christ. Three different Greek words are used by the apostles to express this, (1) apokalupsis (1 Cor. 1;7; 2 Thess. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:7, 13); (2) parousia (Matt. 24:3, 27; 1 Thess. 2:"}, {"id": "card_n_bd8404b052c2", "title": "Easton: Nativity of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The birth of our Lord took place at the time and place predicted by the prophets (Gen. 49:10; Isa. 7:14; Jer. 31:15; Micah 5:2; Hag. 2:6-9; Dan. 9:24, 25). Joseph and Mary were providentially led to g"}, {"id": "card_n_9b69fdfc4bc2", "title": "Easton: Resurrection of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the cardinal facts and doctrines of the gospel. If Christ be not risen, our faith is vain (1 Cor. 15:14). The whole of the New Testament revelation rests on this as an historical fact. On the d"}, {"id": "card_n_fb7f817c5014", "title": "Easton: Gospels", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The central fact of Christian preaching was the intelligence that the Saviour had come into the world (Matt. 4:23; Rom. 10:15); and the first Christian preachers who called their account of the person"}, {"id": "card_n_e045f88f1abc", "title": "Easton: Kingdom of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 6:33; Mark 1:14, 15; Luke 4:43) = “kingdom of Christ” (Matt. 13:41; 20:21) = “kingdom of Christ and of God” (Eph. 5:5) = “kingdom of David” (Mark 11:10) = “the kingdom” (Matt. 8:12; 13:19) = “k"}, {"id": "card_n_7fd6ffc3e974", "title": "Easton: Antichrist", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Against Christ, or an opposition Christ, a rival Christ. The word is used only by the apostle John. Referring to false teachers, he says (1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7), “Even now are there many an"}, {"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_9766c0affff9", "title": "Easton: Intercession of the Spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 8:26, 27; John 14:26). “Christ is a royal Priest (Zech. 6:13). From the same throne, as King, he dispenses his Spirit to all the objects of his care, while as Priest he intercedes for them. The "}, {"id": "card_n_31774f6110f5", "title": "Easton: Nazarene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epithet (Gr. Nazaraios) is applied to Christ only once (Matt. 2:23). In all other cases the word is rendered “of Nazareth” (Mark 1:24; 10:47; 14:67, etc.). When this Greek designation was at firs"}, {"id": "card_n_f2bb144eaee2", "title": "Easton: Resurrection of the dead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Will be simultaneous both of the just and the unjust (Dan. 12:2; John 5:28, 29; Rom. 2:6-16; 2 Thess. 1:6-10). The qualities of the resurrection body will be different from those of the body laid in t"}, {"id": "card_n_7e307f4486f2", "title": "Easton: Lord’s Supper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Cor. 11:20), called also “the Lord’s table” (10:21), “communion,” “cup of blessing” (10:16), and “breaking of bread” (Acts 2:42). In the early Church it was called also “eucharist,” or giving of th"}, {"id": "card_n_4386d44613c7", "title": "Easton: Millennium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A thousand years; the name given to the era mentioned in Rev. 20:1-7. Some maintain that Christ will personally appear on earth for the purpose of establishing his kingdom at the beginning of this mil"}, {"id": "card_n_b03fc83a1c3e", "title": "Easton: Blemish", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Imperfection or bodily deformity excluding men from the priesthood, and rendering animals unfit to be offered in sacrifice (Lev. 21:17-23; 22:19-25). The Christian church, as justified in Christ, is “"}, {"id": "card_n_b4a51340736e", "title": "Easton: Intercession of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Christ’s priestly office consists of these two parts, (1) the offering up of himself as a sacrifice, and (2) making continual intercession for us. When on earth he made intercession for his people (Lu"}, {"id": "card_n_3dd7aa5595a0", "title": "Easton: Disciple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A scholar, sometimes applied to the followers of John the Baptist (Matt. 9:14), and of the Pharisees (22:16), but principally to the followers of Christ. A disciple of Christ is one who (1) believes h"}, {"id": "card_n_4d83e01c50a0", "title": "Easton: Atonement", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word does not occur in the Authorized Version of the New Testament except in Rom. 5:11, where in the Revised Version the word “reconciliation” is used. In the Old Testament it is of frequent occu"}]}