{"query": "Easton: Heaven", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d4c92e7f154f", "title": "Easton: Heaven", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Definitions. The phrase “heaven and earth” is used to indicate the whole universe (Gen. 1:1; Jer. 23:24; Acts 17:24). According to the Jewish notion there were three heavens, (a) The firmament, a"}, {"id": "card_n_79d96d4ce644", "title": "Easton: Circuit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The apparent diurnal revolution of the sun round the earth (Ps. 19:6), and the changes of the wind (Eccl. 1:6). In Job 22:14, “in the circuit of heaven” (R.V. marg., “on the vault of heaven”) means th"}, {"id": "card_n_5c0b9f551e48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_002: The lowliness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest hea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The lowliness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest heaven and earth; this heaven which I see, and this earth that I tread upon, whence is this earth that I bear about me; Thou m"}, {"id": "card_n_9ebe5fdc4379", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_038: Another bends his mind on that which is said, In the Beginning God made heave...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Another bends his mind on that which is said, In the Beginning God made heaven and earth; and beholdeth therein Wisdom, the Beginning because It also speaketh unto us. Another likewise bends his mind "}, {"id": "card_src_book_25224", "title": "The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus — F. J. Boudreaux", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus, by F. J. Boudreaux. Subjects: Heaven. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25224"}, {"id": "card_src_book_24759", "title": "The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it? — Edward Burbidge", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it?, by Edward Burbidge. Subjects: Heaven -- Biblical teaching; Jesus Christ -- Kingdom. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24759"}, {"id": "card_src_book_17368", "title": "Heaven and its Wonders and Hell — Emanuel Swedenborg", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heaven and its Wonders and Hell, by Emanuel Swedenborg. Subjects: Heaven -- Christianity; Hell -- Christianity; Future life -- Christianity -- Early work to 1800. Read the full text (public domain): h"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_deuteronomy_32_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Deuteronomy 32:1 — Here is, I. A commanding preface or introduction to this song of Moses, Deu 32:1, Deu 32:2. He begins, 1. With a solemn appeal to heaven and earth concerning the truth and import"}, {"id": "card_n_98aabc636e9b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_016: This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth: and the Earth was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the deep, and "}, {"id": "card_n_c5b224d84814", "title": "Easton: Fire", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on the altar was first kindled from heaven (Lev. 6:9, 13; 9:24), and afterwards rekindled at the dedic"}, {"id": "card_n_a3ffd0a488fd", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_17: Every dispute that is for the sake of Heaven, will in the end endure; But one...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Every dispute that is for the sake of Heaven, will in the end endure; But one that is not for the sake of Heaven, will not endure. Which is the controversy that is for the sake of Heaven? Such was the"}, {"id": "card_n_05e4265f7048", "title": "Easton: Astronomy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Hebrews were devout students of the wonders of the starry firmanent (Amos 5:8; Ps. 19). In the Book of Job, which is the oldest book of the Bible in all probability, the constellations are disting"}, {"id": "card_n_5d5608da1ea3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_029: And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those truths, he chooses one to himself, who saith, But the earth was invisible, and without form, and darkness was upon the dee"}, {"id": "card_src_book_1044", "title": "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven — Mark Twain", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, by Mark Twain. Subjects: Satire; Voyages, Imaginary; Ship captains -- Fiction; Religious fiction; Heaven -- Fiction. Read the full text (public domai"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_revelation_21_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Revelation 21:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Revelation 21:1 — We have here a more general account of the happiness of the church of God in the future state, by which it seems most safe to understand the heavenly state.\nI. A new world now ope"}, {"id": "card_n_ab0582ac501f", "title": "Easton: Footstool", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Connected with a throne (2 Chr. 9:18). Jehovah symbolically dwelt in the holy place between the cherubim above the ark of the covenant. The ark was his footstool (1 Chr. 28:2; Ps. 99:5; 132:7). And as"}, {"id": "card_n_a635af206bdf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_027: For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too, that the Beginning is Thy Wisdom, in Which Thou createst all: and true again, that this visible world hath for its greate"}, {"id": "card_n_4dae2cc029a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_030: For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If you will not allow, that this formlessness of matter seems to be called by the name of heaven and earth; Ergo, there was so"}, {"id": "card_n_0777592512bd", "title": "Easton: Zarephath", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Smelting-shop, “a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals”, a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon. Here Elijah s"}, {"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"}]}