{"query": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_35cbbc002896", "title": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Its canonicity. All the results of critical and historical research to which this epistle has been specially subjected abundantly vindicate its right to a place in the New Testament canon among t"}, {"id": "card_c_5cfda24ac80f", "title": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to references Hebrews", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Hebrews. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_src_word_epistle_to_the_hebrews", "title": "epistle to the hebrews", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "epistle to the hebrews: (noun) a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him — syn: Hebrews"}, {"id": "card_n_c11c336c7bf0", "title": "Easton: Galatians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this epistle is not called in question. Its Pauline origin is universally acknowledged. Occasion of. The churches of Galatia were founded by Paul himself (Acts 16:6; Gal. 1:8; 4:13,"}, {"id": "card_src_book_22237", "title": "Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews — H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews, by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule. Subjects: Bible. Hebrews -- Commentaries. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22237"}, {"id": "card_n_1f1e791cf4af", "title": "Easton: Apollos", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Jew “born at Alexandria,” a man well versed in the Scriptures and eloquent (Acts 18:24; R.V., “learned”). He came to Ephesus (about A.D. 49), where he spake “boldly” in the synagogue (18:26), althou"}, {"id": "card_src_book_32968", "title": "The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews — Thomas Charles Edwards", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews, by Thomas Charles Edwards. Subjects: Bible. Hebrews -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org"}, {"id": "card_n_73971d3aa279", "title": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle is addressed to “the strangers scattered abroad”, i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora). Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already taught. P"}, {"id": "card_n_9c0a44a13695", "title": "Easton: Epistles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The apostolic letters. The New Testament contains twenty-one in all. They are divided into two classes. (1.) Paul’s Epistles, fourteen in number, including Hebrews. These are not arranged in the New T"}, {"id": "card_n_a29a0c47b9e4", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Paul in this epistle speaks of himself as having left Ephesus for Macedonia (1:3), and hence not Laodicea, as mentioned in the subscription; but probably Philippi, or some other city in that region, w"}, {"id": "card_src_word_hebrews", "title": "hebrews", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "hebrews: (noun) the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a cove"}, {"id": "card_n_b85b00d05fcb", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, Second Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia. Purs"}, {"id": "card_n_88c46b589551", "title": "Easton: Romans, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom. 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, and Gaius of Corinth entertained the apostle at the time of his writing it (16:23; 1 Cor. 1:14), and E"}, {"id": "card_n_ba272ce3a5e6", "title": "Easton: Jude, Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author was “Judas, the brother of James” the Less (Jude 1:1), called also Lebbaeus (Matt. 10:3) and Thaddaeus (Mark 3:18). The genuineness of this epistle was early questioned, and doubts regardin"}, {"id": "card_n_7327b80a124c", "title": "Easton: Titus, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was probably written about the same time as the first epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities. “Both letters were addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their respective c"}, {"id": "card_n_d71a58fce1e5", "title": "Easton: Peter, Second Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence is wholly in favour of its claim to be the production of the apostle whose name it bears. It appear"}, {"id": "card_n_4c70970fb72d", "title": "Easton: Ephesians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to the Colossians, which in many points it resembles. Contents of. The Epistle to the Colossians is mainly polemical, designed to refute certain"}, {"id": "card_n_b2f6fee38af3", "title": "Easton: Colossians, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D. 57, or, as some think, 62, and soon after he had written his Epistle to the Ephesians. "}, {"id": "card_n_c8cb62e4a2e0", "title": "Easton: John, Second Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Is addressed to “the elect lady,” and closes with the words, “The children of thy elect sister greet thee;” but some would read instead of “lady” the proper name Kyria. Of the thirteen verses composin"}, {"id": "card_n_35d7bd1c815e", "title": "Easton: Melchizedek", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "King of righteousness, the king of Salem (q.v.). All we know of him is recorded in Gen. 14:18-20. He is subsequently mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in Ps. 110:4. The typical significance of"}]}