{"query": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8b46004c8d35", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was beyond a doubt the Matthew, an apostle of our Lord, whose name it bears. He wrote the Gospel of Christ according to his own plans and aims, and from his own point of view, "}, {"id": "card_n_efd92dd5f79e", "title": "Easton: Luke, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Luke. He does not claim to have been an eye-witness of our Lord’s ministry, but to have gone to the best sources of information within his reach, and to have written an orderly narrativ"}, {"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_e72941a03901", "title": "Easton: Mark, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is the current and apparently well-founded tradition that Mark derived his information mainly from the discourses of Peter. In his mother’s house he would have abundant opportunities of obtaining i"}, {"id": "card_src_word_gospel_according_to_matthew", "title": "gospel according to matthew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "gospel according to matthew: (noun) one of the Gospels in the New Testament; includes the Sermon on the Mount — syn: Matthew"}, {"id": "card_c_07b98e5765b7", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_n_b428a2a3bda7", "title": "Easton: Apostle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A person sent by another; a messenger; envoy. This word is once used as a descriptive designation of Jesus Christ, the Sent of the Father (Heb. 3:1; John 20:21). It is, however, generally used as desi"}, {"id": "card_src_word_matthew", "title": "matthew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "matthew: (noun) (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel — syn: Saint Matthew, St. Matthew, Saint Matthew the Apostle, St. Matthew the Apostle, "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_romans_16_25", "title": "Matthew Henry on Romans 16:25", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Romans 16:25 — Here the apostle solemnly closes his epistle with a magnificent ascription of glory to the blessed God, as one that terminated all in the praise and glory of God, and studied to retu"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_psalms_117_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on Psalms 117:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Psalms 117:1 — There is a great deal of gospel in this psalm. The apostle has furnished us with a key to it (Rom 15:11), where he quotes it as a proof that the gospel was to be preached to, and wou"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_2_timothy_1_1", "title": "Matthew Henry on 2 Timothy 1:1", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 2 Timothy 1:1 — Here is, I. The inscription of the epistle Paul calls himself an apostle by the will of God, merely by the good pleasure of God, and by his grace, which he professes himself unworth"}, {"id": "card_n_88255c9e83e6", "title": "Easton: Proportion of faith", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, “according to the proportion of faith.” The meaning is, that the utterances of the “prophet” were not"}, {"id": "card_n_de342130506b", "title": "Easton: Dispensation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. oikonomia, “management,” “economy”). (1.) The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_daniel_6_25", "title": "Matthew Henry on Daniel 6:25", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Daniel 6:25 — Darius here studies to make some amends for the dishonour he had done both to God and Daniel, in casting Daniel into the lions' den, by doing honour to both.\nI. He gives honour to God"}, {"id": "card_c_e41fd026b10b", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references John. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_john_7_14", "title": "Matthew Henry on John 7:14", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On John 7:14 — Here is, I. Christ's public preaching in the temple (Joh 7:14): He went up into the temple, and taught, according to his custom when he was at Jerusalem. His business was to preach the "}, {"id": "card_n_c5d384b56970", "title": "Easton: John, Gospel of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this Gospel, i.e., the fact that the apostle John was its author, is beyond all reasonable doubt. In recent times, from about 1820, many attempts have been made to impugn its genuin"}, {"id": "card_n_f434f3cdb669", "title": "Easton: Matthew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gift of God, a common Jewish name after the Exile. He was the son of Alphaeus, and was a publican or tax-gatherer at Capernaum. On one occasion Jesus, coming up from the side of the lake, passed the c"}, {"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_src_comm_james_1_19", "title": "Matthew Henry on James 1:19", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On James 1:19 — In this part of the chapter we are required,\nI. To restrain the workings of passion. This lesson we should learn under afflictions; and this we shall learn if we are indeed begotten ag"}]}