{"query": "Easton: Spirit", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_60e65c6dfbc0", "title": "Easton: Spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. ruah; Gr. pneuma), properly wind or breath. In 2 Thess. 2:8 it means “breath,” and in Eccl. 8:8 the vital principle in man. It also denotes the rational, immortal soul by which man is distinguis"}, {"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_f34b7ca6db45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_045: But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them. Therefore when they see that these things are good, Thou seest that they are good; and whatsoever things for Thy sake please, Thou plea"}, {"id": "card_n_6834a2d4716a", "title": "Easton: Witness of the Spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 8:16), the consciousness of the gracious operation of the Spirit on the mind, “a certitude of the Spirit’s presence and work continually asserted within us”, manifested “in his comforting us, hi"}, {"id": "card_n_f1079ac3e81b", "title": "Easton: Familiar spirit", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sorcerers or necormancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions, were said to have a “familiar spirit” (Deut. 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chr. 33:6; Lev. 19:31; 20:6; Isa. 8:19; 29:4). Suc"}, {"id": "card_n_d9ce8058d054", "title": "Easton: Witchcraft", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Chr. 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4; Gal. 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture. The “witch of En-dor” "}, {"id": "card_n_32bdaed09c82", "title": "Easton: Trinity", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word not found in Scripture, but used to express the doctrine of the unity of God as subsisting in three distinct Persons. This word is derived from the Gr. trias, first used by Theophilus (A.D. 168"}, {"id": "card_n_a8806f1e8230", "title": "Easton: Lapidoth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Torches. Deborah is called “the wife of Lapidoth” (Judg. 4:4). Some have rendered the expression “a woman of a fiery spirit,” under the supposition that Lapidoth is not a proper name, a woman of a tor"}, {"id": "card_n_20db105b14a4", "title": "Easton: Alms", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not found in the Old Testament, but repeatedly in the New. The Mosaic legislation (Lev. 25:35; Deut. 15:7) tended to promote a spirit of charity, and to prevent the occurrence of destitution among the"}, {"id": "card_n_b5111ad94572", "title": "Easton: Earnest", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Spirit is the earnest of the believer’s destined inheritance (2 Cor. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:14). The word thus rendered is the same as that rendered “pledge” in Gen. 38:17-20; “indeed, the Hebrew word "}, {"id": "card_n_48b778dd5047", "title": "Easton: Tongues, Gift of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Granted on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:4), in fulfilment of a promise Christ had made to his disciples (Mark 16:17). What this gift actually was has been a subject of much discussion. Some have argue"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_samuel_16_14", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 16:14", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Samuel 16:14 — We have here Saul falling and David rising.\nI. Here is Saul made a terror to himself (Sa1 16:14): The Spirit of the Lord departed from him. He having forsaken God and his duty, God"}, {"id": "card_n_f6ebc90ccbaf", "title": "1 John 4", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.\n2. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who"}, {"id": "card_n_91113c8562eb", "title": "Easton: Ghost", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma, both meaning “breath,” “life,” “spirit,” the “living principle” (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:"}, {"id": "card_n_6cc7691634e0", "title": "Easton: Lord’s Prayer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The name given to the only form of prayer Christ taught his disciples (Matt. 6:9-13). The closing doxology of the prayer is omitted by Luke (11:2-4), also in the R.V. of Matt. 6:13. This prayer contai"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_genesis_6_3", "title": "Matthew Henry on Genesis 6:3", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Genesis 6:3 — This comes in here as a token of God's displeasure at those who married strange wives; he threatens to withdraw from them his Spirit, whom they had grieved by such marriages, contrary"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_18_14", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:14", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 18:14 — Note, 1. Outward grievances are tolerable as long as the mind enjoys itself and is at ease. Many infirmities, many calamities, we are liable to in this world, in body, name, and es"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_17_27", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 17:27", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 17:27 — Two ways a man may show himself to be a wise man: - 1. By the good temper, the sweetness and the sedateness, of his mind: A man of understanding is of an excellent spirit, a precio"}, {"id": "card_n_5f947135be65", "title": "Romans 8", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.\n2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus mad"}, {"id": "card_n_d070a34c67cf", "title": "Easton: Word of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God’s organs in communicating his will to men. It is his “word,” because he speaks to us in its sacred pages. Whate"}]}