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Letters
Verses
76 results- VerseActs 23:25And he wrote the following letter:
- VerseNehemiah 6:17Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came back to them.
- VerseGalatians 6:11See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!
- VerseEzra 4:18The letter you sent us has been translated and read in my presence.
- VerseRomans 16:22I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.
People
3 results- PersonTimothyThe young disciple from Lystra, son of a believing Jewish mother and a Greek father, who joined Paul on the second journey and became the recipient of two of his last letters.
- PersonNabothThe Jezreelite who refused to sell the inheritance of his fathers to Ahab; framed by Jezebel's letters and stoned — the vineyard whose blood set Elijah at the king's door.
- PersonPaul the ApostleThe apostle to the Gentiles — once Saul the persecutor, arrested by the risen Christ on the Damascus road; author of Romans and thirteen New Testament letters.
Places
2 results- PlaceColossaeA small city of the Lycus Valley in Phrygia whose church Epaphras founded and Paul never visited, and which received one of his letters.
- PlaceDamascusThe Syrian city Saul was travelling to with letters of arrest when the light stopped him on the road; he entered it blind and left it preaching.
Manuscripts
4 results- ManuscriptCodex AlexandrinusA fifth-century Greek Bible in four volumes — with two letters of Clement bound in at the end, and a lost book still listed in its own index.
- ManuscriptCodex ClaromontanusPaul's letters with Greek and Latin side by side — and a list, tucked between two books, of which writings its owner counted as Scripture.
- ManuscriptChester Beatty Papyrus II (P46)The oldest substantial copy of Paul's letters — and it already treats Hebrews as one of them.
- ManuscriptThe Greek Minor Prophets Scroll (8ḤevXII gr)A Greek Old Testament from the Judaean desert that somebody had already gone through and corrected against the Hebrew — and that leaves the name of God in the old letters.
Concepts
2 resultsThemes
7 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
Topics
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8 results- Study1 Timothy 3:16: "God was manifest in the flesh" — two letters apartOlder Bibles read "God was manifest in the flesh"; newer ones read "He who was manifested." In ancient Greek capitals the difference is two small strokes, and the deity of Christ does not rest on…
- StudyColossians: the Study GuideChrist supreme over every claim the Colossian error could make against him: the hymn as the letter's engine, driving the polemic, the ethic, and the courier who carries it out.
- StudyHebrew Roots: the language of the Old TestamentHow the Hebrew alphabet works, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Hebrew Hebrew: with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-two letters.
- StudyGreek Roots: the language of the New TestamentHow the Greek alphabet was borrowed from Phoenician, why the letters carry numbers, and what makes Koine Koine: with a dedicated page for every one of the twenty-four letters.
- StudyAntichristThe word appears only in John's letters (many antichrists already, one still to come) while the figure walks the rest of Scripture as the man of sin, the little horn, the prince that shall come, and…
Voices
104 results- VoiceRemigius of RheimsRemigius — Rémi in French — was born about 437 in the region of Laon, in northern Gaul, into a Gallo-Roman family of rank. He was made bishop of Rheims at about twenty-two…
- VoiceProcopius of GazaProcopius was born about 465 at Gaza, on the coast of Palestine, and died there about 528. He spent his working life as a teacher of rhetoric, and he was the leading figure in…
- VoiceGennadius of ConstantinopleGennadius became patriarch of Constantinople in 458 and held the office until his death in 471. He came in at a hard moment: the Council of Chalcedon was only seven years old…
- VoiceIgnatius of AntiochIgnatius was bishop of Antioch in Syria — the city where believers were first called Christians. He called himself Theophorus, "God-bearer." He was condemned to die in the…
- VoiceJeromeEusebius Hieronymus was born about 347 at Stridon, a town on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that no longer exists. His parents were Christians with money. They sent him to…
Apocrypha (study resources)
27 results- Study resource1 Maccabees 12:19And this is the copy of the letters which Oniares sent.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 10:3Moreover Demetrius sent letters unto Jonathan with loving words, so as he magnified him.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 12:2He sent letters also to the Lacedemonians, and to other places, for the same purpose.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 12:5And this is the copy of the letters which Jonathan wrote to the Lacedemonians:
- Study resource1 Maccabees 11:29So the king consented, and wrote letters unto Jonathan of all these things after this manner: