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Feature Pages(5+)
- FeatureZeta (Ζζ) — the Greek letterThe weapon — and the seventh number, though it is the sixth letter.
- FeatureHet (ח) — the Hebrew letterThe enclosure — and the letter of a word English has never managed to translate.
- FeatureThe Tests of Life1 John's three interwoven tests — righteousness, love, belief — cycling and deepening across five chapters to a single assurance: these things have I written unto you, that ye may know.
- FeatureDoes life look designed, or does it just look that way?Living things look engineered, and everyone on every side of this argument agrees they look that way — the whole fight is over whether an unguided process can produce that appearance, and this page prints the best case for each answer at the same length.
- FeatureRevelation 22:19 — "Book of life" or "tree of life" — and the missing last pageThe KJV's "book of life" at the very end of Revelation is not found in any Greek manuscript; it entered the printed Bible because Erasmus's only copy of Revelation was missing its final leaves and he translated the ending back from Latin.
Verses(5+)
- VerseLeviticus 24:18Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.
- VerseJohn 1:4In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
- VerseJohn 6:48I am the bread of life.
- VerseJohn 12:25Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
- VerseExodus 21:23But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
People(3)
- PersonSamsonThe Nazirite judge of supernatural strength and unguarded appetites; betrayed by Delilah, blinded at Gaza, he slew more in his death between the pillars than in his life.
- PersonEpaphroditusThe Philippians' messenger and minister to Paul's need — brother, fellow-worker, fellow-soldier — who was sick nigh unto death and gambled his life for the work of Christ (Php…
- PersonEuodiaPhilippian laborer in the gospel, exhorted with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord (Php 4:2-3) — women who labored with Paul, whose names are in the book of life.
Places(2)
Words (Strong's)(5+)
Concepts(3)
- ConceptThe Tree of LifeStanding in the middle of Eden and in the middle of the city at the end — guarded in Genesis, given freely in Revelation.
- ConceptSacrificeLife given in place of life — the principle stated in Leviticus 17:11 and carried from Eden's coats of skin to Calvary.
- ConceptThe Image of GodHumanity made in God's likeness — the ground of every human life's worth, damaged at the fall and never revoked.
Themes(5+)
- 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…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
Topics(1)
Prophecies(5+)
- ProphecyRiver of LifeA river of life will flow from God's throne.
- ProphecyTree of Life RestoredAccess to the Tree of Life will be restored.
- ProphecyTree of Life RestoredThe tree of life, lost in Eden, is restored in the New Jerusalem.
- ProphecyHezekiah's Life Extended 15 YearsIsaiah prophesied King Hezekiah would recover from terminal illness and live exactly 15 more years—a specific numerical prediction.
- ProphecyShow Path of Life Before the FaceDavid's prophetic declaration that God would show him 'the path of life' leading to God's presence and right hand is applied by Peter directly to Christ's resurrection and…
Apologetics(1)
Authors(5+)
- AuthorCosmas IndicopleustesCosmas was an Alexandrian merchant who spent his working life at sea. He sailed the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, traded along the coast of East Africa, and went inland into…
- AuthorFanny CrosbyFanny Crosby lost her sight as a baby to a doctor's botched treatment, and refused for the rest of her life to be pitied for it — she said the first face she ever saw would be…
- AuthorPalladius of GalatiaPalladius was born in Galatia, in central Asia Minor, about 363 or 364. In 386 he went to Egypt to see the monks, and the rest of his life came out of that decision. He spent…
- AuthorProcopius 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…
- AuthorDidymus the BlindDidymus lost his sight at four years old, before he had learned to read. He never read a page in his life. He learned Scripture by having it read aloud to him, and he learned…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resourceSirach 30:17Death is better than a bitter life or continual sickness.
- Study resourceBaruch 3:9Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.
- Study resourceTobit 12:10But they that sin are enemies to their own life.
- Study resource2 Esdras 13:55Thy life hast thou ordered in wisdom, and hast called understanding thy mother.
- Study resourceSirach 11:14Prosperity and adversity, life and death, poverty and riches, come of the Lord.