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Tradition
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Tradition names 2 things on this site
- Tradition, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Tradition and Commandment, a featured study.A featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
Featured studies
3 results- StudyTradition and CommandmentA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Numbers of ScriptureEvery number 1–40 from the catalog, each marked as visible structural pattern or associative tradition, the honesty rail stated plainly.
- StudyTypes of ChristThe master typology index — 118 persons, events, institutions, and objects the Old Testament patterns toward Christ, every entry labeled by its warrant: the New Testament's own explicit claim, or…
Verses
14 results- VerseMark 7:8You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”
- VerseMatthew 15:2“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
- VerseMatthew 15:3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
- VerseMark 7:9He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.
- VerseMark 7:13Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
People
4 results- PersonEpimenides of KnossosCretan poet-prophet whose line "Cretans are always liars" Paul quotes at Titus 1:12 ("a prophet of their own"), and whose altar tradition stands behind Acts 17:23's unknown god.
- PersonDavidSecond king of united Israel, shepherd-turned-monarch, ancestor of the Messiah, and traditional author of many Psalms.
- PersonMatthew (Levi)Tax collector of Capernaum called by Jesus from the receipt of custom; one of the Twelve; traditional author of the first Gospel, written to show Jesus as Israel's Messiah-King.
- PersonMark (John Mark)Jerusalem believer and companion of Barnabas, Paul, and Peter; traditional author of the second Gospel, preserving Peter's preaching of Jesus the Servant who acts.
Places
4 results- PlaceSelaEdom's rock-cut stronghold in the clefts (Obad 1:3; 2 Kings 14:7), identified by long tradition with the later Nabatean Petra.
- PlaceHierapolisThird of the Lycus Valley triad (Col 4:13), famed for its hot springs; early tradition places Philip there.
- PlaceMount TaborThe rounded mountain on the Jezreel plain where Deborah and Barak gathered against Sisera, and which tradition since the fourth century has named as the mount of transfiguration.
- PlaceElkoshThe hometown of the prophet Nahum, whose location is disputed among Galilean, Judean and Assyrian traditions.
Words (Strong's)
2 resultsThemes
11 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…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- 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…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
Topics
2 resultsApologetics
1 resultVoices
117 results- VoiceJohn Calvin# John Calvin (1509–1564) French-born Reformer, theologian, and exegete. Primary systematic-theology voice of the Reformed tradition; his *Institutes of the Christian Religion*…
- VoicePseudo-BarnabasPseudo-Barnabas (d. ~132). Early Church (pseudonymous) voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full…
- VoicePseudo-MacariusPseudo-Macarius (d. ~534). Early Church (pseudonymous) voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full…
- VoicePseudo-HegesippusPseudo-Hegesippus (d. ~400). Early Church (pseudonymous) voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full…
- VoicePseudo-EphremPseudo-Ephrem (d. ~800). Early Church (pseudonymous) voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full…