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• GethsemaneBible

  Gethsemane was a place at the foot of the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. It is where Jesus Christ prayed and was arrested on the night before his crucifixion. Its name is generally understood to mean "oil press."

• Jeremiah 2Bible

  Jeremiah 2 is a prophecy in which the LORD recalls Israel's first love in the wilderness and rebukes the people for forsaking him, the fountain of living waters, and relying instead on idols, Egypt, and Assyria.

• Psalm 78Bible

  Psalm 78 is a didactic psalm (maschil) of Asaph that retraces Israel's history from the Exodus to the accession of David. It contrasts God's faithfulness with the people's repeated disobedience and urges that these things be passed on to the next generation.

• Gregory IPeople

  Gregory I (c. 540–604) was bishop of Rome (pope) from 590 to 604. He is regarded as one of the leading Fathers of the Western Church and is also known as Gregory the Great.

• Job 30Bible

  Job 30 is one of the chapters of Job's final extended defense. Contrasting his present condition with the former glory he recalled in chapter 29, Job laments that he is now mocked by the lowly and that when he cries out to God, he receives no answer.

• Ignatius of AntiochPeople

  Ignatius of Antioch was bishop of the church in Antioch in the early second century. While being taken to Rome for martyrdom, he wrote seven letters. He is counted among the Apostolic Fathers.

• ValentinusPeople

  Valentinus (c. 100 – c. 160) was a second-century Christian teacher active in Rome, known as the founder of the Valentinians, one of the largest movements within early Christian Gnosticism.

• Deuteronomy 7Bible

  Deuteronomy 7 is the chapter in which Moses commands Israel, as it prepares to enter Canaan, to destroy the seven nations and their idols. It declares that God chose Israel not because of its great numbers but because of his love and the oath he swore to their fathers.

• Broom TreeBible

  The broom tree (Hebrew *rotem*) is a leguminous shrub that grows in arid regions such as the Sinai wilderness and the Negev. In the Bible it is best known as the place where Elijah, fleeing from Jezebel, asked to die and was then given food by an angel.

• ApologistDoctrine & Theology

  An apologist is a person who argues that the Christian faith is true and reasonable and who responds to criticisms and misunderstandings of it. The term is used especially for the second-century early church writers who wrote in defense of the faith.

• NabothPeople

  Naboth was a Jezreelite who appears in 1 Kings 21. He refused to sell his ancestral vineyard to King Ahab and, through a scheme devised by Jezebel, was falsely accused and stoned to death.

• Prayer in GethsemaneBible

  The prayer in Gethsemane is the prayer Jesus offered in Gethsemane, at the foot of the Mount of Olives, on the night before his arrest, in which he said, "not as I will, but as thou wilt." The event marks the beginning of the Passion narrative.

• BochimBible

  Bochim is a place mentioned in Judges 2:1-5. Its name, meaning "weepers," arose because the people of Israel lifted up their voices and wept there after being rebuked by the angel of the LORD.

• Jeremiah 11Bible

  Jeremiah 11 is the chapter in which Jeremiah proclaims disaster on Judah for breaking the covenant made at the time of the Exodus. Its latter part recounts a plot by the people of his hometown, Anathoth, to kill him.

• Joshua 24:15Bible Verses

  Joshua 24:15 records the declaration Joshua made near the end of his life, when he called on Israel to choose that day whom they would serve and announced, "As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." It is among the verses most widely used as a motto for household faith, and it is also cited in discussions of human choice and divine sovereignty.

• FilioqueDoctrine & Theology

  Filioque is a Latin term meaning "and from the Son." It is a phrase that the Western church added to the Nicene Creed, confessing that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. It is one of the principal doctrinal issues dividing the Eastern and Western churches.

• SubordinationismDoctrine & Theology

  Subordinationism is the view that, within the triune God, the Son and the Holy Spirit are inferior to the Father in essence or divinity. Since the Nicene Creed, the orthodox church has rejected this position.

• Covenant of RedemptionDoctrine & Theology

  The covenant of redemption is the eternal agreement understood to have been made between the Father and the Son before the foundation of the world for the salvation of sinners. Reformed covenant theology presents it as the foundation of the covenant of grace.

• Holy SpiritDoctrine & Theology

  The Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit whom Christianity confesses, together with the Father and the Son, as one person of the triune God. An older English name is the Holy Ghost.

• 1 Corinthians 8:4–6Bible Verses

  In this passage, Paul addresses the question of food sacrificed to idols by affirming that an idol is nothing and that there is one God, and he confesses God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ together. It is frequently cited in discussions of early Christian Christology, the doctrine of the Trinity, and the question of food offered in ancestral rites.