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Hegesippus
[People]Hegesippus was a second-century Christian writer who compiled the Memoirs, a collection of early church traditions. The original work is lost and survives only in fragments quoted in Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History.
Chorazin
[Bible]Chorazin was a town north of the Sea of Galilee. Together with Bethsaida, it received Jesus' pronouncement of "Woe" because its people did not repent even though he had done many mighty works there.
Sharon
[Bible]Sharon is a coastal plain along the Mediterranean south of Mount Carmel. In the Old Testament it appears as pastureland and as a symbol of fertility and beauty, and it is best known from the phrase "the rose of Sharon" in Song of Solomon 2:1.
Family Salvation
[Doctrine & Theology]Family salvation refers to unbelieving members of a family coming to faith in Jesus Christ and being saved, or to the practice of praying and evangelizing in the hope that this will happen.
Adultery
[Bible]Adultery is sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse. The Bible forbids it in the Ten Commandments, and the prophets also used the term as a metaphor for forsaking God to serve idols.
Jesus Prayer
[Christian Life]The Jesus Prayer is the short prayer "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner," recited repeatedly. It originated in the monastic tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Catacombs
[History]The catacombs are underground cemeteries used in ancient Rome and elsewhere by early Christians, Jews, and others. Widely known as a symbol of faith in the age of persecution, they are studied as evidence of the burial customs and art of the early church.
Priestly Divisions
[Bible]The priestly divisions were a system, described in 1 Chronicles 24, in which David divided the priests descended from Aaron into twenty-four groups that took turns performing the temple duties. The system reappears in the Gospel of Luke as the "course of Abia" (the division of Abijah), to which Zacharias belonged.
Eirene
[Bible]Eirene (εἰρήνη) is the Greek word for "peace." In the New Testament it refers to reconciliation with God, peace between people, and inner peace of heart. Through the Septuagint it also came to carry the broad meanings of the Hebrew shalom.
Crown
[Doctrine & Theology]In the Bible, a crown is placed on the head of one who has won a victory or endured faithfully. In Protestantism it is used chiefly as a symbol of the honor and reward God has promised to the saints.
Armenian Genocide
[History]The Armenian Genocide refers to the forced deportation and mass killing of Armenians by the government of the Ottoman Empire beginning around 1915, during World War I. Many scholars and a number of countries regard it as genocide, but the government of Türkiye does not accept this designation.
Praetorium
[Bible]The Praetorium was the official residence where a Roman governor stayed and held trials. The Gospels present it as the place where Jesus was interrogated by Pontius Pilate and mocked by soldiers.
Belial
[Bible]Belial is a Hebrew word in the Old Testament meaning "worthlessness" or "wickedness," used mainly in the expression "son (or man) of Belial" to describe a base or wicked person. In the New Testament it appears once, in 2 Corinthians 6:15, as a name for the power of evil opposed to Christ, that is, Satan.
Great Fire of Rome
[History]The Great Fire of Rome was a fire that destroyed a large part of the city of Rome in July AD 64, during the reign of the emperor Nero. It holds an important place in the history of Christian persecution because, according to Tacitus, Nero blamed the Christians for the fire and had them executed.
Brother Lawrence
[People]Brother Lawrence, born Nicolas Herman, was a seventeenth-century French lay brother of the Discalced Carmelites. He taught that one should remain constantly aware of God even while working, and The Practice of the Presence of God, a collection of his teachings, has made him widely known across denominational lines.
Nehemiah 7
[Bible]Nehemiah 7 describes how, after the wall is completed, Nehemiah arranges for the guarding of Jerusalem and finds the register (genealogical record) of those who first returned from Babylon, which the chapter then reproduces.
Psalm 8
[Bible]Psalm 8 is a hymn of praise in Book One of the Psalms that extols the name of the LORD as excellent in all the earth. It celebrates God, who remembers lowly humanity before the vastness of the heavens, crowns human beings with glory and honor, and gives them dominion over all things.
Christian Symbols
[Doctrine & Theology]Christian symbols are signs that express the content of the Christian faith through images, letters, or objects. Prominent examples include the cross, the fish, the dove, and the Chi-Rho. Denominations differ in how they use them and to what extent.
Proverbs 14
[Bible]Proverbs 14 is a chapter in the collection of the Proverbs of Solomon (10:1–22:16). Its 35 verses are short sayings that contrast the wise with the foolish and the righteous with the wicked.
Proverbs 12
[Bible]Proverbs 12 is a 28-verse chapter within the "Proverbs of Solomon" section. It contrasts the righteous with the wicked and the wise with the foolish, with particular attention to the power of speech and the value of diligence.