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• Seleucid Dynasty

  [History]

  The Seleucid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty founded after the death of Alexander the Great by Seleucus I, one of his generals. It ruled Syria and Mesopotamia from about 312 BC to 64 BC and governed Judea during the intertestamental period.

• Peleg

  [People]

  Peleg is a son of Eber in the genealogy of Shem in Genesis. His name is accompanied by the explanation that "in his days was the earth divided," and he belongs to the line that runs through Abraham to the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

• Promised Land

  [Bible]

  The Promised Land is the land of Canaan, which God promised to give to Abraham and his descendants. In the New Testament, the idea extends to the heavenly homeland and the kingdom of God that believers will receive.

• Clement (Philippians)

  [People]

  Clement was a believer in the church at Philippi who is named once, in Philippians 4:3, where the apostle Paul mentions him among his fellow workers who labored with him for the gospel.

• Erastus

  [People]

  Erastus was a coworker of Paul mentioned in the New Testament. His name appears in Acts, Romans, and 2 Timothy, and in Romans he is described as a financial officer of Corinth, rendered in the KJV as "chamberlain of the city."

• Moriah

  [Bible]

  Moriah is the name of the land to which Abraham went at God's command to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering. Second Chronicles calls the mountain in Jerusalem on which Solomon built the temple Mount Moriah.

• Simon the Leper

  [People]

  Simon the Leper was a resident of Bethany in whose house Jesus was dining shortly before His Passion when a woman poured ointment on His head. He is mentioned by name only in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark.

• Dura

  [Bible]

  Dura was a plain in the province of Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image and commanded all his officials to bow down to it (Daniel 3:1).

• Adoptionism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Adoptionism is the Christological view that Jesus was originally an ordinary man who was "adopted" as the Son of God at his baptism or resurrection. Since the early church, orthodox Christianity has rejected it as heretical.

• Mount Seir

  [Bible]

  Mount Seir is a mountainous region south of the Dead Sea. In the Old Testament it designates the land settled by Esau and his descendants, the Edomites. Also called "the land of Seir" or simply "Seir," it is often used as a synonym for Edom.

• Union with Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Union with Christ is the Christian teaching that believers are joined to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit and thereby share in his death and resurrection, his righteousness, and his life.

• Healing of the Royal Official's Son

  [Bible]

  The healing of the royal official's son is the miracle in which Jesus, while at Cana in Galilee, healed by his word alone the son of a royal official in Capernaum. It is recorded in John 4:46-54, and the Gospel of John calls it the "second miracle" or sign that Jesus performed after coming into Galilee.

• Sacrament of Confession

  [Worship & Rites]

  The sacrament of confession is a sacrament of the Catholic Church in which a believer confesses his or her sins to a priest and receives forgiveness through the priest's pronouncement of absolution. Most Protestant churches do not recognize it as a sacrament and instead emphasize repentance through confessing one's sins directly to God.

• Lemuel

  [People]

  Lemuel is a king named in Proverbs 31 who passed on the instruction he received from his mother. He appears nowhere else in the Bible, and neither the nation he ruled nor the period in which he lived is known.

• Rudolf Bultmann

  [People]

  Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976) was a German Lutheran New Testament scholar. His form-critical analysis of the Gospel traditions and his call for the "demythologization" of the New Testament had a major influence on twentieth-century biblical studies and theology, and they proved correspondingly controversial.

• William Carey

  [People]

  William Carey (1761–1834) was an English Baptist minister and missionary to India. Through his writings arguing for the duty of foreign missions and his role in founding a missionary society, he is known as the "father of modern missions."

• Assumption of Moses

  [Bible]

  The Assumption of Moses is a Jewish pseudepigraphal work framed as Moses foretelling Israel's future to Joshua before his death. Early church fathers explained that the account in Jude 1:9 of Michael disputing with the devil came from this book.

• Signs and Wonders

  [Bible]

  "Signs and wonders" is a biblical word pair referring to the marvelous works God performs to reveal his will and power. The Old Testament applies the phrase mainly to the Exodus, and the New Testament to the ministry of Jesus and the apostles.

• Man of God

  [Bible]

  "Man of God" is a biblical title for a person who belongs to God, proclaims His word, and is entrusted with His work. In the Old Testament it is applied to Moses and to prophets such as Elijah and Elisha; in the New Testament it is applied to Timothy.

• Derbe

  [Bible]

  Derbe was a city in the region of Lycaonia in Asia Minor where the apostle Paul preached the gospel on his first and second missionary journeys. It is mentioned only in the book of Acts.