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Jephthah's Daughter
[People]Jephthah's daughter was the only child of the judge Jephthah, whose story appears in Judges 11. She was given up because of a vow her father made before going to war. Scripture does not record her name.
Jabez
[People]Jabez is a figure in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4. He is known for a brief prayer in which he asked God for blessing and protection.
Origen
[People]Origen (c. 185 – c. 253) was an early church theologian and biblical interpreter from Alexandria. He produced the Hexapla, a parallel edition of the Old Testament, and On First Principles, a systematic theological work, but some of his teachings were condemned after his death.
Seer
[Bible]A seer is "one who sees" what God has shown. In the Old Testament it is an older name for a prophet. Samuel, Gad, and Iddo, among others, were called by this title.
Helena
[People]Helena (c. 248 – c. 330) was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I. In her later years she made a pilgrimage to Palestine and sponsored the construction of churches. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
Captain of Fifty
[Bible]A captain of fifty is an Old Testament title for a person who governed or commanded a unit of fifty people. The title appears in passages such as Exodus 18 and 2 Kings 1.
Menno Simons
[People]Menno Simons (1496–1561) was a Roman Catholic priest from Friesland in the Netherlands who became an Anabaptist leader. He united the pacifist Anabaptists, and his followers came to be known as Mennonites after him.
Amy Carmichael
[People]Amy Carmichael (1867–1951) was an Irish missionary. She served in South India for fifty-five years, founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, and is known for rescuing and caring for children who had been dedicated to Hindu temples.
Dorothy L. Sayers
[People]Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) was an English detective novelist, playwright, translator, and Anglican lay Christian writer. She wrote *The Man Born to Be King*, a BBC radio drama on the life of Jesus.
Numbers 2
[Bible]Numbers 2 is the chapter in which, in the wilderness of Sinai, the twelve tribes of Israel are arranged into four camps on the east, south, west, and north around the tent of meeting, and the order of their march is established.
Judges 15
[Bible]Judges 15 recounts how Samson, whose wife has been given to another man, takes revenge on the Philistines; is bound by the men of Judah and handed over to the enemy; kills a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey; and, when he is thirsty, cries out to the LORD and receives a spring of water.
Gihae Persecution
[History]The Gihae Persecution was a suppression of Catholicism in Korea in 1839, the fifth year of the reign of King Heonjong of the Joseon dynasty. Three French missionaries and leaders of the Korean Catholic Church, including Jeong Ha-sang, lost their lives in the persecution.
Ezekiel 16
[Bible]Ezekiel 16 portrays Jerusalem as an infant abandoned in an open field. The LORD takes her into covenant and raises her to the rank of queen, but she becomes an unfaithful wife. Through this image the chapter pronounces judgment on Jerusalem's idolatry. It closes with God's promise to establish an everlasting covenant and restore her.
Helen Thompson Sunday
[People]Helen Thompson Sunday (1868–1957) was an American evangelist. As the wife of the revivalist Billy Sunday, she organized his large-scale evangelistic campaigns, and after his death she became an evangelistic speaker in her own right.
Apostolic Fathers
[History]The Apostolic Fathers are the church leaders who were active close to the time of the apostles, from the late first century to the mid-second century. The term also refers to the earliest Christian writings outside the New Testament that they left behind.
Seven Last Words of Christ
[Bible]The Seven Last Words of Christ is the traditional name for the seven sayings that Jesus Christ spoke from the cross before his death, as gathered from the four Gospels.
Cheonbugyo
[Heresies & Cults]Cheonbugyo is a religious organization founded in 1955 by Park Tae-seon, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church in Korea. Formerly called the Korean Jesus Church Evangelical Hall Revival Association, it was widely known as Jeondogwan ("Evangelical Hall"). In 1956 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Korea declared it heretical.
Ella Dodge Appenzeller
[People]Ella Dodge Appenzeller (1854–c. 1915) was the wife of Henry Appenzeller, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the Northern Methodist church) in the United States. She arrived in Korea (then the Joseon kingdom) with her husband in 1885 as a member of one of the earliest Protestant missionary families there.
Augustinians
[History]The Augustinians are a Catholic mendicant order that follows the Rule of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. The order was formed in 1256, when several groups of hermits were united into a single body. It is also known as the order to which Martin Luther belonged as a friar before the Reformation.
Assarion
[Bible]The assarion was a small copper coin used in the Roman Empire during the New Testament era. It appears when Jesus cites the price of sparrows to speak of God's care (Matthew 10:29; Luke 12:6).