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• Sign

  [Bible]

  A sign is a mark that reveals God's will or shows in advance what is to come. In the Old Testament the term refers to signs of the covenant and to the symbolic acts of the prophets; in the New Testament it extends to the signs performed by Jesus and to the signs of the end times.

• Hermit

  [Christian Life]

  A hermit is a person who lives alone in a remote place apart from the world, cultivating faith through prayer and ascetic discipline. The tradition originated with the monks of the Egyptian desert in the third and fourth centuries.

• Relic

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A relic is the preserved remains of a saint or martyr, an object that a saint or martyr used, or an object associated with the life of Jesus, kept as an object of veneration. The Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church venerate relics, while Protestants generally reject the practice.

• Eunuch

  [Bible]

  A eunuch was an official who served the king and the royal household closely in ancient palaces; in many cases he was a castrated man. The Hebrew and Greek terms appear across both Testaments, and the Korean Revised Version renders the same original term with several different words depending on context.

• Measuring Line

  [Bible]

  A measuring line is a cord used to measure length and area. In the Bible it appears chiefly in visions that anticipate the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple, and it also expresses the standard of divine judgment.

• Proverbs 11:26

  [Bible Verses]

  A proverb teaching that whoever hoards grain in a time of famine and refuses to release it will be cursed by the people, while whoever sells it will be blessed. The verse rebukes the hoarding of goods for profit and is cited in discussions of sharing and the social responsibility of wealth.

• Mediator

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A mediator is one who stands between two estranged parties and restores the relationship between them. Protestants confess Jesus Christ as the one Mediator between God and humanity.

• Proselyte

  [Bible]

  A proselyte (Greek prosēlytos) is, in New Testament usage, a person born a Gentile who came to believe in the God of Israel and formally entered the Jewish community through circumcision and other rites.

• Threshing Floor

  [Bible]

  A threshing floor was a broad, level area where harvested grain was threshed to separate the kernels from the chaff. In the Bible it can signify abundance, and it also serves as an image of judgment, in which the grain is separated from the chaff.

• Fallen Angel

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A fallen angel is a spiritual being created by God as a good angel that rebelled against God and fell from its original place. Christian tradition generally identifies Satan and demons as fallen angels.

• Religious Order

  [Organization & Polity]

  A religious order is a community of men or women religious who live under a common rule, take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and pray together. Religious orders exist mainly in the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Anglican Communion.

• Yoke

  [Bible]

  A yoke is a wooden frame placed on the neck of a draft animal such as an ox so that it can pull a plow or cart. In the Bible it is a figure for domination and bondage, and also for obedience and the life of discipleship.

• Store City

  [Bible]

  A store city was a city built to store a nation's grain, supplies, weapons, and similar provisions. Pithom and Raamses, which the Israelites built for Pharaoh according to Exodus 1:11, are the best-known examples.

• Cappadocian Fathers

  [History]

  A collective name for three fourth-century theologians from Cappadocia in Asia Minor: Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus. They articulated the Trinitarian formula that God exists as one essence in three persons.

• Numbers 19

  [Bible]

  A chapter of Numbers containing the ordinance for making the "water of separation" from the ashes of a burned red heifer and for purifying, over seven days, a person made unclean by contact with a dead body.

• Deuteronomy 11

  [Bible]

  A chapter of Deuteronomy in which Moses reminds Israel of the Exodus and the events in the wilderness and urges the people to love God and keep His commandments. It contains the promise of rain and an accompanying warning, instruction on teaching children, and the command to pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

• Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy

  [History]

  A theological controversy of the 1920s and 1930s within mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, such as the Northern Presbyterian and Northern Baptist churches. It pitted fundamentalists, who sought to defend the authority of Scripture and the core doctrines of the faith, against modernists, who sought to reinterpret the faith in light of modern scholarship.

• 1 Samuel 16

  [Bible]

  A chapter of 1 Samuel recounting how Samuel anoints David, the youngest son of Jesse, in Bethlehem, and how David comes to serve Saul, from whom the Spirit of the LORD has departed, by playing the harp.

• 1973 Billy Graham Crusade in Korea

  [History]

  A large-scale united evangelistic campaign held at Yeouido Plaza in Seoul from May 30 to June 3, 1973, at which the American evangelist Billy Graham preached. More than 1.1 million people are reported to have gathered on the final day.

• 2 Samuel 5

  [Bible]

  A chapter of 2 Samuel in which David is anointed king over all Israel at Hebron, captures Jerusalem from the Jebusites and makes it the City of David, and defeats the Philistines twice.