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• Job 4

  [Bible]

  Job 4 records the first speech of Eliphaz the Temanite to Job. Eliphaz argues from retribution that no one perishes without having sinned, and he relays words he says he heard in a night vision: "Shall mortal man be more just than God?"

• Park Sin-il

  [People]

  Park Sin-il was the wife of Sohn Jeong-do, a Methodist minister and Korean independence activist during the Japanese colonial period. She is known as a pastor's wife who supported her family through her own labor, sustaining her husband's theological studies and his independence work both in Korea and abroad.

• John Wesley

  [People]

  John Wesley (1703–1791) was a priest of the Church of England. He launched the Methodist movement in eighteenth-century England and is regarded as the founder of Methodism. His theology also influenced the Holiness movement, The Salvation Army, and the Pentecostal movement.

• Honorius I

  [People]

  Honorius I (d. 638) was bishop of Rome (pope) from 625 to 638. Because of a letter that appeared to affirm a single will in Christ, he was condemned after his death by the Third Council of Constantinople.

• Anna Adlischwyler

  [People]

  Anna Adlischwyler (d. 1564) was a sixteenth-century woman of Zurich, Switzerland. A former nun of the Oetenbach convent, she married the reformer Heinrich Bullinger in 1529 and was afterward remembered as a model for the household of a Reformed pastor.

• Frederick Douglass

  [People]

  Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American abolitionist, orator, and journalist. Born into slavery, he escaped and became a lay preacher in a Black Methodist denomination. He sharply criticized American churches that defended slavery.

• Song of Zechariah

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Song of Zechariah (Luke 1:68-79) is the hymn that Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, uttered when he was filled with the Holy Spirit after his son's birth. It is also called the "Benedictus," from its first Latin word.

• Dan (Son of Jacob)

  [People]

  Dan was a son of Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, and the ancestor of the tribe of Dan, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. His name is understood to mean "to judge" or "to vindicate."

• Clement of Rome

  [People]

  Clement of Rome was a leader of the church in Rome in the late first century and an Apostolic Father, known as the author of a letter to the church in Corinth commonly called 1 Clement. The Catholic Church counts him as the fourth pope.

• Purification after Childbirth

  [Bible]

  Purification after childbirth is an Old Testament ordinance under which a woman who had given birth, after completing a prescribed period, brought offerings to the sanctuary to have her ritual purity restored. It is set out in Leviticus 12, and in Luke 2 Mary observes it.

• Tribe of Benjamin

  [Bible]

  The tribe of Benjamin was one of the tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Benjamin, the youngest son of Jacob. Israel's first king, Saul, and the apostle Paul both came from this tribe.

• Levi (Son of Jacob)

  [People]

  Levi was the third son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Levi, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Moses and Aaron, as well as the Levites and priests who served in the tabernacle and the temple, were all his descendants.

• William of Ockham

  [People]

  William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347) was an English Franciscan friar. A leading philosopher and theologian of late medieval Scholasticism, he is widely known for nominalism and "Ockham's razor."

• Song of Hannah

  [Bible]

  The Song of Hannah is Hannah's prayer of praise recorded in 1 Samuel 2:1–10. Offered after she dedicated her son Samuel at the sanctuary in Shiloh, it celebrates the God who lifts up the lowly.

• Christophany

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A Christophany is an appearance of Christ, the Son, in visible form during the Old Testament period before his birth in human flesh. The term also refers to the interpretation that understands certain appearances in this way.

• Midwife

  [Bible]

  A midwife is a woman who assists another woman in childbirth. In the Bible, midwives appear in Genesis and Exodus. They are best known through the account of Shiphrah and Puah, who defied Pharaoh's order and saved the lives of Hebrew baby boys.

• Dinah

  [People]

  Dinah was the daughter of Jacob and Leah and the only daughter of Jacob named in the Bible. She is the central figure in the Shechem incident recorded in Genesis 34.

• Ichabod

  [People]

  Ichabod is a figure in 1 Samuel, the grandson of the priest Eli and the son of Phinehas. He was born on the day the Philistines captured the ark of the covenant, and his name is explained as meaning "the glory is departed from Israel."

• Issachar

  [People]

  Issachar was a son of Jacob and Leah. His name became the name of the tribe of Issachar, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Ambrose

  [People]

  Ambrose (c. 339–397) was a fourth-century bishop of Milan and one of the leading Fathers of the Western Church. He defended the Nicene faith against the Arians and baptized Augustine.