Saturday, November 29, 2025

Keith Ferdinando on Ephesians 6:12 and the "principalities" being supernatural personal beings

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   Carr claims there is no reason to regard the powers as evil at all. He argues partly on the grounds that the influence of astrology and...

The Roman Catholic Dogmatic Understanding of Original Sin "was not universally held in the second century"

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While claiming that the Roman Catholic dogmatic understanding of Original Sin finds attestation earlier than many believe (e.g., Ireaneus, A...

"Worlds, Plurality of" in Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (1894)

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   Worlds, Plurality of. The question whether other globes besides the earth are inhabited is one of great interest both to the student o...

John Muddiman on Ephesians 6:12

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   12 The struggle with the powers of darkness is described as our contest ( palê ) or wrestling match, presumably implying close, hand-...

Ernest Best on Ephesians 6:12

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   κοσμοκράτωρ , only here in the NT, came to be used in astronomy and astrology and was applied to various gods (the names of the planets...

Markus Barth on Ephesians 6:12

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   12. we are wrestling not with blood and flesh . Lit. “Our struggle is not …” A rather impressive textual tradition has, “your” struggle...

Lynn H. Cohick on Ephesaisn 5:26

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   Making believers holy involves “cleansing … by the washing with water through the word.” The participle “cleansing” usually means makin...