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164 Religious
RELIGIOUS In a general sense, something that relates to religion. It is also used for a person engaged by solemn vows to the monastic life; or a person shut up in a monastery, to lead a life of devotion and austerity under some rule or institution. The male religious are called monks and friars; the females, nuns and canonesses.
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2 Thessalonians: Chapter 3, Verse 12
“Now them that are such, &c.” For this was not the case and character of them all. Did such practices generally obtain, no community, civil or religious, could subsist. And the apostle wisely distinguishes them from others, that the innocent might not be involved in the charge. “We command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ;” Using both authority and…
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The Christian Hope
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Sing To My Wellbeloved
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March 15—Morning Devotion
"Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD. And he said, Who am I, O LORD GOD! and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? And is this the manner of man, O LORD GOD?”—2 Samuel 7:18-19 The language of David, under the overwhelming views he had of divine goodness, as it concerned himself, is…
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163 Religion
RELIGION Is a Latin word, derived, according to Cicero, from rilegere, "to re-consider;" but according to Servius and most modern grammarians, from religare, "to bind fast." If the Ciceronian etymology be the true one, the word religion will denote the diligent study whatever pertains to the worship of God; but, according to the other derivation, it denotes that obligation which…
