Father, into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit Giclee Print

Father, into Thy Hands I Commend My Spirit Giclee Print
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Arians

The followers of Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the 4th century. He maintained (1) that the Father and Son are distinct beings; (2) that the Son, though divine, is not equal to the Father; (3) that the Son had a state of existence previous to His appearance on earth, but not from eternity; and (4) that the Messiah not real man, but a divine being in a case of flesh: Their tenets varied from time to time and also among their different sections. The heresy was formally anathematized at the Council of Nicaea (325), but the sect was not, and never has been, wholly extinguished.

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Archangel Raphael Leaving the Family of Tobias Giclee Print
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Adramelech

One of the fallen angels. Milton has him overthrown by Uriel and Raphael ( Paradise Lost, vi. 365). KLOPSTOCK introduces him into The Messiah, and represents him as surpassing Satan in malice and guile, ambition and mischief. He is made to hate every one, even Satan, of whose rank he is jealous.

Abraham, Sara and an Angel Giclee Print

Abraham, Sara and an Angel, circa 1520 Giclee Print
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Abraham

The founder of the Hebrew nation and its first patriarch. With his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot he migrated from. Ur of Chaldees into the Land of Canaan, where he settled and prospered. To test his faith Jehovah commanded him to offer up his son Isaac as a burnt offering, but when he was about to draw the knife, a ram was provided instead. The story of Abraham is told in Gen. xii-xiii and in various Islamic sources, which relate that at the age of fifteen months Abraham was equal in size to a lad of fifteen, and was so wise that his father introduced him to the court of King Nimrod; that Abraham and his son "Ismail" rebuilt for the fourth time the Kaaba over the sacred stone at Mecca; and that Abraham destroyed the idols manufactured and worshiped by his father, Terah. See also Sarai, Hagar, Isaac, Sodom and Gomorrah.

Abraham's bosom. The repose of the happy in death ( Luke xvi. 22).

Abrahamic covenant. (1) The covenant made by God with Abraham, that Messiah should spring from his seed. This promise was given to Abraham, because he left his country and father's house to live in a strange land, as God told him. (2) The rite of circumcision.