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The best of the Bible dictionary articles now all in one volume, with articles by many famous authors, including B. B. Warfield, Franz Delitzsch, Patr
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ick Fairbairn, E. W. Hengstenberg, W. H. Griffith Thomas, John Eadie, George Bush, Robert Girdlestone, Horatius Bonar, Robert Young, John Kitto, A. R. Fausset, James Orr, A. T. Robertson, Thomas Scott, A. S. Geden, W. L. Alexander, John Davis, William Smith, George L. Robinson, Robert Dick Wilson, Geerhardus Vos, John Brown, F. F. Bruce, Gordon Clark, John Murray, E. J. Young, Allan A. MacRae, Charles Pfeffer, R. Rushdoony, Leon Wood, Leon Morris, Colin Brown, R. L. Harris, J. G. Aalders, J. D. Douglas, and 130 others.This is Volume IX of the twelve volume Series entitled The Fifty Greatest Christian Classics. And it appears in this Series because it is a selection of the best Bible dictionary articles from the best Bible dictionaries of the past two centuries. In this work you will find classic treatments of all the important Bible doctrines, books of the Bible, Bible persons and places, with the emphasis on sound doctrine and forthright defense of the Bible as the only sourcebook for faith and practice of all true, serious, God-honoring Christians.You will find here outstanding articles on such important subjects as Inspiration (B. B. Warfield); The Trinity (James Orr, Morton Smith); etc. Yet also here are those articles needing the latest scholarly information, such as the extensive articles on Animals and Birds of the Bible (B. L. Goddard), and, Biblical Archaeology (Allan A. MacRae) - both of booklet length. The object is to furnish a one-volume source of reliable, true-to-the-Bible information for those studying theBible.Articles in this volume have been extracted from The Imperial Bible Dictionary; The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Smith's Bible Dictionary; Fausset's Bible Dictionary; Davis' Bible Dictionary; Kitto's Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature; Brown's Bible Dictionary; Young's Analytical Concordance; and for those subjects requiring up-to-date treatment, from The Encyclopedia of Christianity (1968-1972).Surely, all Bible-believers should agree that there must be a certain stability in the Christian's thinking. There are certain truths, revealed in God's Word, which always abide. Among them are the doctrines of the inerrant Bible, the Triune God as interpreted by historic Christianity, justification by faith on the basis of the substitutionary sacrifice of the God Man, Jesus Christ, etc. For this reason this dictionary consciously and boldly goes forth on these presuppositions. This does not mean that there were no differences of opinion among the many authors from more than a dozen nations. For example, there are two articles on Baptism, and three on Church Government. Yet each contributor wholeheartedly subscribes to the historic, orthodox Christianity which appears in all the ancient creeds and confessions of faith.
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