Person+of+rank

  • 131Corner —    The angle of a house (Job 1:19) or a street (Prov. 7:8). Corners in Neh. 9:22 denotes the various districts of the promised land allotted to the Israelites. In Num. 24:17, the corners of Moab denotes the whole land of Moab. The corner of a… …

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  • 132Theophilus —    Lover of God, a Christian, probably a Roman, to whom Luke dedicated both his Gospel (Luke 1:3) and the Acts of the Apostles (1:1). Nothing beyond this is known of him. From the fact that Luke applies to him the title most excellent , the same… …

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