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n. a profession of belief; "he stated his political testament" a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die [syn: will ] strong evidence for something; "his easy victory was a testament to his skill" ...

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Testament is a 1996 video game by Insanity . It is a horror First-person shooter .

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But because in the New Testament God was made man, He can be adored in His corporeal image.

But this discussion is immaterial, since these supreme examples of literary excellence exist in all kinds of composition,--poetry, fable, romance, ethical teaching, prophecy, interpretation, history, humor, satire, devotional flight into the spiritual and supernatural, everything in which the human mind has exercised itself,--from the days of the Egyptian moralist and the Old Testament annalist and poet down to our scientific age.

Tradition has also identified her with two other women of the New Testament: Mary of Bethany, sister of Martha and Lazarus, and an unnamed woman who anoints Jesus with spikenard from an alabaster jar.

The anointing of kings was not absolutely necessary under the Old Testament, for we read not that all the kings of Judah and Israel were anointed.

Christ being now come, all those ceremonies cease: and, therefore, the anointing of kings ought not to be used in the New Testament.

Jewish Apocalyptists had already attributed pre-existence to the expected Messiah, as to other precious things in the Old Testament history and worship, and, without any thought of denying his human nature, placed him as already existing before his appearing in a series of angelic beings.

The Jewish speculations about Angels and Mediators, which at the time of Christ grew very luxuriantly among the Scribes and Apocalyptists, and endangered the purity and vitality of the Old Testament idea of God, were also very important for the development of Christian dogmatics.

A number of the apocryphal books appear in the Catholic version of the Old Testament.

In practice it continued to be the rule for the New Testament to take a secondary place in apologetic writings and disputes with heretics.

So far as we can demonstrate traces of independent religious knowledge among the so-called Apostolic Fathers of the post-apostolic age, they are in thorough harmony with the theories of the Apologists, which are merely expressed with precision and divested of Old Testament language.

As a mode of explaining the Scriptures, it is refuted by the fact that it is nowhere plainly stated in the New Testament, but is arbitrarily constructed by forced and indirect inferences from various obscure texts, which texts can be perfectly explained without involving it at all.

I had seen the actual testament, no fraudulent transfer of the property therein bequeathed could take place without my knowledge that some fraud had been recurred to.

New Testament that we have, we need to start at the very beginning with one of the unusual features of Christianity in the Greco-Roman world: its bookish character.

New Testament and the differences found in them, about scribes who copied scripture and sometimes changed it.

Tronchin asked her if the doctrine of the immortality of the soul could be gathered from the Old Testament alone.