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The third of IVP’s critically acclaimed series of dictionaries of the New Testament provides focused study on the often-neglected portions of the New Testament: Acts, Hebrews, the General Epistles and Revelation. Furthermore, its scope goes beyond the life of the New Testament church to include the work of the apostolic fathers and early Christianity up through the middle of the second century. ...

The OT speaks frequently of the “house of God” or “house of the Lord.” This was generally applied to the temple or earlier to the tabernacle (e.g., Judg 18:31; 19:18), which was indeed some kind of physical accommodation. But the first use of the phrase “house of God” was in Jacob’s naming of Bethel (which means “house of God” in Hebrew), which was not a domicile or building but simply a place where Jacob had experienced the presence of God. Later Israelites too were aware that the temple
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