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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. ...

In 2 Samuel 7:11 there is a hint of juxtaposing the two concepts of family and dwelling, for when David wishes to build a house for God (a temple) he is told that rather God will build a house for David (David’s progeny). Since “house” was a common enough idiom for a social unit with familial connections who are under an individual’s authority and share a common identity (see Household, Family), it was a small step to think of the “house of God” as the people of God. In the intertestamental
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