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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 anointing is done either because Christians believe that is how Jesus taught the disciples to pray for the sick or because it is itself a form of prayer (see Davids, Martin). The “in the name of the Lord,” if it is attached to the anointing rather than the whole action, could indicate that it was an invocation of Jesus’ authority, which could also be the meaning in Mark 6. The metaphorical sense of anointing (picking up on the use of chriō in the LXX) appears more often in the NT. It appears
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