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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 best things in life (Herm. Man. 8.9), bringing a blessing. When it is possessed along with other virtues and the name of the Son of God, it brings entrance into the kingdom of heaven (Herm. Sim. 9.15.2; in 2 Clem. 10.2 peace is the eschatological reward for righteousness). . The idea of rest is characteristic of gnostic thought, where the term anapausis (“rest”) is a synonym of eirēnē (Helderman, 47–84) and is expressed in terms of most of the major features of the system(s)
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