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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. ...

Blessing is a prominent OT theme. For example, Isaac’s blessing of the firstborn is stolen by Jacob from his brother Esau (Gen 27). Jacob blesses Joseph’s two sons in reverse order (Gen 48). And the pagan prophet Balaam blesses Israel (Num 23–24). In many cases such as these, the OT sees the blessing as effecting some sort of outcome, as if it were an official last will and testament. But the power of the blessings was not in the words nor in the speaker, but in the God who was
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