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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) is an authoritative reference encyclopedia which explains every significant word, subject, place, person, and doctrine in the Bible and Apocrypha! In scope, the ISBE covers literature (apocalyptic, apocryphal, sub-apostolic, etc.), archeology, ethnology, geography, topography, biography, arts and crafts, manners and customs, family life,...

In the Gospels it occurs as follows: Mt 9:16 and Mk 2:21: in both of these passages it means “the fulness,” that by which a gap or rent is filled up, when an old garment is repaired by a patch; Mk 6:43, ‘They took up fragments, the fulness of twelve baskets’; 8:20, ‘The fulness of how many baskets of fragments did ye take up?’ Jn 1:16, ‘out of his fulness we all received.’
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