Ayala, Chapter 4

Question 0

New Testament

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The twenty seven books of the Bible written by sacred authors in apostolic times; they have Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God - his life, teachings, Passion and glorification, and the beginnings of his Church - as their central theme.

Question 1

Old Testament

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The forty six books of the Bible that record the history of salvation from creation until the time of Christ.

Question 2

Genealogy

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He study if ancestry, or a chronological list of ancestors. Genealogies of Jesus are part if the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke as evidence that Jesus is in the ancestral line if Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, fulfilling the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah.

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Prophet

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From the Greek prophetes, meaning “one who speaks for”; a person selected by God to speak in his name.

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Bible

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Sacred scriptures, the books which contain the truth of God’s R evelation and were composed by human authors inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Bible contains both the forty six books if the Old Testament and the twenty seven books of the New Testament.

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Epistle

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A letter addressed to a particular person people. Much of the New Testament consists of epistles written to individuals, to congregation, or to the Church as a whole.

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Torah

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The five Books of Moses

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Pentateuch

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From a Greek term meaning five books referring to the Torah, thie first five books if the Old Testament

Question 8

Deuterocanonical

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Those parts of the Old Testament that were removed from the Jewish or Hebrew canon of Scripture, but which appear in the Septuagint used by the early Christians

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Priestly

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One of the supposed original sources of Pentateuch, thought to be a later editor who revised all five books to reflect the concerns of the Jerusalem priesthood after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian Exile

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Elohist

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One of the supposed original sources of the Pentateuch, reflecting the perspective of Jews in the northern kingdom of Israel around the eight or ninth century BC.

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Testament

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From the Latin testamentum

Question 12

Gospel

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An Old English rendering of the Greek for “good news.” The good news of God’s mercy and love reveals in the life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. The Apostles, and the Church following them, proclaim this to the entire world.

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Analogy of Faith

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Because God is Truth, there is an absolute unity and coherence of truths contained in various books of the Bible. These can never be contradictory, but rather illustrate and shed light on one another and the complete plan if Revelation.

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Evangelist

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Or who proclaims the evangellion or gospel. Sts. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each produced a Gospel, that is, an account of the earthly life of Jesus Christ, stressing the good news contained in his ministry and teachings. In a correlative sense, anyone who works actively to spread and promote the Gospel.

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Apocalypse

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A type of sacred literature characterized by symbolic imagery pointing to the expectation the powers of evil will be destroyed and the righteous raised to a new life in justice

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Canon

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Greek and Latin for rule a statute promulgated to assist and practicing the faith or governing the church fairly and consistently

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Dueteronomistic

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One of the supposedly original sources of the Pentateuch

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Figure

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An event or person scripture that points toward a waiter event or person

Question 19

Hexapla

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An edition of the Old Testament produced by the Origen that presents the text in Hebrew and Greek in the side in side-by-side colums

Question 20

Liturgy of the Eucharist

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Portion of the mass that includes the preparation of the bread and wine

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Liturgy of the word

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The portion of the mass that includes the reading of the scripture and the homily

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Prophetic literature

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The Old Testament books.com prize of the stories of the profits cast judgment and warn of divine retribution while calling Israel to repentance

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Protocanonical

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Those books of the Bible that were included in the Jewish or Hebrew canon of scriptures

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Septuagint

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A third century BC Greek translation of the Scriptures

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Type

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See figure

Question 26

Vulgate

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From the Latin word for common the name of St. Jerome’s translation of the Bible from its original languages to common alignment by St. Jerome