Dictionary: Face
Synonyms: countenance, physiognomy, profile, features, expression, facial expression, look, appearance, air, manner, bearing, guise, cast, aspect, impression, grimace, scowl, wry face, wince, frown, glower, smirk, pout, moue, side, flank, vertical, surface, plane, facet, wall, elevation, dial, display, (outward) appearance, nature, image, front, show, act, false front, facade, exterior, mask, masquerade, pretence, charade, pose, illusion, smokescreen, veneer, camouflage, respect, honour, esteem, regard, admiration, approbation, acclaim, approval, favour, appreciation, popularity, estimation, veneration, awe, reverence, deference, recognition, prestige, standing, status, dignity, glory, kudos, cachet, effrontery, audacity, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, look out on, front on to, look towards, be facing, have/afford/command a view of, look over/across, open out over, look on to, overlook, give on to, give over, be opposite (to), accept, come to accept, become reconciled to, reconcile oneself to, reach an acceptance (of), get used to, become accustomed to, adjust to, accommodate oneself to, acclimatize oneself to, be confronted by, be faced with, encounter, experience, come into contact with, run into, come across, meet, come up against, be forced to contend with, beset, worry, distress, cause trouble to, trouble, bother, confront, burden, brave, face up to, meet head-on, dare, defy, oppose, resist, withstand, cover, clad, skin, overlay, dress, pave, put a facing on, laminate, inlay, plate, coat, line
Antonyms: dodge, fear, back, give way, back down, dodge, avoid, throw in the towel, withdraw, cave in, retreat, succumb to, lay down one's arms, throw in the sponge, defer, submit, escape, bashfulness, shun, evade, elude
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One Volume
Gary M. Burge
A genealogy stretching over ten generations traces the lineage from Adam to Noah. Only in the last section does this vertical genealogy become a horizontal one (5:32). In the description of each generation, the same literary structure is followed: (1) the age of the father at the birth of the firstborn, (2) the name of the firstborn, (3) how many years the father lived after the birth of this son, ( ...
152. The Sin Offering
Lev 4:1–5:13
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... to sprinkle blood seven times in the outer sanctum (in front of the inner veil), daub blood on the horns of the incense altar, and dispose of the remaining blood at the base of the outer altar (4:5–7). Blood is especially prominent in three ways: vertically on the altar horns, horizontally by coming closer to God’s place of enthronement in the Most Holy Place (cf. Exod. 25:22; Num. 7:89; 2 Sam. 6:2), and by the fact that there are two applications of blood (not including disposal). The officiating high ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... literature from the Mediterranean world that introduce a narration of history with a genealogy. Genealogies are also not uncommon in (even modern-day) oral cultures. Such genealogies are mainly of two types, namely, segmented (or horizontal) genealogies and linear (or vertical) genealogies. The first type normally depicts (like the branches of a tree) the breadth of one family by listing all the descendants of every generation. The second depicts (like a rope) the depth of a family by listing one generation ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... 18:19–23; 20:17–18 The sign act or symbolic action is in the traditional form: (1) an instruction, (2) a report of compliance, and (3) an interpretation. The potter’s equipment consisted of two stone disks placed horizontally and joined by a vertical shaft. The lower would be spun using the feet; the other, at waist level, had on it the clay for the potter’s hand to shape. “Uprooted,” “torn down,” and “destroyed,” as well as “built up” and “planted” (18:7, 9), recall words from ...
155. Final Exhortations and Greetings
1 Peter 5:1-11, 1 Peter 5:12-14
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... . He uses here the same word that Mark records Jesus as having used when discussing this very issue with his disciples (Mark 10:42–43). Even if the church seems to possess a conventional, earthly authority structure, it actually reverses the normal pattern, modeling its vertical relationships on the Son of Man, who “did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life” (Mark 10:45). This is the style of leadership that will bring the full realization of the glory known now but in part (5 ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... poses the true evidence of authenticity. Such a person will obey Christ’s commandments (2:4), will walk as Christ walked (2:6), and will not hate his or her brother or sister (2:9). Therefore, the true and outward evidence of the vertical relationship is the horizontal; the clearest measure of one’s abiding in the love of Christ is the demonstration of loving consideration for others. Anything short of that is darkness, blindness, and death. 2:12–17 · Love not the world!: Lest particular members ...
157. Love One Another
1 John 3:11-24
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... but confirming, the believer has boldness before God and receives what is asked for because of obeying God’s commandments and doing what is pleasing to him (3:21–22; John 14:13–17; 15:7, 16; 16:23–27; James 4:2–3). Notice again the vertical and horizontal components of the commandments of God: to “believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another” (3:23). Just as abiding in him leads to fruitful discipleship (John 15:1–5), to obey his commandments is to abide in Christ ...
158. No Greater Love
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... further again as we model it, and see it modeled, among the people of the church. "Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds" (Hebrews 10:24). This statement from the writer to the Hebrews moves love from the vertical to the horizontal dimension of everyday Christian living. There is a distinct parallel between the time when this epistle was written and what is happening in our day. Back then, some people were relinquishing their faith and their connection with God's people in ...
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... , some of the Corinthians object to such participation in pagan ceremonies while others who join in the activities deny there is anything wrong with their actions. Paul’s eucharistic images argue for the unity of the community at both the vertical and the horizontal level of theological reality. First, the Christians in Corinth are united in a powerful and mysterious manner with their Lord Jesus Christ in the celebrations: the cup of thanksgiving … participation … the blood of Christ and the bread ...
160. Prologue
Revelation 1:1-3
Understanding Series
Robert W. Wall
... (1) from Christ’s angel, who presumably received it (2) from Christ, to whom it was first given (3) by God for the community of Christ’s disciples on earth. This scheme, where prophetic truth has its ultimate source in God, envisions the “vertical” theology of the Johannine tradition. Just as in John’s Gospel, Jesus’ mission as God’s Christ was to incarnate the truth about God which he had heard and seen, thus ensuring its trustworthiness and effectiveness for life and faith. In accord with ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... of reversing his fortunes. They are so designated because only the doer of righteousness may be admitted into the temple (15:2). 52:8–9 In the closing verses, a liturgist speaks on behalf of the congregation, turning their attention to their vertical relationship to God. Here the welfare, character, and action of the worshiper are presented as an antitype to that of the evil person. The use of agricultural images links their respective fates: while the evil one will be “uprooted from the land of ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... not ignore the reality of his wrath, though it does focus on its delay (v. 8), temporality (v. 9), and sparing application (v. 10). To emphasize the extent of Yahweh’s mercy the psalm passes through three similes (using as). The first two are spatial: vertical in verse 11, horizontal in verse 12. The third is relational (v. 13). Somewhat surprisingly the explicit basis for this love (v. 11) and compassion (v. 13) is traced not to the narrative of the golden calf incident but to the creation narrative (Gen ...
Understanding Series
William Nelson
... strung together without breaks between the words—like this: מנאתקלפרס (in Aramaic, reading from right to left; in Latin characters, from left to right: mnʾtqlprs)—it would be confusing. Or, if in a block, reading each word from top to bottom with the vertical words going from right to left (from left to right in Latin characters), it would look like this: m t p פ ת מ n q r ר ק נ ʾ l s ס ל א This structure would be even more enigmatic, because the sages might try to read it from right ...
164. The Death of Jesus
John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27, John 19:38-42
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... church’s memory impressions of things they had seen. As Jesus left the vicinity of the palace and the Stone Pavement, he was carrying his own cross (i.e., probably the crossbeam; in all likelihood, Golgotha was a customary place for crucifixions, where large vertical stakes were permanently in place). There is no interest in the Via Dolorosa as such, and therefore none in Simon of Cyrene, who, according to the Synoptics, was at some point conscripted to help Jesus carry the cross (Luke 23:26) or to carry ...
165. The Burial of Jesus
John 19:38-42, John 19:17-27, John 19:28-37
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... church’s memory impressions of things they had seen. As Jesus left the vicinity of the palace and the Stone Pavement, he was carrying his own cross (i.e., probably the crossbeam; in all likelihood, Golgotha was a customary place for crucifixions, where large vertical stakes were permanently in place). There is no interest in the Via Dolorosa as such, and therefore none in Simon of Cyrene, who, according to the Synoptics, was at some point conscripted to help Jesus carry the cross (Luke 23:26) or to carry ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... to the one body of believers (1 Cor. 12:26). Peter is simply relaying the teaching of Jesus that he heard in the Upper Room: “By this all … will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another” (John 13:35). The vertical relationship, God’s love for men and women in Christ, creates a horizontal relationship, the love between those who know themselves to be the objects of divine love (Cranfield, p. 76). They must be compassionate, tenderhearted, caring deeply for one another—a powerful and ...
167. Tithes
Deuteronomy 14:22-29
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... ’s covenant relationship with Yahweh, it picks out, on the one hand, that factor of Israel’s life which most illustrated their distinctiveness from the nations at a symbolic level (the food laws), and on the other hand, the dual covenantal response—vertical gratitude to God (the tithes) and horizontal care and support in the community (the triennial tithes). The common theme between the two halves of the chapter is “eating,” and the underlying dynamic is the same as the rest of the book preaches ...
168. Feast of Tabernacles
Deuteronomy 16:13-17
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... used in 15:13. There the Israelite householder was urged not to send away his slave in the sabbatical release “empty-handed.” The connection is not merely verbal, but typically covenantal. To bring nothing to offer in the sanctuary to God was the vertical equivalent of the horizontal failure to offer anything to a human being in need. Conversely, generous giving to God and generous giving to the released slave were alike appropriate responses to the rich blessing of the covenant Lord (cf. 16:10b and 17 ...
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... be in the first and last of the list: the judge (who administers the law of God) and the prophet (who speaks the word of God). The supreme authority is thus Yahweh himself, whose theocratic focus of power and authority in a vertical sense effectively flattens and disperses power at the horizontal level. The constitutional aspects of human authority are thus set firmly in the context of God’s transcendent authority and revealed will and word. Apart from the dimension of covenant theocracy, the principles ...
170. Law Courts
Deuteronomy 16:18-20
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... be in the first and last of the list: the judge (who administers the law of God) and the prophet (who speaks the word of God). The supreme authority is thus Yahweh himself, whose theocratic focus of power and authority in a vertical sense effectively flattens and disperses power at the horizontal level. The constitutional aspects of human authority are thus set firmly in the context of God’s transcendent authority and revealed will and word. Apart from the dimension of covenant theocracy, the principles ...
171. Gideon's Death
Judges 8:28-35
Understanding Series
Cheryl A. Brown
... 8:35 They . . . failed to show kindness: The Hb. expression translated in the NIV as “show kindness” is ’asah hesed, which has a broad range of meaning. While hesed is most often rendered as “love,” “lovingkindness,” or “steadfast love” in the OT, it always denotes faithfulness to covenant obligations, whether vertical (between God and human beings, or a superior to an inferior) or horizontal (between equals).
172. To Noah's Sons
1 Chronicles 1:1-4
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... literature from the Mediterranean world that introduce a narration of history with a genealogy. Genealogies are also not uncommon in (even modern-day) oral cultures. Such genealogies are mainly of two types, namely, segmented (or horizontal) genealogies and linear (or vertical) genealogies. The first type normally depicts (like the branches of a tree) the breadth of one family by listing all the descendants of every generation. The second depicts (like a rope) the depth of a family by listing one generation ...
173. The Japhethites
1 Chronicles 1:5-7
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... literature from the Mediterranean world that introduce a narration of history with a genealogy. Genealogies are also not uncommon in (even modern-day) oral cultures. Such genealogies are mainly of two types, namely, segmented (or horizontal) genealogies and linear (or vertical) genealogies. The first type normally depicts (like the branches of a tree) the breadth of one family by listing all the descendants of every generation. The second depicts (like a rope) the depth of a family by listing one generation ...
174. The Hamites
1 Chronicles 1:8-16
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... literature from the Mediterranean world that introduce a narration of history with a genealogy. Genealogies are also not uncommon in (even modern-day) oral cultures. Such genealogies are mainly of two types, namely, segmented (or horizontal) genealogies and linear (or vertical) genealogies. The first type normally depicts (like the branches of a tree) the breadth of one family by listing all the descendants of every generation. The second depicts (like a rope) the depth of a family by listing one generation ...
175. The Semites
1 Chronicles 1:17-27
Understanding Series
Louis C. Jonker
... literature from the Mediterranean world that introduce a narration of history with a genealogy. Genealogies are also not uncommon in (even modern-day) oral cultures. Such genealogies are mainly of two types, namely, segmented (or horizontal) genealogies and linear (or vertical) genealogies. The first type normally depicts (like the branches of a tree) the breadth of one family by listing all the descendants of every generation. The second depicts (like a rope) the depth of a family by listing one generation ...
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