to receive

1. of what is due or promised

to take again or back, to recover

1. to receive by way of retribution

to take from others, take apart or aside

to receive any one hospitably

to redeem

1. by payment of a price to recover from the power of another, to ransom, buy off

2. metaph. of Christ freeing the elect from the dominion of the Mosaic Law at the price of his vicarious death

to buy up, to buy up for one's self, for one's use

1. to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good, so that zeal and well doing are as it were the purchase money by which we make the time our own

that, in order that, so that

anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command

1. of any law whatsoever

   1. a law or rule producing a state approved of God

      1. by the observance of which is approved of God

   2. a precept or injunction

   3. the rule of action prescribed by reason

2. of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents

3. the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love

4. the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

adoption, adoption as sons

1. that relationship which God was pleased to establish between himself and the Israelites in preference to all other nations

2. the nature and condition of the true disciples in Christ, who by receiving the Spirit of God into their souls become sons of God

3. the blessed state looked for in the future life after the visible return of Christ from heaven

by, under