Reference: Decree
Hastings
What theologians speak of as the 'decrees of God,' and describe as one, immutable, eternal, all-embracing, free, etc., do not receive this designation in Scripture. The equivalents are to be sought for under such headings as Election, Predestination, Providence, Reprobate. In the English Version the term is frequently used in Esther, Ezra, Daniel, with different Heb. and Aramaic words, for royal decrees (in Da 6 RV 'interdict'; in Da 2:9 RV 'law,' elsewhere 'decree'). In the NT also the Gr. word dogmata is employed of decrees of C
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When he made, for the rain, a decree, and a way for the lightning of thunders,
Let me tell of a decree, - Yahweh, hath said unto me, My son, thou art, I, to-day, have begotten thee:
He hath fixed the earth on its foundations, It is not to be shaken, to times age-abiding and beyond.
Bounds, hast thou set, which they are not to pass over, They are not to return to cover the earth.
According to thy lovingkindness, give thou me life, so will I keep the testimonies of thy mouth. [LAMED] Age-abidingly, O Yahweh, hath thy word been set up in the heavens. read more. To generation after generation, is thy faithfulness, Thou hast established the earth, and it standeth. By thy regulations, do they stand to-day, for, all, are thy servants.
So caused he them to stand perpetually - age-abidingly, A decree, hath he given, and it passeth not beyond.
When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth: -
Even for me, will ye have no reverence? Enquireth Yahweh, And because of me, will ye not he pained? In that though I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, A decree age-abiding, and it should not pass beyond it, - When they would toss themselves Then should they not prevail, When the waves thereof would roar Then should they not pass beyond it,
He that made the earth by his power, That established the world by his wisdom, - And by his understanding stretched out the heavens,
That, if, the dream, ye shall not make known to me, one and the same, is the decree, and, a lying and wicked word, have ye agreed to speak before me, that meanwhile the time may be changed, - therefore, the dream, tell ye me, so shall I know that, the interpretation thereof, ye can declare for me.
By the decree of the watchers, is the thing, and by the mandate of the holy ones, the matter: to the intent that the living, may get to know, that the Most High, hath dominion, over the kingdom of men, and, to whomsoever he pleaseth, he giveth it, and, one low among men, he setteth up over it.
This, is the interpretation, O king, - and, the decree of the Most High, it is, which hath come upon my lord the king:
Ere yet the decree, have given birth, like chaff, the day, have vanished, - ere yet shall come upon you, the glow of the anger of Yahweh, ere yet shall come upon you, the day of the anger of Yahweh.
Now it came to pass, in those days, that there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, for all the inhabited earth to be enrolled:
And, as they passed through the cities, they were delivering unto them, for observance, the decrees which had been decided upon by the Apostles and Elders who were in Jerusalem.
unto whom Jason hath given welcome; and, these all, contrary to the decrees of Caesar, are acting, - saying that there is another king, Jesus.
The enmity, in his flesh - the law of commandments in decrees - bringing to nought, - that, the two, he might create in himself, into one man of new mould, making peace.
If ye have died, together with Christ, from the first principles of the world, why, as though alive in the world, are ye submitting to decrees, -