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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In his making a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the voices.
I will recount for a law of Jehovah: He said to me, Thou my son; this day I begat thee.
Founding the earth upon her bases, she shall not be moved forever and even
Thou didst set a bound they shall not pass over; they shall not turn bark to cover the earth.
According to thy mercy make me live, and I will watch the testimonies of thy mouth. Forever, O Jehovah, thy word was set in the heavens. read more. To generation and generation thy faithfulness: thou didst prepare the earth and it will stand. They stood according to thy judgments this day, for all are thy servants.
And he will cause them to stand even to forever: he gave a law and it shall not pass away.
In his setting his law to the sea, and the waters shall not pass by his mouth; in his making firm the foundations of the earth:
Will ye not fear me? says Jehovah; or will ye not tremble from my face, who set the sand a bound to the sea a law forever, and it shall not pass over it: and its waves shall toss themselves and shall not prevail; and they were put in commotion and shall not pass over it
He made the earth in his power, setting upright the habitable globe by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens.
Enough if ye will not make known to me the dream, this one edict for you; and ye divided out the word of falsehood and this corruption to say before me, till that the time shall change: therefore say to me the dream and I shall know that ye will show me its interpretation.
The word by the decree of the watchers, and the saying of the holy ones is the question: for the reason that the living shall know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom that he will, he will give it, and he will raise up over it the low of men.
This the interpretation, O king, and this the decree of the Most High, that came upon my lord the king:
Before the law bring forth, as the chaff the day passing away before the burning of the anger of Jehovah shall not come upon you, before the day of the anger of Jehovah shall not come upon you.
And it was in those days an order came out from Caesar Angustus, for the whole habitable globe to be enrolled.
And as they were going through the cities, they delivered them the orders to watch, having been determined by the sent and the elders in Jerusalem.
Which Jason has received: and these all do opposite to Caesar's enactments, saying, There is another king, Jesus.
The enmity in his flesh, the law of commands in enactments, having left unemployed; that he might create in himself one new man, making peace;
If therefore ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, do ye dogmatize,