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 for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,
I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.
He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.
A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.
According to Thy kindness quicken Thou me, And I keep the testimony of Thy mouth! Lamed. To the age, O Jehovah, Thy word is set up in the heavens. read more. To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish earth, and it standeth. According to Thine ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole are Thy servants.
And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.
In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.
The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,
so that, if the dream ye do not cause me to know -- one is your sentence, seeing a word lying and corrupt ye have prepared to speak before me, till that the time is changed, therefore the dream tell ye to me, then do I know that its interpretation ye do shew me.'
by the decree of the sifters is the sentence, and by the saying of the holy ones the requirement, to the intent that the living may know that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it, and the lowest of men He doth raise up over it.
This is the interpretation, O king, and the decree of the Most High it is that hath come against my lord the king:
Before the bringing forth of a statute, As chaff hath the day passed on, While yet not come in upon you doth the heat of the anger of Jehovah, While yet not come in upon you doth a day of the anger of Jehovah,
And it came to pass in those days, there went forth a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world be enrolled --
And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who are in Jerusalem,
whom Jason hath received; and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying another to be king -- Jesus.'
the enmity in his flesh, the law of the commands in ordinances having done away, that the two he might create in himself into one new man, making peace,
If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?