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Book of Life

BOOK OF LIFE

(cepher chayyim; he biblos tes zoes, "book of life"): The phrase is derived from the custom of the ancients of keeping genealogical records (Nehemiah 7:5, 64; Nehemiah 12:22, 23) and of enrolling citizens for various purposes (Jeremiah 22:30 Ezekiel 13:9). So, God is represented as having a record of all who are under His special care and guardianship. To be blotted out of the Book of Life is to be cut off from God's favor, to suffer an untimely death, as when Moses pleads that he be blotted out of God's book-that he might die, rather than that Israel should be destroyed (Exodus 32:32 Psalm 69:28). In the New Testament it is the record of the righteous who are to inherit eternal life (Philippians 4:3 Revelation 3:5; Revelation 13:8; Revelation 17:8; 21:27). In the apocalyptic writings there is the conception of a book or of books, that are in God's keeping, and upon which the final judgment is to be based (Daniel 7:10; Daniel 12:1 Revelation 20:12, 15; compare Book Jubilees 39:6; 19:9).

See APOCALYPSE; BLOT; BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE; JUDGMENT, LAST.

L. Kaiser

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Exodus 32:32,33
Yet now, if you will forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray you, out of your book which you have written.
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Psalm 69:28
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
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Psalm 87:6
The LORD shall count, when he writes up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
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Daniel 12:1
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for the children of your people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
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Luke 10:20
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
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Philippians 4:3
And I entreat you also, true yoke fellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.
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Revelation 3:5
He that overcomes, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
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Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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Revelation 17:8
The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
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Revelation 20:12,15
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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Revelation 21:27
And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defiles, neither whatever works abomination, or makes a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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Revelation 22:19
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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Library

Whether the Book of Life is the Same as Predestination?
... THE BOOK OF LIFE (THREE ARTICLES) Whether the book of life is the same as
predestination? ... Therefore the book of life is not predestination. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the book of life.htm

Whether the Book of Life Regards Only the Life of Glory of the ...
... THE BOOK OF LIFE (THREE ARTICLES) Whether the book of life regards only the life
of glory of the predestined? ... For the book of life is the knowledge of life. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the book of life 2.htm

The Book of Life (Three Articles)
... THE BOOK OF LIFE (THREE ARTICLES). We now consider the book of life; concerning
which there are three points of inquiry: (1) What is the book of life? ...
//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/the book of life three.htm

The Book of Life
... CHAPTER II THE BOOK OF LIFE. The approaches ... fashion. The Book is full of the tingle
and even the roar of the life out of which it was born. Jesus ...
/.../mcconnell/understanding the scriptures/chapter ii the book of.htm

Whether Anyone May be Blotted Out of the Book of Life?
... THE BOOK OF LIFE (THREE ARTICLES) Whether anyone may be blotted out of the book
of life? ... Therefore neither can anyone be blotted out from the book of life. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether anyone may be blotted.htm

On the Trinity. Book i. When I was Seeking an Employment Adequate ...
... On the Trinity. Book I. When I was seeking an employment adequate to the
powers of human life and righteous� 1. When I was seeking ...
/.../hilary/the life and writings of st hilary of poitiers/on the trinity book i.htm

Book ii. The Mental Culture of Jesus. His Life to the Time of his ...
... BOOK II. THE MENTAL CULTURE OF JESUS. HIS LIFE TO THE TIME OF HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY.
CHAPTER I. JESUS NOT EDUCATED IN THE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS OF THE JEWS. ...
/.../book ii the mental culture.htm

Book iii. On the Rise, Progress, Changes, and Comforts of the ...
... Subject of the HYMNS. BOOK III. On the Rise, Progress, Changes, and Comforts
of the Spiritual Life. Solemn Addresses to Sinners. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/olney hymns/book iii on the rise.htm

The Life and Writings of St. Hilary of Poitiers
... Introduction to the De Trinitate. On the Trinity. Book I. When I was seeking an
employment adequate to the powers of human life and righteous� Book II. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hilary/the life and writings of st hilary of poitiers/

Vision First. Against Filthy and Proud Thoughts, and the ...
... saints. For the Lord knows that they will repent with all their heart, and He will
write you in the Book of Life.--Vat. See Philippians 4:3; Revelation 20:15. ...
/.../pastor/the pastor books first second third/vision first against filthy and.htm

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