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Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 9min
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Quarreling. See STRIFE.
Quaternion; A Roman guard of four soldiers, detailed to act as sentries over a prisoner (Acts 12:44And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. (Acts 12:4)). In the strictest custody (as in the case of Peter), each hand of the prisoner was handcuffed to a separate soldier, Inside the cell, while the other two kept sentry out-side the door.
Quicken; to revive, make alive.
Quickening, spiritual. Psa. 71:20; 80:1820Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. (Psalm 71:20)
18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. (Psalm 80:18); John 5:21; 6:6321For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. (John 5:21)
63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (John 6:63); Rom. 4:17; 8:1117(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. (Romans 4:17)
11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Romans 8:11); 1 Cor. 15:4545And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45); 2 Cor. 3:66Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. (2 Corinthians 3:6); Eph. 2:11And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; (Ephesians 2:1); 1 Tim. 6:1313I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession; (1 Timothy 6:13); 1 Peter 3:1818For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (1 Peter 3:18).
Quicksands; Sands which move, i.e., unstable (quick = living). The greater and lesser Syrtis, near Tunis, on the N.E. coast of Africa (Acts 27:1717Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. (Acts 27:17)). These were the terror of Mediterranean sailors.
Quotations; from the Old Testament in the New Testament. See OLD TESTAMENT.