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  • abbreviation Latin confer (compare)

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  • abbreviation Alternative form of cf.

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  • Has not Jesus promised to be present where two or three are gathered in his name cf.

    Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008

  • Jesus is on his way to the temple -- toward the place where God, as Deuteronomy says, desired to "establish the dwelling" of his name cf.

    Archive 2008-03-16 papabear 2008

  • The additional personage involved in this instance is the king's friend "Ahuzzath" (on the Philistine ending of the name cf. Goliath).

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Jelley (Julian); [Footnote: Lamb is also, of course, a nickname cf. Agnew, Fr. agneau]

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • For the first element in this division of the name cf.

    An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Anonymous 1891

  • See iii. 91 fol. above; and for the expression cf. iv.

    The Lady of the Lake 1810

  • See iii. 91 fol. above; and for the expression cf. iv.

    The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801

  • In fact, this is best understood as Jesus claiming to have been given the divine name cf.

    Review of Bart Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted James F. McGrath 2009

  • In the Holy Family of Nazareth, it was Jesus who taught Mary and Joseph something of the greatness of the love of God his heavenly Father, the ultimate source of all love, the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name cf.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • There is only the rare instance in Etruscan of Uhtave, which is in fact an Oscan name cf.

    Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1 2008

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