Canon

1. An exclusive list of the books included in the Bible and written during the formative period of the Jewish or Christian faiths, whose supporters believe these books are inspired by God and that they express the authoritative history of the relationship between God and human kind.

2. A Church decree or law.

concordance

An alphabetical index of the words in the scriptures of Old and New Testaments, showing every contextual occurrence of the word and their locations.

concordat

Latin. An agreement, especially between the Church and a State.

cornerstone

A stone in the projecting angle of a wall, in Greek known as akrogoniaios lithos (ακρογωνιαίος λίθος) and in Latin as primarii lapidis. It is sometimes referred to as a foundation-stone and as such, it has become colloquial speech for an indispensable part or a basis on which the rest of a structure is built. A cornerstone however, literally is a ‘stone at a corner’. In the New Testament  Jesus Christ is often referred to as the ‘head of the corner’, i.e. ‘The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner’. Christ is thus seen as the Chief Cornerstone of the Church. This statement has a twofold meaning. It not only refers to the fact that He lies at the foundation of His Church, but even more so to the fact that He is situated at a corner. When one comes to a corner one needs to change direction, likewise when one comes to Christ, one cannot continue in the direction one was going. Christ is a turning point. A meeting with the living God cannot happen without conversion or remain without consequences, and exactly this has made Him ‘a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling’ for many.

Cush (כּוּשׁ)

1. Hebrew. Name of the land which was surrounded by the river Gihon, one of the four rivers mentioned in Genesis 2, together with the Pishon, the Tigris and the Euphrates, that split up from the one river that flowed out of the Garden Eden.

2. Hebrew. Name of the eldest son of Ham, brother of Canaan and the father of Nimrod, and Raamah, mentioned in the ‘Table of Nations’ in Genesis and I Chronicles.