Ephraim
Ephraim (e'phra-im), Heb. Efrah'yint, Fruitful). I. The Younger Son Of Joseph, But Who Received Precedence Over The Elder In And From The Blessing Of Jacob (gen. Xli :52 ; Xlviii :1). That Blessing Was An Adoptive Act, Whereby Ephraim And His Brother Manasseh Were Counted As Sons Of Jacob In ...
Episcopacy 1
Episcopacy (1) Definition. Episcopacy Expresses The Form Of Governing The Christian Church Which Is Followed In The Great Majority Of Christian Com Munions. It Is The Plan Of Government In The Vast Roman Catholic And Greek Communions, In The Widespread Anglican Communion, The American Episcopal Church, The Swedish National Church, ...
Episcopalian
Episcopalian (e-pts'ic8-pd'it-an). The Term Episcopalian Is A Very Broad One. In Its Generic Meaning It Would Include Every Person Who Believes That Episcopacy Is Either The Best Form Of Church Government Or Else The One Di Vinely Appointed Form In The Administration Of Ec Clesiastical Affairs. It Would Thus Include ...
Epistle Of Barnabas
Barnabas, Epistle Of (bar'na-bas Pis"! Ov). (1) Title And History. The Title Of This An Cient Composition Is Found In The Stichometries (or Catalogues Of The Sacred Books) Of The Ninth Century; But From That Period To The Seventeenth Century The Work Itself Remained Entirely Un Known. Jacob Sirmond, A ...
Epistle To The 1
Ephesians, Epistle To The. (1) Structure And Content. This Writing Be Gins With The Usual Superscription Of The Pauline Letters Including A Self-naming Of The Writer And A Benediction Upon The Readers (i:t, 2). This Is Immediately Followed By A Doxology Or Thanks Giving Section, Also Characteristic Of Paul's Letters. ...
Epistles
Epistles (.-ptstz). Origin And Division. Epistles, Which Lay Down The Doctrines Of The Christian Religion, Origi Nate, Not Front One Apostle Alone, But From All The Four Principal Apostles; So That One And The Same Divine Truth Is Presented To Our Eyes In Various Forms As It Were In Various ...
Epistles Of The Apostolic
Epistles Of The Apostolic Fathers. Under This Head Come Those Remains Of Chris Tian Antiquity Which Are Ascribed To The Writers Usually Styled The Apostolic Fathers, From The Cir Cumstance That They Were Converted To The Chris Tian Faith During The Lifetime And Probably By The Instrumentality Of The Apostles. ...
Epistles To The I
Corinthians, Epistles To The. I. First Epistle. (1) Genuineness. The Testi Mony Of Christian Antiquity Is Full And Unanimous In Ascribing This Inspired Production To The Pen Of The Apostle Paul. The Original Form Of This Testimony Need Not Be Given Here. It Has Been Collected And Presented By Writers ...
Equal
Equal (e'kwal), (heb. 1:11, Taw-kan', Ezek. Xviii:25),, Primitive Root, Balance, To Measure Out. (heb. May-shawr', Ps. Xvii:2), From Prim Itive Root, V:, Yaw-shar', To Make Even. (heb. Yo-sher', Prov. Xvii:z6), To Be Straight Or Even, Upright; Equal In The Sense Of Equity,justice, Righteousness. In General Then It Signifies (1) Just; ...
Erech
Erech (e'rek), (heb, Eh' Rek), Cities Which Formed The Beginning Of Nimrod's Kingdom In The Plain Of Shinar Igen. X:to). It Is Not Said That He Built These Cities, But That He Established His Power Over Them; From Which We May Conclude That They Previously Existed. Bo Chart Seeks The ...
Eres Or 2eres
Eres Or 2eres (e'rez) Eh'rez), Oc Curs In Numerous Places Of Scripture, But Authors Are Nut Agreed On The Exact Meaning Of The Rim. (1) Pino Or Cedar. Celsius (ilicrobot. Sq.), For Instance, Conceives That It Is A General Name For The Pine Tribe, To The Exclusion Of The Cedar ...
Esaias
Esaias (e-za'yas), (gr. 'ilaatas, Hay-sah•re'as), A Common New Testament Form Of Isaiah. Ty-salkhad-dohn°, Gift Of Tiro, The Son Of Sen Nacherib. 'flue Death Of Sennacherib And The Accession Of His Son Marked The Opening Of A New Era In The History Of The Assyrian Empire. (1) Sources Of Information. The ...
Esdras
Esdras (es'draz), Apocryphal Books Of (gr."ecrapas, Esdras). Boots Of Ezra. In Several Manzscripts Of The Latin Vulgate, As Well As In All The Printed Editions Anterior To The Decree Of The Council Of Trent, And In Many Since That Period, There Will Be Found Four Books Following Each Other, Entitled ...
Eshel
Eshel (esh'rn, Ar's/tel), Which Should He Translated Tamarisk, As In R. V. (gcn. Xxi:33; I Sam. Xxii.6, Marg.). (1) The First Notice Of This Tree Is In Gcn. Xxi : 33, 'and Abraham Planted A Grove (eshel) In 13.-!ersheba, And Called There On The Name Of The Lord.' The Second ...
Essence
Essence (es'sens), The Divine. (essence From Latin Verb Esse, To Be). Berkeley Says : "the Absolute Existence Of Un Thinking Things Without Any Relation To Their Being Perceived Is . . . Unintelligible. Their Esse Is Pereipi; Nor Is It Possible That They Should Have Any Existence Out Of The ...
Essenes
Essenes (es-sene), (gr. 'eaenvoi, Es-se-noi'), One Of The Three Great Jewish Sects, Of Which The Other Two Were The Pharisees And The Sadducees (1) Name. The Derivation Of The Name Es Senes Is By No Means Certain. Philo (quod Omnis Trobus Tiber, Sec. 22) Deduces It From Saws, 'holy.' Some ...
Esther
Esther (es'ter), (heb. Es-tare', From Persian Sitareh, Star, The Planet L'enus). 1. Name And Family. She Was A Maiden Of The Tribe Of Benjamin, Born During The Exile, And Whose Family Did Not Avail Itself Of The Permis Sion To Return To Palestine Under The Edict Of Cyrus. Her Parents ...
Esther
Esther (es'ter), Boor Of, One Of The Eleven Hooks Styled Lief/thine (see Hag Lographa), And Of The Five Alegi/loth (see Canticles). (1) Name. It Is Called By The Jews Megillah Esther. And Sometimes Simply Mcgilloh, As It Forms By Itself A Distinct Roll. In The Christian Church It Has Been ...
Eternal
Eternal (e-teenal). The General Rendering In The A. V. Of The Heb. O-lawm' ; The Gr. Aldw, Ahee-ohu', Age, Or Cau!nnos, Ahee-o'nee-os, Per Petual, And Occasionally Keh'dem, Early, Of Yore. Both O-lawm' And Ahee-ohn' Are Properly Represented By "eternal," Inasmuch As They Usually Refer To Indefinite Time,fiast Or Future. 1. ...
Eternity Of God
Eternity Of God (6-teeni-tst Ov Gad) Is The Perpetual Continuance Of His Being, Without Begin Ning, End, Or Succession. (1) That He Is Without Beginning May Be Proved (i) From His Necessary Self -existence (exod. Iii :14), (2) From His Attributes, Several Of Which Are Said To Be Eternal (rom. ...
Eth1tn
Eth1tn (inh'un), (ileb. Ay-toon', From An Unused Root Probably Meaning To Bind, Probably Twisted C., Tapestry) The Word Occurs In Prov. Vii :16, In Connec Tion With Egypt, And As A Product Of That Coun Try. It Is Translated Fine Linen In The Authorized Version. As Egypt Was From Very ...
Ethiopia 1
Ethiopia (1 Lel). Koosh, Country Of Burnt Faces, Judith I:io), Is The Name By Which The English And Most Other Versions Render The Hebrew Custt. I. Name. As Used Among The Greeks And Romans, The Word Was Employed In All The Lati Tude Of Its Etymological Meaning, To Denote Any ...
Eunuch
Eunuch (fi'niik), (heb. Saw-recce' ; Gr. This Word, Which We Have Adopted From The Greek, Has, In Its Literal Sense, The Harmless Mean Ing Of 'bed Keeper,' I. E., One Who Has The Charge Of Beds And Bedchambers ; But As Only Persons Deprived Of Their Virility Have, From The ...
Euphrates
Euphrates (eii-phrastez), Heb, Per Awth', To Break Forth; Gr. Ekbpcirm, Yoo-frat'ace), Termed In Deut. I:7, 'the Great River,' Where It Is Mentioned As The Eastern Boundary Of The Land Which (verse 8) God Gave To The Descendants Of Abraham. In Gen. Ii:14 The Euphrates (perath), Is Stated To Be The ...
Evidence
Evidence (i'2v1-dcns), (ileb. Stf-raw, , Jer. Xxxiiito Ff.), .1 "bill Of :sale," A Register, Docu Ment, Deed, Written Paper). In General It Is That Perception Of Truth Which Arises Either Front The Testimony Of The Senses Or From An Induction Of Reason. The Evidences Of Revelation Are Divided Into Internal ...
Evil Merodach
Evil-merodach - Me - Ro 'dak), (heb. Son And Successor Of Nebuchadnezzar, King Of Babylon, Who, On His Accession To The Throne (b. C. 562), Released The Captive King Of Judah, Jehoiachin, From Prison, Treated Him With Kindness And Distinction, And Set His Throne Above The Thrones Of The Other ...
Example
Example (6g Z-5.m'p'1). (1) The Rendering In The A. V. Of Several Greek Words: (t) In Matt. I:19, Par-ad-igue-mat Id Zo To Show Alongside The Public), Is To Expose To Infamy; (2) Digh-mah (ecykta, Jude 7) And Hoofrodigue-mah ( Inr6set-iiaa John Xiiot 5; Heb. Iv It 1, Viii:5; Ix:23; James ...
Excommunication
Excommunication (cks'kora - M Wm' Shun), (gr. Dooptirplbs,aphorismos). The Act Of Excommunicating, Or Rejecting, A Cut Ting Off, Deprivation Of Communion Or The Privi Leges Of Fellowship Or Intercourse, Specifically A Penalty, Or Censure. Whereby Persons Who Are Guilty Of Any Notorious. Crime Or Offense Are Sep Arated From The ...
Execration
Execration (eks'il-kra'shiin). The Greek Word So Rendered, Karcipa Kat-ah'rah, Curse, Occurs In Num. Xxiii:8; Xxiv:9; Josh. Vi:26; I Sam. Xvii:43. It Is Used Also In Profane Authors To Denote The Im Precations Which It Was Customary Among Ancient Nations To Pronounce Upon Their Enemies For The Purpose Of Calling Down ...
Exorcism
Exorcism And Exorcist Rks'o'r-siz'm, Eks'or-sisii, (gr. Itopwrr7js, Ex-or-kis-tace', He Who Exacts An Oath, Acts Xix:13). The Belief In Demoniacal Possessions, Which May Be Traced In Almost Every Nation, Has Always Been Attended By The Professed Ability, On The Part Of Some Individuals, To Release The Unhappy Victims From Their Calamity. ...
Expediency
Expediency (es-pe'df-en-sk), Expedi Ent (gr. Eviloepw, Soom-fer'o, To Advantage). Expedient Is Never Found In A. V. In The Sense Of 'expeditious' As So Often In Shakespeare. On The Other Hand, It Never Means Merely 'conven Ient' (opposed To What Is Rigidly Right), As In Modern English. In 2 Cor. Xii ...
Express
Express (6ks-pr6s'), (gr. Xapascrhp, Khar-ak• Tare', Heb. I:3, From To Sharpen To A Point, Akin To Ypck5w, Graf'o, To Scratch, Grave, Write), Exact Im Age, Likeness, Copy, Figure; Hence, The Word Char Acter As A Figure Graven Or Stamped Upon. The Translation Of The R. V. "the Very Image" Is ...
Ezekiel
Ezekiel (e-ziiici-eh), (heb. Yekh-ez Kale , Whom God Will Strengthen, Or God Will Pre Vail!. (1) Name And Family. One Of The Greater Prophets. Whose Writings, Both In The Hebrew And Alexandrian Canons, Are Placed Next To Those Of Jeremiah. I Le Was The Son Of Buzi The Priest (ch. ...
Eznite
Eznite (ez'nite), (heb. Ay'lsen, Spear, Sharp), He Was, According To 2 Sam. Xxiii:8, Named Adino, Prefect Of David's Bodyguard. This Seems To Be Another Name For Josheb Basshebcth, A Hachmonite. In The Parallel Sen Tence ( T Chron. Xi :1 T) Other Not Very Different Hebrew Words Occur, Translated In ...
Ezrach
Ezrach (e'z'eak), (heb. 7;7 Ez-rawch'). This Word Occurs Only Once In Scripture, Namely, In Ps. Xxxvii:35: 'i Have Seen The Wicked In Great Power, Spreading Himself Like A Green Bay Tree' (ezrach). Commentators And Translators Have Differed Respecting The Meaning Of This Word, Some Supposing It To Indicate A Specific ...
Fallows 7 Samuel
Samuel, Fallows. 7. Infant Baptism. The Great Majority Of Those Who Call Themselves Christians, Throughout The World, Have Been Baptized In Infancy, So That There Is A General Denial By Christendom That Im Mersion Is Essential To The Sacrament Of Baptism, (1) Early Custom. The Word Bortizo Is Not Always ...
Fifth Day I
Fifth Day. ( I ) Feet In Sandals. (see The Plate On Page 363.) (2) Daughter Of Liberality, Or Of Princes. Here The Same Word Occurs As We Observed Signified Fourth Day, No. 12) Pouring Out; It Is Usually Rendered Princes, From The Opportunity Enjoyed By Persons Of High Rank ...
First Day I
First Day. (i) May He Salute Me With Affec Tionate Salutations! Though The Import Of The Word Neshek Undoubtedly Is To Kiss, Yet, In Sev Eral Passages Of Scripture, It Implies No More Than Mere Salutation Or Addressing—a Compliment Paid On View Of A Person Or Object. So Those Who ...
Forms Of Altars
Altars, Forms Of (al'terz, Farms Ov Or Fur). In The Preceding Article The Reader Is Fur Nished With All The Positive Information Which We Possess Respecting The Altars As Mentioned In Scripture; But As, With Regard To Material Objects So Frequently Named As Altars, We Feel A Desire To Have ...
Founding Of Cities
Cities, Founding Of (crt'rz, Found'tng 6v) The Beginnings Of The First Cities When They Had As Yet No Models For Civic Government Is A Very Interesting Study. (1) Signification Of Words. The Principal Semitic Words Employed For "city" Are In Them Selves Very Suggestive. We Have First A Word Which ...
Geography Of The Exodus
Exodus, Geography Of The. The Geography Of "the Exodus" Was For A Long Time A Problem Which Seemed To Be Beyond Many Critics Who Knew Nothing Of The Physical Conditions Of The Country, And Nothing Of The Sur Roundings Were Free To Declare That So Great A Niul Titude Of ...
Golden Calf
Calf, Golden (kaf, Gold"n), (heb. Ay'gkel, Steer; Mas-say-kaw', Molten Image). (1) The Idolatrous Statue Which The Israel Ites Worshiped At The Foot Of Mount Sinai (exod. Xxxii :4). (see Aaron.) When The People Saw That Moses Delayed To Come Down From The Mount They Demanded Of Aaron To Make Them ...
Judah
Judah. (accession Dates). Israel. Joash 837 Jehoahaz 8t5 Amaziah 797 Joash 798 Azariah (uzziah)... 792jeroboam 11 Jotham 740 Zachariah 749 Ahaz 734 Shallum 748 Hezekiah 728 M Enahem 748 Manasseh 697 Pekahiah.... 738 Amon 642 Pekah 736 Josiah 64o Hoshea 734 Jehoahaz (3 Mos.).. 609 End Of Israel 722 Jehoiakim ...
K T 17711770x5
17711770x5, K. T, X. Now These Words Must Be Rendered Either 'i Have Written To You In This Epis Tle,' Or 'i Wrote To You In That Epistle;' And Our Choice Between These Two Renderings Will Depend Partly On Grammatical And Partly On Historical Grounds. As The Aorist F-ypcupa May ...
Ligion Of 1 Babylonia
Babylonia And Assyria, Ligion Of. (1) Sources—origin Of The Pantheon. Be Fore The Discovery And The Deciphering Of The Cuneiform Inscriptions, Our Knowledge Of The Re Ligion Of The People That Lived In Ancient Times On The Borders Of The Euphrates And Tigris Was Lim Ited To The Information Given ...
Lign Aloes
Aloes, Lign ,aloes (al'oz, Or Lig-napoz), (heb. D-haw-leem' ; Gr. Dx04. Al-d-ay'). This Is Doubtless The Lignunt Aloes Of The Ancients, The Products Of Aquilaria Agallacha (roxburg) And Other Trees Of The Same Genus, Growing In India, China And Arabia. It Was A Tree Of Very Great Value. From Its ...
Liter Ature Of Tel
Ian And Babylonian Libraries; Egypt, Liter Ature Of; Tel Amarna, Tablets Of.) (6) Belonging To Mosaic Age. Archaeological Evidences Are Accumulating To The Effect That Por Tions Of The Pentateuch Must Belong To The Age Of Moses. For Instance : The Tenth Chapter Of Gene Sis Is A Great Geographical ...
Literature Of Ancient Egyptians
Egyptians, Literature Of Ancient. By The Literature Of The Ancient Egyptians We Understand The Entire Written Remains Of This Peo Ple. It Came Down Partly As Inscriptions Upon Hard Material, Partly On Movable Writing Materials Like Leather And Papyrus. Hard Materials Com Prise, In The First Place, Stone And Wood, ...
Lon
Lon • Cyrus ; Darius.) (5) Restored To Office. Shortly Before This Event Daniel Was Again Restored To The Royal Favor, And Became Moral Preacher To The King, Who Overwhelmed Him With Honors And Titles In Consequence Of His Being Able To Read And Solve The Meaning Of A Sentence ...
Lysias Claw
Lysias. Claw (kla), (heb. Far-saw'), The Sharp, Hocked End Of The Foot Of A Bird, Or Animal; The Hoof Solid Or Split. As In Older English Claw Was Used For An Animal's Hoof, And For Any Of The Parts Into Which A Cloven Hoof Is Divided, So In Deut. Xiv ...
Nippur
Nippur (nfp'pur). The Recent Work Of Ameri Can Assyriologists In The Euphratean Valley Has Been Productive Of Marvelous Results. (1) Early Record. Great Light Has Been Thrown Upon Calnch Or Nippur. It Is Said In The Tenth Chapter Of Genesis: "and The Beginning Of His (nimrod's) Kingdom Was Babel Or ...
Noahs Ark
Ark, Noah's (ark, Nwah S), (heb. Lay. Bow, Boat Vessel, Gen. Vi:t4). The Word Here Employed Is Different From Aron, Which Is Applied To The Ark Of The Covenant And Other Receptacles Which We Know To Have Been Chests Or Coffers. But It Is The Same That Is Applied To ...
Old Age
Age, Old (a), Old). The Strong Desire Of A Pro Tracted Life, And The Marked Respect %%all Which Aged Persons Were Treated Among The Jews, Are Very Often Indicated In The Scriptures. The Most Striking Instance Which Job Can Give Of The Re Spect In Which He Was Once Held, ...
Painting The Eyes
Eyes, Painting The. The Custom Of Painting The Eyes, Or Rather The Eyelids, Is More Than Once Alluded To In Scripture, Although This Scarcely Appears In The Authorized Version, As Our Translators, Unaware Of The Custom, Usually Render 'eye' By 'face,' Although 'eye' Is Still Preserved In The Margin. So ...
Plain Of Esdraelon
Esdraelon, Plain Of (es'dra-elon), (gr. 'ecrapna6v, Es-dray-/on'). "the Great Plain Of Esdraelon Extends Across Central Palestine From The Mediterranean To The Jordan, Separating The Mountain Ranges Of Carmel And Samaria From Those Of Galilee. The Western Section Of It Is Properly The Plain Of Accho, Or 'akka. The Main Body ...
Prophecy Of Amos
Amos, Prophecy Of (a'mos, Prote-sy 6v). When Amos Received His Commission, The King Dom Of Israel, Which Had Been 'cut Short' By Hazael (2 Kings X :32) Towards The Close Of Jehu's Reign, Was Restored To Its Ancient Limits And Splendor By Jeroboam The Second (2 Kings Xiv :25). But ...
Religion Of Ancient 1
Egyptians, Religion Of Ancient. (1) Nature And Destiny Of The Soul. In The Basis Of All Religion, The Nature Of The Soul, The Egyptians Showed The Same Aptitude For Holding Several Different Views That We Notice Also In Their Theology. The Presence Of Entirely Contradictory Notions Side By Side, Points ...