Abner Asahel 2
Abner; Asahel.) (2) Avenges Asahel. Joab Smothered For A Time His Resentment Against The Shedder Of His Brother's Blood ; But It Being Whetted By The Natural Rivalry Af Position Between Him And Abner, He Afterwards Made It The Instrument Of His Policy By Treacherously, In The Act Of Friendly ...
An Haur
Haur,an (hau'ran), (heb. 1.7p, Khav-rawn.), A Province On The Northeastern Boundary Of The Promised Land (ezek. Xlvii :16, 18). In The Passage In Ezekiel The Jordan Is Made The Border Line Between Hauran, Damascus, And Gilead On The One Hand, And The Land Of Israel On The Other. Hauran Is ...
Ancient 1 A V
A. V. W. J. Persian Religion, Ancient. (1) Zoroaster. The Religion Of Ancient Per Sia, In The Broadest Sense Of The Word, Is The Re Ligion That Was Founded By Zoroaster, And It Is Therefore Best Called Zoroastrianism. The Faith Has Been Designated Under Various Other Names, As Mazdaism, Magism, ...
Ancient Persian Literatitre
Persian Literatitre, Ancient. The Literature Of Persia Rightly Claims A Place Of Recognition Among The Literatures Of The World, Not Alone For The Long Period Which Its History Covers, But Also For The Real Merit Of Its Literary Productions. Younger, Indeed, In Point Of Antiq Uity, And Less In Compass ...
Biblical Manuscripts
Manuscripts, Biblical Blb'lr-kal). These Are Either Hebrew Or Greek. 1. Jeteish Manuscripts. Jewish Mss. Are Divided Into (a) Synagogue Rolls Or Sacred Co,bies; And (b) Private Or Common Lopies. (a) The Synagogue Rolls Contain The Penta Teuch, The Appointed Sections Of The Prophets, Or The Book Of Esther, Which Last ...
Bionubtents
Bionubtents (mon'o-ments), (heb. 1?6, So' Bek, Copse), The Incoru Ct Translation In Is. Lxv:4, For "secret Places," As In The R. V. In General, They Denote Anything That Brings The Past To Remembrance. The Monuments Among Which Idolaters Lodged Were Either Tombs Or Idol Temples, By Sleeping In Which They ...
Bitter Herbs
Herbs, Bitter (erbs, Bleier), (heb. 174-71-1'?, Mer-o-reem'). The Israelites Were Commanded To Eat "bitter Herbs" With The Passover Bread (exod. Xii :8 ; Num. Ix :ii) To Remind Them Of The Bitterness Of Their Bondage In Egypt (exod. I :14). "the Mishnah Mentions These Five As Falling Within The Designation ...
Bloody Flux
Flux,-bloody (gr. Sucevrepla, Doos-en- Ter Ee'ah, Dysentery, Acts Xxviii:8). This Was A Com Plaint Which Is Often Epidemic In The East. This Was Probably The Disease Of Jehoram (2 Chron. Xxi:15,19). Fly (fli), (heb. Zeb-oob). (1) The Word Occurs Exod. Viii I2i, 22, 24, 29, 31; Ps. Lxxviii :45, And ...
Book Of
Book Of (rnrkah, Bziok Ow). In The Book Of Micah We Do Not Have The Individual Discourses Which The Prophet Tittered At Different Times, But Their Essential Contents United In A Collected Form And Divided Into Three Sections, Mutually Connected. And Referring To One Another (cc. I And Ii, Vi ...
Book Of 1 Hosea
Hosea, Book Of. (1) Against Whom Directed. The Prophecies Of Hosea Were Directed Especially Against The Coun Try Whose Sin Had Brought Upon It Such Disasters— Prolonged Anarchy And Final Captivity. Israel, Or Ephraim, Is The People Especially Addressed. Their Homicides And Fornications, Their Perjury And Theft, Their Idolatry And ...
Book Of 1 Jeremiah
Jeremiah, Book Of 1. Difficulties And Diversities. Much Diffi Culty Has Arisen In Reference To The Writings Of Jeremiah From The Apparent Disorder In Which They Stand In Our Present Copies, And From The Many Disagreements Between The Hebrew Text And That Found In The Septuagint Version; And Many Con ...
Book Of 1 Joshua
Joshua, Book Of. (1) Profane Mention Of Other Books. There Occur Some Vestiges Of The Deeds Of Joshua In Other Historians Besides Those Of The Bible. Pro Copius Mentions A Phcenician Inscription Near The City Of Tingis In Mauritania, The Sense Of Which In Greek Was:--'llp.eis &imp Ol Iptry6vres Dr6 ...
Book Of Jasher
Jasher, Book Of (ja'sher, Bc-tok Ov), (heb. Sayler Hay-yaw-shawr', The Book Of The Righteous). This Work Is No Longer Extant, But Cited In Josh. X:13, And 2 Sam. I:18. In The Former It Is Thus Introduced : 'and The Sun Stood Still, And The Moon Stayed, Until The People Had ...
Book Of Jonah
Jonah, Book Of. Analysis. The Book Of Jonah Contains An Ac Count Of The Prophet's Commission To Denounce Nineveh, And Of His Refusal To Undertake The Em Bassy—of The Method He Employed To Escape The Unwelcome Task (see Tarsiiish), And The Mirac Ulous Means Which God Used To Curb His ...
Book Of Judges
Judges, Book Of (jords, Lib-6k Ov), The Third In The List Of The Historical Compositions Of The Old Testament. It Consists Of Two Divisions, The First Comprising.cc. I-xvi; The Second, Being An Appendix, Cc. Xvii-xxi. (1) Plan Of The Book. That The Author, In Composing This Work, Had A Certain ...
Book Of Nehemiah
Nehemiah, Book Of (nehe-mrah Bo—ok Civ), The Sixteenth In The Order Of Books In The Old Testament. (1) Name. It Bears The Title Nchcmiah's Words, And Was Anciently Connected With Ezra, As If It Formed Part Of The Same Work (eichhorn, Einleitung, 627). This Connection Is Still Cated By Its ...
Book Of Numbers
Numbers, Book Of (num ' Bers), Is The Appellation Given To The Fourth Book Of Moses, Which In The Septuagint Is Called 'aploalol, Ar-ith Moi', Numbers, And In The Hebrew Canon Be-mid Bar, 'in The Desert.' 1. Contents. This Book Embraces More Espe Cially The Continuation Of The Sinaitic Legislation, ...
Books Of Kings
Kings, Books Of (kings, Boliks Ov). The Two Books Of Kings Hrined Anciently But One Book In The Jewish Scriptures. But Great Stress Cannot Always Be Laid On The Jewish Forms Of The Sacred Books, As They Were Arranged So As To Correspond With The Letters Of The Hebrew Alphabet. ...
C Ha Meleon Crocodile
C Ha Meleon ; Crocodile ; Dragon ; Leviathan.) And Therefore We Shall Confine Attention To The Liz Ards That Arc Inhabitants Of Western Asia And Egypt. And To Those More Particularly Noticed In The Bible. (1) Of These, Commentators Indicate Six Or Seven Species. Bochart Refers Tsab (lev. Xi ...
City Of Nahor
Nahor, City Of. To Biblical Students, Haran Is Best Known As The City Of Nahor, The Designation Which It Re Ceives In Gcn. Xxiv :to. It Was The City Where Abraham's Brother Nahor Lived With His Son Laban, Where Terah And Abraham Made Their Home After They Left The Land ...
Coitsc
Coitsc (ch. V :1-4). (2) Authority Of Priests. Thus, After Civil And Sacerdotal Life Had Been Brought Into A Definite Form, Other Laws Based Upon This Form Came Into Force, Especially Those Laws Which Regulated The Authority Of The Priests In Civil Affairs (ch. V: 5; Vi:27). These Regulations Conclude ...
Constitution Of 1 Israel
Israel, Constitution Of. 1. Patriarchal Government. The Government Of Abraham, Isaac And Jacob Was A Patriarchal Government. So Long As They Resided In The Land Of Canaan, They Were Subject To No Foreign Power, But Tended Their Flocks And Herds Wherever They Chose To Go (gen. Xiii :6-12), And Vindicated ...
Dianna
Dianna (man'na) Or Man, (heb. Mawn, Signifying What F). (1) Substance. The Name Given To The Mirac Ulous Food Upon Which The Israelites Were Fed For Forty Years, During Their Wanderings In The Desert. The Same Name Has In Later Ages Been Applied To Some Natural Productions, Chiefly Found In ...
Dispersion Of 2
Dispersion Of.) 2. A King Of Moab, 1,vho Possessed An Immense Number Of Flocks And Herds, And Appears To Have Derived His Chief Wealth From Them. In The Time Of Ahab, He Being Then Under Tribute, 'rendered Unto The King Of Israel Roo,000 Lambs And Roo,000 Rams, With The Wool' ...
Dispersion Of Nations
Nations, Dispersion Of (nashiins, Dis Per-shun Ov). Under This Or Some Similar Desig-nation, It Has Been The Prevalent Opinion That The Outspreading, Which Is The Entire Subject Of Genesis, Ch. X, And The Scattering Narrated In Ch. Xi:]-9, Refer To The Same Event, The Latter Being Included In The For ...
Edolatry
Edolatry (heb. Ter-aw Feme% Teraphim, Once Only, Sam. Xv:23). I. Definition And Classification. Idolatry, Strictly Speaking, Denotes The Worship Of Deity In A Visible Form, Whether The Images To Which Hom Age Is Paid Are Symbolical Representations Of The Truc God, Or Of The False Divinities Which Have Been Worshiped ...
Elisha Jehoram Jehoshaphat
Elisha ; Jehoram ; Jehoshaphat.) Under Je Hoash (b. C. 849) We See Them Undertake Incur Sions Into The Kingdom Of Israel, And Carry On Offensive War Against It (2 Kings Xiii :2o). Though The Subsequent History Of Israel Often Mentions The Moabites, Yet It Is Silent Respecting A Circumstance ...
Eninianuel
Eninianuel. This Word, Meaning 'god With Its: Occurs In The Celebrated Verse Of Isaiah (vii :4), 'behold, A Virgin Shall Conceive And Bear A Son, And Shall Call His Name Immanuel.' In Forty-three Aiss. And Thirty-nine Printed,editions The Word Is Given In The Separate Form 7i$ 1.1t:p Int-maw-no° Ale Immanu ...
Episcopal Methodism
Methodism, Episcopal, In The 'uni Ted States. 1. The Methodist Episcopal Church. Small, Indeed, The Beginnings, But Steady The Growth And Mighty The Present Stature, Of The Methodist Episcopal Church. Figures Gathered Nearly Two Years Ago (the Latest Accessible) Make The Total Ministry And Lay Membership Of The Church At ...
Epistle Of James
James, Epistle Of. This Is Called By Eusebius (hist Eccles. Ii. 23 ) The First Of The Catholic Epistles. As The Writer Simply Styles Himself James, A Servant Of God And Of The Lord Jesus Christ, Doubts Have Existed. Both In Ancient And Modern Times. Respecting Its Authorship. 1. Author. ...
Epistle Of Jude
Jude, Epistle Of (jade, E-pts"1). (1) Authenticity. Doubts Have Been Thrown Upon The Genuineness Of This Epistle, From The Fact That The Writer Was Supposed To Have Cited Two Apocryphal Books—enoch And The Assump Tion Of Moses. But, Notwithstanding The Diffi Culties Connected With This Point, This Epistle 1.vas Treated ...
Epistle To 1 Philemon
Philemon, Epistle To (1) Authorship. That This Epistle Was Writ Ten By The Apostle Paul Is The Constant Tradition Of The Ancient Church. It Is Expressly Cited As Such By Origen (homil. Xix, In Ierem., Tom. I, N. 185. Ed. Huet.) ; It Is Referred To As Such By Tertullian ...
Epistle To Laodiceans
Laodiceans, Epistle To (1a-od-i-se'anz, T-pis"1). In Col. Iv:t6 Paul Desires That The Epistle From Laodicea "be Read At Colocse_." (see Col Ossians, Epistle To The.) Lap (15p), (heb. Beh'ged, 2 Kings Iv:39, A Garment; Irn, Khake, Prov. Xvi:33, The Bosom; Kho'isen, Bosom, Nell. V:13; In Is. Xlin:22, The Hebrew Is ...
Epistle To The 1
Galatians, Epistle To The. (1) Pauline Origin. The Pauline Origin Of This Epistle Is Attested Not Only By The Super Scription Which It Bears 0:1), But Also By Fre Quent Allusions In The Course Of It To The Great Apostle Of The Gentiles (comp. I :13-23; Ii:t-t4). And By The ...
Epistle To The Philippians
Philippians, Epistle To The (ph11-ip' Pi-anz, E-prs"1 Tee The). /. ..eluthenticity. Of This Part Of The Apostle Paul's Writings The Authenticity Has Never Been Questioned. Professing To Be Written By That Dis Tinguished Servant Of Christ, It Bears On Every Part Of It The Impress Of His Peculiar Style, Manner ...
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church, Evangelical (iri'ther-an Chfirch, 1. Name. In The Great Reformation Of The Six Teenth Century, The Adherents Of Luther Were Nick Named "lutherans" By The Romanist, Dr. Eck, After The Leipzic Disputation In 1519, And So Spoken Of By Pope Hadrian Vi In 1522. They Were First Termed "protestants" ...
Evk
_ Evk , _,ll1) Various Obstacles He At Last Reached A 4' Ic6 Or Albus Pagus, The Emporium Of The Nabathm Ans, And The Port Of Petra, Which Was Probably At Or Near Elath (strabo, Xvi:4, 22, 24; Dion Cas Sius, Liii :27 ; Arrian, Periplus Maris Eryth.). An Other ...
Excavations At Lachish
Lachish, Excavations At. The Importance Of The Excavations At Lachish Is Worthy Of A Separate Article. Nearly Four Thou Sand Years After The Founding Of The First City The Tide Of Warfare And The Passing Centuries Had Left Only A Great Mound Called A Tell And Which The Arabs Called ...
Fable
Fable (fa'b'1), (gr, Uld3os, Moo' Lhos ; La T.fabula) Parable. Fable Is A Form Of Narrative In Which Plants And Animals, Or Even Lifeless Objects, Are Repre Sented As Endowed With Some Of The Attributes Of Man, As The Gift Of Speech And Rational Action. Sometimes The Fable Is Designed ...
Faith
Faith (taibj, (gr. Rto-rts, Pisvis), Belief, Trust— Especially In A Higher Power. (1) General. Faith In Every Language, Spoken By Christian, Jew, Or Mohammedan, Seems Every Where To Convey The Fundamental Ideas Of 'fixed Ness, Stability, Steadfastness, Reliability.' What The Ultimate Conception Is Which Underlies These Ideas Remains Somewhat Doubtful, ...
Fall Of Man
Fall Of Man (fal Ov Man). A Theological Term Which Denotes The Loss Of Those Perfections And That Happiness Which His Maker Bestowed On Him At His Creation, Through Transgression Of A Posi Tive Command, Given Fur The Trial Of Man's Obedi Ence, And As A Token Of His Holding ...
Famine
Famine (faml'n), (heb. 4-11, Raw-awb' ). We Have An Account Of At Least Eight Fami:.es In Pales Tine And The Neighboring Countries. They Were Among The Judgments Of God For Na Tional Sins, And Were Often Prophetically An Nounced. Two Famines Occurred In The Lifetimes Of Abraham And Isaac (gen. ...
Famtly 1
Famtly (1) The Idea Of The Family In Greece Was That Of The Nucleus Of Society Or Of The State. The Idea Of The Christian Family, On The Contrary (eph, :15), Is A Communion Resting On An Ethico-religious Foundation, And Forming The Closest Of All Human Relationships. It Is A ...
Fasting Fasts
Fasts, Fasting (fasts, Faseing), (heb. Tsoom,to Cover The Mouth; Gr. Vnareim,, Nace-troo'o, To Abstain), Has, In All Ages And Among All Nations, Been Practiced In Times Of Mourning, Sorrow And Affliction. It Is In Some Sort Inspired By Nature, Which, Under These Circumstances, Refuses Nourishment, And Suspends The Cravings Of ...
Father
Father (willer), (heb. Awb, Ancestor, Source, Inventor), This Word, Besides Its Obvious And Primary Sense, Bears, In Scripture, A Number Of Otherupplications, Most Of Which Have, Through The Use Of The Bible, Become More Or Less Common In All Christian Countries. (1) The Divine Father. The Term Father Is Very ...
Fatted Fowl
Fatted Fowl (hcb. Ir-if?;, Bar Boo-reent. Ay-boo-seem'), Are Referred To Among The Daily Provisions For Solomon's Table (i Kings Iv:23). The Meaning Of Bar-boo-rem' Is Uncertain. The Earlier Translators Render It Birds Or Fowls. Others 'geese" (from The Heb. Ba7o-rar', "to Be Pure." Because Of Their White Feathers). A Special ...
Feast Of Lots
Lots, Feast Of (16ts, Fest Ov). See Purim. Love (liiv), (heb. D-hab-aw' ; Gr. Dydirri, Ag-ah'fiay), Love May Be Regarded Either As The Internal Feeling Of Good-will And Kindness Which One In Telligent Being Bears To Another, Cr The Expression Of That Benevolence In Words And Acts Which Gratifies And ...
Feasts
Feasts (fests), (hcb. Ri7).%.7?, Inish'tch). The Root Idea Of The Word Is To Be Found In What We Should Term The Pleasures Of The Table, The Exer Cise Of Hospitality. (1) Early Hospitality. To What An Early Date The Practices Of Hospitality' Are Referable May Be Se(ri In Gen. Xix:3, ...
Felix
Felix (fe'llx), (gr. 004, Fay'lix, Happy), A Roman Procurator Of Judea, Before Whom Paul So 'reasoned Of Righteousness, Temperance, And Judgment To Come,' That The Judge Trembled, Say Ing, `go Thy Way For This Titne ; When I Have A Con Venient Season I Will Call For Thee' (acts Xxiv ...
Festivals
Festivals (fe's'ef-vals), (heb. Khag, From The Verb Signifying To Dance, And 1;:'17, Mo-ade', A Set Time Or Assenzbly, Filace Of Assembling), Were Occasions Of Public Religious Observances, Ring At Certain Set And Somewhat Distant Intervals. 1. Divine Institutions. Those Which Owe Their Existence To The Authority Of God Are, The ...
Fig Tree
Fig Tree (fig), (heb. Y7, Teh-ane', Or Ni1:11, Leh-av-naw' ; Gr. Crilcov, Soo' Kon), The Fruit Of The Well-known Tree. (1) The First Notice Of The Fig-tree Occurs In Gen. Iii :7, Where Adam And Eve Are Described As Sew Ing Fig-leaves Together, To Make Themselves Aprons. The Common Fig-leaf ...
Figure
Figure (fig'fir), The Translation Of The Following Words: Seh'ntel (heb. 51.1?), An Idol, As Otherwise; Mik-lah'ath (heb. 111,121,,), A Carving; Tab-neeth' (heb. Rr;?:2), Likeness Or Model; An-teefoo-fion (gr. Dv-iirinrov, I Peter Iii:21), Antitype; The Verb Met-askh-ay-nzat-id Zo (gr. Peracrx7waripw). (1) Dent. Iv:16, 'lest Ye Corrupt Yourselves, And Make You A ...