Parthia
Parthia Ptol. ; Liapovata, Strabo And Arrian), The Country Of The Parthians (11400/), Mentioned In Acts Ii. 9, As Being, With Their Bours The Medes And Elamites, Present At Jeru Salem On The Day Of Pentecost. The Persons Referred To Were Jews From Parthia, And The Pas Sage Is A ...
Pasturage
Pasturage. In The First Period Of Their History The Hebrews Led An Unsettled Pastoral Life, Such As We Still Find Among Many Oriental Tribes. One Great Object Of The Mosaical Polity Was To Turn Them From This Condition Into That Of Fixed Cultivators Of The Soil. Pasturage Was, However, Only ...
Patara
Patara (heirapa), A Town Of Lycia In Asia Minor, Situated On The Sea-coast. The Apostle Paul Visited It On His Journey From Greece To Syria. His Itinerary Is Given With Great Minuteness By Luke (acts Xx.) From Miletus He Went By Coos And Rhodes To Patara, Where He Found A ...
Patmos
Patmos (licirgos), A Rocky And Bare Island Of The Zegean Sea, About Fifteen Miles In Circumfer Ence, And Reckoned As One Of The Sporades (plin. Hist. Nat. Iv. 23 ; Strabo X. 480). On Account Of Its Stern And Desolate Character, The Island Was Used, Under The Roman Empire, As ...
Patriarch
Patriarch (rarpicipxns). The Meaning Of The Word Is ' Head Of A Family Or Tribe.' It Is Com Pounded Of (a Race, Family) And Dpx-ii (the Beginning). St. Paul (eph. Iii. 15) Calls Attention To The Fact That The Title Of Irwrpilr Comes From Iiar 7p, ' The Great Father ...
Paul Ernst Jablonski Jablonsky
Jablonski (jablonsky), Paul Ernst, The Son Of The Former, Born In Berlin, 1693. Having Completed His Preliminary Studies At The Joachimsthal Gymnasium At Berlin, He Applied Himself, At The University Of Frankfort-on-the-oder, Whither He Went In 1714, To Theology, But Also To Linguistic Studies, Chiefly Coptic, In Which La Croze ...
Peganon
Peganon (7n'ryavov). The Word Rue Occurs Only In Luke Xi. 42. But Woe Unto You, Phari Sees I For Ye Tithe Mint And Rue And All Manner Of Herbs, And Pass Over Judgment,' Etc. In The Parallel Passage, Matt. Xxifi. 23, Dill (dvnbov), Translated Anise In The English Version, Is ...
Penitent Tiiief
Tiiief, Penitent, On The Cross (luke Xxiii. 39-43). It Has Been Assumed That This Man Had Been Very Wicked ; That Lie Continued So Till He Was Nailed To The Cross ; That He Joined The Other Malefactor In Insulting The Saviour ; And That Then, By A Miracle Of ...
Pentateuch
Pentateuch, The Name Applied To The Five Books Of Moses, Which Form The Earliest Portion Of The O. T. Canon—viz., The Books Of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, And Deuteronomy. The Term Expresses The Unity Of This Portion Of Scripture As Well As The Variety Of Books Comprised In It. Its ...
Peor
Peor Niyam, With The Article, The Opening ; Cry(1.71) ; Mons Fhogor), The Name Of A Mountain On The Plateau Of Moab, To The Top Of Which Balak Led Balaam That He Might See The Whole Host Of Israel And Curse Them (num. Xxiii. 2s). It Appears To Have Been ...
Peres Om
Peres (om, In Our Versions Ossifrage,' Lev. Xi. 13 ; Deut. Xiv. 12). Although Neser Is Un Questionably The Hebrew Name Of The Eagle, A Genus So Conspicuous, And To This Moment So Com Mon In Palestine, Probably Possessed More Than One Designation In The National Dialects Of The Country. ...
Perfumes
Perfumes. In The Article Anointing We Have Noticed The Use Of Perfumes In Eastern Coun Tries ; And In The Botanical Articles All The Aromatic Substances Mentioned In Scripture Are Carefully Examined. Here, Therefore, We Have Only To Add A Few Remarks, Which The Scope Of Those Articles Does Not ...
Pergamos
Pergamos (ligp-yagos), Or Pergamum, A Town Of The Great Mysia, The Capital Of A Kingdom Of The Same Name, And Afterwards Of The Roman Province Of Asia Propria. The River Caicus, Which Is Formed By The Union Of Two Branches Meeting Thirty Or Forty Miles Above Its Mouth, Waters An ...
Perizzite Om
Perizzite Om; 4'epetaloc,(1)eperdios; In Ezra 6 ; Pherezaus), The Name Of One Of The Abo Riginal Tribes Of Palestine. They Are First Mentioned In Gen. Xiii. 7, Where The Sacred Historian Relates The Story Of The Separation Of Abraham And Lot. The Canaanite And The Perizzite Dwelled Then In The ...
Persepolis
Persepolis ; Persepolis). This City Is Only Mentioned Once, And In 2 Maccab. Ix. 2, Where It Is Said That Antiochus Epiphanes En Tered [a City] Called Persepolis, And Went About To Rob The Temple And To Hold The City ;' But The Inhabitants Defending Themselves, Antiochus Was Ignominiously Put ...
Persians
Persians, The Name Of A People And Nation Which Occurs Only In The Later Periods Of The Bib Lical History, And Then For The Most Part In Conjunc Tion With The Medes [medes]—a Conjunction Which Tends To Confirm The Truth Of The Sacred Records, Since The Most Respectable Historical Authorities ...
Pestilence
Pestilence. The Terms Pestilence And Plague Are Used With Much Laxity In Our A. V. The Latter, However, Which Generally Represents The Hebrew 11), Is By Far The Wider Term, As We Read Of ' Plagues Of Leprosy,' Of Hail,' And Of Many Other Visitations. Pestilence Is Employed To De ...
Peter Cunaeus Van Der
Cunaeus (van Der Kun), Peter, Was Born At Flessingen In 1586, And Died At Leyden, Where He Was Professor Of Law, In 1638. Besides Some Treatises On Subjects Connected With Classical Literature, And The Famous Satyra Menippea (lugd. Bat. 1612), He Wrote De Republica Hebricoruni Lib. Iii, 8vo, Lugd. Bat. ...
Peter Daniel Huet
Huet, Peter Daniel, Bishop Of Avranches, Belonged To A Family Of Rank, And Was Born At Caen In Normandy, Feb. 8, 163o. His Parents Were Originally Protestants, But Became Converts To Popery Before The Birth Of Their Son, Who Was Left An Orphan When Scarcely Six Years Old. His Edu ...
Peter Pourer Ackermann
Ackermann, Peter Pourer, D. D., Ordi Nary Professor Of Old Testament Language, Litera Ture, And Theology At Vienna, And Choirmaster Of The Monastery Or Cathedral Of Klosterneuburg, Was Born 17th Nov. 1771 At Vienna, And Died 9th Sept. 183 I. He Was The Author Of Intmductio In Libb. Sacc. V. ...
Petrus Keuchenius
Keuchenius, Petrus, A Learned Dutch Theologian, Was Born At Bois-le-duc, 22d August 1654, And Studied At Leyden And Utrecht, Where He Had Spanheim, Le Moyne, Witsius, And Lens Den For His Teachers • And Was Successively Minister At Alem, Tiel, And 'arnheim, At Which Last Place He Died 27th March ...
Pharaoh
Pharaoh (1in? ; Sept. Papaw), The General Title Of The Kings Of Egypt In The O. T., And Found Only There And In The Writers Who Have Drawn From That Source. It Often Stands Simply Like A Proper Name (gen. Xii. 15 ; Xxxvii. 36 ; Xl. 2, Seq. ; ...
Pharisees
Pharisees (vvrim, Aramaic Form Mit ; N. T. And Joseph. Pharisai, More Properly Pernshinz Or Perushin), One Of The Three Sects Or Orders Of Judaism In The Time Of Christ, The Other Two Being The Essenes And The Sadducees. 1. Name Of The Sect, And Its Signification. —the Name Is ...
Pharpar 1
Pharpar (1 1h, `swift;' ; Nipxip; ; Alex. ; Pharpar), One Of The Two Rivers Of Damascus Mentioned In The Well-known Exclamation Of Naaman, ' Are Not Abana And Pharpar, Rivers Of Damascus, Better Than All The Waters Of Israel ?' (2 Kings V. 12). The Name Does Not Occur ...
Phenice
Phenice Phanice), Or Properly Phce Nix, A Town And Harbour In The Island Of Crete, Which The Vessel In Which The Apostle Paul Sailed Was Attempting To Reach When Driven Away By The Euroclydon And Wrecked (acts Xxvii. 12). The Harbour Or Haven' (xzwi)p) Is Described By Luke As Looking ...
Philadelphia
Philadelphia (4uxasex0e1a), A City Of Lesser Asia, And One Of The Seven Containing The Christian Churches To Which The Apocalyptic Ad Monitions Were Addressed. The Town Stood About Twenty-five Miles South-east From Sardis, In N. Lat. 32° 28', E. Long. 28° 30', In The Plain Of Hermus, About Midway Between ...
Philip 1
Philip 1. One Of The Twelve Apostles. He Was Of Bethsaida, The City Of An Drew And Peter' (john I. 44). He Became One Of The Disciples Of John The Baptist, And Was In The Neighbourhood Where John Was Baptising At The Time Of Our Lord's Baptism. Andrew And John, ...
Philip Doddridge
Doddridge, Philip, D. D., Born In Lon Don, Where His Father Was An Oilman, 1702 ; Died At Lisbon, Whither He Had Gone For The Recovery Of His Health, In 1751, A Fortnight After His Arrival There. He Belonged To The Old Dissentiks Of England, Or Those Who Adhered To ...
Philip A Limborch
Limborch, Philip A, Was Born At Amster Dam 19th June 1633, And Died There 3oth April 1717. He Was A Distinguished Professor Of Theo Logy Among The Remonstrants, And In His Theologia Christiana Is Presented Thc Clearest And Ablest Ex Position Of The Theological Views Of That Body Extant. He ...
Philippi
Philippi (cxl7r7rot), A Celebrated City Of Ma Cedonia, Visited By The Apostle Paul, And The Seat Of The Earliest Christian Church Established In Europe. The Double Miracle Wrought There, And The Fact That To The Saints In Philippi' The Great Apostle Of The Gentiles Addressed One Of His Epistles, Must ...
Philistia
Philistia. The Same Hebrew Word, Rli-!az Is Variously Rendered In Our A. V. In Exocf.;;. 14 It Is Palestina Raw-7%dg, Phthirtiini); In Ps. Lx. 8, Lxxxvii. 4, And Cviii. 9, It Is Philistia (c1xx6• Ouxot, Alienigena); In Ps. Lxxxiii. 7 It Is Philistines (d \x6cbtaot) ; In Is. Xiv. 29, ...
Philistim
Philistim (4,uxto-nv6s), Who, According To Joseph., Suggested To The Greeks The Name Of Palestine. Of This Well Known Hamite People We Do Not Propose To Treat ; A Proper Opportunity Will Occur In A Future Pa,ge [philistines]. We Must, However, Advert To The Various Readings Of The He Brew Text ...
Philistines
Philistines Sometimesivomb.8 ; Lxx. In Pent. And Joshua 1,ua,crr,ehtz, After Wards 'axa601,xot • Vulg. Philistim • Joseph. Ito% Aurrivoe) :—the Inhabitants, During Ate Greater Part Of The Biblical Times, Of The South-eastern Shore Of Palestine, From The River Of Egypt' (wadih Al Arish), Near Gaza In The South, To The ...
Philo Or Philon
Philo Or Philon, Called By His Own Nation I&t (cpfxcop [6] 'ionikaos, Pinup Jud,e55s. See Bartolocci, Iv. 345), Is The Name Of The Cele Brated Jewish Writer Who, With His Contemporary Josephus, Has The Glory Of Forming That Hellenist Literature Which Has In All Subsequent Ages Engaged The Attention Of ...
Philosophy
Philosophy. This Term May Be Properly Used Objectively In A Wider And In A More Restricted Sense. In The Former It Is Nearly Synonymous With Science, And Embraces All Departments Of Human Knowledge Capable Of Being Scientifically Classified —that Is, Where The Facts Are Presented In Their Causes, Where Phenomena ...
Phinehas
Phinehas 0:11?+4, Mouth Of Brass ; Sept. 41=vces). 1. Son Of Eleazar And Grandson Of Aaron The High-priest. An Incident Which Illustrates The Zealous And Somewhat Passionate Character Of Phinehas Occurred Before The Israelites Entered The Promised Land. The Israelites Were Encamped In The Plains Of Moab, And Were Lamenting ...
Phylacteries
Phylacteries (01,xakriffoicc), Small Square Boxes Made Either Of Parchment Or Black Calf-skin, In Which Are Enclosed Slips Of Parchment Or Vellum With Exod. Xiii. 2-20, I I-17 ; Deut. Vi. 4-9, 13-22, Written On Them, And Which Are Worn On The Head And The Left Arm By Every Jew On ...
Physic Physicians
Physic ; Physicians. There Can Be No Question That The Israelites Brought Some Know Ledge Of Medicine With Them From Egypt, Whose Physicians Were Celebrated In All Antiquity. To The State Of Medical Knowledge In That Country There Are Indeed Some Allusions In Scripture, As Contained In The Notice Of ...
Physical
Physical Geocraphy.—syria, Like Palestine, Is Divided Into A Series Of Belts, Extending In Paral Lel Lines From North To South. R. A Narrow Belt Of Plain Along The Eabord. It Embraces The Plain Of Issus, Now Iskandertin, On The North, Extending As Far As The Bold Promontory Of Ras El-khanztr. ...
Pi Beseth 1 111
Pi-beseth (1-11:1 4p ; Sept. Bobliaaros), A City Of Egypt, Named With Several Others In Ezek. Xxx. 17. According To The Sept., Which Is Followed By The Vulgate, It Is The Same With Bubastus, Which Was The Principal Town Of The Nomos Bubastites (plin., Hist. Nat., V. 9 ; Ptol. ...
Piece Of Gold
Piece Of Gold. This Phrase Occurs Only Once In The A. V. In A Passage Respecting Naaman The Syrian, Who Takes On His Visit To The King Ot Israel, Ten Talents Of Silver And Six Thousand Pieces Of Gold And Ten Changes Of Raiment' (2 Kings V. 5). In Several ...
Piece Of Silver
Piece Of Silver. This Phrase Occurs Both In The A. V. Of The O. T. And N. T., And Consequently Must Be Separately Considered. I. The Word 'pieces' Bas Been Supplied In The A. V. For A Word Understood In The Hebrew. The Rendering Is Always A Thousand,' Or The ...
Piece Of Silver_2
[piece Of Silver.] Of The Extant Silver And Copper Shekels Of The Time Of Simon Maccabxus A List Has Already Been Given In A Previous Article. [1\10nev.] It May, However, Be Observed That, Notwithstanding The Authority Of The Principal Numismatists Of Italy, Germany, Spain, And England, M. De Saulcy Has ...
Pierre Jurieu
Jurieu, Pierre, Was Born At Mer, Near Blois, December 24, 1637, Of Which Place His Father Was Protestant Minister. He Commenced His Studies At Saumur, Where He Became M.a. When Barely Nineteen, And Continued Them In Iiolland And England, In Which Latter Country, According To Moreri, He Received Episcopal Ordina ...
Pilate
Pilate. It Is A Kind Of Theological Romance Partly Founded On The Canonical Gospels. The First Part, To The End Of Ch. Xv., Is Little More Than A Paraphrastic Account Of The Trial And Death Of Christ, Embellished With Fabulous Additions. From That To The End (ch. Xxviii.) Is A ...
Pillar
Pillar. Pillars Are Mentioned In Scripture As Used 1. For Monuments.—thus Jacob Set Up The Stone On Which He Had Rested His Head At Bethel For A Pillar (rafn, Gen. Xxviii. Is); He Erected A Pillar As A Memorial Of The Agreement Between Laban And Him (xxxi. 46, 51, 52) ...
Pillar Of Cloud
Cloud, Pillar Of ()yi7 11nr, Ply 1v:12, Or 1pr ; Sept. Crriaos Ve0exns, Rvpbs), The Emblem Of The Divine Presence, Which Accompanied The Is Raelites In Their Journcyings In The Wilderness By Day, And Which At Night Assumed The Appearance Of A Pillar Of Fire (exod. Xiii. 21 ; Xiv. ...
Pinnacle
Pinnacle. In The Account Of Our Lord's Temptation (matt. Iv. 5), It Is Stated That The Devil Took Him To Jerusalem, And Set Him On A Pin Nacle Of The Temple' (erl To Tel 1e1)00). The Part Of The Temple Denoted By This Term Has Been Much Questioned By Different ...
Piscator
Piscator (fischer), John. A Learned Divine And Voluminous Writer Of The Reformed Church, Born At Strasburg, March 27, 1546. Losing His Father When Five Years Old, His Mother Wished Him To Follow Some Handicraft Trade, But The Pastor Thomas Seeing His Desire For Study, Took Him Into His House To ...
Pisgah
Pisgah (mow, 'a Section,' From N!it =prm, To Divide,' And Hence It May Mean ' An Isolated Hill Or Peak.' The Rendering Of The Lxx. Is Not Uniform. In Deut. Iii. 17 ; Xxxiv. I ; Josh. Xii. 3; Xiii. 20, It Is But In Num. Xxi. 20 ; Xxiii. ...
Pishtah
Pishtah (mut) No Doubt Refers To The Flax Plant, If We May Judge From The Context Of The Passages In Which It Occurs. Thus, In Exod. Ix. 31, In The Plague Of The Hail-storm, It Is Related : And The Flax (pishlah) And The Barley Was Smit Ten : For ...
Pisidta
Pisidta (ilio-ls/a), A Province Of Asia Minor, Hounded On The North By Phrygia, On The West By Caria And Lycia, On The South By Pamphylia, And On The East By Cilicia And Isauria (strabo, Xii., P. 569 ; "'to'. V. 5). It Was A Mountainous Region ; But High Up ...
Pitcher M
Pitcher M, Cad, From 113, To Labour Se Verely, To Toil Hard: Pr., In The Manner Of Smiths And Other Artisans ; Spec., To Draw Out Of A Well, To Draw Water' (ges.) ; Hence, A Vessel For Drawing From A Well; Lxx. 6ipla; Vulg. Hydria, Lagena, (ges. And Fiirst. ...
Pitdah
Pitdah (rr)pp ; Sept. Torcipov), A Precious Stone ; One Of Those Which Were In The Breastplate Of The High-priest (exod. Xxviii. 17), And The Origin Of Which Is Referred To Cush (job Xxviii. 19). It Is, According To Most Ancient Versions, The Topaz (re Ircipop ; Joseph. Turrater), Which ...
Plagues Of Egypt
Egypt, Plagues Of. In The 7th, 8th, 9th, Loth, And R2th Chapters Of Exodus, We Have An Account Of A Series Of Inflictions Brought Upon The Egyptians Through The Instrumentality Of Moses And Aaron, For The Purpose Of Constraining The Ruling Pharaoh To Allow The Israelites To Leave His Country, ...
Plains
Plains. There Are No Less Than Eight He Brew Svoids Which The Translators Of Our A. V. Have Represented By The English Plain,' Or Its Pl. Plains. Their Rendering Is Not Uniform. We Frequently Find Two, Three, And Even More Equiva Lents For The Same Hebrew Term ; And, Besides, ...
Poet
Poet' Tip Fiptoktor Tip Nor Toototoy Kal Rijs Aroas Iplogarev 6 0e6s, Rat Vecuo Crebew Ert Not Ppaxbv Xp6vov. Eekea. O-a,ccalve• Roimo O-rae7i6v. Arliaas Oho Ecu Xg-yet Rav Xp6vos Tits (3aa-exclas 6 0e6s, If577 Karacsepovnv Snxoi. Kat Tofiro Xxdotza Snxo'l Kara 'ex1visa Laatray. Kidael Roeyapotiv Aou T7jv Pao-exefav, Kat M7)sols ...