⇒Definition of birthRoberts says, "When a person has succeeded in gaining a blessing which he has long desired, he says, 'Good! good! the child is born at last.' Has a person lost his lawsuit in a provincial court, he will go to the capital to make an appeal to a superior ...
2. Origin and History of the Idea. — ⇒Definition of log(1.) John uses the term Logos without explanation, assuming that his readers know it to bear this sense. Accordingly, we find this conception of it not new with him, but a chief element in the development of the Old- ...
Even among those who agree upon the basic grammar of Christology enshrined in theChalcedonian Definition–namely, that Christ is one person in two distinct but inseparable natures–there is often confusion and disagreement about what kind of incarnation we are talking about. What would it even me...
In Job 1:21 the earth is indicated as the common mother, to whose bosom all mankind must return.'" The term is also applied to a city as the parent or source of wickedness and abominations; as "Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots " (Re 17:5). The Church, as the Bride, ...
47), "is one among the few who have graced the annals of our race, by standing up as a living definition of what is meant by a man of genius, learning, piety, and energy. All these he possessed in amiable combination. Any subject that was worth mastering he had mastered, and when ...
Hunt would give the Christian, it is necessary to hear the definition of pantheism Hunt furnishes. Here it is: "It might be better, indeed, to get rid, it it were possible, of the term Pantheism; but we cannot get rid of the thing, — for it emerges in all systems as it has ...
⇒Definition of hadBut was not Christ himself in hades? Did not the apostle Peter on the day of Pentecost apply to him the words of David in Psalm 16, in which it was said, "Thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption," and ...
This law no doubt originated in the love of offspring, proverbially strong in the Eastern bosom, which sought this method at once of perpetuating a deceased person's name and of procuring progeny for the widow (Jahn's Archeol. § 157). SEE KINSMAN. The law, however, was unquestionably ...
⇒Definition of philosophyOriginally, then, philosophy imported only the loving pursuit of knowledge, without any implication of actual attainment; but it soon acquired a more positive and distinct acceptation. In the Republic Plato defines philosophy as "the circuit, or beating about of the soul ...
sartago; apparently a shallow pan or plate, like that used by Bedawin and Syrians for baking or dressing rapidly their cakes of meal, such as were used in legal oblations. SEE CAKE. ⇒Definition of pan 3. Masreth, מִשׂרֵת, a flat vessel or plate for baking ...