⇒Definition of alms III. Ecclesiastical Alms-giving. — In the early ages of Christianity alms were divided in some provinces into four portions; one of which was allotted to the bishops, another to the priests, a third to the deacons and sub-deacons, which made their whole subsistence, ...
To one or other of the four leading orders a monastery was usually referred: ⇒Definition of monster(1) the Order of Basil, including all the Greek monks and Carmelites; (2) the Order of Augustine, in its three classes — canons regular, monks, and hermits, together with the ...
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The answer is found in the definition of 'love', and that the fact that Biblical love is NOT a warm, gooey feeling inside, meaning that our feelings can align with true love, but it is not the foundation of it. Based on the above definitions of love, it is obvious that the Lord Go...
Jowett, "to see an individual or a group of persons, even when very well dressed, sitting with their feet drawn under them, upon the bare earth, passing whole hours in idle conversation. Europeans would require a chair, but the natives here (Syria) prefer the ground; in the heat of ...
⇒Definition of transfigurationFor monographs on the transfiguration, see Volbeding, Index Programmatum, p. 47.; Hase, Leben Jesut, p. 161; Bagot, On the Transfiguration (Lond. 1840); Anon. Tabor's Teachings (ibid. 1867, 1868); also the (Am.) Free-will Baptist Quarterly, Jan. 1858...
⇒Definition ofpilgrimage In almost every country where Romanism prevails pilgrimages have been and still are common. In England, at one time, the shrine of Thomas K. Becket, and in Scotland that of St. Andrew, was the favorite resort of devout pilgrims. But even down to the present day...
⇒Definition of presence(3) it is fatal to this opinion that it does not at all meet the difficulty arising out of the question of the consistency of divine prescience and tile free actions of men, since some contingent actions-for which men have been made accountable, we are sure-have ...
⇒Definition of minister(3) to the priests and Levites, who are thus described by the prophets and later historians (Jer 33:21; Eze 44:11; Joe 1:9,13; Ezr 8:17; Ne 10:36), though the verb, whence meshareth is derived, is not uncommonly used in reference to their services in ...
⇒Definition of market(b) ajo ruin or market-place, where goods were exposed for sale, and assemblies or public trials held (Ac 16:19; Ac 17:17). In Mr 7:4 it is doubtful whether ἀγορά denotes the market itself, or is put for that which is brought from the market; ...