Conversion is the sort of phenomenon that every person seems intuitively to understand, and yet an intuitive definition eludes us all. This applies as much to the study of religious conversion in general as it does to the study of conversion in the ancient world. The study of conversion by ...
⇒Definition of libertine5. The earliest explanation of the word (Chrysostom) is also that which has been adopted by the most recent authorities. The Libertini are Jews who, having been taken prisoners by Pompey and other Roman generals in the Syrian wars, had been reduced to slavery, and ...
God in no way forbade Gentile proselytes (Ex 12:48-49). The narrative of Ruth, a Moabitess, suffice to confirm the fact that even in the Old Testament, God shows personal favoritism to no man or a particular cultural group of people (Gal 2:6). In fact, Ruth was not only a God-...
Before referencing his article, let me give a definition of “restoration.” This is the word used in your New Testament in Acts 3:21. The Greek word is apokathistami, and it means “to restore to its former state;…to be in its former state….” (Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of...
⇒Definition of genealogyThe Bible genealogies give an unbroken descent of the house of David from the creation to the time of Christ. The registers at Jerusalem must have supplied the same to the priestly and many other families. They also inform us of the origin of most of the nations ...
The fame of the latter was soon eclipsed by that of Peter Abelard, who was able to invest logical disputation with such fascinations as to make it the favorite occupation of the most intelligent minds for generations following. ⇒Definition of logThe 13th century is counted as the second ...
⇒Definition of step2. His Official Position.— The first authentic notice we find of him is in Ac 6:5. In the distribution of the common fund that was intrusted to the apostles (Ac 6:15) for the support of the poorer brethren (see Mosheim, De Rebus Christ. ante Const. p. 118,...
⇒Definition of captivityThe nation thus transported by the monarchs of Assyria and Babylon were treated with no unnecessary harshness, even under the dynasty that captured them. So far were they from the condition of bondsmen (which the word "captive" suggests), that the book of Susanna ...
⇒Definition of synagogue 3. During the Exile, in the abeyance of the Temple worship, the meetings of devout Jews probably became more systematic (Vitringa, De Synag. p. 413-429; Jost, Judenthum, 1, 168; Bornitius, De Synagog. in Ugolino, Thesaur. 21), and must have helped forwa...
Paul, on the other hand, uses the ironical terms "concision" (Php 3:2) to stigmatize the extreme attachment of a Judaizing party to this ordinance. SEE CIRCUMCISION.⇒Definition of foreskin⇒See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia....