The old interpreters supposed it to mean a lamb, and it has been imagined to have been a coin bearing the figure of a lamb. There is no known etymological ground for this meaning, the lost root, if we compare the Arabic kasat, "he or it divided equally," being perhaps connected with...
This explains everything and gives meaning to life. - Albert Einstein Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to just make man a more clever devil. -CS Lewis I believe in Christianity, as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because ...
et hodie vocatur Maximianopolis in Campo Mageddon." Ar-Mageddon may be for עִר מגַדּו, that is, "the city of Megiddo;" or if we regard the aspirated ap as equivalent to the Hebrew הִר, then the meaning will be "mountain of Megiddo," which would ...
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” In 1999 , Dr. Michael Molnar , a Christian astronomer, published “The Star of Bethlehem – The Legacy of the Magi.” H is findings included the meaning behind the “Ram and Star” coins from Antioch along with the most likely “ heavenly alignment” constituting the “Star of Bethlehem...
Thus Dido is found to belong to the same root as David, "beloved;" meaning "his love" or "delight:" i.e., the love or delight either of Baal or of her husband: Hasdrubal is the man "whose help Baal is:" Hamilcar the man whom the god "Milcar graciously granted" (comp. Hana...
akin to the chalcedony, valued for its hardness, which, however, did not render it incapable of being cut. The most beautiful specimens come from Arabia (Niebuhr,Beschr.page 142). Josephus(War,5:5, 7) assigns the above. meaning to the word; but elsewhere(Ant.1.c.) he calls it the...
The symbolical meaning of Philo's Paraclete was elevated by the reference to the historical Christ as the only high-priest. Thus the Alexandrian ideas formed a bridge to Christianity. But we cannot regard the doctrine of a union of the Logos with humanity, in all the forms under which it ...
rendering of שַׁיחוֹר by Γηῶν in Jer 2:18, but it in clear, from the manner in which the translators have given the latter clause of the same passage, that they had no conception of the true meaning Among modern writers, Bertheau (quoted by Deaitzsch, ...