Biblical and
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共 253 段- ABEDNEGO, the Chaldee name given by the king of Babylon’s of
- ABIRAM, the eldest son of Hiel, the Bethelite. Joshua having
- 9. Twelve years afterward, Sarah, wife of Abraham, died in H
- It would scarcely be expected that any thing should now rema
- The “image” or likeness of God in which man was made has, by
- The wonderful effect which music produces on the serpent tri
- “Now, when in place of a poisoned potion like this, which ve
- AGRIPPA, surnamed Herod, the son of Aristobulus and Mariamne
- AICHMALOTARCH, Ἀιχμαλοτάρχης signifies _the prince of the ca
- ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY. This celebrated collection of books was
- 7. One limitation of the divine power it is true we can conc
- AMAZIAH, one of the kings of Judah, 2 Chron. xxiv, 27, son o
- AMORITES, the descendants of Amori, or Hæmorri, or Amorrhæus
- The existence of angels is supposed in all religions, though
- A second argument is furnished by the prohibition of blood f
- ANTI-LIBANUS. The Greeks give this name to that chain of mou
- 6. ANTIOCHUS THEOS, or the _Divine_, the son of Alexander Ba
- 2. The apocryphal books were not admitted into the canon of
- APPELLATIO, an appeal. The Sempronian law secured this privi
- Mohammed was born in the year 569, of the noble tribe of the
- ARCHBISHOP, a bishop of the first class, who superintends th
- Whether Noah was commanded to bring with him, into the ark,
- ARMINIANISM, strictly speaking, is that system of religious
- 2. The breastplate or corslet, שדיון, was another piece of d
- ASHKENAZ, one of the sons of Gomer, and grandson of Japheth,
- ASSYRIA, a kingdom of Asia, of the extent, origin, and durat
- Atheistical principles were long nourished and cherished in
- The first declaration, on this subject, after the appearance
- In the various discussions which have arisen concerning pred
- BABEL, the tower and city founded by the descendants of Noah
- 3. Every step in the progress of the decline of Babylon was
- BALAAM, a prophet of the city of Pethor, or Bosor, upon the
- The entertainment was conducted by a _symposiarch_, or gover
- To conclude: it is urged, against the mode of immersion, tha
- The remnant of the people who had been left in Judea under t
- “On himself, this species of latitudinarianism produced litt
- BEHMENISTS, a name given to those mystics who adopted the ex
- BERYL, תרשיש, a pellucid gem of a bluish green colour, whenc
- The evangelists speak of Bethsaida; and yet it then possesse
- 6. From the time when the Old Testament was completed by Mal
- 11. We may proceed to state farther, that the great importan
- Birds were offered in sacrifice on many occasions. In the sa
- BLOOD. Beside its proper sense, the fluid of the veins of me
- The universal ignorance that prevailed in Europe, from the s
- BOWELS. The bowels are the seat of mercy, tenderness, and co
- This breastplate was fastened at the four corners, those on
- BULL, the male of the beeve kind; and it is to be recollecte
- 3. That this system of the cabbalistic philosophy, which we
- CALF, עגל. The young of the ox kind. There is frequent menti
- 3. This is the scheme of predestination as exhibited by Calv
- 10. The controversy on these difficult subjects was not deci
- 14. After all, however, it is pleasant to find these indicat
- The vast resources of the country, and the power of the Jewi
- CANAANITES, the posterity of Canaan by his eleven sons, who
- Thus, it sufficiently appears from an examination of particu
- CAPTIVITIES OF ISRAEL. In the year of the world 3264, Tiglat
- CAVES, or CAVERNS. The country of Judea, being mountainous a
- CHAPTERS. The New Testament was early portioned out into cer
- The cherubim, it is true, have been considered by the discip
- 5. These subjects are discussed under the articles assigned
- 2. The Roman empire at the period of their commencing the at
- 6. As to church order and discipline, without entering into
- CIRCUMCISION, _Covenant of_. That the covenant with Abraham,
- 2. CLAUDIUS FELIX, successor of Cumanus in the government of
- 2. The Phenicians sometimes received the goods of India by w
- 4. “The Book of Armagh,” a very ancient collection of intere
- 14. Some account of the framing of the English Confession of
- CONSCIENCE is that principle, power, or faculty within us, w
- To form an idea of the condition of the Corinthian church, w
- Covenants were anciently confirmed by eating and drinking to
- The assertion that the persons who suffered crucifixion were
- CUSH, CUTHA, CUTHEA, CUSHAN, ETHIOPIA, _Land of Cush_, the c
- The observation which Dr. Hales here makes, is worthy of rec
- DAVID, the celebrated king of Israel, was the youngest son o
- 3. To cover the lips was a very ancient sign of mourning; an
- And here, it were injustice to the memory of ingenuity and e
- With regard to the demoniacs of the New Testament, this writ
- Mr. Ives, in his Travels through Persia, gives the following
- “The nations shall hear [this] and tremble,
- In 1 Kings xxi, 23, it is said, “The dogs shall eat Jezebel.
- 3. The swiftness of the flight of the eagle is alluded to in
- 3. We can hardly suppose the Unitarians to be ignorant that
- 4. The same general principle was avowed by the most eminent
- Is there any country once inhabited and opulent, so utterly
- 7. It appears to be an unfounded notion, that the pyramids w
- 2. To understand the nature of this “election,” as applied s
- ELISHA, the son of Shaphat, Elijah’s disciple and successor
- EPHOD, אפוד. This article of dress was worn by laymen as wel
- 3. As bishops are mentioned in the earliest times, so eccles
- ESSENES, or ESSENIANS, one of the three ancient sects of the
- ETHANIM, one of the Hebrew months, 1 Kings viii, 2. In this
- EXPIATION, a religious act, by which satisfaction or atoneme
- 13. Full of these ideas of vicarious expiation, then, the Ap
- Till the arrival of Nehemiah, Ezra had the principal authori
- 6. If the history of the fall, as recorded by Moses, were an
- The birth-day of Christ, commonly called Christmas-day, has
- FISH, דג, ἰχθὺς, Matt. vii, 10; xvii, 27; Luke v, 6; John xx
- The interior doctrine of this sect, which is kept secret fro
- FROG, צפרדע; Arabic, _akurrak_; Greek, βάτραχος; Exod. viii,
- GALILEANS. In the twelfth year of Christ, about the time tha
- The most remarkable parts of the stadium were its entrance,
- GEMARA. This word signifies _complement_, _perfection_. The
- GIFTS. The practice of making presents is very common in ori
- 3. We have seen that the God who was the father or progenito
- 7. The _names_ of God as recorded in Scripture convey at onc
- GOEL, גאל, the avenger of blood. The inhabitants of the east
- 2. The posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were set apart
- GRACE. This word is understood in several senses: for beauty
- 2. The principal points which distinguish the Greek church f
- HAGGAI was one of the Jews who returned with Zerubbabel to J
- HAWK, נץ, from the root נצה, _to fly_, because of the rapidi
- 2. There is no work in all antiquity written in pure Hebrew,
- (3.) As to the language in which the epistle was originally
- Among the wonderful dealings of God, says Dr. Neander, by wh
- HERMON, a celebrated mountain in the Holy Land, often spoken
- The object of Origen being to correct the differences found
- 4. In establishing the proper personality and deity of the H
- 12. The precedence of the direct witness of the Spirit of Go
- Dr. Hales is of opinion, that the Latin _asilus_ and Greek ο
- HUSBANDRY. In the primitive ages of the world, agriculture,
- ICONOCLASTES, image breakers; or ICONOMACHI, image opposers,
- INCEST, an unlawful conjunction of persons related within th
- But we consider the Apostles in the lowest view, when we spe
- The claim to inspiration is clearly made by the Apostles in
- “I have argued in favour of the inspiration of the Apostles,
- Bishop Lowth has selected the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth
- When Jacob had finished blessing his sons, he charged them t
- JAVAN, or ION, (for the Hebrew word, differently pointed, fo
- As soon as Jephthah was invested with the command of the Isr
- JEROBOAM, the son of Nebat and Zeruah, was born at Zereda, i
- 2. The accounts of modern Jerusalem by travellers are very n
- These detestable objects and principles, however, were long
- The predictions contained in the Old Testament respecting bo
- 5. A great deal has been written concerning the form, beauty
- After the banishment of Archelaus, Augustus sent Publius Sul
- JEZREEL, a royal city of the kings of Israel, who sometimes
- The prophetical descriptions of the Baptist in the Old Testa
- JORDAN, the largest and most celebrated stream in Palestine.
- JUDAH, the son of Jacob and Leah, who was born in Mesopotami
- After a captivity of seventy years, the Jews, who had been t
- Now it is remarkable that, in these prophecies, none of the
- JUSTIFICATION, in common language, signifies a vindication f
- KENITES, people who dwelt westward of the Dead Sea, and exte
- It has been observed that the religion of Thibet is the coun
- The term law, is, however, eminently given to the Mosaic law
- Thus, on a review of the topics we have discussed, it appear
- LENTIL, עדשים, Gen. xxv, 34; 2 Sam. xvii, 28; xxiii, 11; Eze
- LEVITES. Under this name may be comprised all the descendant
- LION, ארי, or ארה, Genesis xlix, 9; Deut. xxxiii, 22; Psalm
- In the early times of the Gospel the celebration of the Lord
- Lardner thinks that there are a few allusions to this Gospel
- The case of Cornelius, whose prayers and alms are said to ha
- The unfathomable depths of divine predestination and predete
- The following account of the union between the Lutheran and
- Here the great principle of corrupted magianism was directly
- The Koran, indeed, every where inculcates that grand and fun
- MANNA, מן, Exod. xvi, 15, 33, 35; Num. xi, 6, 7, 9; Josh. v,
- Whether marriage be a civil or a religious contract, has bee
- MATERIALISM, the doctrine which resolves the thinking princi
- But let us take the matter in another point of view. We have
- The particular manner in which Christ interposed in the rede
- MESOPOTAMIA, an extensive province of Asia, the Greek name o
- As the kingdom had been divided into circuits, to each of wh
- MILL. In the first ages they parched or roasted their grain;
- 2. To suppose that Christ shall come in his human nature to
- MIRACLES. A miracle, in the popular sense, is a prodigy, or
- 3. How long miracles were continued in the church, has been
- While the ruins of all these cities still retain their ancie
- The first monks were those of St. Anthony, who, toward the c
- MORDECAI was the son of Jair, of the race of Saul, and a chi
- Josephus, who frequently attempts to embellish the simple na
- MULBERRY TREE, בכא, 2 Sam. v, 23, 24; 1 Chronicles xiv, 14,
- MYSTICS, who have also been sometimes called Quietists, are
- NAME. A name was given to the male child at the time of its
- Jehoiachin, king of Judah, having revolted against Nebuchadn
- It is easy, then, to anticipate how, with such principles, t
- NEOMENIA, νεομηνία, _new moon_, Col. ii, 16, a Greek word, s
- These two sins are compared to the doctrine of Balaam: and t
- The utter and perpetual destruction and desolation of Nineve
- OFFERINGS. Among the Jews, under the Mosaic law, a variety o
- The illustrations and confirmatory proofs of this doctrine w
- ONYX, שהם, Gen. ii, 12; Exod. xxv, 7; xxviii, 9, 20; xxxv, 2
- It is a very general opinion among the more learned, that or
- PALM TREE, תמר, Exodus xv, 27, &c. This tree, sometimes call
- Soon after St. Paul was baptized at Damascus, he went into A
- The following remarks of Hug on the character of this Apostl
- PERSECUTION is any pain or affliction which a person designe
- From the instant of his entering upon the apostolic office,
- PHILIPPI, one of the chief cities of Macedonia, lying on the
- PIETISTS, PROTESTANT, a denomination in the seventeenth cent
- At length, after Pharaoh had repeatedly abused the gracious
- The method of composition which has been explained, by corre
- The reason on which this great and efficacious duty rests, h
- When the Jews were carried captive into Babylon, the prophet
- Although opinions respecting original sin, directly tending
- PRESBYTERIANS are those that affirm there is no order in the
- The third theory amounts, in brief, to this, that the forekn
- PROPHECY, the prediction of future events; it is especially
- PROPHETS. A prophet, in the strict and proper sense, was one
- Proselytes of justice or of righteousness were those convert
- Much labour has been employed to account for all the phenome
- The Psalms are all poems of the lyric kind, that is, adapted
- PUTEOLI, so called from its baths of hot water, a city of Ca
- The raven, it is well known, delights in solitude. He freque
- Here also a critical remark will be appropriate. The above p
- The Red Sea derived its name from Edom, signifying “red,” a
- REPETITIONS IN PRAYER. These are forbidden by our Lord, and
- On this subject no point of discussion, of any importance, a
- ROMAN CATHOLICS, or members of the church of Rome, otherwise
- SABAOTH, or rather Zabaoth, a Hebrew word, signifying _hosts
- SABELLIANS were so called from Sabellius, a presbyter, or, a
- Although salt, in small quantities, may contribute to the co
- The Samaritans are now few in number; though it is not very
- SCARLET, תולעת, Gen. xxxviii, 28; Exod. xxv, 4. This tinctur
- SEIR, MOUNT, a mountainous tract, extending from the souther
- SERPENT. In Egypt and other oriental countries, a serpent wa
- SHARON, PLAIN OF, a beautiful and spacious plain, extending
- SHITTIM, SITTIM, SITTAH, שטים, Exod. xxv, 5, 10, 13, 23, 28;
- Another charge, which is equally difficult to believe, relat
- Socinus was much more agitated by the promulgation of an opi
- STEPHEN, the first martyr. He is always put at the head of t
- SUPPER, LORD’S, derives its name from having been instituted
- SWINE, חזיר, Lev. xi, 7; Deut. xiv, 8; Psalm lxxx, 13; Prov.
- Dr. Neander, speaking of the origin, use, and abuse of synod
- THE SYNOD OF DORT. The Dutch churches forsook the communion
- It will be perceived from the preceding statement, by what k
- But though dismissed from their farther attendance on the sy
- SYRIA, that part of Asia which, bathed by the Mediterranean
- TEARS. The prayer of David, “Put my tears into thy bottle,”
- THEOPHILUS, one to whom St. Luke addresses the books of his
- That the Second Epistle to Timothy was written while St. Pau
- TOPHET. It is thought that Tophet was the butchery, or place
- TRAVELLING. The mode in which the patriarchs performed their
- Though the august name of Jehovah in a more peculiar manner
- The great Apostle of the Gentiles alludes to these splendid
- The final desolation of Tyre was thus foretold: “I will scra
- Adverting to the infidelity which prevailed among the educat
- UPPER ROOM. The principal rooms anciently in Judea were thos
- VIPER, אפעה, Job xx, 16; Isaiah xxx, 6; lix, 5; ἔχιδνα, Matt
- WAR, or WARFARE, the attempt to decide a contest or differen
- WAYS, in Scripture, means conduct: for example: “Make your p
- WHIRLWIND, a wind which rises suddenly from almost every poi
- Many, indeed, relying on mere abstract arguments, deny free
- “It appears,” says Dr. Hill, “to have been the tradition of
- The Christian places of assembly were, at first, in the room
- WRITING. In regard to alphabetic writing, all the ancient wr
- By means of the process above mentioned, Ackerblad, De Sacy,
- ZABII, or ZABÆANS, or ZABIANS, or SABIANS. The Sabians menti
- AARON, _Ay´-ron_, lofty, mountainous.
- EASTER, _Ee´s-ter_, the passover, a feast of the Jews.
- MAACHAH, _May´-a-kah_, to squeeze.
- SABE´ANS, captivity, conversion, old age.
- 493.2.65 was buried with Abraham by his sons Esau and Miss