It definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary IT, pron. [L. id.] 1. A substitute or pronoun of the ... females, "Keep thy heart with all diligence,for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 9. Here it is the substitute for heart. 2. It is much used as the nominative case or word to verbs called impersonal; as it rains; it snows. In this case,there is no ...
... written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" [syn: writing, authorship, composition ... he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine. --Milton. To write ... 1. Writing is something that has been written or printed. 'It's from a notebook,' the sheriff said, 'And there's writing on it.'... If you have a complaint about your holiday, please inform ... when you are considering the style of language used in it. The writing is brutally tough and savagely humorous... It was such a brilliant piece of writing. 3. Writing ...
... geometry, the unfolding or opening of a curve,and making it describe an evolvent. The equable evolution of the periphery of ... organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development ... pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of ... the sense just excluded. A moment's reflection will make it clear that such a view can never secure a place ... ultimate origin is not one that science can solve. If it is solved at all, it must be by purely ...
... were never disputed in the church (Historia Ecclesiastica, III, 25). It is acknowledged that by the end of the 2nd century ... HEBREWS (which see) was the original of the Greek Matthew; it was on the other hand derived from it. The Gnostic Marcion used a mutilated Luke. Compare further, below ... of the three to one another, and the problem, though it approaches a solution, is not yet solved. A history of ... elaborate and best is in Zahn's Introduction, III. In it Zahn briefly indicates what the problem was as it presented itself to the church in the earlier centuries, ...
... or action, they are the source of the ideas in it or act as a model for it. India's myths and songs are the inspiration for her ... be accepted. There are no errors in the Bible as it came from God, none have been proved to exist. Difficulties ... and will, in the very manner and words in which it was originally given. As to the nature of inspiration we have no information. This only we know, it rendered the writers infallible. They were all equally inspired, and ... 390-405 A.D.) into the English versions made from it (most fully into the Rheims-Douay: Job 32:8; ...
... VIII. FORMULATION OF THE DOCTRINE LITERATURE Method of the Article: It is the purpose of this article to make as clear ... say so, beneath--the pages of the New Testament. Were it its purpose to trace out the process by which this ... is not, in a case like the present, very great. It is, of course, of importance to know how the person ... was represented in the predictions of the Old Testament; and it is a matter at least of interest to note, for ... is a matter of revelation, not of human thought; and it is preeminently a revelation of the New Testament, not of ... decades; and the entire body of writings which enter into it are so much of a piece that it may ...
... which the Eucharist was celebrated was regarded as an altar. It became the focus of the mass in Christian churches and ... a wall or partition built behind an altar to protect it from approach in the rear. Altar tomb, a tomb resembling ... used in Heb. 13:10 for the sacrifice offered upon it--the sacrifice Christ offered. Paul found among the many altars ... The reason for this inscription cannot now be accurately determined. It afforded the apostle the occasion of proclaiming the gospel to ... in the tabernacle, is described in Ex. 27:1-8. It was a hollow square, 5 cubits in length and in breadth, and 3 cubits in height. It was made of shittim wood, and was overlaid with ...
... religion. Christianity in its very origin bears an eschatological character. It means the appearance of the Messiah and the inauguration of ... Old Testament point of view these form part of eschatology. It is true in Jewish theology the days of the Messiah ... the eschatological age proper, but often regarded as introductory to it (compare Weber, Judische Theol. 2, 371 ff). And in the ... 22-24). Still, even where this extreme consciousness is reached, it nowhere supersedes the other more common representation, according to which ... their religious experience, but the very heart of its inspiration. It expressed and embodied the profound supernaturalism and soteriological character of ... present experience was interpreted. in the light of the future. It is necessary to keep this in mind for a ...
... 2. Purely a Revealed Doctrine 3. No Rational Proof of It 4. Finds Support in Reason 5. Not Clearly Revealed in ... using Biblical language when we define what is expressed by it as the doctrine that there is one only and true ... Biblical language can be justified only on the principle that it is better to preserve the truth of Scripture than the ... doctrine of the Trinity lies in Scripture in solution; when it is crystallized from its solvent it does not cease to be Scriptural, but only comes into ... Trinity is purely a revealed doctrine. That is to say, it embodies a truth which has never been discovered, and ...
... useful purposes. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. 6. Age; a ... in music; as common time, and treble time. In concerts,it is all important, that the performers keep time, or exact ... smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time" 3: an indefinite period ... a great actor in his time" 4: a suitable moment; "it is time to go" 5: the continuum of experience in ... as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock" [syn: clock time ... ahead of time > b. an opportune or suitable moment < decided it was time to retire > — often used in the phrase ...
... philosophy, which teaches men their duty and the reasons of it. 1. A system of moral principles; a system of rules ... of philosophy which is concerned with human character and conduct. It deals with man, not so much as a subject of knowledge, as a source of action. It has to do with life or personality in its inward dispositions, outward manifestations and social relations. It was Aristotle who first gave to this study its name ... systematic form. According to the Greek signification of the term, it is the science of customs (ethika, from ethos, "custom," "habit ... the practical requirements of life, ethical questions do not occur. It is only when difficulties arise and new problems appear ...
... been common, as we find a dozen other persons bearing it at various periods of the Biblical history. Beyond the fact ... are called to take note so that the record of it may be handed down to remotest posterity. The land has ... take the pronoun as referring to the nation or people, it would appear more appropriate, since the people is objectively addressed ... the "land Beulah," "married land" (Isa 62:4,5). If it was this that was in Joel's mind, the mention ... light: the graphic description is more than a poetic picture. It is the Lord's land that is wasted; hence, the ... to go over the same ground as Joe 1, and it has also two parts parallel respectively to two parts ...
... writer, when the apostles of the Lord were still living, it was a common practice to write and publish accounts of the acts and words of Jesus. It has even been maintained (S. Baring-Gould, Lost and Hostile ... almost every church had its own gospel with which alone it was acquainted. These were probably derived, or professed to be ... the oral reports of those who had seen, heard, and, it may be, conversed with our Lord. It was dissatisfaction with these compositions that moved Luke to write ... proves at considerable length (Bampton Lectures, 2nd ed., 210-19), "it is scarcely too much to assert that every decade ...
... b knowledge disclosed in this way. 2 a striking disclosure (it was a revelation to me). 3 (Revelation or colloq. Revelations ... 2. The revelation of something is the act of making it known. ...following the revelation of his affair with a former ... something you experienced was a revelation, you are saying that it was very surprising or very good. Degas's work had ... teacher or writer infallibility in communicating that truth to others. It renders its subject the spokesman or prophet of God in ... religion. By this is not meant merely that, according to it, all men, as creatures, live, move and have their being in God. It is meant that, according to it, God has intervened ...
... or confess itself "such stuff as dreams are made of." It would be difficult to overestimate the service which the Johannine ... its essential and inalienable resources in the new spiritual life it possessed through the ever-living Christ. Eternal life was not ... prepared by Philo and the Jewish-Alexandrian school. And while it is probably mere coincidence that Ephesus, with which the activity ... Hellenism. 5. The Odes of Solomon: On the other hand it is possible that this influence has been overrated. Fresh material ... were at some points the caricature of his own. In it he saw the real Antichrist, the "spirit of error," giving ... Gnosticism had lost all historical sense, all touch with reality. It moved in a world of sheer mythology and speculation; ...