Prologue definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PROLOGUE, n. pro'log. [L. prologue; Gr. discourse.] The preface or introduction to a discourse, or ... or poem spoken before a dramatic performance or play begins. PROLOGUE, v.t. pro'log. To introduce with a formal preface ... also prolog noun Etymology: Middle English prolog, from Anglo-French prologue, from Latin prologus preface to a play, from Greek prologos ... beginning of a play b. the actor speaking such a prologue 3. an introductory or preceding event or development Oxford ...
... books of the Prophets and in the other writings (see Prologue). The book follows the lines of the canonical Book of ... connotation also "the prophecies and the rest of the books" (Prologue); see Sirach 32 (Septuagint 35):24; 33 (Septuagint 36):1 ... the Apocrypha gives the name of its author as the Prologue to Sirach does. In the best Greek manuscripts (Vaticanus, Sinaiticus ... most scholars agree in ascribing the whole book (except, the Prologue, which is the work of the translator) to Ben Sira ... mark of definite date (Sirach 50:1), and in the Prologue there is another. Unfortunately both are ambiguous. In the Prologue the translator, whose grandfather or ancestor (Greek pappos) wrote ...
... to him as the Light of life" (Reuss). After the prologue (1:1-5), the historical part of the book begins ... Inconceivability" of Logos-Presentation 2. The Logos-Doctrine of the Prologue 3. Growth of Faith and Development of Unbelief (1) Early ... the books of the New Testament. (1) There is a prologue, consisting of Joh 1:1-18, of which something will ... Gospel. In prefacing a quotation from the commencement of the prologue, he says, "This is what we learn from the sacred ... all through the book. It is present even in the prologue, for in that verse in which he describes the great ... which, under the influence of the Logos-doctrine of the prologue, exhibits no development from first to last, and of ...
... EPISTLES IV. THE TEACHING OF JOHN 1. The Epistles 2. Prologue to the Gospel (1) The Being Who Was Incarnated (2 ... of his teaching on the subject is, of course, the prologue to his Gospel. But it is not merely in this prologue, nor in the Gospel to which it forms a fitting ... seen and handled by men (1 Joh 1:1). 2. Prologue to the Gospel: From the point of view from which we now approach it, the prologue to the Gospel of John may be said to fall ... of the whole doctrine of the incarnation is only the prologue to a historical treatise. The historical treatise which it ...
... Wisdom of Jesus ben Sirach (circa 170 BC) 5. The Prologue to Ecclesiasticus (circa 132 BC) 6. 1 and 2 Maccabees ... apparently completed before Jesus ben Sirach the younger wrote his Prologue to Ecclesiasticus (circa 132 BC). Now the Septuagint version, which ... 1-18; 24:23; 2:16; 39:1). 5. The Prologue to Ecclesiasticus (circa 132 BC): The Prologue or Preface to Ecclesiasticus is our next witness to the ... into Greek, and in doing so added a Preface or Prologue of his own. In this Prologue, he thrice refers to the tripartite division of the ...
... s 1828 Dictionary PRO'LOGIZE, v.i. To deliver a prologue. [Not in use.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: write or speak a prologue [syn: prologize, prologuize, prologise] Merriam Webster's or prologuize intransitive ... logizing or -loguizing) Date: 1608 to write or speak a prologue Oxford Reference Dictionary v.intr. (also prologuize, -ise) write or speak a prologue. Etymology: med.L prologizare f. Gk prologizo speak prologue (as PROLOGUE) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Prologize Pro"lo*gize, v. ...
... D.) and other manuscripts for Ephesians and Colossains: the Ephesian prologue runs as follows: `Ephesii sunt Asiani. Hi accepto verbo veritatis ... Roma de carcere!' When, however, we turn to the Colossian prologue, we find that it opens as follows: `Colossenses et hi ... recorrigit,' etc. "From this it is clear that originally the prologue to the Laodiceans preceded the prologue to Colossians, and that the Ephesian prologue is a substitute for the Laodicean prologue, which can be partly reconstructed from the references to ...
... the Aristeas Story 5. Date 6. Credibility IV. EVIDENCE OF PROLOGUE TO SIRACH V. TRANSMISSION OF THE SEPTUAGINT TEXT 1. Early ... is guilty of historical inaccuracies concerning Demetrius, etc. (8) The prologue to the Greek Ecclesiasticus (after 132 BC) ignores and contradicts the Aristeas story, whereas Aristeas possibly used this prologue (Wendland, xxvii; compare Hart, Ecclesiasticus in Greek, 1909). (9) The ... of the people" was the originating impulse. IV. Evidence of Prologue to Sirach. The interesting, though in places tantalizingly obscure, prologue to Ecclesiasticus throws light on the progress made with the ... i.e. 247 BC) is more ingenious than convincing. The prologue implies the existence of a Greek version of the ...
... conceit that quite outruns his ability. The Satan of the Prologue, who makes the wager with Yahweh, is masterfully individualized, not ... to the standards of men. 3. Form and Style: The Prologue, Job 1 and 2, a few verses at the beginning ... rather declines to answer. Such, which we may summarize in Prologue (Job 1;2), Body of Discussion (3-42:6), and ... are those to whom the Epilogue seems a superfluity, the Prologue an afterthought, Job 28 a fugitive poem put in to ... say, because forsooth he was not formally introduced in the Prologue; and naturally enough, as soon as he has received notice ...
... even for the medium of revelation--Holy Scripture. In the prologue of the Fourth Gospel it is identified with the personal ... general (compare Weizsacker, Apostolic Age, V, ii, 320). In the prologue (which, however, must not be regarded as independent of, or ... also manifests Himself directly. Hence, in this section of the prologue (Joh 1:3-5) a threefold division also occurs. (i ... Schmiedel, etc., who contend for the Alexandrian derivation of the prologue, are apt to overlook two considerations regarding the Johannine doctrine ...
... to God's command (1Ki 22:20-22). In the prologue of Job, Job's calamities are ascribed to the Satan ... and in the circle of Divine providence" (Schultz). After the prologue, the Satan is left out of account, and Job's ...
... world-outlook, sympathetic, cultured, poetic, spiritual, artistic, high-minded. His Prologue is the most classic piece of Greek in the New ... but there is little to guide one. 8. Analysis: (1) Prologue, Luke 1:1-4. (2) Infancy and childhood of John ...
Prologuing definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Prologue Pro"logue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prologued; p. pr ... vb. n. Prologuing.] To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue. [R.] --Shak.