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History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... by its own narrow boundaries." Greek schoolmasters and artists followed the conquering ... appeared when the development of Greek and Roman civilization had reached ... Roman authors were successful imitators of Greek philosophers, orators, historians, and poets ...
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... ", Freiburg, 1906, p. 16). The Greek name pentateuchos, implying a division of the ... law. The Alexandrian Jews derived their Greek names of the five books from the ... , the author of Paralipomena, and the Greek authors of the Septuagint Version consider Moses ...
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... parable (Hebrew mashal; Syrian mathla, Greek parabole) signifies in general a comparison,…
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
... words: such are the philosophers among the Greeks. But we who are Barbarians have ... Then, by cultivating the acquaintance not of Greeks alone, but also of Barbarians,…
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... Busceop, German Bischof; from the Greek episkopos, an overseer, through Latin episcopus; ... The antiquities and constitution of the Greek episcopate are treated by J. M ... 1905); the actual conditions of the Greek episcosate, Catholic and Orthodox (Schismatic), ...
Grammar of Septuagint Greek by Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis (1856-1924)
... construction is a familiar feature in classical Greek, especially if this be at all ... Time When. In connexion with classical Greek we think of Time When as being ... regular ways of expressing purpose in Biblical Greek, corresponding to our use of ‘to.’ ...
Commentary on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
... under Arcadius and Honorius.” — Smith’s Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology. — Ed. informs us, were overthrown ...
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
... Ital. prete) is derived from the Greek presbyteros (the elder, as distinguished from ... of their religious sentiments the Greeks showed a special preference. But ... priest par excellence, the "great priest" (Greek, archiereus), the "prince among the priests ...
Commentary on Acts - Volume 1 by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
... , there arose a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows ... , I do rather think that the Greeks did complain, because their widows were not ... placitum designant,” by which term the Greeks designate sometimes “whatever is better than, ...
Word Pictures in the New Testament by Robertson, Archibald Thomas (1863-1934)
... we must consider it as an ordinary Greek word until the contrary is proved. Επιουσιος ... ridicules. There is a play on the Greek words αφανιζουσ (disfigure) and φανωσιν (figure). ... liberality as Hatch argues (Essays in Biblical Greek, p. 80). The passage may be ...