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Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
Manuscripts are written, as opposed to printed, copies of the original text or of a version either of the whole Bible or of a part thereof. After introductory remarks on manuscripts in general, we shall take up in detail the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and Coptic manuscripts of the Bible; manuscripts of other versions are not important enough to come within the scope of this article.…
Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Enti by Burgon, John William (1813-1888)
VII. The Essay which brings up the rear in this very guilty volume is from the pen of the “Rev. Benjamin Jowett, M.A., [Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, and] Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford,”—“a gentleman whose high personal character and general respectability seem to give a weight to his words,…
History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
§ 83. John. See Literature on John, § 40, of this vol.; Life and Character of John, §§ 41–43, of this vol.; Theology of John, § 72, pp. 549 sqq. The best comes last.
Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume II by Smith, George Adam (1856-1942)
The problem of the date of Isaiah xl.-lxvi. is this: In a book called by the name of the prophet Isaiah, who flourished between 740 and 700 b.c., the last twenty-seven chapters deal with the captivity suffered by the Jews in Babylonia from 598 to 538, and more particularly with the advent, about 550, of Cyrus, whom they name.
People's New Testament by Johnson, Barton Warren (1833-1894)
Summary —The Disciples Gathered Together. The Baptism of the Spirit. The Apostles Speak as the Spirit Gives Utterance. The Gospel Heard in Many Tongues. The Theory of the Scoffers.
New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
AMOS, ê´mɵs: Life. The third of the minor prophets, originally a herdsman and farmer of Tekoa (a town twelve miles s.s.e. of Jerusalem), and destitute of a prophetical education (Amos i.
Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by Farrar, Frederic William (1831-1903)
The "Two Books of Kings," as we call them, are only one book (Sepher Melakîm), and were so regarded not only in the days of Origen (ap. Euseb., H. E., vi. 25) and of Jerome (a.d.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
Sacred Scripture is one of the several names denoting the inspired writings which make up the Old and New Testament. I. USE OF THE WORD The corresponding Latin word scriptura occurs in some passages of the Vulgate in the general sense of "writing"; e.g., Ex., xxxii, 16: "the writing also of God was graven in the tables"; again, II Par., xxxvi,…
Commentary on Hosea by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY JOHN CALVIN To The Most Serene And Most Mighty KING GUSTAVUS, Gustavus was the King of Sweden, the inhabitants of which were then called Goths and Vandals.
Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne by Herbermann, Charles George (1840-1916)
Breviary This subject may be divided, for convenience of treatment, as follows: I. DEFINITION; II. CONTENTS; III. THE HOURS; IV. COMPONENT PARTS OF THE OFFICE; V.
