PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
McClintock & Strong Cyclopaedia — Volume 4
John McClintock & James Strong · 1,547,842 words · 1510 reading sections
Section 1501
Justin THE Gnostic, who flourished towards the close of the second century, has only recently become known to us through the Philosophoumena of Hippoly- tus (V, 22; X, 15), and of his personal history and ori- gin very little information has come down to us. His system has a Judaizing cast, and is mostly based upon a m…
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JUSTINUS 1111 JUSTUS trusted to a number of the ablest lawyers of Eome, un- der the tlirection of the renowned Tribonianus, the task of a complete revision and digested collection of the Koman law from the time of Hadrian to his own reign ; and thus arose, after the short lapse of seven years, the celebrated Codex J…
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Justus OF Tiberias (in Galilee), son of Pistus, one of the most noteworthy Jewish historians, flour- ished in the beginning of the Christian £era. He was in the employ of king Agrippa as private secretary when the revolution in Galilee broke out, and though the city of Tiberias had been especially favored bj' the king,…
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Tlie "city of y«(/«" (Luke i, 39), whither Mary went lo visit Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist (h'c iruAii- 'l(.iron), and where Zecharias therefore appears to have resided, has iisuaUy lieen supposed to mean He- broif; ' ut, if the reading be correct, the proper renderino- ^wou'd be "to the city Judah," i. e.…
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the manor of Little Compton, in Gloucestershire, where he passed his days in a private and devout condition. At the Restoration, aged as he was, he was ajjpointed, we might almost say by acclamation, archbishop of Can- terbury in 1660. He was not able to exert himself much in his spiritual office, but he was a benefact…
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Harris, William (1). 89 Havoth-Jair 100 Harri.s, William (2). 8'.! Haweis 100 Harrison 89 Hawes 100 8E Mnuk- 101 Harsha 90 Hawker 102 Harsnet 90 Hawkins 102 Hart 90 Hawks, Cicero Sle- Hart, Levi 91 phen 102 Hart, Oliver OLHawks, Francis Hartley 91 Li.ster 102 Hartlib 92 Hawley 103 Ilarlmauu 92…
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•li idorus of Em- 'Heresy. Ml Iii':abalu8. »l,Mki.: • ni-'j<.::b i;^--. ili-hn/.zuriii •i.,iii • -1. it Varisfs D I >^'-'».'it into "'t- .lis .list Hezir, 2 194!Hezro 195JHezrou, 1 196 Hezron, 2 19S Hezrou, 3 198 Hibbard 198'Hickes...: 19StHicks . 198Hiddai 165 Heretics, Baptism Hiddekel 165 by 202 Hi…
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Jacob, Stephen Jacobi Jacobites Jacobs Jacomb Jacquelot Jacqueinin Jactitation of Mar- 73S Jamlech Page 76.8 Jealousy, Waters of Jainnia 70S' Page Jamnite 768 Jeanes Janeway, Jacob. . . 70SiJeariin Janewaj', James. . . 768 Jealerai. Janeway, John 76S Jangling 768 Jan i tores. Janizaries 768 Janna 768 …
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of 918 Jezreel, Portion of. 91S Jezreel, Tower of.. 918 Jezreel, Valley of. . 91S Jezreel, 2 919 Jezreel, 3 Jezreel, 4 Jezreelite Jezreelitess Jibsani Jidlaph Jiphtah Jiphthahcl Joab, 1 Joab, 2.. Joab, 3.. S63;Joachaz Johauau, 7... Page 941'Johu XIII ...Page 981 Jones, Charles Johauau, 8 942 John XIV 9S1…
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.Johnson, Joseph .. 984 .Jonsson 1002 -Johnson, Samuel (1) 984' Joppa 1002 Johnson, Samuel (2) 9S4,.Joppe 1004 Johnson, Samuel (3) 9S5 Jorah 1004 Johnson, Thomas. 986lJorai 1004 Johnson, William Jorani 1004 Bullien 986 Jordan 1004 .Johnsonians 9861 Jordan, Joseph.. . 1009 Johnston, Arthur.. 986 Jordan, Richard(…
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