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McClintock & Strong Cyclopaedia — Volume 8
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Section 1441
customed so to speak of it (Pirlce Aboth, iv, 17). (6) Schulz ( in his Dissert, de Temporibus tijq draipi'&wQ, in the Biblioth, Hagan, v, 119 sq.) understands the time of death, the terminus fixed to each man's life, the future rest of the dead in the Lord; a view which Barkey (ibid. p. 411) justly opposes by this, amo…
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RESTORATION of i hi. Jews. This term is ap- plied to two very different classes of prophecies relating to the Hebrew race. I. Their Returnfrom Captivity. — It is maintained by Vcm Bohlen (Genesis, p. cxvi) that the ten tribes inter- married so freely with the surrounding population as to have become completely absorbe…
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In their habits of life, also, the Jewish nation was permanently affected by the lirst captivity. The love of agriculture, which the institutions of Moses had so vi-orou-ly inspired, had necessarily declined in a for- eign laud; ami they returned with a taste for com- merce, banking, and retail trade, which was probabl…
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Resurrection (uvacrTaaie) of the Body, the re- vivification of the human body after it lias been forsaken by the soul, or the reunion of the soul hereafter to the body which it had occupied in the present world. This is one of the essential points in the creed of Christendom. I. History of the Doctrine.— It is admitte…
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was the more prevailing opinion, in which Paul e took occasion to express his concurrence with t lie I'har- I tS wiv. l.i i. But although the doctrine of the resurrection was thus prevalent among the .lews in the time of Christ, ii might si ill have been doubtful and obscure to US bad not Christ given to it the sanc…
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Among the speculations propounded as a solution of i lie problem of i be resurrection, the most ingenious, per- haps, as well as fascinating, is the ;/, rm theory, which assumes that the soul at death retains a certain ethereal investiture, and that this has, by virtue of the vital force, the power of accreting to itse…
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We conclude, therefore, that there is no scriptural, consistent, or intelligible view except the one common- ly entertained by Christians on this subject, viz. that the pure and immaterial soul alone survives the dissolution of the body, and that at the last day almighty power will clothe this afresh with a corporeal f…
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The testimony id' the apostles furnishes us with argu- ments, and there are eight considerations which give the evidence sufficient weight. 1. The nature of these witnesses. They were not men of power, riches, elo- quence, credit, to impose upon the world: they were poor and mean. 2. The number of these witnesses. (See…
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KETTBERG 1057 REU 1. Those passages which declare that certain sinners shall not enter the kingdom of heaven (Matt. v. 20; vii. 13, 21-23; xviii, 3; Mark x, 23-27; Luke xiii, 21. 26; John iii, 3-5; 1 Cor. vi, 9, 10; Gal. v, 19-21; Eph. v, 5; Heb. iii, 19; iv, 1, 13). If some men, according to the language of these …
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Retz, Pierre de Gondi de, a French cardinal, was born at Lyons in 1533. After entering the ecclesiasti- cal life, he received many favors from Catherine de' Me- dici, and advanced rapidly. He was made bishop of Langres in 1505, and was transferred to the see of Paris in 1570, and became grand - almoner, chancellor, and…
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in its moral aspect, would be peculiarly abhorrent to a patriarchal society, and which is specially and repeat- edly reprobated in the law of Moses. The Rabbinical version of the occurrence (as given in the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan) is very characteristic, and well illus- trates ii,,. difference between the spirit of ea…
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The " blessing" of Reuben by the departing lawgiver is a passage which has severely exercised translators and commentators. Strictly translated as they stand in the received Hebrew text, the words are as follows: "Let Reuben live, anrt not die, Aud let his meu be a [small] number." As to the first line there appears …
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REUBEN 10G0 KEl'EL of the national government and of the national religion, it is not to be wondered at thai Reuben relinquished the faith of Jehovah. "They weni after the gods of tin- people of the land whom God destroyed before them," and we hear little more of them till the time of Hazael, king of Syria, who rava…
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2. A Midianitish priest and nomadic herdsman in the wilderness, to whom Moses tied from Egypt, and whose daughter Zipporah he married (Exod. ii, 16 sq.); but in Exod. iii, 1: iv. 18, Jethro i- called father-in-law of Moses, and in iii, 1 is made priest and herdsman. Va- rious methods are suggested for meeting the dif…
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Revelation (<<7ro/c«Ai>4/ig), a disclosure of some- thing that was before unknown- ; and divine revelation is the direct communication of truths before unknown from God to men. The disclosure may be made- by dream, vision, oral communication, or otherwise (Dan. ii, 19; lCor.xiv,26; 2 Cor. xii, 1 ; Gal. i, 12; Rev.i,l).…
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I. Canonical Authority and Authorship. — These two points are intimately connected with each other. If it can be proved that a book, claiming so distinctly as this does the authority of divine inspiration, was actu- ally written by John, then no doubt will bo entertained as to its title to a place in the canon of Scrip…
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('_'.) The historical testimonies in favor of John's authorship arc singularly distinct and numerous, and REVELATION 1063 REVELATION there is very little to weigh against them, (o.) Justin Martyr (cir. A.D. 150) says: "A man among us whose name was John, one of the apostles of Christ, in a rev- elation which was ma…
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2. Evidence against John's A uthorship. — Marcion, who regarded all the apostles except Paul as corrupters of the truth, rejected the Apocalypse and all other books of the New Test, which were not written by Paul. The Alogi, an obscure sect (cir. A.D. 180), in their zeal against Montanism, denied the existence of spiri…
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Unsupported by any historical evidence, some com- mentators have put forth the conjecture that the Reve- lation was written as early as the time of Nero. This is simply their inference from the style and contents of tic 1 k. But it is difficult to see why John's old age rendered it, as they allege, impossible for him…
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(Meth. Quar. L878, p. 739), See John (Gospel and Epistles), IV. Contents. —A full analysis of the book would in- volve much that is disputed as to its interpretation. We therefore lure content ourselves with a general outline, in which the main visions are specified, REVELATION 10G5 REVELATION The first three ver…
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d. A woman (ch. xii) clothed with the sun is seen in heaven, and a great red dragon with seven crowned heads stands waiting to devour her offspring; her child is caught up unto God, and the mother flees into the wil- derness for 1200 days. The persecution of the woman and her seed on earth by the dragon is described as…
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Immediately after the triumph of Constantine, the Christians, emancipated from oppression and persecu- tion, and dominant and prosperous in their turn, began to lose their vivid expectation (>f our Lord's speedy ad- vent and their spiritual conception of his kingdom, and to look upon the temporal supremacy of Christian…
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Against the historical scheme it is urged that its advocates differ very widely among themselves; that they assume without any authority thai the 1260 days are so many years: that several of its applications e.g. of the symbol of the ten-horned beast to the popes, and the sixth seal to the conversion of Constantine …
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Foxe, Pralectiones (Lond. 1587, fol. ; Geneva, 1596, 1618, 8vo); Bulenger [Rom. Cath.], Ecphrasis (Paris, 1589, 1597, 8vo); Junius, Illustratio (Heidelb. 1591; Basil. 1599, 8vo; and in Opp. vol. i, 1694; also in French, Basle, 1592, 1598; in English, Lond. 1592, 1596, 4to; 1616, 8vo) ; De Ribera [Rom. Cath.], Commentar…
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Leips. L794, 1811, 8vo); Hageu, Anmerk. I Erl. : Gilbert, Reflections (French, Guernsey, 1796, 8vo) : Snodgrass, Commentary (Paisley. l799,8vo); Jung, Erklarung (Nllrnb. 1799, 1822, 8vo); Mitchell, Exposi- tion | Lond. 1800, 8vo); J. Galloway, Commentaries (ibid. 1802, 8vo); VVhitaker, Commentary (ibid. 1802, 8vo) ; …
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The following are exclusively on the epistles to the seven churches : Laiirentius, Expositio (Amst. 1649, 4to) ; Ramirez, Commentarius (Lugd. 1652, fol.) ; More, Exposition (Lond. 1669, 12mo): Smith, Epistola [topo- graphical] (ibid. 1678, 8vo); Johnson, Laodicean Age (ibid. 1733, 8vo) ; Allen, Improvement (ibid. 1733,…
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The first writer, however, who mentions the Ascen- sion of Isaiah by name is Epiphanius, in the 4th cen- tury, who observes (Ha-res. xl.) that the apocryphal As- REVELATIONS, SPURIOUS 1070 REVELATIONS, SPURIOUS cension of Isaiah was adduced by the Archonites in sup- port of their opinions respecting the sei en heaven…
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The second portion of the work gives a prolix account of the prophet's ascent through seven heavens, each more resplendent and more glorious than the other. It contains distinct prophetical allusions to the miraculous birth of Christ of the Virgin Mary at Bethlehem; his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension: and the…
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(II.) The Method or Plan which the writer adopted to carry out the design of this epistle will best be seen from a brief analysis of its contents. Being convinced of the unchangeable love of God towards his people (i, 2), and of the close attachment subsisting between all the tribes (ver. 3), Baruch feels constrained t…
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REVELATIONS, SPURIOUS 1072 REVELATIONS, SPURIOUS the day of judgment which is close at hand (i, 37-41), and the frequent reference to a future life. Ewald (Gesch. Isr. iv, 233) and Fritzsche (Exegef. Handb. zu .,-. i. 17."d ( emptuously dismiss it in a few i mosf unjustly regard ii as written "in a pro- lix and sens…
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In the sixth part (ch. xliv-xlvii) he calls together his first-born son. his friend Gadelii, and seven of the elders of the people, and tells them that he is going to his fathers, according to the ways of all the earth. He exhorts them not to depart from the law. and promises that they shall see ''the consolation of /i…
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We are next told (ch. lxxvii) how Baruch went to the people and admonished them to be faithful, holding out hopes that their brethren might return from the captivity. The people promised to remember the good that God had done to them, and requested him to write a letter before his departure to their brethren in Baby- l…
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2. The Apocalypse of St. Paul is mentioned by Au- gustine (Tract. 98 in Ev. Joan.), who asserts that it abounds in fables, and was an invention to which occa- sion was furnished by 2 Cor. xii. 2-4. This appears from REVELATIONS, SPURIOUS 1074 HE VENUES Epiphanius (Hares, xxxviii, 2) to have been an anti- Jewish Gnos…
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Revenues ok the Church. It is clearly taught in the New Test, that it is the duty of ( Ihristians to give temporal support to their teachers. The general principle was laid down by our Lord (Luke x, 7) that the laborer is worthy of his hire. Paul says, " Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Cospel …
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These words are also used to denote the conversion of sinners as well as the quickening of believers. This arises from the fact that the two events are generally (not always) coincident. Sinners, who withstand God himself, may resist the Church in her best estate ; and they are sometimes converted when the Church, as a…
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6. The revival of this style of religion is best pro- REVIVALS 10TG REVIVALS moted by the inculcation of the fundamental truths of the Gospel, Buch a~ human depravity, natural and ac- quired; the sinfulness ol men in rebellion against God, and in refusing to accept of offered mercy; the certainty of their loss of h…
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In view of these facts, what would have become of religion but for revivals? Had Joshua, and David, and Josiah. and Ezra, and Luther, and Edwards, the WV- leys, Whitefield, and other revivalists, clung to estab- lished customs, and opposed innovations, as some did, and as others do now, the name of God would hardly hav…
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Revolution Settlement. The settlement of the Church of Scotland under William and Man7 is so- called. It was dictated by policy, and did not restore the platform of 1638, but adopted the ratification of 1592. Its object was to restore peace and order, to put an end to agitation, and by the appearance of modera- tion to…
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I): tiMemoin Justificatif of hiB own life, print- ed in the Chroniqm Religieuse.—TloefeT,Nouv.Iiiag. G> at rnl . >. v. Reyna, Cassiodoro de, a Spanish Hebraist, was born al Seville. He embraced the ecclesiastical life, Inn renounced il upon Leaving his native country. He established himself in Frankfort and engaged in…
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Re'zeph (Ileb. Re'tsepk, BSH, a hot stone, as in 1 Kings xix, 0: Sept. 'Vatrtd). 'VaOnr. v. r. 'Paif>i&), one of the places which Sennacherib mentions, in his taunt- ing message to Hezekiah, as having been destroyed by his predecessor (2 Kings xix, 12; Isa. xxxvii. 12). lie couples it with Haran and other well-known Me…
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LIST OF ARTICLES IN VOL. Till. Petachia(s) Page Petaui Petavel Petavins Peter Peter, First Epistle of 15 Peter, Second Epis- tle of 2 Peter of Alcantara. . 2' Peter of Alexandria <D 27 Peter of Alexandria (2) 28 Peter of St. Audre.. 2S Peter of Auolo Peter of Antioch (1) 2S Peter of Antioch (2) 2S Peter o…
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Picenardi, Carlo (1) 1S4 Picenardi,Carlo(2) 1S4 Ales- 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 147 Phoenice 14S Phoenicia... Phcenix Phonascus.. Phorcns Phoros 140 146 146 146 140 146 140 147 147 1 147 Pichler, Aloys. ' Pichler, Veit Pichon, Jean Pichon, Thomas- Jean Pick,l Pick, 2 Pickard, Edward.. Pickard, J…
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331 Pomoryans 3SS 332 Pomp, Nicholas. .. 388 333 Pomp, Thomas 3SS Pompa 888 333 Pompa Circensis. . 388 334 Pompsei 3S» 334 Pompignan 399 Pomponazzi 3S9 334 Pomponia 389 335 Pomponius 1. 335 Pomps of the Devil 390 335 Ponce 390 335 Ponce delaFuente 391 336 P.. met 392 Poncher, £ticnne.. 392 336 Poncher, Fr…
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Priest, Hebrew... 507 Processions 012 Portico 430 Ponssin 457 Precepts, the Sis Priest 5S1 Prochazka 615 Portier 430 Poussines 45S Hundred and Priestley, Joseph. 5S3 Prochet 615 Portilbrinm 430 Poverty 45S Thirteen 494 Priestley, Thomas 5S0 Prochorus 016 Portio Canonica. . 431 Poverty, Mon…
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00'.' Ptolenueus, in Ptoleniais, 1 Ptolemais,2 0-- iMolcmaites Ptolemee, Ptolo- masus, Ptolomee. 690 Ptolemy Puah, I. 690 Puah, 2 691 I'm .I.,:; O'.i:; Public Worship... on:, Publican 695 Publicani 695 Publius '•'.<:, I'uivi 695 Puccianites 695 I'M- Tile 695 Pnchta Pndari O'.IO I'u, las 696 Pudeus..…
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Ram, Pierre Fran- Rappists Page 911 Raymond of Mag- Reelins Page 979 Reiter, Ernst An- cois Xavier de Page Raratougan Ver- nelonne Page 934 Rees 979 ton Page 1027 S9'2 sion 913 Raymond of Peu'a- Keesaias 979 Reiter, William... 1027 Rama 89-2 Rashba 913 fort (Saint) 934 Reese, E.Yates... 979 Reit…
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1043 Ranieri, St 907 Ravenna 931 1 of 964. Rei 1024 Rephaiah, 3 1043 Ranke, Carl Ferdi Ravenscroft, John Redditio Symboli 972 Keich 1024 Rephaiah, 4 1043 naud 91 )7 Stark 932!Redeemer 972 Reichardt 1024 Rephaiah, 5 1043 Ranke, Priedricli Ravenscroft, Ste- 1 Redemption 972 Reiche 1024 Rephaim 1043 …
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