he was a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes; disturbed the Jews in the
exercise of their religion, guaranteed by the state; introduced new gods, a
thing prohibited by the Romans. And thirdly, that he attempted to profane
the temple, a crime which the Jews were permitted to punish.”
- TESTAMENT occurs twelve times in the New Testament (Hebrews 9:15,
etc.) as the rendering of the Gr. diatheke, which is twenty times rendered
“covenant” in the Authorized Version, and always so in the Revised
Version. The Vulgate translates incorrectly by testamentum, whence the
names “Old” and “New Testament,” by which we now designate the two
sections into which the Bible is divided. (See BIBLE.) - TESTIMONY (1.) Witness or evidence (2 Thessalonians 1:10).
(2.) The Scriptures, as the revelation of God’s will (2 Kings 11:12; Psalm
19:7; 119:88; Isaiah 8:16, 20).
(3.) The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (Joshua 22:10).
- TESTIMONY, TABERNACLE OF the tabernacle, the great glory of
which was that it contained “the testimony”, i.e., the “two tables” (Exodus
38:21). The ark in which these tables were deposited was called the “ark of
the testimony” (40:3), and also simply the “testimony” (27:21; 30:6). - TETRARCH strictly the ruler over the fourth part of a province; but the
word denotes a ruler of a province generally (Matthew 14:1; Luke 3:1, 19;
9:7; Acts 13:1). Herod and Phasael, the sons of Antipater, were the first
tetrarchs in Palestine. Herod the tetrarch had the title of king (Matthew
14:9). - THADDAEUS breast, the name of one of the apostles (Mark 3:18), called
“Lebbaeus” in Matthew 10:3, and in Luke 6:16, “Judas the brother of
James;” while John (14:22), probably referring to the same person, speaks
of “Judas, not Iscariot.” These different names all designate the same
person, viz., Jude or Judas, the author of the epistle. - THAHASH a badger, a son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother (Genesis 22:24).
- THARSHISH (1 Kings 10:22; 22:48). See TARSHISH.
- THEATRE only mentioned in Acts 19:29, 31. The ruins of this theatre at
Ephesus still exist, and they show that it was a magnificent structure,
capable of accommodating some 56,700 persons. It was the largest