Smith's Bible Dictionary

is, however strong reason to believe that he visited Corinth at an early period. The name of Peter as founder or joint founder i ...

almost identical in language and subject with the Epistle of Jude. The overthrow of all opponents of Christian truth is predicte ...

•The Pharaoh of Abraham. (Genesis 12:15)—At the time at which the patriarch went into Egypt, it is generally held that the count ...

defeated and slew the king of Judah at Megiddo. (2 Kings 23:29,30; 2 Chronicles 35:20-24) Necho seems to have soon returned to E ...

Ram, or Aram, sprang David and the kings of Judah, and eventually Jesus Christ. In the reign of David the house of Pharez seems ...

making converts to their own narrow views, who with all the zeal of proselytes were more exclusive and more bitterly opposed to ...

strictly Philadelphi’a (brotherly love), a town on the confines of Lydia and Phrygia Catacecaumene, 25 southeast of Sardis, and ...

disciple of Christ, and entitled as such to received, not as a servant but above a servant, as a brother in the faith. The Epist ...

period—not less than eighteen or nineteen years—we lose sight of him. The last glimpse of him in the New Testament is in the acc ...

while acknowledging the alms of the Philippians and the personal services of their messenger, to give them some information resp ...

heroes were raised up from time to time, such as Shamgar the son of Anath, (Judges 3:31) and still more Samson, Judg 13-16, but ...

Philologus a Christian at Rome to whom St. Paul sends his salutation. (Romans 18:15) Philosophy It is the object of the followin ...

widest scope; the Pharisees of a religious Stoicism. At a later time the cycle of doctrine was completed, when by a natural reac ...

purely spiritual (intellectual) morality. Opposition between the two was complete. The infinite, chance-formed worlds of the one ...

(burning), a Christian at Rome whom St. Paul salutes. (Romans 16:14) (A.D.55.) Pseudo-Hippolytus makes him one of the seventy di ...

its territory and employed its sailors and workmen. (2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:9,17,18) The religion of the Phoenicians, opposed ...

country or people of Africa, and, it must be added, probably not far from Egypt. (Isaiah 66:19; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 27:10; 30 ...

Piety This word occurs but once in the Authorized Version: “Let them learn first to show piety at home,” better “toward their ow ...

(worship), the name of one of the chief of the people, probably a family, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:24 ...

high place, caught their inspiration from the harmony, (1 Samuel 10:5) or the pilgrims, on their way to the great festivals of t ...