the principle of love among Christians. The intimate connection especially in early times, between
the Eucharist itself and the love feasts has led some to speak of them as identical. The love feasts
were forbidden to be held in churches by the Council of Laudicea, A.D. 320; but in some form or
other they continued to a much later period.
Lubim
(dwellers in a thirsty land),a nation mentioned as contributing, together with Cushites and
Sukkiim, to Shishak’s army, (2 Chronicles 12:3) and apparently as forming with Cushites the bulk
of Zerah’s army, (2 Chronicles 16:8) spoken of by Nahum, (Nahum 3:9) with Put or Phut, as helping
No-amon (Thebes), of which Cush and Egypt were the strength. Upon the Egyptian monuments
we find representations of a people called Rebu or Lebu, who correspond to the Lubim, and who
may be placed on the African coast to the westward of Egypt, perhaps extending far beyond the
Cyrenaica.
Lucas
(Philemon 1:24) [Luke]
Lucifer
(light-bearer), found in (Isaiah 14:12) coupled with the epithet “son of the morning,” clearly
signifies a “bright star,” and probably what we call the morning star. In this passage it is a symbolical
representation of the king of Babylon in his splendor and in his fall. Its application, from St. Jerome
downward, to Satan in his fall from heaven arises probably from the fact that the Babylonian empire
is in Scripture represented as the type of tyrannical and self idolizing power, and especially connected
with the empire of the Evil One in the Apocalypse.
Lucius
A kinsman or fellow tribesman of St. Paul, (Romans 16:21) by whom he is said by tradition to
have been ordained bishop of the church of Cenchreae. He is thought by some to be the same with
Lucius of Cyrene.
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•Lucius of Cyrene is first mentioned in the New Testament in company with Barnabas, Simeon
called Niger, Manaen and Saul, who are described as prophets and teachers of the church at
Antioch. (Acts 13:1) Whether Lucius was one of the seventy disciples is quite a matter of conjecture;
but it is highly probable that he formed one of the congregation to whom St. Peter preached on
the day of Pentecost, (Acts 2:10) and there can hardly be a doubt that he was one of “the men of
Cyrene” who, being “scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen,” went to
Antioch preaching the Lord Jesus. (Acts 11:19,20)
Lud
(strife) the fourth name in the list of the children of Shem, (Genesis 10:22) comp. 1Chr 1:17
Supposed to have been the ancestor of the Lydians.
Ludim
(strife), (Genesis 10:13; 1 Chronicles 1:11) a Mizraite people or tribe descended from Ludim
the son of Mizraim; also called Lydians. It is probable that the Ludim were settled to the west of
Egypt, perhaps farther than any other Mizraite tribe. Lud and the Ludim are mentioned in four
passages of the prophets— (Isaiah 66:19; Jeremiah 46:9; Ezekiel 27:10; 38:5) There call be no
doubt that but one nation is intended in these passages, and it seems that the preponderance of
evidence is in favor of the Mizaraite Ludim.
Luhith