Cyclopædia
Assuming apostles is required, the following 14 results were found.
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APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE
was chiefly made use of for the Conversion of the Gentile World, as that of St. Peter was for the Jews. The several Apostles are usually represented with their respective Badges or Attributes: St. Peter, with the Keys; St. Paul, with a Sword; St....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APOSTOLIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLIC
Ἀποστολικός, Apostolicus, something that belongs to the Apostles, or descends from them. See APOSTLE. Thus, we say the Apostolic Age, Apostolic Doctrine, Apostolic Character, etc. The Romanists call their Church, the Catholic and Apostolic Church; and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT
matters of fact transmitted to posterity in certain authentic books and memoirs. In this sense, we say, the Acts of the Apostles, Acts of the Martyrs, etc. The Acts of Pilate relating to Jesus is a false and supposititious relation of our Savior's trial...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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APOSTOLOCIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLOCI
Name assumed by two different Sects of Heretics, on account of their pretending to imitate the Manners and Practice of the Apostles. See APOSTLES. The first Apostolics, otherwise called Apostolici and Apostatici, rose out of the Encratites, and Cathari...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Unguentum, the Apostles Ointment, in Pharmacy, is a kind of detergent, or cleansing Unguent, composed of twelve Drugs; the Number of the Apostles, whence its Name. See OINTMENT. It was invented by Avicenna, and is otherwise called Unguentum Venetum. The...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Pharmacy
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Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology
Persons, Hypostasis. &c. Our Duty to him, discover'd by Inspiration, Revelation, Prophecy, &c. by the Mesiah, Evangelisis, Apostles, &c. In the Bible, Pentateuch, Hagiographa, Psalter, Gospel, Apocalypse, &c. Canon, Deuterocanonical, Apocrypha, &c....
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Persons, Hypostasis. &c. Our Duty to him, discover'd by Inspiration, Revelation, Prophecy, &c. by the Mesiah, Evangelisis, Apostles, &c. In the Bible, Pentateuch, Hagiographa, Psalter, Gospel, Apocalypse, &c. Canon, Deuterocanonical, Apocrypha, &c....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ALMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMS
the Ceremonies and Customs of those of his Nation, C. XIV. The Jews call Alms, Tzedakah, i.e., Justice—The Evangelists and Apostles have also given it the same Appellation in the New Testament. ALMS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASCENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSION
Ascension is particularly used for that miraculous Elevation of our Saviour, when he mounted to Heaven in the Sight of his Apostles. Hence also, Ascension Day, a Festival of the Church, held ten Days before Whitsuntide, in Memory of our Saviour’s...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APOCRYPHALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCRYPHAL
and the others, the Tradition of their Church. M. Simon contends, that they must have been read, in Greek, even by the Apostles themselves; which he infers from divers Passages in their Writings——He adds, that the Church received them with the other...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE
Catalogue of the Bishops, with other Acts, which show that there had been a Church established there from the time of the Apostles; might not be known. Grotius adds, that though there was not, indeed, any Church of Gentile Converts at Thyatira when St....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION
by the Christians of those times, in commemoration of our Saviour’s instituting that sacrament, in his supper with the Apostles. The text seems to intimate, that the feast was held before the Communion; but by an ordinance made later, they were obliged...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTHOLOGIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANTHOLOGION
the daily Offices addressed to our Saviour, the Virgin, and the principal Saints; with other Common Offices of Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, Pontiffs, and Confessors, according to the Greek Rite. See BREVARY, MASS, OFFICE, etc. It is called Anthologion,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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APOTACTITAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTACTITA
or Ἀποτακτικά, an ancient Sect, who affecting to follow the Evangelical Counsels of Poverty, and the Examples of the Apostles, and primitive Christians, renounced all their Effects and Possessions. See APOSTOLIC. It does not appear that they gave into...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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