Bastard
Bastard
(nothus, one born out of wedlock),
(i.) the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of the Hebrews (mamzer’, polluted), which occurs only in Deu 23:2 and Zec 9:6. But Michaelis (Mos. Recht, 2, 139) reads the word with a different pointing, so as to make it a compound of two words, , meaning stain, defect of a stranger; implying the stain that would be cast upon the nation by granting to such a stranger the citizen-right. Some understand by it the offspring of prostitutes; but they forget that prostitutes were expressly forbidden to be tolerated by the law of Moses (Lev 19:29; Deu 23:17). The most probable conjecture is that which applies the term to the offspring of heathen prostitutes in the neighborhood of Palestine, since no provision was made by Moses against their toleration (Potter, Archaeol. 1:354), and who were a sort of priestesses to the Syrian goddess Astarte (comp. Num 25:1 sq.; Gesenius, Comment. ub. Jesaias, 2:339; Hos 4:14; 1Ki 14:24; 1Ki 15:12; 1Ki 22:47; 2Ki 23:7; Herodot. 1:199). That there existed such bastard offspring among the Jews is proved by the history of Jephthah (Jdg 11:1-7), who on this account was expelled and deprived of his patrimony (Kitto). It seems (Heb 12:8) that natural children () among the Jews received little attention from the father. In the former of the above passages (Deu 23:2), illegitimate offspring in the ordinary sense (Sept. , Vulg. de scorto natus, and so the Oriental interpreters, as also the rabbins); but so severe a curse could hardly with justice rest upon such. and there is no countenance for such a view in the Jewish custom of concubinage. SEE CONCUBINE. In the latter passage (Zec 9:6; Sept. ) it is doubtless used in the sense of foreigner, predicting the conquest of Ashdod by the Jews in the time of the Maccabees, or perhaps more appropriately by subsequent heathen invaders.
(ii.) Persons of illegitimate birth are incapable, by the canon law, of receiving any of the minor orders without a dispensation from the bishop; nor can they, in the Latin Church, be admitted to holy orders, or to benefices with cure of souls, except by a dispensation from the pope. However, the taking of the monastic vows enables such a one to receive holy orders without dispensation; but persons so ordained cannot be advanced to any ecclesiastical dignity without dispensation. According to the laws of the Church of England, a bastard cannot be admitted to orders without a dispensation from the queen or archbishop; and if he take a benefice, he may be deprived of it till such dispensation be obtained. Landon, Eccl. Dict. 2:81.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bastard
In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word _mamzer’_, which means “polluted.” In Deut. 23:2, it occurs in the ordinary sense of illegitimate offspring. In Zech. 9:6, the word is used in the sense of foreigner. From the history of Jephthah we learn that there were bastard offspring among the Jews (Judg. 11:1-7). In Heb. 12:8, the word (Gr. nothoi) is used in its ordinary sense, and denotes those who do not share the privileges of God’s children.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Bastard
bastard (, mamzer; , nothos): In Deu 23:2 probably the offspring of an incestuous union, or of a marriage within the prohibited degrees of affinity (Lev 18:6-20; Lev 20:10-21). He and his descendants to the tenth generation are excluded from the assembly of the Lord. (See Driver, at the place). Zechariah (Zec 9:6), after prophesying the overthrow of three Philistine cities, declares of the fourth: And a bastard (the Revised Version, margin a bastard race) shall dwell in Ashdod, meaning probably that a mixed population (BDB) of aliens shall invade and settle in the capital of the Philistines. In Heb (Zec 12:8) in its proper sense of born out of wedlock, and therefore not admitted to the privileges of paternal care and responsibility as a legitimate son.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Bastard
Bastard (Deu 23:2, and Zec 9:6). Some understand by this word the offspring of prostitutes, but they forget that prostitutes were expressly forbidden to be tolerated by the law of Moses (Lev 19:29; Deu 23:17). The most probable conjecture is that which applies the term to the offspring of heathen prostitutes in the neighborhood of Palestine; since no provision was made by Moses against their toleration, and who were a sort of priestesses to the Syrian goddess Astarte (comp. Num 25:1, sq.; Hos 4:14; 1Ki 14:24; 1Ki 15:12; 1Ki 22:47; 2Ki 23:7).
That there existed such bastard offspring among the Jews, is proved by the history of Jephthah (Jdg 11:1-7), who on this account was expelled, and deprived of his patrimony.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Bastard
Excluded from the congregation
Deu 23:2
Instances of:
– Ishmael
Gen 16:3; Gen 16:15; Gal 4:22
– Moab and Ammon
Gen 19:36-37
– Jephthah
Jdg 11:1
– David’s child by Bath-Sheba
2Sa 11:2-5
Figurative
Zec 9:6; Heb 12:8
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Bastard
Bastard. Among those who were excluded from entering the congregation, even to the tenth generation, was the bastard. Deu 23:2. The term is not, however, applied to any illegitimate offspring, born out of wedlock, but is restricted by the rabbins to the issue of any connection within the degrees prohibited by the law.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Bastard
denotes “an illegitimate child, one born out of lawful wedlock,” Heb 12:8.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Bastard
one born out of wedlock. A bastard among the Greeks was despised, and exposed to public scorn, on account of his spurious origin. In Persia the son of a concubine is never placed on a footing with the legitimate offspring; any attempt made by parental fondness to do so would be resented by the relations of the legitimate wife, and outrage the feelings of a whole tribe. The Jewish father bestowed as little attention on the education of his natural children as the Greek: he seems to have resigned them, in a great measure, to their own inclinations; he neither checked their passions, nor corrected their faults, nor stored their minds with useful knowledge. This is evidently implied in these words of the Apostle: If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons, Heb 12:7-8. To restrain the licentious desires of the heart, Jehovah by an express law fixed a stigma upon the bastard, which was not to be removed till the tenth generation; and to show that the precept was on no account to be violated, or suffered to fall into disuse, it is emphatically repeated, A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord,
Deu 23:2.