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Wiley, Charles, D.D a Presbyterian minister, was born at Flatbush, L. I., May 30, 1810. He was the second son of Charles Wiley, bookseller and publisher in New York City. After the usual school preparation, he entered Columbia College in 1825, and remained as a student there until the death of his father, in 1826. … Continue reading “Wiley, Charles, D.D”

Wiley, Allen, D.D a Methodist Episcopal divine, was born in Frederick County, Va., Jan. 15,1789. He removed to Indiana with his parents in 1804; was brought into the Church under the ministry of Rev. Moses Crume in 1810; licensed to exhort Sept. 10. 1811, and to preach July-10, 1813, and was admitted on trial in … Continue reading “Wiley, Allen, D.D”

Wiles denotes “craft, deceit” (meta, “after,” hodos, “a way”). “a cunning device, a wile,” and is translated “wiles (of error)” in Eph 4:14, RV [AV paraphrases it, “they lie in wait (to deceive)”], lit., “(with a view to) the craft (singular) of deceit;” in Eph 6:11, “the wiles (plural) (of the Devil.)” Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary … Continue reading “Wiles”

WILDERNESSES Gen 16:7; Deu 29:5; 1Ki 19:4; Psa 55:7; Jer 9:10; Mat 3:1; Mat 4:1; Luk 3:2; Luk 8:29 –SEE Deserts, DESERTS & DESERTS Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Wilderness of the Wanderings (On Israel’s route from Rameses to Sinai. (See EXODUS; EGYPT.) Kadesh or Kadesh Burned (“son of wandering” (Bedouin), or “land of earthquake,” as Psa 29:8, “the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Cades”) was the encampment from which the spies were sent and to which they returned (Num 13:26; Num 32:8), on … Continue reading “Wilderness of the Wanderings”

Wilderness Of The Wandering Of The Children Of Israel This is a convenient popular designation of the wide region in which the people were led by the divine guidance under Moses, for forty years, from Egypt to Canaan. It was here, amid nature’s grandest and wildest architecture, wrapped in nature’s profoundest silence and solitude, far … Continue reading “Wilderness Of The Wandering Of The Children Of Israel”

Wilderness of The Wandering Wilderness of the Wandering. (The region in which the Israelites spent nearly 38 years of their existence after they had left Egypt, and spent a year before Mount Sinai. They went as far as Kadesh, on the southernmost border of Palestine, from which place spies were sent up into the Promised … Continue reading “Wilderness of The Wandering”

Wilderness, Desert WILDERNESS, DESERT.These terms stand for several Heb. and Gr. words, with different shades of meaning. 1. midbr (from dbar, to drive) means properly the land to which the cattle were driven, and is used of dry pasture land where scanty grazing was to be found. It occurs about 280 times in OT and … Continue reading “Wilderness, Desert”

WILDERNESS See DESERT. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Wilderness See Desert. Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church Wilderness is in the A.V. the most frequent rendering of (midbar, ), which primarily denotes a region not regularly tilled or inhabited (Job 38:26; Isa 32:15; Jer 2:2), but used for pasturage (from , to track, referring … Continue reading “Wilderness”

Wild, Robert, D.D an English Nonconformist divine, poet, and wit, was born at St. Ives. Huntingdonshire, in 1609. He was educated at the University of Cambridge; received his first degree in divinity at Oxford in 1642; was appointed rector at Aynhoe, Northamptonshire, in 1646; ejected, at the Restoration; and died at Oundle in 1679. He … Continue reading “Wild, Robert, D.D”