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Welle, Prefecture Apostolic of Located in the extreme north of Belgian Congo, Africa, separated by a Decree of the Propaganda on 12 May, 1898, from the Vicariate Apostolic of the Congo Free State, and committed to the care of the Canons Regular Premonstratensian of Tongerloo, Belgium. Its limits were on the North the Vicariate Apostolic … Continue reading “Welle, Prefecture Apostolic of”

Wellbeloved, Charles, D.D an English Unitarian minister, was born at York about 1770. He became a clergyman at his native place; was noted for his philological and archaeological attainments; and died at York in 1858. He was the author of, Heboracum; or, York under the Romans (1842): The Holy Scriptures of the Old Covenant (1859-62), … Continue reading “Wellbeloved, Charles, D.D”

Well-pleasing is used in Rom 12:1-2, translated “acceptable” (RV marg., “well-pleasing”); in the following the RV has “well-pleasing,” Rom 14:18; 2Co 5:9; Eph 5:10; in Phi 4:18; Col 3:20 (RV and AV); in Tit 2:9, RV, “well-pleasing” (AV, “please … well”); in Heb 13:21, RV and AV. See ACCEPTABLE. akin to A, is rendered “to … Continue reading “Well-pleasing”

Well pleased “good pleasure,” occurs in the genitive case in Luk 2:14, lit., “(men) of good pleasure” (so RV marg.), RV, “(men) in whom He is well pleased” (the genitive is objective); the AV, “good will (toward men),” follows the inferior texts which have the nominative. See DESIRE, PLEASURE, SEEM, WELL-PLEASING, WILL. “to be well … Continue reading “Well pleased”

Well-ordered See Ordinal number. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Well of the Samaritan Woman (Hebrew: Bir Yakub; Bir Samariyeh) Well on the highroad from Jerusalem , one mile and a half from Nablus, and almost one mile from the village of Askar or Sichar (John 4). Here Christ met the Samaritan woman. It is called Jacob’s Well because the patriarch who “drank thereof himself, … Continue reading “Well of the Samaritan Woman”

Well-nigh * Note: This forms part of the translation of sumpleroo, “to fulfill,” in Luk 9:51, “were well-nigh” come (see COME, No. 36), and pleroo, “to fulfill,” in Act 7:23, “was well-nigh …,” lit., “a time (of forty years) was fulfilled (to him)” (see FULFILL, A, No. 1). Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Well-maids in Norse mythology, were daughters of Aeger and Ran. They swim upon the stormy sea around their mother, and appear with white veils to assist the unfortunate out of the wild waves, and lay the drowned down in the lap of their mother. Their names are Himinglaffe, Dufa, Blodughadda, Heffring, Udur, Raun, Bylgia, Drobna, … Continue reading “Well-maids”

Well, Jacob’s See JACOB’S WELL. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Well, Ecclesiastical The most ancient examples of Christian baptismal wells are to be found in the Catacombs. Wells occur in crypts, some of which were regarded as possessing waters of miraculous powers, as at Pierrefonds; but very possibly they were made in imitation of the baptismal wells of the Catacombs. There was usually a well … Continue reading “Well, Ecclesiastical”