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BEATITUDE Imports the highest degree of happiness human nature can arrive to, the fruition of God in a future life to all eternity. It is also used when speaking of the theses contained in Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, whereby he pronounces the several characters there mentioned blessed. Fuente: Theological Dictionary beatitude (Latin: beatitudo, blessing, … Continue reading “Beatitude”

Beating The Authorized Version uses the word beat to express some form of corporal punishment, without defining the particular mode of infliction. 1. In Act 5:40; Act 22:19 when (to scourge, so as to flay off the skin) is thus translated, the allusion is to the Jewish mode of castigation, inflicted with a leathern scourge, … Continue reading “Beating”

Beatification and Canonization HISTORY According to some writers the origin of beatification and canonization in the Catholic Church is to be traced back to the ancient pagan apotheosis. In his classic work on the subject (De Servorum Dei Beatificatione et Beatorum Canonizatione) Benedict XIV examines and at the very outset refutes this view. He shows … Continue reading “Beatification and Canonization”

BEATIFICATION In the Romish church, the act whereby the pope declares a person happy after death. See CANONIZATION. Fuente: Theological Dictionary beatification (Latin: beatus, blessed; facere, to make) The declaration by the pope as head of the Church that one of its members deserves for saintly life as confessor or heroic death as martyr , … Continue reading “Beatification”

Beatific Vision The immediate knowledge the blessed in heaven have of God. Their earthly knowledge of Him, caught in the reflection of created things, has been changed to direct vision. Constituting man’s perfect happiness, it is called beatific. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Beatific Vision The immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the … Continue reading “Beatific Vision”

Beates, William an American Lutheran minister, was born in 1777. He was the senior member of the Lutheran Synod of Pennsylvania, and died at his residence in Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 17, 1867, while administering the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper to his family. See Appletons’ Annual Cyclopedia, 1867, p. 573. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological … Continue reading “Beates, William”

Beaten-work Much in the tabernacle was to be made of beaten work, Exo 25:18; Exo 25:31; Exo 25:36, in contrast to ‘molten,’ as idols were often made. The cherubim and the mercy-seat were to be beaten out of one piece, Exo 37:7: the candlestick also was beaten work of pure gold. Exo 37:17; Exo 37:22 … Continue reading “Beaten Work”

Beaten oil (Ex. 27:20; 29:40), obtained by pounding olives in a mortar, not by crushing them in a mill. It was reckoned the best. (See OLIVE Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary Beaten Oil See OIL, BEATEN. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Beaten Oil Beaten Oil. Lev 24:2. See Olive. Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible

Beaten gold in Num. 8:4, means “turned” or rounded work in gold. The Greek Version, however, renders the word “solid gold;” the Revised Version, “beaten work of gold.” In 1 Kings 10:16, 17, it probably means “mixed” gold, as the word ought to be rendered, i.e., not pure gold. Others render the word in these … Continue reading “Beaten Gold”

Beate Pastor Petre, clemens accipe Hymn for Lauds on 18 January , feast of Saint Peter’s Chair at Rome; on 22 February , feast of Saint Peter’s Chair at Antioch; and on 29 June, feast of Saints Peter and Paul, when the hymns Beate Pastor Petre, clemens accipe and Egregie Doctor Paule, mores instrue are … Continue reading “Beate Pastor Petre, clemens accipe”