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Bankruptcy, Moral Aspect of (See also CIVIL ASPECT OF BANKRUPTCY.) Bankruptcy must be considered not only from the legal but also from the moral point of view; for sound morality prescribes that debts must be paid. But a man who becomes bankrupt proclaims his inability to pay his debts in full as they become due. … Continue reading “Bankruptcy, Moral Aspect of”

Bankruptcy, Civil Aspect of (See also MORAL ASPECT OF BANKRUPTCY.) Bankruptcy (La banqueroute; earlier English terms, bankruptship, bankrupture) in civil jurisprudence as well as in popular signification is the fact of becoming, or the state of being, a bankrupt. In the statute of 1705, 4 Anne, c. XVII, as printed in the Cambridge edition of … Continue reading “Bankruptcy, Civil Aspect of”

Bankputtis was the god of the sea among the ancient Prussians, the foam-forming, the agitator of the waves. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Banker Expeditionary at the Court of Rome. An officer who undertakes the procuring of bulls, dispensations, etc., at the court of Rome or in the legation of Avignon, whether in the chancery or penitentiary. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Banker in liturgical phraseology, is (1) a covering for a bench; (2) hangings of cloth; (3) the side-curtains of an altar. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Bank, Banking 1. Introductory Banking in the full modern sense, of taking money on deposit and lending it out on interest, is of comparatively recent origin. A few banks of deposit were founded in Italy in the Middle Ages, but the earliest banks of issue, of the modern sort, were those of Amsterdam (1609) and … Continue reading “Bank, Banking”

Bank, Bankers primarily “a table,” denotes (a) an eating-table, e.g., Mat 15:27; (b) food, etc. placed on “a table,” Act 6:2; Act 16:34; (c) “a feast, a banquet,” 1Co 10:21; (d) “the table or stand” of a money-changer, where he exchanged money for a fee, or dealt with loans and deposits, Mat 21:12; Mar 11:15; … Continue reading “Bank, Bankers”

Bank In Luk 19:23, the Greek word , table, is rendered bank in the modern sense of the term, which, by a similar appropriation, is derived from the same root as bench. In Mat 21:12; Mar 11:15; and Joh 2:15, it is employed literally, and denotes the table of the money-changer (q.v.), at which he … Continue reading “Bank”

Banjaluka The Diocese of Banjaluka in Western Bosnia includes some of the most beautiful portions of the province. Banjaluka is the ancient Roman Ad Ladios. By the Bull “Ex hâc augustâ”, 5 July, 1881, restoring the Catholic hierarchy in Bosnia, Leo XIII created one archiepiscopal and three episcopal sees, Banjaluka being the first in precedence … Continue reading “Banjaluka”

Banishment BANISHMENT.See Crimes and Punishments. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Banishment banish-ment. See PUNISHMENTS. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Banishment General references Ezr 7:26 Of Adam and Eve, from Eden Gen 3:22-24 Of Cain, to be »a fugitive and vagabond« Gen 4:14 Of Jews, from Rome Act 18:2 Of John, to Patmos Rev 1:9 … Continue reading “Banishment”