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Ball (, dur), well known as being used in various sports and games from the earliest times, several kinds of which are depicted on the Egyptian monuments (Wilkinson, 1:198 sq. abridg.). The word occurs in this sense in Isa 22:18, but in a subsequent chapter (29:3) it is employed of a ring or circle, and … Continue reading “Ball”

Balkis in Oriental mythology, was the name of the queen of Sheba, according to the traditions of the Arabs. She was the daughter of Hadad, the twentvfirst king of Yemen. Through the bird Hudhud, Solomon and the queen wrote. each other most loving letters, until Balkis began a journey which the imagination of the Orientals … Continue reading “Balkis”

Balkh the ancient Bactra or Zariaspa, was formerly a great city; but is now, for the most part, a mass of ruins, situated on the right bank of the Adirsiah or Balkh river, in a large and fertile plain eighteen hundred feet above the sea. The ruins, which occupy a space of about twenty miles … Continue reading “Balkh”

Balisatma in Hindu mythology, is the empire of Bali, or the world below; otherwise called Padalam. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Balinghem, Antoine De a French Jesuit and educator, was born at St. Omer in 1.571, and died at Ryssel, Jan. 24, 1630. He wrote, Loci Commrunes S. Scripturce (2 vols. fol.): Summnnarium Vit S. Franc. Xaverii: Series Canonizationis S. Ignatii: De Sanguine Christi, nostrea Redemptionis Pretio: Meditationes in Hymn und Veni Creator Spirifus, etc. See … Continue reading “Balinghem, Antoine De”

Balinese Version of the Scriptures. Balinese is a language spoken in the island of Bali, which lies to the east of Java; being about seventy miles long, and containing a population of about three quarters of a million. It is but recently that the people of Bali received a part of the Gospel in their … Continue reading “Balinese Version”

Bali in Hindu mythology, was a mighty ruler of India who reigned in the second periodic age; and, as he was a great philosopher and disciple of Sakra, he carried the name of Mahabeli Sakrawati. He was descended from the family of the Erunia, was a grandson of Pragaladen, and was held identical with Baali. … Continue reading “Bali”

Balguy, Thomas D.D., son of John, was born in Yorkshire in 1716, and educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where in 1741 he became M.A., and in 1758 D.D. In 1757, under the patronage of Hoadley, he was made prebendary of Winchester, and afterward archdeacon of Salisbury and Winchester. He abandoned Hoadley’s latitudinarianism, and brought … Continue reading “Balguy, Thomas”

Balguy, John an English divine, was born at Sheffield in 1686, and educated at Cambridge, where he passed M.A. in 1726. In the Bangorian controversy (q.v.) he maintained the views of Bishop Hoadley, and wrote, in 1718, 1719, several tracts on the dispute. In 1726, in view of the infidel principles of Lord Shaftesbury, he … Continue reading “Balguy, John”

Balfour, Walter was born at St. Ninian’s, Scotland, 1776, and educated in the Scotch Church at the expense of Mr. Robert Haldane. After some years’ preaching he came to America, and became a Baptist about 1806. In 1823 he avowed himself a Universalist, and labored, both as preacher and writer, in behalf of Universalism until … Continue reading “Balfour, Walter”