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Babcock, Cyrus Giles a Baptist minister, graduated at Brown University in 1816, and was licensed to preach in 1817. He was called to the pastorship of the Baptist Church at Bedford, Mass., but he declined the call because of ill-health. He died in March, 1817. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 6:387. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Babcock, Cyrus Giles”

Babblings (1Ti 6:20, 2Ti 2:16 ) The profane babblings, and the oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called are all profitless speculation and empty religious talk which only minister questions, but have no value in the equipment of a man of God, or in the building up of the Church. The implied contrast … Continue reading “Babblings”

Babbling babling , sah; the Revised Version (British and American) COMPLAINING): The consequence of tarrying long at the wine (Pro 23:29 the King James Version); , lala, the Revised Version (British and American) talk (Ecclesiasticus 19:6; 20:5 the King James Version); , kenophona, literally, making an empty sound (1Ti 6:20; 2Ti 2:16 the King James … Continue reading “BABBLING”

Babbler, Babblings “a babbler,” is used in Act 17:18. Primarily an adjective, it came to be used as a noun signifying a crow, or some other bird, picking up seeds (sperma, “a seed,” lego, “to collect”). Then it seems to have been used of a man accustomed to hang about the streets and markets, picking … Continue reading “Babbler, Babblings”

Babbler (Act 17:18) Augustine and Wyclif wrongly derive the word from and translate it sower of words. It is properly derived from , seed, and , to gather. Originally an adjective, the derived substantive was used of small birds gathering crumbs (Aristophanes, Av. 233, 580). It was afterwards applied to loafers in the market-place who … Continue reading “Babbler”

Babbitt, Carlisle a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Vermont, March 19, 1808. In 1831 he entered the itinerant ranks of the Kentucky Conference. He located and moved to Illinois in 1855, and in 1857 united with the Southern Illinois Conference, in which he labored with -anxious zeal and fidelity until his decease, June 26, … Continue reading “Babbitt, Carlisle”

Babbitt, Amzi B a minister of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, was born in New Jersey. He graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1816, and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1821. He served for a time in the Presbyterian Church in Pequea, Pa;, and in the Second Reformed (Dutch) Church of Philadelphia (1834-35), also … Continue reading “Babbitt, Amzi B”

Babbit, Pierre Teller, D.D a Protestant Episcopal minister, was born in New York city, Feb. 12, 1811. He graduated at Yale College in 1831; the three years following he devoted to teaching, and then entered the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York city, where he graduated in 1836. – He … Continue reading “Babbit, Pierre Teller, D.D”

Babas ( or , since the latter only appears as a genitive), a person mentioned by Josephus as the last descendant of the Asmonaeans, but simply to relate that his sons were preserved by Costabarus from the general massacre of the adherents of Antigonus ordered by Herod the Great on obtaining possession of Jerusalem, until … Continue reading “Babas”

Baba Lalis is a Hind-. sect sometimes included among the Vaishnava (q.v.) sects., In reality, however, they adore but one god, dispensing with all forms of worship, and directing their devotions by rules and objects derived from a medley of Vedanta and Sufi tenets. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature