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SYRACUSE Now Siracasa, a large and celebrated city on the eastern coast of Sicily, furnished with a capacious and excellent harbor. The city, founded 734 B. C., was opulent and powerful, and was divided into four or five quarters or districts, which were of themselves separate cities. The whole circumference is stated by Strabo to … Continue reading “Syracuse”

Syra DIOCESE OF SYRA (SYRENSIS). A Latin diocese, suffragan of Naxos, comprising the Island of Syra of the Cyclades in the Ægean Sea. The island has an area of about thirty-one square miles and 32,000 inhabitants; it was first called Syria and also Syros, and appears to have been inhabited by the Phoenicians. It was … Continue reading “Syra”

Syon Monastery Syon Monastery, Middlesex, England, founded in 1415 by King Henry V at his manor of Isleworth. The “Monastery of St. Saviour and St. Bridget of Syon” was the only one in England belonging to the modified order of St. Augustine, as reformed by St. Bridget (see BRIGITTINES), and comprised thirteen priests, four deacons, … Continue reading “Syon Monastery”

Synzygus (, erroneously in Textus Receptus , from , fasten or yoke together-yokefellow, comrade, consort, partner, colleague) In the Epistle to the Philippians (4:3) the apostle Paul refers to a dispute that had arisen between two female members of the Church, Euodia and Syntyche, and entreats one whom he describes as Synzygus (Authorized Version true … Continue reading “Synzygus”

Synusiastme () were those who held that the incarnation of our Lord was effected by a blending or commixture of the Divine substance with the substance of the human flesh. The name is taken from the statement of the doctrine (Theod. Her. Fab. 4:9). Theodoret calls this sect Polemians, one of the Apollinarist sects; and … Continue reading “Synusiastme”

SYNTYCHE AND EUODIAS Phi 4:2,3, women eminent for virtue and good works in the church at Philippi. Paul exhorts them to persevere, or rather, to act harmoniously together in their Christian labors, as all should do who are “in the Lord.” Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Syntyche () Syntyche was a Christian lady of Philippi who seems to have held a prominent place in the Church, and who, at the date of the Apostles letter to the Philippians, had a difference of opinion with another lady called Euodia (q.v. [Note: .v. quod vide, which see.] ). St. Paul exhorts them to … Continue reading “Syntyche”

Synthronus (), a Greek term to signify the seats of a bishop and his clergy in the bema of an Oriental Church. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Syntheton; or, Combination A placing together of two Words by Usage Syn-the-ton. Greek, , from (sun), together, and (tithenai), to place. Hence, (synthetos) means put together. It is used of this Figure because two words are by common usage joined by a conjunction for the sake of emphasis, as when we say time and tide, … Continue reading “Syntheton; or, Combination”

SYNTHETION SYNTHETION are two words, which either emphatically-or frequently occur conjoined in Holy Scripture. For example,-Often wisdom and power are joined. Gnom. on Act 7:22.-The giving of thanks and peace; Philip, 4:6, 7, – – – Col 3:15, – .-Luk 1:75, .-Eph 4:24; comp. 1Th 2:10, – – 1Co 13:4, , . Comp. Gal 5:22, … Continue reading “SYNTHETION”