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Sweet Singers a small Scottish sect, called from their founder, John Gib, the GIBBITES SEE GIBBITES (q.v.). They forsook all worldly business, and professed to be entirely devoted to fasting and prayer in the open fields. The name Sweet Singers was given to them from their habit of wailing a portion of the more mournful … Continue reading “Sweet Singers”

SWEET SAVOUR Gen 8:21; Exo 29:18; Lev 1:9; Num 15:7; Ezr 6:10; 2Co 2:15; Eph 5:2 Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Sweet, John Davis a Baptist minister, was born at Kingston, Mass., Oct. 16, 1838. He was the son of a Unitarian clergyman. From his early life he developed a marked taste for literary pursuits, and in his preparatory studies took high rank as a scholar. In the fall of 1857 he entered Harvard College, one … Continue reading “Sweet, John Davis”

Sweet Incense See SPICES. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Sweet Incense Made of spices Exo 25:6 Incense Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Sweet, Elisha a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at Gorham, Ontario Co., N. Y., in 1810. He was admitted into the Genesee Conference in 1847, in which conference and the East Genesee he spent his ministerial life, three years of which he was superannuated. He died Sept. 7, 1869. See Minutes of … Continue reading “Sweet, Elisha”

Sweet Cane SEE CANE. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Sweet Cane SWEET CANE.See Reed. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Sweet Cane swet kan. See REED. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Sweet Cane Calamus Sweet Cane, or Calamus, is mentioned in various passages of Scripture (Exo 30:23; Jer 6:20, etc.), from which … Continue reading “Sweet Cane”

Sweet (cp. Eng., “glycerine,” “glucose”), occurs in Jam 3:11-12 (AV, “fresh” in this verse); Rev 10:9-10. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Sweep occurs in Mat 12:44; Luk 11:25; Luk 15:8. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words Sweep Isa 14:23 (b) This picture describes the thorough destruction of Babylon, which was foretold by our Lord, and was completely carried out to the extermination of that great city. Isa 28:17 (b) GOD will destroy all false faiths … Continue reading “Sweep”

SWEDENBORGIANS The followers of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish nobleman, born at Stockholm in 1689. He apears to have had a good education; for his learning was extensive in almost every branch. He professed himself to be the founder of the New Jerusalem Church, alluding to the New Jerusalem spoken of in the book of the … Continue reading “Swedenborgians”

Swedenborgianism A highly developed religious philosophy arising from Emanuel Swedenborg (Jan. 29, 1688-March 29, 1772). Swedenborg claimed direct spiritual knowledge. He recognized three descending levels or “degress of being in God”; Love the Celestial, Spirit or the End; then Wisdom, the Spiritual or Soul, Cause; and finally the degree of Use, the Natural and Personal, … Continue reading “Swedenborgianism”