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SURRENDERED LIFE, THE (A) CHARACTERISTICS OF(1) Death to Sin Rom 6:2; Rom 6:7; Rom 6:11; Gal 2:20; Gal 5:24; Col 2:20; Col 3:3; 2Ti 2:11; 1Pe 2:24 (2) Fellowship with Christ’s Death Rom 6:6; Rom 8:36; 2Co 4:11; Gal 2:20; Col 2:20; 2Ti 2:11 (3) The Rendering of Unquestioning Service — Noah Gen 6:22 — … Continue reading “SURRENDERED LIFE, THE”

Surrealism Spiritualistic trend of art. A recent artistic school representing dreams interpreted according to Freud’s theories. — L.V. Artistic movement which maintains that there exists, and seeks access to, a “real” world that lies behind the artificial world of ordinary objects given in normal awareness. Argues that what is found on the conscious level is … Continue reading “Surrealism”

Surprise SURPRISE.The word has an objective as well as a subjective reference: it means both the act of taking unawares and the emotion caused by anything sudden. The emotion is closely akin to wonder, the state of mind produced by something new, unexpected, or extraordinary; but sudden emergence is its distinctive characteristic. It may enter … Continue reading “Surprise”

Surplice-fee is a fee paid to the clergy for occasional duties. This seems to have been unknown in the ancient Church; indeed; several laws were passed in the early Church commanding the gratuitous permanence of all religious offices. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

surplice (Latin: a garment) A vestment of white linen, reaching to a little below the hips, having wide sleeves, often ornamented with lace. It is worn over the cassock by clerics and altar boys at many sacred functions, signifying the purity of heart becoming God’s ministers. The name surplice (Latin: superpeliceum; super, over; pelliceum, fur … Continue reading “Surplice”

Surpass * For SURPASS, 2Co 3:10, see EXCEED, A, No. 1 Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Surname It seems probable, as indicated in the article Name, that originally a name was the designation of a stock or tribe-like the Grants or Howards-applied by outsiders to a group and subsequently adopted by it. When the stock increased, personal names seem to have been introduced to distinguish the different members. When the number … Continue reading “Surname”

Surmise * For SURMISE, SURMISINGS, see DEEM Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Surlet (de Chokier), the name of an old French family, which dates from the year 1170, and culminated in the person of Fastre Bare de Surlet, who died about 1473. The emperor Ferdinand II ennobled the family of Surlet in 1630 with the title de Chokier. The following members deserve mention here: 1. JEAN, born … Continue reading “Surlet”

Surius, Laurentius Hagiologist, born at the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, 1522; died at Cologne, 23 May, 1578. It is not certain whether his parents were Catholics or Lutherans. According to a remark made by Peter Canisius (“Epistolæ”, ed. Braunsberger, I, 36), he was born a heretic and was brought into the Church by Canisius. Surius … Continue reading “Surius, Laurentius”