Writing tablet (AV, Writing table) occurs in Luk 1:63, a diminutive of pinakis, “a tablet,” which is a variant reading here. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
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Writing
WRITING See BOOK. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Writing 1. The autographs of the Apostolic Age.-The problem regarding writing and book in the Apostolic Age might be expressed by the following question: With what materials and in what forms were letters and longer works written in the primitive Christian community and the Christian churches … Continue reading “Writing”
Write, Wrote, Written
Write, Wrote, Written is used (a) of “forming letters” on a surface or writing material, Joh 8:6; Gal 6:11, where the Apostle speaks of his having “written” with large letters in his own hand, which not improbably means that at this point he took the pen from his amanuensis and finished the Epistle himself; this … Continue reading “Write, Wrote, Written”
WRITE, To
WRITE, To To Write signifies to publish, or notify, because this is the first intention of writing; and at first no writings were made but upon pillars or other monuments merely to notify things. Thus when God saith, in Isa 65:6, “Behold it is written before me,” it immediately follows as synonymous, “I will not … Continue reading “WRITE, To”
Writ, Holy
Writ, Holy (Anglo-Saxon: hang, holy; Old English: writan, to write) One of the titles of the Bible; the more English equivalent of the expression Sacred Scripture. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Wrinkle
Wrinkle rink’l (, kamat, to lay hold on; , rhuts, a wrinkle): In Job 16:8, the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes, Thou hast laid fast hold on me (margin shrivelled me up) for the King James Version Thou hast filled me with wrinkles. In Eph 5:27, Paul’s figurative reference to the church as a … Continue reading “Wrinkle”
Wright, William, D.D
Wright, William, D.D an Irish clergyman, was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and died in 1856. He published, Doctrine of the Real Presence: Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope (1831): Biblical Hermeneutics, from the German of G.F. Seiler, D.D. (1835), etc. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, … Continue reading “Wright, William, D.D”
Wright, William
Wright, William Born at York, 1562; died 18 Jan., 1639. Though he came late (23) to his studies, he then made such good progress that he was many years professor of philosophy at Gratz and Vienna. Coming to help the English Mission in the great troubles that followed the Powder Plot, he became chaplain to … Continue reading “Wright, William”
Wright, Venerable Peter
Wright, Venerable Peter Martyr, b. at Slipton, Northamptonshire, 1603; suffered at Tyburn, 19 May, 1651. After spending ten years in a country solicitor’s office he enlisted in the English army in Holland, but deserted after a month, and for two years remained in the Flemish Jesuit Seminary at Ghent. In 1629 he entered the novitiate … Continue reading “Wright, Venerable Peter”
Wright, Robert, D.D
Wright, Robert, D.D an English prelate, became prebendary of Wells in 1594; bishop of Bristol in January 1623; of Lichfield and Coventry in 1632, and died in August 1643. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature