Lantern
lantern
In Italian or modern architecture a small structure on top of a dome, used for ornamentation, and also for giving light and ventilation.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Lantern
In Italian or modern architecture, a small structure on the top of a dome, for the purpose of admitting light, for promoting ventilation, and for ornament. The name is also given to any such projection, even if it has no such openings and serves merely for decoration. Examples include: the Karlskirche (church of St. Charles Borromeo), Vienna; chapel of Montepulciano, Italy; St. Peter’s, Rome; St. Paul’s, London; St. Isaac’s cathedral, St. Petersburg; Sta Maria della Salute, Venice; Sta Maria del Fiore, Florence; the Frauenkirche, Dresden; church of the Val de Grace, Paris; St. Stephen’s Walbrook, London; Sta Maria di Monte Santo, Rome; Madonna of the Little Well, Guadalupe, Mexico; church of the Oratory, London; church at Loyola, Biscay, Spain; La Superga, Turin; Sta Maria di Carignano, Genoa; Palermo cathedral.
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THOMAS H. POOLE Transcribed by Michael C. Tinkler
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIIICopyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Lantern
(, so called for its shining) occurs only in Joh 18:3, where the party of men which went out of Jerusalem to apprehend Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane is described as being provided “with lanterns and torches:” it there probably denotes any kind of covered light, in distinction from a simple taper or common house-light, as well as from a flambeau (comp. Athenseus, 15:58; Philosen. Gloss.). Lanterns were much employed by the Romans in military operations; two of bronze have been found among the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. They are cylindrical, with translucent horn sides, the lamp within being furnished with an extinguisher (Smith, Dict. of Class. Ant. page 568). In the article LAMP SEE LAMP it has been shown that the Jewish lantern, or, if we may so call it, lamp-frame, was similar to that now in use among the Orientals. As the streets of Eastern towns are not lighted at night, and never Egyptian monuments offer any trace of the use of a lantern. In this case it seems to be borne by the night-watch, or civic guard, and is shaped like those in common use among ourselves (Wilkinson, Anc. Eg. 2:72). A similar lantern is at this day used in Persia, and perhaps does not materially differ from those mentioned in Scripture. More common at present in Western Asia is a large folding lantern of waxed cloth strained over rings of wire, with a top and bottom of tinned copper. It is usually about two feet long by nine inches in diameter, and is carried by servants before their masters, who often pay visits to their friends at or after supper-time. In many Eastern towns the municipal law forbids any one to be in the streets after nightfall without a lantern.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Lantern (2)
in Italian or modern architecture, a small structure on the top of a dome, or in other similar situations, for the purpose of admitting light, promoting ventilation, or for ornament. In Gothic architecture the term is sometimes applied to louvres on the roofs of halls, etc., but it usually signifies a tower which has the whole height, or a considerable portion of the interior, open to view from the ground, and is lighted by an upper tier of windows: lantern-towers of this kind are common over the center of cross churches. The same name is also given to the light open erections often placed on the tops of towers; these sometimes have spires rising from them, but in such cases they are less perforated with windows. Lanternes des Morts occur only in the church-yards on the Continent, they were simply pillars, with a place for a light on the top similar to small light-houses, and it is not improbable that something of the kind was adopted in the early Roman cemeteries, and so has given origin to some of the Irish round towers, which may well have been used, at least in some instances, for this purpose.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Lantern
LANTERN () occurs in Joh 18:3, where the band of soldiers accompanying Judas is described as provided with lanterns and torches (see Lamp).
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Lantern
LANTERN.Only Joh 18:3, where some form of torch is more probably intended. The Greek is phanos, a word not found elsewhere in Biblical Greek.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Lantern
lantern (, phanos, , phano, to give light): Lanterns were carried by the mob which arrested Jesus in Gethsemane (Joh 18:3, probably better torches). The word lantern in the time of early versions had a much wider significance than now. The Romans, however, had lanterns in the times of Christ, made by use of translucent skins, bladders, or thin plates of horn.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Lantern
Fig. 239Lanterns
This word occurs only in Joh 18:3, where the party of men which went out of Jerusalem to apprehend Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane is described as being provided ‘with lanterns and torches.’ In the article Lamp it has been shown that the Jewish lantern, or, if we may so call it, lamp-frame, was similar to that now in use among the Orientals.
As the streets of Eastern towns are not lighted at night, and never were so, lanterns are used to an extent not known among us. Such, doubtless, was also formerly the case; and it is therefore remarkable that the only trace of a lantern which the Egyptian monuments offer, is that contained in the present engraving. In this case it seems to be borne by the night-watch, or civic guard, and is shaped like those in common use among ourselves. A similar lantern is at this day used in Persia, and perhaps does not materially differ from those mentioned in Scripture. More common at present in Western Asia is a large folding lantern of waxen cloth strained over rings of wire, with a top and bottom of tinned copper. It is usually about two feet long by nine inches in diameter, and is carried by servants before their masters, who often pay visits to their friends at or after supper-time. In many Eastern towns the municipal law forbids any one to be in the streets after nightfall without a lantern.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Lantern
Joh 18:3
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Lantern
Lantern. Lantern, (so called of its shining), occurs only in Joh 18:3. (It there probably denotes any kind of covered light, in distinction from a simple taper or common house-light, as well as from a flambeau. Lanterns were much employed by the Romans in military operations. Two, of bronze, have been found among the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. They are cylindrical, with translucent horn sides, the lamp within being furnished with an extinguisher. — Editor).
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Lantern
denotes either “a torch” or “a lantern” (from phaino, “to cause to shine, to give light”), Joh 18:3, where it is distinguished from lampas (see LAMP, No. 1); it was “a link or torch consisting of strips of resinous wood tied together” (Rutherford). “Torch” would seem to be the meaning.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Lantern
The word occurs, Joh 18:3 : : with torches and lanterns: but both terms appear to signify torches; the former of a ruder kind than the latter, being formed of split laths bound into bundles, throwing around a strong glare of light. They came thus furnished to apprehend our Lord, lest he should escape through the darkness of the night.
Fuente: Biblical and Theological Dictionary
Lantern
Joh 18:3 (c) This figure may be used as a picture of the intellect of man seeking to find out GOD and CHRIST by searching. Man brings his light in an endeavor to find GOD. CHRIST is the Light of Life. All of man’s intellectual lightness falls into an eclipse in the light of the Son of GOD. Man cannot find GOD by reasonings or deductions.