Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Similia similibus percipiuntur (Lat. like things are apprehended through like things) Like knows like, the basic principle of nearly all epistemologies, viz., that knowledge involves an assimilation of subject to object, or vice versa. — V.J.B. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Simile; or, Resemblance A Declaration that one Thing resembles another; or, Comparison by Resemblance Sim-i-le. This is the Latin name of the figure; from similis, like, similar, resembling closely, or in many respects. This figure has no corresponding Greek name. Indeed it can hardly be called a figure, or an unusual form of expression, seeing … Continue reading “Simile; or, Resemblance”

Similarity, Law of (Lat similis, like) Association depending upon resemblance between the associated ideas. See Association, Laws of. — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Simeonites sime-on-ts. See SIMEON. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Simeonites [Sim’eonites] Descendants of Simeon, the son of Jacob. Num 25:14; Num 26:14; 1Ch 27:16. Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary

Simeonite (Heb. collect. with the art. hash-Shimoni’, ; Sept. ), a patronymic designation of the descendants of Simeon (Num 25:14; Num 26:14; 1Ch 27:16). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Simeon, The tribe of was “divided and scattered” according to the prediction in Gen. 49:5-7. They gradually dwindled in number, and sank into a position of insignificance among the other tribes. They decreased in the wilderness by about two-thirds (comp. Num. 1:23; 26:14). Moses pronounces no blessing on this tribe. It is passed by in … Continue reading “Simeon, The tribe of”

Simeon Stylites the Younger, Saint Born at Antioch in 521, died at the same place 24 May, 597. His father was a native of Edessa, his mother, named Martha was afterwards revered as a saint and a life of her, which incorporates a letter to her son written from his pillar to Thomas, the guardian … Continue reading “Simeon Stylites the Younger, Saint”

Simeon Stylites the Elder, Saint St. Simeon was the first and probably the most famous of the long succession of stylitoe, or “pillar-hermits”, who during more than six centuries acquired by their strange form of asceticism a great reputation for holiness throughout eastern Christendom. If it were not that our information, in the case of … Continue reading “Simeon Stylites the Elder, Saint”

Simeon Stylites Simeon (12) Stylites, a.d. 388-460. Simeon was, according to Theodoret, originally an enclosed anchorite, and raised his cell to avoid the honours paid to him (cf. Reeves on church of St. Doulough, pp. 8-11, with Evagr. H. E. i. 21). The fashion rapidly spread even to the sects, as we learn from Joannes … Continue reading “Simeon Stylites”

Simeon, St., Surnamed Stylites (from , a pillar), an early anchoret, was born about 390 at Sisan, on the confines of Cilicia and Syria. He was the son of a shepherd, and followed the same vocation himself till his thirteenth year, when he entered a monastery where several brethren consecrated themselves entirely to a knowledge … Continue reading “Simeon, St., Surnamed Stylites”