Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Service, John, D.D a minister of the Church of Scotland, was born at Campsie, February 26, 1833. He studied at the University of Glasgow in 1858-62, but did not graduate. He was sub-editor of Mackenzie’s Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography. For ten months in 1862 he was minister at Hamilton, but was compelled by ill-health … Continue reading “Service, John, D.D”

Service book a book of devotion, of prayer. That of the Church of England contains the Book of Common Prayer, Administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church. SEE COMMON PRAYER. The service books of the Latin Church include the Missal, the Pontifical, the Day Hours, the Breviary, the Ritual, the … Continue reading “Service book”

Service (properly , , i.e. bondage; but the rendering in the A.V. in many places of less severe words, as , , , etc.). SEE SERVITUDE. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Service With regard to the word serve or service, the LXX often keeps up a distinction which is not to be … Continue reading “Service”

Servian Version SEE SLAVONIC VERSIONS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Servia (SERBIA) A European kingdom in the north-western part of the Balkan peninsula. I. HISTORY The greater part of the territory of the present Kingdom of Servia belonged, at the beginning of the Christian era, to the Roman Province of Moesia, the western part to the Province of Dalmatia. Under Roman supremacy a number of … Continue reading “Servia”

Servetus, Michael Theologian, anti-trinitarian, humanist, and physician. Born 29 September 1511 at Tudela, Navarre, Spain; burned at the stake on 27 October 1553 at Geneva, Switzerland. He studied in Toulouse, traveled in Germany, and in 1531 published his treatise De Trinitatis Erroribus, a strong Unitarian work which caused a disturbance among the more orthodox reformers, … Continue reading “Servetus, Michael”

Server one who assists the priest at the celebration of the holy eucharist by lighting the altar tapers, arranging the books, bringing bread, wine, and water for the sacrifice, and by making the appointed responses in the name and behalf of the assembled congregation. He was sometimes called adjutor. The Clugniacs allowed one server, but … Continue reading “Server”

Serve latreuo (G3000) Serve, Worship leitourgeo (G3008) Minister to Although latreuo and leitourgeo both refer to service, the former word refers to service with special limitations. Latreuein properly means “to serve for hire” and thus does not refer to compulsory service, such as that of a slave, though this distinction between latris and doulos (G1401) … Continue reading “Serve”

Servator in Roman mythology, was a surname of Jupiter, signifying the preserver. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Servatius, Saint According to Athanasius (Apol. 2:767), a Gallican bishop, by the name of Servatius, was among those who attended the Council of Sardica in 347, and he may probably have been the same whom Sulpicius Severus sent to Rimini in 359 to defend the Athanasian orthodoxy against the Arians. See Rettberg, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands, 1:204 … Continue reading “Servatius, Saint”