Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Sermon on the Plain, The This title is sometimes given to the discourse recorded in Lk 6:20-49, because according to the Gospel (Luk 6:17) it was delivered on a plain at the foot of the mountain. In many respects this address resembles the one recorded in Mt 5 through 7, but in general the two … Continue reading “Sermon on the Plain, The”

Sermon On The Mount, The, And The Talmud In the essay prepared by the late E. Deutsch entitled The Talmud, among other daring statements we find also the following: We need not urge the priority of the Talmud to the New Test…. To assume that the Talmud has borrowed from the New Test. would be … Continue reading “Sermon On The Mount, The, And The Talmud”

Sermon on the Mount, The surnum I.PARALLEL ACCOUNTS II.HISTORICITY OF THE DISCOURSE III.TIME AND OCCASION IV.SCENE V.THE HEARERS VI.THE MESSAGE: SUMMARY 1.Analysis 2.Argument: The Kingdom of God (Heaven) (1)Characteristics of the Subjects (Matthew 5:3-12) (2)Vocation of the Subjects (Matthew 5:13-16) (3)Relation of New Righteousness to Mosaic Law (Matthew 5:17-48) (a)The Relation Defined (Matthew 5:17-20) (b)The … Continue reading “Sermon on the Mount, The”

Sermon on the Mount The first instructions given by Our Lord on the Mount of Beatitudes , so called from the opening topic of the sermon and supposed to be Karn Hattin, or the Horns of the village Hattin nearby. This mountain is 1,816 feet high, but the sermon was preached on the upland at … Continue reading “SERMON ON THE MOUNT”

SERMON A discourse delivered in public for the purpose of religious instruction and improvement. In order to make a good sermon, the following things may be attended to. The exordium should correspond with the subject on which we are about to treat. For this purpose the context often forms a source of appropriate remark; and … Continue reading “Sermon”

SERMOCINATIO SERMOCINATIO is the figure which brings forward a person speaking; or when words are adapted to a person, in accordance with his own character and the present object of the writer.-1Co 9:24, , ,-For by these words Paul does not directly exhort the Corinthians, but by a Sermocinatio brings forward that exhortation (incitement), which … Continue reading “SERMOCINATIO”

SERMO PLENUS, or FULL SPEECH SERMO PLENUS, or FULL SPEECH, is opposed to Concisa Locutio (see above), where a proposition is expressly put, any attentive reader might have easily understood or supplied: e.g.-Mat 7:21, , , , – ; where, though not the smaller edition of the New Testament, yet the Gnomon on this passage, … Continue reading “SERMO PLENUS, or FULL SPEECH”

Serjeants Lictors These officials are mentioned only in Act 16:35; Act 16:38, as taking a message from the praetors of Philippi (see under article Praetor) to St. Paul and Silas, and conveying back to the magistrates their reply. The name in Greek means rod-carriers, and is the official equivalent of the Latin lictores (beadles). These … Continue reading “Serjeants Lictors”

Serjeants servants in monastic offices: those of the church, the guest house, refectory, and infirmary were subordinate officers. The first was the bell ringer, except for high mass, vespers, matins, and obits. The candle lighter, except round the high altar (he also laid out the vestments for the celebrant at the high altar), was the … Continue reading “Serjeants”

Serjeant . This was literally ‘one who carried a rod:’ an inferior Roman officer who attended the magistrates to execute their orders, otherwise called a LICTOR. Act 16:35; Act 16:38. They carried a bundle of rods, in the centre of which was an axe. Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary