SAMARIA 1. One of the three divisions of the Holy Land in the time of our Savior, having Galilee on the north and Judea on the south, the Jordan on the east and the Mediterranean on the west, and occupying parts of the territory assigned at first to Ephraim, Mahasseh, and Issachar, Luk 17:11 Joh … Continue reading “Samaria”
Samanya
Samanya (Skr. similar, generic, etc.) Generality, universality, the universal in contrast to the particular. The universal is understood in the realist manner by the Nyaya- Vaisesika to be eternal and distinct from, yet inherent in the particular, in the nominalist manner, by the Buddhists, to have no intrinsic existence; in the manner of universalia in … Continue reading “Samanya”
Samanera
Samanera is the name given to a novice among the Buddhists. It is derived from sramama, an ascetic. He must be at least eight years of age, and must have received the consent of his parents to his abandonment of the world. He cannot receive ordination until he is twenty years of age, nor before … Continue reading “Samanera”
Samanaeans
Samanaeans in Chinese mythology, are an order of saints who are given to self- contemplation. Fo, or Fohi, teaches that the essence of all things consists in the nothing and the vacuum, and that men return into the nothing, there first to attain to blessedness. The Samanaeans occupy the last stage in the progress towards … Continue reading “Samanaeans”
Samaias
Samaias (, but v.r. in Tobit , , etc.), a Graecized form for the name SHEMAIAH SEE SHEMAIAH (q.v.): a. a Levite (1Es 1:9), in the reign of Josiah (2Ch 25:9); b. an Israelite (1Es 8:39) of the sons of Adonikam (Ezr 8:13); c. a great personage, father of Ananias and Jonathas (Tob 5:13). Fuente: … Continue reading “Samaias”
Samael
Samael ( v.r. ), a corrupt form (Jdt 8:1) of the Heb. name (Num 1:6) SHELUMIEL SEE SHELUMIEL (q.v.). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Samael sama-el: the King James Version = the Revised Version (British and American) SALAMIEL (which see). Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Samadhi
Samadhi (Skr.) The final stage in the practice of Yoga (q.v.) according to the Yogasutras (q.v.) in which individuality is given up while merging with the object of meditation; thus producing a state of unqualified blissfulness and unperturbed consciousness, which is moksa (q.v.). — K.F.L. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Sam, Conrad
Sam, Conrad known in German history as the Reformer of Ulm, was born at Rothenacker in 1483. He studied Latin at Ulm, and in 1498 matriculated at Tubingen. In 1520 he was preacher at Brackenheim, near Heilbronn, and thoroughly devoted to the Reformation. Luther corresponded with him, and sent to him regularly his publications. Copies … Continue reading “Sam, Conrad”
Sam-Beid, Or Saman Veda
Sam-Beid, Or Saman Veda Is the Hindu title of the third section of the Vedas (q.v.). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Salzmann, Joseph
Salzmann, Joseph Missionary. Born in 1819 in Mnzbach, Austria; died in 1874 in Saint Francis, Wisconsin. He was ordained in 1842 and labored five years in Austria before coming as missionary to America. In Milwaukee he became pastor of Saint Mary’s, and entered upon a long struggle with German freethinkers. There he founded the Saint … Continue reading “Salzmann, Joseph”