Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Ridley, Gloucester, D.D. a learned English divine, was born at sea, on board the Gloucester, an East Indiaman, 1702. He received his education at Winchester and New College, receiving the degree of B.C.L. April 29, 1729. For a great part of his life he had no other preferment than the small college living of Weston, … Continue reading “Ridley, Gloucester, D.D.”

Riding Committees were committees of the General Assembly sent to supersede a presbytery which had refused to ordain a presentee over a reclaiming parish. The first instance occurred in 1717, when a presbytery refused to ordain a Mr. John Hay in the parish of Peebles, and the General Assembly passed an act appointing certain brethren … Continue reading “Riding Committees”

Ridgley, Thomas, D.D. an eminent English Independent minister, was born in London about 1667, and educated at an academy in Wiltshire. Entering the ministry, he was in 1695 chosen assistant to Mr. Thomas Gouge, near the Three Cranes, London, and about four years afterwards became his successor. In 1712 he, with Mr. John Eames, began … Continue reading “Ridgley, Thomas, D.D.”

Ridge the upper angle of a roof. It has usually, though by no means always, a piece of timber running along it, called the ridge piece, upon which the upper ends of the rafters rest; the tiles with which it is covered are called ridge-tiles. These are sometimes made ornamental, good instances of which are … Continue reading “Ridge”

Rider, John an Irish prelate, was born at Carrington, in Cheshire, about 1562, and entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1576, where he took his degree of A.M., and continued in the university for some years, teaching grammar chiefly. He was preferred to the living of Waterstock, Oxfordshire, in 1580, but resigned it in 1581. In … Continue reading “Rider, John”

Rider (, rokeb). It is uncertain at what time, or in what place, horses were first used for riding, but there is every reason to believe that it was not until a period long after their having been employed for draught. Instead of cavalry, the Egyptians and Babylonians, and the Greeks of the Homeric age, … Continue reading “Rider”

Rideout, Uriel a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Bowdoin, Me., July 26, 1816. He joined the Maine Conference in 1846, and labored until 1849, when he located for the purpose of attending the Concord Biblical Institute. He resumed his place in conference in 1850, and continued in active service until the … Continue reading “Rideout, Uriel”

RIDE, To To Ride to what has been said concerning Riding, under the word HORSE, may be added the two following stories. The first is out of Procopius,f1 who says, he heard a Roman senator say, that in the times of Athalaric, who reigned in Italy, a herd of oxen passing through the market, one … Continue reading “RIDE, To”

Ride “to go upon” (epi, “upon,” baino, “to go”), is used of Christ’s “riding” into Jerusalem, Mat 21:5, RV, “riding” (AV, “sitting”). See COME, No. 16. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Riddoch, James a minister of the Episcopal Church, Scotland, during the last century, was born at Grange, Bamffshire. He was first minister of a chapel at Glasgow, and afterwards became one of the ministers of St. Paul’s Chapel, Aberdeen, in 1757, in which charge he continued twenty years. His sermons are distinguished for pathos, persuasion, … Continue reading “Riddoch, James”