Punishment, Everlasting punish-ment: I.PRELIMINARY ASSUMPTIONS 1.Survival after Death 2.Retribution for Sin 3.Conscious Suffering in Future II.SCRIPTURAL SUPPORT 1.Old Testament and Jewish Conceptions 2.New Testament Teaching (1)Eternal (2)Equivalent Expressions (3)The Last Judgment 3.Teaching of Analogy III.DIFFICULTIES AND OBJECTIONS – RIVAL HYPOTHESES 1.Universal Salvation 2.Annihilation 3.Second Probation IV.NATURE, CONDITIONS AND ISSUES 1.Mystery of the Future 2.Nature of … Continue reading “Punishment, Everlasting”
Punishment, Capital
Punishment, Capital The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime. The Latins use the word capitalis (from caput, head) to describe that which related to life, that by which life is endangered. They used the neuter form of this adjective, i.e., capitale, substantively to denominate death, actual … Continue reading “Punishment, Capital”
Punishment
Punishment The word punishment is employed to translate (1Jn 4:18 RV_) and (Heb 10:29). The corresponding verbs and , translated punish, are used indiscriminately (Act 4:21; 2Pe 2:9; cf. Act 22:5; Act 26:11); so that the classical distinction, exemplified in Plato and Aristotle, between , which regarded the retributive suffering, and , which regarded the … Continue reading “Punishment”
Punish
Punish primarily denotes “to curtail, prune, dock” (from kolos, “docked”); then, “to check, restrain, punish;” it is used in the Middle Voice in Act 4:21; Passive Voice in 2Pe 2:9, AV, “to be punished” (RV, “under punishment,” lit., “being punished”), a futurative present tense. primarily, “to help,” then, “to avenge” (from time, “value, honor,” and … Continue reading “Punish”
Pungel, Nicolaus, Dr
Pungel, Nicolaus, Dr a Roman Catholic divine, was born at Minster in 1802. Having completed his studies, he was ordained priest in 1825, and for several years labored as chaplain in Riesenbeck and Munster. From 1835 to 1846 he superintended the parish of Riesenbeck, in the meantime pursuing his studies. The result was his work … Continue reading “Pungel, Nicolaus, Dr”
Pundeka
Pundeka (), a village of the tribe of Dan mentioned in the Talmud (Schwarz, Palest. p. 144); now the village Fundack, about midway between Nablus and the plain of Sharon towards Jaffa, on the south side of the road (Robinson, Later Researches, p. 135). Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 340. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological … Continue reading “Pundeka”
Punchao
Punchao was the greatest of the Peruvian gods, the lord of the day, the creator of light. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pumbaditha
Pumbaditha (), a name celebrated in Jewish literature as the home of one of the great schools of Judaism, was located in Babylonia, and derived its name from its situation at the (pum) mouth of the Baditha, a canal between the Tigris and Euphrates. Its academy, except only that of Sora (q.v.), was the most … Continue reading “Pumbaditha”
Pulver Day
Pulver Day (Latin: pulvis, dust) Old English name for Ash Wednesday . Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Pulton, Andrew
Pulton, Andrew a Roman Catholic divine of the Society of Jesus, flourished in tlhe second half of the 17th century, and is noted as a zealous defender of lhis order and Church. He was quite a pulpit orator, but he was more successful still as a polemic. He published, Remarks upon Dr. Tenison’s Narrative, etc. … Continue reading “Pulton, Andrew”