Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Ptolemee, Ptolomaeus, Ptolomee forms of the name Ptolemy sometimes found in the Apocryphal books of Esther and Maccabees. SEE PTOLEMAUS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Ptolemee Ptol’emee. See Ptolemeus. Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Ptolemaites a branch of the Gnostic sect of the 2d century, described by Irenaeus as a bud from the Valentinians, take their name from their leader Ptolemy (q.v.), who differed in opinion from Valentinian with respect to the number and nature of the aeons, as well as the authorship and design of some portions of … Continue reading “Ptolemaites”

PTOLEMAIS See ACCHO. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Ptolemais () Ptolemais is the ancient Canaanite town of Acco (mentioned in Jdg 1:31 and in the corrected text of Jos 19:30), still known in Arab. as Akka. Standing on the rocky promontory which forms the northern boundary of the sandy Bay of Acre, protected by … Continue reading “Ptolemais”

Ptolemaeus or PTOLEMY (, i.e. the warlike, from – = ), the dynastic name of the Greek kings of Egypt (A.V. Ptol’emee or Ptoleme’us), and hence employed also by many private persons. The name, which occurs in early legends (Il. 4:228; Pausan. 10:5), appears first in the historic period in the time of Alexander the … Continue reading “Ptolemaeus”

psychotherapy (Greek: psyche, mind; therapuo, cure) Name for the process of using the mind to influence the body when ailing, and help to relieve it or cure it entirely. It is no new thing, but as ancient as humanity; nor does it require any recondite knowledge or skill, since it is a matter of common … Continue reading “Psychotherapy”

Psychosis (Gr. psychosis, a giving of life or soul) (a) In the general sense, psychosis designates any mental or psychical process, just as a neurosis, in the wide sense is any neural process. (b) In the restricted sense, psychosis designates a pathological condition of mind, just as “neurosis” is an abnormal condition of the nervous … Continue reading “Psychosis”

Psychopneumones were those who maintained the opinion that the souls of the good, after death, became angels, and the souls of the evil became devils. See Augustinus, Hoeres. ch. 78; Praedest. Hoeres. ch. 78. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Psychopannychism (, soul; , all; and , , night- the sleep of the soul) is the doctrine to which Luther, among divines, and Forney, among philosophers, were inclined, that at death the soul falls asleep, and does not awake till the resurrection of the body. Calvin wrote a treatise against this view in 1534, and … Continue reading “Psychopannychism”

Psychometry (a new formation, from , soul, and , measure) is the art of measuring souls. It cannot give an account with mathematical exactitude of the powers of the soul and their effects; it must content itself with an approximative valuation, the soul being a quantity inapproachable to the senses, which cannot be measured like … Continue reading “Psychometry”