Post-Pridie (or the COLLECTIO POST MYSTERIUM or POST SECRETA, as it is called in the Gallican office) is the prayer of the Anaphorae (q.v.) of the Mozarabic liturgy. Various opinions are entertained regarding the belief of the Eastern Church on the doctrine of the Invocation of the Holy Ghost (q.v.) in the consecration of the … Continue reading “Post-Pridie”
Post-Millennialists
Post-Millennialists the name applied to the large body of Christians belonging to all denominations who believe that the second coming of Christ will not precede, as the Pre-Millennialists allege, but follow after the Millennium (q.v.). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (Lat. after this, therefore on account of this) A logical fallacy in which it is argued that a consequent is caused by an antecedent, simply because of the temporal relationship. — V.J.B. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Post, Henry Albertson
Post, Henry Albertson a Presbyterian minister, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1835. He received careful parental training, enjoyed all the advantages of the academies of New England, and graduated at the New York Free Academy. He studied theology in the Union Seminary, New York, and subsequently in the Princeton Seminary, N. J., … Continue reading “Post, Henry Albertson”
Post, Doorpost
Post, Doorpost POST, DOORPOST.See House, 6. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Post, Christian Frederick
Post, Christian Frederick a distinguished but somewhat erratic Mioravian missionary, was born in 1710 at Conlitz, in Polish Prussia. He immigrated to America in 1742. He preached, after his arrival in this country, among the Indians, with whom he was connected by marriage, his first wife, Rachel, having been a baptized Womrpanoag, and his second … Continue reading “Post, Christian Frederick”
Post
Post (courant) is the rendering of , rts (Sept. . Vulg. cursor, 2Ch 30:6; 2Ch 30:10; Est 3:13; Est 3:15; Est 8:10; Est 8:14; Job 9:25; Jer 51:31), a runner, or glard, as elsewhere rendered; a courier or carrier of messages, such as is common in Oriental countries. SEE ANGAREUO. The term post is used … Continue reading “Post”
Possinus, Pierre
Possinus, Pierre a French Jesuit, was born at Narbonne in 1590. He was an excellent Hebrew and Greek scholar, and died at Rome towards the end of the 17th century. He published, Thesaurus Asceticus, etc. (Paris, 1684): Collationes Isidoranae, etc. (Rome, 1670): Nili Opera (1639): Nili Epistolae (1657), etc. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. … Continue reading “Possinus, Pierre”
Possidius, St
Possidius, St a prelate of the early Eastern Church, flourished at the close of the 4th and the commencement of the 5th century. He was a disciple of St. Augustine, and lived on intimate terms with him all his life. On being raised in 397 to the episcopal see of Calamo, a town in Numidia, … Continue reading “Possidius, St”
Possidius, Saint
Possidius, Saint Bishop of Calama in Numidia, author of a short life of St. Augustine and of an indiculus or list of St. Augustine’s writings. The dates of his birth and death are unknown; he was alive and in exile in 437 according to Prosper, who, in his “Chronicle”, records that Possidius and two other … Continue reading “Possidius, Saint”