Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Piece PIECE.Piece is used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] for (1) a measure equal to a firkin (1Es 8:20 an hundred pieces of wine); (2) an instrument of war (1Ma 6:51 pieces to cast darts, and slings). Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Piece pes: In the King James Version the word (singular and plural) … Continue reading “Piece”

Pie Pelicane, Jesu, Domine The sixth quatrain of Adoro Te Devote, sometimes used as a separate hymn at Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament. ———————————– The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIICopyright © 1911 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, June 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop … Continue reading “Pie Pelicane, Jesu, Domine”

Pie, Louis Francois Desire Edouard a French prelate, was born at Pontgouin (Eure-et-Loir) in 1815. For some time vicar-general of Chartres, he was appointed in 1849 bishop of Poitiers, and made himself conspicuous by his zeal in defending the temporal power of the pope. He opposed the imperial government in a series of pastoral letters, … Continue reading “Pie, Louis Francois Desire Edouard”

Pie, Louis-Edouard-Dsir& Cardinal, born at Pontgouin, Diocese of Chartres, 1815; died at Angouleme, 1880. He studied at the Seminary of Chartres and at St. Sulpice, was ordained 1839, became Vicar-General of Chartres, 1844, and Bishop of Poitiers 1849. He created many parishes, established in his Seminary a canonical faculty of theology, founded for the missions … Continue reading “Pie, Louis-Edouard-Désir&é”

Pie is a table or rule which was used in the old Roman offices previous to the Reformation, showing in a technical way how to find out the service which is to be read upon each day, and corresponds to what the Greeks called , or the index (literally a plank, by metonymy a painted … Continue reading “Pie”

Piderit, Johann Rudolph Anton a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born August 18, 1720, at Pyrmont. He studied at Jena and Marburg, and commenced his academical career at the latter place in 1746. In 1747 he was professor of philosophy, in 1759 doctor of theology, in 1766 professor of Oriental languages at “Collegiumn Carolinum” in … Continue reading “Piderit, Johann Rudolph Anton”

Picturesque A modification of the beautiful in English aesthetics, 18th century. — L.V. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Pictures, Worship Of In Churches The use of paintings and images in churches was introduced as early as the commencement of the 4th century, but was speedily condemned by a council held at Illiberis, in Spain, A.D. 305. Individual writers also dulrig this century bore their testimony against the practice in question. Eusebius of Caesarea, … Continue reading “Pictures, Worship Of In Churches”

Picture Bibles Manuscript books in which copious illustrations with short accompanying texts, or commentaries, made up an almost complete Bible. Among the earliest, the “Bible Moralisee” (in allusion to the moral lessons frequently interspersed), or “Bible Historiee,” a work of the 13th century, is preserved in sections in the Bodleian Library (Oxford), the British Museum, … Continue reading “Picture Bibles”

Picture the rendering in the A.V. in three passages of two Hebrew words which are from the same root (, to look at). 1. Maskith, , an image; used alone, either literally (plur. “pictures,” Pro 25:11) or in the sense of imagination (“conceit,” Pro 18:11; plur. “wish,” Psa 73:7); with , a stone (“image of … Continue reading “Picture”