Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Wednesday, Spy The Wednesday in Holy Week, intimating that Judas Iscariot was watching the movements of Our Lord in order to secure His betrayal. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

WEDNESDAY, ASH The first day of Lent, when, in the primitive church, notorious sinners were put to open penance thus: They appeared at the church door barefooted, and clothed in sackcloth, where, being examined, their discipline was proportioned according to their offences; after which, being brought into the church, the bishop singing the seven penitential … Continue reading “Wednesday, Ash”

Wedlock a word that occurs but once in the A.V. (in the phrase “break wedlock,” , Eze 16:38, to commit adultery, as elsewhere rendered); but the relation is very often referred to both in its literal and figurative (spiritual) sense in the Scriptures. The term properly designates the state of lawful matrimony as distinguished from … Continue reading “Wedlock”

Wedge Of Gold , lashon, Jos 7:21; Jos 7:24, a tongue, as elsewhere rendered; more elliptically, , ke’them, Isa 13:12, fine gold, as elsewhere rendered). SEE GOLD. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Wedge of Gold wej, ( , lashon zahabh, literally, tongue of gold): A piece of gold in the form of … Continue reading “Wedge of Gold”

Wedge WEDGE (of gold).See Money, p. 628b. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible

Wedding Guests, Bridegroom and the Descriptive term for a short parable recorded by the three synoptic Gospels (Matthew 9; Mark 2; Luke 5). It was spoken probably on the occasion of the banquet given by Saint Matthew to Christ and His disciples along with many sinners and publicans, after his call to the Apostleship. The … Continue reading “Wedding Guests, Bridegroom and the”

WEDDING-GARMENT See GARMENTS. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Wedding Garment WEDDING GARMENT.The parable in which the incident of the wedding garment occurs is recorded in Mat 22:1 ff. As there is good reason to believe that the similar story told in Luk 14:16 ff. is not a different version of the same parable, but … Continue reading “Wedding Garment”

WEDDING See MARRIAGE. Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Wedding (, Mat 22:3; Mat 22:8; Mat 22:10; Mat 22:12; Luk 12:36; Luk 14:8, marriage, as elsewhere rendered). See the monographs cited in Volbeding, Index Program. page 152, 153. SEE MARRIAGE; SEE RING WEDLOCK. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Wedding WEDDING.See Marriage. Fuente: … Continue reading “Wedding”

Wedderburn, James a Scotch prelate, was born in Dundee, and studied at Oxford. In 1631 he became a prebendary of Whitechurch, in the diocese of Wells. England. He was afterwards professor of divinity at St. Andrews.In February, 1636, he was preferred to the see of Dunblane, and in 1638 deprived and excommunicated by the Assembly … Continue reading “Wedderburn, James”

Wedag, Friedrich Wilhelm a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born in 1758 at Neuenrade, in Westphalia. He studied at Halle and Duisburg; and after the completion of his academical curriculum he acted as a private tutor. Having no prospects for obtaining a position in his own country, he thought of going to Amsterdam’, and there … Continue reading “Wedag, Friedrich Wilhelm”