Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Orthosias A titular see of Phœnicia Prima, suffragan of Tyre. The city is mentioned for the first time in I Mach., xv, 37, as a Phœnician port (D. V., Orthosias); Pliny (Hist. Nat., V, xvii) places it between Tripoli, on the south, and the River Eleutherus, on the north; Strabo (Geographia, XVI, ii, 12, 15), … Continue reading “Orthosias”

Orthosia ORTHOSIA (1Ma 15:37).Placed by the Peutinger Tables 12 Roman miles N. of Tripoli, and 30 S. of Antaradus. The name has not been recovered. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Orthosia or-tho-sa (, Orthosas; the King James Version Orthosias): The city to which Tryphon fled when he escaped from Dora, where he was besieged … Continue reading “Orthosia”

Orthos Logos See Right Reason. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Orthodoxy, Feast of (or SUNDAY) The first Sunday of the Great Forty days (Lent) in the Byzantine Calendar (sixth Sunday before Easter), kept in memory of the final defeat of Iconoclasm and the restoration of the holy icons to the churches on 19 February (which was the first Sunday of Lent), 842 (see ICONOCLASM). A … Continue reading “Orthodoxy, Feast of”

Orthodoxy And Heterodoxy The use of these two words implies the possession of a standard of truth, so that what agrees with it is right, and what disagrees with it is wrong. In the general domain of truth, where there are no positive stipulations, and in philosophy, this distinction cannot be made. Yet as Christianity … Continue reading “Orthodoxy And Heterodoxy”

ORTHODOXY Soundness of doctrine or opinion in matters of religion. The doctrines which are generally considered as orthodox among us, are such as were generally professed at the time of the reformation, viz. the fall of man, regeneration, atonement, repentance, justification by free grace, &c. Some have thought, that, in order to keep error out … Continue reading “Orthodoxy”

Orthodox Society of Friends A group of religious bodies, including: the Orthodox Society of Friends; the Hicksite Society of Friends, dissenters under the leadership of Elias Hicks; the Wilburite Orthodox Conservative Friends, separatists under the leadership of John Wilbur; and the Religious Society of Friends of Philadelphia who seceded from the Wilburites. The religious movement … Continue reading “Orthodox Society of Friends”

Orthodox Church (Greek: orthodoxos, right believer) Name appropriated, some time before the 9th century, by the Christians of the largest group of the Non-Uniat or schismatical churches, to distinguish themselves from heretics. Originally comprising the four Eastern patriarchates, Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, they were separated from the West in the schism of the 9th … Continue reading “Orthodox Church”

Orthodox (, from , right, and , an opinion) are those whose doctrine is right-whose religious opinion is in accordance with an assumed or generally prevalent standard. This last is with Roman Catholics the dogmas of their Church, with Protestants it is the Bible. The doctrines which are generally considered as orthodox among us are … Continue reading “Orthodox”

Ortelius, Abraham Catholic geographer and cartographer, born Antwerp, Holland, 14 April 1527; died there 1598. In 1564 he published an eight-leaved map of the world, which was followed in 1570 by the first great modern atlas, his Theatrum orbis terrarum, containing an index of ancient and modern place names. He also compiled a valuable list … Continue reading “Ortelius, Abraham”