Necho II an Egyptian king, the son and successor of Psammetichus (B.C. 610-594), the contemporary of Josiah, king of Judah. For some reason he proclaimed war against the king of Assyria. He led forth a powerful army and marched northward, but was met by the king of Judah at Megiddo, who refused him a passage … Continue reading “Necho II”
Necho
Necho (Heb. Neko’, , an Egyptian name; Sept. and Josephus, ; fully , Pharaoh Necho, 2Ki 23:29; 2Ki 23:33-35, etc.; once Heb. , Nekoh’, Jer 46:2; Herodotus, ; on the twofold appellation of this king on the monuments, see Rosellini, Monuum. Stor. 2:131 sq., tab. 9), an Egyptian king, son and successor (according to Herodotus, … Continue reading “Necho”
Nechites
Nechites SEE NICITAS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Nechay, Alexander
Nechay, Alexander Catholic geographer . Born Herfordshire, England, 8 September 1157; died Kempsey, Worcestershire, 1229. Augustinian abbot of Cirencester. Author of the “Liber de Natura Rerum,” which contains the first record of the use of the mariner’s compass in navigation, and a list of remarkable rivers and lakes. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Necham, Neckham, or Nequam, Alexander
Necham, Neckham, or Nequam, Alexander an English monk, noted as a universal scholar, a proficient in the whole circle of science, including canon law, medicine, and theology, was born at St. Albans in 1157; lived and studied at Paris, and after his return to his native country was made abbot of Cirencester, and died in … Continue reading “Necham, Neckham, or Nequam, Alexander”
Necessity, Doctrine Of
Necessity, Doctrine Of I. Definition. In metaphysics, according to the common statement, “necessity” is that quality of a thing by which it cannot but be, or whereby it cannot be otherwise. When in a proposition which affirms anything to be true there is a fixed invariable connection between the subject and the predicate, then that … Continue reading “Necessity, Doctrine Of”
Necessity (-ties)
Necessity (-ties) signifies (a) “a necessity,” what must needs be (see NEEDS), translated “necessity” (in some mss. in Luk 23:17) in 1Co 7:37; 1Co 9:16; 2Co 9:7 (with ek “out of”); Phm 1:14 (with kata, “according to”); Heb 7:12; Heb 9:16; (b) “distress, pain,” translated “necessities” in 2Co 6:4; 2Co 12:10. See DISTRESS, No. 1, … Continue reading “Necessity (-ties)”
Necessity
NECESSITY Whatever is done by a cause or power that is irresistible, in which sense it is opposed to freedom. Man is a necessary agent, if all his actions be so determined by the causes preceding each action, that not one past action could possibly not have come to pass, or have been otherwise than … Continue reading “Necessity”
Necessitarians
Necessitarians an appellation which may be given to all who maintain that moral agents act from necessity. SEE NECESSITY. Some object not only to the name, but to the dispute on a subject so perplexing as the explanation of the most consistent mode of divine government, and insist that the theme should be left entirely … Continue reading “Necessitarians”
Necessitarianism
Necessitarianism (Lat. necessitas, necessity) Theory that every event in the universe is determined by logical or causal necessity. The theory excludes both physical indeterminacy (chance) and psychical indeterminacy (freedom). Necessitarianism, as a theory of cosmic necessity, becomes in its special application to the human will, determinism. See Determinism. — LW. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy