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Lanes Luk 14:21 (c) The streets refer to the public places, and the lanes refer to the out-of-the-way places where people live in more or less obscurity. This is also described as “highways and hedges.” This refers to the easy places to reach and the difficult places to enter. (See vs. 23). Fuente: Wilson’s Dictionary … Continue reading “Lanes”

Lane, John an eminent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Virginia about 1789. His early life was spent in Georgia, and he was some time a student of Franklin College. In 1814 he entered the South Carolina Conference; in 1815 was sent to the “Natchez Circuit,” and was thrown much in … Continue reading “Lane, John”

Lane, George a Methodist minister of considerable note, was born in the State of New York April 13, 1784. He was admitted to the Philadelphia Conference in 1805, and located in 1810; was readmitted in 1819, and again located in 1825; but was readmitted once more in 1834. In 1836 he was elected assistant agent … Continue reading “Lane, George”

Lane, Edward William an English Orientalist, was born September 17, 1801, at Hereford. He studied at Cambridge, and spent some years in Egypt (1825-28; 1833-35). He published An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (Lond. 1836, and often Germ. transl. Leipsic, 1856): Selections of the Kur’an (Lond. 1843): Arabian Society in … Continue reading “Lane, Edward William”

Lane, Aaron D a veteran Presbyterian minister, was born at Lansingburgh, N.Y., January 29,1797. He studied at the Lenox Academy, Berkshire Co., Massachusetts; graduated from Union College, N.Y., in 1816, and from Princeton Theological Seminary. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Columbia, October 26, 1819; was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Waterloo, … Continue reading “Lane, Aaron D”

Lane (, so rendered in Luk 14:21; elsewhere “street”), a narrow passage or alley in a city, in distinction from a principal thoroughfare (). SEE STREET. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Lane LANE.See Street. Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels Lane lan (, rhume): An alley or bypath of a … Continue reading “Lane”

Landus, Pope Also known as Landus or Landon. Reigned from July-August 913 to February-March 914. Born in Sabina, Italy; died in Rome, Italy. There are no details of his reign extant, except that he granted a privilege to a church in Sabina. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Landulph SEE PATARIANS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Landsperger, Johann a Carthusian monk, who obtained distinction by his voluminous ascetic writings, was born in Landsperg, Bavaria, in the latter part of the 15th century; studied in Cologne, was made prior of his order near Julich, and died about 1534. On account of his marked and severe piety, he was called the Just. Among … Continue reading “Landsperger, Johann”

Landsborough, David, D.D. a Scotch Presbyterian minister, was born at Dalvy, Galloway, Scotland, in 1782. He was pastor of the parish of Stevenson from 1811 to 1843, and of a Free-Church congregation at Saltcoats from 1843 until his death in 1854. Mr. Landsborough was very eminent as a naturalist, and wrote several treatises on botany … Continue reading “Landsborough, David, D.D.”