Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Various Readings of the New Testament By various readings (commonly abbreviated v.r. for the singular, and for the plural vv. rr.) are meant the differences observed in different manuscript copies of the Holy Scriptures. Those found in the Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Test. will be considered below. The writings of the New Test. were … Continue reading “Various Readings of the New Testament”

Various Readings These have been briefly considered under the word BIBLE, but as the subject is important more detail is here added, confining attention however to the N.T. ‘Readings’ must be distinguished from different ‘translations.’ Thus, for instance, the Revised Version omits a part of the verse in Joh 5:3, and the whole of the … Continue reading “Various Readings”

Varillas, Antoine a French historiographer, who was born in 1624, and died in Paris, June 9,1696, is the author of Hist. des Revolutions Arrives en Europe en Matiere de Religion: (Paris, 1686-89, 6 vols.): Histoire du Wiclefianisme, ou de la Doctrine de Wiclef Juffus, et Jerome de Prague, avec celle des Guerres de Boheme qui … Continue reading “Varillas, Antoine”

Varick, Rudolphus Vox a clergyman of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, was settled upon Long Island, in what is now Kings County, over the churches of Brooklyn, Flatlands, Bushwick, Flatbush, New Utrecht, and Gravesend, 1685-94. With dominies Selyns, Dellius, and. Daille, he stood firm against the high- handed proceedings of the usurping governor, Jacob Leisler, and … Continue reading “Varick, Rudolphus Vox”

Variation, Right of (us Variandi) in canon law, is the right of a lay patron, during an established period, to suggest for confirmation by the proper ecclesiastical authority the diversion of a benefice already presented to a different candidate. Clerical patrons do not possess this right. Its exercise is entirely voluntary with the patron, though … Continue reading “Variation, Right of”

Variance “to cut apart, divide in two,” is used metaphorically in Mat 10:35, “to set at variance.” Notes: (1) In Gal 5:20, AV, eris, “strife” (RV), is rendered “variance.” (2) For adiakritos, Jam 3:17, RV, “without variance” (marg., “doubtfulness, or partiality”), AV, “without partiality” (marg., “without wrangling”), see PARTIAL. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament … Continue reading “Variance”

Variableness, Variation denotes, in general, “a change” (Eng., “parallax,” the difference between the directions of a body as seen from two different points), “a transmission” from one condition to another; it occurs in Jam 1:17, RV, “variation” (AV, “variableness”); the reference may be to the sun, which “varies” its position in the sky. In the … Continue reading “Variableness, Variation”

Variable error The average departure or deviation from the average between several given values. In successive measurements of magnitudes considered in the natural sciences or in experimental psychology, the observed differences are the unavoidable result of a great number of small causes independent of each other and equally likely to make the measurement too small … Continue reading “Variable error”

Variable A letter occurring in a mathematical or logistic formula and serving, not as a name of a particular, but as an ambiguous name of any one of a class of things — this class being known as the range of the variable, and the members of the class as values of the variable. Where … Continue reading “Variable”

Vargas y Mexia, Francisco de Spanish diplomat and ecclesiastical writer, b. at Madrid, date unknown; d. At the Hieronymite monastery of la Cisla in 1566. He belonged to an old family of the lower nobility and studied law at the University of Alcalá, receiving the degree of licentiate in law. He became a government official, … Continue reading “Vargas y Mexia, Francisco de”