Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Unconscious Faith UNCONSCIOUS FAITH.Faith is a venture of the soul. In the highest instances the soul stakes its all, and if the faith proves vain, is then of all most pitiable; but if the venture be justified, discovers that it has lost itself only to find itself as never before, and so in its endurance … Continue reading “Unconscious Faith”

Unconscious According to Ed. v. Hartmann (q.v.) the united unconscious will and unconscious idea — K.F.L. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Unconditioned Election SEE ELECTION OF GRACE. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Uncondemned rendered “uncondemned” in Act 16:37; Act 22:25 (a, negative, katakrino, “to condemn”), properly means “without trial, not yet tried.” Sir W. M. Ramsay points out that the Apostle, in claiming his rights, would probably use the Roman phrase re incognita, i.e., “without investigating our case” (The Cities of St. Paul, p. 225). Fuente: Vine’s … Continue reading “Uncondemned”

Uncomely “shapeless” (a, negative, schema, “a form”), the opposite of euschemon, “comely,” is used in 1Co 12:23. In the Sept., Gen 34:7; Deu 24:3. Note: For the verb aschemoneo, rendered “to behave oneself uncomely” in 1Co 7:36, AV, see BEHAVE, No. 4. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

UNCLOTHED, FIGURATIVE Mat 22:11; 2Co 5:3; Rev 3:17; Rev 16:15 Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Unclothed un-klothd. See CLOTHED, UPON. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Unclothed . In 2Co 5:3-4 the reference is to a person raised from the dead and yet found morally ‘naked’ in his sins before God. In Mat 27:28; Luk 10:30, the A.V. has ‘stripped’ for the same Greek word. Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary Unclothed * … Continue reading “Unclothed”

Uncles, Joseph a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born Feb. 17, 1812, in Anne Arundel County, Md. He was converted when about eighteen years old; followed school-teaching for some time in Eastern Pennsylvania; graduated at Alleghany College in 1838; labored two years as professor of moral science in Madison College, Uniontown, Pa., and subsequently as principal … Continue reading “Uncles, Joseph”

UNCLEANNESS, CEREMONIAL Lev 13:3; Lev 13:14; Lev 13:25; Lev 13:36; Lev 13:45; Lev 14:46; Lev 15:3; Lev 15:31; Lev 16:16; 2Ch 30:18 –SEE Defilement, DEFILEMENT & DEFILEMENT Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Uncleanness (chiefly , used in the almost technical sense of Levitical defilement) is the term by which, in the law of Moses, is indicated that condition which caused the temporary suspension of a Hebrew man or woman from religious and social privileges as a subject of the Theocracy. 1. About seventy specific cases of possible … Continue reading “Uncleanness”