Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

TRANSIENT-ENDURING (A) TRANSIENT, the things that are Power Psa 37:35; Psa 37:36 Life Psa 90:10 Material Things Psa 102:25; Psa 102:26 Pleasure Luk 12:19; Luk 12:20 Knowledge 1Co 13:8 Glory 1Pe 1:24 –SEE Uncertainties, UNCERTAINTIES Riches Fleeting, RICHES (B) FRAILTY OF MAN, general references to 1Sa 20:3; Psa 38:10; Psa 49:12; Psa 78:39; Psa 103:14; … Continue reading “TRANSIENT-ENDURING”

Transgressor lit. and primarily, “one who stands beside,” then, “one who oversteps the prescribed limit, a transgressor” (akin to parabaino, “to transgress,” see above); so Rom 2:25, RV (AV, “a breaker”); Rom 2:27, RV, “a transgressor” (AV, “dost transgress”); Gal 2:18; Jam 2:9, Jam 2:11. Note: Hamartolos, “a sinner, one who misses the mark,” is … Continue reading “Transgressor”

Transgression The idea of transgression, or crossing over the boundary of right and entering the forbidden l and of wrong, is marked by the use of the word Avar (), to cross over (compare the Assyrian ebiru, ‘to cross’). The word is rendered transgress in eighteen passages, e.g. Psa 17:3, Hos 6:7; Hos 8:1. Fuente: … Continue reading “Transgression”

Transgress, Transgression lit., “to go aside” (para), hence “to go beyond,” is chiefly used metaphorically of “transgressing” the tradition of the elders, Mat 15:2; the commandment of God, Mat 15:3; in Act 1:25, of Judas, AV, “by transgression fell” (RV, “fell away”); in 2Jo 1:9 some texts have this verb (AV, “transgresseth”), the best have … Continue reading “Transgress, Transgression”

Transformator In R. Reininger’s philosophy, the agent or factor bringing about the change from the physical sensition or perception to experience as something psychic. — K.F.L. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Transform trans-form (Rom 12:2; the Revised Version (British and American) 2Co 3:18 for , metamorphoomai, and the King James Version 2Co 11:13, 2Co 11:14, 2Co 11:15 for , metaschematzo, the Revised Version (British and American) fashion): The commentaries often explain the former word as connoting a change of nature, while the latter refers only to … Continue reading “Transform”

Transfinite ordinals See ordinal number. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Transfinite induction A generalization of the method of proof by mathematical induction or recursion (see recursion, proof by), applicable to a well-ordered class of arbitrary ordinal number — especially one of ordinal number greater than omega (see ordinal number) — in a way similar to that in which mathematical induction is applicable to a well-ordered … Continue reading “Transfinite induction”

Transfigure “to change into another form” (meta, implying change, and morphe, “form:” see FORM, No. 1), is used in the Passive Voice (a) of Christ’s “transfiguration,” Mat 17:2; Mar 9:2; Luke (in Luk 9:29) avoids this term, which might have suggested to gentile readers the metamorphoses of heathen gods, and uses the phrase egeneto heteron, … Continue reading “Transfigure”

Transfiguration, the of our Lord on a “high mountain apart,” is described by each of the three evangelists (Matt. 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36). The fullest account is given by Luke, who, no doubt, was informed by Peter, who was present on the occasion. What these evangelists record was an absolute historical reality, and not … Continue reading “Transfiguration, The”