Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Traditores (surrenderers or, traitors), a name applied by the ancient Christians to those persons who delivered up their Bible and sacred utensils of the Church to the heathen in time of persecution. See Bingham, Christ. Antiq. bk. 16:ch. 6: 25. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

TRADITIONS of men Mat 15:3; Mar 7:8; Col 2:8; Tit 1:14; 1Pe 1:18 –SEE Precepts, Human, PRECEPTS, HUMAN Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Traditionalism A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude. Exposition According to traditionalism, human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order. Hence our first act of knowledge must be an act of … Continue reading “Traditionalism”

Tradition, Christian In the older ecclesiastical fathers, the words and traditio are used to denote any instruction which one gives to another, whether oral or written. In the New Test. also, and in the classical writers, and tradere signify, in general, to teach, to instruct. In this wider sense, tradition was divided into scripta and … Continue reading “Tradition, Christian”

Tradition and Living Magisterium The word tradition (Greek paradosis in the ecclesiastical sense; which is the only one in which it is used here; refers sometimes to the thing (doctrine, account, or custom) transmitted from one generation to another sometimes to the organ or mode of the transmission (kerigma ekklisiastikon, predicatio ecclesiastica). In the first … Continue reading “Tradition and Living Magisterium”

TRADITION Col 2:8 Tit 1:14, a doctrine, sentiment, or custom not found in the Bible, but transmitted orally from generation to generation from some presumed inspired authority. In patriarchal times, much that was valuable and obligatory was thus preserved. But tradition has long been superseded by the successive and completed revelations of God’s will which … Continue reading “Tradition”

Traditio (Et Redditio) Symboli (Delivery Of The Creed) These words are used by ecclesiastical writers in reference to the practice generally adopted of requiring baptized persons to repeat the Creed and the Lord’s Prayer, in which they had previously been instructed. In the case of infants the sponsors at first repeated these formularies on behalf … Continue reading “Traditio (Et Redditio) Symboli (Delivery Of The Creed)”

Trades TRADES.It had long been a custom, which almost had the force of law, among the Jews, that every youth, of whatever station, must have a trade. The Rabbis insisted upon it. Of the distinguished teachers in the days of Herod the Great [Note: reat Cranmers Great Bible 1539.] , Hillel and Shammai learned and … Continue reading “Trades”

Trade And Commerce 1. Introductory.-Trade and commerce occupied almost as great a place in the life of ancient communities as they do in modern times. Indeed, apart from such developments as the railway, the steamship, the telegraph, and the telephone have introduced, the chief difference between the two periods might be found in the somewhat … Continue reading “Trade And Commerce”

Trade (Noun and Verb) “to work,” is rendered “traded” in Mat 25:16; in Rev 18:17, AV, “trade,” RV, “gain their living.” See COMMIT, DO, LABOR, B, Note (1), MINISTER, WORK. is rendered “trade ye” in Luk 19:13, RV, which adds “herewith:” see OCCUPY. “to accomplish by traffic, to gain by trading,” occurs in Luk 19:15. … Continue reading “Trade (Noun and Verb)”