Strain At The A.V. of 1611 renders Mat 23:24, Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. There can be little doubt, as dean Trench has supposed, that this obscure phrase is due to a printer’s error, and that the true reading is strain out. Such is the sense of the … Continue reading “Strain At”
Strain
Strain Mat 23:24. Rather (from a misprint) “strain out a gnat,” as in Tyndale’s, Cranmer’s, the Bishops’, and the Genevan Bible. An image from minute care in straining wines to clear them; ye are punctilious about trifles, but reckless about enormities. Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary Strain stran (, diulzo, to strain off, to filter): Mat … Continue reading “Strain”
Straightway
Straightway * For STRAIGHTWAY see FORTHWITH, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and IMMEDIATELY, No. 1 Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Straight Street
Straight Street ( ), one of the ancient thoroughfares of Damascus, on which was situated the house of Judas, where Paul was visited by Ananias (Act 9:11). It still subsists as a narrow lane, which runs away westward from the Bab es-Shurky, or East Gate, as far as the eye can follow it among the … Continue reading “Straight Street”
Straight, Straightway
Straight, Straightway strat, stratwa: Straiglit and strait are two entirely different words that have no connection with each other in English, the former being derived from the Anglo-Saxon, while the latter has come back from the Latin through the Romance. At some point still farther back, however, the two words may have had some common … Continue reading “Straight, Straightway”
Straight course
Straight course * For STRAIGHT COURSE, see COURSE, B, Note (1) Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Straight
Straight Name of a street in Damascus Act 9:11 Figurative of righteousness, »straight paths« Isa 40:3-4; Mat 3:3; Heb 12:13 Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible Straight “direct, straight, right,” is translated “straight,” figuratively, of the paths of the Lord, Mat 3:3; Mar 1:3; Luk 3:4; in Luk 3:5 of the rectification of the crooked, with reference … Continue reading “Straight”
Strahov, Abbey of
Strahov, Abbey of A Premonstratensian abbey at Prague, Bohemia, founded in 1149 by Bishop Henry Zdik of Olmütz, Bishop John of Prague, and Prince Ladislaus II. A colony of monks from Steinfeld near Cologne, was brought here, and Gero, a canon of Cologne, became its first abbot. This new abbey in a very short time … Continue reading “Strahov, Abbey of”
Strahl, Philipp
Strahl, Philipp doctor and professor of philosophy at Bonn, who died May 6, 1840, is the author of Beitrge zu russischen Kirchengeschichte (Halle, 1827) Geschichte der Grundung und Ausbreitung der christlichen Lehre unter den Volkern des ganzen russischen Reiches (ibid. 1828): Geschichte der russischen Kirche (vol. 1, ibid. 1830). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2, 1281; … Continue reading “Strahl, Philipp”
stragulum
stragulum (altar-cover, vespebale, or stragulum) A cover of cloth, baize, or velvet, of any color, though usually green or red, used on the altar outside the time of sacred functions, to prevent staining or soiling of the altar-cloth. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary