Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Speyer, Johann and Wendelin von German printers in Venice from 1468 to 1477. They were among the first of those who, after 1462, left Mainz for Italy to introduce there the art of printing books. We have scant knowledge of their lives. They came originally from Speyer (capital of the Bavarian palatinate). Early in 1460-61 … Continue reading “Speyer, Johann and Wendelin von”

Speyer DIOCESE OF SPEYER (SPIRA) Diocese in Bavaria. The city dates back to the stronghold of Noviomagus, in the territory of the German tribe of the Nemetes, on the left bank of the Rhine. In the course of time a Roman municipality (Colonia Nemetum) developed out of this stronghold; in 451 the municipality was entirely … Continue reading “Speyer”

Spew (AV, Spue) “to vomit” (cp. Eng., “emetic”), is used in Rev 3:16, figuratively of the Lord’s utter abhorrence of the condition of the church at Laodicea. In the Sept., Isa 19:14. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Spes the personified Hope of the Romans, was originally conceived of as the Hope of yearly harvests, for which reason she was represented with a wreath of flowers in her hair and ears of grain or a cornucopia in her hands. Subsequently she became the goddess of the marriage bed, and only at a later … Continue reading “Spes”

Sperver the tester, canopy, or covering of an altar or shrine. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Spermatorrhea A disease of the genital organs. Lev 15:16 Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible

Sperl, Joseph a Roman Catholic divine of Germany, Was born June 1, 1761, at Lauchheim, in Bavaria. In. 1800 he was appointed to the pastorate at Zoschingen, and afterwards to that of Schneidheim, having at the same time the superintendence of the schools. He died in 1834. In 1800 he published a hymn book especially … Continue reading “Sperl, Joseph”

Spere the screen across the lower end of the monastic hall in the Middle Ages; a North country word. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Sperchius was a Thessalian river god in Grecian mythology, son of Oceanus and the Earth. He became the father of Menesthius by Polydora, the daughter of Peleus (Homer, Iliad, 16, 174; 23, 142; Apollod. 3, 14, 4; Pausan. 1, 37, 2; Herod. 7, 198). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Sperbach, Karl Gottlieb a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Konigsbruck, Upper Lusatia, February 26, 1694. He studied at Leipsic, and commenced his academical career there in 1717. In 1734 he accepted a call to Wittenberg, and died July 6, 1772. He published, Causa Philosophiae adversus Atheismi Calumnia Defensa (Leipsic, 1730): Diss. qua Versio … Continue reading “Sperbach, Karl Gottlieb”