Peculiar
Peculiar
(Fr. peculier, i.e. private) is in English ecclesiastical law a particular parish or church having jurisdiction within itself, and which is not subject to the ordinary of the diocese in which it is locally situated, but has an ordinary of its own. There are various kinds of peculiars:
1. Royal peculiars, subject only to the king. The king’s chapel is a royal peculiar, reserved to the immediate government of the king himself.
2. Archbishops’ peculiars, exclusive of the jurisdiction of bishops and archdeacons. The archbishop has many such peculiars, it being an ancient privilege of the see of Canterbury that whenever any manors or advowsons belong to it, they forthwith become exempt from the ordinary, and are peculiars to that see.
3. Bishops’ peculiars, exclusive of the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in- which they are situated.
4. Peculiars of bishops in their own diocese, exclusive of archidiaconal jurisdiction.
5. Peculiars of deans, deans and chapters, prebendaries, and the like, which are places wherein, by ancient compositions, the bishops have parted with their jurisdiction. Under the statute 1 George I and II, c. 10, all donatives (which are in their nature peculiars) receiving augmentation from queen Anne’s bounty are thenceforth to become subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese. SEE DONATIVE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Peculiar
as used in the phrase “peculiar people” in 1 Pet. 2:9, is derived from the Lat. peculium, and denotes, as rendered in the Revised Version (“a people for God’s own possession”), a special possession or property. The church is the “property” of God, his “purchased possession” (Eph. 1:14; R.V., “God’s own possession”).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Peculiar
pe-kulyar: The Latin peculium means private property, so that peculiar properly = pertaining to the individual. In modern English the word has usually degenerated into a half-colloquial form for extraordinary, but in Biblical English it is a thoroughly dignified term for esp. one’s own; compare the peculiar treasure of the king in Ecc 2:8 (the King James Version). Hence, peculiar people (the King James Version Deu 14:2, etc.) means a people especially possessed by God and particularly prized by Him. The word in the Old Testament (the King James Version Exo 19:5; Deu 14:2; Deu 26:18; Psa 135:4; Ecc 2:8) invariably represents , seghullah, property, an obscure word which Septuagint usually rendered by the equally obscure , periousios (apparently meaning superabundant), which in turn is quoted in Tit 2:14. In Mal 3:17, however, Septuagint has , peripoesis, quoted in 1Pe 2:9. the English Revised Version in the New Testament substituted own possession in the two occurrences, but in the Old Testament kept peculiar and even extended its use (Deu 7:6; Mal 3:17) to cover every occurrence of seghullah except in 1Ch 29:3 (treasure). the American Standard Revised Version, on the contrary, has dropped peculiar altogether, using treasure in 1Ch 29:3; Ecc 2:8, and own possession elsewhere. the King James Version also has peculiar commandments (, dios, particular, the Revised Version (British and American) several) in The Wisdom of Solomon 19:6, and the Revised Version (British and American) has peculiar where the King James Version has special in The Wisdom of Solomon 3:14 for , eklekte, chosen out.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Peculiar
* For PECULIAR see POSSESSION, B, No. 3, and C