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See also:JOHN THE BAPTIST , in the See also:Bible, the " forerunner " of Jesus See also:Christ in the See also:Gospel See also:story. By his See also:preaching and teaching he evidently made' a See also:great impression upon his contemporaries (cf. See also:Josephus, See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
Ant. xviii., § 5). According to the See also:birth-narrative embodied in See also:Luke i. and ii., he was See also:born in" a See also:city of See also:Judah " in " the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill See also:country (possibly See also:Hebron 1) of priestly parentage. His See also:father See also:Zacharias was a See also:priest of the course of See also:Abijah," and his See also:mother See also:Elizabeth, who was also of priestly descent, was related to See also:Mary, the mother of Jesus, whose See also:senior John was by six months. This narrative of the Baptist's birth seems to embody some very See also:primitive features, Hebraic; and Palestinian in See also:character,' and possibly at one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time See also:independent of the See also:Christian tradition. In the apocryphal gospels John is some-times made the subject of See also:special miraculous experiences (e.g. in the Protevangelium See also:Jacobi, ch. xxii., where Elizabeth fleeing from See also:Herod's assassins cried: " See also:Mount 'of . See also:God, receive a mother with her See also:child," and suddenly the See also:mountain was divided and received her).
In his 3oth See also:year (15th year of the See also:emperor Tiberius, ? A.A. 25—26) John began his• public See also:life in the " See also:wilderness of See also:Judaea," the See also:wild See also:district that lies between the Kedron and the Dead See also:Sea, and' particularly in the neighbourhood of the See also:Jordan, where multitudes were attracted by his eloquence. The central theme of his preaching was,. according to the Synoptic Gospels; the nearness of the coming of the Messianic See also:kingdom, and the consequent urgency for preparation by repentance. John was evidently convinced that he himself had received the divine See also:commission to bring to a See also:close and See also:complete the prophetic See also:period, by inaugurating the Messianic See also:age. He identified him-self with the " See also:voice " of Isae xl. 3. Noteworthy features of his preaching were its See also:original and prophetic character, and its high ethical See also:tone, as shown e.g. in its See also:anti Pharisaic denunciation of See also:trust in See also:mere racial See also:privilege (Matt. iii. 9). Herein also See also:lay, probably, the true import of the See also:baptism which he administered to those who accepted his See also:message and confessed their sins. It was an See also:act symbolizing' moral See also:purification (cf. Ezek. See also:xxxvi. 25; Zech. xiii. i) by way of preparation for the coming "kingdom of See also:heaven," And implied that the See also:Jew so baptized no longer rested in his privileged position as a child of See also:Abraham. John's See also:appearance, See also:costume and habits of life, together with the tone of his preaching, all suggest the prophetic character. He was popularly regarded as a See also:prophet, more especially as a . second See also:Elijah. His preaching awoke a great popular response, particularly among the masses of the See also:people, " the people of the See also:land." He had disciples who fasted (See also:Mark ii. 18, &c.), who visited him
1.There is no See also:reason to suppose that Jutta is intended by the eats 'Io(a of Luke i. 39: the tradition which makes 'See also:Ain Karim, near See also:Jerusalem, the birthplace of the Baptist only See also:dates from the crusading period.
formerly in the See also:chapel of the Virgin, built by him in the See also:basilica of St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter. He was succeeded by Sisinnius.
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