GLOSSARY.

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PROVE, Ps. 95. 9, proved me,' found out by experience what my character was; O.Fr. prouver; Lat. probare( Vulg.).

PROVERB, 5 a. E. g, the orig. Gk. ( rapouia) implies in Scriptural usage something dark and enig­matical, often used in the sense of allegory; Lat. proverbium ( Vulg.).

PROVIDENCE, 2 Tr. c, God's fore­seeing care over His creatures: Lat. providentia( Vulg.).

PROVINCE, I., the territory under the rule of an Archbishop or Metropolitan; Eccles. Lat. pro­vincia( Ducange).

PROVOCATION, Ps. 95. 8, as in the provocation;' Heb. as at Meribah,' i.e. chiding or strife, Ex. 17.7. Lat. provocatio( Vulg.), from provocare, to call forth.

PSALM, xxv., Lat. psalmus( Vulg.) = valuós. See below.

PSALTER, IV.; V., the book of Psalms; Eccles. Lat. psalterium; Eccles. Gk. ψαλτήριον, from válecv, to harp, lit. to pluck. PUBLICANS, St. Mat. g, persons to whom the taxes were sub- let by the Roman capitalists who farmed the revenues of a pro­vince; see Aids( art. JEWISH SECTS). Lat. publicani( Vulg.) from publicum, the public income,

revenue.

PULPIT, xxIv. r, O.Fr. pulpite ( now pupitre, a desk); Lat. pul­pitum, a stage for actors.

PURGATORY, xxIx. 22, the place, as the Council of Trent teaches, wherein souls are purged by fire from their impurities before they are admitted into heaven; Eccles. Lat. purgatorium from Lat. pur­gare, to make pure.

PURGE, Ps. 51. 7, to remove sin; so Heb.; St. Mk. g, to cleanse; Lat. purgare( Vulg.). See above.

PURIFICATION, Puri. St. M., a ritual observance among the Jews, taking place 40 days after the birth of a son. Lat. purificatio( Vulg.).

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QUADRAGESIMA. VIII., Quadra­gesima Sunday is six weeks be­fore Easter; Lat. quadragesima, fortieth; in Eccles. Lat. the sea­son of Lent; cp. Fr. carême. QUARREL, Ps. 35. 23,' to judge my quarrel,' to do me justice; O.Fr. querele; Lat. querela, a complaint, an accusation( in law).

QUATERNION, St. Pet. e, a band of four soldiers; Lat. quaternio ( Vulg.).

QUICK, IX.( Creed); Ps. 55. 16, liv­ing, alive( R.V.); O.E. cwic.

They believe that the dead be conversant among the quicke, as beholders and wit­nesses of all their words and deeds.

More's Utopia, p. 150. QUINQUAGESIMA, the next Sun­

day before Lent; so called be­cause in round numbers it is 50 days before Easter; Lat. quinqua­gesima( dies), the fiftieth day. QUIRE, IX. r, the part of the church where the singers are; O.Fr. quer; Lat. chorus, a band of singers; Gk. χορός.

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RABBI, Tr. S. g, a title of respect, Master; Lat. Rabbi( Vulg.)= paßßi; Heb. rabbi; lit. my master.

RACA, 6 Tr. g, an expression of contempt, meaning worthless one!' In Vulg. and Greek from a Chaldee word, the root- idea of which is emptiness; cp. James 2. 20,' O vain( empty) man.'

RAHAB, Ps. 87. 3; cp. Ps. 89. 11 ( A.V.), a name for Egypt in He­brew poetry( Isa. 30. 7& 51. 9), expressing the boisterousness or arrogance of the Egyptians as a people; Heb. rahab, the boister­ous one; cp. Job 26. 12.

RAIMENT, 3 A.g; Ps. 109, 17, cloth­ing. M.E. araiment; cp. O.Fr. arrayer, to array. RAMPING, Ps. 22. 13, snatching, tearing, ravening( R.V.).

They gape upon me with their mouthes, as it were a rampynge and roarynge Lyon. Mathew's Bible. Under whose shade the ramping lion slept. Shaks. 3 Hen. VI.v. 2. 13.

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