Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Abarca, Pedro Theologian, born in Aragon in 1619; died 1 October, 1693, at Palencia. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1641, and passed almost all his religious life as professor of scholastic, moral, and controversial theology, chiefly in the University of Salamanca. Though not mentioned by Hurter in the “Nomenclator,” he has left many … Continue reading “Abarca, Pedro”

Abarca, Don Joaquin bishop of Leon, was born in 1780 in Aragon, Spain. He was one of the chief adherents of the faction of Don Carlos in Spain. In 1836 he was arrested near Bordeaux by the French government and banished to Frankfort, whence he went tore join the Pretender in the Basque provinces, with … Continue reading “Abarca, Don Joaquin”

Abarbarea in Greek-mythology, was a nymph whose affections Bucolion, son of Laomedon, according to Homer (Iliad, 6:22), won, and by him became mother of AEsepus and Pedasus. Both were slain before Troy by the hand of Euryalus. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Abarbanel SEE ABRABENEL. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

abandonment Or self-abandonment. In mystical theology, the first state of the union of the soul with God by conformity to His Will, involving passive purification through trials and sufferings, together with desolation following upon the surrender of natural consolations; the darkness of the soul in a state of purgation. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Abandonment (More … Continue reading “Abandonment”

Abanah ABANAH.The river of Damascus mentioned by Naaman, 2Ki 5:12. It is identified with the Barada, a river rising on the eastern slope of the Anti-Lebanon, which runs first southward, then westward, through the Wady Barada and the plain of Damascus. About 18 miles from Damascus, after dividing fan-wise into a number of branches, it … Continue reading “Abanah”

ABANA, AND PHARPAR Rivers of Damascus, 2Ki 5:12. The Abana, (or, Amana), was undoubtedly the present Barada, the Chrysorrhoas of the Greeks. It is a clear, cold, and swift mountain stream, rising in Anti-Lebanon, north east of Hermon, flowing south east into the plain, and near Damascus turning eastward, skirting the northern wall of the … Continue reading “ABANA, AND PHARPAR”

Abana [many Ab’ana] (Heb. Abanah’, ; Sept. ; Vulg. Abana; or rather, as in the margin, AMANAH SEE AMANAH [q.v.]; Heb. Amanah’, [comp. Isa 23:16], since the latter means perennial; Gesenius, Thesaur. Heb. p. 116), a stream mentioned by Naaman as being one of the rivers of Damascus; another being the Pharpar (2Ki 5:12). The … Continue reading “Abana”

Aban in Persian mythology, was a genius of water. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Abamurus a term used in mediaeval Latin signifying buttress. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature