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One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine especially the Paliurus aculeatus Zizyphus Spina Christi and Zizyphus vulgaris The last bears the fruit called jujube and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns...
Cockspur
A variety of Crataeliggus or hawthorn Crataeliggus Crus galli having long straight thorns called also Cockspur thorn...
Idem sonans
Idem sonans (sounding alike). A wrong or unsuit-able name. The courts will not set aside proceed-ings on account of the mispronunciation or mistake of names sounding alike, unless substantial in-justice has been done. See Reg. v. Mellor, (1858) 27 LJQB 121, where on a trial for murder it was discovered after conviction that Joseph Henry Thorne and William Thorniley, having both been on the panel, William Thorniley had by mistake answered to the name of Joseph Henry Thorne, and been sworn. Seven judges to six held that the conviction ought not to be set aside, two of them only on the ground of want of jurisdiction in the Court for Crown Cases Reserved (see CROWN CASES RESERVED); and see also Wells v. Cooper, (1874) 30 LT 721, where in an action of trespass Thomas Cox, a special juror, served by mistake for Thomas Fox on a common jury. And see MISNOMER....
Christian Era
The era in use in all Christian countries which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus died about 540 who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754 which year he counted as 1 a d This date for Christs birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late...
Socinianism
The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century who denied the Trinity the deity of Christ the personality of the Devil the native and total depravity of man the vicarious atonement and the eternity of future punishment His theory was that Christ was a man divinely commissioned who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary that human sin was the imitation of Adams sin and that human salvation was the imitation and adoption of Christs virtue that the Bible was to be interpreted by human reason and that its language was metaphorical and not to be taken literally...
BC
before Christ used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born ie 1 a d...
Christocentric
Making Christ the center about whom all things are grouped as in religion or history tending toward Christ as the central object of thought or emotion...
Christology
A treatise on Christ that department of theology which treats of the personality attributes or life of Christ...
Humanitarianism
The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ also the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ...
Nestorian
An adherent of Nestorius patriarch of Constantinople in the fifth century who was condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ who was God in man and hence that it was improper to call Mary the mother of God though she might be called the mother of Christ also one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia India and other Oriental countries and still in existence Opposed to Eutychian...
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