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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78624" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_78624" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Ῥήτωρ''''' ''' (Strong'S #4489 — Noun Masculine — rhetor — hray'-tore ) </div> <p> from an obsolete present tense, rheo, "to say" (cp. Eng., "rhetoric"), denotes "a public speaker, an orator," Acts 24:1 , of Tertullus. Such a person, distinct from the professional lawyer, was hired, as a professional speaker, to make a skillful presentation of a case in court. His training was not legal but rhetorical. </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_150775" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_150775" /> == | ||
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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36923" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36923" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1)''' Isaiah 3:3, "the eloquent orator"; rather as Vulgate, "skilled in whispering," i.e. incantation ( Psalms 58:5), | <p> '''(1)''' Isaiah 3:3, "the eloquent orator"; rather as Vulgate, "skilled in whispering," i.e. incantation ( Psalms 58:5), '''''Lachash''''' . </p> <p> '''(2)''' Tertullus, the [[Jewish]] accusers' advocate against Paul ( Acts 24:1). Paul as a Roman citizen was tried with Roman judicial forms ( Acts 25:9-10), the Roman lawyer pleading in Latin, as Norman French was formerly the language of law proceedings in [[England]] in Norman times. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67968" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67968" /> == | ||
<p> 1. <i> lachash. </i> This is joined with 'eloquent' in Isaiah 3:3 , A.V., but signifies 'a whisper,' 'incantation,' and may be translated 'one versed in enchantments.' The R.V. has 'skilful enchanter.' See | <p> 1. <i> lachash. </i> This is joined with 'eloquent' in Isaiah 3:3 , A.V., but signifies 'a whisper,' 'incantation,' and may be translated 'one versed in enchantments.' The R.V. has 'skilful enchanter.' See [[Divination]] </p> <p> 2. ῥήτωρ, 'a speaker.' At the trial of Paul before Felix, [[Tertullus]] was hired to argue their case, and plead for Paul's condemnation. Acts 24:1 . </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53189" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53189" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Orator]] </strong> The term applied in Acts 24:1 to Tertullus, who was the advocate for the high priest and elders against St. Paul. Men of this class were to be found in most of the provincial towns of the Roman Empire, ready to plead or defend any cause, and generally possessed of a certain amount of glib eloquence, with a due admixture of flattery. </p> <p> Morley Stevenson. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74248" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74248" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_53823" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_53823" /> == | ||
<p> '''2.''' It stands for | <p> '''2.''' It stands for '''''Ῥήτωρ''''' '','' the title applied to Tertullus (q.v.), who appeared as the advocate or ''Patronus'' of the Jewish accusers of the apostle Paul before [[Felix]] ( Acts 24:1). The Latin language was used, and Roman forms observed in provincial judicial proceedings, as, to cite an obviously parallel case, Norman-French was for so many ages the language of English law proceedings. The trial of Paul at [[Caesarea]] was distinctly one of a Roman citizen; and thus the advocate spoke as a Roman lawyer, and probably in the Latin language (see Acts 25:9-10; comp. Val. Max. 2:2, 2; Cicero, Pro Coelio, c. 30; Brutus, c. 37, 38,41, where the qualifications of an advocate are described; see Conybeare and Howson, Life and [[Epistles]] of St. Paul, 1:3; 2:348). (See [[Advocate]]). </p> | ||
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