See also:

• ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

ACCOMMODATION (See also:

• LAT

Lat. accommodare, to make See also:

• FIT

fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)  , the See also:

• PROCESS

process of fitting, adapting, adjusting or supplying with what is needed (e.g. See also:

• HOUSING

housing) . In See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology the See also:

• TERM

term " See also:

• ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation " is used rather loosely to describe the employment of a word, phrase, See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence or See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea, in a context other than that in which it originally occurred; the actual wording of the See also:

• QUOTATION

quotation may be modified to a greater or lesser extent . Such accommodation, though sometimes purely See also:

• LITERARY

literary or stylistic, generally has the definite purpose of instruction, and is frequently used both in the New Testament and in See also:

• PULPIT (from Lat. pulpitum, a staging, platform: equivalents are Fr. chaire d'eglise, Ital. pulpito, Ger. Kanzel)

pulpit utterances in all periods as a means of producing a reasonably accurate impression of a complicated idea in the minds of those who are for various reasons unlikely to comprehend it otherwise . There are roughly three See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main kinds . (I) A later Biblical passage quotes from an earlier, partly as a literary See also:

• DEVICE

device, but also with a view to demonstration . Some-times it is See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain that the writer deliberately " accommodates " a quotation (cf . See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John xviii . 8, 9 with xvii . 12) . But New Testament quotations of Old Testament predictions are often for us accommodations—striking or forced as the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case may be —while the New Testament writer, " following the exegetical methods current among the See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews of his 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:

• MATTHEW, GOSPEL OF ST
• MATTHEW, ST (MaOOaior or MarOaIos, probably a shortened form of the Hebrew equivalent to Theodorus)
• MATTHEW, TOBIAS

Matthew ii . 15, 18, See also:

• XXVI

xxvi . 31, See also:

• XXVII

xxvii .

9 " (S . R . See also:

• DRIVER, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846– )

Driver in See also:

• ZECHARIAH

Zechariah in See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, pp . 259, 271), puts them forward as arguments . To say that he is merely " describing a New Testament fact in Old Testament phraseology " may be true of the result rather than of his See also:

• DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design . (2) Much besidesin the Bible—See also:

• PARABLE (Gr. 7apa(3oXi7, a comparison or similitude)

parable, See also:

• METAPHOR

metaphor, &c.—has, been called an " accommodation," or divine condescension to human weakness . (3) See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German 18th-century rational-ism (see See also:

• APOLOGETICS

APOLOGETICS) held that the Biblical writers made See also:

• GREAT

great use of conscious accommodation—intending moral See also:

• COMMON

common-places when they seemed to be enunciating See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian dogmas . Another expression for this, used, e.g., by J . S . See also:

• SEMLER, JOHANN SALOMO (1725-179I)

Semler, is " See also:

• ECONOMY

economy," which also occurs in the kindred sense of " reserve " (or of Disciplina Arcani—a See also:

• MODERN

modern term for the supposed See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit of reserving See also:

• ESOTERIC

esoteric truths) . See also:

• ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac See also:

• WILLIAMS
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582-1650)
• WILLIAMS, JOHN (1796-1839)
• WILLIAMS, ROGER (c. 1604–1684)
• WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817-1870)
• WILLIAMS, SIR WILLIAM FENWICK

Williams on Reserve in Religious Teaching, No . 8o of Tracts for the Times, made a great sensation; see R .

W . See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church's comments in The See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford See also:

• MOVEMENT

Movement . Strictly, accommodation (2) or (3) modifies, in See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form or in substance, the content of religious belief; reserve, from prudence or cunning, withholds See also:

• PART

part . " Economy " is used in both senses .