URIEL See also:

• ACOSTA, JOSE DE (1 J39?-1600)
• URIEL ACOSTA (d. 1647)

ACOSTA (d. 1647)  , a Portuguese See also:

• JEW, THE WANDERING

Jew of See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble See also:

• FAMILY

family, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• OPORTO (i.e. o Porto, " the port ")

Oporto towards the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the 16th See also:

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

century . His See also:

• FATHER

father being a convert to See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity, Uriel was brought up in the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic faith, and strictly observed the See also:

• RITES

rites of the 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 till the course of his inquiries led him, after much painful doubt, to abandon the See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion of his youth for Judaism . Passing over to See also:

• AMSTERDAM
• AMSTERDAM (NEw AMSTERDAM)

Amsterdam, he was received into the See also:

• SYNAGOGUE (avvaywyii)
• SYNAGOGUE, UNITED

synagogue, having his name changed from See also:

• GABRIEL (Heb. SKns, man of God)

Gabriel to Uriel . His wayward disposition found, however, no See also:

• SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction in the Jewish See also:

• FOLD

fold . He came into conflict with the authorities of the synagogue and was excommunicated . Unlike See also:

• SPINOZA, BARUCH (1632-1677)

Spinoza (who was about fifteen at the 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 of See also:

• ACOSTA, JOSE DE (1 J39?-1600)
• ACOSTA, URIEL (d. 1647)

Acosta's See also:

• DEATH

death), Acosta was not strong enough to stand alone . Wearied by his See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy See also:

• ISOLATION

isolation, he was driven to seek a return to the Jewish communion . Having re-canted his heresies, he was readmitted after an See also:

• EXCOMMUNICATION (Lat. ex, out of, away from; communis, common)

excommunication of fifteen years, but was soon excommunicated a second time . After seven years of exclusion, he once more sought See also:

• ADMISSION

admission, and, on passing through a humiliating See also:

• PENANCE (Old Fr. penance, fr. Lat. poenitentia, penitence)

penance. was again received . His vacillating autobiography, Exemplar Humanae Vitae, was published with a "refutation" by See also:

• LIMBORCH, PHILIPP VAN (1633-1712)

Limborch in 1687, and republished in 1847 . In this brief See also:

• WORK

work Acosta declares his opposition both to Christianity and Judaism, though he speaks with the more bitterness of the latter religion . The only authority which he admits is the lex naturae .

Acosta was not an See also:

• ORIGINAL

original thinker, but he stands in the See also:

• DIRECT

direct See also:

• LINE

line of the rational Deists . His See also:

• HISTORY

history forms the subject of a See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale and of a tragedy by See also:

• GUTZKOW, KARL FERDINAND (1811-1878)

Gutzkow . Acosta committed See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide in 1647 . The significance of his career has been much exaggerated .