COUNCILS OF

See also:

• NIMES
• COUNCILS OF NIMES (Concilia Nemausensia)

NIMES (Concilia Nemausensia)  . Of the four councils held at Nimes those of 886 and 1284 are relatively unimportant . The synod of 394 adopted seven canons on discipline, which were first printed in 1743 and have not as yet Many later legends gathered round Nimrod ; Philo, De gigantibus, § 15, allegorises more suo . Nimrod stands for treachery or desertion, according to the derivation from mrd mentioned above . According to Josephus, Ant . I. iv . 2, vi . 2, Nimrod built the Tower of Babel . According to the Rabbis (Tzeenah u Reenah, Hershon's tr., p . 59), Nimrod cast Abraham into the fire because he refused to worship idols . God, however, delivered him . Nimrod, in the form Nimrud or Nimroud, is an element in many modern place-names in western Asia .

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great collections . At the council of July 1og6 Pope Urban II. presided, and sixteen disciplinary canons were adopted, which have many points of contact with the canons of the council of Clermont . See, for the first council of Nimes, Lauchert, pp . 183-185; for the others, Hardouin vi . 1 . 397, vi . 2 . 1747 if., vii . 903 ff.; full titles under CouNc1L . (W .

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