PSALMS OF SOLOMON
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V25,
Page 365
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:PSALMS OF See also:SOLOMON
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These See also:psalms, eighteen in all, enjoyed but small See also:consideration in the See also:early See also:Christian 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; for only six See also:direct references to them are found in early Christian literature, though in the Jewish Church they must have played an important role; for they were used in the See also:worship, of the See also:synagogue
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They were of course not written by See also:Solomon, but were subsequently ascribed to him
.
The fact that they do not contain a single reference to Solomon is in favour of their having been first published anonymously
..
On the other See also:hand, their author (or authors) may have placed over them the superscrip, tion " Psalms of Solomon " in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to gain currency for this new collection under the shelter of a See also:great name of the past
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