| 单词 | patriarchal dispensation |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspatriarchal dispensation 6. Theology. A religious order or system, conceived as divinely instituted, or as a stage in a progressive revelation, expressly adapted to the needs of a particular nation or period of time, as the patriarchal dispensation, Mosaic (or Jewish) dispensation, the Christian dispensation; also, the age or period during which such system has prevailed; = economy n. 5b.An extension of the patristic use of the word as applied to the evangelical system based on the Incarnation (see note under II. above); the patriarchal and Mosaic ‘dispensations’ being conceived as prophetic of the Christian, all being one in substance though differing in form. This use became common in the theology of the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] churcheOE kirkc1175 spousea1200 lawa1225 lorea1225 religionc1325 faithc1384 sectc1386 seta1387 leara1400 hirselc1480 professiona1513 congregation1526 communion1553 schism1555 segregation1563 sex1583 hortus conclususa1631 confessiona1641 dispensation1643 sectary1651 churchship1675 cult1679 persuasion1732 denomination1746–7 connection1753 covenant1818 sectarism1821 organized religion1843 society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun] > dispensation Christendoma1400 Christian dispensation1732 1643–7 Westm. Confess. Faith (1877) vii. §6 There are not therefore two covenants of grace, differing in substance, but one and the same under various dispensations. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) viii. iii. 297 The..Jewish Notion..is this, That the Law delivered to them upon Mount Sinai was a sufficient Dispensation from God. 1675 W. Cave (title) Antiquitates Apostolicæ..to which is added An Introductory Discourse concerning the three Great Dispensations of the Church, Patriarchal, Mosaical, and Evangelical. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) In Divinity, God's high Dispensation, is the giving of the Levitical Law to the Jews, the Gospel to the Gentiles, the Sending his Son for the Redemption of Mankind. 1732 G. Berkeley Serm. to Soc. Propagation Gospel in Wks. (1871) III. 246 The Christian dispensation is a dispensation of grace and favour. 1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 124 Christianity is the last dispensation. 1838 W. E. Gladstone State Relations with Church vii [They] declared..that the preaching of the Reformers was a kind of renewed commencement of the gospel dispensation. 1877 W. Bruce Comm. Revel. v As the Israelitish dispensation was abolished by the First Coming of Christ, the Christian dispensation is abolished by His Second Coming. < as lemmas |
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