The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . an assurance that the holy wood possessed thepower of self-multiplication, and, notwithstandingthe innumerable pieces which had been taken fromit for the pleasure and service of the faithful, re-mained intact and entire as at the first. The capture of Jerusalem by the Persians, A. , placed the remains of the cross in the handsof Chosroes IT., who mockingly conveyed them tohis capita
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . an assurance that the holy wood possessed thepower of self-multiplication, and, notwithstandingthe innumerable pieces which had been taken fromit for the pleasure and service of the faithful, re-mained intact and entire as at the first. The capture of Jerusalem by the Persians, A. , placed the remains of the cross in the handsof Chosroes IT., who mockingly conveyed them tohis capital. Fourteen years afterwards, Heraclius recovered them, and had them carried first to Con-stantinople, and then to Jerusalem, in such pompthat on his arrival before the latter city he foundthe gate barred, and entrance forbidden. In-structed as to the cause of this hindrance, theEmperor laid aside the trappings of his greatness,and, barefooted, bore on his own shoulders thesacred relic up to the gate, which then opened ofitself, and allowed him to enter, and thus place hischarge beneath the dome of the sepulcher. The figure of a cross has often been representedon the banners of contending armies, thus:. Cross of Constantine. Figurative. (1) Troubles and afflictions, chief-ly those endured for Christ, are called a cross;they are painful, lingering, and attended withshame in the view of carnal men: and to take upthis cross is cheerfully to submit to it, from loveto Christ (Matt. xvi:24). (2) The whole suffer-ings of Christ are called his cross, as on it hesuffered in the most excruciating manner, in bothsoul and body at once (Eph.*ii:i6; Heb. xii:2).(3) The doctrine of his sufferings is called hiscross. (1 Cor. i: 18; Gal. v:n, and vi:i2.) (4)Enemies to his cross are such as undermine thenecessity or virtue of his righteousness by theirlegal doctrine, worldly care, or licentious life,Phil. iii:i8. CROW (kro). See Raven. CROWN (kroun), (Heb. >U, nehzer, literally, something se
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