. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . a-to in their purity; the second, in a modifiedform; the third, pursuing probability as theonly attainable wisdom. Socrates is said tohave professed that all he knew was thathe knew nothing; Arcesilaus, the founderof the Middle Academy, to have denied thathe knew even that. The Academics andEpicureans (q. v.) were prominent sects inphilosophy at the time of Christs , one of the five cities that were built b
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . a-to in their purity; the second, in a modifiedform; the third, pursuing probability as theonly attainable wisdom. Socrates is said tohave professed that all he knew was thathe knew nothing; Arcesilaus, the founderof the Middle Academy, to have denied thathe knew even that. The Academics andEpicureans (q. v.) were prominent sects inphilosophy at the time of Christs , one of the five cities that were built by Nimrod in the land of Shinar, It is supposed that a remarka-ble pile of ancient buildings, known by thename of Aker-koof, and situated in Sittacene,about nine miles west from the Tigris, maybe the remains of the ancient city; butnothing certain can be ascertained on thesubject, especially as so little is known ofthe original place itself. Accho {sun-heated), now called Acre, ormore usually, by Europeans, St. Jean dAcre,the most important sea-port town on theSyrian coast, about thirty miles south ofTyre. It was situated on a slightly project-» Gen. x., The Bay of Acre. ACELDAMA 14 ing headland, at the northern extremity ofthat spacious bay which is formed by thebold promontory of Carniel on the oppositeside. In the division of Canaan among thetribes, Accho fell to the lot of Asher, but wasnever wrested from its original inhabitants ;and hence it is reckoned by the classicalwriters among the cities of Phoenicia. Nofurther mention is made of it in the O. , but it rose to importance after thedismemberment of the Macedonian with the rest of Phoenicia, it fell tothe lot of Egypt, and was named Ptolemais,after one of the Ptolemies—probably was afterward taken by Antiochus theGreat, and attached to his kingdom. Theonly notice of it iu the N. T. is in connectionwith St. Pauls passage from Tyre to Caesa-rea, where it is called by its
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