The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . URION 384 CHABAZZELETH CENTURION (sen-turi-un), (Gr. eKaTovT&pxv*,hek-a-ton-tarkhace, and , hek-a-tontar-khos, commander of a hundred), a Roman militaryofficer in command of a hundred men, as the titleimplies. Cornelius, the first Gentile convert to Christian-ity, held this rank (Acts x:i, 22). Other Cen-turions are mentioned in Matt, viii 15, 8, 13;xxvii:54; Luke vii :2, 6;
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . URION 384 CHABAZZELETH CENTURION (sen-turi-un), (Gr. eKaTovT&pxv*,hek-a-ton-tarkhace, and , hek-a-tontar-khos, commander of a hundred), a Roman militaryofficer in command of a hundred men, as the titleimplies. Cornelius, the first Gentile convert to Christian-ity, held this rank (Acts x:i, 22). Other Cen-turions are mentioned in Matt, viii 15, 8, 13;xxvii:54; Luke vii :2, 6; Acts xxi:32; xxii :25,26; xxiii:i7, 23; xxiv :23; xxvii:i, 6, II, 31, 43;xxviii :i6. CEPHAS (sephas), (Gr. K^as, kay-fas). A surname which Christ bestowed upon Simon(John 1:42), and which the Greeks rendered byJlirpos and the Latins by Petrus, both wordsmeaning a rock, which is the signification of theoriginal. (See Peter.) CEPvATIA (se-ratia), (Gr. Keparia, ker-ah-teeah),(Ceratonia) is the name of a tree of the family ofLeguminous plants, of which the fruit used to becalled Siliqua edulis and Siliqua dulcis. The word Kerateeon occurs in Luke xv:i6,vhere it has been translated husks in the author-. Husks of the Bible. ized version. The Italians call the tree Caroba,the French Carroubier, and the English Carob-tree. By some it has been thought, but appar-ently without reason, that it was upon the husksof this tree that John the Baptist fed in the wil-derness ; from this idea, however, it is often calledSt. Johns Bread and Locust-tree. The Carob-tree grows in the south of Europeand north of Africa, usually to a moderate size,but it some-times becomes very large, with a trunkof great thickness, and affords an agreeable quantity of pods borne by each tree is veryconsiderable, being often as much as 800 or 900pounds weight; they are flat, brownish-colored,from 6 to 8 inches in length, of a subastringenttaste when unripe, but, when come to maturity,they secrete, within th
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