. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . shops, 3010 abbots,and 11,085 martyrs, besides an enormousnumber of confessors and nuns. It boastsalso of several emperors, kings, and princeswho have embraced its rule. Basilica, a building among the ancientRomans, used as a court of law or a placeof merchandise. On the conversion of Con-stantine, many of these public halls weregiven for the purpose of Christian worship,and some of them were converted intochurches. T
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . shops, 3010 abbots,and 11,085 martyrs, besides an enormousnumber of confessors and nuns. It boastsalso of several emperors, kings, and princeswho have embraced its rule. Basilica, a building among the ancientRomans, used as a court of law or a placeof merchandise. On the conversion of Con-stantine, many of these public halls weregiven for the purpose of Christian worship,and some of them were converted intochurches. Thus the word basilica came todenote churches, though in modern use it isonly applied to those churches, as the Late-ran at Rome, which are distinguished fortheir size and magnificence. There are inRome seven churches which bear this name,all of them possessing peculiar privileges. Basket. There are various Hebrew wordsrendered in our version basket. The bas-kets in which the heads of Ahabs sons were1 Psn. xxii., 12; Isa. ii., 13 ; EzekTxxvii., 6. put1 were, of course, of large size. The sameword is translated pots in Psa. lxxxi., 6;it means probably those baskets in which. Ancient Egyptian Bread-baskets of Gold. heavy burdens were carried by two men ona pole resting on their shoulders. A wordis elsewhere used2 which possibly designateda smaller basket for domestic purposes. An-other word, occurring only in Jer. vi., 9, ap-pears to have been a grape - basket. The
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