Bible Word-Book : a Glossary of Scripture Terms Which Have Changed Their Popular Meaning, Or Are No Longer in General Use
Bible Word-Book : a Glossary of Scripture Terms Which Have Changed Their Popular Meaning, Or Are No Longer in General Use
Swinton, William, 1833-1892
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Mincing. {Isa, iii, 16.) Moving affectedly, with short, delicate steps, like children. Minish. (Ex, v, 19; Ps, cvii, 39.) This word is now written diminish. Minister. And he closed the book,- and he gave it again to the minister ^ and sat down. — Luke iv, 2a The general meaning of minister is officer or servant. But in modern times the term is con- fined to an officer of the church or a servant of the state. In the seventeenth century it had neither of these meanings, but was used solely to den...ote the humbler sense of minister as an attendant or servant. In Ex, xxiv, 13 ; Josh, i, I, Joshua is called Moses's minister^ while in Ex, Digitized by Google BIBLE WORD-BOOK. 73 Mite. Necromancer. xxxiii, II ; Num, xi, 28, the same Hebrew word is translated servant^ and in 2 Kings iv, 43, servitor. The wives be ministers to their husbands, the children to their parents, and, to be short, the younger to their elder. More's Utopia. Mite. {Mark xii, 42.) In old England a mite was a very small coin equal to one half a farthing.
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