smith's bible dictionary 1884 - Salt Lake Bible College

Adultery
(Exodus 20:14) The parties to this crime, according to Jewish law, were a married
woman and a man who was not her husband. The Mosaic penalty was that both the
guilty parties should be stoned, and it applied as well to the betrothed as to the married
woman, provided she were free. (22:22-24) A bondwoman so offending was to be
scourged, and the man was to make a trespass offering. (Leviticus 19:20-22) At a later
time, and when owing, to Gentile example, the marriage tie became a looser bond of
union, public feeling in regard to adultery changed, and the penalty of death was seldom
or never inflicted. The famous trial by the waters of jealousy, (Numbers 5:11-29) was
probably an ancient custom, which Moses found deeply seated—(But this ordeal was
wholly in favor of the innocent, and exactly opposite to most ordeals. For the water
which the accused drank was perfectly harmless, and only by a miracle could it produce
a bad effect; while in most ordeals the accused must suffer what naturally produces
death, and be proved innocent only by a miracle. Symbolically adultery is used to express
unfaithfulness to covenant vows to God, who is represented as the husband of
his people.)
Adummim
(the going up to), a rising ground or pass over against Gilgal,” and “on the south
side of the ’torrent’” (Joshua 15:7; 18:17) which is the position still occupied by the
road leading up from Jericho and the Jordan valley to Jerusalem, on the south face of
the gorge of the Wady Kelt. (Luke 10:30-36)
Advocate
or Paraclete, one that pleads the cause of another. (1 John 2:1) Used by Christ,
(John 14:16; 15:26; 16:7) to describe the office and work of the Holy Spirit, and translated
Comforter, i.e. (see margin of Revised Version) Advocate, Helper, Intercessor.
This use of the word is derived from the fact that the Jews, being largely ignorant of
the Roman law and the Roman language, had to employ Roman advocates in their
trials before Roman courts. Applied to Christ, (1 John 2:1)
Aegypt
[Egypt]
Aeneas
(laudble), a paralytic at Lydda healed by St. Peter. (Acts 9:33,34)
Aenon
(springs) a place “near to Salim,” at which John baptized. (John 3:23) It was evidently
west of the Jordan, comp. (John 3:22) with John 3:26 and with John 1:28 And
abounded in water. It is given in the Omomasticon as eight miles south of Scythopolis
“near Salem and the Jordan.”
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