The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

SUPPLEMENTAL ENCYCLOPAEDIAof supreme love, honor and obedience to God. They moldedthe character of the Hebrews and transformed them froma nation of shepherds into a peopleagricultural habits.of fixed residence andThrough that people, and through theBible, the influence of these institutions has been extendedover the world; and often where the letter has not beenobserved the spirit of them has been adopted. Thus it wasin the laws established by the Pilgrim Fathers of New England;and no small part of what is of most value in theinstitutions which they founded is to be ascribed to theinfluence of the Hebrew legislator. Moses was the authorof the Pentateuch, as it is called, or the first five books ofthe Bible. In the composition of them he was probablyassisted by Aaron, who kept a register of public transactions.Mount Sinai See SINAI.Nicodemus A member of the Jewish Sanhedrim, atfirst a Pharisee (a Jew, but differing in some points ofdoctrine and practice), and afterwards a disciple of Jesus.In John vii. 45-52, we see him cautiously defending theSaviour before the Sanhedrim. At last, in the trying sceneof the crucifixion, he avowed himself a believer, and camewith Joseph of Arimathea to pay the last duties to the bodyof Christ, which they took down from the cross and laidthesepulchre.OlympiadA period of four yearscelebration of the Olympic games to another, byinreckoned from onewhich theGreeks computed time from 776 B. C, the reputed firstyear of the first Olympiad. To turn an Olympiad into ayear B. C., multiply by 4, add the year of the Olympiadi, and subtract from 780.Padan-AramSee MESOPOTAMIA.Pagan (Paganism) One who worships false gods. Aname for heathenism, originated among the Christians whenChristianity gained superiority in the cities and the worshipof the old Greek and Roman gods was confined to remote190