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Definition of Messias

1. n. The Messiah.

Definition of Messias

1. messiah [n -ES] - See also: messiah

Lexicographical Neighbors of Messias

Literary usage of Messias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1890)
"This prediction is so clear, ever since the serpent was to bruise 183 the heel of the woman's seed, that the Jews, who were resolved to expect a messias ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Apocalypse of Baruch, written probably in imitation, contains a similar picture of the messias. This system of escha- tology finds reflection also in ..."

3. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1871)
"Maimonides said that the messias was not to wor miracles, nor to make any innovations on the law of Moses In answer to this, Bishop Kidder enters at some ..."

4. The Judgement of the Ancient Jewish Church Against the Unitarians in the by Pierre Allix (1821)
"See They will scarcely allow the messias to be spoken of in Gen. iii. 15. Although Jonathan's Targum and that of Jerusalem do clearly understand it of the ..."

5. The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow by Isaac Barrow, William Whewell (1859)
"THAT JESUS IS THE TRUE messias. ACTS IX. 22. A nd Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, ..."

6. The Judgment of the Ancient Jewish Church Against the Unitarians in the by Pierre Allix (1821)
"As the disputes of the Jews with the Christians increased, they advanced certain characters of the times of the messias, and all of them very miraculous ..."

7. The Gentile and the Jew in the Courts of the Temple of Christ: An by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1906)
"PROPHECIES OF THE messias If the religious feelings of the Jews did not strike out into an ... Do you hope for a messias?— whom and what kind of person ? ..."

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