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Definition of Patriarchs
1. patriarch [n] - See also: patriarch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patriarchs
Literary usage of Patriarchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The other patriarchs who were displaced were not dangerous opponents. Weakened by
the endless Monophysite quarrels, having lost most of their flocks, ..."
2. An Inquiry Into the Scriptural Views of Slavery by Albert Barnes (1857)
"Slavery in the time of the patriarchs. IN entering directly upon the question
whether slavery, as before defined, is in accordance with the will of God, ..."
3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"But such as thought the place in which the souls of the patriarchs did reside could
... Thus Gregory Nyssen still leaves the patriarchs in Abraham's bosom, ..."
4. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1840)
"The patriarchs of Antioch, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome, and by a formal decree
of the Council of Chalcedon, Constantinople, assumed even a higher dignity. ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, K. F. Th Schneider (1853)
"All connection between the two patriarchs was dissolved; ... They were of the
opinion, that the Roman patriarchs could be justly recognized as orthodox and ..."
6. A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America, and Other Parts of by David Benedict (1813)
"The patriarchs of Alexandria have always avoided this submission to the Mahometan
Sovereign. The rest yield to it; and on these terms more than two hundred ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"On the other hand, these Western minor patriarchs have never been supposed to be
... From this time the Bishops of Aquileia call themselves patriarchs, ..."
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