We find this name given to two different words in the original.
The first is חרול, Job xxx, 7; Proverbs xxiv, 31; Zeph. ii, 9. It is not
easy to determine what species of plant is here meant. From the passage
in Job, the nettle could not be intended; for a plant is referred to
large enough for people to take shelter under. The following extract
from Denon’s Travels may help to illustrate the text, and show to what
an uncomfortable retreat those vagabonds must have resorted. One of the
inconveniences of the vegetable thickets of Egypt is, that it is
difficult to remain in them; as nine-tenths of the trees and the plants
are armed with inexorable thorns, which suffer only an unquiet enjoyment
of the shadow which is so constantly desirable, from the precaution
necessary to guard against them.” The קימוש, Prov. xxiv, 31; Isaiah
xxxiv, 13; Hosea ix, 6; is by the Vulgate rendered _urtica_,” which is
well defended by Celsius, and very probably means the nettle.”
NICE or NICENE CREED is so denominated, because the greater part of it,
namely, as far as the words, Holy Ghost,” was drawn up and agreed to at
the council of Nice, or Nicæa, in Bithynia, A. D. 325. This council was
assembled against Arius, who, though he brought down the Son to the
condition of a creature, inferior, for that reason, in nature to the
Father, yet acknowledged his personal subsistence before the world, and
his superiority in nature to all the things that were created by him. So
that there was need of some higher expression in this case than the
other, to import his equal dignity of nature with the Father and Creator
of all; and nothing was found to answer the purpose so well as the term
ὁμοούσιος. The rest of this creed was added at the council of
Constantinople, A. D. 581, except the words, and the Son,” which follow
the words, who proceedeth from the Father,” and they were inserted A. D.
447. The addition made at Constantinople was caused by the denial of the
divinity of the Holy Ghost by Macedonius and his followers; and the
creed, thus enlarged, was immediately received by all orthodox
Christians. The insertion of the words, and the Son,” was made by the
Spanish bishops; and they were soon after adopted by the Christians in
France. The bishops of Rome for some time refused to admit these words
into the creed; but at last, A. D. 883, when Nicholas the First was
pope, they were allowed, and from that time they have stood in the
Nicene creed, in all the western churches; but the Greek church has
never received them. See ARIUS.
The first is חרול, Job xxx, 7; Proverbs xxiv, 31; Zeph. ii, 9. It is not
easy to determine what species of plant is here meant. From the passage
in Job, the nettle could not be intended; for a plant is referred to
large enough for people to take shelter under. The following extract
from Denon’s Travels may help to illustrate the text, and show to what
an uncomfortable retreat those vagabonds must have resorted. One of the
inconveniences of the vegetable thickets of Egypt is, that it is
difficult to remain in them; as nine-tenths of the trees and the plants
are armed with inexorable thorns, which suffer only an unquiet enjoyment
of the shadow which is so constantly desirable, from the precaution
necessary to guard against them.” The קימוש, Prov. xxiv, 31; Isaiah
xxxiv, 13; Hosea ix, 6; is by the Vulgate rendered _urtica_,” which is
well defended by Celsius, and very probably means the nettle.”
NICE or NICENE CREED is so denominated, because the greater part of it,
namely, as far as the words, Holy Ghost,” was drawn up and agreed to at
the council of Nice, or Nicæa, in Bithynia, A. D. 325. This council was
assembled against Arius, who, though he brought down the Son to the
condition of a creature, inferior, for that reason, in nature to the
Father, yet acknowledged his personal subsistence before the world, and
his superiority in nature to all the things that were created by him. So
that there was need of some higher expression in this case than the
other, to import his equal dignity of nature with the Father and Creator
of all; and nothing was found to answer the purpose so well as the term
ὁμοούσιος. The rest of this creed was added at the council of
Constantinople, A. D. 581, except the words, and the Son,” which follow
the words, who proceedeth from the Father,” and they were inserted A. D.
447. The addition made at Constantinople was caused by the denial of the
divinity of the Holy Ghost by Macedonius and his followers; and the
creed, thus enlarged, was immediately received by all orthodox
Christians. The insertion of the words, and the Son,” was made by the
Spanish bishops; and they were soon after adopted by the Christians in
France. The bishops of Rome for some time refused to admit these words
into the creed; but at last, A. D. 883, when Nicholas the First was
pope, they were allowed, and from that time they have stood in the
Nicene creed, in all the western churches; but the Greek church has
never received them. See ARIUS.