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of as a “parable,” John 10:6, i.e., a figurative discourse (
RV
marg., “proverb”); see also
16:25, 29, where the word is rendered “proverbs” (marg. “parables”) and “proverb.”¶
PARADISE
(
$1
, 3857) is an Oriental word, first used by the historian
Xenophon, denoting “the parks of Persian kings and nobles.” It is of Persian origin (Old
Pers.
, akin to Gk.
, “around,” and
, “a wall”) whence it passed into
Greek. See the Sept., e.g., in Neh. 2:8; Eccl. 2:5; Song of Sol. 4:13. The Sept. translators
used it of the garden of Eden, Gen. 2:8, and in other respects, e.g., Num. 24:6; Isa. 1:30;
Jer. 29:5; Ezek. 31:8-9.
In Luke 23:43, the promise of the Lord to the repentant robber was fulfilled the same
day; Christ, at His death, having committed His spirit to the Father, went in spirit
immediately into Heaven itself, the dwelling place of God (the Lord’s mention of the
place as “paradise” must have been a great comfort to the malefactor; to the oriental mind
it expressed the sum total of blessedness). Thither the apostle Paul was caught up, 2 Cor.
12:4, spoken of as “the third heaven” (v. 3 does not introduce a different vision), beyond
the heavens of the natural creation (see Heb. 4:14,
RV
, with reference to the Ascension).
The same region is mentioned in Rev. 2:7, where the “tree of life,” the figurative antitype
of that in Eden, held out to the overcomer, is spoken of as being in “the Paradise of God”
(
RV
), marg., “garden,” as in Gen. 2:8.¶
For
PARCEL
see
GROUND
, No. 4
PARCHMENT
(
$1
, 3200) is a Latin word, properly an adjective, from
$
,
“a limb,” but denoting “skin, parchment.” The Eng. word “parchment” is a form of
, an adjective signifying “of Pergamum,” the city in Asia Minor where
“parchment” was either invented or brought into use. The word
is found in 2
Tim. 4:13, where Timothy is asked to bring to the apostle “the books, especially the
parchments.” The writing material was prepared from the skin of the sheep or goat. The
skins were first soaked in lime for the purpose of removing the hair, and then shaved,
washed, dried, stretched and ground or smoothed with fine chalk or lime and pumice
stone. The finest kind is called “vellum,” and is made from the skins of calves or kids.¶
PARENTS
1.
$
(
"
, 1118), “a begetter, a father” (akin to
, “to come into being,
become”), is used in the plural in the NT, Matt. 10:21; Mark 13:12; six times in Luke (in
Luke 2:43,
RV
, “His parents,”
KJV
, “Joseph and His mother”); six in John; elsewhere,
Rom. 1:30; 2 Cor. 12:14 (twice); Eph. 6:1; Col. 3:20; 2 Tim. 3:2.¶
2.
(
$
, 4269), an adjective signifying “born before” ( , before, and
, see No. 1), is used as a noun, in the plural, (a) of ancestors, “forefathers,” 2
Tim. 1:3; (b) of living “parents”, 1 Tim. 5:4. See
FOREFATHER
.¶
3.
(
)$
, 3962), “a father,” is used in Heb. 11:23, in the plural, of both father
and mother, the “parents” of Moses. See
FATHER
.
PART (Noun, a portion; Verb, to give or divide, partake)
A. Nouns.