-Sanhedrin:
Meaning 'a sitting together', or a 'council'.
The Jewish councils were the
Sanhedrin, or supreme council of the nation, which had subordinate to it
smaller tribunals.
Paul
was a member of this elite group prior to God
calling him.
The Sanhedrin, the great council
at Jerusalem, consisting of the seventy one members, viz.
scribes, elders, prominent members of the high priestly families and the
high priest, the president of the assembly.
The most important causes were brought before this
tribunal, inasmuch as the Roman rulers of Judaea had left to it the power
of trying such cases, and also of pronouncing sentence of death, with the
limitation that a capital sentence pronounced by the Sanhedrin was not
valid unless it was confirmed by the Roman procurator.
The Sanhedrin were of three classes (1) the chief
priests, or heads of the twenty four priestly courses (1Chronicles 24th
chapter), (2) the scribes,
and (3) the elders. As the highest court of judicature, "in all causes
and over all persons, ecclesiastical and civil, supreme," its decrees were
binding, not only on the Jews in Palestine, but on all Jews wherever scattered
abroad. Its jurisdiction was greatly curtailed by Herod and afterwards
by the Romans. Its usual place of meeting was within the precincts of the
temple, in the hall "Gazith," but it sometimes met also in the house of
the high priest (Matthew 26:3), who was assisted by two vice presidents.
The word 'Sanhedrin' (rendered "council," A.V.)
is frequently used in the New Testament (Matthew 5:22; 26:59; Mark 15:1,
etc.) to denote the supreme judicial and administrative council of the
Jews, which, it is said, was first instituted by Moses, and was composed
of seventy men (Numbers 11:16,17). But that seems to have been only a temporary
arrangement which Moses made. This council is with greater probability
supposed to have originated among the Jews when they were under the domination
of the Syrian kings in the time of the Maccabees.
The name is first employed by the Jewish historian
Josephus. This "council" is referred to simply as the "chief priests and
elders of the people" (Matthew 26:3,47,57, 9; 27:1,3,12,20,
Acts
4:6, etc.), before whom Christ was tried on the charge of claiming
to be the Messiah. Peter and John were also brought before it for promulgating
heresy (Acts 4:1-23; 5:17-41); as was also Stephen on a charge of blasphemy
(Acts 6:12-15) and Paul for violating a temple bylaw:.Acts
22:30; 23:1-10.
-Satan: means
'adversary'. Satan
is a spirit being God created, who is opposed to all of God's ways, plans,
etc. He was created to eventually fulfill such a role
Man's purpose is
God's plan. Satan is the
perpetrator
of evil. He is also named 'the devil', meaning slanderous one.
He has his assistants called
demons. The word demon is not in the Bible. In English the word comes
from pronouncing the Greek word "daimon" (dah'-ee-mown). "Daimon" and "daimonion"
(dahee-mon'-ee-on), meaning respectively, "god"
and, "divine power", a power God gave them. Those words are respectively
translated in the Bible "devils" (daimonion) and, "devil" (daimon).
Satan is thought to have been one of the three
high ranking angels, initially
called Lucifer.
-satyrs: When
it is said (Isaiah 13:21) "the satyrs (any of various butterflies of the
family Satyridae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots) shall dance
there," the meaning is that the place referred to shall become a desolate
waste:.Isaiah
13:21 "But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses
shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs
shall dance there." Isaiah
34:14 "The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild
beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech
owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest."
-saved: The
word 'save' in the original Greek is 'sozo' and means: 'safe' or, 'in a
state of being saved from things which make you unsound'.(examples
being, destructive ideas and philosophies held, like poverty, I'm no good,
etc.), 'to do well', 'to keep safe and sound', 'to rescue from danger
and adversity', 'to make whole', 'to restore to health', to preserve',
to prosper (John 10:10), etc.,
to
be an equal with the infinite one.
Uses
of the word 'sozo'.