Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ecclesia
Meaning of Ecclesia
(Lat. an assembly). A Christian assembly; a church; a place of religious worship. Spelman.
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Concept of “Ecclesia”
Traditional meaning of ecclesia in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) A church; a parsonage. Ecclesia ecclesise decimas solvere non debet: the church ought not to pay tithes to the church. Ecclesia non moritur: the church does not die.
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Notes and References
- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Ecclesia”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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Meaning of Ecclesia in the Past
In classical Greek this word signifies any assembly and in this sense it is used in Acts xix. 39. But usually, in the New Testament, the word shows a Christian assembly and is makeed into English by the word church. It occurs thrice only in, the Gospels, viz. in Matt. xvi. 18 and xviii. 17; but very frequently in the other parts of the New Testament, beginning with Acts ii. 47. In Acts xix. 37, the word churches, in the common English version, seems to be improperly used to show heathen temples. Figuratively, the word church is employed to signify the building set apart for the Christian assemblies; but the word eclesia is not used in the New Testament in that sense. [1]
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Notes and References
- Partialy, this information about ecclesia is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including ecclesia.
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