Prologue
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Prologue
... 1. (n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the
prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; esp., a discourse or poem spoken ...
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Laodiceans (2 Occurrences)
... the prologues that are current in Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 AD) and
other manuscripts for Ephesians and Colossains: the Ephesian prologue runs as ...
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Affliction (120 Occurrences)
... In the prologue of Job, Job's calamities are ascribed to the Satan, but even he
receives his word of command from God, and is responsible to Him, like the ...
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Septuagint
... EVIDENCE OF PROLOGUE TO SIRACH V. TRANSMISSION OF THE SEPTUAGINT TEXT 1. Early
Corruption of the Text 2. Official Revision of Hebrew Text circa 100 AD 3 ...
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Sirach
... It generally includes in its connotation also "the prophecies and the rest of the
books" (Prologue); see Sirach 32 (Septuagint 35):24; 33 (Septuagint 36):1-3 ...
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Job (60 Occurrences)
... The Satan of the Prologue, who makes the wager with Yahweh, is masterfully
individualized, not as the malignant tempter and enemy of mankind, but as a spirit ...
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Ptolemy
... Some regard this king as the Euergetes mentioned in the Prologue to Sir, but
the reference must rather be to Euergetes II (Ptolemy VII). ...
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I-iii
... In the Prologue to Sirach ("the rest of the books") it designates generally the
Old Testament Scriptures; similarly in 1 Maccabees 12:9 ("the holy books"). ...
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Prolong (20 Occurrences)

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Introduction (3 Occurrences)
... In the Prologue to Sirach ("the rest of the books") it designates generally the
Old Testament Scriptures; similarly in 1 Maccabees 12:9 ("the holy books"). ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PROLOGUE

pro'-log, prol'-og (prologos, "foreword," "preface," "introduction"): The word occurs in the preface to Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), and is commonly applied to John 1:1-18.

See ECCLESIASTICUS; JOHN, GOSPEL OF.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance

2. (n.) One who delivers a prologue.

3. (v. t.) To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

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