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[PETECHIE.] Med.: Having livid spots or petechiæ. petechial-fever, s. Pathol.: A fever characterized in an advanced stage by having spots on the skin. [TYPHOID.] Pēter (1), s. [Lat. Petrus ; Gr. Petros Peter, a piece of rock, a stone; cf. also petra =a rock. See def.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A kind of cosmetic. "Dry up their peter to soot." Bucking ham: The Rehearsal, p. 17. 2. A portmanteau; a cloak-bag. 3. The same as PETER-SEE-ME (q. v.). II. New Test. Biog .: surname of apostle of Jesus. It is the rendering of the East Aramean kepha, a corruption or derivation from Heb. keph a rock (Job xxx. 6; Jer. iv. 29), and was given by Jesus (John i. 40-42). Transliterated into Greek, with a termination, it became Kephas (Gal. ii. 9). Peter's real name was Simon (Matt. xvii. 25; Luke iv. 38. v. 3, 5, .), his father's Jonas (John xxi. 15), his brother's Andrew (Matt. iv. 18). Peter was born at Beth said a (John i. 44), but had removed to Capernaum, where he had a house, being a married man (Matt. viii. 14; Marki. 30; Luke iv. 38; 1 Cor. ix. 5). For his call to be an apostle, see Matt. iv. 18; Mark i. 16-18; Luke v.1-11; Johni. 35-42. Three of the twelve were selected on three occasions by Jesus for special honor (Mark v. 37; Matt. xvii. 1, xxvi. 37), Peter's name standing first, though John was the disciple whom Jesus loved (John xix. 26, xx. 2, xxi. 20, 24.) [PILLAR-APOSTLES.] The Power of the Keys was first bestowed on him (Matt. xvi. 13-20), though afterward also on the other apostles (cf. xviii. 1 with 18). Peter was of an impulsive temperament, generous, but too forward in speech (xvi. 22, 23), and rash in action (John xviii. 10). It was not natural cowardice, but because through his rashne he had committed himself, and was in danger of arrest, that made him deny his Lord (Matt. xxvi. 51-75). After the Ascension, he was for a time the most prominent of the apostles (Acts i. 15, ii. 14, ., iii. 1-26, iv. 8, 9, v. 1-16), and though specially sent to the Jews (Gal. ii. 8), yet had the privilege of being the first to admit Gentiles into the church (Acts x. 1-48). Afterward he was somewhat cast into the shade by the eminence of St. Paul, and on one occasion di embling his liberal views when in narrow Judaic company, was with stood by St. Paul to the face "because he was to be blamed" (Gal. ii. 11). Tradition makes him die as a martyr at Rome, about A. D. 64, crucified with his head downward. Roman Catholics claim him as the first Bishop of Rome, and consider that the authority delegated him by Jesus appertains also to his succe ors, the Popes of Rome. (1) The First Epistle General of Peter : New Test. Canon : An epistle which claims to have been written by the Apostle Peter (i. 1), apparently from Babylon (v. 13), "to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus. Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia" (i. 1), all places in Asia Minor. These strangers were obviously Christian converts, the majority apparently Gentiles (i. 14, ii. 10, iv. 3). Their churches were in charge of elders (v.4). They woro in suffering (i. 6), which the apostle foresaw IMG:content-0956.png:[blocks in formation]