A POCKET CYCLOPÆDIA.
Acceptable Year of the Lord. — Originally "the year of jubilee," Lcv. xxv., a year of release from slavery, debt, obligation, and of restoration of lands to those who had sold them. Applied to the Saviour, Luke iv. 18, 19. Paul alludes to it, 2 Cor. vi. 2.
Accursed. — Doomed to destruction, excommunicated from the church, Josh. vi. 17; Gal. i. 8, 9. [Hanson's "Bible Threatenings Explained;" Paige's "Commentary;" Thay'ers "Theology."]
Advocate. — In 1 John ii. 1, Christ is called man's "Advocate." This is because he renders friendly service to man, as the medium of God's grace. It is a gross perversion of Christian doctrine to understand the term to denote an attorney whose business it is to plead his own merits in man's behalf with a vengeful God. It is a figurative term to describe the labors of Christ for man. Parakletos, rendered advocate, denotes one who renders friendly service. [Paige's "Commentary;" Thayer's "Theology;" Hanson's "New Covenant."]
Æon, æons, æonian. — The word rendered "everlasting," "eternal," "world" (often) in the New Testament, is some form of aion; that is, "age," "era," "epoch," etc. It never denotes, of itself, endless duration. (See "Everlasting," "Eternal.") It is applied, among other things, to the Jewish, Christian, and other future dispensations. "This world" (æon), "the world to come" (æon), mean the Jewish and Christian dis-
