Bible Encyclopedia: Night: Divided Into Four Watches by the Romans

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The Night of Miracles on the Lake of Gennesaret
... of the night.' There was some difference of opinion among the Jews, whether the
night should be divided into three, or (as among the Romans) into four watches. ...
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Appendix 2 Extracts from the Babylon Talmud
... Rabbi Banah: "There were four-and-twenty interpreters of dreams in Jerusalem. ...
[78] The Jews divided the night into three watches. ...
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To the Disciples - Two Events and their Moral.
... the time of Christ, they divided the night into four watches (see the discussion
in Ber. 3 a). The latter arrangement was probably introduced from the Romans. ...
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Lii. Concerning Hypocrisy, Worldly Anxiety, Watchfulness, and his ...
... He may have been led into this theme by some ... for Oriental weddings take place at
night]; 36 and be ... be from henceforth five in one house divided, three against ...
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The Nile and Egypt
... or where the ground rises, and divided into irregular compartments ... gods, but they
are in the night!"As soon ... ringlets, but without ever turning into the wool ...
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St. Gregory the Great.
... silence, startled only by the owl's night cry ... the Lombards fell into anarchy, and
were divided into thirty-six ... because she had been misled into withdrawing from ...
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Demonstration vi. --Of Monks.
... Law of his Lord by day and by night, then he ... that no matter to what extent He is
divided amongst many ... that receive the Spirit of Christ, come into the likeness ...
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Christian Behavior
... serve their masters, provided they may get into godly families ... but overcome that
with thy virtues (Romans 12:21). ... the earth is disquieted, and for four which it ...
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The Worst Things Work for Good to the Godly
... the flowers in the spring, as the night ushers in ... prosperity the heart is apt to
be divided (Hosea 10 ... God shoot the poisoned arrow of desertion into Job, under ...
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Sennacherib (705-681 BC )
... In the night a legion of field-mice came forth ... the houses of the rich nobles were
divided among the ... off to Nineveh: Bel-Marduk, introduced into the sanctuary of ...
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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Luke 12:38
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 14:25
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Mark 13:35
Watch you therefore: for you know not when the master of the house comes, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning:
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Subtopics

Night

Night Hawk

Night Hawk: Forbidden As Food

Night used Figuratively

Night: Belongs to God

Night: Caused by God

Night: Commenced at Sunset

Night: Continued Until Sunrise

Night: Death

Night: Designed for Rest

Night: Divided Into Four Watches by the Romans