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A.D. 254), Eusebius (obiit 340), and Jerome (obiit 420) refer to such a work, and hence it has been concluded that it was probably written about the middle of the second century. It professes to give a history of our Lord’s resurrection and ascension. While differing in not a few particulars from the canonical Gospels, the writer shows plainly that he was acquinted both with the synoptics and with the Gospel of John. Though apocryphal, it is of considerable value as showing that the main facts of the history of our Lord were then widely known.
•PETHAHIAH loosed of the Lord. (1.) The chief of one of the priestly courses (the nineteenth) in the time of David (1 Chronicles 24:16). (2.) A Levite (Ezra 10:23). (3.) Nehemiah 9:5. (4.) A descendant of Judah who had some office at the court of Persia (Nehemiah 11:24).
•PETHOR interpretation of dreams, identified with Pitru, on the west bank of the Euphrates, a few miles south of the Hittite capital of Carchemish (Numbers 22:5, “which is by the river of the land of the children of [the God] Ammo”). (See BALAAM.)
•PETHUEL vision of God, the father of Joel the prophet (Joel 1:1).
•PETRA rock, Isaiah 16:1, marg. (See SELA.)
•PEULTHAI wages of the Lord, one of the sons of Obed-edom, a Levite porter (1 Chronicles 26:5).
•PHALEC (Luke 3:35)=Peleg (q.v.), Genesis 11:16.
•PHALLU separated, the second son of Reuben (Genesis 46:9).
•PHALTI deliverance of the Lord, the son of Laish of Gallim (1 Samuel 25:44)= Phaltiel (2 Samuel 3:15). Michal, David’s wife, was given to him.
•PHANUEL face of God, father of the prophetess Anna (q.v.), Luke 2:36.