Course (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. On- ward movement in a jiarticular piith, as of a ship, Ac 10" 21'- ' ; of the stars, Jg S'" the stars in their courses fought against Sisera ' ; of the sun, 1 Es 4" 'swi t is the sun in his c' ; and tig. of the gospel, 2 Tb V ' that the word of the Lord may have free c.' (Tflxv, liV ' may run '). 2. The path in which the onward movement is made, of a riiier. Is 44 ' willows by the watercourses' ; fig. of one's manner of life, Jer 8" 23'"; and of the manner of the present age, Eph 2- 'the c. [aluiv, KVm 'age') of this world." 3. The space over which a race ex- tends, a.s the duration of life (or perhaps rather of special servire), Ac 13'20», 2 Ti 4" I have (iiiished my c' 4. The fixed order of things, Ps .S"J"' ' the foundations of the earth art; out of c' (RV ' are moved ') ; or regular succession, Ezr 3" ' they sang togetlier by c' (RV 'one to another'), 1 Co 14" 'by c' (dyi lUpos, RV 'in turn'), and esjjccially the Courses of the Priests and Levites. See Priests and Levites. J. HASTiNoa COURT See Templk.