Science (Hastings' Dictionary)

This word, as used in AV, means simply knowledfje. Wyclif ( IForfe, iii. 122) renders 1 Co 8' 'Science blowes men' (AV 'knowledge pulieth up '). Cf. Barlowe, Dialoge, 109, ' Tliere is no tnithe, no mercye, nor scyence of god in the yerth'; Golding, Calvin's Job, 571, 'Thou shalt not run after witchcrafts, and other vaine sciences ' ; and Ro 2* Rhem. ' Having the forme of science ' (AV ' which hast the form of knowledge,' Gr. rflt yvuctut). The word occurs in AV only Dn 1 'Children . .

understanding science' (rHi "V")'. LXX ypafMtjLaTtKovs, Theod. yiyvuxxKOfras -y^'^^jfrt*') ; and 1 Ti 6" 'Avoiding . . opjiositions of science fal.sely so called' (d^nWutis tjjj \pev5ioi>vfjLOv yvuiacwt, Rhcni. 'oppositions of falsely called knowledge'). See Knowi.edor and GNOSTICISM. Science in the modem sense, that is, the dis- covery and chussilication of secondary laws, is unknown to the Bible. To the Hebrew mind 5>henonicna were immediately due to the word of 'ehovali. See P.

Thomson in Expos. 2nd ser. vol. L pp. 161 ff., 241 fr. J. Hastinqs.