Excerpt from Dictionary of Important Names, Objects, and Terms: Found in the Holy Scriptures, Intended Principally for YouthAb'ba, a Syriac word, signify ing a beloved father. The word is used by our Lord in his agony, Mark 14 36, and by Paul, when he recounts to the believers of Rome and Galatia their glorious privileges, Rom. 8 15 Gal. 4 6. We thus perceive, both in the term itself, and the manner of using it, how endearing and consoling is the access to God which the christian enjoys.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.