In most of the cantonal Churches, the legislative body is the Synod and the executive organ the Synodal Council.
The pastors evinced personal courage; even without Synodal exhortation they understood how to act.
The reply of the Synodal Committee, however, was both reserved and evasive.
It is frequently recorded in the Synodal Minutes, "the British deputies turned up without having had their election ratified by the Lot.
The Synodal sermon was preached by William Edwards.
Away in the forest, how fair to the sight Was the clear, placid lake as it sparkled in light, And kissed with low murmur the green shady shore, Whence a tribe had departed, whose traces it bore.
Again Comenius's library was burned, and the grammar school where he had taught was reduced to ashes.
He kept out of our way," says the sad old record, "as long as he could; he had been among us long enough.
In the synodal letter or tome addressed to the Nicene Christians at Antioch we have the foundation of the ultimate formula of the Church as opposing Arianism, one substance and three persons, one ousia and three hypostases.
Ephraem, patriarch of Antioch, in a synodal letter thereupon condemned Origenism.
Elegy on the taking of Edessa, of *voluminous hymns, of long *Pastoral Letters and Synodal orations of value for the historian of eastern churches.
Gautier de Cornut erected the synodal hall which touches the cathedral's façade, and his own statue and that of the young king decorated its buttresses.
To his own cathedral he added the southwest tower's upper story (to which later a Renaissance lantern was attached) and he connected the synodal hall with the episcopal palace by a rich gallery.
There rose now a host of lesser Gothic edifices, such as the Sainte-Chapelle at Paris, the synodal hall at Sens, and the hospital hall at Ourscamp.
The ground floor was used as a stable; over it rose Bishop Ulger's synodal hall, and under the rafters was made a library in the XV century.
He sent also to the other patriarchs a synodal epistle, in which was contained the profession of his faith.
They consist of his synodal letter, his letter to pope Honorius, and a small number of scattered sermons.
After which, synodalletters were sent to all the churches, and in particular to the pope, who approved the council.
Here we have a system of local Inquisition, which is enjoined again by a Council sitting at Toulouse two years later, which requires the synodal witnesses to visit all suspected houses and hiding-places.
The phrase 'synodal witness' is new, though it may easily designate the same persons as those nominated by the previous councils.
But while this system of using the depositions of the synodal witnesses and the village clergy, accomplished much, further organization was needed.
However this may be, the 'synodal witnesses' are entrusted with a new duty.
But also in the Synodal Conference founded and led by the Missouri Synod, embracing five synods, doctrinal controversies sprang up in 1860.
Directions for the conducting of Synodal judicatures were written by Regino of Prüm and Hincmar of Rheims (§ 90, 5).
Synodal assemblies were allowed merely for the purpose of mutual consultation and advice, and when so restricted were regarded as beneficial.
On the other hand, since the close of 1860, in almost all those smaller states a determined demand was made for a representativesynodal constitution, securing the due co-operation of the lay element.
Neither of them was made the subject of anysynodal decision.
The custom, however, of a yearly confession in the Easter forty days’ season was even during the 9th century so prevalent, that the omission of it was followed by a severe censure by the synodal court.
Seven irreproachable synodal judges from each congregation reported to the synod on the state of morals and religion.
This result was inevitable because of the rise of the synodal system, the assimilation of the organisation of the Empire, and the development of the parochial system, which subdivided the diocese into smaller sections in the hands of priests.
By the consequent of these synodal proceedings, viz.
Here was the ordinary way and method of synodal proceedings by the apostles, elders, and brethren, when they were convened unanimously, ver.
All censures and acts of government are dispensed in congregational presbyteries subordinately, dependently, with liberty of appeal in all cases to presbyterial or synodal assemblies; where parties grieved have sufficient remedy.
The Synodal Constitution of the Dutch churches in England, chap.
Now, if there be so much power and authority engraven upon these two words severally, how strongly do they hold forth authority, when they are applied to any thing jointly, as here to the synodal decisions!
So that through this whole synodal transaction, the elders are declared in the text to go on in a full authoritative course of judgment with the apostles, from point to point.
Of the Divine Right of Synods, or Synodal Assemblies.
If a synodaldecree did bind them in those times, then may it bind particular churches now, and these ought even still to be subject to synods.
Judas and Silas, with Paul and Barnabas, to Antioch, to deliver the synodal decrees to them, and to tell them the same things by mouth, ver.
Against the former the bishop issued threeSynodal Instructions on the Principal Errors of the Present Time.
It is maintained that, from the 13th chapter, the author commences to give the precedence to Paul, but that, in reverting to the former order, the synodal letter gives evidence both of its antiquity and genuineness.
A very careful examination of the text of the "Apostol," based on the manuscripts of the Synodal Library, is made by Gorski and Nevostruiev in the work referred to above, pp.
In the Synodal Library at Moscow this proportion is as nine to two, and in another library as twelve to one.
Theological literature is entirely confined to synodal orations and some ascetic writings.
Footnote 12: Most of these dramas are extant in manuscript in the synodal library at Moscow.
Except a few didactic works on dogmatics and rhetoric, several catechisms and similar productions, this department is limited exclusively to sermons, or rather synodal discourses.
The Synodallibrary of Moscow alone has a treasure of 700 Old Slavic Codices; the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg possesses likewise numerous Slavic manuscripts.
Although the Frankish monarchs were not absolute rulers, nevertheless they exercised the right of changing or rejecting synodal decrees which ran counter to the interests of the state.
In the Reformed churches outside Germany synodal life is vigorous; its forms were developed by the Huguenots in days of persecution, and passed thence to Scotland and other presbyterian countries.
Nor, in touching upon the general causes which impaired the efficiency of the Church during the eighteenth century, must we omit to notice the want of all synodal action.
And there were many occasions on which it would appear, primâ facie, that synodal deliberation might have proved of immense benefit to the Church.
Under the Pepin dynasty alongside of the synodal we have the royal decrees, arranged in separate chapters, and hence the ordinances are called Capitularia.
Finally, the rejection of Montanism from the universal Catholic church was effected about the year 170 by means of the Synodalinstitution called into existence for that very purpose.
On the other hand very definite synodal decisions were passed in reference to the predestination controversy, without, however, bringing that controversy by any means to a conclusion.
The doctrine of the Lord’s Supper was never the subject of Synodal discussion, and its conception on the part of the fathers was still in a high degree uncertain and vacillating.
In the West, however, perhaps to mark a contrast to the bearded clergy of the Arian Germans, shaving became general among the Catholic clergy, and by papal and synodal ordinances became almost universally prevalent.
Since then all opposition to it has ceased in the Greek church, and the day of the Synodal decision, 19th February, was appointed a standing festival of orthodoxy.
The second part embraces, besides the original document of the Donation of Constantine, genuine synodal decrees falsified apparently only in one passage.
The following extract from the sermon under consideration, together with some thoughts on similar lines, from his synodal address at Leitzau, belong here.
The pope was then compelled to rescind the synodal decrees and formally to grant to the king the right of investiture; he had also, after solemnly promising never again to put the emperor under ban, to proceed with the coronation.
Its ideal embraced the restoration of the primitive apostolic presbyterial and synodal constitution, together with the church’s unconditional independence of the State.
The perfect autonomy of separate congregations and their independence alike of every civil authority and of every synodal judicature, from which characteristic they obtained the name of =Independents=.
A particularly important factor for maintaining the union of the scattered communities was the synodal constitution introduced by Hubmeier.
The German synodal judicatures soon gave way before the Roman judiciary system.
The absurdity is that I have not composed music to the words of the Vesper Service, but taken it from a book published by the Synodal Press.
He can teach me nothing, and the Synodal book is more important than he is.
His Excellency also deprived them of the title of synodal examiners in all his archbishopric.
The new Codex, however, seems in this respect stricter than our Synodal Law, and provides definitely for the common clergy Retreat unless special exception be made for a just cause by the Bishop himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "synodal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
