DISSOLUTION, to Dissolve, Dissolutio, Dissolvo. These Latin words are differently understood. St. Paul desires to be disengaged from the fetters of the body, Cupio Philip. i. 23.dissolvi & esse cum Christo. Paralyticks, and they who are seized with any great fright, have no strength, and can make no resistance; they cannot support themselves, 1 Macc. ix. 55. Ezek. vii. 17. and xxix. 7.their Nerves are relaxed. Dissolutus est Paralysi. And Ezekiel, Omnes manus dissolventur. And again, Dissolvisti omnes renes eorum. And Ecclus. xxv. 32. Manus debiles & genua dissoluta; and Joshua, v. 1. Dissolutum est cor eorum: their heart failed them. Isa. viii. 22.Isaiah makes use of dissolutio as synonymous to angustia. And Nahum speaks of the Dissolution, Nahum ii. 10. Prov. xviii. 9.the weakness of his knees. In the Proverbs, mollis and dissolutus denote a man who is remiss and lazy at his work. And in another place, xix. 15. Anima dissoluta esuriet: The slothful, idle soul shall languish with hunger. And Dissolvere templum Dei, or Dissolvere opus, in the New Testament signifies to ruin, to destroy it.
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