STATER, a Piece of Money of the Value of one Shekel. Our Saviour sent St. Mat. xvii. 26. Exod. xxx. 13. 1 Sam. ix. 8, 16, 18. רבע שקל Jer. xxxii. 9. שבע שקלים septem Staters. Gen. xix. 26. ותהי נצב מלחPeter to fish in the Lake of Tiberias: This Apostle caught there a Fish with his Anglerod, which had a Stater in its Mouth. This served to pay for Christ and himself, what they ow’d to the Temple, which was half a Shekel apiece. In the First Book of Samuel, a quarter of a Shekel, is translated by quarta pars Sta-teris; and in Jeremy, St. Jerom translates Shekel by Stater. See also Ezek. iv. 10. & v. 1.
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