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schoolmaster |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Schoolmaster \School"mas`ter\, n. 1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. Let the soldier be abroad if he will he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. --Brougham. 2. One who or that which disciplines and directs. The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ. --Gal. iii. 24. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: schoolmaster n 1: presiding officer of a school [syn: {headmaster}, {master}] 2: any person (or institution) who acts as an educator 3: food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters [syn: {Lutjanus apodus}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Schoolmaster the law so designated by Paul (Gal. 3:24, 25). As so used the word does not mean teacher, but pedagogue (shortened into the modern page), i.e., one who was intrusted with the supervision of a family, taking them to and from the school, being responsible for their safety and manners. Hence the pedagogue was stern and severe in his discipline. Thus the law was a pedagogue to the Jews, with a view to Christ, i.e., to prepare for faith in Christ by producing convictions of guilt and helplessness. The office of the pedagogue ceased when "faith came", i.e., the object of that faith, the seed, which is Christ.
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