| Title: | Father |
| Original Title: | Père |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 12 (1765), p. 338 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Emily Jane Cohen [Stanford University] |
| Subject terms: |
Sacred criticism
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Father." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Emily Jane Cohen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2002. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.334>. Trans. of "Père," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 12. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Father." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Emily Jane Cohen. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.334 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Père," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 12:338 (Paris, 1765). |
Father. This term, aside from signifying one's immediate father, signifies, according to Scripture, others with whom one has an indirect relation. God is called father by all men since he is the creator and preserver of every creature. Father sometimes designates the grandfather, the great-grandfather, or even the founder of a family line, as remote an ancestor as he may be. Thus Abraham is said to be the father of several nations. Father also designates kings, magistrates, superiors, and masters as well as elderly persons: scribo vobis patres (John 1.2.13). Lastly, it designates the author or inventor of something: Satan is the father of lies (John 8.44). Jubal fuit pater canentium cithara (Gen. 4.21): Jubal was the first to teach men to play the cithara or the inventor of this instrument. (D. J.)