Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Sacred Scripture Particular topics

Cohort

COORTE

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Also known as: Latin: cohors

COHORT. - Group of soldiers (about 600), forming the tenth part of a Roman legion.

In the New Testament the term (σπείρα, cohors) is not always used in a strictly technical sense. Jesus is captured by a cohort, according to Jn 18:3: it is to be understood as a small detachment of the garrison (likewise in Mt 27:27; Mk 15:6). In Acts 10:1 the cohort of which the centurion Cornelius was a part is mentioned; in Acts 27:1 the Augustan cohort. The first seems to have been the II Italica cohort, whose presence in Syria is attested to us by other sources (cf. Pauly-Wissowa, IV, col. 304). The second must likewise have been stationed in Syria, as an inscription from Batanea testifies, along with the relation of its commander with the famous P. Sulpicius Quirinius.

Angelo Penna

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 501.

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Chicago

Penna, Angelo. “Coorte.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 501. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/coorte.

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Penna, Angelo. “Coorte.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 501. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/coorte.

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  author    = {Penna, Angelo},
  title     = {Coorte},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {501},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/coorte}
}

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