It shows (1) the original Hebrew
or Greek of any word in the English Bible; (2) the literal and primitive
meaning of every such original word; (3) thoroughly reliable parallel
passages. There is a _Students' Concordance to the Revised Version of
the New Testament_ showing the changes embodied in the revision,
published under licence of the universities; and a concordance to the
Revised Version by J. A. Thoms for the Christian Knowledge Society.

Biblical concordances having familiarized students with the value and
use of such books for the systematic study of an author, the practice of
making concordances has now become common. There are concordances to the
works of Shakespeare, Browning and many other writers. (D. Mn.)

CONCORDAT (Lat. _concordatum_, agreed upon, from _con-_, together, and
_cor_, heart), a term originally denoting an agreement between
ecclesiastical persons or secular persons, but later applied to a pact
concluded between the ecclesiastical authority and the secular authority
on ecclesiastical matters which concern both, and, more specially, to a
pact concluded between the pope, as head of the Catholic Church, and a
temporal sovereign for the regulation of ecclesiastical affairs in the
territory of such sovereign. It is to concordats in this later sense
that this article refers.

No one now questions the profound distinction that exists between the
two powers, spiritual and temporal, between the church and the state.
Yet these two societies are none the less in inevitable relation. The
same men go to compose both; and the church, albeit pursuing a spiritual
end, cannot dispense with the aid of temporal property, which in its
nature depends on the organization of secular society. It follows of
necessity that there are some matters which may be called "mixed," and
which are the legitimate concern of the two powers, such as church
property, places of worship, the appointment and the emoluments of
ecclesiastical dignitaries, the temporal rights and privileges of the
secular and regular clergy, the regulation of public worship, and the
like. The existence of such mixed matters gives rise to inevitable
conflicts of jurisdiction, which may lead, and sometimes have led, to
civil war. It is, therefore, to the general interest that all these
matters should be settled pacifically, by a common accord; and hence
originated those conventions between the two powers which are known by
the significant name