uoted Chrysostom, Theodoret, Luther, Bengel,
illroth, Olshausen, and, more recently, Schmiedel, and Mayor (on Ja 1%). The old rendering ‘ be- holding” is supported by Grimm, Winer, Meyer, Heinrici, Beet, and Denney, and should, we think, be preferred. The idea of ‘reflexion’ does not accord well either with the context or with the usage of κατοπτρίζεσθαι in other writers. The simple physical fact that one who beholds a bright light reflected in a mirror has his own face illumined by it at the same time is taken as an illustration of the transformation of the Christian’s character, which eomes about through beholding the glory of God
> On this passage see Ismar Peritz in JBL, 1898, Pt. il. p. 145 £.
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reflected in Christ, or the glory of Christ reflected in the gospel. JAMES PATRICK.
MISAEL (B Μεισαήλ, A Mis-).—1. 1 Es 9#= MISHAEL, Neh 8. 2. Thr ® (LXX, Dn 3%), else- where MISHAEL, the Heb. name of one of Daniel’s three companions in captivity ; called MESHACH in Babylon (Dn 1").
MISAIAS.—See MasIas.
MISGAB (23¥23 with art.; B ‘Aud@, AN τὸ κραταίωμα). --- Mentioned along with Nebo and Kiriathaim in the oracle against Moab, Jer 48 (Gr. 311}. Perhaps it is not intended as a proper name. The same Heb. term occurs in Is 95, where both AV and RY tr. ‘high fort’ (cf. 2S 22%, Ps 99> 182 467-12 483 599. 16-17 §2+-6 9453 1445, Is 3315). C. R. ConpER.
MISHAEL (xy [the derivation is disputed. It comes either from 5x ¥ ‘»=5x wx Ὁ ‘Who is what God is?’ or from bx my Ὁ ‘Who is like God?’ In either case it is sufficiently near such Assyrian forms as Mannu-ki-ilurabu, Manum-ki- Ashur); LXX Μισαήλ, Μεισαήλ, and [Ly 10") Mica- dai).—1. According to Ex 6 Mishael belonged to the Kohathites, and stood fourth in descent from Levi. At Ly 10 he and his brother Elzaphan are ordered to carry from before the sanctuary out of the camp the dead bodies of Nadab and Abihu, who have perished because of their presumption. Both of the passages in which Mishael is mentioned are att baited to P. 2. A man named Mishael was one of Ezra’s supporters in his great work of reform. He was amongst those who stood at the scribe’s left hand on the great pulpit of wood from which the law was read aloud to the people, Neh 8‘. These men, twelve in number, one for each tribe (as Ryle appears to think), or thirteen (MT and LXX), or fourteen (Guthe on 1 Es), have been supposed to be the chief priests of the course which was at that time performing the temple service. But there is nothing in the text to support this. Almost certainly they were either Levites or lay- men. 3. One of Daniel’s three companions, Dn 1 St. 11.19 217. See MESHACH. . TAYLOR.
MISHAL (5xp).—A town of Asher, Jos 19% (Maacd), given to the Gershonite Levites, 21° (B Βασσελλάν, A Macadd\)=1 Ch 6% (Heb. 3], where,
erhaps by a clerical error, it is called yp Mashal. Tn this last instance B has Maacd, A* Macdd. The site is unknown. It is only an inference from the context when Eusebius (Onomast. 280. 139) says Μασὰν συνάπτει τῷ Καρμήλῳ κατὰ θάλασσαν.
C. R. CONDER.
MISHAM (oxy). —Eponym of a Benjamite family, 1 Ch 8" (B Μεσσαάμ, A Μισαάλ, Luc. Μεσοάμ).
MISHMA (ypvp; in Gn 25 Michaelis points yoyo). —1. A son of Ishmael, Gn 25 (A Macud, Luc. Macudy)=1 Ch 1” (B Maud, A Macud). The tribe of which Mishma is the eponym has not been identified. The name has no connexion, accord- ing to Dillmann, either with the Mawamaveis of Ptolemy (VI. vii. 21), or with the place called el-Mismiye in the Le}jfh, south of Damascus. He thinks that a trace of the name may remain in one or other of the two places — Jebel Misma’, south-east of Ka@f, east of the Wddy Sirhdn, in the latitude of Idumea, or another Jebel Misma' farther south, tewards 7eima, where inscriptions have been found. 2. The eponym of a Simeonite family, 1 Ch 45 (B A Μασμά). J. A. SELBIE.
MISHMANNAH (7}>¥’9).—A Gadite chief who
395 MISHNA joined David at Ziklag, 1 Ch 12 (B Μασεμανή, A Macyudy).
MISHNA.—See TALMUD.
MISHNEH (7332), 2 K 224, 2 Ch 34", Zeph 1° RVm.—See COLLEGE.
MISHRAITES (‘y.7e7).— A family of Kiriath- jearim, | Ch 2% (B Ἡμασαραείμ, A —elv). No place of the name of Mishra’ is mentioned in OT, and the MT of the closing verses of 1 Ch 2 is involved in considerable uncertainty. See Kittel in SBOT, ad loc.
MISPAR (72>>).—One of the exiles who returned with Zerubbabel, Ezr 2? (B Madcdp, A Μασφάρ), called in Neh 77 Mispereth (nj50p, B Μασφεράν, A Μαασφαράθ, § Μασφαράδ).
MISPERETH.—See preceding article.
MISREPHOTH-MAIM (0:2 nmr, Μασερών, Macpe- φωθμαειμ, MacepeOucugwudiu).—One of the places to which Joshua (115) chased the Northern Canaanites after their defeat near Lake Merom. The older explanation, following the Jewish commentators, was to translate the words ‘ burning of waters,’ and to refer them to local hot springs or smelting-works (cf. Ges. Thes.). This ignored the fact that the words are Canaanite in origin, probably assimi- lated to like-sounding Hebrew words.
Others gave the site as Zarephath (1 K 179) on the pera of the similarity of name, and because ‘ Zarephath belongeth to Zidon,’ which place occurs in the verse from Joshua.