Admoni. See Ruddy.
Admonition, an act of discipline much used in the ancient Church: the first step toward the recov- er)- or expulsion of delinquents. In case of private offences it was performed, according to the evangeli- cal rule, privately ; in case of public offence, openly before the Church. If either of these sufficed for the recovery of the fallen person, all further proceedings in a way of censure ceased ; if they did not, recourse was then had to excommunication (Tit. iii, 10 ; 1 Thess. v, 14; Eph. iii, 4; Matt, iii, 18). Bingham, Orig. Eccl. bk. xvi, ch. ii, § C. It is still exercised in the Methodist Episcopal Church {Discipline of M. E. Church, pt. iii, ch. i, § 5).
Admonitionists, a name given by the High Church party to Fidd, Cartwright, and other Puritans in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who sent in two "Admonitions to the Parliament," 1571, in which were set forth the abuses of the hierarchy and the grievances under which non-subscribing Protestants labored (Neal, Hist, of Puritans, i, 188).
Adna (Heb. Adna' ', Ml;', pleasure ; Sept. 'EcW,
but in Neh. Mavvc'uf), the name apparently of two men.
1. A chief-priest, son of Harim, and contemporary with Joiakim (Neh. xii, 15), B.C. cir. 500.
2. An Israelite of the sons (i. e. inhabitants) of Pa- hath-moab, who divorced the Gentile wife married by him after the captivity (Ezra x, 30), B.C. 459.
Ad'nah (Heb. Adnah' ', hi1??, i. q. Adna), the name of two men.
1. A chiliarch of the tribe of Manasseh, who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chron. xii, 20, where the text has erroneously HD*!?, Adnach' ; Sept. 'Evvc'i, Vulg. Ed- nas), B.C. 1054.'
2. (Sept. litivac:, Vulg. Ednas.) A Judahite, and principal general under Jehoshaphat, with a force of 300,000 (?) men (2 Chron. xvii, 14), B.C. cir. 908.
Ado, St., archbishop of Vienne, France, born about 800, made archbishop in 8G0, and noted for his zeal in reforming the morals of the people and in enforcing Church discipline. He died 875. His memory is celebrated by the Roman Church on Dec. 16. His principal works are a Martyroloyium (Paris, 1(348, fol. ; also, with notes, ed. Georgius, Roma?, 1745, 4to) and a Breviarium Chronicorum de 6 Mundi ^Etatibus (Basil, 1568 ; also in Bibl. Max. Patr. 16, 768).
Ad'onai (Heb. Adonaif, "13"tX, prob. my master, in the plur. form for the sake of intensity ; see Gese- nius, Thes. Heb. p. 329; Sept. Kvpiog, Vulg. Domi- nus, Auth. Vers. "Lord," not in small capitals; but " God," when that term has just preceded as a translation of Jehovah), a term employed in the Heb. Scriptures by way of eminence to God, especiaiky (in the Pentateuch always) where he is submissively or reverent!)' addressed in his character of sovereign ; frequently with other titles added. See Jehovah. The simple form "(TIN, Adon (either with or without suffixes), is spoken of an mener or possessor in gen- eral, e. g. of property (1 Kings xvi, 21), of slaves (Gen. xxiv, 14, 27 ; xxxix, 2, 7) ; hence, of kings, as rulers over their subjects (Isa. xxvi, 13), and of hus- bands, as lords of their wives (Gen. xviii, 12) ; also of God, as proprietor of the world (Josh, iii, 13 ; Exod. xxiii, 17 ; Psa. cxiv, 7). It is also used of a ruler or governor (Gen. xlv, 8); and hence as a title of re- spect in addressing, e. g. a father (Gen. xxxi, 35), a brother (Num. xii, 11), a royal consort (1 Kings i, 17, 18), and especially kings or nobles (2 Sam. xiv, 9; 1 Kings iii, 17). The plural is employed in a similar manner. The distinctive form, Adonai, never has the article ; it is twice applied by God to himself (Job xxviii, 28, where, however, many copies have "Jehovah;" Isa. viii, 7, where, however, the expres- sion may be only the prophet's); a circumstance that may have arisen from the superstition of the Jews, who always point the sacred name Jehovah with its vowels, and even substitute it for that name in read- ing, so that in some cases it appears to have supplant- ed it in the text (Dan. ix, 3, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 19). It seems to have been written peculiarly COTX) to dis- tinguish it from the regular form ("'2LIX), which never- theless occurs in its ordinary sense, once with a plur. sense (Gen. xix, 2), but elsewhere as a sing. (Gen. xviii, 3; xix, 8). See Lord.
Adon'i-be'zek (Heb. Adoni'-Be'zek, pn—nx, lord of Bezelc ; Sept. ' A§Mvi$iZ,iK), a chieftain of Be- zek (q. v.), who had subdued seventy of the petty kingdoms around him, and, after barbarously cutting off their thumbs and great toes, had compelled them to gather their food under his table (Judg. i, 5-7). Elated with this success, he ventured, at the head of the confederate Canaanites and Perizzites, to attack the army of the tribes of Judah and Simeon, after the death of Joshua; but was himself defeated, captured, and served in the same manner as he had treated his
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own captives — a fate which his conscience compelled him to acknowledge as a righteous retribution for his inhumanity. He died of these wounds at Jerusalem, whither he was taken, B.C. cir. 1590. (See Kitto's Daily Bible Illust. in loc. ; and comp. /Elian, Var. Hist, ii, 9.)