THE ANOINTED. The prophets, priests, and kings were anointed at their inauguration ; but no man was ever dignified by being anointed to hold the three of- fices in himself, so no person ever had the title of the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One, but Jesus the Saviour. He alone is king of kings and lord of lords : the king who governs the universe, and rules in the hearts of his followers ; the prophet, to instruct men in the way wherein they should go ; and the great high-priest, to make atonement and intercession for the whole world. Of him, Melchizedck, Abraham, Aaron, David, and others were illustrious types ; but none of these had the title of " The Anointed of God." This does, and ever will, belong exclusively to Jesus the Christ, who was consecrated in our nature by the anointing of the Holy Ghost (Psa. ii, 2 ; Isa. lxi, 1 ; Dan.ix,24; Matt, iii, 16, 17; Luke iv, 18-21 ; Acts iv, 27 ; x, 38). See Messiah.
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Anomoeans (c'wofioioc, dissimilar), the name by which the stricter Arians, who denied the like?iess of the Word to the Father, were distinguished from the Semi-Arians, who merety denied his consiibstantiality. — Gieseler, Ch. Hist, i, 198. See Arians.
A'nos ("Avwc), one of the " sons" of Maani (Bani), who divorced his Gentile wife (1 Esdr. ix, 34) ; appar- ently the Vaniah (q. v.) of the true text (Ezra, x, 36).
Ansarians or Assassins, inhabitants of a dis- trict in Syria (called also Ensariaxs). Their religion is a compound of paganism and Mohammedanism, which they are said to have been taught by an old man who in 891 inhabited the village of Nasar, near Koufa, and passed for a saint and a prophet. Some of them wor- ship the sun, others the dog and other material objects. A special work on them has been published by the Rev. Samuel Lycle (see a valuable summary of this work in the AT. Amer. Review, Oct. 18G2). According to Lyde, ' ' they number about 200,000, for the most part rude and vicious. They are divided into Shemseeh (men of the sun, Northerners) and Kumrecl (men of the moon, Southerners) ; the former may be descendants of the Canaanites ; the latter, foreigners, brought their pres- ent religion into the land. The name Ansaireeh is probably derived from the founder of the sect, Nusari, dating from the ninth century. Their sacred name is Khaseebeeh, from the apostle of the sect. In many points they have affinities with the Assassins. They believe in the divine unity — in three personalities, the second and third being created. The first person, the su- preme deity, is Manna, or Meaning ; the second, Ism, or Name; the third, Bab, or Dove. Of the supreme deity there have been seven manifestations ; the last is Ali, Mohammed, and Salman il Farisee. Ali is the high- est manifestation of God, alone to be adored. There is also a system of hierarchies, bewildering in num- bers : 14,000 Near Ones, 15,000 Cherubim, 16,000 Spir- ituals, 17,000 Saints, 18,000 Hermits, 19,000 Listeners, 20,000 Followers— in all, 119,000— besides prophets, apostles, and heroes. The doctrine of metempsycho- sis is strictly held, and minutely delineated. Thev receive the Old and New Testaments, and the Koran, with many apocryphal work?." An account of them is given in Chesney's Expedition to the Euphrates and the Tigris. See also Walpole's Travels in the East, and Blachcood's Magazine, lxx, 719. See Assassins.
Anschar, Ansgar, or Anschairius, St., the first archbishop of Hamburg, bishop of Bremen, and so-call- ed apostle of Sweden and Denmark. The most prob- able opinion is that he was born in Picardy about 801. In 821 he went from the abbey of Corbie, in Picar- dy, to that in Saxony. Having from his youth been desirous to labor in a missionary field, he was sent in 826 to Denmark, and thence to Sweden, where he preached the Gospel with wonderful success. After this he was made bishop of Hamburg, which see he governed until the destruction of the city by the Nor- mans in 845 ; four years after this, Louis, king of Ger- many, made him bishop of Bremen, where he died, Feb. 3, 865, regretting that he was not called to seal his profession by martyrdom. He wrote a life of St. Willehad (in Pertz, Monumenta German, ii, 683 sq.). For a glowing account of him, sec Neander, Light in Dark Places, p. 264 sq. ; comp. Neander, Ch. Hist, iii, 27:.', 28 i ; Gieseler, Cfi. Hist, ii, 29. See also Brit, and For. Eomig, Heal Rem w, July, 1865. The first biogra- phy of Anschar was written by his successor, Rimbert (published by Dahlmann, in" Pertz, Monnm. Germ.;\ translated into German by Misegais, Bremen, 1826). ] See also Kruso, St. Anschar (Altona, 1823); Krum- macher, St. Ansgar (Brera. 1828); Reuterdahl, An.-ga- rius (Berl. 1837); Klippel, Letensbeschreibung des Ere- bischofs Ansgar (Brem. 1845) ; Cave, Hist. Litt. i. 523; | Bohringc-r, Kircheng. in j:i<>gr. ii, 170.
Ansegis. 1. A Benedictine monk, born of noble parents at Lyons, was, together with Eginhard, super- i
intendent of the royal edifices ; became in 817 abbot at Luxen, and in 827 at Fontanelles. Charlemagne and Louis the Pious employed him for important em- bassies. He died in 833. " He is the author of that important collection of imperial laws known as Libri III Capitidarium, containing a number of decrees is- sued by Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. The Ger- man kings had to take an oath upon this book as con- taining the laws of the empire. The best edition of it is contained in Pertz, Monumenta Germanhe legum, vol. i. — Acta Sanctorum, saec. iv, 1 ; D'Achery, fpici- leg. t. iii.