the name was merely copied from the condemnatory decree, or whether they continued to exist as a sect, Ar'non (Ileb. Arnon, *13"iX, a murmur; Sept.
it goes, and is 10 feet where its waters meet those of the Dead Sea (Lynch, Report, May 3, 1847, p. 20). According to the information given to Burekhardt,
' „ r. its principal source is near Katrane, on the Haj route. Apvmu, sometimes Apvwv\ a river (*Q, torrent, Deut. i ^^ under ^ name of ^ cs_Sa;deh; it flowJ8 N w
ii, 24, forming the southern boundary of trans- Jot- to its junction with the W. Lejum, onehourE.of Arair,
danic Palestine (originally of the Amoritish territory, and then ag w Mojeb, more directlv W. to the Dead Num. xxi, 13, 2G), and separating it from the land of | Sea. The W- Moj-eb receives on the "north the streams Moab (Deut. ill, 8, 16 ; Josh, xii, 1 ; Judg. xi, 22 ; Isa. I 0f the W< Waleh, and on the south those of W. She- xvi, 2; Jer. xlviii, 20). Josephus speaks of it as is- j kik and W. Saliheh. At its junction with the Is- suing from the mountains of Arabia (Ant. iv, 5, 1). ! jUm (W. Enkeileh) is a piece of pasture-ground, ia the Among these hills are probably to be sought the midst of which stands a- hill with ruins on it (Burck. " heights of Arnon" (Num. xxi, 28). See Bamoth. p. 374)_ May not these ruins ,,e the s5te of the mvg_ It is also named in Deut. ii, 30; m, 12; iv, 48; Josh. ] terious "city that is in the midst of the river" (Josh, xii, 2 ; xiii, 9, 16; Judg. xi, 13, 26. From Judg. xi, : xiii) 9j 16. Deut> ^ SG) so often COupled with Aroer? 18, it (i. e. one of its branches N.E. of Arnon) would j Fr(nr the above description of the ravine, it is plain seem to have been also the east border of Moab (sec ■ that that city cannot have been situated immediately also 2 Kings x, 33). In many of the above passages , bclow Aroer) as has been conjectured. it occurs in the formula for the site of Aroer, "which i , , . , „ T . . , ....
is by the brink of the river Arnon." In Numbers it Arnoul, bishop of Lisieux, born at the beginning is simply "Arnon," but in Dent, and Joshua general- ! of ^e twelfth centnry, died August 0d i 1183. He ly "the river Arnon" (A. V. sometimes "river of Ar- j mad? fr.ult!e?s em?rt? ,to reconcile King Henry II of non"). Isaiah (xvi, 2) mentions its fords; and in
Judg. xi, 26, a word of rare occurrence (~P, hand, comp. Num. xiii, 29) is used for the sides of the stream. In the time of Jerome it was still known as Arnon ; but in the Samarito-Arabic version of the Pentateuch by Abu-Said (10th to 12th century) it is given as el- Mojeb. There can be no doubt that the Wady t l-Mojeb of the present day is the Arnon (Seetzen, Heine, 1854, ii, 347; and in Bitter, Erdk. xv, 1195). The ravine throu.h which it flows is still the "locum vallis in proc- rupta demersse satis horribilem et periculosum" which it was in the days of Jerome (Onom.). The Roman road from Rabba to Dhi! an crosses it at about two
England with Archbishop Thomas of Canterbury. In his old age he resigned his bishopric, and retired to the abbey of St. Victor of Paris, where he died. We have from him a volume of epistles, of discourses, and epigrams (Epistoke, Condones, et Epigrammata, pub- lished by Turnebe, Pari?, 1585, 8vo), which contains interesting details on the history of ecclesiastical dis- cipline during his time. He is also the author of some poems, and of an essay on the schism which followed the death of Honorius II (published in the Biblu theca Potium, and the Spiciligivm d'Atkery). — Hoofer, B'o- graphie Generate, iii, 3E3.
Arnulphus, St., bishop of Metz. In 609, at the entreaty of his parents, he married, but in 612 his wife
hours' distance from the former. On the south edge of the ravine are some ruins called Mehatet el-IIai, and i t0(lk thc vei1 m the monastery of Treves ; and in 014, on the north edge, directlv opposite, those still 1 earing j the ' lshoPnc of Metz becoming vacant, the people m- thfi name of Arair. SeeAROER. Burekhardt was the B1?ted on having Arnulphus for their bishop. As bish- first to give a satisfactory account of this river under j °P hc managed his diocese with rare excellence, and thc name which it now bears. It rises in the moun- ! was made bJ' King Clotaire prime minister of his son tains of Gilead, near Katrane, whence it pursues a cir- | Dagobert, whom he had associated with him in the cuitous course of abou't eighty miles to the Dead Sea. I eniPire- L P01) the death of Clotaire Arnulphus rc- It flows in a rockv bed, and, at the part visited by tircd into a solitude, where he passed the rest of his Burekhardt, in a channel so deep and precipitous as to life in l,ra.VPr and mortification and in every work of appear inaccessible (comp. Seetzen, Monad. Corresp. fll:irity- He dicd m 629 and his relics are preserved xviii, 432) ; vet along this, winding among huge frag- ; in the **>*>*? fli St Arnoul de Metz He is commem- ments of rock, lies the most frequented road, and, be- i orated on the 1Gtb of August.-Baillet t us de Scants, ing not far from Dibon, probably that taken by the ! AuS- 16 ; Landon, Eccl. Duttoi Israelites. The descent into the valley from the south took Ir'oy and Mangles (Letters, p. 461) one hour and