2. (Sept. Rvaloi, Auih. Vers. "Avites.") The oric--
iual designati f the colonists transported from Ava
into Samaria !,\ Shalmaneser (2 Kingsxvii, 31). Thev were idolaters, worshipping gods called Nibhaz and Tartak. See Ava.
A'vith (Heb. Avith', tVW, nans; Sept. Vidaift, Vulg. Avith), a city of the Edomites, and the native place (capital) of one of their kings, Hadad ben-Bedad,
before there were kings in Israel (Gen. xxxvi, 35; 1 i Chron. i, 46, where the Heb. text has rVP3>j Ayoth', Sept. TfSrbafi, v. r. Pf^at'/t, EviS, Vulg. Avith). It would seem to have been situated at the north-eastern extremity of the range of Mount Seir, as the king is i stated to have thence made a hostile incursion into the territory of his Moabitish neighbors who were leagued' with the Midianites. The name may be compared with el-Ghoweitheh, a "chain of low hills" mentioned by Burckhardt (p. 375) as lying to the east of the dis- trict of Kerek in Moab (Knobel, Genesis, p. 257).
Avltus (properly Fextus Alcimus Edicmt, or Ecdi- tius, Avitus), bishop of Vienne, was born at Vienne about the middle of the fifth century. At a religious disputation between the orthodox "and Arian theolo- gians in 499, he was the leading spokesman of the orthodox, and gained the confidence of king Gonde- baud of Burgundy, whose son and successor, Sigis- mund, he converted from Arianism (after Gondebaud's | death). He vigorously attacked the Arian heresy, ! both by writing and speaking, and presided at the I council of Epaone in 517. He died, according to the commonly received opinion, February 5th, 525, al- though other accounts assign an earlier date. He was a man of great learning, and there are still extant a number of his letters, homilies, and poems, which may be found in Bib. Max. Patr. ix, 560 ; and in Bib. Patr. Gotland, t. x. — Dupin, Hist. Eccl Writers, v, 4.
Avoidance, in the Church of England, takes place where a benefice becomes void of an incumbent. This happens either by the death of the incumbent, or by his beina; appointed to a preferment of such a kind as necessarily makes the living vacant ; as when a cler- gyman is made a bishop all the preferments he holds fall to the crown, who is the patron for that time, un- less there be some special dispensation ; or, finally, by cession, deprivation, or resignation. In the first-named instance, which is avoidance by fact, the patron must take notice of the avoidance at his peril ; in the last case, which is avoidance by law, the ordinary must give notice to the patron to prevent a lapse.
Avrillon, John Baptistk Eltas, a Franciscan (Minim), born at Paris, 1652 ; he made profession, Jan- uary 3d, 1671, in the convent of the Minims (called Bons-hommes) at Nigeon. He began his career as a preacher in 1676, and continued until 1728, i. c. for fifty-three years, and died at Paris, May 16th, 1729, aged seventy-eight. He was much sought after as a preacher, and left many devotional works, which are highly esteemed in the Roman Church. '1 he follow- ing have been translated by the Romanizing party of the ( Ihurch of England ; "Conduite pour passer sainte- ment le temps de PA vent," Guide for passing Advent holily, with preface by Dr. Pusey (Loncl. 1844, 12mo) ; J "Conduite pour passer saintement le Caremc," Guide for passing Lent holily, ed. by Pusey (Lond. 1844, jl2mo); ''LAnnee Affective," The Year of Affections^ ed. by Pusey (Lond. 1845, 12m o) ; Eucharistic Medita- tions, ed. by' Shipley (Lond. 1862, 12mo).
Awakening#(l) is used with regard to individu- als, and designates the first work of the Spirit in con- version, i. e. conviction; (2) it is also applied to revi- vals of religion, in which multitudes of sinners are awakened. The state of sin is in the New Testament represented as a sort of sleep or death; Eph. 5, 14, "Awake, thou that sleepesf, and arise fr< m the dead, and Christ shall give thee light." "When man. then, is brought to a consciousness of his sins, and to feel sorrow and contrition on account of them, and these arc followed by a desire for the forgiving and renew- ing grace of God, and partly for improvement, the process is called awakening. The expression is not found in the New Testament, although the thing itself is largely explained therein. The prodigal son was awake 1 by his self-inflicted poverty, Peter by the
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correcting look of the Lord, Paul by the miraculous; apparition of Christ, Judas by the consequences of his betrayal, and many by the preaching of Jesus or by his miracles. Awakening takes place when the sin- ner, who before did either not know the truth, or else treated it lightly, becomes strongly impressed with it, and gives up his heart and mind to it. Comp. Acts ii, 36, 37 : "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have' crucified both Lord and Christ. Now when thej' heard this they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do ?" (Comp also ii, 43 ; iv, 4 ; v, 11 ; xi, 23, 24.) One of the principal aims of the preacher in presenting the word of God and of the church in the exercises of divine worship is to produce the awakening of sinners.