A'zor ('A£wp, from "ItS, to help), one of the pater- nal ancestors of Christ (Matt, i, 13, 14) ; perhaps the same with Azrikam (1 Chron. iii, 23) See Azzur.
Azor, or Azorius, John, a Spanish theologian, born in 1533 at Zamora, in Spain, died in 1G03. Hav- ing entered the order of the Jesuits, he became pro- fessor of theology, first at Alcala, and subsequently in the Jesuit College at Rome. He published his lec- tures on moral theology under the title Institutions Morales. Some of the opinions advanced in this work produced a considerable sensation. He, for instance, finds it "probable" that it is allowable for a man who Oo
is threatened by another with a box on the ear to kill the aggressor. The Dominicans violently attacked this proposition, but Pope Clement VIII authorized a new edition of the work. Subsequently Pascal resumed the attack in his Lettres Provinciales, in which the "prob- abilism," or the doctrine of probable opinions, of which Azorius is one of the authors, is severely censured. Notwithstanding these attacks, the work of Azorius had a large circulation in Italy, in Spain, and eveti in France, and was recommended by Bossuet to his priests. The Institutiones have frequently been pub- lished at Venice, Cologne, Rome, Lyons, and other places. — Hoefer, Biographic Generate, iii, 935.
Azo'tus ( "A^mtoc), the Gra;cized form (Acts viii, 40; so 1 Mace, iv, 15 ; v, 68 ; x, 77, 78, 83; xi, 4 ; xiii, 34 ; xvi, 10) of the name of the city Ashdod (q. v.).
AZO'TUS, MOUNT (A&tov opoc, or "A$wroc lipoc ; Vulg. mons Azoti), a spot to which, in the battle in which Judas Maccabseus fell, he pursued the broken right wing of Bacchides' army (1 Mace, ix, 15). Jose- phus (Ant. xii, 11, 1) calls it Aza ('A£a, or Atara, "A£a- pa, according to many MSS.), which Ewald finds in a mountain west of Birzeit, under the form Atara, the Philistine Ashdod being, in his opinion, out of the ques- tion. But it is possible that the last-named encamp- ment, Eleasa, was at some distance.
Az'riel (Heb. AzrieV , ^"It?, help of God), the name of three men.
1. (Sept. 'Oso'/A.) The father of Jerimoth, which latter was phylarch of the tribe of Naphtali under Da- vid (1 Chron. xxvii, 19). B.C. 1014.
2. (Sept. 'It£pi»jX.) One of the valiant heads of families of the tribe of Manasseh east who were taken into captivity by the Assyrians as a punishment of their national idolatry (1 Chron. v, 24). B.C. cir. 741.
3. (Sept. 'Errpu)\.) The father of Seraiah, which lat- ter was one of the persons ordered by King Jehoiakim to seize Baruch and Jeremiah, and imprison them for sending him the roll of threatening prophecy (Jer. xxxvi, 26). B.C. 605.
Az'rikam (Heb. Azrikam', "Cp^yj, help against the enemy ; Sept. 'EZpuca/i or 'E^ptKctfi, once [2 Chron. xxviii, 7] EZpiKch'), the name of four men.
1. The first of the six sons of Azel, of the tribe of Benjamin (1 Chron. viii, 38 ; ix, 44). B.C. post 1037.
2. (Josephus, 'EpiKav, Ant. ix, 12, 1.) The governor of the king's house in the time of Ahaz, slain by Zichri an Ephraimite (2 Chron. xxviii, 7). B.C. cir. 738.
3. A Levite, son of Hashahiah and father of Has- shub (1 Chron. ix, 14 ; Neh. xi, 15). B.C. ante 536.
4. The last named of the three sons of Neariah, a descendant of Zerubbabel (1 Chron. iii, 23). B.C. cir. 404. He is perhaps the same as Azou (q. v.), the son of Eliakim and father of Sadoc in Matt, i, 13, 14 (see Strong's Harm, and Expos, of Gospels, p. 16, 17).
Azu'bah (Heb. Azubah', httt£, deserted), the hame of two women.
1. (Sept. 'AZovjiu v. r. YaZovfia.) The first wife of Caleb, Judah's grandson, by whom he had three sons (1 Chron. ii, 18, 19). B.C. ante 1658.
2. (Sept. 'AZovfia.) The daughter of Shilhi and mother of King Jehoshaphat (1 Kings xxii, 42 ; 2 Chron. xx, 31). B.C. 947-913.
A'zur, a less correct mode of Anglicizing (Jer. xxviii, 1 ; Ezek. xi, 1) the name Azzur (q. v.).
Az'uran (A'Capoq v. r. 'AZovpog), the name of a man whose descendants (or a place whose inhabitants), to the number of 432, are stated (1 Esdr. v, 15) to have returned from the captivity ; but the true lists (Ezra ii, 16 ; Neh. vii, 21) have no corresponding name.
Azymites (from a negative and t,vpi], leaven), a title applied by the Greeks to the Western Church, because it uses unleavened bread in the Eucharist. The Greek Church has always maintained the use of
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leavened bread (Conf. Ecc. Orient, c. 9). The practice J in the Latin Church of consecrating with unleavened j bread was one of the charges brought against that J Churcli by the Greeks in the middle of the eleventh century, and there does not appear to have been any dispute "ii the subject between the two churches much before thai period. Indeed Sirmondus maintains that the use of unleavened bread in the holy Eucharist was unknown to the Latin Churcli before the tenth centu- rv, and his opinion has the support of Cardinal Bona (Eer. Litur. i, 23), Schelstrat, and Pagi. — Bingham, Oriff. Eccles. bk. xv, ch. ii, § 5.