| is exorbitant (Lane, Mod. Eg. ii, 15 ; Kitto, Pict. Bi- ble, note in loc. Gen. ; Daily Bible lllust. i, 255). See Merchant ; Contract.
Barger, John H., a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Kentucky, June 29, 1831. He was edu- cated at the Illinois Wesleyan Cniversity, where he passed A.B. in 1853. In the same year he entered the itinerant ministry in the Illinois Conference, and was appointed successive^/ to Perry, Payson, Winches- ter, Griggsville, and Carlinsville, in all which appoint- ments his ministry was signally acceptable and useful, scores, and even hundreds, being added to the church in these places during his term of service. In I860 he was appointed presiding elder of Quincy District, where he was actively engaged until his life, which was so full of promise to the church, was suddenly cut short. On the 31st of Oct., 1861, he was accidentally shot on a hunting excursion on an island in the Mis- sissippi.— Minutes of Conferences, 1862, p. 223. Bar-Hebragus. See Abulfaragius. Bar'uumite (Heb. Barchwni', "^rna ; Sept. BrtpY/a-»;t), -1 transposed form (2 Sam. xxiii, 31) of the gentile name Baharumite (q. v.).
Bari, a town in Southern Italy, and see of a Roman Catholic archbishop. An important council was held there in 1098, at which Anselm of Canterbury spoke against the Greek doctrine of the procession of the Spirit. — Hasse, Lebcn Anselm' 's, i, 345; Hefele, Concili- engesckickte, v, 225.
Bari'ah (Heb. Barrack, n^S, fugitive ; Sept. B£- oia v. r. BspjOi), one of the. five sons of Shemaiah. of the descendants of David (who are counted as six, in- cluding their father, 1 Chron. iii, 22). B.C. ante 410. Baris (B«p«c, from Chald. !T^2, birah' ' , a, fortress"), the name attributed by Josephus to two structures.
1. A tower said to have been built by the prophet Daniel at Eebatana. and described as "a most elegant building, and wonderfully made," remaining in later times, where/ "they bury the kings of Media, Persia, and Parthia to this day." A Jewish priest is said to have been intrusted with the care of it (Joseph. Ai,t. x, 11, 7). See EcuATANA.
2. A palace begun 1 y John Ilyrcanus on the moun- tain of the Temple, and which afterward was used for the residence of the Asmonsean princes. Herod the Great made a citadel of it, which he called Antonia. in honor of his friend Mark Antony (Joseph. Ant. xv, 11, 4). Sec Antonia.
Bar-je'sus (Bdp-i'naouc, son of Joshua), the patro- nymic of Ei. y.mas (q. v.) the sorcerer (Acts xiii, 6). Sec' Bar-; Jesus.
Bar-jo'na (Bap-iWa, son of Jonah), the patro- nymic appellation (Matt, xvi, 17; comp. John i, 42) ! of the apostle Peter (q. v.). See Bar-; Jonas.
BAltKANIM
BARLOW
Barkanim. See Brier. ' or rather as soon as the depth of winter had passed
Barker, Thomas, an English theological writer, I (Mishna, Berackotk, p. 18). This later sowing has not was born in 1721, and died in 1809. He was a grand- hitherto been much noticed by writers on this part of son of the celebrated Thomas Whiston. Among his Biblical illustration, but is confirmed by various trav- theological works are a work on baptism (1771); The ellers who observed the sowing of barley at this time Messiah (1780) ; The Demoniacs of the Gospel (1780).— of the year. Russell says that it continues to be sown Allibone, Diet, of Authors, p. 121. j to the end of February (Nat. Hist. A leppo, i, 74 ; see his
_ ,rT , ,-, , / >_.:_i-, , <• _._*._... meaning evolved in Kitto's Phis. Hist, of Palis! me, p.
Bar'kos (Heb. Barhos , blp^a, prob. for Sip? (|, 2U . ^ p 229) The b&T^y of the ^ crop W;;s
painter; Sept. Bap/coe, Bap/cove), the head of one of I readv by the time of the passover) jn the month Abib, the families of Nethinim that returned with Zerubba- March— April (Ruth i, 22; 2 Sam. xxi, 9; Judith viii, bel from Babylon (Ezra ii, 53 ; Neh. vii, 55). B.C. I 2) . and if not ripe at the expiration of a (Hebrew) year ante 530. Schwarz, however, regards it as the name from the last celebration, the year was intercalated of a place, identical with the modern village Berkusia, (Lightfoot, ut supra) to preserve that connection he- six: miles north-west of Beit-Jebrin (Palestine, p. 110). ! tvveen the feast ancl the barley-harvest which the law
Barlaam, a martyr of Syria or Cappadocia (men- required (Exod. xxiii, 15, 16 ; Deut. xvi, 16). Accord- tioned by Basil and Chrysostom), who was forced to ingly, travellers concur in showing that the barley- hold liia hand, filled with incense, over the fire of an ! harvest in Palestine is in March and April — advancing idol altar, in order that the pain might compel him to ' into May in the northern and mountainous parts of open his hand, and so let the incense fall upon the the land ; but April is the month in which the barley- flames. In the course of this torment he died. — Basil, j harvest is chiefly gathered in, although it begins earlier Horn, xviii ; Chrysost. Horn, lxxiii ; Butler, Lives of ■ in some parts and later in others (Pict. Palestine, p. 214, Saints, Nov. 19. 229, 239). At Jerusalem, Niebuhr found barley ripe at