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of Conscience, resolved by Barlow, and another volume of <;, mtim /.'< ma nt I Lond. 1693, 8vo).— Darling, s. v.
Barlow, William, Bishop of Chichester, was born in Essex, and educated at Oxford. He was a regular canon of St. Augustine, and became prior of tli" In. us.' of Bisbam, in Berks, in 1535, in which year Henn VIII sent him on an embassy into Scotland. He rendered up his house at the time of the dissolu- tion of the monastic houses, and endeavored to induce others to follow his example. He was rewarded with the see of St. Asaph in 1535, from which he was trans- lated, in 1536, to St. David's, and thence again to Bath and Wells in 1547. He was one of the strongest op- ponents of popery in England, and was largely instru- mental in spreading the reformation. He married Agatha Wellesbourne, and was, in consequence, de- prived on the accession of Queen Mary. During the reign of that princess he lived in Germany ; but after her death he returned to England, and was appointed, in 1559, to the see of Chichester, which he held till his death in August, 15G8. He left eleven children ; five of them were daughters, all of whom were married to bishops. His son William was an eminent mathema- tician. See Burnet, Hist, of Reformation, iii, 158, 391, 623 ; Hook, Eccl. Biog. i, 512.
Barn (EOS, asam', Prov. iii, 10; "store-house," Deut. xxviii, 8; «jto3//k»/, "barn" or "garner"), a magazine or place of deposit for grain, which, among the < (rientalSjWas frequently under-ground. See Cave. The phraseology in Luke xii, 18, shows that the Jews at that time had granaries above-ground, but it does not follow that they had altogether relinquished the older and still common custom of depositing grain in subterranean store-houses, in which it was more secure, and, as some think, preserved in better condition, than in the other. Those who are exposed to danger and alarm would naturally prefer the. subterraneous gran- ary, which may, on occasions of emergency, be aban- doned by the proprietor with tolerable confidence that when he is enabled to return he shall find his treasured grain untouched, the entrance being so carefully con- cealed that it is sometimes discovered with difficulty even by the owner himself. This plan may in general be said to be resorted to by the peasantry throughout the East, granaries above-ground being confined to towns and their vicinities, a distinction which may also have prevailed among the Jews. See Granary.
The Heb. word """•, go'ren, rendered "barn" in Job xxxix, 12 ; 2 Kings vi, 27, signifies rather a threshmg- Jloor, as it is elsewhere translated. In Hag. ii, 19; Joel i. 17, the original terms are fTn^O, megurah' ', and n~5"2"C, mammegurah' , a granary. See Agriculture.
Bar'nabas (Bapvafiae, from the Syro-Chaldee riX"~: "2 i, originally 'lworjc, Jose.i, or 'Iwo7;</>, Joseph (Acts Lv, ISii); but he received from the apostles the i urname of Barnabas, which signifies the so?i ofproph- itis interpreted in the above text, eioc. irapa- rXjjfffujc, i. e. ton of exhortation (Auth. Vers, less accu- rately, "son of consolation"). The Hebrew term fix": and its cognates are used in the Old Testament wiMi a certain latitude of meaning, and are not limited to that of foretelling future events (see Gen. xx, 7; Exod. \ ii, i ). See Prophecy. In like manner, -n,,'. nr, 1. 1. in the New Testament, means not merely prediction, bul includes the idea of declarations, ex- hortation . or warnings uttered by the prophets while under divine influence (seel Cor. xiv, 3). Of Silas and .lie la- it i- said, "being prophets, they exhorted (iraptKoXtaav) the brethren" (Acts xv, 32). It can hardly be doubted that this name was given to Joses to denote bi< eminence as a Christian teacher. In Act- \iii. 1, his name is placed first in the list of proph- ets and teachers belonging to the Church at Antioch. loin, however, understands the surname to
have been given to Barnabas on account of his mild I and gentle disposition (In Act. Apost. Horn. xxi). He ! is described by Luke as " a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of faith" (Acts xi, 24). He was a native of Cyprus, but the son of Jewish parents of the tribe ' of Levi ; be was possessed of land (but whether in Ju- j dsea or Cyprus is not stated), and generously disposed of the whole for the benefit of the Christian commu- nity, and " laid the money at the apostles' feet" (Acts iv, 36, 37). A.D. 29. As this transaction occurred soon after the day of Pentecost, he must have been an earl}r convert to the Christian faith (comp. Asscmr ni, Bill. Or. Ill, i, 319 sq.). According to Clement of Alexandria (Strom, ii, c. 20, vol. ii, p. 192, ed. Klotz), Eusebius (Hist. Eceles. i, 12), and Epiphanius (Ilcer. xx, 4), he was one of the seventy disciples (Luke x, 1). I It has been maintained that Barnabas is identical with Joseph Barsabas, whose name occurs in Acts i, 23. Most modern critics, however, embrace the contrary opinion, which they conceive is supported by the cir- cumstantial manner in which Barnabas is first men- tioned. However similar in sound, the meanings of the names are very different ; and if no farther notice is taken of Barsabas (a circumstance which Ullmann urges in favor of his identity with Barnabas), the same may be affirmed of Matthias (see Chrysostom, In Ait. Apost. Homil. xi, 1). From the incident narrated in Acts xiv, 8-12, Chrysostom infers that the personal appearance of Barnabas was dignified and command- i Lag, "When the inhabitants of Lystra, on the cure of i the impotent man, imagined that the gods were come i down to them in the likeness of men, they called Bar- nabas Zeus (their tutelary deity), and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker" (In Act. Apost. Horn, xxx).