the mined sitea in the Hauimn BtQl ftmnd by travel- lers. See Hauban. Seetzen*s commentators (notes on pt 7, March, 1806, iv, 198) suggest the modem m^ SxbAn aa the possible site of Casphon, but add, ** Site, however, uncertain." See also Caspis.
CaB^'pis (Keunnc)j a strongly-fortified dty— wheth- er east or west of Jordan is not plain — having near it a lake (Xiftvrf) two stadia in breadth. It was taken by Judas MaccabsBus with great slaughter (2 Mace idi, 18, 16). The parallel history of the Ist Book of Maccabees mentions a city named Casphob or Cab> PHOK (<i, v.), with which Caspb may be identical, but the narratives differ materially (see Ewald, Isr, Gesck, iv, 859, note). Reland (PaiaU, p. 184) compares a dtj Ckatpiah (n^bOn) on the borden of Palestine (Jems. Talm. Demait xxii, 4).
Cassandar, Gbobob, one of the most amiable and enlightened divines of the Roman Church, was bom al>out 1515, in the island of Cadsand, at the month of the Scheldt. He was for a time professor of theology, first at Brages, then at Ghent ; after wtiich he went to Cologne, where he devoted himself to the study of the controversy between the Roman Catholics and Reformers, hoping to allay the dissensions of the time. The duke of Cleves called him to Duisburg, to bring back the Anabaptists, if possible, to the Church ; and this led to his preparing his book on infimt bap- tism. His first publication was De officio pit veri m hoc dimdio reSgiomt (Basle, 1561, 8vo). He shared the common fkte of those who endeavor to unite par- ties warmly opposed to each other, and his book was disliked by both Protestants and Romanists. The emperor Ferdinand induced him to write his Congulta- tio de artieuHifdd hUer papUUu et prctettanie$ contrch' ver$i$ (1664), in which he endeavored to reconcile the various articles of the Confession of Augsburg with the faith of the Roman Church. He was willing to grant tiie cup to the laity, and, in extreme cases, the mar- riage of priests. Cassander died Feb. 8, 1566. Hia works were collected by Decordes, Cpera qua irperiii potuenuU omma (Paris, 1616, fol.). This collection contains, among other things, a commentary on the two natures of Jesus Christ ; various treatises against the Anabaptists, with testimonies from the fiithers, and the doctrine of the early Church on the subject of the baptism of infknts; LUurgica; ecdesiastiail hymns, with notes ; one hundred and seven letters, etc Some of these treatises were condemned by the Councfl of Trent — Landon, Eod, Dicdonaiy, s. v. ; Hoefer, Nami. Biog, GifUrale, ix, 27 ; Gieseler, Church Hutonf^ vd. iv, § 80, 51 ; Hook, Ecdes, Bicgraph^^ lii, 502 sq.
Cassel, Conference of; a meeting held at Cas- sel in 1661 between the Reformed theologians of Mar- burg and the Lutheran theologians of Rinteln. Peter Musftus and Johann Hennichen, both zealous dbdples of Calixtus (q. v.), represented the Lutherans, and Sebastian Curtis and Johannes Hein the Reformed. The object of the Conference was, accord^ig to the officially-published BrwU rdatio coUoqmi, etc, to en- deavor, by friendly discussion, to remove the obstacles to union. The principal subjects of discussion were the Eucharist, Predestination, Baptism, and the person of Christ, and both parties agreed that in these tan- damental points their doctrines were essentially simi- lar. The landgrave was petitioned to call on the neighboring churches, and the Universities of Bran- denburg and Brunswick, to adopt the resolutions of the Conference, and also to invite a general congress of the theolofrians of all countries. The landgrave's death (in 1668) destroyed all theae projects of union. See Rommel, Gttch, von Hesaen^ ix, p. 46 ; Mosheim, CAurcA Hittorg, iii, 859; Herzog, Eeal^Encgkhpadie, ii,600.
Casaell, Lbokabd, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was bom in Maryland in 1784, en- tered the itinerant ministry in 1802, and died of yellow
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fbver in Septeinl>6r,1806. He was of Gennaii parent- age, and his mind ramatned in **ancnltared darkness until hia oonversion. From that 6aj it was manifest how great a mind had thus been odled forth. The improTement he made astonished his fHends.** His genius, eloquence, and pietj sooi^ placed him in the most important positions as a preacher, and his early death was a great loss to the Church. — Mmmtea of Con- finmon, % 168.
Cassia ia the rendering in the Auth. Vers, of two Heb. words.
1. Kiddah', n^p, mentioned in Exod. xzz, 24 (Sept IfAQ) among the ingredients of the holj oil of anoint- ing, and in Ezek. xxvif, 19 (Sept. (nrapriov) as one of the articles of mercliandise in the markets at Tyre, The Sept. (in one passage) and Joeephns (Ant. iii, 8, 8) haye crw, i. e. some species of Jtag, perhaps the Iris Jhrentmoy wblch lias an aromatic root-stock. Sym- maehus and the Vulg. (in one place) read ttacte, ** liq- uid myrrh.'* The Arabic versions of Saadias and £r- penins ooigectnre eottua (see below). The Chaldee and Sjriac, with most of the European versions, fol- lowed by Gesenius, Simon, FOrst, Lee, and all the lex- icographers, understand the Arabian castia, or cassia- bark, a species of aromatic cortical resembling cinna^ mon, but leaa firagrant and valuable ; so called from its rolls being tpfU (^m tl]^, to ckaoe). See Dioscor. i, 12; Theophr. BkL Plaiu, ix, 5; Celsius, Hierob. ii, 186, 850 sq.