Chorus. See Ghoib.
Chosanm^QS (Xoffafuuoc), a name given in the Apocrypha (1 Esdr. ix, 82) ^yparently as a somame or epithet of one Simon, in the list of " Temple se^ vants" retamed fhun the Gaptivity ; bat noching cor- responding to either name appears in the Hebrew text (Ezra H, 47).
Chosen (prop. ^W^ backmr^f ixXcrr^cX " rin^ oat fttMn others to some honorable service or statisn. *Ghosen* wairiors are such as are picked oat as the most valiant and skilful in an army, or as best ad^iU ed to soaie special and momentous enterprise (Sxod. zv, 4 ; Judg. XX, 6). The Hebrew nation was a ' choi- en' people, God having set them apart to reoeive hb word and preserve his worship (Fsa. cv, 48; Dent vn, 7). JeruMlem was 'chosen' to be the seat of his tem- ple (1 Kings xi, 18). Ghrist is Uie * chosen' of God ; frt>m eternity he was set apart in the Divine mind ss the only fit person to be our mediator and surety (Isa. xlii, 1). The apostles were * chosen,' fixed upon, sad set apart frt>m others to bear witness unto Ghrisfs res- urrection (Acts X, 41). There is an error in snpposiBg a certain fixed technical meaning of the w(^ irre- spective of that to which each is * chosen.* The Gfarii- tian Ghurch (that is, 'all in every place' to whom the Gospel has been announced) has been chosen to the ei^Jc^ent of the benefits and privileges placed withis the reach of all to whom snch annooncemeat has bees made ; while others, who remain in ignorance of C^rii- tlanlty, cannot be said to have been thus ' chosen.' Then, again, * many are called, but few chosen,' vis^ Si having so profited by their opportunities as to be as- cepted finally."— Eden, Churck Dictiomary, a. v. See Elect.
Chotiles, John O., a Baptist minister, -was bon in Bristol, England, Feb. 5, 1801. He was baptised by Dr. Ryland in 1820, and emigrated to America in 183i After teaching three years at Red Hook, he became pastor of the Second Baptist Ghurch, Newport, R. I., In 1827, but removed in 1888 to BuflUo. After aervrng as pastor there and in New York, he retamed to New- port, where he remained as pastor of the Second Ghurch during the rest of his life. He died while on a viat to New York, Jan. 7, 1866. He was a ft^uent con- tributor to periodicals, and at one time edited the Bot- ton Ghristian Times. Besides smaller works, he pub- lished The Origin and Hittory of Afitsume, by J. 0. Ghoules and Thomas Smith (Boston, 1887, 2 vols. 4to). See Hague, Dieoouree commemorative ofDr, Ckinke (N. Y. 1856).— Duyckinck, Cydopcsdia of American UUro- ture, 11, 817 ; Christian Review, 1866, p. 810.
ChozeH^a (Heb. KozAa', ^^l^i h*^* SeptXni- ^i7/3<i, Vulg. mendacimn), a place whose inhabitants ("men of Ghozeba") are named (1 Ghron. iv, 22) among the descendants of Shelah, tJie son of Judah. The name is sufilciently like the Ghezib (and espedal- ly the reading of the Samaritan Godex of that name, natD) where Shelah was bom (Gen. xxxviii, 5) to suggest that the two refer to the same place ; that, namely, elsewhere (Josh, xv, 44) called Aqhsib (q. t.) in Judah.
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ChrestiaxiBb The heathen made a mtatake in the name of our Saviour, whom they generally called Ckre$' ttu^ and his followen ChrettioM (Soetonins, in Claud, 25). This is noted by Justin Mar^ {Apol. 2), Tertoi- lian iApoL c 8), and Lactantins (iv, 7). Ckristui is the same ^vHth the Hebrew Mesaiaa, and signifies a person antnnted ; while Chrestus^ XfiW^y i^^^^uis ifood. Ter- talUan t^ls the heathen that they were unpardonable for persecuting Christians merely for their name, for both names were innocent and excellent — Bingham, Orv. JElccfes. bk. i, ch. i, § 11.
Chreatns, a person named by Suetonius (Ciatid. 25) as having incited a sedition among the Jews at Rome, which led to their expulsion ftom the city (corop. Acts zviii, 2). Comp. Fulvia. There have been two different opinions as to whom Suetonius meant by Ckrtstua (see KuinM, ad Ad, id. loc.); whetiier some Hellenist, who had excited political dis- turbances (as Heyer and De Wette suppose ; see Cony- beare and Howson, 8U Paulf i, 886), the name Chres- tos (6r. xP^roCt vsefut) frequently occurring as borne by manumitted slaves ; or whether, as there is good reason to think (lipsius on Tadt. ArmaL xv, 44 ; Gro- tius, <m Acts, xviii, 2 ; Neander, Planting and Train-' ing^ ii, 231), Suetonius does not refer to some actual dissension between Jews ahd Christians, but confounds the name C^riH, which was most unusual as a proper name, with the much more frequent appellation of Cknttui (see Tertullian, Apol, 8; Lactantius, InstiL iv, 7, 5; Milman, Hist, of Chritdunity^ i, 480). Oro- sius {Hist, vii, 6) places C3audius*s edict of banbhment in the ninth year of his reign (i. e. A.D. 49 or 50), and he refers to Josephus, who, however, says nothing about the matter. In King Alfr^*s Anglo-Saxon verrion of Oromu, however, &is reference to Josephus does not occur ; the register simply connects the ex- pulsion with a fiimine : " In the ninth year of his gov- ernment there was a great fiimine in Rome, and Clau- dhis ordered all the Jews that were therein to be driven out" (Bosworth's Orotius, p. 119 of the Saxon and 179 of the trans. See this statement of Orosius comment- ed on by Scaliger, Ammadv. on Euseb. Ckron, p. 192). On the contrary, Pearson {Ann. PauUn.) and Yogel (in Gabler's Journal), without, however, giving deci- sive grounds for their opinion, suppose Claudius's twelfth year (i. e. A.D. 62) to be the more likely one. With Anger {De temponm rcttione in Act. Apost. p. 118), one might, on negative grounds, assert that, so long as Herod Agrippa was at Rome with Claudius, the edict of expulsion would hardly be published ; i. e. previous to the year A.D. 49. Dr. Burton, however {On the Chronology oftkeActSy^. 26), puts the date of the edict Bome time between A.D. 41 and 46, supporting his opinion by the fact "that no mention is made of Clao- dio8*8 decree in the Annals of Tacitus which have come down to ns ; and that, since the lost books of the A^mals occupy the first six years of the reign of Clau- ^ns, it is probable that Tacitus mentioned this decree in one of those books.'* The year referred to in Acts . x^ 2, is A.D. 49.— Kitto, s. v. See Claudius.