Clauditui OF Savot, a Unitarian of the sixteenth century, who, in a disputation at Berne, 1684, main- tained that Christ was a man, who "was called Grod inasmuch as he had received the fblness of the divine Spirit beyond all other beings. The Father dwelt in him through the divine Spirit, and all through him might be animated by the Father" (Neander, History of Dogmas, Ryland*s transl., ii, 647). He was ex- pelled from B<vne, imprisoned at Strasburgh, returned to Switzerland, and recanted at Lausanne, 1587. See Schelhom, De Mino Celso et Claudio AUobroge (Ulm, 1748, 8vo); Mosheim, (7A. Hki. iii, 223; Trechsel, die protest. Antiirimtarierj i, 65.
ClatiBtnim. See Cloister.
Clanatlra (Lat.), the enclosure of a monastic es- tablishment, usually square, and surrounded by a wall. Ordinarily monks or nuns are not allowed to go* beyond this space, or to receive a visit within it, with- out the especial permission of the head of the estab- lishment
Claw (•iD'pD, parsah% clefts i. e. cloven foot), prop, a hoof (as usually rendered) of a bifurcated ani- mal (Exod. X, 26 ; Mic. iv, 18; Ezek. xxxii, 11), or of a solid-footed quadruped (e. g. a horse, Isa, v, 2» ; Jer. xlvii, 8); hence for the distinctive mark of a clean (q. V.) creature ('* claw," Deut. xiv, 16), or the sharp weapons of a beast of prey ("claw," Zech. xi, 16), or the talons of a predatory bird ("claw," Dan. iv, 83). In one passage (Psa. x, 10) the powerful, clawed paw of a lion (q. v.) is poetically denoted by the term n'^pi|S5, '' strong onear
Clay is the rendering of several words, more or less accurately, in certain passages in the English Bible : 13*^^, tit^ prop, mud (Psa. xl, 2), i. e. mire (as often rendered), hence potter's ctoy, as being trodden fine (Isa. xli, 26 ; Nah. iii, 14) ; corresponding to the Gr. iHiUg (John ix, 6, 11, 14, 16 ; Rom. ix, 21 ; Wisd. vii, 9; XV, 7, 8; Ecclus. xxxUi, 18; xxxviu, 80; Bel 7), as soiling or plastic ; and "nph, cho'mer, reddish loam (Job iv, 19; xiii, 12; xxvii,16; xxxiii, 67), e. g. pot- ter's clay (Isa. xxix, 16 ; xlv, 9 ; Jer. xviii, 4, 6), as used for sealing (Job xxxviii, 14), or for cement of
building ("mortar," Gen. zi, 3), so for makiiig brick (Exod. i, 14; "mortar," Isa. xli, 26; Nah. iii, 14); also common street " inire" (Isa. x, 6 ; Job xxx, IS; " clay," Job x, 9). Other terms so rendered kai o» rectly are : Cdpp, me'let^ mortar for plastering (Jer. xliii, 9); and the Chald. ^DH, ckas(^\ sker^ ot burnt clay-ware (Dan. ii, 23). The word n?, 4 (" cUy," 2 Chron. iv, 17), or linyp, maabek' (" dtr," 1 Kings vii, 47), denotes darkness or dormfy of aofl, L e. perh. depth of earth ; and the merely apparent nn- pound Cd*^on9, abtU^ (''thick clay'5* in Hah. u, S, signifies rather a pledging of goods to an extortvaa See MufER^LOGT.
" Clay is a sedimentary earth, ton^ and pbetk, arising from the disintegration of felspar and wsaix minerals, and always containing silica and alomim combined in variable proportions. As the sedioMst of water remaining in pits or in streets, the word 3 used fluently in the 0. T. (e. g. Isa. Ivii, 20; Jsl xxxviii, 6 ; Psa. xviii, 42), and in the N. T. (John ix, 6), a mixture of sand or dust with spittle. It is tin found in the sense of potter's day (Isa. xli, 25^ thi elegant and useful forms assumed by the mde mate- rial under his hands supplying a significant embka of the Divine power over the destinies of man (Ist. Ixiv, 8; Jer. xviii, 1-6; Eom. ix, 21). The alluTiri soils of Palestine would no doubt supply mat^ial fcr pottery, a manufacture which we know was, as it st3 is, carried on in the country (Jer. xviii, 2, Q ; bnt osr knowledge on the subject is so small as to afford Uttk or no means of determining, and the day of Paksdoe, like that of Egypt, is probably more loam than cbf (Birch, Hist, of PoUery, i, 66, 152). See Pormi. Bituminous shale, convertible into day, is said to ex* ist largely at the source of the Jordan, and near tk Dead Sea, also near Bethshan (Burckhardt, ii, 5^; Russegger, iii, 278, 258, 264). The great seat of tki pottery of the present day in Palestine is Gaza, whet are made the vessels in dark blue clay so freqaeodT met with. The Talmud {Ahoda Sara, ii, 3) mentiwi a peculiar kind of luteous material called * Hadrisn's cky' C^a'^'^'^'in D'nn). The ose of day in bnck- making was also common. See Brick. Another as of clay was in sealing (Job xxxviii, 14). The bride of Assyria and Egypt are most commonly found stasip- ed either with a die or with marks made by the fingos of the maker. Wine-jars in Egypt were eomctamei sealed with day ; mummy-pits were sealed with the same substance, and remains of day are stfll found ad- hering to the stone door-jambs. Our Lord's tomb msf have been thus sealed (Matt xxvii, 66), as also the earthen vessel containing the evidences of Jerenish't purchase (Jer. xxxii, 14). So also in Ass3rria, at Eoo- yunjik, pieces of fine clay have been found bearing ka- pressions of seals with Assyrian, Egyptian, and Phos nician devices. The seal used for public docomentJ was rolled on the moist clay, and the tablet was then placed in the fire and baked. The practice (^sealing doors with clay to focilitate detection in case <tf mal- practice is still common in the East (WOkinsoo, Ave Egypt, i, 15, 48 ; ii, 364 ; Layard, Nin. and Bab. p. K^ 168, 608 ; Herod, ii, 88 ; Harmer, Obs. iv, 876)" (Smith, s. v.). Norden and Pococke observe that the inspect- ors of the granaries in Egj^pt, after closing the doot, put their seal upon a handful of clay, with which tber cover the lock. See Seal. Clay was also used, iw doubt, in primitive times for mortar, for tiie same term is employed for both (Gen. xi, 8). Houses aw built of clay mixed with* sani in countries when stones are not to be found. See Mobtar. In M iv, 19, it is said of mankind that they dwell in hats <rf clay, either alluding to such dwellings, or to the "daj tenements" of the body (compare 2 Cor. v, 1). Oas Saviour anointed the eyes of the blind man with a salve made of clay and spittle (John ix, 6), a simple