I yeh. This appears, in fiict, to have been the dusa : house of idoUtry (Porter's Danuueug, i, 12; li, 330; Hand-book of 8. and P. p. 668, 570; RobinMn, L^ Bib. Het. p. 488, 492, 520). The modem name of tte valley confirms the above view. It is caUed e^Aiiai, which is strictly the same as the Heb. BOak (rtrpS} In the apocryphal books there is fk«qaent mauke of Cmle-Syria in a somewhat vague senae, norij t» an equivalent for Syria (1 Eedr. ii, 17, 24^ «7 ; iv, «; vi,29; vii,l; viii, 67; 1 Mace, x, 69; 2 MAccm^a. 8; iv,4; viii, 8; x, 11). In aU these cases the wt»^ U given in the A. V. as **Celo-Syria," L e. Codo-Sjik In Esdr. vi, 8, it is called sunply * < Syria." Under tk emperor Diocletian, Phosnice and Coale-Syria fonwd one province, called Phoenicia libanica. Under the present 'Turkish government the western part otO^ Syria is in the pashalic of Saide, and the eastern io the pashalic of Damascus.— Kitto, s. v. ; Smith, s. v. Sec Stria.
CoBliodlas (" worshippers of heaven**), the nsne of an African sect in the 4th century, whcappear tc have blended together some parts of Judaism mm! Fk- ganism with Christianity. An edict of Honorins {Jl D. 408) forbids their assemblages and demands tbcir disbandment. As they are counted in thia edict amoo^ the heretics, and as they were not subject to the jim- diction of the Jewish patriarch, but had their on chiefi, called majores, and as they had a kind of bap- tism, they are by some regarded as a Chris^an sect By others they are regarded as an offi»hoot of the E«- senes. See Schmid, ffittoria CaUeokarmn (Hehi^ 1704).-— Gieseler, Church Hittorj, i, § 73; Bngbn. Orig, EccL xvi, 6, 2. CcellxL See C6lls, Coemeteria. See Ckmkteries. Ccena Domini, the Lord's Supper. See Lokd'$ Supper.
CCENA DOMINI, Bull of. See Bitll; and b C<BNA Domini.
CoBnobiteB, monks who formed a oommmiity Br- ing in a fixed habitation (ecenobimm) under a chief (ab- bot or father). Their name is derived from cotyoc. common, and /3(oc» U/e ; and they are oppoeed to her- mits, who live in solitude. Pachomins is admitted to be the institutor of the canobiU life, as being tiie first that gave a rule to any community. — Bingham, Orig. .&;c/. vii, 2 ; Coleman, Afu»0i< C%ririiflBWfsf, ch. vS, 1 0. See MoNACHiSM. Coffee (drunk in the East). See Cup. Coffer (TJ^K, argaz'; Sept. 0i/wi,Vulg. <aps^> the receptacle (apparently a customary appendage t» a cart, from the use of the arHch in every occuiieoce) which the Philistines placed beside the ark when tber sent it home, and in which they deposited the goldeo mice and emerods that formed their treapass-ofi^ring (1 Sam. vi, 8, 11, 15). The root seems to signifr to be Mben about; and Gesenius and Lee agree in regard- ing it as the same, or nearly the same tiling, as the Arabian rijcua, which Jauhari describes as " a kind of wallet, into which stones are put : it is linng to one of the two sides of the haudaj [a litter borne by a csmd or mule] when it inclines towards the other.** Dr- Lee, however, thinks that the Hebrew word denote the wallet itself; whereas Gesenius is of opimon thst it means a coffer or small box, to which, trota its anal- ogous use, the same name was applied. — ^Kitto^ a. ^^ See Abk.
CoflBn 0*1^^1 oron', a box for gathering articlos: Sept ffop6i) is used with reference to the burial of Jo- seph (Gen. 1, 26) : ** They embalmed bnn, and he w« put in a coffin in Egypt" This was undoubtedly t miummg-cheet, such as are now found in the tombs ol the same country, and fk^uently exhilnted in modern museums [see MtTBOiY]— a mode of burial pecaliarijr &vorable to the removal of that patriarch's remains to
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DifEerent Forms of Mammj-Mses. ,3,4, of wood; 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, of stone ; 9. of wood, and of early time— before the 18th dynasty ; 10, of bamt earthenware. Palestine (ver. 25, where the term ** bones" is evi- fintly used in this general sense). See Burial; Ibpulchre.
The same word is spoken in the original of a *' mon- y-chesr' (2 Kings adi, 10, 11) [see Treasury], but oost frequently of the sacred "ark," in which were leposited the tablea of the law. See Ark. It has »een thought by some that the iron ** bedstead** of Og Dent, iii, 11) was rather his coffin. See Giant.
Numeroas cofiins of earthenware were disinterred )y Loftos at Warka and by Layard at Niflbr, varying n length from three to six feet, and closed by an oval id ; the corpse having been swathed in linen and then imeared with bitumen, except the features (Layard, Vm, and Bab, p. 474 sq.)*
Andent Babylonian €k>ffin. COFFIN (prob. from Saxon Cofazzz a cave). " The tHght wooden case in which bodies are now interred ippears to be of comparatively recent origin ; in ear- ner ages the graves were sometimes lined with slabs >f stone, bnt usually a stone coffin formed of a single tilock was used, and the body placed in it, either en-
Bishop Ralph, 1128, Ctiicheater GathedraL veloped in grave-clothes, or clad in some particular ■iress : ecclesiastics were generally buried in the habit of the order to which they belonged, the dignitaries of the Church frequently in their official robes and ac- companied with the ensigns of their office, and sover- ogns in their robes of state. Numerous stone coffins exist in this country which appear to be as old as the eteventh and twelfth centuries ; they are formed of a siogle block of stone hollowed out to receive the body, with a small circular cavity at one end to fit the head. II.— C c