There are monographs on the history of Corne- lius in German by Linder (Basel, 1830), Krununacher (Brem. 1829, transl. Edhiburgh, 1839), hi Latin by Ba- ail iOpp, p. 108), in English by Evans (Script. Biog. iii, 309); also in Latin, on his character by Fecht (Roet. 1701), Feuerlm (Altorf. 1736) ; on Peter's vision, by Deysing (Marb. 1710), EngestrCm (Lund. 1741); on the eflTusion of the Spirit, by Goetze (Lubec. 1712) ; on his baptism, by the same (ib. 1713) ; on his pray- ers, by Michaelis (in the BibL Brem, v, 679 sq.) ; on Peter's sermon, in English, by Taylor (London, 1669). See also Krnmmacher, Ltfe of ComeUiu (Edinb. 1839, 12mo) ; Jour. Sac. Lit. April, 1864.
ComeliUB, bishop of Rome, succeeded Fabianns in that see June 4, A.D. 261. Some of the clergy and people of Rome, not approving of the election of Cor- nelius because of his controversy with Novatianus about the liapft, to whom Cornelius was disposed to be lenient, chose Novatianus bishop, and three Italian bishops ordained him ; he therefore was the first anti- pqie. In October, 261, Cornelius having convened a numerous council at Rome, consisting of sixty bishops and a number of presbyters and deacons, they confirm- ed his election. He did not enjoy his honor long, for he was banished by the emperor Callus to Civita Yeo- chia, where he died (or, according to some accounts, suffered martyrdom) September 14, 252. Ten of Cyp- rian's letters are directed to Cornelius. There are two genuine letters of Cornelius to Cyprian still pre- served among Cyprian's epistles ; they are the forty- sixth and forty-eighth (ed. Oberthur). Besides these, Cornelius wrote a long letter to Fabianus concerning the character and conduct of Novatian, considerable extracts from which Eusebius has preserved (Bitt. EccL hk. vi, chap, xliii).— Lardner, Worke, iii, 74 sq. ; Cave, Hist. Lit. i, SO; Wetzer n. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. ii,879.
ComeUofl Agrippa. See Aobippa.
ComeUofl k Lapide (Corneus ConinsLissEir VAN DEN Stebu), s leamc4 Roman Catholic com- mentator, was bom in 1666 at Bocholt, in the diocese of Liege, entered the order of Jesuits, and became pro- fessor of Hebrew at Lou vain, where he gave exegetical lectures for twenty years. He was then made profess- or at Rome, where he died March 12, 1637. He wrote commentaries on all the books of Scripture except Job and the Psalms, which are in great esteem, more, how-
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erer, firom the rich material in the form of dtatioiis from the fathers than firom any critical skill of his own. The commentaries on the Pintateuch and the Pauline Epistles are commonly regarded as the best. They were published at Antwerp, 1681 (10 vols, fol.); at Venice, 1780 (11 vols. foL) ; and at Lyons (beet edition, 1888, 11 vols. 4to).— Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchm-Lex, u, 679.
Comellns, Ellas, D.D., a Congregational min- ister, was bom in Somers, N. Y., July 81, 1794. He graduated at Yale in 1813. In 1816, after being U- censed to preach, he was appointed agent of the Amer- ican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In the spring of 1817 he started on a missionary tour to the Creeks and Cherokees, and then to New Orleans, where he remained until April 2, 1818, when he re- turned to Boston, visiting tJie Indian Mission on his way. He was ordained collegiate pastor of Tabernacle church in Salem July 21, 1819. In Oct 1826, he re- signed, and entered upon his doties as secretary of the American Education Society. In Oct. 1881, he was elected secretary of the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions. He died Feb. 12, 1882. He published several occasional sermons and useftil tracts. — Sprague, AmutU, ii, 688 ; Edwards, Memoir of Cornelius (Boet. 1884, 12mo).
Comer. The words thus translated in our version of the Bible are the following:
1. nSB, pimiah^, signifies properly a pitmack, as skoodtiff tip (2 Chron. xxvi, 16; Zeph. i, 16; iii, 6); hence an ai^le, properly exterior, as of a house (Job i, 19), of a street (Prov. vil, 8) ; also interior, as of a roof (Ftoy, xzi, 9; xxv, 24), of a court (Esek. xlii, 20), of a city (2 Chron. xxviii, 24). It is put metaphorically for a prince or chief of the people (1 Sam. xiv, 88 ; Judg. XX, 2 ; Isa. xix, 18). The abbreviated form, *)&, pen, occurs Prov. vii, 8 ; Zech. xlv, 10.
2. hMtt,|>ediA^, properly the mouth, then the face; hence, generally, a "side*^ of anything (especially a point of the compass, as on the east side, i. e. eastward, **the (bur comers'* standing fbr the whole extent), or region, as of the face (^*part," Lev. xiii, 41) ; of coun- try (" corwerf," Neh. ix, 22, L e. various distrids of the promised land allotted to the Israelites ; so ''^corner of Moab," Jer. xlviii, 16, L e. that country; and in the plural, ^^comer$ [literally, the two dde$] of Moab," Num. xxiv, 17, the wkoU land). Secondarily it de- notes the extreme part of anything, as of a field (Lev. xix, 9; xxiii, 22), of the sacred table (Exod. xxv, 26; xxxvii, 18), of a couch or divan, the place of honor (Amos iii, 12). The * *■ comers of the hcAd and beard'* (Lev. xix, 27 ; xxi, 6) were doubtless the extremities of the hair and wliiskers running around the ears, which the Jews were forbidden to cut or shave off round, like the capped ear4ock$ (mistranslated ** ut- most comers," Jer. ix, 26; xxv, 28; xlix, 82) of the heathen and the ancient Arabs of the desert (Herod, iii, 8). Illustrations of this fkshion are still extant ; indeed, Mr. Osbum (in liis Ancient Egypt, p. 126) seems to have identified some figures on the Egyptian mon- uments with the ancient Hittites, one of the very tribes here alluded to, and who are exhibited as wearing helmets or skull-cape of a peculiar form, so as to leave exposed this peculiar national badge. They appear to have had a hideous custom of shaving a square