DAMIANISTS
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DAN
MM of spiritiutl power. Altogether Dftmian was )Dg the foremost men of his age, both morally and llectually. His works were collected by Cajetan me, 1606-1615, 8 vob. foL), and have been several M reprinted ; the best edition is that of Bassani (8, 4 vols. fo].). His life is given in the first vol- I of his works ; also in Vita P, Damiam^ by Lader- (Rome, 1702, 4to) ; and in the Acta Sanctorum^ . iil, 406 sq. See Dnpin, Ecd. HiaUny^ vol. ix, ch. ; Moeheim,C%. HuLy bk. iii, c. xl, pt ii, chap, ii, n. Bayle, DictionaTry^ s. v. ; Clarke, Suce, of Sacred Toture, ii, 608; Schrdckh, KirthengttchidkU, xxii, sq.; I^ i9acen2ota/ CWi6acsr (1867), chap. xii. lamianists or Damianites. The followers of oianos of Alexandria (q. v.) were so called. )aTnlftfnifl, Monophjrsite patriarch of Alexandria tOl), expressed himself on the doctrine of the Trin- in a sense similar to that of Sabellios. He main- led that the divinity (^ton/c) of the Father, the I, and the Holy Ghost is an essential characteristic op^ic) divided among the three, so that they are 1 only in their unity, not each one in himself {ko!^' Tovy, and that in this unity they constitute the one ine essence (jiiav ovviav cat ^vmv). His follow- were caUed Damianites, after him, or Angelists, n Angelium, the place where they held their assem- )A in Alexandria; their adversaries were called Te- lists (Tcrpa^trai), as, going still farther than the theists, they acknowledged foar gods, namely, the Jier, the Son, the Holy Ghost, and the higher Be- ! ;, which, in his nature (jpvffu) and in hunself (ca&' rrov), is God.~Heraog, ReajUEncyMopadiey ill, 268 ; eheim, Ch, History^ bk. ii, ch. vi, pt. ii, § 4 ; Hagen- ^ Hist. o/Doctfimet, § 96. Damlaniw, St. See Cosmas. Damln. See Adaici. Dammlin. See Ephss-damhim.
Damnation, condemnation. This word is used denote the final loss of the soul, but it is not always be understood in this sense in the sacred Scripture. OS it is said in Rom. xiii, 2, '* They that resist shall «ive to themselves damnation," i. e. condemnation, hnn the rulers, who are not a terror to good works, t to the evO.** Again, in 1 Cor. xi, 29, ''He that teth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh mnation to himself,^ L e. condemnation ; exposes nself to severe temporal judgments from God, and the judgment and censure of the wise and good. Sahi, Rom. xiv, 28, " He that doubteth is damned if eat," L e. is condemned both by his own conscience d the word of God, because he is &r fh>m being sat- ted that he is right in so doing.— Buck, Theol, Die- ^lary.B.T.
Dan (Heb. id, y^, 2k judge; Sept Aav), the name a man and his tribe and of two towns. See Maha- :b-da9; Dav-jaan.
1. (Josephus tnmslates Of<$cptroc, Ant. I, 19, 8.) le fifth son of Jacob, and the first of Bilhah, Bachel*s ud (Gen. xxx, 6), bom B.C. 1916. The origin of e name is there i^ven in the exclamation of Rachel " ' God hath judged me 0»n, danan'm) ... and ven me a son,' therefore she called his name Dan,** e. ''judge." In the blessing of Jacob (Gen. xlix, ) this play on the name is repeated—" Dan shall idee (X^t yadm^ his people.'* Dan was own ntber to Naphtali ; and, as the son of Rachel's maid,
a closer relation with Rachel's sons, Joseph and eojamin, than with the other members of the family. : may be noticed that there is a close affinity between • name and that of Dinah, the only daughter of icob. See Jacob.
Tribb or Dait. — Only one son is attributed to this ktriarch (Gen. xlvi, 23) ; but it may be observed that Hoahim" is a plund form, as if the name, not of an
individual, but of a family ; and it is remarkable— whether as indicating that some of the descendants of Dan are omitted in ^ese lists, or from other causes— that when the people were, numbered in the wilderness of Sinai, this was, with the exception of Judah, the most numerous of all the tribes, containing 62,700 men able to serve. The position of Dan during the march through the desert was on the north side of the taber- nacle (Num. ii, 25). Here, with his brother Naphta- li, and Asher, the son of Zilpah, before him, was his station, the hindmost of the long procession (ii, 81 ; x, 26). The names of the ** captain" (X'^iOJ) of the tribe at this time, and of the ** ruler" (the Hebrew word is the same as before), who was one of the spies (xiii, 12), are preserved. So also is the name of one who played a prominent part at that time, ''Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan," associated with Bezaleel in the design and construction of the fit- tings of the tabernacle (Exod. xxxi, 6, etc.). The numbers of this tribe were not subject to the violent fluctuations which increased or diminished some of its brethren (comp. the figures given in Num. i and xxvi), and it arrived at the threshold of the Promised Land, and passed the ordeal of the rites of Baal-peor (Num. xxv) with an increase of 1700 on the earlier census. The remaining notices of the tribe before the passage of the Jordan are unimportant. It furnished a "prince" (fMus, as before) to the apportionment of the land; and it was appointed to stand on Mount Ebal, still in company with Naphtali (but opposite to the other related tribes), at the ceremony of blessing and cursing (Deut xxvii, 13).