Daubuz, Charles, a French Protestant divine, was born in 1670, came to England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became vicar of Brother- ton, Cheshire. He died in 1740. His Commentary on the Book of Revelation (Lond. 1720, folio) is a most elaborate work, to which later writers have been much indebted, and which is one of the most learned books written on the Apocalypse. The abridgment by Lan- caster (Lond. 1780, 4to) forms a good analysis of its contents. Both works are rare. He also wrote Pro testimonio FlavU Jotephi de Jetu Chrisio, Ubri duo, cum prnfatione J. £. Grave (London, 1706, 8vo). — Darling, Cydnpfedia Biblioffraphica, s. v. ; Rose, Biog. Diet, vii, 26 ; Elliott, Horce Apocafyptica^ iv, 457 ; Home, Intro- duction, V, 388, 9th ed.
Daughter (na, bath, for rs^ fern, of )2, ton; dvyarrip), a word used in Scripture in a variety of senses, some of which are unknown to our own lan- guage, or have only become known through familiari- ty with scriptural forms of speech. See Ben-. Be- sides its usual and proper sense of (1.) a daughter, bom or adopted, we find it used to designate (2.) a uterine sister, niece, or cmy female descendant (Gen. XX, 12 ; xxiv, 48 ; xxviii, 6 ; xxxvi, 2 ; Num. xxv, 1 ; Deut xxiii, 17). (3.) Women, as natives, residents, or professing the religion of certain places, as 'Hhe daugh- ter of Zion'* (Isa. iii, 16) ; *^ daughters of the Philis- tines" (2 Sam. i, 20) ; " daughter of a strange god" (Mai. ii, 11) ; ** daughters of men," L e. carnal women (Gen. vi, 2), etc. (4.) Metaphorically small towns are called daughters of neighboring large cities — ^metro- poles, or mother cities — ^to which they belonged or from which they were derived, as *' Heshbon and all the daughters [Auth. Vers, villages] thereof* (Num. xxi, 25); so Tyre is called the daughter of Sidon (Isa. xxii, 12), as having been originally a colony from thence; and hence also the town of Abel is caUed **a mother in Israel" (2 Sam. xx, 19) ; and Gath is in one place (comp. 2 Sam. vii, 1 ; 1 Cbron. xviii, 1) called Gath-Ammah, or Gath the mother town, metropolis, to distinguish it from its own dependencies, or from an- other place called Gath. See Village. Comp. other instances in Num. xxi, 32; Judg. xi, 26; Josh, xv, 45, etc. (5.) The people collectively of any place, the name of which is given, as " the daughter (i. e. the people) of Jerusalem hath shalun her head at thee*' (Isa. xxxvii, 22 ; see also PsaSlv, 18 ; cxxxvii, 8 ; Isa. X, 30; Jer. xlvi, 19; Lam. iv, 22; Zech. ix, 9). This metaphor is illustrated by the almost universal custom of representing towns under the figure of a woman. (6.) The word "daughter," followed by a numeral, indicates a woman of the age indicated by the numeral, as when Sarah (in the original) is called " the daughter of ninety years" (Gen. xvii, 17). (7.) The word " daughter" is also applied to the produce of animals, trees, or plants. Thus, ^* daughter of the she-ostrich," (supposed) for '* female ostrich'* (Lev. xi, 16) ; Joseph is called " a fruitful bough whose daugh- ters (branches) ron over the wall*' (Gen. xlix, 22). — Kitto, s. V. See further in Gesenius and FOrst, s. v.
The condition of daughters, that is, en, in the East, their employmenta, dntiea, etc, v be gathered from various parts of Scripture, and sem to have borne but little resonblaaee to that «f yi^ women of respectable parentage among ooicivi Rebekah drew and fetched water ; Rwrbel kept ^ as did the daughters of Jethro, thoogh he vas aprie* or a prince, of Midian. They superintended ami ptv^ formed domestic services for the fimify; Tmbb. though a king's daughter, baked bread ; and the tm of others. We have Uie same occupatioos Iv ^ daughters of princes in the ancient poets, of «iu3 Homer is an unquestionable evidence. — Cafanct i* See Child ; Educatiok ; Woman ; MARBiaoe.
The original terms rendered '* dangfater-in-laT' m in the Heb. n^S, kaUah'; Sept. and New Teat. t«^ both literally meaning a bride (as elsewhere readoef and applied to a sons wife.
Davenant, John, D.D., bishop of Sahiliafy. w bom in London about 1570, and was edBcated s Queen*s College, Cambridge. In U5&i a ftSkmt^ was ofifered him, which he accepted after his &kff t death in 161)7. In 1609 he was elected Lady Vu;gaK professor of divinity. In 1614 he was chosen stsAcr of his college, and in 1618 was one of the foor dirsff sent to the Synod of Dort by James I. See D<S3 He returned to England in May, 1619, after havh; visited the most eminent cities in the Netheriisk In 1621 he was appointed to the see of SalisbtsT ; te in 1630-81 he incurred the displeasure of the coratK a sermon on predestination, ** all etnions sesrck i* which** the king, in his declaration prefixed to dr Thirty-nine Articles in 1628, had strictly en joined ^ft be laid aside." The bishop died of consmnptsn a 1641. He was a man of great learning. He po> lished Expontio Epist. D. PauU ad Colossenses (C^ bridge, 1630, 2d edition, fol. ; translated by AUpoi London, 1831, 2 vols. 8vo) , PreeUctitmes de <^o(w a theologia cont. capitibus (Cantab. 1631, foL) ; VeOrm- nationes qucutionum iheologicarum (Cantab. 2d e£tisa 1639, fol.); Dissert. II de Mttrte Ckritti et de iWt^ natlone (Camb. 1680). A trandation of one of the Fn- lecHones appeared under the title A Treatise on Jwt^ cation, etc., translated from the origmai Latin (LcnL 1844-46, 2 vols. 8vo). After bishop Daveoant i n» turn from the Synod of Dort, he published an eiratf appeal for ftatemal union among the Befbrmed dnffcfc- es, under the title Adfratcmam commvmomem isia EvangeUcas Ecdesias restaurandam adkortaiio (CtsK 1640; transl. into English, 1641, 8vo). — Bioyrx^ Britannica, iv, 629.