From whence oometh my help. %. My help cometh from the Lcnrd,
Who made heaven and earth. 8. He will no% suffer thy foot to be mofved;
Thy keeper will not lAumher.
4. Lo, not alumher nor ale^ will the
keeper ^Ibtm^ ,
5. Jehovah is thy keeper., eta
ompare also Psa. cxxii,2-4; cxxiii,8,^; cxxiv,!- ; cxxvi, 2, 8 ; cxxix, 1, 2. To the same class be- ings also the song of Deborah (Judg. v, 8^80). This lew is followed by De Wette {EirU. in das A.T.y. 89) and others. See Illing, DisqttisiHo de inscriptioney ■^■ipran n*^ (Brem. 1765) ; Clarisse, Psalmi qtand^- hn ffammadhth (L. B. 1819) ; Sticht, De PsabnisHaff^ naloih (Altona, 1766). See Psalms.
Degrees (F^nch de^ri, from Lat. graduSj a step), atles of rtmk to which are annexed privileges, confer- red upon students in colleges and universities, or upon nembers thereof, as a testimony of their proficiency in the arts and sciences. The term * * Arts," or ** Lib- eral Arts," as technically applied to certain studies, came into use during the Middle Ages, and on the es- tablishment of universities, the term ** Faculty of Arts" denoted those who devoted themselves to science and philosophy as distinguished from the Ikculty of theol- ogy, and afterwards of medicine and law. The num- ber of ^ arts" embraced in the full mediaeval course of learning was seven : Granmiar, Logic, Rhetoric (con- stituting the Trivium), Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, snd IBLhetoric (the Qmdrivium). The terms master and doctor were originally applied synonymously to Any person engaged in teaching. In process of time, ^ one was restricted to the liberal arts, the other to divinity, law, and medicine. When regulations were established to prevent unqualified persons from teach- ing, and an initiatory stage of discipline was prescribed, these terms became significant of a certain rank, and ^ the possession of certain powers, and were called ffrodwi "steps" or "degrees." The passing of the initiatory stage, said to have been first instituted by Gregory IX (1227-41), conferred the title of bachelor {^' ^0) ^^^ an additional course of discipline and ex-
amination was necessary to obtaming that of master: The title of Master of Arts originally implied the right, and even the duty of publicly teaching some of the branches included in the fiMulty of arts ; a custom which is still retained, to some extent, in the German universities, but has fdlen into disuse in other coun- tries. The degrees of D.D. (doctor cUvitutatis^y S.T.D. (sacrm theohffioB doctor)^ and LL.D. (doctor utriusque leffwn)y are conferred, honoris causd, by colleges and universities, upon persons held to be worthy of them, whether members of the said institutions of learning or not. The see of Rome claims a universal academi- cal power, and the Pope confers the doctor's degree at pleasure. See Kirkpatrick, HisUnicaUy received Con- ception of the Umversitjff Newman, Office and Work of Universities, p. 241 ; Tholuck, in Herzog's Beal-£ncif- klopddie, xvi, 722 ; and the article Doctob.
Deha'vltes (Chald. Deha^, Kl^nn, or Dehcm\ ^!30?» ^^P** ^«'^o*» Vulg. Lievi), one of the Assyr- ian tribes ftt>m which a colony was led out by Asnap- per to repopulate Samaria, and who there joined their neighbors in opposing the reconstruction of the Tem- ple at Jerusalem (Ezra iv, 9). These DaM were prob- ably the Aaoi, Dai (Herod, i, 126), a nomade Persian tribe east of the Caspian Sea (Ammian. Marc, xx, 8, p. 800, ed. Bip.), in the neighborhood of the Mardians, or Hyrcanians (Strabo, xi, 608, 611; Pliny, vi, 19; xxxvii, 88 ; Solin. xx), towards Margiana (Ptol. vi, 10), under the rule of Darius (Cur*, iv, 126), and later of Alexander (Curt, viii, 14, 6 ; ix, 2, 24) and his suc- cessors (Livy, xxvii, 40). This people appears to have been widely diffused, being found as Dahcs (AdaC) both in the country east of the Caspian (Strab. xi, 8, 2 ; Arrian, Exped. Al. iii, 11, etc.), and hi the vicinity of the Sea of Azof (Strab. xi, 9, 8) ; and again as Diki (AToe, Thucyd. ii, 96), or Daci (AaKoi, Strab., D. Cass., etc.), upon tlie Danube. Theh: name perhaps survives in the present district Daghestan. They were an Arian race, and are regarded by some as having their lineal descendants in the modem Danes (see Grimm*s Ge- schicht. der Deutsi^ Sprach. i, 192-8). The name is derived from the Persian dahj **a village;" Dehavites will therefore be equivalent to the L^tin "Rnstid.'' Their love of war and plunder induced them to serve as mercenaries under various princes (Arrian, iii, 11 ; V, 12) ; and their valor has immortalized them in the pages of Virga as " indomiti Dab«" (JSn. viii, 728). A band of them had doubtless entered the service of the Persian monarch, followed him to Palestine, and received for their reward grants of land in Samaria (Stephanus Byzant. s. v. ; Bitter, Erdkunde, vii, 668; Rawlinson's Herodotus, i, 888).
Dehon, Theodore, D.D., bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of South Carolina, was bom in Boston, Mass., in Dec, 1776. His early education was obtained in the public school, where, for some years, he stood at the head of his class. In 1791 he entered Harvard University, where he gradu- ated with the highest honors in 1795. He at once commenced his prep«mition for the ministry, for which, from early childhood, he had evinced a strong indina^ tion. In 1797 he was ordained, and soon became the rector of Trinity Church, Newport, R. I., where he re^ mained until 1810, when he was compelled, by failing health, to seek a inilder climate. An invitation to the rectorship of St MichaeVs Church, Charleston, S. C, was accepted. In this charge, as at Newport, he was loved and revered by all classes. In 1812 he was elected bishop of the diocese of South Carolina, to whifh office he was solemnly set apart, in Philadelphia, by the venerable Bishop White. He continued in the rectorship of bis church, and performed its duties and those of the bishopric, with eminent zeal, discretion, and success, until he fell a victim to yellow fever in August, 1817. At the request of the vestry of St. Michael^s, he was bdried beneath its chancel. His