1. (Sept AaXataQ v. r. 'ApSaWai.) The head of the twenty-third division of the priestly order in the arrangement by David (1 Chron. xxiv, 18). B.C. 1014.
2. (Sept. Aa\cttaQ, TodoXiag.") A son of Shemaiah, and one of the courtiers to whom Jeremiah's first roll ^ of prophecy was read (Jer. xxxvi, 12) : he vainly in- terceded for its preservation fitmi the flames (ver. 25). B.C. 604.
3. (Sept AdXata.') The progenitor or head of one of the parties of exiles that returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel from certain parts of the Assyrian domin- ions, but who had lost their genealogical records (Ezra u, 60 ; Neh. vii, 62). B.C. 586.
4. (Sept AaXaia.) The son of Mehetabeel, and fa- ther of the Shemaiah who counselled Nehemiah to es- cape into the Temple from the threats of Sanballat (Neh. vi, 10). B.C. ante 410.
5. (Sept AeXata v. r. AaXaata.') One of the sons of Elioenai, a descendant of the Toyai line of Judah from Zerubbabel (1 Chron. iii, 24, where, however, the name is Anglicized Dalaiah). He' probably belongs to the tenth generation before Christ (see Strong's Harmony and Expos, of the Gospels, p. 17). B.C. cir. 300.
Delanoey, William Heathcote, D.D., bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Western New York, was bom in Westchester County, N. Y., Oct. 8, 1797 ; graduated at Yale College in 1817, and was ordained deacon in 1819. His first ministe^ rial labor was given to Grace Church, New York, or which he was in charge during the vacancy of the rectorship which preceded that of the Bev. Dr. Wain- wright. He then officiated for a short time in the newly-organized parish of St. Thomas's, Mamaroneck. Having been advanced to the priesthood on March 6, 1822, in Trinity Church, New York, he removed to the city of Philadelphia, where he became an assistant minister of the united churches of Christ Chnrch, St. Peter's, and St. James's, of which bishop White was then rector. In 1828 he was appointed Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1833 he became a»- sistant minister of St Peter's Church of Philadelphia, and in 1837 rector. When the diocese of New York was divided in 1838, Dr. Delancey was elected the first bishop of the new diocese of Western New York. Hb consecration took place on May 9, 1839. In 1852 he visited England as a delegate to the English House of Bishops Arom the Protestant Episcopal Church of America. He died at Geneva, N. Y., April 5, 1865. In all positions, as pastor, university officer, and bish- op. Dr. Delancey was diligent, skilful, and successM. He instituted a system of diocesan missions sustained to the present time withoot incurring debt In 1840, by his recommendation, a fUnd for the relief of infirm and aged clergy of the diocese was established.
Delany, Patbiok, an eminent Irish clergyman, was born in the year 1686, and was educated at Trin- ity College, Dublin. In 1727 lord Carteret raised him to the chancellorship of Christ Church. He distin. guished himself by the publication of the first voir
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nme of a work entitled Revelation examined with Can- dor (4th edit. Lond. 1745-63, 3 vols. 8vo). The work is etui held in deserved estimation. In 1738 he wrote an in^nloos pamphlet, entitled BtflecHone en Polyg- amy, He also published (1740-42) An, hutoricai Ac- count of the Life and Reign of David (Sd ed. London, 1745, ^ vols. 8vo) ; In 1745-1763, Revelation examined with Candor (2 vols. 8vo) ; Twaity Sermons upon eo- oial Dutiea and their opposite Vices (Lond. 1750, 8vo) ; Sixteen Discourses on Doctrines and Duties (Lond. 1754, 8vo). He died at Bath, May, 1768. *' He was a man of ability and learning, disposed occasionally to use his fancy, and to reason confidently on doubtful or dis- puted premises ; his works also greatly lack evangel- ical sentiment. His sentiments on many doctrines of Christianity were certainly peculiar, but then his mind was original, well-informed, and capacious" (Or me, JBibHotheca Biblicd), See Kippis, Biographia Briton- nicOj V, 75.
De La Rue. See La Rite.
Deleda, or Theleda of the Peutinger Table^ is identified by Bitter (Erdk. zvii, 1448) with ffa^a, a village on the Diunascqs-Homs road, four hoars east of Biblah (Van de Telde, Memoir, p. 807).
Delegates, Court o£ The great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes in England is so called be- cause the commissioners who form the court are ap- pointed to represent the king, under Us great seal.
Delfau, DoM FRAKfoia, a French theologian, was bom at Moulet, in Auvergne, in 1637. He entered the congregation Of St. Maur, and became specially known for his edition of the works of St. Augustine. He undertook ttus work by direction of the general of the congregation, upon whom the need of a new criti- cal edition of the works of the great Church father had been urged by Amaud. Delfau published in 1670 an announcement in which scholars generally were in- vited to support him with their advice and with man- uscripts.' The general of the congregation, by a cir- cular to all the houses of the congregation, issued in the same year, requested each to co-operate with the editor in a work which promised to be of so great use to the Church. A full prospectus was published by Delfau in 1671. Great progress had been made in the preparation of the work, when suddenly Delfau was exiled to Saint Mah6, in Lower Brittany, charged with having published in 1673, under the assumed name of Bois-Franc, a work entitled LAIM oommendataire, di- rected against the custom of giving ecclesiastical ben- efices in commendam. He perished by shipwreck Oct. 13, 1676. He is also the author of a defence (Apologie) of the cardinal de Furstemberg, who was arrested at Cologne by the troops of the emperor, and of an Epi- taph of king Casimir of Poland.— Hoefer, Biognqthie GhUrale, xiii, 457.