Deti^el (Heb. DefieT, bfttW^, according to Gesenius, invocation of God; according to Fttrst, acquainted with God; Sept. PayovriX ; Vulg. DeAuel)^ father of Eliasaph, the ** captain" (K'^bS) of the tribe of Gad at the time of the numbering of the people at Sinai (Num. i, 14 ; vii, 42, 47 ; x, 20). B.C. ante 1657. The same man is mentioned again in ii, 14, but here the name appears as Reuel (q. v.), owing to an interchange of the two very similar Hebrew letters ^ and *1. In this latter passage the Samaritan, Arabic, and Vulg. retain the D ; the Sept., as in other places, has R. The greater weight of evidence is therefore in favor of the reading ** Deuel" in both passages. Ffirst ingeniously sug- gests {ffeb, Handw, p. 804) that the name may have been originally Damd (^K^j?*^^), which woidd ex- plain the various reading.
Denrhof^ William, was bom at Amsterdam in 1650. He did not follow any particular course of study, received no regular education, and foUowed the business of basket-making during his whole life, yet made himself a name by the originality and vigor of his reasoning faculties. He died in 1717. While foU lowing his daily vocations, he studied philosophy and theology, yet without any system or method. Among the philosophers he followed more especiall}' Spinoza and Des Cartes, particularly the Utter ; yet he thought be could improve on Des Cartes's system. The pe- culiar philosophico-theological system which he thus originated is presented explained in his various writ' ings, which, however, are now become scarce, and con- tain, besides, many heterodox principles. See Brack- eri Historia Philosophia (tom. iv, pit. ii, Lpz. 1744, p. 291, 704, 720) ; Herxog, ReaJrEncglUap, iU, 888.
DeusdSdit, or Deod&tns, Pope, succeeded Bon- iface IT, 615, and died 618. His reign is marked by quite wonderful miracles, and by false decretals. His name is among the saints (Nov. 9).
Dens misereatur (God have mercy), the Latin name of the sixty-seventh psalm, derived fh)m its first words, which, in the Church of England, may be used in the evening prayer, after the second lesson, instead of the nunc dimitOs, except on the twelfth day of the
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Deasing, Hebxan, son of Anthony Deusing, a dis- tinguished physician, mathematician, and professor, was bom in Groningen, March 14, 1654. He was bred to the profession of law, but, taking a dislike to it, he relinquished it, and devoted himself exclusively to the- ological studies. In 1690 be published his Hiitoria aikgorica Veierit et Novi Ttttamenti^ jvtnda revelaUone mysUrii #. #. triados. By this work he made himself known as a typical and mystical theologian. The typical interpretation of the Scriptures was pushed to its extreme limits. The doctrine of the Trinity was allegorically explained. The result was, that he was accused of heresy, and debarred from the Ixnd's Sup- per. He wrote two works in his own defence, one in Dutch and the other in Latin. In 1700 appeared his ComTnentarius myiUcu* in decalogum et es^liixUio mystica turn historicB de muHere hcemorrhoita etfUa Jairij turn parabola de JEpulone divUe et Lazaro mmdico. In 1712 he gave to the world his Mtf$terium #. t, iriadog, in which he ftiUy developed Iiis idlegorical views of this doctrine. He also contributed several exegetical ar- ticles to the BibHotheca BrementU. He gradually re- ceded from his extreme views. The Groningen Con- sistory repealed the ientence of suspension that they had passed against him. He now connected liimself with the Walloon Church. He was permitted to spend the remainder of his days in peace, and he died Janu- ary 8, 1722, in the city of his birth.
Deutero-Canonioal BOOKS op the Old Tes- tament, a term applied in modem times to denote those sacred books which, originally denominated ec- elesicuticcU and apocryphal^ were not in the Jewish or Hebrew Canon, but, as being contained in the old Greek versions, were publicly read in the early Chris- tian Church. See Apocrypha. For the suspected books of the New Testament^ see Autilboomena.
1. It is acknowledged by all that these books never had a place in the Jewish Canon. The Roman Cath- olic professor Alber, of Pesth (who considers them as of equal authority with the received books of the He- brew Canon), observes: "The Deutero- canonical books are those which the Jews had not in their Can- on, but are, notwithstanding, received by the Chris- tian Church, concerning which, on this very account of their not having been in the Jewish Canon, there has existed some doubt even in the Church'* (Jiutkut, Hermeneut. vol. 1, ch. viii, ix). Josephus, a contem- porary of the apostles, after describing the Jewish Canon {Apion, i, 8), which he says consists of twenty- two books, remarks: "But froqj the reign of Arta- zerxes to within our memory there have been several things committed to writing which, however, have not acquired the same degree of credit and authority as the former books, inasmuch as the tradition and succession of the prophets were less certain." It has been shown by Horaemann (Observat. ad ilhut, doctr, de Canon. V, T. ex PhUone) that, although Philo was acquainted with the books in question, he has not cited any of them, at least with the view of establishing any prop- osition.