DIDYMUS, GABRIEL
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DIES ULE
of apgels, for they are not enendaUy holy; that it is not a creature, for men's spirits are said to be filled with it, and no mind can be filled with a creature ; nor is it a quality, for the working of an agent is attribu- ted to it; that it exists with and as God, and is so called Acts y, a, 4; and that it, with the Father and the Son, forms one essential Godhead in a Trinity of persons, each capable of distinct action in the same time and place ; and that the Holy Spirit is of the tame nature with the Father and the Son, because they have the same operation, etc. (2.) Breoti enarraUones in EpistoUis CcmcmcoM (Exposition of the Catholic Epis- tles), given in Bfigne, Pair, Gr. voL xxxix, and in other coUections : — (3.) lAber advenut Mamicheeot^ of which the original Greek is given in Canisii Led, An- tiq. i, 204 (compare Basnage's notes in his ed. of Canis- ius); also in Combefis, Auctarium Noviu, vol. ii, and in Migne, Patr. Gr, xxxix:— <4.) De Trimtaie, Libri tres (7r<pi Tpca^oc), which was long lost, but was found by Job. Aloys. MingarellL and published by him at Bologna, 1769, fol. It i^%iven (Greek and Latin) in Migne, vol. xxxix, where also are several fragments of the Commentaries of Didymus on various parts of Scripture. See the notices in Migne, Patrol, Grtec. xxxix, 140 sq. ; Fabricius, BibUotheca GnscOy ix, 269 sq. ; Cave, Historia Literaria^ anno 870 ; Ceillier, Ati- teurt Sacris, vol. v, ch. xix (Paris, 1865) ; Schroeckh, KirchengetckichU, vii, 71 sq. ; Gnericke, De Sdkola AU exandrina; Schaff, History of the ChritAan Church, iii, § 167; Lardner, Works, iv, 800; Dupin, Ecclesiastical Writers, ii, 108 ; Clarke, Succession of Sacred Litera- ture, i, 897 ; LOcke, QuesHones Didymiana (Gdtt. 1829) ; Alzog, Patroiogie, § 52 (Freiburg, 1866, 8vo).
Did3rmuB (Zwtllimo), Gabriel, a friend and co- worker of Luther, was bom at Joachimsthal, in Bohe- mia, in 1487. He studied at Prague and Wittenberg, joined the Augustinians in 150^, and became priest in 1518. He was among the first to embrace the princi- ples of the Reformation, and in 1521 caused private masses to be abolished in the Augustinian convent of Wittenberg, as well as the practice of begging, and substituted in their stead that of preaching on texts taken from Scripture. He afterwards severed his connection with the convents, and engaged in Carl- stadt's crusade against learning, but subsequently ac- knowledge his error on this point He left Witten- berg, however, and went as pastor to DUben and Tor- gan. He was deposed in 1549 by Moritz of Saxony for his opposition to the Leipzig Interim (q. v.), and died in retirement in 1558. See Seckendorf, Comment tortus de Uitheranismo ; Teme, Nachricht von des G, Didymus fatalem Leben (Leipsic, 1787, 4to) ; Herzog, ReaUEncyhlopddie, iii, 884; Planck, GeschichU d,prot, Theohgie, iv, 248 sq.
Dieffenbacher, Jacob Follmeb, a minister of the German Reformed Church, was bom near Milton, Northumberland County, Pa., December 18, 1802. He spent his youth on a farm, and in a saw-mill and cloth factory. He pursued his preparatory studies in the Milton Academy, and studied theology in the Theo- logical Seminary of the German Reformed Church then at CarlisK Pa. He was licensed and ordained in 1828, and wa» pastor successively in Sharpsburg charge, Md., Mercersburg, Pa., Woodstock, Va., and Harmo- ny, Butler County, Pa. In this last charge he devoted part of his time to teaching. He died Feb. 4, 1842. While at Woodstock he published a small work enti- tled The Scripture Doctrine of Water Baptism, of In- fant Baptism, and Baptism by Pouring or Sprinkling. At Woodstock, Ya., he was compelled to stand a trial in court for an alleged violation of law in expressing certain sentiments on the subject of slavery in an ad- dress on colonization. He was, however, acquitted, but soon after left the state. He preached in German and English, and was a warm-hearted and zealous minister.
Diepenbrock, Mblchior Bjibov or, ww b«: at Bocholt, in WestphaUa, JsamMry lOtfa, Um. 1814 he entered the Prussian militia, mmd after !>. studied theology at Landshnt, Msyenee, and Ma He was consecrated jHiest in 1823, Ytnt rexaauMd bishop Sailer (q. v.) as secretary at JELcgeoAm^ 1880 he was made dean, and in 1835 prebcndarr tf ^ cathedral. He afterwards acted as eipsmcofal rtr general from 1842 to 1844, was created hmnm a IK and elected prince bishop of Brealau. In IStB k n sent to the Parliament at Frankfort. In ftbe osie between the Prussian government and tlie Le^skbe, which refused to the former the ri^t of VerrjiagiaB. Diepenbrock vigorously supported the i^ihiiimii and issued a pastoral, which, by order of the gam- ment, was published in all the official papcn. h was made cardinal in 1860, and died Jan. 20, 1S1 1 Johannisberg, in Austrian Silesia. In 1850 he hai^ ed the Melchior fund of 10,000 florins for tkt fa^^c of poor chaplains in the Austrian part of the &xm of Breslau. He was a moderate Papist, and, Che wot of the school of Sailer, earnest in piety and Chmtfa » forms. See Saileb. His principal works are, Ged^ /icAer £2umen«fra«M (Begensberg, 1826 ; 2d &L Sife 1852) : — Erinmerungen an d.justgen Grafen r. Staivj, Leben ffeinrieh Suso*s (Regensb. 2d ed. 1837): — r> misches Stiltteben nach Conscience, and several sa^a A biography of Diepenbrock was pablisbed by bii s» cesser in the see of Breslau, bishop Foists, is fi& — Pierer, Unwersal-Lestikon, s. v.