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I also compared. All hia exegetical and critical IS were finally edited by professor Leydecker, and ished in folio in 1698, entitled Critica Sacra five iuidoersiane» m ioca qwBdam diffieiUora V, et N. Tet- ntL See Bayle, Dictionary, s. y. ; Simon, HisL que, N. T., chap. 58.
igamlBts, a term anciently osed to designate ^ns twice married after baptism thongh legally successively to two wives, one after the death of other. The Montanists condemned all second riages as nnUwfol; but, although this opinion did prevail generally, it was the common practice to Be ordination to men who had been twice married, ollian (de Monogam, chap, xi) condemned second riages even in laymen ; and Ambrose, Jerome, ihanins, and others assumed that the injunction le apostle 1 Tim. ill, 2, in which he directs that a op most be the husband of one wife, forbade an ec- iastic to marry twice. Chrysostom, Theodoret,
others gave a contrary opinion, and interpreted apostle's language of polygamists, or such as were Tied to many- wives at the same time, and such as
causelesslj put away their wives, and married its after divorcing the former. Numerous instances e been adduced to prove that second marriages were an impediment to ordination, e. g. Tertullian (De nogam. xii) admits that there were bishops who had n twice married.— Bingham, Orig,JEccUs. bk. iv, ch. 1 1-4.
Digby, Sib Kestelm, was bom in 1608, three irs before his father, Sir Everard Digby, was exe- ed for his share in the Gunpowder Plot. He was ught up in the Protestant faith, and in 1618 was ered at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, where he gained ronderful name for ability and scholarship. After ving the university he spent two years in travel, 1, returning to England in 1628, was knighted. In t2, on the death of Dr. Allen, of Gloucester Hall,
* Kenelm Digby inherited his collection of books 1 manuscripts. In 1636, when in France, he was iverted to the Roman Catholic faith, which step he fttified in A Conference toith a Lady about the Choice a Religion (Par. 1688; Loud. 1654). He returned England in 1688, and on the breaking out of the vil War was imprisoned as a Royalist in Winches-
* House, but in 1643 he was allowed to retire to ance. At Paris he was received with favor by the ourt, and made the acquaintance of Des Cartes. Af- ' Charles I had fallen, Digby returned to England, t the Parliament forbade him the kingdom under oalty of death. Retiring to the Continent, he trav- ed in France and Italy ; but in 1655 he was again England, and was in frequent attendance at the
art of the Protector. He went again to France, and sied himself with the preparation of philosophical pers. He returned to England in 1661, and died dre in 1665. His works are numerous, and on a great riety of subjects ; we only notice, besides the one ready mentioned, A Treatise on the Sotd^ proving its mortaiihf (Par. 1644); Mores Caiholici, or Ages of tith (anon.), reprinted in 8 vob. 8vo, Lend. 1844r-47. ^Private Memoirs of Sir K. Digby, etc., written by \nSUlf, were publwhed in London m 1827 (8vo). See ippis, Biognqtkica Britannica, v, 184 sq. ; Chambers, tcyclopadia, s. v.
Digit (saSit, etsba^, the " finger**), a Jewish meas- « of length, being about the breadth of a finger (q. y It was the fourth part of a palm, and the 24th
a cubit. According to Dr. Arbutbnot's tables, the git is 0-912th of an English inch. See Mbtroloot.
Dignities (So^aty plur. of SSl^a, glory') stands in 2 **• ii, 10 ; Jude 8, figuratively for persons high in »or, whom each of those aposties blames certain ■facters for calumniating. The term in thi^ con- J^on is usually referred to earthly magistrates or oBces, whose dahn to deference the Gospel every- II.— E B B
where enforces upon its followers ; but it is probably better to refer it to the angels, even including those who are fallen, since the context in both passages in- troduces the good angels as refraining from using slan- derous or abusive epithets towards them. The term is used with respect to the celestials by Philo {Mon- arch, ii, 218, ed Mang.). Similar is the usage of the terms ** principalities and powers" in numerous pas- sages of the episties. See Anoel.
Dikd. See Ybnobakcb.
Dikaah (Heb. Diklah\ nbt?*!, fern. ; Sept. AccXa ; Joseph. AecXac, AnL i^6, 4 ; Vnlg. Deda), the seventh son of Joktan (B.C. post 2414) ; also the name of a district settied by a tribe descended from him (Gen. X, 27). As the name in Aramaic and Arabic means a palm-tree, it has been judged necessary to seek the seat of the tribe in some territory rich in palm-trees ; of such there are several in Arabia (comp. Strabo, xvi, 776 ; Pliny, vi, 82). One famous place of palm-trees existed at the very entrance of Arabia Felix, hence called by the Greeks ^owuaav (Ptolemy, vi, 7, 28) ; but this was remote from the other tribes of the Jok- tonidn. See Uzal. Bochart (Phaleg, ii, 22^d8 it in Southem Arabia, in the district of the Mince^hich was also rich in palm-trees (Pliny, vi, 28), now called Yemen (Niebuhr, Descr, p. 201); Michaelis {Spicileg. ii, 176) in the region of the Tigris (from the analog of the name Diglath) ; but where the ground of search is so uncertain, it is impossible to obtain any certain result (see FressnePs Lettres, in the Jottmal Asiatique, X, 90-96, 176-200; Jomard*s Essai, in Mengin*s Hist, de VEgypte, iii). As, however, there is stiU an Arab tribe in the region of Arabia Felix called Duhkd, which is probably descended from Diklah — for the Arabs have always been as retentive of family names as thb Jews themselves (Forster's Geog. of Arabia, i,-115, 147)— we may conclude that the Diklaites settied in Yemen, and occupied a portion of it a little to the east of the H^az. See Arabia.