Di'shan (Heb. Diskan', )m'% another fcm h the name Diehon; Sept 'Purwv.bnt in 1 ChniLU AauTwv V. r. Aurav), the name of the yoongestMBtf Seir the Horite, father of Uz and Aran, and he^ ^ one of the original tribes of Idumsa (Gen. zzxtl £. 28,30; 1 Chron. i, 38, 42). B.C. dr. 1963. Sk lift
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Di'ahon (Heb. Di$hon% V**^! <»<^; ^^ owvy in 1 Chron. i, 41 Aaioutv), the name dtnit- scendants of Seir the Horite. Dishon and Diiba !» long to the same root, which may possibly tet^'* the name Deith noticed by AbuHi^ (JTi^isfcii^ 196). The geographical position of the tribei de<*s^ ed from these patriarchs is uncertain. KBobel({b«. in loc.) places them to the E. and S.E of tlieGslfi' Akaba, on the ground that the names of Disboii> ^^ Eshban and Hemdan, may be identified v^ f^ *f and ffumeidjf, branches of the tribe of Omm. Sc^ identifications must be received wiUi cantkn, n nm- lar names are found in other parts of Anibis--^a«i- for instance, near Tayf, and again ffamiai,^^ bears a still closer resemblance to the origiBil msl near Sana (Borckhardt's Arabia^ i, 156; ii,37Q. ^ Horite.
1. Seir's fifth son, and head of one of tiieaborigiBr Idumsan tribes (Gen. xxxvi, 21, 80; 1 Omo. I >• B.C. dr. 1963. In the original of Gen. xxxrii where his four sons are mentioned, the naine &:.t some transposition, Disham, which oar tniwij^ (following the Sept. and the parallel paeagel CL'X 1, 41) have correctly changed to "DisImjo."
2. His grandson, the only son of Anah, asd brothr of Aholibamah, Esau's second wife (Gf b. xxzri, $ 1 Chron. i, 41). B.C. considefably pott VSSi,
Dishozi. See Ptgarg.
Dlsmountiiig. See Rideb.
Dispensatioii (olKovopia, wumagemid,^^ household afiSurs, hence Engl, economy; ''itt<*^ ship," Luke xvi, 2, 8, 4; "edifying,"! Tub. U» parently reading oiicoSoftfi).
(1.) By the divine dispeiuatUme are generaDr a^ those methods or schemes which are demd » pursued by the wisdom and goodness of God is » der to manifest his perfections and will to s^ kind, for the purpose of their instructioD, diicii^ reformation, and advancement in rectitade d » per and conduct, fior the promotion of tbeir iT^
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hese haye vaiied in different ages of the id have been adapted bj the wisdom and of God to the circumstances of bis intelligent antable creatures. Divines designate these ispensations as the PatriarcKal, the Motaic or ad. Hie ChrisHan; the first commencing with id reaching to the giving of the law ; the sec- i the giving of the law to the death of Christ ;
£roiii the death of Christ to the end of the All these were adapted to the circumstances [nily of man at these different periods : all, in iuccession, were mutually connected, and ren- tparatory to one another : all were subservient isi^n of saving the world, and promoting the n and happiness of its rational and moral in- B CW'atson, Theol. Dictionary, s. v.). "There ps, no part of divinity attended with so much r, and wherein orthodox divines so much dif- I stating the precise agreement and difference
the two dispensations of Moses and Christ*' d wards. On Full Otwimaniofi, Works, N. Y. 1848,
See Pye Smith, Pint Lines o/Ckriatian The- :. V, ch. iii ; Fletcher, Works (N. Y. ed.), vols, d the art Federal Theoumst. dispensations of Providence are any particular or
modes of visible treatment to which, under ne government, mankind are subjected. They ler merciful or in judgment, though what ap- belong to the latter class are often blessings in 5 (Buck, T^eoL Did. s. v.). See Providence. rhe word dispensation is used in ecclesiastical signify a power granted by the Church au- s to do or leave undone something which Ise is not allowed. The Roman ecclesiasti- r grants to the pope the right and power of ling with the law in certain (and numerouB) and of deputing this power to bbhops ^d ;hurch oflScers. ** The limits of the dispens- wer have been the subject of much discussion, ly in controversy with Protestants, but among I Catholics themselves. It is held by the ex- advocates of papal power that the pope may 36 in any divine law, except the articles of by others, that his dispensing power does not I to express precepts of the New Testament; lay that his dispensation is valid only when it ds upon just cause ; some, that it is not properly cation of the law's obligation, but merely a deo- n that in the particular case the law is not ap- le. The usage of the Church of Rome, however,
with the opinions of her theologians in making •pe supreme in releasing from oaths and vows ; decree of the Council of Trent anathematizes all eny the power of the Church to grant dispensa- for marriages within the prohibited degrees of [oeaic law; while the multiplied prohibited de-
of the canon law give much occasion fbr the fluent exercise of the same power** (Cham- The dispensations in the Church of Rome are id by Roman Catholic writers into papal and »pal, pro foro extemo et, iniemo (according to the c or secret character of the impediment to be re- d), diepensationesjustitia et grakce, Roman Cath- generally admit the fact that in former times it ^mmon for bishops and provincial councils to dis- > from general Church laws, and that only since %nt III the canon law provides in what cases •ps and provincial councils may grant dispensa- , while in all cases a special authorization by the