DIZAHAB
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DOCETiE
mother maXL They are not those whom God has joined together, and the woman man has unlawfully parted from her husband, bo that she commits adul- tery in her new marriage. Again, there are questions of discipline growing out of divorces, as when a mem- ber of the Church contracts a marriage not forbidden by state law, but forbidden by Christ. Here the rule is tolerably clear. Christ's law must be maintained, whatever the state requires or allows, and maintained in this case by discipline. Only thus can the Church be a witness on the side of Christian morality. .Only thus can it guard the sanctities of fiunUy life. There is no more reason for omitting discipline for unlawful divorce permitted by the state than for drunkenness, if no state law exists against this sin. But there are cases of another sort which present serious difficulty, as when a person, having violated Christ's rule of divorce in contracting marriage, becomes a sincere Christian years afterwards, and desires to unite with the Church. Shall such a person be required to sepa- rate fh)m his or her consort before being received into communion ? The act would not have been commit- ted with the present disposition, and state law tempted to its performance. We think that in such a case as this, at least in extreme cases of this kind, the com- munion may- be opened to a penitent without condi- tions.
Diz'ahab (Heb. Di-ZaAah', nm ^^ [see below]), a place in the desert of Sinai, one of the boundary points of the **Arabah,*' or region where the Israelites wandered (Deut. i, 1). It is probably the same cape now called Dahab (Robinson, Res. i, 217 ; ii, 600), on the western shore of the Elanitic Gulf (Schwarz, Po lest, p. 212), about opposite Sinai ; it abounds in palms, and has traces of ruins (Burckbardt, Syria, p. 528). T^son, however, doubts the identification (lAxnds of Bible, i, 285 n.). See Wilderness. The name is in- dicative of the presence of gold there, as that is the meaning of the latter half of the word (so Sept. Kara- Xpvata, Vulg. ubi auri ett plurimum) ; but the former part of the name is foreign, either with the Aramnan expletive =0/ (literally "that which b"), or from the Arabic =^53, "lord," i. o. possessor of (Gesenius, Thes, p. 884). With this fanport also agrees the de- scription of Eusebius and Jerome (Ommuut, s. v. Kard Td xpvvio, Cata Ta Chrysea), that the mountains in that region (in Phteno, according to the true reading ; see Le Clerc in Bonfr^'s ed.) are full of gold veins ; also the modern name, which is in f^U Minahrel-Dahah, " the porch of gold" (Bttsching, Erdbeichr. XI, i, 621). Doane, George Washington, D.D., LL.D., Pro- testant Episcopal bbhop of the diocese of New Jersey, was bom in Trenton, N. J., in 1799. He graduated at Union College, Schenectady, at nineteen years old, and then commenced the study of theology. He was ordained deacon by bishop Hobait in 1821, and priest in 1828. He served in Trinity church, New York, three years, and in 1824 was appointed professor of belles-lettres and oratory in Washington College, Ct. He resigned that office in 1828, and soon after was elected rector of Trinity church, in Boston. He was consecrated bishop of the diocese of New Jersey on Oct. 81, 1882. He founded St. Mary's HaU in 1827, and Burlington College in 1846, both of which institu- tions remain flourishing. His career as a bishop was one of indefatigable industry and devotion. ** I look back," says the bishop of Missouri, "upon the work he accomplished during his episcopate with amaze- ment The work of three lives was crowded into a bishopric of twenty years." The clergy of his diocese increased in that time flrom 18 to 99 ; its parishes from 80 to 84 ; 58 churches were consecrated, and the num- ber of communicants increased from 657 to 5000. His energy, however, was greater than hb judgment, and ^'-a career was not without acts of imprudence, which xl him great trouble. His literary industry was
very great, and he had a genuine Tcin of poetiy. B writings, in prose and verse, are gatbered in Th Lft cmd WriUngt of G. W, Doame^ 1>,D,, edited hwlmm (New York, 1860, 4 vols. 8vo), of which wol. I coBtob a memoir and his poetical writiiigB ; vvim. 5 ac £ consist of sermons and episcopal Purges ; TtoL ir ^ educational writings and orations. Biabap Dosae & at Riverside, April 27, 1859.— ^MerMOB Qmart. C^ri Review, Oct. 1859, and April, 1861. Dob. See Bear.
Dober, Leonhabd Johanv, a Horavian aaaH- ary, was bom in 1706 at Httnchsroth. He wot !> Hermhut in 1725, and in 1782 was sent aa ftnt Moans missionaiy to the negroes of St. Tbomaa. He RtKi- ed in 1785 ; became general elder of the cupgnyfiat. labored for some time for the oonverBion of the Jm in Amsterdam ; and in 1741 resigned his office as jen^ eral elder, which at the London Conference of Sept 16, 1741, was transferred to Christ hinudf. la TC he became bishop of the Moravians. He died in XTft. He is the author of many hymns in the Moans Hymn-book.
Dobmayer, Mariak, a German Jesnit aad tbo- logian, was bom at SchwandoH^ Oberpfida, Oct % 1753, entered the Jesuit order, and on its su^e«au in 1778 became a Benedictine. In 1778 be wat tv- dained priest, and in 1781 he became pniftaoi at tte Lyceum of Neuberg ; in 1794 profeeaor of tbcolDgj a Ingolstadt. In 1799 he returned to the Beae&tiK monasteiy at Weissenohe, and thence went to Aahest as professor of theology, in which office he dkd, I^ 21, 1808. His chief woria are his Omapeetm Tkab- gia DogmaHoa (Amberg, 1789): — SjfgtemM Thttkfie CaiholiocB (posthumous; 1807-1819, 8 Ttds. 8voX d which an abridgment was published In 183S, e£ted^ Professor Salomon of Reg^bui^. — ^Wetaer a. Wdb, Kirchen-Lexiion, iii, 186.