DomXntui vobiscam (the Lord he wth you\ a form of salutation used in the liturgies of several of the Christian churches. It is taken fW>m the book of Ruth, together with the response et cum spkitu tuo — **and with thy spirit" It was introduced into Chris- tian worship before the end of the second century. A canon of the first council of Braga, in 568* directed against a custom which the Priscillianists had adopt- ed, of assigning one form of salutation to the bishops and another to the presbyters, enjoins all to nse the same form, Domimu sit vobiscum — **the Lord be with you ;** and the people to reply, Et cum spiritu tuo — sicut ab ipsis apostoUs traditionem omnis reOnet oriens — ** and with thy spirit, *' according to apostolic and Eastern cus- tom.— Augusti,C%rM(/. Archaologie, bk. v, ch. iii, § vi.
Domitian (Titus Flaviub Domitianus), Roman emperor, younger son of Vespasian and Domitilla, succeeded his brother Titus as emperor A.D. 81, and reigned until A.D. 96. In the beginning of his reign he affected great zeal for the reformation of public morals, but his true character showed itself later in al- most unexampled cruelties. In A.D« 95 a persecution of the Christians is recorded in the history of the Church, but it appears to have been directed particu- larly against the Jews, with whom the Christians were then confounded by the Romans. Suetonius (/n Do- mitian, ch. xii) ascribes the proscriptions of the Jews, or those who lived after the manner of the Jews, and whom he styles as ^'improfessi,'* to the rapacity of Domitian. Ensebius (iii, 17) says that Domitian *'■ was the second that raised a persecution against us, and established himself as successor of Nero in his hatred and hostility to God." The same writer (iii, 19, 20), following Hegesippus, tells of a summons of the grand- children of Jnde the apostle to appear before Domi- tian. He questioned them as to their birth, claims, property, etc. and when they answered that the king- dom of Christ, for which they looked, was purely spir- itual, he dbmissed them. The tyrant was not so len- ient with his own relatives. Flavins Clemens and Domitilla, who were charged with "Atheism and Jew- ish manners," charges often brought against the Chris- tians. Flavins was executed and Domitilla banished, A.D. 95. Domitian himself was assassinated (A.D. 96). A tradition (not now believed) speaks of St, John as having been tried beforo Domitian, and that, having been condemned to be plunged into a caldron of boiling oil, he came forth unhurt See Milman, History of Christianity, bk. ii, ch. iv ; Gibbon, Decline and Fallj ch. xvi, and the article Pebsecutiok.
domitilla, niece (or wife) of Flavins Clemens, who
was put to death under Domitiaa (q.T. 18). It is not certain that tb^ i it is at least probable. DomitOlA Ad mat tyrdom, but was iMUiisbed ; an imwaRiai says that she was afterwards barat luda'bpLl is commemorated as a saint in the May 12. See Butler, Livem oy Sam^ Usj ^; mont, Memoiresy ii, 124; Mnzdock'a £fMtory,N.Y.ed., i, W.
DomUA {house), a designatiaB of tke dat^i appendages of the chnrch, in ascin tinguisliing epithets attached ; tfaos
DoMus Basilica (oIkoi ^ffikam) (jm Ik the houses of the clergy a^Joming tke bins, Vit. Const, iv, 59 ; Bingfaain, Or^. £edklt^ ch. vii, § 18.
DoMUB CouncB^ the haute of As ims^ Tertullian for a church. Wlien writaig w^ Valentinians, who aifiected secrecj la ^k i he compares them to the Eleusiniaii njstoBL li temple was so guarded with doocs a man must be five years a candidate befaRkd be admitted to the adytum oi the deity, or the sanctuary. ''Whereas,** s«js be,'*thiAMi^ owr dove is plain and simple, deligfats in kagtiai^ places, affects the light, loves th« figure «rtkl| Ghost, and the orient or morning aim^vlkkiil figure of Christ." "The hoose of the dwi* m here to be the same as ** the hoose of Quiit' explains it, the house of the dove-like re^JH. ui the dove-like disciples of Christ (TertaUiaa <« Valentin, c. 8, cited by Bingham, Orig. Eeda, \t d ch. i, § 2.
DoMUB Dki, DoMire DrviwA, Donna Eocuaj- the House of the Lord, the Ditwe HausSy theSmj theChutt^ (1.) The first of these, Ik lor/ifi^ was one of the earliest names of the chaith-Miil and it is still in use. It answers to the GnA Kovj which some suppose to be the origin of Mf«^ "Church." See also DoMnacvM. (l)"n««^ title. Divine House, was applied, anxmg tibsftpsh mans, to the emperor^s palace, and it was lebei^k this use by some Christian emperors. It vii ab*^ plied to the Church ; and from this doabk m^ confusion has arisen in interpreting aaciest «rta (8.) The title House of the Church was appHBd s^s^ to the church edifice, but also to the lishtfp>i«« after the third century. — Bin^bam, Oriy, E^^ viii, ch. L
Donaldson, Johk William, D.D., sarfw^ itndinarian divine and scholar, was bora ti I^^ June 10, 1811. He was educated firrt si tk Can- sity of London, and afterwards at Titutj Q^ Cambridge, where he graduated as BJL ia 18M," obtained the second place in the firrt dsfl rf the (^ sical tripos. In 1886 he was elected f^Uor. Bsr^ utaUon rests upon his nnmeroos and vshiUi «i^ in philosophy and classical literator^ e. g«fej^ of the Greeks (8vo, many editions) ;-3'«i' ^^ (1889; 8d ed. 1859) : — rommttmw (1M4). Aft* ■ ordination he became head-master of BoT' Stt^ mnnds, where he remaiaed several rten, oi f^ lished MaskU le Sopher (a treatise on H^^Tf mar), and finally Jashar, or Fragssir^ia ijA^F^" minum Hebraicomm, etc. (Berlin, 18M,- i«^^ 8vo), the object of which was to 'W**"*^^-!! book of JdsAor from the ftagmentt icsttewdthiwg the O. T. The book Is ftill of wfld sad «'*22 ooi^ectures. See Jashbb. Soon sft«r be R^ his place at Bury St. Edmunds, and retorarf^fr bridge, where he gave a coarse of ]ectsiei tf ^ synonymes, and occupied himself with tnitia' "* he wrote a vdume entitled ChrisHtmOiM^^ t cUed with the Comdmsiom of modem o^^fT^ (Lond. 1867, 8vo), an attempt, accordisfftothiiw* "to stay the plague of unbelief whickhtf tei'''