DOTY
874
DOUBLE
Kefr K6d (Capharcotia) to AttSl, south-east of LejjAn. He thus speaks of it : ** It is now a fine green tell (knoll), with a fountain on its sonthem base, corre- sponding entirely to the position assigned to it l)y Eu- sebius. We were told at Ya'bad that the great road trom Beis4n and Zerln to Ramleh and Egypt still leads throQgh this plain, entering it west of Jenin, passing near Keft* K{kd, and bending south-westward around Ya'bud to the western plain. It is easy to see, therefore, that the Midianites, to whom Joseph was sold in Dothan, had crossed the Jordan at Beis4n, and were proceeding to Egypt along the ordinary road. It is obTions, Jtoo, that Joseph's brethren well knew the best places for pasturage. They had exhausted that of the Mukna by Shechem (Nablus), and had after- wards repaired to the still finer pastures here around Dothan" (BibHotheca Sacra, 1858, p. 122, 123).
Doty, Elihu, was born in 1812, graduated at Rut- gers College in 1835, and from the Theological Semi- nary of the Reformed Dutch Church, New Brunswick, N. J., in 1836, and was licensed and ordained as a missionary to the heathen in the same year. He was a member of the first mission sent by the Reformed Dutch Church and the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions to Java, where he labored from 1836 to 1840, when he was transferred to Borneo, and labored among the Dyaks until 1844. Thence he was removed to China, and was connected with the Amoy llission until his decease, which occurred at sea on his return from China in March, 1865, but four days before the arrival of the ship at New York. Mr. Doty was an excellent Chinese scholar and preacher ; an indefatigable, courageous, self-denying labdrer; a man of singular Arankness, piety, and zeal ; and was closely identified with the celebrated mission at Amoy from its origin, and through all the steps of its remark- able success. Few men have surpassed him in the toils and fkithfUlness of an evangelist. For years he was regarded as the father of what has been termed ** the model mission" of the American Board and of the Reformed Dutch Church.
Douai, or Douay, a town in France, of the De- partment of Nord; it formerly belonged to Flanders. Philip II, in 1561, founded a university here after the model of that of Louvain. In 1568 a Jesuits' college was founded in connection with the universi^ by Jean Lentceilleur, head of the neighboring abbey of Auchin, who devoted part of the revenues of the abbey to the support of the college, which soon became very power- ftil. Cardinal WUliam Allen (q. v.) established also a college at Douai for the education of Roman Catho- lic English youth.— Ranke, History of the Papacjf, bk. vL For the Douai Bible, see Versions.
Double (represented by several Heb. and Greek words) has many significations in Scripture. "A double garment" (Exod. xxxix, 9) may mean a lined habit, such as the high-priest's pectoral, or a complete habit or suit of clothes, a cloak and a tonic, etc. Double heart, double tongue, double mind, are opposed to a simple, honest, sincere heart, tongue, mind, etc. Double, the counterpart to a quantity, to a space, to a measure, etc., which is proposed as the exemplar. " Double money "—the same value as before, with an equal value added to it (Gen. xliii, 12, 15). If a stolen ox or sheep be found, the thief shall restore double, that is, two oxen or two sheep. For the right under- standmg of Isa. xl, 2, ** She hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins," read the counterpart, that which fits, the commensurate quantity, extent, or number of her sins ; that which is adequate, all things considered, as a dispensation of punishment. This passage does not mean twice as much as had been de- served, double what was just, but the fair, commensu- rate, adequate retribution. The same is the meanhig of this phrase in other places (Isa. Ixi, 7 ; Jer. xvi, 18 ; xvii, 18. — Calmet, s. v.
DOUBLE SENSE of ScRiFTirH*. In satc^i*. phetic passages there is a doable impoftertwiUtf ] plication, a lower and a higher, a nearer aal t m remote. The former relates to the present nd diate, while the latter usually rehn to the II period and spiritual deUveranoe. This finH^ however, has been contested by many. It b i ble that several of the fathers maiotaiiied tike »ab double sense of prophecy, partieiilarly Theodore «l%^ suestia ; and there is little doubt that naabof h vi- em times have rejected it on acooant of the a^k- nate appellation. Two/old referemee wodd k ni more appropriate ; but the name is of fitsle omt quence. A recent writer aska, '* How eoM mA p> sitions form part of a rwdatiem when, afisw hm ascertained their meaning, we are still left si ipsa as ever of their import, since under the^ woids oA er deeper meaning still lies hidden? Detito,bc and upon what principle, can we ever be eantliaw have arrived at the trne seoondaiy mesDii^ m tk we have perfectly exhausted the bitrdea <rftfaen fa- sages, or that our work as ccmmieBtattR ii sera- plished? There may be a third, fbortii, fiftk, er-s the Rabbis maintain — seventy meanings lBrfca|i£ deeper under these veiy words** (Wolfe, Memiak ■ ^ PtaJms, p. Ixxiv). But neithcs- the da^ m ib double sense of prophecy can justly be aiigsrf cs i priori grounds. Thus Arnold (Sermems, i,fii) t» to show that "a double sense appears to be s wtsfs- aary condition of the very idea and definitioa of pn^ ecy, as having, so to speak, a hnman as vefl » t ^ vine author." This lan?uage applies to sH ii^ composition, and would therefore imply a doaiiksas in all Scripture. The true and only philsHfkkd method is to consider the actual pbenomoia dpr^ ecy as they lie before ns in the Seripturea, sad m whether the one-sense theory meets all the fjogam in every case.