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Section 1135

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The color of the garment was, as we have already observed, generally white ; hence a spot or stain read- ily showed itself (Isa. Ixiii, 8; Jude 28; Rev. iii, 4); reference is made in Lev. xiii, 47 sq. to a ^rreenish or reddish spot of a leprous character. Jahn (A rchdoL i, 8, § 186) conceives this to be not the result of leprosy, but the depredations of a small insect ; but Schiling (JDe Lepra, p. 192) states that leprosy taints dothes.

and adds "the spots are altogether indeliye, w^ rather to spread than lessen by vashiagf ;£i« Comm, in 1. c). Frequent washiiigs and fti ^u tion of the fuUer*s art were necessary to pcwnii purity of the Hebrew dress. See Soap; fcuji.

The business of making clothes devolved ^a vq. en in a family (Prov. xxi, 22; Acts ix, tt); kkr was required in what we may tenn the Ute^ ^ partment ; the garments came forth for the ua^ ready made from the loom, so that the vttte s^ planted the tailor. The references to eewisf m a& fore few : the term ^BF) iaphar' (Gen. ni, 7; J«»xr. 16 ; Eccles. iii, 7 ; Ezek. xiii, 18) was app&d bv ^ later Jews to mending rather than makiBg deCh&

The Hebrews were liable to the €bax^ of es&nv gance in dress ; Isaiah in partactdar (iii, IS i^)&- on the numerous robes and cwnameott ««& h % women of his day. The same subject is relmK r i Jer. iv, 80 ; Ezek. xvi, 10 ; Zeph. i, 8, aad Eecb.x. 4, and in a later age 1 Tim. Ii, 9; 1 Pet.iiii-!«A s. V. Oomp. Appabel; Atitbs; Clothik; Gii* MENT ; Raiment, etc.

DRESS OF Clbrot. See VECTMEsn.

Drew, Samuel, A.M., an English Medta&tka preacher and metaphysical writer, was bon Mirit 1765, in the suburbs d St. Au^Ie, of a pe^ Ckit and learned the shoemaken' trade. Id 1783. sk the preaching of Adam Clarke, he became a)Ifltbc& and in 1788 he became a local preacher. Drrr b. received no early instmction, but the panoB & nam- ing was natural to him, and be early beetBckvif an author. But his gains from literature did snt ^^ fice for his maintenance till 1809, when he fiuBr^ ted the shoe-bench. In 1819 he was mvited to U^- pool to take the management of the ImpaidMifi- zine, published by the Caxtona. He aca|itedk.iL in his hands the enterprise was very raoo^iiiL Xr Drew continued to edit the magazine, after ittrtwr^ to London, up to the year of his death. In 1^ ^ received the degree of A.M. fhnn Msriidal €«&». Aberdeen. His literary labors were mj ite^ apart fh>m the journal ; he took no rest till tk^'vberi of lifiB stood still,'' at Helston, Mardi S9, ISA H> principal work is efltitled Treaim on At Ldibta mi Attributes of God (Lond. 1820, 2 vols. 8to> Amb^ ia other works are Remarkt ttpon tkefrttpai^ie^if of Reason,'' bg Thomas Paine (1799, Sd ed.; l«ll,tt» and N. Y. 1881, 12nio) :-^Obeercatiom tpm (b A*^ dotes of Methodism in PolvheU (1800):-£m79«'^ ImmateriaHtg and ImmortaUtg of the iS^(l^ : ^ aL 1808, and N. Y. 1829, 12mo) i—Essoy on tk Sopt* tion of the Bodg (1809, 8vo ; 2d ed. 1822):-Zy*p<i' Cokse (1816, 8vo), and History of ComU Om^ (1820-24, 2 vols. 4to). See life ofDrm br * eiiai son (N. Y. 1836, 12mo); Stevens, iKitory of Jf-^ wm,ii,290; iii, 491; S.Dniai,iuTheMMiM,SX Nov. 24, 1866.

DrezeliuB, Jerexias, a Jesuit, vis ben li Augsburg in 1581, entered the order of Jwiitst^^ was for 28 years preacher at the coartoftbee)^ or Maximilian I, and died at Munich m 16SI Be people wonhipped him as a saint. He victe > ras- her of works on practical religioD, which hiw bf^ used even by Protestants. Colleckions of W? ^^^* have been several times published, and Kine of ^ productions have been translated into diffnat b> guages. His worlds, in complete editions, ippeuel* Cologne, 1716 ; Mamz, 1645 ; Munich, 1628; Antwr^ 1657-60. There is a new edition of his Rtjhdim i Et^mitg (Lond. 1844, 12mo).

Drey, Johaxn Sebastiait vox, a BominCitbd! theologian of Germany, was bom Oct Id, 1777, »t U lingen. He was ordained priest May 80, 1801 ; vi.< *^ pointed in 1806 professor at the Roman Cftbolic Kbtf. of Bott w«il, and hi 1812 professco' of dogmatic iitfioQ

DRIEDO

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DRINK

I newly^-established univereily of EllwMigeii. In he was transforred, with the whole theological y, to the University of TQbingen, at which he •ed on d(»|^niatic theology, history of doctrinesi geticd, and theological encyclopedia (from 1838 on the two last-named branches). He resigned 16, and died at TQbingen on February 19, 1863. was one of the ablest scholars of Roman Catholic lany. He is especially known for his great work pologetics (Ckrittliche Apologetik, Mainz, 1838-17, 5.). He also wrote an Introduction to the Study leology (JEinleitung in das Stadium der Theologie^ ng. 1819), Researches on the Apostolical Constitu- and Canons ( Uniermchtmgen aber die CorutUutianen ?anones der Apottd^ Tubingen, 1882), and several ' works. He established, with Gratz (q. t.) and Uir- r (q. ▼.), in 1819, the Thtologische (itariaUchrifty h is still (1868) one of the ablest journals of scien- theology published in the Roman Catholic Church, ilso contributed a large number of articles to the hen-ZjCxikon of Wetzer and Welte. See Hefele, fetzer u. Welte, Kirch,'Lex, xii, 807.

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