cient Hebrew tradition preserved by Jerome {QucbM, Ilehr. on 2 Sam. iii, 5 ; vi, 23), she was Michal (q. v.), the wife of his youth, and she died in giving birth to Ithream. A name of this signification is common among the Arabs at the present da}-. — Smith, s. v. See also Egi.ath.
Eg'laim (Heb. Egla'yim, C'^JX, iv!o ponds; Sept. 'AyaXfi/f, Vulg. Gallim), a place named in Isa. xv, 8, apparently as one of the most remote points on the boundary of Moab. It is probably the same as the Ex-EGLAiM (q. V.) of Ezek. xlvii, 10. Eusebius and Jerome (Onomrtst. s. v. 'AyaWeip, Agallrim^ say that it still existed in their da}' as a village (Ai'-yaXXf ('/(), eight miles south of Areoplis, i. e. Ar-Moab. Exact- ly in that position, however, stands Kerak, the ancient Kir-Moab. A town named Agalla ("AyaXAa) is men- tioned by Josephus with Zoar and other places as in the country of the Arabians {Ant. xiv, 1, 4). Some have also confounded it with Galliji (q. v.). De Saulcy conceives Eglaim to be the same with a place which he names Wady Ajerrah, not far north of the ruins of Kabbah, but on slender grounds {Dead Sea, i, 2G2, 270). See also Eglath ; Eglon 3.
Eglath or Eglah (q. v.), in the phrase rbjSJ iT"'w5'd, eglath'' shelishiyah' , Isa. xv, 5 ; Jer. xlviii, 34, which literally signifies a heifer oythe third year; Sept. ec'ipnXig rpdrijc (but v. r. aytXia ^aXiaia in Jer.); Vulg. vitula contei-nans ; A. V. "a heifer three years old;" and so the Targum, and most modern in- terpreters (Hitzig, Uml)reit, etc.). Others (as Kno- bel, Winer, etc.) understand the term to be the proper name of a place on the border of Moab, mentioned in connection with Zoar, Luhith, and Horonaim (q. v. respectively), and so compare it with the Agalla of Josephus {Ant. xiv, 1, 4) and the Necla (or Jecla, Ne- K\a or 'IfKXft) of Ptolemy (v, 17, 5), which lay in this region (Lightfoot, Ilor. Ilehr. p. 931), and with the modern region Ajlun north of Jabbok (Abulfeda, Sijr. 13, 93 ; Robinson, Research, iii, App. p. 162), as the last name has in Arab, the same signification as the Heb. See Eglaim.
Eglinus, Raphaei., also called Iconius, a minis- ter of the Keformed Church, was born at Piiissicon, in the Swiss canton of Zurich, Dec. 28, 1559. After stud- ying theology at Zurich, Geneva, and Basel, he for some time taught school at Sonders, in the Veltlin (now part of Lombard}') ; but, with the Protestants generally, he had to leave this place in 1586. After working for some time as teacher and " diaconus" in Winterscheid, and as " ptedagogus'' at the college of the alumni at Zurich, he was, in 1592, appointed pro- fessor of the New Testament in the latter city. Be- coming absorbed in the study of theosophy and alche- my, he spent his whole property in experiments, and in 1601 had to flee on account of debts which he had contracted. Through the intercession of his friends he obtained, however, permission to return, and an honorable dismission. He went to Cassel, where land- grave Moritz, himself a great friend of alchemy, ap- pointed him teacher at the court school, and later, June 13, 1 606, ])rofessor of theology at Marburg. From the theological faculty of this imiversity he received, in 1607, the title of D.D. Subsequently Moritz also appointed him court preacher at Marburg. He died May 20, 1622. Eglinus was one of the first Reformed theologians in Hesse where landgrave ^loritz and his successors endeavored to supplant Lutheranism by'the Reformed Church. He wrote in defence of his creed a number of small essays, the most important of which relate to the doctrine of predestination. He is one of those writers in whom the German reformed theolog}'' became more scholastic in its character, and was merged in the stricter Calvinistic tendency. In 1618 Eglinus wrote an ajiology of the Rosicrucians, of which association he had become an active member. He also wrote several books on alch}-my and on the
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Apocalypse. A complete list of his works is given by Strieder, Grundlage zu ehur hess. Gekhrten-Gesch. — Heppc, ill Ilerzog, lieal-Enci/klopddie, xix, 45G ; Ha- genl)ach, Histoi-y of Doctrines (edited by Smith), ii, 175. (A. J. S.)
Eg'lon (Heb. Eglovf , "ji'?", place of heifers, q. d. vituline'), the name of a man, and also of two places.
1. (Sept. 'EyXiofx, Josephus 'EyXoJi', Vulgate Er/lon.) An earl}' king of the Moabites (.Judg. iii, 12 sq.), who, aided by the Ammonites and the Amalekites, crossed the Jordan and took "the city of palm-trees," or Jeri- cho (Josephus). B.C. 1527. Here he built himself a palace (Josephus, Ant. v, 4, 1 sq.), and continued for eighteen years to oppress the children of Israel, who paid liini tribute (Josephus). Whether he resided at Jericho permanently, or onh' during the summer months (Judg. iii, 20 ; Josephus), he seems to have formed a familiar intimacy ((nivljOijc, Josephus, not Judg.) with Ehud, a young Israelite {I'tavtag, Jose- phus) who lived in Jericho (Josephus, not Judg.), and who, by means of repeated presents, became a favorite courtier of the monarch. Eglon subdued the Israel- ites beyond the Jordan, and the southern tribes on this side the river, and made Jericho the seat, or one of the Beats, of his government. This subjection to a power always pi-esent must have been more galling to the Israelites than any they had previously suffered. At length (B.C. 1509) they were delivered, through the instrumentality of Ehud, who slew the Jloabitish king (Judg. iii, 12-33). — Kitto, s. v. ; Smith, s. v. See Ehud.