6. (Sept. ' EXiioip'ri'i , V. r. 'EAioji'vat and 'EXiSrei'dv, Vulg. Elioenai.) Eldest son of Meariah, son of She- maiah, of the descendants of Zerubbabel ; his family are the latest mentioned in the Old Test. (1 Chron. iii, 23, 24). B.C. ante 280. He appears to be the same with EsLi, of the maternal ancestry of Christ (Luke iii, 25). (See Strong's Harmony and Expos, ofihe Gosp. p. 16.) According to the present Heb. text he is in the seventli generation from Zerubbabel, or about con- temporary with Alexander the Great ; but lord Hervey thinks that Shemaiah is identical with Shimei (ver. 19), Zerubliabel's brother (Geneal. of our Lord, p. 107- 109, and ch. vii).
Elionae'iis (¥SXn>)va~ioQ, doubtless a Graicized form of Elioenai), a high-priest of the Jews, who succeeded Matthias, son of Ananus (A.D. 42), and was the next year succeeded by Simon Cantheras (Josephus, Ant. xix, 8, 1). See High-priest.
Elio'nas, the name of two men in the Apocrj'pha.
1. ('EXiwi'rt'c V. r. 'EXiwvai'cVulg. omits.) One of the sons of "Phaisur," who divorced his Gentile wife after the exile (1 Esdras ix, 22) ; evidently the Elio- EXAi (q. V.) of the Heb. text (Ezra x, 22).
2. ('EXt<D)-'a'e, Vulg. Noneas.) One of the sons of "Annas," who did tlie same (1 Esd. ix, 32) ; doubtless the Er.iEZEK (q. v.) of the Heb. text (Ezra x, 31).
Eliot, Andrew, D.D., a Congregational minis- ter, was born in Boston Dec. 25, 1719 (0. S.), and grad- uated at Harvard College in 1737. In 1742 he was ordained pastor (as colleague with Mr. Webb) of the New North Church in Boston, in which service he re- mained until his death. In 1757 he was made D.D. bj' the University of Edinburgh. In 1773 he was elected president of Harvard College, but declined to leave his pastoral work. He died Sept. 13, 1778. Be- sides occasional sermons, he published a volume of Discourses (1774). — Sprague, Annals, i, 417.
Eliot, John, styled "the apostle of the Indians," was born in the county of Essex, England, in 1604, and studied at the University of Cambridge. Emigra- ting to New England in 1631, be joined the Church in Boston. He was settled over the Church in Roxburj' Nov. 5, 1632. Here he studied the Indian language, with the view of converting the natives to Christian- ity. " The first Indian Church, established by the la- bors of Protestants in America, was formed at Natick in 1660, after the manner of the Congregational church- es in New England. Those who wished to be organ- ized into a Christian body were strictly examined as to their faith and experience li}' a number of the neigh- l)oring ministers, and JMr. Eliot afterwards adminis- tered to them baptism and the Lord's Supper. Other Indian churches were planted in various parts of Mas- sachusetts, and he frequently visited them ; but his pastoral care was more jjarticularh' over that which he first estaldished. He made ever}' exertion to pro- mote the welfare of the Indian triiies; he stimulated many servants of Jesus to engage in the missionary
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work; and, although he mourned over the stupidity of many who preferred darkness to light, yet he lived to see twenty-four of the copper-colored aborigines fel- low-preachers of the precious Gospel of Christ. In 1661 lie published tlie New Testament in the Indian language, and in a few }-ears the whole Bible, and several other books best adapted for the instruction of the natives, ^^'hen he reached the age of fourscore years he offered to give up his salary, and desired to i)e liberated from the labors of his office as a teacher of the Church at lloxbury. It was with joy that he received Mr. Walter as his colleague in 1688. When he was bending under his infirmities, and could no longer visit the Indians, he persuaded a number of fiimilies to send their negro servants to him once a week, that lie might instruct them in the truths of God. He died May 20, 1690, saying that all his la- bors were poor and small, and exhorting those who surrounded his bed to pray. His last words were, ' Welcome joy ' " (Allen). In 1649 Mr. Eliot published The g'orious Prorjress of the Gospel cnnonff the Indians ; in 1653, Tears of Repentance ; in 1655, A further Mani- festation of the Progress of the Gospel among the In- dians; and in 1670, A brief Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel. Baxter saA's, in one of his letters, "There was no man on earth whom I honored above him." A handsome memorial to the "Apostle of the Indians, and the pastor for fift3'-eight years of the first Church in Roxbury, " has been erected in the For- est Hills Cemetery, Roxbury. — Life and Death of John Eliot, by Cotton Mather (1*691); Mather's Magnalia, iii, 270 ;' Francis, Life of John Eliot (Edinb. 1828) ; Spragiie, Annals, i, 18 ; Allen, American Biography.
Elipandus, archbishop of Toledo in the 8th cen- tury. He shared the opinions of Felix, bishop of Ur- gel, with regard to the person of Christ, viz. that, with respect to his human nature, he was only the adoptive Son of God, thus giving rise to the sect of Adoptian- ists. Elipandus disseminated his views in Spain, France, and Germany. Adosinde, queen of Gallicia, induced bishop Etherius of Osma and the priest Bea- tus to write against him. The}' published against him two books, the originals of which are said to be still extant in Toledo. Elipandus replied by several letters, but he was condemned at the council which Paulinas, p;itriarch of Aqr.ileja, convened at Ciudad de Friuli in 791. In the following year the doctrines of Elipandus and Felix were again condemned at a synod M-hich Charlemagne held at Ratisbon. Pope Adrian confirmed the sentence, to which Felix submitted ; but Elipandus, and several other bishops of Spain, per- sisted in their visws, and wrote against Felix. This letter was refuted, and condemned by Adrian in a council held in Italy, and in the Council of Frankfort in 794. Charlemagne himself wrote a letter (still ex- tant) to Elipandus urging him to sulanit; but the let- ter seems to have had little effect, for shortly before his death (in 799) Elipandus wrote a replj' maintaining his views. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gim'r. xv, 832 ; Nean- der, Ch. [list, iii, 156-158 ; Mosheim, Ch. Hist. bk. iii, c. viii, pt. ii, ch. v, § 3. See Adoptiakism. •