Ely, so called from a Saxon Avord, elig, an eel, or helig, a willow, a cathedral town in that part of the fen country of Cambridgeshire called the.7s& of Ely, Pop. about 6000.
Ely Cathedral. — About the year 673, Etheldreda, daughter of the king of East Anglia, and wife of Os- wy, king of Northumberland, founded a monasteiy here, and took on herself the government of it. A new church was begun in 1081, which was converted into a cathedral, and the abbey erected into a see in 1109. The possessions of the abbey were divided be- tween the bishop and the communit}'. Among the celei rated names connected with Eh' are abbot Thurs- tan, who defended the isle against William the Con- queror for seven years, and bishop Andrews. The bishops of Ely, like the bishops of Durham, formerly enjoyed a palatine jurisdiction, and appointed their own chief justice, etc., but this privilege was taken from them by the 6th and 7th William IV. The l)ish- op of Ely is visitor to St. Peter's, St. John's, and Jesus colleges, Cambridge, of whicli last he also appoints the master. There is a grammar-school attached to the cathedral, founded by Henry VIII. The diocese of Ely belongs to the province of Canterbury, and em- braces Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdon- shire, and the archdeaconry of Sudbury, in Suffolk. The income of the bishop is £5500. Present (1868) incumbent is Edward Harold Browne. The diocese has 26 deaneries and 172,263 church sittings. The total population within the territory of the diocese was, in 1801, 480,716. — Chambers, Encyclop. s. v. ; Church- man''s Calendar for 1868.
Elymge'an ('EXji/mloc-), the Gracized form (Judith i, 6) of the designation usually Anglicized Elajiite (q. v.).
Elyma'is ('EXv/zntf), a general designation (To- bit ii, 10) of that province of the Persian empire (see Smith, Diet, of Class. Geog. s. v.) termed Elam (q. v.) in the Bible. In 1 Mace, vi, 1, however, the word is used (incorrectly) in a more specific or local sense of some Persian city, as we are there informed that An- tiochus Epiphanes, understanding there were very great treasures in the temple at Elymais, determined to plunder it ; but the citizens resisted him success- fully. 2 Mace, ix, 2 calls this city Persepolis, probably because it formerly had lieen the capital of Persia ; for Persepolis and Elymais were very different cities ; the former situated on the Araxes, the latter on the Eula;- us. The temple which Antiochus designed to pillage was that of the goddess Nannnea, according to 2 Mace, i, 13 ; Appian says (Syr. p. 66) a temple of Venus (i. e.
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probably the goddess Anubis) ; Polybius (xsxi, 11), Diodorus, Josephus {Ant. xii, 9, 1), and Jerome say a temple of Diana. See Antiociius (EriPHANEs).
El'ymas (EXr/iaf,), an appellative commonlj' de- rived from the Arabic Aliman ("a wise man" see Pfeiirc-r, Jhibia vex. p. 941 ; like the Turkish title Vie- ma, see Lakemacher, De Elyma Maffo, in his Observatt. ii, 102), which Luke interprets by o f^uiyoc, the Magian or "sorcerer :" it is applied to a Jew named Bar-Je- stTS, who had attached himself to the proconsul of Cv- jirus, Sergius Paulus, when Paul visited the island (Acts xiii, G sq.). A.D. 44. On his attempting to dissuade the proconsul from embracing the Christian faith, he was struck with miraculous blindness bj' the apostle (see Neander's Il'tstory of first Plantinf/ of the Christian Church, i, 125). A very different but less probable derivation of the word is given by Lightfoot in his IJehrew and Talmudical Exercitations on the Acts (Works, viii, 461), and in his Sermon on Elymas the Sorcerer {WorJcs, vii, 104). Chrysostom observes, in reference to the blindness inflicted by the apostle on Bar-Jesus, that the limiting clause, ''''Jhr a season," shows that it was not intended so much for the pun- ishment of the sorcerer as for the conversion of the deputy (Chrj-sost. in A eta Apost. Ilomil. xx viii ; Opera, ix, 241). On the practice generally then prevailing, in the decay of faith, of consulting Oriental impostors of this kind, see Conybeare and Howson, Life of St. Paul, i, 177-180, 2d ed.— Kitto, s. v. ; Smith, s. v. See Magic.
El'zabad [some Eka'bad'] (Ueh.Elzabad', 'latbN;, ■whom God has bestowed, i. q. Theodore; Sept. 'E\t(^n- /Sa'r and 'EXlVt/ia'c, v. r. 'E\u':!,fp and 'EXs«/3«'S), the name of two men.
1. The ninth of the eleven Gadite heroes who joined David in his fastness in the wilderness of Judah (1 Chron. xii, 12) B.C. lOGl.
2. One of the able-bodied sons of Shemaiah, the son of Obed-edom the Levite ; he served as a porter to the "house of Jehovah" under David (1 Chron. xxvi, 7). B.C. 1014.
El'zaphan [some Elza'phan'] (Heb. Eltsaphan' , ■JS^pX), a contracted form (Exod. vi, 22; Lev. x, 4) of the name Elizapiian (q. v.).
Emanation (Latin emanatio, a flowing forth), a religious theory concerning the relation of the uni- verse to the Deity, which lies at the basis of some of the Oriental religions, and from them found its waj' into several philosophical systems. Emanation denotes a development, descending hy degrees, of all things from the Supreme Being, the universe constituting in general, as well as in particular, a chain of revelations, the individual rings of which lose the divine character the more the farther they are remote from the primar}' source, the Deity. A sj'stem of emanation is different from a sj'stem of evolution, because in the latter the revelation of the Deity in the universe has for the De- ity itself the signification of a process of self-cognition which grows in a progressive ratio. Emanation was the basis of the religions of India, in the northern prov- inces of which country it developed from the original religion of nature even before the compilation of the Vedas. The cause of all tilings was found in a univer- sal world-soul. See Anima Mkndi. The world-soul was identified with Brahma, and, viewed as the eternal spiritual unit, the mvstcrious source of all life. The ancient gods were explained as the first raj-s of Brah- ma, whom he had constituted the guardians of the wo-hl. Tlie creation was an emanation from Brahma, "which became the more gross, dense, materialized, the farther it removed from the primitive source. Those who give themselves up to the corporeal world, sink deeper and deeper, and onlj' rise again upward when purified by the fire of hell ; but those who renounce all sensuality, and direct all their thoughts to the one