See Olmsted, Our First Mother (N. Y. 1852) ; Rei- neccius, De A damo androgyno (Weissenf. 1725) ; Thilo, Filiiis matris viventium in viritm Jehovam (Erlangen, 1748) ; Kocher, Comment, philol. ad Gen. ii, 18-20 (Jen. 1779) ; Schulthess, Exeget. theolog. Forschungen, i, 421 sq. ; Bastard, Doctrine of Geneva, ii, 61 ; Hughes, Fe- male Cliaractcrs, p. 1.
Evelyn, John, was born Oct. 31, 1G20, at his fa- ther's seat of Wotton, in Surre3^ He was educated at Baliol College, Oxford, served a short time as a volunteer in the Low Countries, and returned at the breaking out of the Civil War to rejoin the king's forces ; but, on the king's defeat at Gloucester, he left England, and during the rest of the troubles he travelled in France and Italy. In 1652 he returned
to England, and on the restoration he took an honora- ble part in public business. He died Feb. 27, 170G. He was one of the original members of the Royal So- ciety, and a frequent contributor to its transactions. His most valuable work was Sylva, or a Discourse on Forest Trees. His Diary (not published till 1818) is exceedingly useful for the knowledge it convej-s of the times in which Evelyn lived. The Diary and Cor- respondence has lately been re-edited, with nnich new matter (Lond. 1850-52, 4 vols. 8vo). His History «f Religion, a rational Account of the true Religion, was also first published from the MS. in 1850 by the Rev. N. M. Evanson (London, 2 vols. 8vo)^ and in 1848 his Life of Mrs.Godolphin (from MSS.) was published hy bishop Wilberforce. — Allibone, Diet, of Authors, s. v.
Evening (^"ll^;, e'reb, dusk; tairtpa, 6\p!a), the pe- riod following sunset, with which the Jewish daj- (vvx- 3/}/L(£po)') began (Gen. i, 5 ; Mark xiii, 35). See Day. Some writers have argued that the first creative dnj' (Gen. i, 5) is reckoned from the morning, when light first appeared (ver. 3), as if "evening" then designa- ted not a portion of time, but a termination of the first creative period or age ; but this does violence to the whole order of the narrative, in which a period of night invariably precedes one of daylight, precisely in accordance with the conventional Hel)rew usage of a vi'x^i]j.iioov or " evening-and-morning," and as the terms are expressly defined in the former clause of ver. 5. If " evening" in the phrase in question be dis- tinguishable from the " night" as a terminus, it is cer- tainl}^ a terminus a quo, as dating the latter from the aboriginal "darkness," ver. 2, and not a terminus ad quern of the ensuing daj'. See Night.
The Hebrews appear to have reckoned two evenings in each day ; as in the phrase D^S"!;' 'p3, hetween the two evenings (Exod. xvi, 12 ; xxx, 8), by which they designated that part of the daj' in which the paschal lamb was to be killed (Exod. xii, 6 ; Lev. xxiii, 5 ; Num. ix, 3, 5 ; in the Heb. and margin) ; and, at the same time, the evening sacrifice was ottered, the lamps lighted, and the incense burned (Exod. xxix, 89, 41 ; Num. xxviii, 4). But the ancients themselves disa- greed concerning this usage ; for the Samaritans and Caraites (comp. Reland, De Samarit. § 22, in his Diss. Miscell. vol. ii ; Trigland, De Karaeis, chap, iv) under- stood the time to be that between sunset and twilight, and so Aben Esra at Exod. xii, G, who writes that it was about the third hour (9 o'clock P.3I.) ; the Phari- sees, on the other hand, as early as the time of Jose- phus ( War, vi, 9, 3), and the Rabbins (Pesack, v, 3), thought that "the frst evening" was that period of the afternoon when the sun is verging towards set- ting (Gr. cei\>] Trpwia), "the second evening" the pre- cise moment of sunset itself (etiXii oxpia), according to which opinion the paschal lamb would be slaughtered from the ninth to the eleventh hour (3 to 5 o'clock P.M.). The former of these opinions seems preferable on account of the expression in Deut. xvi, 6, " when the sun goeth down," ttj^t'tl Xi23 ; and also on ac- count of the similar phraseologj' among the Arabs (Borhaneddin, Enchiridion Studiosi, viii, 3G, ed.Caspin, Lip?. 1838 ; Ramus, p. 1917 ; on the contrary, see Po- cocke. Ad Carmen Tograi, p. 71; Talmud Hieros. Be- rach. chap, i ; Babyl. Sahh. ii, 34G, fol. ; Bochart, Ilie- roz. i, G34, Lips.). — Gesenius, Thes. Ileb. p. 1065. See Passovek.
EVENING SACRIFICE. See Daily Offering.
Even-Song, the form of divine service appoint- ed to be " said or sung" in the evening of each day in the Church of England, the expression "sung" mean- ing not an intonation of the voice, where the service is otherwise professedly read, but the chanting of the service, as in cathedrals. — Eden, Churchman's Diction- ary, a. V.
Everett, Joseph, an early Methodist Episcopal
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minister, Avas born in Queen Anne's Co., Md., June 17, 17o2; was conveiteil in the time of Whitefield, under the preaching of tlie Presbyterians (then called "New Lights"), in June, 17G3, but soon lost his religion, and remained in sin until in 1778 or 1779 he was reclaim- ed through Asbury's preaching. In 17.S0 he entered the itinerant ministry, and labored as pastor and pre- siding elder witli great unction and success until 1804, wlien he became superannuated, and died in Dorches- ter, j\Id., Oct. IG, 1809, having preached Christ earn- estly for thirty years, and been instrumental in the salvation of many souls. He was a preacher " mighty through God," and died in great triumph. See Minutes ofCo»ftrences, i, 179 ; also Autobiographical Sketch in the Arminian Magazine, vol. ii; Sprague, -4wwa&, vii, 71 ; Stevens, Uisi. M. E. Church. (G. L. T.)