Padus, Cuspius (Graecized Kovottioq ^cwoc, Jo- sephus, Ant. xv, 11, 4), a Roman kniglit of the time of the emperor Claudius. After the death of king Agrip- pa, in A.D. 44, he was appointed by Claudius procura- tor of Juda;a. During his administration peace was restored in the country, and the onlj'^ disturbance was created by one Theudas (q. v.), who came forward with the claim of being a prophet. He and his fol- lowers were put to death by command of Fadus. He was succeeded in the administration of Judaea (A.D. cir. 4G) by Tiberius Alexander (Josephus, Ant. xix, 9 ; XX, 5, 1 ; War, ii, 11, 5 ; Tacitus, Hist, v, 9 ; Zonaras, xii, 11 ; Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. ii, 11). — Smith, Diet, of Chss. Kv)fj. s. V. See Procuratok.
FagiiLS, Paulus (properly Buciilkin), was born at Iiheinzabern in 1504. His studies were pursued at Heidelberg and Strasburg, where he became a great proficient in Hebrew, and was led into close acquaint- ance with Capito, Hedio, Bucer, Zell, and other learn- ed reformers. In 1537 he entered the ministry', and was pastor at Isny until 1543. Here he studied He- brew thoroughly under Elias Levita (q. v.). and aho established a Ilcljrew press. In 1541, wlion tlie plague began to rage in Isny, he publicly rebuked those of the wealth}' classes who forsook the place without mak- ing provision for the relief of the poor, and himself visited the sick in person, and administered spiritual comfort to them daj' and night, and j'ct escaped. On the death of Capito at Stras'iurg, the senate called Fagius to succeed him as professor and pastor there (1544). In 154G, Frederick II, the elector palatine, in- tending a reformation in his churclies, called him to Heidelberg, and made him professor there. He op- posed the Interim (q. v.), and when it was introduced he was compelled to leave Strasburg. In 1548 he ac- cepted the invitation of Cranmer, archbishop of Can- terbury, and came to England. He was nominated by the arciibishop to the professorship of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge. Before he went to Cam- bridge he resided with the archbishop at Lambeth, where he was associated with Bucer. His labors while there, in addition to the preparation necessary for his professional office, are tluis described by Strj-pe : "As it has been a great while the archbishop's desire that the Holy P>il)le should come abroad in the greatest ex- actness, and true agreement with the original text, so he laid this work upon these two learned men, viz. Fagius and Bucer. First, that they should give a clear, plain, and succinct interpretation of the Scrip- ture, according to the jiropriety of the language ; and, fecondly, illustrate difficult and obscure places, and reconcile those that seemed repugnant to one anotlier. And it was his will and his advice thiit to this end and purpose their public readings should tend. This III.— F F
pious and good work, by the archbishop assigned to them, they most gladly and readily undertook. For their more regular canying on this business, thev al- lotted to each other, b}' consent, their distinct tasks. Fagius, because his talent lay in the Hebrew learning, was to undertake the Old Testament, and Bucer the New. The leisure they now enjoyed with the arch- bishop they spent in preparing their respective lec- tures. Fagius entered upon the evangelical prophet Esaias, and Bucer upon the Gospel of the evangelist John ; and some chapters in each book were dispatch- ed by them. But it was not long but both of them fell sick, which gave a very unhappy stop to their studies." He died at Cambridge Nov. 13, 1549. His body, along with Bucer's, was dug up and burnt in queen Mary's time. He wrote various books on Bib- lical and Hebrew literature, among which are Mcta- phrasis et Enarratio Epis. Paul, ad Rom. (Strasb. 1536, fol.) : — Senientim sapientiim Ilebrceorum (Isnv, 1541, 4to) : — Annotationes in Targum (Isny, 1546, fol.) : — Ex- positio literalis in IV prior a Capita Genescos, cui acces- sit Textiis Ihlraici et Paraphraseos Chaldcucrp coHatio, 4to (this and the last work reprinted in the Critici ^'a- cri) : — Precationes ffebrcdcw, ex libello JJebraico excerptce cui Nomen, Liber Eidei (1542, 8vo) :— Tobias Hebraicvs in Latinam translatus (1542, 4to) : — Eea Syrce Sentmtice 3Iorales, cum snccincto Commentario (1542, 4to): — Isa- goge in Liiiguam J/ebraicam (Constance, 1543, 4to). — Jliddleton, Erang. Biogrctphy, i, 260 ; Melchior Adam,, Vitm iheolog. i, 99 ; Hook, Eccles. Biog. v, 50.
Fagnani, Prosper, an Italian writer on ecclesi- astical law, was born in 1598. He was for fifteen years secretary' of the Congregation for the Interpre- tation of the Council of Trent (Cungregatio Cone. Trid. I7ite7pret.^, and subsequently professor of canon law at the Roman Academy. He was regarded as the ablest Roman jurist of his time, and was frecjuently consulted by the popes. Alexander VII charged him with compiling a commentarj' on the Decretals, which appeared in 3 vols. fol. at Rome in 1661 (reprinted at Cologne, 1676 ; Venice, 1697, and in man)' ether edi- tions). As Fagnani had been entirely blind from his forty-fourth year, he had to dictate the whole com- mentary to a clerk. He died at Rome in 1G78. — AVet- zer u. Welte, Kirch.-Lex. iv, 863. (A. J. S.)