Faucheur, Michel le, a French Protestant di- vine of great talent as a preacher, was successively minister at Montpellier, Charenton, and Paris. He died in 1657. It is related of him that on one occasion he preached so forciblj' against duels that marechal De la Force, who heard him, remarked to some officers in the audience that, should a challenge be sent to him, he would decline it. He wrote. Sermons sur les onze premiers chopitres des Acfes dcs A pot res (Gen. 1664, 4 vols. 12mo) : — Traite de Vaction de I'orateur, ou de la prononciation et du geste (Par. 1657, 12mo) : — Sermon, Rom. vi,, 23 : The wages of sin and, the reward of grace (translated in Cobliin's French Prencher): — Traite svr V Euchnrisiie (Gen. 1635), etc. — Darling, Cyclp. Biblio- graphica, s. v.
Fauchion, i. e. falchion, is the rendering (Ju- dith xiii, 6 ; xvi, 9) of the Greek uKivc'tKrir (which the Iiomans also Latinized acinaces), a Persian term for the short sword, usualh'' represented as * straight, thick poniard on the Persepolitan figures (see Smith,
Ancient Persian Sword.
Diet, of Class. Ant. s. v. .\cinnces), and therefore appro- priat-ly employed in tlie apocryphal account of the de- capitition of Holoferncs bj- tlie Ilebrewess. See Sword.
Faukelius, Hermannus, was born at- Bruges about the year 1560. His parents were ^warmly at- tached to the Protestant cause. At twenty we find him in a theological seminary at Ghent. Here he en- joyed the instructions of able professors, among Avhom
was Danreus (q. v.). After leaving Ghont, where lie distinguished himself as a student, he sjicnt a short time at tlie University of Leyden. In 1585 he was called to serve a Protestant church at Cologne, where he labored for fourteen years amid many discourage- ments. On June 27, 15!)9, he was installed over the Reformed church in jVIiddelburg, the chief city of Zea- land, w here he spent the remainder of his life. He had great reputation as a preacher. His learning was profi;und, his exhortations earnest and impressive, and liis deportment exemplary. In ecclesiastical affi.irs he acted a conspicuous part. He was member and as- sessor of the Provincial Synod held at Tholen in 1602, and was delegated in 1607 to the Conrentns praparato- rius at the Hague, where his opposition to the Armin- ian tendenc}' was strongly exhibited. He assured the Convention that the churches of Zealand desired no revision of the Catechism t.nd Confession. In 161G the task was assigned to him, in conjunction with Buceius and Walwus, to make known to the scholars and to universities in other lands the condition of ec- clesiastical aflairs in Holland. At the organization of the Synod of Dort he was chosen one of the assess- ors of that famous body. At its forty-third session he was selected as one of the deputation sent to the Hague to report the i)roceedings of synod to the States General. During- its thirteenth session he was ap- pointed one of the translators of the Kew Testament. For this work he was eminently fitted. Of this he had given previous evidence in his translation of the N. T., published in 1617 at Middelburg, crtitled, Bet Nieuwe Testament onses Heertn Jesu Christi, nit den grieckschn overgheset, neerstelick nu cversien na de bcste eversettingcn, cnde vim vecl druclfaiitcn ghesvynrt ; met nieuwe sommatien ende afdedinghen der cajittelen, midts- gaders annotaiien aan den Rant tot verclaringhe van den text. In his knowledge of the Hebrew he is said to have surpassed most of his contemporaries. The historical bocks of the O. T. were translated by him, and neatly written out in two folio volumes, which are still preserved in the vestry of ti;e Peformed church in Middelburg. Other important labors were also as- signed liim 1 y the Synod. He was appointed one of a committee to compare the Latin, Dutch, and Frfnch copies of the Confession, in order to obtain as accurate a cop3' as possible. He was also a mcmljer of the com- mittee appointed to draft articles on the five disputed points known as the Cancns of the Si/nod iflkui. See Dort. He was also requested to prejiare two cate- chetical works. J/et Kort hegrip der ChrittelijLe Eeli- gie (Compendium of the Christian Religion) is due to his pen. This may still be found in company with the Heidelberg Catechism, Confession of Faith, etc., in the book of praise used by the Reformed Church in this country. He published a work on the Anabap- tists in 1621. After his death, an exposition of tlie 45th Psalm, and a volume of sermons on the incarna- tion, circumcision, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus were issued. Various other important trusts, besides those already mentioned, were discharged by him with exemplary zeal. "VVe find nothing alleged against him, even by Brandt, save his strenuous cppo- silion to the Remonstrants; and even in tliis n^atter he is not charged with anytliing inconsistent with the dignity of his position. If he lacked in Clivistian charitA' and forbearance, it was a fault in Avhich lie does not seem to have shared more deeply than most of his contemporaries. He died May 0, 1625, and was buried under the old church in Jliddelburg. See Gla- sius, Gddgderd Xederland, I Deel, biz. 455 on verv; (i. Brandt, Ilistorie der Riformatie, en andcre lerlelijke Gesrhied( ni-ifen in en omirent de Nederlanden, III Deel, biz. 27, 53, 226, 227, 233, 544, 627, 645, 648. (J. P. AY.) Fannt, Arthtr, or Laurence, Arthur, an Eng- lish Jesuit, was born at Foston, Leicestershire, in 1544, and died at Ulna, in Lithuania, in 1591. He was ed- ucated at Merton College, Oxford, and thence went