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of circumcision (Josephus, Z//e, 23). See generally Wicliuelis, iVus. Beckf, ii, 443 sq. ; Jalin, I, ii, 340 sq. The lethal treatment of foreigners was in the earlier ages the more humane, as original]}' at liome (Atlam, Jioni. Ant. i, 145) and at Athens. See Proselyte.
Foieiro, Francis (^Forerius Pranciacus), a Portu- guese Dominican monk, was born at Lisbon in 1523, and, entering early into the Dominican order, was sent 1)y .John III to study theology in the University of PiU'is. On his return to Lisbon he was charged with the education of the young prince Antonio, and was appointed preacher to the king. Among tlie Portu- guese at the Council of Trent he held the Orst place. He offered to preach before the council in any lan- guage. The council sent him on a mission to Pius IV, who made Foreiro confessor to his nephew, cardi- nal Charles Eorromeo. Ho was emploj'ed to reform the Breviary and the Koman Missal, and to aid in the preparation of tlie "Catechism of the Council of Trent." On his return to Portugal he was chosen prior of the Dominican convent at Lisbon in 15(58. He died Janu- ary 10, 1587. His principal work is Tsaix Prophetoi veins et nova, ex llvbraico Versio, cum Comvientiwio, etc. (Venice, 15G3, fol.), inserted in the fifth volume of the Cri/ici. Sacri. — Ecliard et Quetif, Script. Orel. Pra;d. ii, 2G1 ; Hook, Pedes. Biogr. v, IGl ; Hoefer, Nouv. Birgr. Ghierale, xviii, 170.
Foreknowledge. See Prescience.
Fore-Ordination. See Predestination.
Forer, Laurent, a Jesuit, born in Switzerland, 1580, was professor of philosophy in many colleges of his order ; then chancellor of the University of Dillin- geu, and linally rector of the Jesuits' College at Lu- cerne. He diad in 1G59, leaving 44 works, a list of which may be found in Sotwell, BihllograjMe de la So- ciete dz Jisus. Among them is Sijmholuni Caf/toliaim, Luiherannm, Caliinianum ami yipasiolico collahim (Dil- lingen, 1G2"2, 4to). — Migne, Did. de Bidg.C/irelieime, s. v.
Forerunner is the literal meaning of iroocpoi.ioc: (Ileb. vi, 20), a prenirsor., one who not onlj' goes be- fore to a particular place, to lead or prepare the way, but who makes arrangements for those that follow. In this sense it is usually applied to John the B„ptist, as the harbinger of Christ. But in the above text (the only one wlierc it occurs in Scripture) it is spoken of Jesus, the high-priest of the new dispensation, as en- tering before his followers into the heavenly sanctu- ary, and making expiation of perpetual efficacj' for sin- ners (com p. John xiv, 2).
Foreship (Trpojpa, the prmc. Acts xxvii, SO, 41), the bow or stem of a vessel. See Ship.
Foreskin (ilbl", orlak', a native term for this special rite ; Greek dicpofti'dria ; both used in their lit- eral and metapliorical meaning), the prepuce or pro- jecting fold of .<kin in the distinctive memlier of the male sex, which was removed in circumcision, so as to leave the glans penis artificially uncovered. This well- known symbolical rite was instituted by Jehovah for the consecration of all the male Israelites — originally descendants of Atiraham (and in that case on the eighth daj' after birth. Gen. xxi, 4; Lev. xii, 3; Luke i, 5!) ; ii, 21 ; see Philo, iii, 5 ; Josephus, Ant. i, 12, 2 ; 3'et compare Exod. iv, 25, with ii, 12, and the Mishna, Sknhh. xix, 5, where in certain cases the ceremonj' is deferred till the ninth or twclftli day: the Sabbath, however, did not cause a postponement, John vii, 22 sq. ; compare Wetstein, i, 887 ; but delicate children might be circumcised after weaning, Mislma, I. c.\ and in later times " Proselytes of Righteousness" (Exod. xii, 48 ; comp. Judith xiv, 10 ; see Tacit. IPtsl. v, 5, 3), as a ratification of their title to the theocratic citizen- ship. (Whether circumcision among the Egyptians stood in connection with Phallus worsiiip [Tuch, Gen. p. 34-1] is not determined, but its use among the Israel- ites is ratlier against such a supposition. Baur [Titb.