FOROJULIAN MANUSCRIPT 626
FORTIA D'URBAN
V, 3-6 ; vii, 5-27 ; 1 Kings xiv, 24 ; xv, 12 ; Amos ii, 7 ; vii, 17 ; Jer. iii, 2 ; v, 7 ; John viii, 3-11). Among the Greeks and Romans of the n])Ostles' day licentious- ness was fearfully prevalent. ,Sec Harlot.
In Scripture this word occurs more frequently in its symbolical than in its ordinary sense. In the Proph- ets woman is often made the symbol of the church or nation of the Jews, which is regarded as affianced to Jehovah by the covenant on Mount Sinai. In Ezek. xvi there is a long description of that people under the symbol of a female child, growing up to the stat- ure of a woman, and then wedded to Jehovah b}' en- tering into covenant with him. Therefore, when the Israelites acted contrary to that covenant by forsaking God and following idols, thej' were very properly rep- resented by the symbol of a harlot or adulteress offer- ing herself to all comers (Isa. i, 2 ; Jer. ii, 20 ; Ezek. xvi ; Hos. i, 2 ; iii, 11). Thus fornication, or adultery (which is fornication in a married state), became, and is used as the sjnnbol of idolatry itself (Jer. iii, 8, 9 ; Ezek. xvi, 26, 20; xxiii, 37). See AVemyss's Claris Symh. s. V. Wom;in. See Idolatky.
Forojulian Manuscript {Codex Forojuliensis), an important copy of the early Latin version of the Gospels at Triuli, published in part bj' Blanchini {Evan- gel. Quadrnplex, append.). Mark's Gospel is partlj^ at Venice in a state of decay, and partly at Prague, the last having been edited by Dobrowsky in 1778. — Scriv- iier, Introd. p. 265 ; Tregelles, in Home's Introd. iv, 254. See Latin Versions.
Porskal, Peter, a Swedish naturalist, was born at Smaland in 173G, and was educated at Giittingen. He devoted his life to natural science, travelled ex- tensively, and died on an Eastern tour at Djcrim, in Yemen, July 11, 1763. His name is mentioned here on account of his Descnptiones Animalium, ovium, ampldhi- orum, etc., quce in itinere oricntali ohservavit P. Forsld', published after his death (Copenh. 1775, 4to) ; Flora ^Egypihico-Arahica sive descrip)tiones plantarum, etc. (eel. C. Xiebulir (Copenhagen, 1775, 4to); and Icones rcrum naturalhim, etc. (Copenhagen, 1776, 4to), which arc of value for the natural history of Scripture. — Hoefer, Xoiiv. Eiog. Generale, xviii, 198.
Forster, Bartliolonicetis, a German Eoman Catholic theologian, was born Aug. 12, 1753. He was ordained a secular priest in 1776, and went then to Al- tenottingen. Here his opposition to the celibac}' of the clergy, etc., brought him into trouble. He finally became pi'ofessor of rhetoric and Greek literature in the Gymnasium of Landshut in 1803. Among his writings are Entlarvter Aherylauhen bei Heliquien, Bil- dern, etc. (Miinchen, 1803) : — ]'on d. Interesse d. ronii- sch'n Curie an Abldssen u. Briiderschaflen (Miiu. 1803). ■ — Herzog, Real-Encyklop. iv, 436,
Forster, Joliann, an eminent German theologian and scholar, was born at Augstiurg in 1495. He be- came i>rofessor of Hebrew at Zwickau, and assisted Luther in his translation of the Bilile. In 1535 he was made pastor of St. Moritz at Augsburg by the influ- ence of Luther. His zeal for the Lutheran doctrines often brought him into conflict with liis colleagues at the university. He even attacked IJlarer and CEco- lampadius. A visiting committee, sent from Stutt- gard in 1540, laid the matter liefore the duke, who de- cided against Forster. The latter retired to Nurem- berg, from whence he proceeded to Ratisbon, and in 1543 accepted a call to Schleusingen. He finallj' succeeded Cruciger as professor of theology in the University of Wittenlierg. In 1554 he assisted Mc- lancthon in the Osiandrian controversies, and died at Wittenberg Dec. 8, 1556. He wrote a Hebrew Lexi- con, i)/c?e'o«an«7re J/ebraicum Novum, etc. (Basel, 1557, fol.), founded purely on the Hebrew of the Bible, and throwing out Rabbinical scTlirccs of information. His letters are of considerable importance fir the history of that time. — Herzog, lieal-Encyklop. iv, 436. There
is an elaborate article on Forster in the Ztitschrift f. d. hist. T/ieolof/ie, I.SOO, p. 210 sq.
Forster, Nathaniel, a learned English divine, was born at Stadscombe, Devonshire, Feb. 3, 1717; educated at Corpus Christi, of which he became fellow in 1729 ; obtained a prebendal stall in the cathedral of Bristol and the vicarage of Rochdale in 1754. In 1757 he became preacher at the Rolls, and died Oct. 20 in that year. He wrote Reflections on the high Antiq- ^^i'/ of Government, A7-ts, and Sciences in Egypt (Oxf. 1743, 8vo): — A Dissertation on Josephus's Account of Jesus Christ (Oxf. lliO) -.—Biblia IJebraica sine punctis (1750, 2 vols. 4to) : — Popei-y destructive of the Evidences (f Christianity (Oxf. 1746). — Bicg. Britannica, s. v.
Forster, "William, a memlier of the Society of Friends, was born at Tottenham, England, in 1794. He was carefully trained by his parents, who were ex- cellent "Friends," and at nineteen began to exercise his gifts as a "minister." Most of his life was devo- ted to missionary journeys through the British Islands, the Continent of Europe, and the United States, on his third visit to which, "with an antislavery address to the president and governors," he died in Tennessee, in the sixtj'-ninth j-ear of his age. In the preceding year, 1852, he visited the Vaudois of Piedmont, and printed a large number of books and tracts in Italian for circulation. Everywhere he scattered blessings by word and deed, "leaving bis mark for good on everything he set his hand to." His son, Williani E. Forster, is (186!i) a member of the British Parlia- ment, and an eminent Liberal in politics.— Seebohm, Memoirs of William Forster (London, 1865, 2 vols.); Christian Remembrancer, Januarj', 1S66, art. iv.