Furseus. a missionarj' and abbot in the British Isles, and the founder of the convent of Lagn}', near Paris, was born in Ireland, where he founded also a convent, to which lie gave very strict rules. He then went to AVest Anglia, and erected the abbey of Knob- bersliurg, which he afterwards resigned to his brother Foillan, in order to withdraw into solitude. During the persecution of the Christians hy Penda, king of the Mercians, he fled to France, where, under the pro- tection of Chlodwig 11, he founded the convent of Lag- ny. He is supjiosed to have died in C50-654. He had acquired particular consideration by his visions, in which he pretended to see and hear angels ; they are related in Bollandiis, in vita S. Fiirsei ad 16 Jan. See aiabillon. Acta SS. Ord. S. B. I. ad a. 650 ; Annal. Ma- bill. I. catal. general, p. 731 ; Beda, tlist. gent. Angl. eccl. ii, 19-23 ; Herzog, Real-Encykloj). iv, 629.
Fury (X^n, cliema' , or "(iin, charon , both signi- fying intense anger) is attributed to God like anger, metaphorically, or speaking after tlie manner of men ; that is, God's providential actions are such as would be performed by a man in a state of anger ; so that when he is said to pour out his fury on a person or on a people, it is a figurative expression for dispensing afflictive judgments (Lev. xxvi, 28; Job xx, 23; Isa.
Ixiii, 3; Jer. iv, 4; Ezek. v, 13; Dan. ix, 16; Zech. viii, 2, etc.). See Anthropomorphism.
Future Life. See Eternal Life ; Immop.tai.- iTV ; Intermediate State.
Future Punishment. See Punishment.
Fyne, Passchier de, was born Jan. 31, 1588, at Leyden. He was inducted into the ministerial office somewhat irregularly. His first charge was tliat of Jaarsveld. He was zealously attached to the cause of the Remonstrants. In consequence of his refusal to subscribe the Canons of the Synod of Dort, he was suspended from the ministrj'. This did not deter him from avowing his intention to exercise his gift as the opportunity should be afforded him. Refusing to sub- scribe the act, which imposed silence upon him, he was sentenced to be banished. Notwithstanding this sentence, he still persisted in preaching from place to place, and was successful in evading his persecutors. After enduring man}' hardships and privations in his itinerant ministrj', he was in 1638 settled over a church in Haarlem. Here he was at first molested, but was subsequently permitted to exercise his ministry with- out further annoyance. He labored here till his death, which took place in 1661. He was a man of natural shrewdness, of great intrepidity, and full of zeal as a minister of the Gospel. The asperity of his language towards his opponents finds an apology in the treat- ment he received at their hands. His account of the Rijnsburgeren is regarded as valuable, being the testi- mony of one personally acquainted with the facts. It is entitled Kort en icaerachtig verhael van het eerste begin en opkomen van de nieuice secte der profefen of Rijnsburgeren. See Brandt's Ilistoiie der Reformatie, etc., iii en iv Deelen, op verscheidene plaatsen; De Remonstrant sche Broederschap, etc., door J. Tideman, PhH. Thenr. Mag. Lit. Hum. Dr., Predikant te Rotter- dan, 1847 ; Glasius, Godgeleerd Nederland, biz. 479 en verv. (J. P. W.)
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Gaab, Joiiann Friedrich, a German theologian, was born at Goppingon, in Wiirtemberg, Oct. 10, 1761. In 1792 he became professor extraordinarius, in 1798 professor ordinarius of philosophy at Tiibingen ; in 1814, librarian of the university ; in 1822, general su- perintendent, in which office he remained till his death, March 2, 1832. He was a voluminous writer, chiefly in Biblical literature. Among his works are Observa- tiones ad histonani Judaicam (Tub. 1787, 8vo) : — Bei- irdge z. Erklarung des 1, 2, 3 buvhen Mosis (Tiib. 1776, 8vo):— Das Buch Hioh (Tiib. \^m,Sxo):— Erklarung schicerer Stellcn Jeremias (Tiib. 1824, 8vo) : — Handbuch zum philolog. Verstehen der Apocryph. Schriften des A . T. (1H18-Iy, 5 parts) : — Dogmengeschichte der alt. griech. Kirche (Jena, 1790, 8vo) : — Programma de Judieo Im- mortali (Tiib. 1815). — Migne, Biog. Chretienne, s. v.
Ga'al(Heb.MZ.b"5, loathing; Sept. PartX, Josephus Yau\i)(S), son of Ebed (Judg. ix, 26 sq.). He went to Shecheni with his brothers when the inhabitants be- came discontented with Abimelech, and so engaged tlieir confidence that they placed him at their head. He does not seem to have been a native of Shechem, nor specially interested in the revolution, but rather one of a class of condoitieri, who at such a period of an- archy would be willing to sell their services to the highest bidder (compare Josephus, Ant. v, 7, 3 and 4). At the festival at which the Shechemites offered the llrst-fruits of their vintage in the temple of Baal, Gaal, by apparently drunken bravadoes, roused the valor of the people, and strove j'et more to kindle their wrath against tlie absent Abimelech. It would seem as if the natives had been in some way intimatelv connect- ed with, or descended from, the original inhabitants,
for Gaal endeavored to awaken their attachment to the ancient fhmily of Hamor, the father of Shechem, which ruled the place in the time of Abraham (Gen. xxxiv, 2, 6), and which seems to have been at this time repre- sented by Gaal and his brothers. This appeal to ante- Israelitish traditions (Judg. ix, 28), together with the re-establishment of idolatry at Shechem, shows that the movement in which he took part was a reactionary one, and proceeded upon the principle of a combina- tion of the aborigines with the idolatrous Israelites against the iconoclastic f^imily of Gideon as represent- ed by Abimelech. Although deprived of Shechem, the family appears to have maintained itself in some power in the neighborhood, which induced the Shech- emites to look to Gaal when thej'- became tired of Abimelech. Whether he succeeded in awakening among them a kind feeling towards the descendants of the ancient masters of the place does not appear ; but eventually they went out under his command, and assisted doubtless by his men, to intercept and give liattle to Abimelech when he appeared before the town. He, however, fled before Abimelech, and his retreat into Shechem being cut off by Zebul, tlie command- ant of that place, he went to his home, and we hoar of him no more. The account of this attempt is inter- esting, chiefly from the slight glimpse it affords of the position, at this period, of what had been one of the reigning families of the land before its invasion by the Israelites. B.C. 1319. — Kitto, s. v. ; Smith, s. v. See Abimelech.