Ga'ham (Heb. Gach'am, CnS, "in pause" Ga'- cham,'CT\'\; ^ev\mp», having faming eyes; otherwise, sirarihy ; Sept. Vaan v. r. Taa^i), one of the sons of Nahor liy his concubine Ecumah (Gen. xxii, 24), B.C. cir. 2200*.
Ga'har (Ileb. Gach'ar, "^X^^, " in pause" Ga'char, "Iij'i, a lurking-place ; Sept. Vac'tp), one of the chief Nothinim whose descendants returned with Zerubba- bel from the captivity to Jerusalem (Ezra ii, 47 ; Neh. vii,49), B.C. ante 53G.
Gaianitse. A Monophysite sect of the Gth centu- ry, wliich derived its name from Gaianus, bishop of Al- exandria, who denied tliat Jesus Christ, after the h}-po- statical union, was subject to any of the infirmities of human nature. Sec Ectychiaxisji.
Gailer of Kaiseisburg. See Geii.er.
Gaillard, Jacques, a French Protestant theolo-
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gian, was born at Montauban towards 1620. He be- came professor of philosophy in the Protestant acade- my of that city, but in IGoi), certain disorders arising in the schools, he was expelled from Moiitauban, and resolved to (luit the country. He went to Holland, and in 1G(J2 became pastor of the Walloon church of Bois-le-Duc. He was subsequently director of the College of Le3'den, and afterwards professor of theolo- gy in the nnivcrsity. He wrote Gencalogia ChHsti, cum enodatione difficuliatum qiUB occurrunt in eva7ir/cliis J/atfkcet et Lucoi (Leyden, 1C83, 8vo): — Melchisedecus Christus, tinus rex justitix et rex pads, seu exercitationes xii de Me'chisedeco (Lej'd. 16S6, 8vo). See E. Benoit, Ilist. d'i I'ed/t de Nantes (iii, p. 3"20-i322 ; Bayle, Nouv. de li Republique des Letlres (1G84) ; Haag, La France Frotestunte, s. v.
Gaisford, Thomas, D.D., an English divine and eminent classical scholar, was born in Wiltshire, Deo. 22, 1779. He was educated at Winchester school, Avhere he was noted for his proficiency in Greek. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1797, and was elect- ed a student in 1800 hy the unanimous suffrage of the chapter. He procseded B.A. June 3, 1801, and 31. A. April 11, 1804. He acted for several 3-ears as tutor in his college. His edition of the Enchiridion of Hcplins- tion, published in 1810, established his reputation as an accurate and profound scholar. In 1811 he was made regius professor of Greek, and, after a number of val- uable preferments, in 1831 he was made dean of Christ Church, which office he filled most abh' till his death, June 2, 1855. So high was his reputation as a classical scholar that he was elected a member of the Institute of France and of tlie Roj-al Academy of Munich. In private life he "did justh', loved mercy, and walked humbly before God." The list of his classical publi- cations is too great to be published here ; among them were editions, in whole or in part, of Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Sophocles. In theological liter- ature he edited, besides other works, the following: Chtrohosci Dictata in Theodosii Canones, necnon Epinier- ismi in Psalinos (3 vols. 1812) : — Eusehii Eclogce Prophet- ic(B (1842) : — Eusebii Prcepxiralio Evangelica (1843) : — Pearsoni Adversaria Hesychinna (2 vols. 1844): — Etrj- mologicon Magnum (fol. 1848): — Vetus Testamentum ex Version" LXX Intcrp. (3 vols, l-'mo, 1848) -.—Stobwi Ec- hgce Phijsicre et Ethica (2 vols. 1850) : — Eusebius contra Ilieroclem et Marcellum (1852) : — Eusehii Demon^ratio El-angelica (2 vols. 8vo, 1852) : — Theodoreii Historia Ecclesiastica (1854). — Hardwick, Annual Biogr. (Lond. 1850, 12mo).
Oaiiis (riiioQ, for Lat. Cuius, a common Roman name), the name of three or four men in the N. T.
1. A Macedonian, and fellow-traveller of Paul, who was seized by the populace at Ephesus (Acts xix, 29), A.D.54.
2. A man of Derbe (an epithet which some have very unnaturally transferred to Timoth}') who accom- panied Paul in his last journey to Jerusalem (Acts xx, 4), A.D. 55.
3. An inhabitant of Corinth with whom Paul lodged, and in whose house the Christians were accustomed to assemble (Rom. xvi, 23; 1 Cor. i, 14), A.D. 55. He was perhaps the same with one of the preceding.
4. A Christian (probably of Asia Minor) to whom John addressed his third epistle (3 John 1), A.D. cir. 92. See Johx, Epistles of. There is no good rea- son for regarding him as identical with either of the foregoing (Wolf, Curm, ad loc).
Gaius, Dr. See Caius.
Gal, Saint. See Gall.
Gal'aad (VaXado, 1 Mace, v, 9, 55 ; Jud. i, 8 ; xv, 5) and the country of Galaau (// raXanclTic Ga- laaditls, 1 IMacc. v, 17, 20, 25, 27, 36, 45 ; xiii, 22), a Graacized form of the word Gilead (q. v.).
Ga'lal (Heb. GalaV, bss, perhaps weighty ; Sept. FaiXZ/X, VaXtX, TaXadX), the name of two Levites aft- er the exile.
1. A descendant of Jeduthun, and father of Shemai- ah or Shammua (1 Chron. ix, 16; Neh. xi, 17), B.C. ant2 536.
2. One of those who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites and served at Jerusalem (1 Chron. ix, 15), A.D. 536.
Galanos, Dejietrios, a Greek scholar, was born in Athens in 1700. He studied at Missolonghi, and subsequently at Patmos, where he remained six years perfecting himself in Greek learning. At the end of this time he was sent for by his uncle, Gregory, bishop of C-xsarea, who desired him to enter the priesthood. But Demetrios was resolved to devote himself to let- ters, and went to Calcutta as tutor in the family of a wealthy Greek in 1786. "After remaining six years in Calcutta, pursuing the study of the English, and also of the Sanscrit, Persian, and other Oriental lan- guages, ill addition to his duties as an instructor, he resolved to devote himself henceforth wholly to phi- losophy. Investing the property which he had ac- quired while there in a commercial establishment, he removed to Benares. Here he assumed the dress of a Brahmin, and lived in this way for forty years, re- spected alike by the native population and by Euro- pean residents. He undertook the task of translating the most important portions of the Brahminical litera- ture relating to philosophy into Greek. When he was sevent}' years old he began to think of returning to his native land, but he died with this wish unfulfilled, May 3, 1833. He bequeathed to the University of Otho, at Athens, all his library', consisting of iSanscrifc books and MS. translations from them iuto Greek. Six or eight volumes of these translations have been published by the librarian of the university, and are found iu the collection of modern Greek literature in the library' of Harvard Universit}'. In this selection ai-e included translations of the Yhagavata Purana, the Gita, the Dourga, *ind a portion, or, rather, an epitome of the Mahabharata, the most extensive and the most celebrated of all the works of Indian litera^ turc." — Watchman and Rcjkctor, Nov. 7, 1861.