Gelasius II, Pope (John of Gaeta), studied theology at Monte Casino, ascended gradually to the higher degrees of the Roman hierarciiy, and was final- ly elected pope in 1118, as successor of Pascal II. The empei'or Henrv' V, dissatisfied with this election, took upon himself to appoint another pope, under the name of Gregory VIII ; and one of his generals took Gelasi- us prisoner, but was obliged to release him. Gelasius then went to Gaeta, where he was ordained, and after- wards to Capua, where he called a council, and ex- communicated both Gregory VIII and Henry V. He finally retired to France, where he died in the convent of Cluny, Jan. 29, 1119. Hee "SlnTAton, Scriptores Re- rum Italicarum,\u,3G7 ; Mansi, xxi, 162. — llooier, iVouv. Bioff. Gen. xix, 819; Bower, Hist, 'f Popes, vi, 1.
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Geldenhaur, Gerard {Gerdrdus Noviomagus, ! Geranl cj' Xiincffucn), an eminent German writer, was born in 14!-2 at Nimeguen, and educated at Louvain and at Deventer, where he had for his instructor Alex- ander Hegius, the preceptor of Erasmus. In 1517 Iiis skill in Latin versitication obtained for him the laurel crown from the emperor jNIaximilian I. He after- wards became chaplain and secretary to Philip of Bur- gundy, bishop of L'trecht. He was sent to Wittem- berg in 152G to visit the schools and Church, and found that he " could not oppose a doctrine so consonant with that of the prophets and apostles" as that of Luther. He renounced popery, and retired towards the Upper Rhine, where, at Worms, he married, and became a school-master. Afterwards he was called to Augsburg, and eventually became professor, first of history, and then of theology, at Warijurg. Erasmus, who at one time was his friend, attacked him violently on his seces- sion to Lutheranism. Geldenhaur died of the plague in lb-i:i. He wrote Historia Batavica: — Ilisforin; sure u-Etatig,Yih. vii : — Descrtptlu Insuloe Batavonim : — Ca- talogus Eplscoporum Ultrajeclinomm : — Epistolce Zelan- dice : — Be V'iris illusirlbus hiftrioris Germun'ue, and sev- eral controversial pieces. — Hook, Ecdes. Biog. v, 285 ; Bayle, Dictionary (London, 1736), iii, 145.
Gel'iloth (Heb. Geliluth', rip"ib5, circuits [see below]; Sept. TflXtAwB', Vulg. tumuli), the name of a place on the boundary of Judah and Benjamin, be- tween En-Shemesh and the ascent to Adummim (Josh, xviii, 17) ; apparentlj' another form of the Gilgal (q. V.) of the parallel passage (Josh, xv, 7).
The same word is distinctively used (see Stanlej% Sinai and Pal. Append. § 23) five times in the origi- nal : iwice with reference to the pr( r'nces of the Philis- tine heptarchy ("borders of the 1 hilistines," Josh, xiii, 2; "coasts of Palestine," Joel iii [iv], 4); twice to the circle [see Ciccar] of the Jordan ("borders," Josh. ::Mii, 10, 11) ; and once (in the sing.) to the dis- trict sloping easterly towards the Dead Sea (" conn- try," Ezek. xlvii, 8). Its derivation (from bb?, to 7vll) connects it with that of GaH'ee (q. v.), with which the versions sometimes confound it. See Topogkaph- ic.VL Ter.iis.
Gel], Robert, D.D., an English divine, who was rector of St. ]Marj' Aldermanbury, London, and chap- lain to the archbishop of Canterlniry. His " Rtmains contain much ingenious and solid criticism." Thej' are commended by John Wesley, and also by Charles Wesley, who took from them some hints for hymns. He died in 1()55. We have from him Sermons (Lon- don. 1G50, 4to): — Sermons (1G.54, 4to) : — Essays to- vards the Amendment of the English Trans, of the Bible (105!), fol) : — liemriins, or select Script, of the Neiv Test. (lG7fi, 2 vols. fol.).^Darling, diclopaid. BibUographica, i, 1230; Allibone, J)iciionnri/ of Authors, i, G58; Wes- ley, Works (N. Y. ed.), vii, (501.
Gellatly, Alexander, a minister of the Asso- ciate Church, was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1720. In 1752 he liccame a student of theology in connection with the Antiburgher Synod of Scotland. By that synod he was sent out in 1753 as a missionary to the inhabitants of the eastern counties of Pennsj'lvania, who were chiefly emigrants from Scotland and Ire- land. He was accompanied by the Rev. Andrew Ar- not, and togetlier they formed themselves into a Pres- l)ytory, under the name of the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania. Tliey soon became olmoxious to tlie Presbyterians who had occupied the ground before them, and who issued <a series of publications against them, which were answered by Mr. Gellatly and oth- ers. ]Mr. Gellatly was settled first at INIiddle Octoro- ra. Lancaster County, and then at Oxford, Chester County, Pa., wliere he labored with great diligence dining the remainder of his life. He died INIarch 12, 17G1. He was a man of vigorous intellect, and an
earnest, faithful minister of the Gospel. — Sprague, Annals of Am. Pulpit, ix (^Associate), 1.