Hamon. See Baal-iiamon; Hamox-gog.
Hamon, Jkan, a distinguished French moralist, wa.H born at Clierboiu-g in 1618. He was a graduate physician of the University of Paris. He had already established a great reputation, and was offered a good charge by liis jnipil, M. de Harlay (afterwards president of the Parliament); but, by the" advice of his spiritual director, Singlin, he sold all his goods, gave the pro- (X'cds to the ]}(n)T, and became a hermit of Port Koyal in 1651. He nevertheless continued itracticing medi- cine, visiting the poor in the neigliljorhood of Port Hoy- al, and administering to them both spiritual advice and remedies. Tiie Xecrolor/e de Port Boijal says: "After a life as carefully guarded as though 'each day was to be the la>t, he ended it joyfully by a peaceful death, as lu! liail wished, and entered into eternal life," Feb. 22 10M7. He wrote Dirers Traites dp Piiil. (Paris, 1675 2 vols. 12mo) : — Siir la I'riere et lis Diroirs ,l,-s Pastn'irs (I'ar. U;w.2 vols. 12mo ):-/.« /',„/,>/». ,/,. /„ /v;^,v con- twnelle (Paris, 1702, \imi>):- E.rpliralion d„ Cantiqne d,s < nnliipies, witli an introduction by Nicole (Paris, 1<(I«. 4 vols. \imu):—I„stn,rtionspour les lMi<fieiises de I'ort J{oyal(\7->7mM\ 17:{0,2 vols.) :_/n.,/,v(c^iW* s„r les Siirram-nU, siir Ir Jiddle, etc. (Paris, 1734, 12mo):— Kjphrnlion de I'Oraison Doniiiiiade (Par. 1735), besides other practical and controversial writings. See Kicro- h>,,v ,lv Port lioi/ul (Amst. 1723, 4to); Thomas Dufosse, Jlislnne de Port Royal; Affmmrcs de Fontaine; Dupin, J/ist. KrrUs. dii 17"" siecle ; Hoefer. Noin: liion. Generale xxiii, •J72. '
Hamo'nah (Heb. Hamomih', r^V.1T^, mnltitnde ; Sept. translates IIo\j;«vO>or, Vulg. .1 w«n),a name fi-- urativcly assigned to the sepulchral " city" of the vaUey
in which the slaughter and burial of the forces of (iog are prophetically announced to take place (Ezek.xxxix, 16), emblematical of the multitude of graves (compare Joel iii, 14). See Hamon-gog.
Ha'mon-gog (Heb. Hanwn'-G6g, Sir* "i' -^l, multi- tude of Gog; fidly with X"i_3, valUy, prefixed; Sept. to Fni TO TToXvdvSptov tov rwy,'V"ulg. Vallis multitudinis Gog), the name prophetically ascribed to the valley in which the corpses of the slaughtered army of Gog ara described as to be buried (Ezek. xxxix, 11, 15) ; repre- sented as situated to the east of the Dead Sea, on the thoroughfare of commerce with Arabia (comp. the route of the Ishmaelites to whom Joseph was sold, Gen. xvii, 25), probably the present Haj road between Damascus and Mecca, but scarcely referring to any particular spot. (See Hiivernick, Commentar, ad loc. ; Stuart's Com- ment, on the Apocalypse, ii, 367.) See Gog.
Ha'mor (Heb. Chamor', ^''.lan, a he-ass ; Sept. 'Efi- fiwp, N. T. 'Ef^jiop), a Hivite, from whom (or his sons) Jacob purchased the plot of groimd in which Joseph was afterwards buried (Gen. xxxiii, 19 ; Josh, xxiv, 32 ; Acts vii, 15; in which last passage the name is Angli- cized E.^niOK), and whose son Shechem seduced Dinah (Gen. xxxiv, 2). B.C. cir. 1905. As the latter appears to have founded the city of Shechem (q. v.), Hamor is also named as the representative of its inhabitants (Judg. ix, 28) in the time of Abimelech (q. v.). His char- acter and influence are indicated by his title (" prince" of the Hivite tribe in that vicinity), and his judicious behavior in the case of his son; but neither of these saved him from the indiscriminate massacre by Dinah's brothers. See Jacob.
Hampden, Eexn Dickson, D.D., bishop of Here- ford, England, a descendant of John Hampden, was bom A.D. 1792, in the island of Barbadoes, where his family had settled in 1670. He entered Oriel College, Oxford, as a commoner, in 1810, and subsequently was admitted a fellow, appointed a tutor, and, in 1829 and 1831, was public examiner in classics. He delivered the Bamp- ton led me in lx:12, choosing for his subject The Scho- lastic /'//i/iisnp/,,/ <-niiside?-ed in its relation to Christian Theoln,,,/ (:!,l |.,iit. Lond. 1848, 8vo), and in 1833 was ap- pointed principal of St. Mary's Hall. In 1834 he was elected White's professor of moral philosophy (Oxford), and published a pamphlet entitled Ohservcdions on Re- . ligious Dissent. The opinions expressed in this work and in his Bampton lecture were made the grounds of opposition to his confirmation in 1836 as regiiis professor of divinity (Oxford), to which Lord jMelbourne, then premier, had appointed him. The controversy over this appointment, which assumed the character of a violent struggle, and is known as the First Hampden Case, ap- pears to have been based on political feelings as well as theological grounds. His principal opponents w-ere To- ries and High-Churchmen, among whom were Dr. Pu- scy and J. H. Newman, now a Roman Catholic. xY re- monstrance against the appointment was sent to the archlii-liii|i oi ( antiiburv, to be presented to the crown. A declaiaiidii. niudcmning Hampden's " mode of view- ing the doctrines of the Bible and the Articles of the Church" was numerously signed by residents of the uni- versity, and an effort was made iii the House of Convo- cation to iiass a statute expressing want of contidonce in his views, which was only frustrated by the interpo- sition of the proctors. The struggle was renewed in the Second Hampden Case, occasioned by Hampden's ap- pointment to the see of Hereford bylord John Russell in 1847. Tliirtecn of the bishops remonstrated against the aii|ioininiciit. '-nitix-aling to the former controversy, and iir^iii^ the iiif\|.ciruiicy of placing over the clergy one wlmsc opiiiidiis were rendered suspicious by the de- cision of a body like the University of Oxford."" Hamp- <len's friends replied that a change had taken place in the minds of the members of the Convocation of the Uni- versity, reducing the proportions of 474 to 94 in 1836, to 330 to 219 in 1842, on the proposition to repeal the