(2.) " One scriptural mark," says Wesley, " of those who are born of God, is hope. Thus St. Peter, speaking to all the children of God who were then scatterecl abroacl, saith, ' Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope' (I Pet. i, 3) — iXTiiSa L,w(yav, a lively or liviny hope, saith the apostle, because there is also a dead hope as well as a dead faith ; a hope which is not from God, but from the enemy of God and man, as evidently appears by its fruits, for as it is the offspring of pride, so it is the par- ent of every evil word and work ; whereas, every man that hath in him the living hope is 'holy as he that calleth him is holy' — everj' man that can truly say to his brethren in Christ, ' Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and we shall see him as he is,' ' purifieth himself even as he is pure.' This hope (termed in the Epistle to the Hebrews, chap, x, 22, TT\ripo<popia Tricrrfoic, anJ elsewhere Tr\t]po(popia tXTriSog, ch. vi, 11 ; in our trans- lation, ' the full assurance of faith, and the fuU assurance of hope,' expressions the best which our language could afford, altliough far weaker than those in the original), as described in Scripture, implies, first, the testimony of our own spirit or conscience that we walk ' in simplicity and godly sincerity;' but, secondly and chiefly, the tes- timony of the Spirit of God ' bearing witness with' or to ' oiu- spirit that we are the children of God,' ' and if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs ^vith Christ,'" The passage, "Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts" (Psa. xxi, 9), sug- gests that hope is an inbred sentiment. Considered as such, it implies («) a future state of existence ; (h) that progress in blessedness is the law of our being ; (c) that the Christian life is adapted to our constitution. See, besides the works above cite.A,IIomilist,x, 116; Jay, Ser- mons, vol. ii ; Tyerman, Essay on Ch-istiun Hope (Lond. 1816, 8vo) ; Craig, Christian Hope (Lond. 1820, 18mo) ; Garbett, Sermons, i, 489; Wesley, Sermons, i, 157; Lid- don, Our Lord's Divinity (Bampton Lecture), p. 72, 75; Martensen, Dogmatics, p. 450 sq. ; Pye Smith, Christian Theology, p. 622 sq.; Pearson, On the Creed, i, 24, 401, 460, 501 ; Fletcher, Works (see Index, vol. iv) ; Jahi-h. deutsch. Theol. x, 694; Bates, Works (see Index in vol. iv) ; Ilarloss, System of Ethics (Clark's Theol. Libr.), p. 174 sq. ; Nitzsch, System d.chrktl.Lehre, § 209 sq.
Hope, iMatthew B., a distuiguished Presbyterian minister, and professor at Princeton, was born in Peim- sylvania in 1812, and was educated at Jefferson College in that state. He entered the theological seminary at Princeton in 1831, and, after completing his theological coiu-se, he also studied medicine, and received the ap- propriate degree from the University of Pennsylvania : his object, in this additional coiu-se of stuiiy, being the more completely to prejiare himself for the missionary work. He was ordained as a missionary, and stationed at Singapore, IniUa ; but his health faihng liim, he re- turned home, after a stay of two years only. He was soon aftenvards elected assistant secretarj- of the Pres- byterian Board of Education. In 1846 he accepted the
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office of professor of belles-lettres in the College of New Jersey. In 1854 he was also made professor of political economy. During the fourteen years of his connection with the college, he continued in the diligent and thor- ough discharge of the duties of his professorship, with the exception of an interval of about fifteen months, the most of which was passed in Southern Europe, whither he had gone to seek some alleviation of a deeply-seated neuralgic affection. He died suddenly at Princeton, Dec. 17, 1859. He published a Treatise of Rhetoric (a syllabus for his college classes), and was a frequent con- tributor to tlie Princeton Review, — Presbyterian, Dec. 1859; Presbyterian Hist. Almanac, 1861, p. 90; Neicark Daily Advertise?; Dec. 1859.
Hopfner, Heixrich, a German theologian, was born at Leipsic in 1582, and educated at the miiversity of his native place, and at Jena and Wittenberg. In 1612 he was appointed professor of logic at Leipsic, and very soon after was called to Jena as professor of theology. He died in 16-12. Hopfner wrote Comnien- tarii in veterem quam vacant loyicam (Leipsic, 1620) : — Tractatus in priorum et posteriorum A nal. libr. A risto- telis (ibid. 1620) -.—Saxonia evangelica (ibid. 1625, 1672) : — Be justificatione hominis peccaioris coram Deo (ibid. 1639 and 1653; new ed. 1728 and often).— Pierer, Univ. Lex. viii, 530.
Hoph'ui (Heb. Chophni', "^SSn, perh. pvyUist, ac- cording to others client; Sept. '0(j)vi), the first-named of the two sons of the high-priest Eli (1 Sam. i, 3 ; ii, 34), who fulfilled their hereditary sacerdotal duties at Shiloh. Their brutal rapacity and lust, which seemed to acquire fresh violence with their father's increasing years (1 Sam. ii, 22, 12-17), fiUed the people with dis- gust and indignation, and provoked the curse which was denouncetl against their father's house first by an unknown prophet (ver. 27-36), and then by the youth- ful Samuel in his first divine communication (1 Sam.iii, 11-14). They were both cut off in one day in the flower of their age, and the ark which they had accompanicc'. to battle against the Philistines was lost on the same occasion (1 Sam. iv, 10, 11). B.C. cir. 1130. The piv- dicted ruin and ejectment of Eli's house were fulfilled in the reign of Solomon. See Zadok. The unbridled licentiousness of these yoiuig priests gives us a terrible glimpse into the fallen condition of the chosen people (Ewald, Gesch. ii, 538-038). The Scripture calls them " sons of Belial" (1 Sam. ii, 12).— Smith. See Eli.