2, The second term, peka'im' (C^i'pB), is found only in 1 Kings vi,18. and vii, 24, It refers in the former to carvings executed in the cedar wainscot of the interior of the Temple, and, as in the preceding word, is associ- ated with flowers. In the latter case it denotes an or-
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nament cast round the great reservoir or " sea" of Solo- mon's Temple below the brim : there was a double row of them, ten to a cubit, or about two inches from centre to centre. The word no doubt signifies some globidar thing resembling a small gourd (being only the masc. of the fem. term so rendered in 2 Kuigs iv, 39) or an egg, tliough as to the character of the ornament we are quite in the dark. The following wood-cut of a portion of a richly ornamented door-step or slab from Kouyun- jilv probably represents something approximating to the '■ knop and the llower" of Solomon's Temple. But as the building from -which this is taken was the work of a king at least as late as the sonftf Esar-haddon, contem- porary with the latter part of the reign of Jlanasseh, it is only natural to suppose tliat the character of the or- nament would have undergone considerable modification from what it was in the time of Solomon. — Smith,
Oiuameutal Border of a Slab from Kouyuujik. IMr. Paine suggests (Temple, of Solomon, p. 41) that the difference in gender (above noted) of the terms for the gourds (or ciicumhers, as he renders) is accounted for by the circumstance that these ornaments were artificial (hence in the masc), while the real fruit is fem. He thinks that on the laver they were arranged in vine- form, ten in each of the two rows, like a netting {ib. p. 50). See Sea, Brazen,
Knorr, Georg Ciiristiax vox, a German divine, was born at Oettingen in 1C91, and was educated at Jena from 1708 to 1712. His dissertation for the master's de- gree was an attack on Leibnitz, and created quite a sen- sation at the time ; it was entitled Doctrime ortJwdoxcc de orifjine mali contra recentiorum quorundam Injpothe- ses modesta assertio (Jena?, 1712, 4to). In 1716 he be- came conrector, and a few months later rector over the schools at Oettingen ; and in 1726 was called to Blanken- burg, as librarian to the duke of Brunswick. Some time after this he joined the Komanists. He died in 1762. There are no works of special merit from the pen of Knorr except tlie dissertation already mentioned. — Do- ring, Gdehrte Tlieol. Deutschlands, vol. ii, s. v.
Knorr von Rosenrotli, Abraham, a Lutheran divine, descended from a noble family noted in the an- nals of the history of Silesia, flourished in the 17th cen- tury as pastor at Alt Rauden, in the duchy of Wohlau, and was the father of Christian and Caspar, both also noted Lutheran pastors.
The former of these two sons, namely. Christian, was born July 15, 1631, and was educated at the high-schools in Wittenberg and Leipzig. He was then sent abroad, and visited Holland, France, and England in turn, and on liis return devoted himself at Sulzbach to the study of the Oriental languages, especially the Hebrew, of which he had accjuired the rudiments while abroad. He took up the writings of the Cabalists, and even attempt- ed to prove the authenticity of the N.-T. Scriptures by this Jewish philosophical system, in his Kahbala denu- duta, sive doctrina Hebrcnorum transcendentalis (part i, Sulzl)ach, 1677-8, 4to ; pt. ii, F. ad JL 1684, 4to : a third part was suppUed by Pagendorm). His other writings, allot this eccentric nature, do not deserve mention here, as they have lost all value as literary contributions. See, for details, Alh/em. I list. Lex. iii. 42; Griitz, Gesch. d. Jnden, X, 2\K, »^l. (.LH.W.)
Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian. See Knorr VON RosENRorii, Abraham.
Knott, Edward, an English Jesuit, whose true name was Matthinx Wikon, and memorable for his con- troversy with Chillingworth, which caUed forth the fa-
mous book called The Religion of Protestants, was bom at Pegsworth, near INIoqieth, in Northumberland, in 1580. He M'as entered among the Jesuits in 1606, being al- ready in priests' orders ; and is represented in the Bibli- otheca Patrum Socieiatis Jesu as a man of low stature, but of great abiUties. He taught divinity a long time in the English college at Rome, and was a rigid observ- er of that discipline himself which he as rigidly exacted from others. He was then appointed sub-provincial of the province of England; and, after he had exercised that employment out of the kingdom, he was twice sent thither to perform the functions of his office. He was present, as provincial, at the general assembly of the or- ders of the Jesuits held at Rome in 1646, and was elect- ed one of the definitors. He died at London January 4, 1655-6. Knott was a great controversialist, and wrote largely, displaying in all his works great acuteness and learning. His first book was a little work entitled Char- ity Mistaken (Loud. 1630), with the "want Avliereof Cath- olics are imjustly charged, for affirming, as they do with grief, that Protestancy, unrepented, destroys salvation," which was answered by Dr. Potter, provost of Queen's College, Oxford (in 1633), by a piece entitled Want of Charity justly charged on all such Romanists as dare, without truth or modesty, affirm that Protestancy destroy- eth Salvation. To this Knott replied, under the title Mercy and Truth, or Charity maintained by Catholics (in 1634), which occasioned Chillingworth to publish The Religion of Protestants. Sec Chillingworth. Knott came to the defence in 1638, in a pamphlet entitled Christianity Maintained, and later in a work under the title of Infidelity Umnmhed, etc. (Ghent, 1652, 4to). At this time, however, Chillingworth had been dead nine j'cars, and in behalf of the noted deceased a reply was made by Thomas Smith, fellow of Christ's College, Cam- bridge (in 1653), in the preface to an English transla- tion of DaiUe's A pologyfor the Reformed Churches. See Gen. Bing. Diet, viii, 49 sq. ; 'SVoo<\, A thenm Oxon.; De Maizeaux, Life of Chillingworth. (J. IL W.)