League and Covenant. See Covenant, Sol- emn LKAdTK AND.
League, Holy. See Holy League.
League of Smalcalde. See Smalcalde.
Le'ah (Heb. Liah', TMiO, jceiu-y ; Sept. A£(a,yulg. Lia), the eldest daughter of the Aramajan Laban, and sister of Rachel (Gen. xxvi, IG). ' Instead of the latter, for whom he had served seven years, Jacob took her through a deceit of her father, who was unwilling to give his yoimger daughter in marriage first, contrarj'
to the usages of the East (Gen. xxix, 22 sq. ; compare Rosenm idler, MorfjciiL i, 138 sq.). B.C. 1920. She was less beautiful than her younger sister (comp. Josephus, Ant. i, 19, 7), having also weak eyes (r\i~T C^3'^"j Sept. 6(p^a\fioi acrSitvHC, Yiilg. lipjns oculis, Auth. Vers, " tender-eyed," Gen. xxix, 17 ; comp. the opposite qual- ity as a recommendation, 1 Sam. xvi, 12), which proba- bly accounts for Jacob's preference of Rachel both at first and ever afterwatds, especially as he was not likely ever to love cordially one whom he did not voluntarily marry (comp. Gen. xxx, 20). See Rachel. Leah bore to Jacob, before her sister had any children, six sons, namely, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah (Gen. xxix, 32 sq.), Issachar, and Zebulon (Ge)i. xxx, 17 sq. ; compare XXXV, 23); also one daughter, Dinah (Gen. xxx, 21), besides the two sons borne by her maid Zilpah, and reckoned as hers, namely, Gad and Asher (Gen. xxx, 9), all within the space of seven j-ears, B.C. 1919-1913. See Concubine; Slave. '"Leah was conscious and resentful (chap, xxx) of the smaller share she possessed in her husband's atfections; yet in Jacob's differences with his father-in-law his two wives appear to be at- tached to him with equal fidelity. In the critical mo- ment Avhen he expected an attack from Esau, his dis- criminate regard for the several members of his family was shown by his placing Rachel and licr children hindermost, in the least exposed situation, Leah and her children next, and the two handmaids with their chil- dren in the front. Leah probably lived to witness the dishonor of her daughter (ch. xxxiv), so cruelly avenged by two of her sons, and the subsequent deaths of Debo- rah at Bethel, and of Rachel near Bethlehem" (Smith). Leah appears to have died in Canaan, since she is not mentioned in the migration to Egypt (Gen. xlvi, 5), and was buried in the family cemetery at Hebron (Gen. xlix, 31). — Wmer, ii, 10. See Jacob.
Lealce, Lemuel Fordham, a minister of the Pres- bj'terian (O. S.) Church, was bom in Chester, Morris County, N. J., and was educated at Princeton College, class of 1814. After graduation he taught two years, then studied theology at Princeton Seminary, was li- censed by the Newton Presbytery Oct. 7, 1818, and l)e- came pastor of the churches of Oxford and Harmony in 1822. In 1825 he resigned this position, and labored for the missionary interests of the Church. In 1831 he was called to Chartiers Church, at Canonsburg, as suc- cessor to Dr. M'JMillan, and there he labored until 1850, when he became president of Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio. Later he removed to Zelienople, Pa.; thence to Waveland, Ind. He died Dec. 1, 1800. — Wil- son, Preshjterian Historical A Imanac, 18G7. p. 1G8.
Learning, Jeremiah, D.D., an Episcopal clergj-- man, was born at Middletown, Conn., in 1719, graduated at Yale College in 1745, and, after entering the minis- trj-, quickly rose to distinction. He was at one time spoken of for the office of first bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America. He died at New Haven, Conn., in 1804. Among his pubUcations are A Defence of Episcopal Government of the Church: — Evidences of the Tnith of Christianity ; etc. — Allibone, Diet. British and American Authors, voLii, s. v.
Leander, St., a Spanish prelate, flourished towards the close of the Gth century, lie died March 13, GOl (ac- cording to some, Feb. 27, 59G). He was a son of Severi- anus, governor of Carthage, and brother of Fulgent ius, bishop of that city, and of St. Isidore of Seville, who succeeded him as bishop of Seville. Leander especially distinguished himself by his zeal against the Arians. Among his converts was Hermenigilde, eldest son of Lcuvigilde, king of the Goths. Upon the defeat of the former by the latter Leander was sent into exile, but he was recalled in the same year, and converted Reccarede, second son of the king. After the death of Lcuvigilde he assembled at once the third Council of Toledo, and caused Arianism to be solemnly condemned. For his services in making Spain an adherent of the faith of
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Rome he was specially rewarded by Gregorj' I. The ca- thedral of Seville claims to possess his remains, and he is commemorated on the 13th of March, He wrote a number of works, of which there are yet extant De In- stitutione Vh'ginum et contemptu mundi (to be foimd in the Codex Regularum of St. Benedict of Amiane, pub- lished by Holstenius, and in the Bibliotheca Pai rum, vol. xii). It is a letter to his sister, St. Florentine : — Uomilia in luudcm Ecclesice, etc. (Labbe, Condi, vol. v), a discourse on the conversion of the Goths, pronounced at the third Council of Toledo. Leander is considered as the origi- nator of the Mozarabic rite completed by St. Isidore. St. Gregory the Great dedicated to Leander his disser- tations on Job, which he had undertaken by his advice. See St. Isidore, De Viris iUusfribiis, etc. ; St. Gregory the Great, Epist. and Dialog. ; St. Gregory of Tours, Ilisf. vol. v; Maxonms, Annales ; Dom Mabillon, ^w?(«^es Or- dinis Benedicti, etc. ; Baillet, Vies des Saints, i, Mar. 13 ; Dom CeUlier, Ilist. d. Auteurs sacres, xvii, 115, etc.; Dom liivet. Hist. Litteraire de la France ; Richard et Giraud, Bibliotheque Sacree ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxx, 55 ; Wetzcr u. Welte, Kirclien-Lex. vi, 388.