Legists and DecretistSj the interpreters and ed- itors {(jlossatores) of the Roman law. See Glosses and Decretals.
Legrand, Antoine, a French wTiter and monk, born at Douay, lived aliout 1650-80. He was professor of philosophy and theology in Douay, and was a disci- ple of the Cartesian philosophy, on which he wrote sev- eral treatises. He published a Sacred History from the Creation to Constantine the Great (1685), and other works. — Thomas, Biorj. Dictionary, s. v.
Legrand, Joachim, a French historian and abbe, born at Salnt-Lo in 1653, was a person of great erudition. He was secretary of legation in Spain about 1702, and was afterwards employed in the foreign office. He died in 1733. He puljlished a History of the Divorce of Hen- ry VIII of Emjland (1G88), and a few other historical works.
Legrand, Louis, a French theologian, was born in Burgundy in 1711, became professor in the seminary of Sain t-Svd pice, Paris, and died in 1780. He published, besides other works, a Treatise on the Incarnation of the Word (1751). He composed the censures which the faculty of theology published against Rousseau's Emile (1762) and Buifon's Ejjoques de la Nature (Diedin, 1780). — Thomas, Bior/. Diet. s. v.
Legris- Duval, Rene Michel, a French priest, who was born at Bretagne in 1705, and died in 1816, is noted as a zealous and efficient promoter of benevolent institutions.
Legros, Antoine, a French scholar and writer, who was born in Paris .about 1680, and died in 175], published, besides other works. The Woils of the Fathers who llrid in the Time of the Ajwstles, with Xotes (1717).
Legros, Nicolas, a French Jansenist theologian, was born at Rhelms in 1G75. He passed the last twen- ty-five years of his life in Holland, to which he retired for refuge from persecution. He died in 1751. Among his works are a French translation of the Bible (1739), which is esteemed for fidelity; and a Manual for the Christian (174(1).
Le'habim(Hcb, /,(7(r/iim',C'^2iip,prob,forC"2^?, Luhim ; Sept, Art/^ifi/i, v. r. in Chron. Aa/?f(i'; Vulg. Laahim), a people reckoned among the Midianitish stock (Gen. X, 13; 1 Chron. i, 11). See Ethnology.
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The word is in the plural, and evidently signifies a tribe, doubtless taking the name of Le/iab,Mizr&iin's third son ((ien. X, 13). Bochart affirms that the Lehabim are not, as is generally supposed, identical with the Libyans. His reasons are. That Libya was much too large a country to have been peopled by one son of Mizraim ; and that in other parts of Scripture Libya is either call- ed Phut (;:1S, Jer. xlvi, 9; Ezek. xxx, &), or Lubim D^m?, "2 Chron. xii, 3; Nahum iii, 9), and Phut was a brother, and not a son of Mizraim (Gen. x, 6; Bochart, Opei'a, i, "279). These arguments do not stand the test of historical criticism. Phut and Lubim are not identi- cal (Nahum iii, 9) ; and the Lehabim may have been joined by other tribes in colonizing Libya. It is quite true there is no direct evidence to identify the Lehabim and Lubim ; yet tliere seems a high probability that the words are only different forms of the same name — the former being the more ancient, the middle radical n was afterwards softened (as is not unusual in Hebrew, Gesc- nius, Thesaur. p. 743, 360) into 1 quiescent. The Le- habim are not again mentioned in Scripture, but we find the Lubim connected with Mizraim (2 Chron. xii, 3), and the Kushites or Ethiopians (xvi, 8). We may therefore safely infer that the Lehabim were the ancient Lubim or Libyans, who perhaps first settled on the bor- ders of the Nile, among or beside the Mizraim ; but, as they increased in number, migrated to the wide regions south-west, and occupied the vast territory known to classical geographers as Libya (Kalisch On Gen. x, 13 ; see also Michaelis, Spicileri. Geogr. ; Knobel Vulkertaftl des Pent.'). Dr. Beke maintains that the Lehabim, as well as the IMizraim, were a people of north-western Arabia; but his views are opposed alike to the opinions of ancient and modern geographers, and his arguments do not appear of sufficient weight to command accept- ance (Qjir/iiies Biblicw, p. 107, 198 sq.). — Kitto. There can be no doubt that the Lubim arc the same as the ReBU or LeBU of the Egyptian inscriptions, and that from them Libya and the Libyans derived their name. These primitive Libyans appear, in the period at wliich they are mentioned in these two liistorical sources, that is, from the time of jMenptah, B.C. cir. 1250, to that of Jeremiali's notice of them late in the Gth century B.C., and |)robably in the case of Daniel's, prophetically to the earlier part of the second century B.C., to have in- habited the northern part of Africa to the west of Egypt, though latterly driven from the coast by the Greek col- onists of the Cyrenaica, as is more fully shown under Ll'bi.m. Geographically, the position of the Lehabim in the enumeration of the Mizraites immediately before the Naphtuhim suggests that they at first settled to the westward of Egypt, and nearer to it, or not more distant from it than the tribes or peoples mentioned before them. See MizRAur. Historically and ethnologically, the con- nection of the ReBU and Lil)yans witli Egypt and its people suggests their kindred origin with the Egyptians. — Smith. See Libya.