4. Literature. — 'I'he following are the princijial mono- graphs on this subject: Sandius, De Aoyi^ (in his In- terp. Paradox, Amsterd. 1G70) ; Saubert, De voce Aoyog (Altdorf, 1687) ; Carpzov, De A6yi[> Philonis (Helmstadt, 1749); Bryant, P/;i7o's Adyoc (1797); Upham, Letters on the L^ogos (Boston, 1828) ; Bucher, JoA(m««. Lehre vom Logos (Schaffh. 18oG). For others, see Danz, Worte?-- buch, s. V. ; Darling, Cyclojxedia, col. 1059 ; Lange's Com- mentarg (Am. ed., Introd. to John's Gospel). Comp. also the Meth. Qua?: Revieio, July and Oct. 1851 ; Jan. 1858 ; Christian Examiner, Jan. 1863 ; A m. Presh. Review, Jan. 1840 ; July, 1864 ; Stud. u. Krit. 1830, iii, 672 ; 1833, ii, 355 ; 1868, ii, 299. See John, Gospel of.
Logotheta (XoyoSrirrjg, q. d. chancellor) is the ti- tle given in the (ireek Church to the member of the ecclesiastical courts holding the imperial seal to be ap- pended to their edicts. See Greek Church.
Loguo is, m the mythology of the Caribbeans, the name of the first man, who descended from his celestial abode to the soft, shapeless mass of which the earth was formed by his creative power. He first imparted to it shape and motion; the sun rendered it dry and hard. Loguo, after his death, reascended to heaven. See Voll- mer, Mythol. Worterb. s. v.
Xiohdius, Carl Friedrich, a German theologian, was born at Grlinberg, near Waldheim, Dec. 13, 1748, and was educated at the University of Leipsic, where, in 1774, he obtained the degree of A.M. and the privi- lege of lecturing on theology. He became soon after morning preacher at the university. In 1780 he ac- cepted a call to Grimma as dean, and in 1782 to Dres- den. He died there August 4. 1809. Of his scholarly productions we only mcHtion Delineatur imago doctriniB de conditione animipost mortem eo, quo Chri^tus et Apos- toli rixerunt, scecido, diss, i et ii (Lipsife, 1790, 4to). See Dijring, Gelehrte Theol. Deutschlands, s. v.
Lohe, JoHANN KoNRAi) AViLHELM. a German Lu- theran minister, was born at Fiirth, in Bavaria, Feb. 17, 1808, and was educated at the University of Erlangen, which he entered in 1826. After serving at various places as minister of Lutheran churches, he settled in 1837 at Neuendettclsau as pastor of a flourishuig Church. Zealously devoted to the cause of his Master, he studied the ways and means of promoting the Christian religion among the masses of the (Jerman people, and in 1849 founded to this end a society for Inner Missions (q. v.), and in 1854, following the example of the immortal Fliethier ((j. v.), of Kaiserswerth, established a Deacon-
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esses' Institute [see Deaconess], which in our clay is known in nearly all the civilized world. Liihe labored here laithlully and successful!}' until his death, Jan. 28, 187"2. He wrote Der evancjdische GeistUche (2d edition, Stuttg. 18GG, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Lehenslavf cUt heilig. Magd Gottes aus dem PJ'arrstande (3d ed. Nurerab. 1809, 8vo) : — Gnsfliclwr Tiujedaiif (3d ed. Nuremb. 1870, 8vo) : — A vs drr Gesckichte d. Dial:onissenanstnlt Neuendettelsau (Nuremb. 1870, 8vo) ; etc. See Schena, Z^eu^sc/f-zlme?-- ikun. Conv. Lexikon, vi, 589.
Lohesh. See Hal-lohesh.
Loin (usually in the dual, D'l'^srt, chalatsa'yim, as the seat of strength, spoken of as the place of the girdle. Job xxxviii, 3 ; xl, 7 ; Isa. v, 27 [" reins," xi, 5] ; xxxii, 11 ; or as a part of the body generally, Job xxxi, 20; Jer. XXX, G [so the Chald. plur. "p^J"!!!, Dan. v, 6] ; by euphemism for the generative power. Gen. xxxv, 11 ; 1 Kings viii, 19; 2Chron. vi, 9; alao 'U'^'^T}^, moihna'yim, as the seat of strength, Gr. oa^vQ, which are the other terras properly so rendered, and refer to that part of the body simply; but D"'5D3, kesalim', Psa. xxxviii, 7, means the flanks, as elsewhere rendered, prop, the in- ternal muscles of the loins, near the kidneys, to which the fat adheres; while C^'^'?) put in Gen. xlvi, 26; Exod. i, 5 ; comp. Judg. viii, 30, by euphemism for the seat of generation, properly signifies the thir/Ii, as else- where rendered, being plainly distinguished from the true loin in Exod. xxviii, 42), the part of the back and side between the hip and the ribs, which, as being, as it were, the pivot of the body, is most sensibly affected by pain or terror (Dent, xxxiii, 11 ; Job xl, 16 ; Psa. xxxviii, 7 ; Ixix, 23 ; Isa. xxi, 8 ; Jer. xxx, (5 ; Ezek. xxi, 6 ; xxix, 7; Dan. V, 6; Nah. ii, 1, 10). This part of the body was especially girt with sackcloth, in token of mourning (Gen. xxxvii, 34; 1 Kings xx, 31, 32; Psa. Ixvi, 11; Isa. xx, 2; xxxii, 11; Jer. xlviii, 37; Amos viii, 10). The term is most frequently used with allu- sion to the girdle which encompassed this part of the body, i. q. the traisf ; especially in the phrase to •' gird up the loins," i. e. prepare for vigorous effort, either lit- erally (1 Kings xviii, 46; 2 Kings iv, 29; ix, 1; Prov. xxxi, 17), or oftener as a metaphor borrowed from the loose and flowing dress of Orientals, which requires to be gathered closely at the waist, or even to have the skirts tucked up into the belt before engaging in any exertion or enterprise (Job xxxviii, 3 ; xl, 7 ; Jer. i, 1 7 ; Luke xii, 35 ; 1 Pet. i, 13). See Girdle.