Sorghum Vulgare.
MILLET
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MILLS
ghum vulgare. There is, however, little doubt that the | true dukhitn of Aral) authors is the above-described I'an- icum mUiaceum. This is so universally cultivated in the East as one of their smaller corn-grasses that it is most likely to be the kind chiefly alluded to in the pas- sage of Ezekiel. Two cultivated species of Punicum are named as occurring in Palestine, viz. P. miliaceum and P. itulicum (Strand's Flor. Palcest. Nos. 35, 37). The genera Sorghum and Pcmicuin belong to the natural or- der Graminecp. perhaps the most important order in the vegetable kingdom. — Kitto; Smith. See Celsii //iV/o- bot. i, 453 sq. ; Oedmann,I>r;«. Samml. v, 92 sq.; Nie- buhr, .1 ruhiu, p. 295; Trav. i, 158; Forskal, Flora J-'-'jijpt. p. 174; Wcllsted, Trav. i, 295; Geseniuc, Thes. lleb. p. 333 ; Penny Ci/clopcedia, s. v. Panicum.
Millet, Simon -Gehmaix, a French Benedictine, was born at Venisy, near Sens, in 1575. He die<l near Paris, June 28, 1(547. But little is known of his life's history. The following are his works: Les iJialoi/ues de Saint-Gregoire (translated into French; Paris, 1G24, 1644, 8vo) : — Le Tresor sacre, ou inventaire des saintes reliques etau ires precieux joyaiix de ref/lise et du tresor de Saint-Denys (Paris, 1638, 12mo) : — Vindicaia Ecclesia Gallicance de suo Areopagiia Dionysio Gloria (Paris, 1638, 8vo) : — Ad Dissert alionem nuper evulgatnni de Duohiis Dionysiis Responsio, against the canon of Lau- noy (Paris, 1642, Svo^.—I/ist. Litter, de la Congregation de'Saint-Mdur, p. 28. See Hoefer, Xoui: Biog. Gen. s. v.
Milletidre. See Lamiletieke.
Milligan, James, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was bora in iJalniellington, Ayrshire, Scotland, Aug. 7, 1785. At the age of fourteen he united with the Established Church of Scotland. His early education was obtained while out upon the moor watching the sheep, reciting two or three times a week to a teacher in a neighboring village. In 1801, dissatisfied with the government of Scotland, he emigrated to America, and came to West- moreland County, Pa. After engaging in mercantile life for some months, he entered Jefferson College, Pa. His funds becoming exhausted, he was obliged to leave, and went to Greeiisburg, Pa.; instituted an academy, taught eighteen months, realized a sum sufficient to complete his collegiate course, and graduated with hon- ors. He next accepted a call as teacher of languages in the Philadelphia University. While there he pur- sued his theological studies in the Keformcd Presbyte- rian Seminary. He was licensed by the Northern Pres- byter)^ in 1811, and in 1812 was ordained pastor of Coldenham Congregation, Orange County, N. Y. ; in 1818 he accepted a call to the Scotch Covenanter Con- gregation at IJyegate, Caledonia County, Vt. ; thence he went to New Alexandria, Pa., in 1839; and in 1848 to Eden, 111., where he continued to preach until 1855. He died about the year 1861. Dr. Milligan was a warm friend of the Scotch Covenanters. He was instrumen- tal in inaugurating the first temperance reform move- ment in the State of Vermont ; and was first also to in- troduce the scriptural office of deacon in the American Reformed Presbyterian Church. His' publications are, A Narrative of the Secession Controversy in Vermont: — Sermon on Free Agency : — Sermon on the Prospects of a True Christian in a Sinful World: — .4 Defence of Infant Baptism.— SWhon, Presh. Hist. Almanac, 1863, p. 38K. (J. L. <,.)
Milliugton, Wii.i.iAM, D.D., an eminent Anglican divine of the Uelormatory period, and one of the most learned men of his day, was a native of Pocklington, Yorkshire. He was ordained j)riest March 8, 1420. He took his doctor's degree at Cambridge, and is said to have been a member of Clare Hall, in that university; but however that may be, certain it is that in 1443 he was appointed the provost of King's College. This im- portant position, however, he voluntarily resigned in 14-1(5, on a point of conscience. The oft-repeated state- ment that he was deprived of the provostship for unduly favoring natives of Yorkshire is without foundation.
It is said that on leaving King's he retired to Clare IlalL He died in May, 1466, and was buried in St. Edward's Church, Cambridge. An interesting memoir of Dr. ^lil- lington, by George Williams, B.D., was communicated to the Cambridge Antitpiarian Society in 1858.
Million (~3a-l, rebalah', Gen. xxiv, 60), ten thou- sand, as elsewhere rendered.
Mil'lo (Hcb. always with the art ham-millo', ^itlZi^, the fulness ; Sept. [Alex.] in 1 Kings ix only j) MfXio ; Vulg. Mello), properly a mound or rampart, as being tilled in with stones and earth ; hence a fortress or castle ; applied to two structures or fortifications:
(«) According to (iesenius {Thes. lleb. p. 789), a part of the citadel of Jerusalem, probably the rampart or in- trenchment; or,as Winer thinks ( Winteib. s. v.), the tow- er afterwards called Hipi)icus (2 Sam. v, 9; 1 Kings ix, ! 15, 24 ; xi, 27 ; 1 Chron. xi, 8 ; 2 Chron. xxxii, 5). In the last of these texts, where David is said to have restored or fortified the Millo " of (not " in") the city of David, the Sept. has -b avaXtJiiiJa Ttjc ttuXiioc, " the fortifica- tion of the city of David ;" in the other passages it has simply uKpa, the mound or tower. The 'I'argum merely Chaldaizes the Heb. term (Xr^b'?, Sr^b-a, vallum). " Both name and thing seem to have been already in existence when the city was taken from the Jebusites by David. His first occupation, after getting posses- sion, was to build • roinid about, from the Jlillo and to the house' (A.V. ' inward,' 2 Sam. v, 9) ; or, as the par- allel passage has it, ' he built the city round about, and from the Millo round about' (1 Chron. xi, 8). Its re- pair or restoration was one of the great works for which Solomon raised his 'levy'(l Kings ix, 15, 24; xi, 27); and it formed a prominent part of the fortifications by whith Ilezekiah prepared for the approach of the As- syrians (2 (hnm. xxxii, 5)" (Smith). The same place is liHibably meant by tlie '• house of Millo," where Joash was killed (2 Kings xii, 21). Others are of the opinion that Millo was the name of a valley in Jerusalem, which separated ancient Jebus from the city of David, but which was afterwards filled up by David and Solomon (Barclay, City of the Great King, p. 113). Schwarz {Pa- lest, p. 241) holds that it was on the eastern declivity to- j wards the spring of Siloam (reading Shiloah for Silla). The most natural impression from the notices is that it was some region or space adjacent to Mount Zion, per- haps that portion of the Tyropa-on enclosed by the first 1 wall, the bridge, and the Temple. (See Lightfoot, H'orfo, ii, 189; Hamelsveld, Bibl. Geogr. ii, 46 sq. ; Ewald, /,■.?•. Gesch. iii, 70; Strong's JJai-m, and Fxpos. of the Gospels, Append, ii, p. 24 ; Schulz, Jerusalem, p. 80.) Sec Jeuu-