qualities are still active, and he himself remains, as one it was communicated in a less direct form than to JIo-
alive in the grave, 'ctesiis et vigilibus oculis,' as his : ses. " If there be a prophet among you, I Jehovah will
biographer describes him, and witli that sanguine clear make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak
skin, 'decenti rubore interspersa,' as with the light of unto him in a dream. Jly servant Moses is not so. . . .
morning upon it ; and he has a true jilace in that group With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even appar-
of great Italians who fill the end of the 15th century ently, and not in dark speeches" (Numb, xii, C-8). A
with their names" (Pater). See Paul Jove, Elorjia ; Sir stern rebuke was administered in front of the sacred
Thos. ]More, Pico, Karl of Mirandula, and a r/nat Lord tent to botli Aaron and ^liriam. Put the puni.-hmcnt
<)/'//«/y (from the Italian of Francis della jMirandula); fell on ^liriam, as tlie chief offender. The hateful
Niceron, Memoires,\o\. xxxiv; Tiraboschi, Storin della litteratura Italiana, vi, 32o ; (Jinguene, Hist, liiteraire {Tltalie, YoLiii; Matter, Diet, des sciences vhilosophiques Weiners, Leliensbcsr/ireihini'/en heriihtntir M vol. ii; Hoefer, Xour. J>io</. Cim'ndt, xl, V.) Ulrieh Zwinrjk, der Cliarakttr stinir I'/iKiln,/;,. tnif be- sonderer Riicksicht av/ J'iciis von J/inindii/n (Stuttg. 1855), p. 14 sq. ; Dreydorft (Georg), J Jus ,s//n^ ,u d, .< John Picus Graf von Mirandula (iMarburg, l.sjsj ; Paler, ,S7»f7- ies ill the Uistonj of the Renaissance (Lond. and N. Y. Macraillan, 1873, 12mo), chap. ii. (J. H. W.)
Mirepoix, Gui dk Lewis, Seigneur de, one of the great soldiers of the French who battled for the Church
the davs of the Crusades, flourished in the early part
Egyptian leprosy, of which for a moment the sign had been seen on the hand of her younger brother, broke out over the whole person of the proud projihctess. etc.. How grand was her position, and how heavy the blow, Sigwart, is implied in the cry of anguish which goes up from both the brothers — "Alas, my lord ! . . . Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he Cometh out of his mother's womb. . . . Ileal her now, O God ! I beseech thee." And it is not less evi- dent in the silent grief of the nation : " The people jour- neyed not till Miriam was brought in again" (Xumb. xii, 10-15). The same feeling is reflected, though in a strange and distorted form, in the ancient tradition of the drying up and reflowing of the marvellous -well of
of the 13th century. He was a friend of Simon de the Wanderings. See Bkek. This stroke, and its re
Montfort, marshal of France, conducted the warfare against the Albigenses, and was rewarded for his blind adherence to the papal cause with the title of "Marshal of the Faith." He died in 1-230.
Mir'iam (lleb. Minjum', B^;'"!'?, rebellion; Sept. Mapidi-t, but in 1 Chron. iv, 17 Mawv v. r. Mapwv ; Josephus Mapiufiiui), A nt. iv, 4, G), the name of a woman and of a man. 'J'he name reappt ars in the N. T., M«- pidfi being the form always employed for the nomina- tive case of the name of the Virfin Mary, though it is declined MopiVrc! M«pi'^ ; while Mojoia is employed in all cases for the three other Marys. At the time of the Christian a-ra it seems to have been common. Among otliers who bore it was Herod's celebrated wife and victim, Mariamne. See also Mauv.
1. Tlie sister of Moses and Aaron, and supposed (so Josephus, ,1 nt. ii, 9, 4) to be the same that watched her infant brother when exposed on the Nile; in which case she was probably ten or twelve years old at the time (Exod. ii, 4 sq.). B.C. 1738. She was the daugh- ter of Amram and .lochcbed, of the tribe of Levi (Xumb. xxvi, 59; comp. Mic. vi, 4). When the Israelites left Egypt, ^Miriam naturally became the leading woman among them. "The sister of Aaron" is her Biblical distinction (Exod. xv, 20). In Numb, xii, 1 she is placed before Aaron; and "Miriam the Prophetess" is her acknowledged title (Exod. xv, 20), Tlie prophetic power showed itself in her under the same form as that which it assumed in the days of Samuel and David — poetry, accompanied with music and processions. The only instance of this prophetic gift is when, after the passage of the lied Sea, slic took a cymbal in her hand, and went forth, like the Hebrew maidens in later times after a victory (Judg. v, 1; xi, 34; 1 Sam. xviii, G; Psa. Ixviii, 11, 25), followed l)y the whole female jmpu- lation of lsra<0, also beating their cymbals and striking their guitars (PPrrC, otherwise "dances"). It does not appear how far they joined in the whole of the song (Exod. i, 15-19); but the opening words are repeated again by Miriam herself at the close, in the form of a command to the 1 lel)rew women. " She answered them, saying. Sing ye to Jehov.ih, for he hath Iriimiphed glo- riously: the horse and his rider hatli he thrown into the sea." B.C. 1G58. The arrival of ^Moses's Cushite wife in the camp seems to have created in her an un-