Morgians, a Mohammedan sect, hold that faith without good \v(irUs is siifiicicnt to salvation, (iazali, .a Moliamnu'd.'ui doctor, tells us that the ^Morgians ex- pect that (Jod will work everything in tliem, and af- firm that sin does not hurt Iwlicvers; works without faith signifying nothing. Shabi, anollier Mohamme- dan doctor, in his allusions to this sect, exhorts his dis- ciples to be afraid of the threatenings of Goii, and not to behave like those who defer doing anything that is good, and hope to be saved notwithstanding. See Broughton, Hist, of Religion, ii, 141 ; D'Herbclot, Bibli- oth. Orientale, s. v.
MORGUES
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Morgues, IMatthieu re, Sieur de St. Ge?-main, a noted French Roman Catholic pulpit orator of the 16th century, was born at Vellai, ia Languedoc, in 1582, of no inconsiderable family. He turned Jesuit at first, and had several pupils at Avignon, in the Jesuits' college there, but afterwards got disgusted with the Jesuits and quitted their order. He preached at Paris with great success, and in 1613 was made preacher to queen Mar- garet. He was nominated to the bishopric of Toulon by Louis XIH, but never could obtain his bulls from Kome. Some impute this to his talking too freely about the liberties of the Galilean Church ; but others are of opinion that his grant was stopped by the secret artilices of Richelieu. Upon the imprisonment of Mary de Medici he retired from court to his father's house, where Richelieu took measures to seize him. The com- mission bore " that they should take St. Germain dead or alive ; that they should seize him without making an inventory of the papers they should find, and that they should send the said papers to bishop Beaucaire, while the prisoner should be conducted to Mande to be put into the bishop's hands." It is believed that Beaucaire, who had been a domestic of the cardinal, Avould have caused him to be quietly strangled, if secured. But fortunately ^lorgues was .apprised of the design of his persecutors, and he retired into the most uncultivated parts of France, where he lay concealed for six -weeks under all the inconveniences his health could be ex- posed to. " What was the most insupportable circum- stance," says he, " of this whole proceeding, was the un- easiness which the presence of the officers gave my father and mother, who were much advanced in years; for by this time I, the youngest of eight chiklren, was beginning to have gray hairs." It is very probable that the cardinal, who had the weakness to be infinitely sensible of satire, was afraid of St. Germain's pen, and aware of the severities it would inflict; for we see that in all the negotiations for recalling the queen- mother, he made it a condition " that St. Germain, who by his defamatory libels had forgotten nothing to ruin his reputation, shoidd be delivered up to the king." Mean- while the queen-mother, coming from Compiegne, and being desirous to publish an apology for herself, sent in quest of St. Germain, and ordered him to write an an- swer to a pamphlet entitled La Defense da Roi et de ses Ministres, whose author, it seems, had taken great free- dom with that princess's honor. In 1631 he published an answer to the queen's satisfaction, but afterwards wrote several pieces against the creatures of Richelieu. This obliged him to quit the kingdom when Mary left France, and he did not dare to return until after the death of the cardinal. Morgues died in 1670. He left in MS. a complete history of Louis XIII, by him sur- named " the Just." See Gen, Bio(j. Diet. s. v. ; Bayle, Hist. Diet s.Y. (J.H.W.)
Mori'ah (Heb. Moriyah', n^"iit3, 2 Chron. iii, 1 ; and iT""!^, Gen. xxii, 2 ; as to the etymology, Gesenius remarks [Thesaur. Heb. p. 819] that the sacred writers themselves derive it from i^N'1, to see, and understand it as for n''"'iN"10, chosen or shown hy .Tehovah ; but the form may be readUy made as the part. fem. of H^^, to be bitter, i. e. obstinate, and thus signifying the resisting, i. q. castle ; comp. Fuller, Miscell. ii, 14 ; Sept. in Gen. v-\^7\K6q, Vulg. visio ; in Chron. 'Afiopia v. r. 'Ajxojpia, Vulg. Moria), one of the hills of Jerusalem, on which the Temple was built by Solomon, on the spot that had been occupied by the threshing-floor of Oman the Je- busite (2 Chron. iii, 1), See Temple. The name sel- dom occurs (not even in 1 Kings vi, 1), being usualh' included in that of Zion, to the north-east of which it lay, and from which it was separated by the valley of Tyropoeon (Josephus, .4 nt. viii, 3, 9 ; War, v, 4, 1 ; see Hohinson, Reseai-ches, i, 393, 413, 416). See Jerusalem. The land of Moriah, whither Abraham went to offer up Isaac (Gen. xxii, 2), is generally supposed to denote the Vl.-Q Q
same place, and may at least be conceived as describing the surrounding district (comp. Josephus, to Muptov opog, Ant. i, 13, 1). The Jews themselves believe that the altar of burnt-offerings in the Temple stood upon the very site of the altar on which the patriarch pur- posed to sacrifice his son (see Michaelis, Suppl. v, 1551 ; Jsinisch, in Hamelsveld, ii, 39 sq. ; Bleek, in the Theol. Stud. u. Krit. [1831], p. 530 sq. ; comp. Hengstenberg, Pentat. ii, 195 sq. ; Ewald, Israel. Gesch. i, 358 ; iii, 35). The force of the tradition is impaired by the mythic addition that here also Abel offered his first sacrifice, and Noah his thank-offering (Munster, Fagius, and Gro- tius, ad loc). The following disquisition is from the' article in Kitto's Cyclopmdia. See Abraham.