Moulin, Pierre du (2), son of the preceding, and noted as a most enthusiastic Calvinist, was born in 1600 at Paris, and graduated at Leyden; but going after- wards to England, obtained, like his father, a prebend at Canterbury, and was one of the chaplains to king Charles II. He died in 1683. He was the author of The Peace of the Soul : — Clamor Regii Sanguinis, which, being anonymous, was attributed by ISIilton to Alexander More : — and A Defence of the Protestant Church. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Au- thors, s. v. ; Haag, La France Protestante, iv, 430.
Moullah. See Mullah.
Mound (Lat. mundus) is a terra in heraldry, desig- nating a globe surmounted with a cross (generally) pattee. As a device, it is said to have been used by the emperor Justinian, and to have been intended to rep- resent the ascendency of Christi- anity over the world. The royal crown of England is surmounted by a mound, which first appears on the seal of William the Con- queror, though the globe Avithout the cross was used earlier.— Chambers, Cyclopcpdia, s. v.
Mount or Mountain (properly "i!j, har, from its swelling form ; with its cognate forms, "I'^il, he'rer, and "I'^ln, harar'; Gr. IjpoQ; also Chald. 'n'lli, iur, from their rochj nature, Dan. ii, 35, 45 : but i^^^b, solelah', " mount," Jer. vi, 6 ; xxxii, 32 ; xxxiii, 4 ; Ezek. iv, 2 ; xvii, 17; xxi, 22; xxvi, 8; Dan. xi, 15; elsewhere "bank," 2 Sam. xx, 15; 2 Kings xix, 32; Isa. xxxvii, 33, is a mound or rampart, such as is thrown up by besiegers against a city; and 3S2p, mufsab', "mount," in Isa. xxix, 3, is a station of troops or military post, as occupied for purposes of besieging or a campaign. See Wau. " In the New Testament the word mount or mountain is confined almost exclusively to representing ijpoc. In the Apocrj'pha the same usage prevails as in the N. T., the only exception being in 1 Mace, xii, 36, where ' mount' is put for i'»//oc, probably a mound, as we should now say, or embankment, by which Simon cut off the communication between the citadel on the Tem- ple mount and the town of Jerusalem. For this Jbse- phus \_Ant. xiii, 5,11] has raxoc, a wall" [Smith]. _ See Fortification. Another term, designating an individ- ual mountain, is !TC3, bamah', a height or " high place ;" generally a lesser eminence, like tl>'2t., gibah' , a "hill," etc.). The term often occurs in connection with a prop- er name, or as the specific title of some particular moun- tain, e. g. Momit Sinai, INIount Tabor, Mount Lebanon,
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Mount of Olives, etc., which see in their alphabetical order. The phrase " mountain of God" (Ciribxn "lij) is spoken of Mount Sinai, as the place where the law was given (Exod. iii, 1; iv, 27; xviii, 5); of Mount Zion (Psa. xxiv, 2 ; Isa. ii, 3), whicli is also often called God's holy viountain (mostly "'"■^^P "''? ^"d 'l"-'7Pi " mountani of ray" or " his holiness," the suffix referring to God, as if immediately annexed to the former noun, or perhaps to be rendered correctly, " mountain of my sanctnan/") (Isa. xi, 9; Ivi, 7; Ivii, 13; Psa. ii, G; xv, 1 ; xliii, 3 ; Obad. KJ ; Ezek. xx, 40), more fully " moun- tain of the Lord's house" (Isa. ii, 2) ; of the mountain of IJashan (Psa. Ixviii, IG), as being very liigh; also in the plur. of the Holy Land itself, as being generally mountainous (Isa. xiv, 25; xlix, 11 ; Ixv, 9). See Walch, JJe (1(0 Ebraorum viontano (Gen. 174G). The term is also used collectively, "mountains," i. q. mountainous region, e. g. of Seir (.Josh, xiv, 12), of Judah (Josh, xv, 48), etc. ; and especially (with the art. "inn, the moun- tain, Kar t^oxnv) of the high mountainous tract ex- tending nearly through Palestine, between the plain on the sea-coast and the valley of the Jordan (Gen. xii, 8 ; Josh, ix, 1) ; or more specilically " the mountains of Judah," i. e. the same tract south of Jerusalem (Numb. xiii, 29; Deut. i, 2); the "hill-country" {upuvl]) of Luke i, 39; also the mountainous region east of tlie Dead Sea (Gen. xi%-, 20 ; xix, 17, 19, 30). See Macfar- lane, Mountains of the Bible (Loud. 1848, 185G). See Hill.
Palestine is a hilly country (Deut. iii, 25; xi, 11; Ezek. xxxiv, 13 ; comp. Exod. xv, 17 ; 1 Kings xx, 23 ; see Ilasselquist, Trav. p. 148), divided into two natural portions by the deep depression of the Jordan from north to south. The mountain ranges which overspread it are connected on the north with Lebanon. East of the Jordan, Aiitilebanon terminates with the spur called Jebel Heish, a fruitful hilly district extending westward thence to the abrupt margin of the Sea of Gennesareth ; while south of the intersection of the country from east to west by tlie river Hieromax the hills rear themselves afresh for several leagues, being traversed by Avadys (watercourses) wbicli run towards the Jordan, and in- terrupted by ravines and narroAV passes, and continue in the form of moderately high, fertile plateaus, that do not clearly descend to a level till they reach the liiver Arnon, the boundary of the ancient transjordanic terri- tory ; southward of tlie deep, rocky vale of this stream, which was the key of Palestine in this region from the east, they still stretch away in connection with the moun- tains of Arabia Petreea, this entire chain sloping east- Avard, first into the fruitful meadows of the modern Ilau- ran, and farther south into the Arabian desert, but west- ward bounded by rocky steeps along the Jordan (Yolney, Trav. i, 22G). West of the Jordan, a mountainous region extends from Lebanon and Antilebanon far down south- westerly into Galilee, where in the south-west, opposite Ptolemais, it ends in a ridge, terminating beyond tlie Ki- shon in the promontory of Carmcl; wliilc in tlic interior among the highlands it forms the higli plain of Jezreel, and on the east descends by a scries of terraces to the Sea of Gennesareth : this ])ortion contains its most fruitful districts, endowed with a rich Alpine vogotation, for al- though the northern and north-western parts are mostly inclement, and their cultivation almost impossihie, espe- cially in the rocky tracts, yet the south-western section is an alternation of tine valleys and choice pasture-lands (Hassel(|uist, p. 17G). From tlie elevated plain of Jez- reel, or Esdraelon, rises the almost isolated peak of Ta- bor, as a limit of the northern mountain-chain on tliis side of Jordan. Southerly this plain is shut in by hills, which, in moderate lieights and in directions only late- ly accurately investigated by IJobinson, overspread the greater part of ancient Samaria ; beyond this growing more precipitous and rocky (Maundrell, 7/-ac.p.88 ; Yol- ney, Trav. ii, 225 sq.), althougli they are everywhere in- terspersed with fruitful valleys and plains. The moun-